- 4Ground
This has been on my “Gamers Radar” for some time, and thank God I am now recovered enough (after being seriously ill from Covid 19 in March 2020) to get down and visit.
These chaps do a great range of HDF scenery, and an impressively large amount of it is tailor-made for Stalingrad. Lots of other pieces are completely appropriate or adaptable for my project and have been already featured.
- Pinning metal components
As a basic precaution, I use pin together all all materials that a glue will not bond together like hard plastic with polystyrene cement as the active agent.
Super glue is in my opinion not robust enough on its own to use to glue plastic to metal, resin to metal or metal to metal components together on their own.
- Modelling loose bricks and brick work
Another new and useful product to the market that saves a LOT of time is 4Grounds brick set. Previously I had been individually cutting out bricks from Tamiya’s wall set. This took lots of time and was messy with lots of time spent carving away melted plastic spoil from the cutting process.
- Use of scalpel blades
Before we go any further, this product is bloody sharp and used for surgical operations! I would not recommend under any circumstance to the under 16’s, and only ever with an adult with a box of plasters and a car with route planner to A and E present!
- 100th Jager Division
I like the variety and diversity of historical units. A particular unit that grabbed me in the ‘Stalingrad’ campaign book by Warlord, was the 100th Jager Division squad. It is lightly equipped, and without an LMG and a Rifle Grenadier, it would be too weak to stand up to the mass fire power of the Soviet SMG armed squads that it will be facing on the table top.
- Converted Maxim Machine Gun
I started these guys and then put them on ice during studying for my Masters Degree. It’s great to have them up and running to give my (presently under strength) naval infantry platoon a bit more punch on the battlefield. As a lightly equipped platoon, and MMG will really make a difference when the lead starts flying (just to clarify, this isn’t a reference to poorly behaved opponents!)
- KV2 Tank
This ‘Assault Gun’ is a real beast, the turret and gun dwarf anything else in this stage of the War.
Facing a KV-2 on the table, the German’s will have a serious threat on the table. It has the ‘slow’ and the ‘Slow Traverse’ special rules, but, it has heavy armour and an extremely powerful heavy howitzer. Armour and experienced infantry both have to fear this enemy.
- T34/76’s for the Soviets.
In my humble opinion, no ‘Bolt Action Stalingrad Mega Battle’ would be complete without a couple of T34’s.
Unfortunately the troop of 3 T34/76’s are all the later 1943 examples, and too late for Stalingrad.
- The Barmaley Fountain.
An absolute must as the iconic centrepiece of my planned Stalingrad Mega Battle.
A surprisingly simple and enjoyable paint, which I am really pleased with, especially as the decorative lime plaster look that I have given the figures stands, out quite separately from the concrete rendered brick base.
- 4Ground Winter Vonderland
Announcing my New Battle of the Bulge Mega Projects for Bolt Action!
Winter is here and thanks the guys at 4Ground and Warlord, the snow has come a bit early for these troops!
- Kit-bashed 100th Jaeger Division MMG.
I kit-bashed an MMG team for my 100th Jager Division platoon. I chose the heads from the plastic Opel-Blitz kit from Warlord to match the rest of the platoon, which use the bodies from the Plastic German Blitzkrieg German Infantry set
This has been on my “Gamers Radar” for some time, and thank God I am now recovered enough (after being seriously ill from Covid 19 in March 2020) to get down and visit. These chaps do a great range of HDF scenery, and an impressively large amount of it is tailor-made for Stalingrad. Lots of other pieces are completely appropriate or adaptable for my project and have been already featured.
As a basic precaution, I use pin together all all materials that a glue will not bond together like hard plastic with polystyrene cement as the active agent. Super glue is in my opinion not robust enough on its own to use to glue plastic to metal, resin to metal or metal to metal components together on their own.
Another new and useful product to the market that saves a LOT of time is 4Grounds brick set. Previously I had been individually cutting out bricks from Tamiya’s wall set. This took lots of time and was messy with lots of time spent carving away melted plastic spoil from the cutting process.
Before we go any further, this product is bloody sharp and used for surgical operations! I would not recommend under any circumstance to the under 16’s, and only ever with an adult with a box of plasters and a car with route planner to A and E present!
I like the variety and diversity of historical units. A particular unit that grabbed me in the ‘Stalingrad’ campaign book by Warlord, was the 100th Jager Division squad. It is lightly equipped, and without an LMG and a Rifle Grenadier, it would be too weak to stand up to the mass fire power of the Soviet SMG armed squads that it will be facing on the table top.
I started these guys and then put them on ice during studying for my Masters Degree. It’s great to have them up and running to give my (presently under strength) naval infantry platoon a bit more punch on the battlefield. As a lightly equipped platoon, and MMG will really make a difference when the lead starts flying (just to clarify, this isn’t a reference to poorly behaved opponents!)
This ‘Assault Gun’ is a real beast, the turret and gun dwarf anything else in this stage of the War. Facing a KV-2 on the table, the German’s will have a serious threat on the table. It has the ‘slow’ and the ‘Slow Traverse’ special rules, but, it has heavy armour and an extremely powerful heavy howitzer. Armour and experienced infantry both have to fear this enemy.
In my humble opinion, no ‘Bolt Action Stalingrad Mega Battle’ would be complete without a couple of T34’s. Unfortunately the troop of 3 T34/76’s are all the later 1943 examples, and too late for Stalingrad.
An absolute must as the iconic centrepiece of my planned Stalingrad Mega Battle. A surprisingly simple and enjoyable paint, which I am really pleased with, especially as the decorative lime plaster look that I have given the figures stands, out quite separately from the concrete rendered brick base.
Announcing my New Battle of the Bulge Mega Projects for Bolt Action! Winter is here and thanks the guys at 4Ground and Warlord, the snow has come a bit early for these troops!
I kit-bashed an MMG team for my 100th Jager Division platoon. I chose the heads from the plastic Opel-Blitz kit from Warlord to match the rest of the platoon, which use the bodies from the Plastic German Blitzkrieg German Infantry set