tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16186690200871367692024-03-05T03:13:54.418-08:00Garga's Little Wars
A wargamer and miniature painter blog.
Featuring Flames of War, Warhammer, Field of Glory and many other beauties ...Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-86780560663512503662018-10-15T16:23:00.003-07:002018-10-15T16:23:59.889-07:00The first Prussians !I finished tonight the first small batch of line infantry including 2 bases with 8 figures in total.
Still to be done
Foot (infantry+artillery) = 232 - 8 = 224
Generals = 5
Guns = 4
The Process
To speedup the paint I tested a fast paint system in which I used a blue primer for the figures and black primer for the knapsack and heads. It seems to have worked fine. I initially did not glue Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-80246317270725980512018-10-15T16:03:00.001-07:002018-10-15T16:04:05.549-07:00First batch arrived
To assemble my forces I selected two excellent 28mm miniature producers which I knew very well.
Warlord games for the landwher .
Perry miniatures for the line infantry and artillery.
I was already familiar with their products and their excellent service. In addition, both companies are active supporters of the Waterloo replayed initiative and offered generous discounts on their productsGarga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-11993815397293909132018-09-27T22:14:00.001-07:002018-09-28T08:23:45.638-07:00The Prussian 13th BrigadeLet me now explain a little better my task. I am supposed to recruit a "brigade" of 10 units to be used with Black Powder 2nd ed rules. Here is the breakdown I got from Jack (the Ministry of War)
After a while and a couple of emails with Jack I realized that actually the brigade has been split across three players. Each of us will have the 3 Line and 6 landwehr battalions, then I will have Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-50116259315515794332018-09-27T21:58:00.002-07:002018-09-28T08:04:41.925-07:00Back again
After a long time in which I only posted on facebook I reopen my blog. The reason is that I have been accepted as member of a glorious project and I want to document my steps towards the completion of my tasks ...
In case you are curious the project is nothing less than Waterloo replayed
the largest ever wargame battle with more than 100 players and 22000 miniatures.
I got the info Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-64840317047464031202015-01-03T12:10:00.002-08:002015-01-03T12:10:57.096-08:00Rubicon's T34/76I am amazed by the quality of the new Rubicon models. Here is a look of the T34/76 i recently built... very nice tank and very easy to build.
Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-83611496143975662402015-01-03T12:08:00.000-08:002015-01-03T12:08:05.667-08:00Getting two Sherman's at the cost of one !I recently purchased the fantastic plastic M4A3 Sherman from Rubicon Models
The model is great and easy to assemble and I was super excited by the perspective of getting both the 75 and 76 mm turrets. Unfortunately during the assembling I got a bad surprise ! A few items that were needed by both turrets were only present in a single copy... They are not many but still this made the construction Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-21856810191413665192014-11-03T14:08:00.000-08:002014-11-03T14:08:16.063-08:00My 1/48 collectionI decided to make all my german vehicles in 1/48. They are better in scale wrt to 28mm infantry. The big pity is that the ranges are quite limited and in practice the only army that is possible to make is
the german one that has a decent range. Here is a sa set of samples of y german army.
In total I have
All models are tamyia unless otherwise stated
one hamomag and a schwimmwagen
Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-4567578079211805112014-10-26T03:20:00.001-07:002014-10-26T03:23:09.780-07:00100/17 batteryHere is the big gun of the italian army.... the 100/17. Actually my grandpa was an artillery officer an fought as a leutenant commanding a mixed 75/18 and 100/17 battery in the 1936 Abyssinian war, where he got a silver medal during a big fight against natives at the Uarieu Pass. Later he returned to Italy and was assigned to territorial duties. Fortunately he was not sent neither to north AfricaGarga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-5525364705653909342014-10-26T03:05:00.000-07:002014-10-26T03:05:23.071-07:00Italian support teamsThe support is made up by the solothurn anti-tank rifle and by an 81mm mortar.
Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-57233588513964445112014-10-26T03:02:00.005-07:002014-10-26T03:02:55.214-07:00Italian CommandThe third item in the production line is the command team of the platoon. It includes two officers and an artillery observer (actually from the 100/17 gun). The infantryman of the command is yet to be painted.
Officers have the khaki sahariana jacket with the markings. Artillery officers have black pipings.
Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-29523936312698139442014-10-26T02:57:00.003-07:002014-10-26T03:27:35.878-07:00Bersaglieri II - second squad of the commissionFollowing the good results obtained with the first squad we produced the second squad. This one has helmets with the typical bersaglieri feather plumes. We kept the same color scheme and basing to keep homogeneity of the army.
More photos below.
Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-15884802348313409022014-10-18T03:24:00.000-07:002014-10-18T03:24:16.831-07:00The first commission of the Gargas & sonsTired of fighting against iron-colored armies I was convinced by my friend Max "Pollo" (chicken) to paint his Italians... I started this project since my oldest son Filo decided to help me attracted by an easy flow of fresh money in his pockets. We setup a nice collaboration: I take care of preparing and priming the figures; he paints all the main colors; I wash them with army painter dark tone Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-70862369895009007262014-07-28T13:17:00.000-07:002014-07-28T13:18:04.054-07:00German Vehicles 1/48A couple of transport from my collection of German 1/48 vehicles:
A Steyr Heavy Car and an Hanomag, both from tamyia.
