Following up on the recently released ‘The Eagle Has Landed‘ sets, Mark Barber has come up with a fantastic set of special rules for the Fallschirmjäger Oberst Kurt Steiner View in Store Mark: Now you’ve bought Warlord’s new plastic Fallschirmjäger boxed set, you’ll need somebody to lead them in the field… look no further than legendary…
Patch from WWPD recently got in touch with an update on his latest projects – including a trio of our German vehicles painted in a relatively simple but highly effective colour scheme. He used a Dunkelgelb base before chipping and weathering the vehicles to add realism – giving his troops some eye-catching support in the field!…
We recently took a look at what Tom and Don from Alba Studios were up to in their workshop in Aberdeen. Tom has kindly dropped us a line with a neat way to get your army units up and running to a great standard in the time it takes to watch a good film! Tom:…
Dan Hoyt of the RedOverBlue blog has been busy as ever – beavering away with all manner of projects. This week, he’s graciously offered us the chance to re-post his conversion article for the German Pak 97/38 – and while we’re at it, we thought we’d throw in some pictures of his other German anti-tank…
From today until the end of September, we’re commemorating the Battle of Arracourt – one of the largest armoured engagements on the Western Front – with a focus on Tank War and a special improved ‘Wheels of Steel’ deal on selected tanks until the end of the month! The site of the battlefield as it stands now – a…
In Store Now Amongst the most elite of German troops, the German Airborne – the Fallschirmjӓger – Fall from the sky today in hard plastic! The world’s first paratroopers to be used in large numbers, the German Fallschirmjager were at the tip of the spear when war broke out in 1939 leading with the first airborne…
With the release of the new Sd.Kfz 251/1 ausf. D kit from Warlord Games, I made a suggestion on the Facebook pages about converting one up to an Sd.Kfz 251/21 Drilling. I was contacted by Warlord Games asking if I would do the conversion myself. I have never done any “fabrication” conversions before, but the…
The Germans made use of many different types of truck, including those captured from their enemies. Perhaps the most well-known is the Opel Blitz, although the six-wheeled Krupp-Protze was also widely used and is instantly recognisable. View in Store Around 7,000 Krupp Protze trucks were produced between 1934 and 1941. This six-wheeled truck was used as both a troop…
The German army of the Second World War used a wide variety of light guns, field guns and howitzers based around the 75mm calibre. One of the most recognisable and widely used was the leIG (or ”leichtes Infanteriegeschütz” – meaning “light infantry gun”) – which was used for close support, and was light enough to…
Andy Singleton has been busy with his cutters and putty showing us just how quick and easy it is to convert the new Fallschirmjӓger with a mix of other Warlord Plastic sets; Andy: Since I saw this set at Salute I’ve been very, very excited to get to work on them, and start a Fallschirmjager…
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