Gundam mech arrived

A week ago I bought a mecha from Gundam universe for use it as mech for my sci-fi 15mm miniatures from GZG. I got it from Hobby Link Japan, and by a very low price, around 3€ I bought a 1/144 scale mech.

 And here is the unboxing:

The box

The instructions inside of the box

All the sprues in the box

Sprues out of the box

Another Sprue with the body and the arms

The last sprue with the legs and shield

The mech mounted

 One very interesting thing is that the assembly of the parts doesn't require glue

The mech and 15mm miniatures

The mech and its avatar in 6mm

 Conclusions, I am very impressed with this product, very easy to be built, cheap and great to by used as a 15mm mech or a samurai mech warrior in a kaiju skirmish.

 Totally recommendable for wargaming.

The Steam Convoy

I have never published an entry like this, but I am impressed by this creation, the Steam convoy

is a vehicle from the World War One that travelled from the Bovington Tank Museum to the Great Dorset Steam Fair.

The 24m load formed part of a special World War One centenary display at the event at Tarrant Hinton.

Here the video

Here the news from BBC news: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-28817750

 It's great and ideal for a wargaming scenario for a steampunk setting

Mechs get ready!

After the Christmas break, and after freak out with Rothgar mechs and rules, I decided to start to paint my infantry walkers from GZG. I had some of them, and with that idea of using them like mechs, I may have interesting battles.

So, I begin to paint them, and in a pair of weeks, all of them were paint and ready for the combat. Here you can watch some photos...

 The idea is to create two sides, the Blue Army, and the Red Army. Both armies will have the same units: 6 basic mechs, 3 assault mechs, and 3 artillery mechs. In the future, probably I will add some additional mechs. Besides, of these mechs, there are some light mechs, from GZG too, and some heavy mechs from Wizkids (Mech Warrios).

 And now, let's take a look on the mechs or infantry walkers:

Blue Army Complete

Artillery Mechs

Basic Mechs

Basic Mechs with Flash!

Assault Mechs Blue Army

Assault Mechs Red Army

Artillery Mechs Red Army

Basic Mechs

Red Army Complete

  The buildings in the back are from Dropzone Commander, and they are for 10mm minatures.
 These mechs fit very well with the 6mm miniatures and 2mm tanks that I painted during the last of 2014, so, probably I will mix  them, for representing epic scale battles.

AAR Skirmish Sangin: Take the Apache and run!

This week I have begin the year having a funny skirmish with Mendoza, giving a try to Skirmish Sangin, a ruleset of 170 pages for modern skirmish in Somalia and Irak battle zones.

 At the begin, we thought that the game was going to be very annoying, because of the high quantity of tables and modifiers, but the game was very smooth, let's watch the photos!

Mendoza's warriors

Slorm's warriors

 The Skirmish
 The objective was to reach the helicopter and take the two passengers to the own deployment area.

The troops begin to run looking for a cover, from where they could shoot the enemy

The first shoot, one from the sniper kill in a second the second in command from Slorm's warriors.

His comrades advance to the objective, and one of them crawling arrive two the cockpit and shoot against the Mendoza's warrior.... Blood for blood!

Slorm's warriors climb into the helicopter, but Mendoza's shooters know how and when to push their tiggers, three men killed...

 With more than the 50% of the troops died, Slorm's men decided to quit the battle and run away.... The helicopter didn't fit with the color of the dinning room decoration.

 MENDOZA'S WARRIORS WIN

 A very interesting skirmish, we found some problems with the orders for moving, stop or run, and with the number of shoots per phase that a soldier can make. We have to read the ruleset another time and probably these questions will be solved.