Painted with airbrush.
It is easily seen that 1/48 is the right scale for heroic 28mm ! Unfortunately the vehicles available in this scale are not many and for many reasons is much better to use 1/56... sob !
Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-87982542193366214522014-07-28T13:05:00.002-07:002014-07-28T13:05:09.049-07:00Terrain put pourri !
Here is some terrain complements I prepared some time ago after Fede The Young gifted it to me... they are basically Italeri sets of road signals, walls and anti tank defences... they make a nice addition to our tables....
Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-51847123898059653682014-04-26T06:08:00.000-07:002014-04-26T06:08:00.540-07:00Winter war BTD reinforcements 6: The high commandFinal addition to the army is a fat officer with Nagant gun. It comes from the pack with the other officer that I used for the cavalry squad.
I also bought the Gaz jeep. It is all lead and not fantastic but with the 50% discount it makes an optimal compromise between price and quality. I mounted it on a base since i feel it more fragile than the resin ones.
Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-29965138847166131152014-04-26T06:01:00.003-07:002014-04-26T06:01:42.167-07:00Winter war BTD reinforcements 5: The heavy mortarWarlord stuffs are great but often out of stock !
BTD is then ready to fill the ranks with this awesome 120mm mortar including the transport (horrible to assemble but looking nice when finished...).
Unfortunately the crew is of only 3 people but the seated guy is really great !
Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-61482037793844407322014-04-26T05:57:00.002-07:002014-04-26T05:57:32.860-07:00Winter war BTD reinforcements 4: The infantryI could not resist buying a squad of infantry in summer uniform.
Great poses, excellent sculpting and low price are fantastic arguments.
The squad is made up by 10 men with a LMG.
Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-75733543994693780302014-04-26T05:53:00.000-07:002014-04-26T05:53:00.338-07:00Winter war BTD reinforcements 3: The scoutsI find the BTD scouts are really better with respect to the warlord ones.
I am not very happy about my painting job since the camo blotches do not came out from the rest of the uniform. I should have used a much lighter background since it darkens a lot with the army painter dipping that I use to shade and protect the figures.
Anyway scouts are fearsome with the ability to deploy together with Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-57893227449205388562014-04-26T05:48:00.002-07:002014-04-26T05:48:35.376-07:00Winter war BTD reinforcements 2: The cavalryThe next unit is a superb squad of dismounted cavalry. To make them I used the NKVD men that are really appropriate and painted with the colorful blue trousers. Perhaps they were not that used
in campaign but add a lot of effect to the army.
Again an excellent squad of veterans to field besides the inexperienced rabble... these will arrive to finish the work !
this great looking Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-70013128626820357882014-04-26T05:43:00.000-07:002014-04-26T05:43:26.726-07:00 Winter war BTD reinforcements 1: The naval squadExploiting the big end of the year 50% sale from BTD I bought a lot of Russians to complement my winter war baker figures.
The first great addendum is a squad of naval figures with winter jackets...
I painted them with the black baltic fleet uniform and they will make a great regular though fighter unit.
The only pity is that they almost all come with SMGs and they miss the typical crossed Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-71462366493900585142014-04-26T05:34:00.000-07:002014-04-26T06:10:45.953-07:00Winter war Russian, first waveIn a few months i finished the Russians in the first wave of the kickstarter from backer company.
I am amazed by the variety of the poses and on the fina outcome of the army.
I tried various shade of grey, green and brown for the overcoats and this also increase the variety.
In the following pictures you can see the great poses in this range !
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The Russian are much easier with a brownish green overcoat . I used the speed painting technique shown in the warlords site. Pinting the Finns is instead a nightmare. I tried a layered technique but it takes ages to paint them... I will instead try a wash with a light grey...
Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-7874494385050309332014-02-15T05:35:00.000-08:002014-02-15T05:35:01.526-08:00SAGA !!!! my first vikingsWe started playing SAGA and after few initial battles using lord of the rings miniatures I could not resist buying the gripping beast plastics. I prefer them quite a lot compared to the lead ones and I split two boxes with another fellow.
I have chosen vikings as initial force. I think they are an easy start and anyway the figures can be used for many other armies.
I like these figures very Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-72239809235858786952014-01-19T00:34:00.001-08:002014-04-26T06:10:26.958-07:00The (exciting) Unboxing of Winter war pack #1
Before Xmas I received the long awaited pack containing my two platoons from the winter war kickstarter.
Here is the report of my Unboxing and in following posts I will report painting progress...
The package is excellent (and heavy)
The box contains 4 Russian lmg squads with 10 men each !
and 4 Finnish squads (2 mg and 2 normal) with the platoon command
Here are Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1618669020087136769.post-21411611292649049062014-01-19T00:04:00.000-08:002014-01-19T00:11:54.223-08:00Finally a new camera!Last Xmas I gifted my wife a reflex camera (canon 600d) and finally had the chance of taking decent photos. I also suddenly bought a tripod and this enabled me to make a set of trial pictures of some old warhammer lizardmen I wish to sell on ebay. Here are the results Garga's Little Warshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403151787718558733noreply@blogger.com0