Curia Julia

 It has been a while since I have posted, COVID and now finally getting overseas I am finally having some time to do some hobby catch up. Here are some pictures of my 82nd Airborne for the Italian theatre. some support some support some support The force is almost complete, I think it just needs a field gun or something so I do not have to rely on armoured support if I do not want to.

Below are some more tanks for my upcoming What a Tanker! games. Today I completed three T-34's for the Soviet forces. Along with my StuG III and Panzer IV they should compliment each other nicely and be a fairly even match-up.

I normally game in 28mm, I like the scale, its easy to paint and identify stuff on the table...I also like the larger models as they remind me of plastic soldiers when I was a kid. Anyway, I have been introducing a couple of work colleagues into tabletop games recently when one took a particular shine to my Greyhound Armoured Car. I thought what better game for a treadhead than What a Tanker! by Too Fat Lardies. - simple, quick and full of tanks. Part of the reason for all the tanks lately was to use them for games of Chain of Command, Bolt Action and What a Tanker! However, as I do not have a lot of space at home (my play surface is only 4 x 4) so I decided to buy some 15mm tanks to allow a more dynamic games. The models themselves are from Gale Force 9's 'Tanks' and are essentially Flames of War miniatures (no complaints there though). I found that I can utilise much of my terrain at the smaller scale and elected to take a break from the Mediterranean and dive ...

I finished up another StuG today, some German reinforcements for Italy. For my next german AFV I would like to try some camoflague, but I wanted to get the hang of the basics with this one first. I think it turned out pretty good!

Just finished another building (one more to go). This time the cart house. Its a little more rougher (textured) than my other buildings but I think it will fit in well 'under the Basilicatan sun'. It is the same process as I followed for my other buildings. These are very nice kits and very easy to make look respectable.

Continuing with my Italian theme, and to support my US forces, I decided to paint another vehicle. This time a Sherman. The kit is from Rubicon and it went together quite well (a bit confusing in some parts of the instructions) and it was really fun to paint. I dont really like the crew models from Rubicon, but that has more to do with my bad painting then the models themselves. Now that I understand how to paint vehicles, I hope to do more. There is a hope that I can play a game of What a Tanker! now. Maybe the Sherman can verse the little Stug that could , or some Italian Armour that I have.