Battlefield Needful Items

The number of figures in our ACW2 games, what with 8 to 10 players all fielding 3 to 6 units each has put a strain on needful items, so I spent a couple of hours and whipped out 10 3" craters, 16 turn encounter chips (grassed on one side and red painted on the other) along with 12 smoke columns.

Done as its Going to be

Added on rear deck metal segmented dirt deflector grid over the engine, Front co-axial machine gun bullet deflector, storage boxes, jack and tow cables, turret access hatches for machine gun turrets, bit of spare track, deflector exhaust elbows to the ends of the muffler, the bogie plate cover has the dividing line and hinges that allowed sets of bogie's to be exposed for servicing. Enough!

Its Got Paint

Another shot, orange and multi colors gone:

T 28, 28mm scale

Its got Treads

Here we go, creeping up on painting, head lights, some other gee gaws to attach and then prime it all up in time for our next game.

T 28 Update

16 bogie's per side... all tiny.... all hair pulling.... Found some passable buttons to fill in for the way to many that I need.

Here I have the wheels assembled and built into the side board as on the real tank. The stick on the Fender area is just to show spacing of the Track width to be as it were. Fender and treads are being nicked from a Stg III tank model. 76mm cannon mounted as are machine guns in the forward turrets, the coaxial machine gun is mounted but on the opposite side from the viewing angle.

American Civil War 2, Foreign Lend Lease

So my forces in an ACW2 campaign gathered enough points to get a real Tank! Mahahaha... er, now to find a tank with larger than 37mm, preferably 75mm or larger, not just a proto type, around for a few years and exported to other countries so I can justify "getting" one.

Settled on T 28, 76mm cannon, 3 or 4 Mgs, if you include one for the top turret access hatch. Moderate armor and road speed, was exported, saw action in the Spanish civil war and sent to Turkey. Now.. search for one suitable in size for 25-28mm figures and not cost tons..... grrrr ...

So settled on Kit bashing one from a Stg III model for track and bogie's... lots of bogie's...

So on the left is a photo reduced track assembly picture I am using to guide assembly of the tank wheels and tracks. On the right is the wooden body assembled and first coated with Kel Seal. I let the Kel Seal dry and then use a new xacto blade to trim off the bumps and such. The 2 small turrets are upside down at the moment for the shot, the mounting pins are freshly glued in. Still have to shape the small turrets some. Kaptain Kneemo's Shipboard marines are showing a little progress on further painting. The hull of the tank is raised on a bit of wood scrap to show the approximate height of the finished tank. Scale here is 1 inch = 5 feet for the record.

Pirate Fest Campout

A bit ago the wife and I attended the Pirate Fest camp out along with alot of friends of course. So here's a shot of each of us dontcha know! ARRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Deb was pondering snatching the chocolate chip cookies while the fellow pirate was distracted by a board game, and I was pondering which offer to take, a shot of spiced rum or a double shot!