Terrain: The next palm trees ready for the table, smaller versions.

 Next batch of palm trees ready, this time the smaller versions of my date palms representing still growing trees, or simply to be used for 15mm games.Once again used the cheap plastic palms and again made the same steps to switch them into useful terrain for our settings covering the middle east.Total...

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Terrain: Palm Trees to represent Date palms for a plantation

Time to do more terrain - as every wargamer knows, one can never have enough terrain :-DThis time palm trees to represent date palms for a plantation, mostly intended for settings in the Middle East, i.e. Operation Exporter.I used some cheap plastic palms, cut off the coconuts, primed all parts black,...

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Potpourri der Letzten Monate - zusammenfassender Post im Sweetwater

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CoC/BA: Morris CS9 Armoured Car

Another reinforcment for my Commonwealth troops, a Morris CS9 Armoured Car.This is a 1/48 model from 1st Corps to which I added some details like a tarp rolled from Grrenstuff, camouflage net made from a piece of gauze bandage and some crates and jerry cans.Deutsche VersionWeitere Verstärkung für meine...

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CoC/BA: Ordnance QF 25-Pounder

Last but for sure not least another addition to my Commonwealth forces - the famous QF Ordnance 25-Pounder!Usually part of the supporting artillery it was used as a stop gap in the anti-tank role until the 6-Pounder was available in numbers, because the 2-Pounder couldn´t stop the heavier armoured German...

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CoC/BA: Ordnance QF 6-Pounder

And so it continues with the reinforcements of the anti-tank stand for the Commonwealth: A QF Ordnance 6-Pounder is ready for duty in the Middle East/North Africa.Historically, it will be used in North Africa starting from April 42, so it would not be usable for my main settings Crete and Operation...

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CoC/BA: Ordnance QF 2-Pounder

Back to my beloved long-term projects again: Operation Exporter (with possible excursions to North Africa).For the Australians, the infantry as such is finished, but for the supports the most urgently needed anti-tank guns and vehicles are still missing, on which I will now concentrate over the next...

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Terrain: Terrain mat made from fake fur

After the topic of winter and fins, now back to some terrain modeling again.I tried my hand at a large mat made of fake fur for the first time, 3mx1.60m to be precise, colour of it was a grey-brown.It´s supposed to represent some drier areas like the Mediterranean, so used rather light colours to look...

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