History and wargaming

Hobby time has mostly been focused on Vietnam rather than WW2 the past month, but I did manage to finish this Bazooka team on the side at least. The usual Skytrex figs, quite decent poses really. I get a distinct ambush vibe from them.  And as a brief interlude from the US infantry with this 3d printed Sdklfz 223 I got from the Plastic Soldier company. Overall very impressed with the print detail, the few visible print lines I tried to cover with some stowage. The packages got absolutely destroyed by the Swedish Postal service Postnord (a common enough occurence as to spawn the loving company nickname Postmord ), but to PSC's credit all the 3d prints survived scot free, and they definitely feel less brittle than other 3d prints. I left the paint job quite simple as I wanted it to mesh with my old, not too that well painted Sdkfz 222's which were one of the first ww2 vehicles I did back in 2019 when I returned to miniature painting after a brief 20 year hiatus....  ...

Finally got around to basing a few Vietcong fighters I painted ages ago, still issues with an order I put in back in january that hasn't been sent, including a lot of plastic bases I was planning on using for this project.  Anyway, I've resigned to go with metal washers for now though I find them just a smidge to thin to easily pick up for skirmish level play but eh, one can always go back and rebase them later. Next up is basing another batch of US and after that it's civilians. The weather has at last proceeded into spray can season here in the frozen north, so there will be terrain to come too.

New year, new army project as they say. As my 1944 British and German Wehrmacht forces are more or less complete for playing most set-up's for Battlegroup, and needing a break from the Fallschirmjäger uniforms, I've decided to get going with an US army infantry force.    I do have quite a few american units from before: two of Sherman M4A1's and two plt's worth of Airborne with some extra support teams, but no regular grunts.   A troop of Sherman M4A3's and Stuart M5's are built but unpainted on the workbench, but I have finished up one M20 and one infantry squad.   The 7 man rifle team   Rifle team from the back   BAR team   BAR team from the back The full squad

  Oooof, it has been a long time since I last updated this blog hasn't it. Well I'm back, and maybe this new project will keep me posting here. As a long time fan of Warwick Kinrade's excellent ww2 ruleset Battlegroup, I was very much intrigued by his latest new ruleset, Nam'68. It sure reads like something I haven't tried before, especially the way it creates non-symmetrical battles. It will be some time before I'm ready to set up a game. I don't have any suitable jungle terrain pieces lying around, tho I'm slowly working on trying to rectify that. What I have finished is a fire team of US infantry, and a handful of Vietcong fighters, with more on the way. For Nam'68, that's enough figures to get a game going. I went with Flames of war 15mm scale 'Nam figures as they are reasonably easy to get a hold on in the EU, but I'm also pleasantly surprised by their quality, great looking sculpts all around!           I've alwa...

I've finished up two small units from the second line of the swedish left flank, Smålands kavalleriregemente and Skånska tre- och femmänningsregementet till häst. These are two very different units, Småland being one of the original "indelta"/alloted cavalry regiments raised before the war and was part of the King's army fighting at Kliszów 1702, Pułtusk 1703, Warszawa 1705, Holowczyn 1708, until it was lost at Poltava, and reraised for the defence of Skåne in 1709, and Skånska tre- och femmänningarna one being one of the temporary regiments raised in 1700 by combining three and five rusthåll to set up one extra cavalryman, only participating in one field battle, i.e at Helsingborg. Johan Valentin von Daldorff, the colonel of Smålands, was originally a messenger from the court of duke Friedrich IV of Holstein-Gottorp sent to its ally Sweden with the news of the peace at Travendal, and then took service in the Swedish army. Daldroff avoided capture at Polt...

Took a brief break from the great northern war and finished up a squad of german Fallschirmjäger that have been sitting on my workbench for the whole spring. I just need to finish another squad and the paltoon hq to have completed my "set" of paratroopers, already having finished the British and US.

I've more or less finished the command structure of both the danish and the swedish army. I'm still one commander figure short to represent major general Valentin von Eickstedt leading the danish centre. Anyway, without further ado, the commanders of the battle of Helsingborg: Swedish commanders: Army commander and centre: general Magnus Stenbock                 Left wing: lieutenant general Jakob Burenskiöld     Right wing: lieutenant general Johan August Meijerfeldt       Danish commanders: Army commander: lieutenant general Jørgen Rantzau Left wing: major general Frantz Joachim von Dewitz   Right wing: major general Christian Rodsteen