Hammers Slammers!

I ordered some of the 6mm Hammer"s Slammers models from Old Crow Models. When I placed my order only the "Blower" Tanks, Combat Cars, and Command Cars were available. I Ordered a few packs ea of the Combat cars and Blower tanks, as well as a single pack of the Command variant t of the blower tanks. I received my order last week and was impressed by the quality of the models. As an added bonus, Jez from Old Crow, had included some extra models in the way of an artillery "Hog", a cargo car, and 2 command cars. It's always nice to find "extras"!

I painted them all up over the weekend, and took some pictures, to show off. I glued 3/4 fender washers to the bottom of all the "tanks", and "#6" flat washers to the bottoms of the cars. The washers give the models the appearance that they are hovering abit.

In total there are 24 Combat Cars, 2 Command Cars, 16 Blower tanks(4 Command), 1 Hog, and 1 Cargo car. I will be ordering more from Old Crow in the very near future!

 

Warhammer Fantasy Empire Army

My younger brother Alec and I were first

introduced to the wargaming hobby in the summer 2000 by a mutual friend. We started playing Mage Knight and moved on to Warhanner Fantasy. I started collecting a Dwarf Army and Alec started an Empire army. Alec's Empire army never got much past the assembled and primed stage, aside from character models and a steam tank which he had painted. He could just never get into painting rank and file models. In January 2007 Alec passed away. I planned to finish his empire army, and just finally got started working on it in February. So far I've painted two units of 10 knightly orders, a unit of 15 Swordsmen, 12 Handgunners, and 5 Pistoliers. The General on Griffin Alec had already painted, I just hand to do some repair and touch up work to it, such as pinning the wings and fixing a few paint chips.

I've got another 12 Handgunners on the painting table now, along with the Steam Tank which I'm touching up and repairing. After that I'll probably start work on the Great Swords and Flagelants.

In other news, I managed to make it to Cold Wars last Friday. It's the first time I've managed to make it to a convention. I picked up some FAA Moroccan troops for my 1940 french army, as well as a few Frontline Belgian T-15s from the RLBPS stand, and some more 1/600 scale ironclads from Thoroughbred Figures in the dealers area.

What!? An update?!

WOW! It has been more than a year since my last update. Well, I intend to start updating on a regular basis again. Here goes the first new update.

 

While browsing the Skytrex site recently I found this 4 pack of painted German Sdkfz 251/1 half tracks in 20mm for 10 pounds. Always a sucker for vehicles I don't have to paint, I ordered 2 sets of them right away. A week later they arrived and you can check out some pictures below.

The first Picture shows the packaging they came in.

The Second photo shows one of the models next to an RAFM 20mm Renault r35.

The final photo is a line up of 4 of the 8 vehicles I received.

So ends my first post in far too long.