Friday 30 November 2012

Pendraken 10mm

I have been asked to post a few pictures of my 10 mm WW1 Serbians. So here we go plus some Austrians and Russians. The figures are based on small FOW bases and the artillery on medium ones.  Each bag of figures consists of 3 poses and have 30 figures in total.  My units are based on 4 stands with 4 figures per stand.  I painted the Austrians and Serbians a  figures a few years ago and have just rebased them.

The figures are easy to a paint and I have used base lighter colours and highlighting to help bring the figures to life.  

More details can be found here http://www.pendraken.co.uk/World-War-I-c17/

Serbian Infantry from pack S1






Austrians from packs AH1, AH2 and AH3. I also use some WW2 Afrika Korps figures firing to add variety (see second photo) 






These Russians are from pack packs RP1 and RP2 and have just been painted.  The basing is part done. I have also finished painting another 32 Austrians. I have found that I can get 32 figures done over a weekend that also includes taking my son to Football training on Saturday and Rugby training on Sunday.  I wonder how many I could do if I had an uninterrupted week end.    





Monday 26 November 2012

Introduction


I have started this new blog to record my progress in getting ready for and then playing my version of the Great War starting on 28 July 2014.  

My interest in the Great War and gaming it goes back many years.  I have been thinking about what got me interested and have identified these key points.

Firstly there was the classic Airfix German, British and French figures which I got the late 60s


My father collected First World War literature and at a tender age I read a lot of books published just after the war mostly in the 20s. There was one book however that I read and re read many times.




This book was 'War' by Ludwig Renn. I have bought a copy of the original book a few years ago and it is  good read. The style of writing and the story telling is IMHO much better then All Quiet on the Western Front or Storm of Steel.  

Then there was the BBC Series the Great War which was shown 2nd time around in late 60's/early 70s   See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_War_(documentary) for details.  The whole series was given away free with the Daily Mail as few years ago and is available on ebay.  This series is highly recommended   


Whilst at college I started collection WW1 board games and there are 2 that I particularly like. 


Paths of Glory is a classic and I will probably be using this to run my 2014-2018 campaign game transferring some of the board game battles to the ear game table. I am looking to play at least one game a month.  One of my older games is from the 70s - The Great War by Rand - which also uses area movement - and I may use this to generate the battles as it as much simpler game to play  






Another of my classic games is SPI Great War in The East and the Tannenberg game that come out in  the SPI magazine.  I think it was this game that sparked my interest in the Eastern Front.  

My first war game figures were from the old 15mm Peter Laing range and I used these back in the 70s. My inspiration was an article by Stuart Asquith in the old Battle Magazine.  

My current collections are 

28mm British and Germans (Renegade figures) and a few Austrians and Russians (HLBS and Battle Honours figures)
20mm German and British (Britannia) and  I use my B+B FPW French with a few added machine guns. 

I have started painting 10mm Pendraken figures and have a few units completed covering Serbia, Russia and Austria. 

In my next post I will add some photos of the figures and talk more about the rules I have for the period.