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Charlies Journal - Long Range recon: Days 5 and 6
Day 5Turns out, dog is good eatin'. On full bellies, we headed out, crossing over a lot more hills. kind of slow goin' with Panky runnin' the drone constantly, searching around and watchin' out for...
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Long Range Recon: Contact - Day 6
"Do you see it?""Diaz...", Rogers looked up from imager, "...I should be sleeping right now." Diaz looked flustered, "But do you see it?" Humorless and disinterested, Rogers agreed that he saw it. "So...
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Charlies Journal - Long Range recon: Days 7 & 8
Day 7The Goat made better time on the return trip, helped that we knew where we was goin'. Panky really pushed things along, 'cause she wanted to get home and report everything as soon as possible.We...
View ArticleCharlie's Journal - Long range recon: Days 9-12
Days 9-12We started out the next morning, with a half charge, and with a broken wheel, though at least it rolled. Much slower goin' than before; took us four days to cover the same ground as in two...
View ArticleOdds and Ends Jan '19
Over the last couple of weeks, I've been slowed first by my recurring hand/tendon thing, and now a back issue, so not a lot going on. Besides squeezing in a little casting (6mm African buildings and...
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Slow Progress on 6mm Infantry and Buildings
Free time has been scarce lately, as changes in the day job have coincided with additional duty on the home-front. I've been squeezing in every minute that I can, trying to make progress on my various...
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Star Fleet Campaign: The Remaining battles of Turn 7
Over three weeks straddling the holidays, we played the remaining battles of turn seven (July, Year 168) in our SFB campaign. Here are overviews of the battles, and the situation at the end of the...
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The Burden of Abandoned Projects
Over the last few months, I made some effort to reduce the clutter in my gaming spaces (I'm really jammed for storage space), with some success. I threw out a bunch of stuff (clearing out maybe 10-12...
View ArticleUgh, What a Weekend!
So this was to be my weekend to free time to catch up on my 6mm building work, and get my selling page live.But, earlier this week, my wife's cell phone stopped taking a charge. After tinkering with...
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6mm African and Middle Eastern Buildings on My Site
Well, it has taken a lot longer than intended, but I finally have listed my 6mm (1/285) African and Middle eastern buildings on my site at Irishserb's Miniatures. I still haven't painted a full set of...
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6mm European (WWII) Buildings Now Available
I've finally gotten the my 6mm, 1/285 scale European buildings listed for sale on my site. They are a collection of models based on actual buildings from France and Belgium during Hitler's invasion in...
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Some Heroics & Ros for the Cold War
I seem to have lost my building and painting mojo over the last month, but I've been doing a ton of research and ordering figs for my 6mm Cold War project. Th latest order to be received was from...
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A Few Scotia-Grendal Cold War Models
I thought I'd share some pics of a few Scotia-Grendal 6mm models for the Cold War. It is just a few vehicles, but I figure the pix can't hurt. Please note that the models as depicted in the photos are...
View ArticleChoosing My Cold War
I was a tread-head almost from birth. My Dad served in Korea, and had photos of his time at Fort Knox, Ky from the 1950s. As a pre-schooler, I was captivated by his photos of World War I tanks on...
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More Cold War 6mm Vehicles from Scotia-Grendel
I'm kind of in a holding pattern hobby-wise, as I've aggravated tendons in my hand again. So, what better time to share pictures of my latest order of Cold War models from Scotia.First a couple of...
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Continued Cold War Progress
I've been pretty idle on the building/painting front, while giving tendons in my hand time to settle down, but I have been researching background information at a furious pace over the last few weeks....
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1/285 West German Vehicles from Shapeways
I received my latest order of 1/285 models from Masters of Military at Shapeways. They are all produced in the same "smooth fine detail plastic" and are fantastically detailed. Here are some pics of...
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Irishserb's Miniatures - Limited Availability Until Fall
Just a note to say that I've shut down casting until the fall (probably November), so my 15mm vehicle and 6mm building models will have limited availability until then. I am still selling on my site...
View ArticleSo I Bought This Book...
...on Amazon a few days back, from a seller in Cincinnati, Ohio It's a used Cold War book about the Warsaw Pact forces in the 1970s that will hopefully fill in a few gaps for my upcoming games. The...
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Time To Quit Whining About the USPS
SO, after going on about the USPS and their routing methods for delivery of my book, The Armies of the Warsaw Pact Nations, by Friedrich Wiener, 1976, arrived 5 days early. My apologies to USPS for...
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