The fearsome King Tiger with the Porsche turret is now available for action at the frontline, giving you a choice from three versions! – Choose your flavour with either the New Porsche variant or the two Henchel variants, one coated with zimmerit anti-magnetic mine paste the other plain steel armour. View in Store The Königstiger…
No Engine – No Problem – just dig a pit, tow one out of commission panther into pit, and voila! Big gun – Hard target! View in Store By the later stages of the war the lack of any production or repair facilities let alone any raw materials, meant a huge loss of equipment and little…
Jakob Lotz takes us through a fantastic conversion to add a little flavour to your German forces: During 1943 as the German Wehrmacht was forced onto the defensive it became increasingly clear that there was a great need for mobile anti-tank assets to counter the the ever present threat of soviet armour. As such…
This article by Mark Barber explains how to go about fielding a Bolt Action force entirely made of one specialized unit, like Commandos, Cavalry or indeed Paratroopers. Mark has done his research thoroughly and then created a platoon selector and some special rules that allow all of the infantry in the platoon to share the…
Andy Singleton of Volley Fire Painting Services has been scrubbing up his brushes and sharpening knives as he delves into the background of 2 iconic mainstays of the German and Russian armies SU-76 Vs Marder III Andy: Today I’m looking at two light-weight self-propelled guns of the German and Russian armies. The Russian Su-76, and…
Having recently had the opportunity to challenge Rick Priestley to a Game of Bolt Action I packed up a German force and trekked across to Ricks Barn for a bit of a bash against his Russians & whilst there put the question to him; Why Russians? ‘Why Russians then?’ asks young Carlisle as he struggles…
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…
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