Monday 18 March 2024

West Midlands Military Show 2024


The West Midlands Military Show was held yesterday and I spent most of the morning and lunchtime browsing the exhibits and trade stands. Here are some of the photographs I took.

I didn't buy that much, just some modelling supplies, but I am grateful to the organisers for the Bring & Buy stand where I sold off a number of pieces of scratch built terrain which should give me some much needed room in the garage. I hope that anyone who bought the pieces has some use and fun from these models.

Once again I thought the show was very well organised and I enjoyed meeting up with modelling friends and discussing new projects.



















Tony

Tuesday 12 March 2024

West Midlands Military Show 2024


Just over a week to go to the Alumwell Wargames West Midlands Military Show. I intend visiting but will not be exhibiting as I have other commitments. For more information, see this link.

I look forward to the first show of the year (well for me anyway).

Tony

Friday 8 March 2024

Easy Build Terrain featured in Miniature Wargames issue 492

The latest issue of Miniature Wargames features a novel piece of terrain that I built from an under-sink bottle trap and then painted and based for use in various Sci-Fi games.

In the image above. I have used some 40mm Flash Gordon figures from Graven Images while in the one below, I have included a group of early Games Workshop Eldar.

For more information about the contents of this months magazine (which also includes a free show guide for Salute 51), see this link.


Tony

Monday 4 March 2024

A French Dovecot - the full article


Earlier this week I came across an article I had written for the magazine Miniature Wargames (June 2020) that has been reproduced as a free on-line tutorial with full text and all of the illustrations. If you are interested in how I build my scratch built terrain the article can be found on the Tabletop Gaming Features site - here.

More details can be found on this Blog - here.

I checked the rest of the Features but this appears to be the only one written by me - however there is a huge amount of free content on the site for you to read.

Enjoy

Tony

Thursday 29 February 2024

Dampf's Modelling Page celebrates 16th anniversary


Earlier this week my Dampfpanzerwagon Blog celebrated the sixteenth anniversary. It doesn't seem that long ago that I thought I would record my modelling experiences in a Blog but here I am and still blogging! I'm well aware that posts are not as frequent as past years, but I am still posting and very grateful for all the followers, readers and comments.

Thank you.

Tony

Friday 23 February 2024

Painted Panzerfauste Buildings

Some time ago I came across these painted examples of buildings I had sculpted for the game Panzerfauste. The images were shared on the Burrows & Badgers Facebook page. I asked if I could re-post the images on my Blog and was pleased when Bob Langleff agreed.

You can find more information on these models by going to this link or this earlier Blog post.

These two buildings were painted by the very talented Mike Lally. You can sometimes find examples of these resin buildings for sale on ebay.


Enjoy

Tony

Wednesday 21 February 2024

The Improved Emperor's Guide to Tamreil

Earlier this week I bought this beautiful faux leather art book called The Improved Emperor's Guide to Tamriel with a Christmas book token. The book is jam packed full of illustrations that just scream out to me modelled as wargame terrain and I am looking forward to sketching some very soon.

These two images, show just some of the content. There are hundreds of pages showing art from the computer game Skrym.


Thanks Mum for the book taken - it has been well used.

Tony