Flames of War

Flames of War still proves to be getting more and more popular, with the majority of my commissions being tanks!

Recently have been working on some early war Germans, and some mid war Russians.

The Germans are just an addition to an army from the states being used in a tournament later this month

Also a few late war Germans from the open fire box set heading for eBay...

And the mid war ruskies in snow mode, I've already painted a load of t34s and some t70s I must try and get some pictures of those.

Flames of War

Once again I've been busy on all front, but have been playing a fair bit of flames of war. Most recent games have been with my new late war Estonian SS. It's a list off the FoW website and took my fancy as it was a little different.

I wanted to do a winter themed army and painted the models up as a Feb/March 1945 theme. The Estonians are cut off with what German support is left, the equipment and uniforms are a mix as the stores are low so i've used lots of different camp types.

The Estonians use most German rules except storm trooper (the few German units do get it) this is replaced by extra defensive rules such as re rolls on company morale checks and and extra ambush.

Estonian SS Fusiliers dug in

German StugGs counterattacking with pioneers

Baking powder and snow

I have been playing around with ways of making snow bases for the past two days, the campaign I have been playing in for the past year is on an ice planet called svaard and the final battle is taking part in the snow. So after a lot time I have finally decided to make the snow army I have always wanted, and it's the Dark Angels that get the pleasure of freezing their power armoured toes off.

I've looked at lots of commercially available snow basing material and it all comes in small pots and is rather expensive especially to rebase 130 troops; looking around on the internet I found a video on you tube of someone using baking soda. I had some in the kitchen so tried it out straight away and... it works really well. Just mix a bit into PVA glue and water and it starts to foam up, apply the foam (more watering down is needed) to the base where you want snow and then dip it into more dry baking powder; then allow to dry and varnish to harden it all up, it looks awesome and is easy as anything.

The tanks I dusted in baking powder, blew most of it off then varnished; it gives a nice lightly snowed on look.

I had to take some pictures and here they are.