jp wargaming place
This a wargaming place were you can see a growing collection of miniatures and terrain of many historical periods in 20mm (but also a few 10mm,15mm and 28mm) started when I was 10 yo. At the moment it has several tens of thousands of miniatures from foot figures to Destroyers. Occasionally there are some war movie critics and some travel to military sites. My family considers it the best wargaming site in the World even if it is the only one they know. More on @joaopeixoto5249 YouTube Channel.
Sunday 3 November 2024
Rapid Fire! NW Europe 44/45 - 101st US Airborne - New C-47 and Waco
Friday 1 November 2024
Rapid Fire! NW Europe 44/45 - 101st US Airborne - 3rd battalion done and 501st PIR finished
Three resin printed Cushman scooters are a beauty with all being different. One will go to each battalion for liaison purposes or, if not necessary, to look good on the table.
The 81mm mortar and main operator comes from Esci US infantry. With some extra GreenStuff on the uniform and equipment he could join the airborne. The 60mm mortar is made of pieces of plastic.
Next: more aircraft for the US airborne.
Sunday 27 October 2024
The video on battle of Little Bighorn in 20mm (part 13)
Saturday 26 October 2024
Little Bighorn 1876 in 20mm (part 12) - Last three 7th US cavalry companies
Last post before the video. Its always a pleasure to finish one of those projects you had from childhood. Still, I don´t have enough foot figure for the 11th company and the 12th company is totally missing. Fortunately this last company was guarding the pack train and didn´t participate in the battle. Another problem is not having enough Indian figures but at least I finished all figures I had available.
No big news here, just a collection of the recent ways I use to produce 1876 US troopers. Revell and mostly Italeri ACW were used with kepis, sword and scabbards taken out. The larger slouch hats are Italeri foot figures, A Call to Arms , resized Airfix and Revell. Rifles and pistol holsters were glued on the right side of the horse and troopers. The fanion bearers were converted from figures holding a sword. This time there are more figures firing a pistol from the saddle which must have been much easier than firing (and recharging) the Springfield carbine while on horse. The figures firing the carbine to the left side had some of them cut in half by the torso and placed more frontally.
The legs in the air of many horses were again disguised with static grass due to the use of electric glue to strenghten it.
Next: The most awaited video of the decade - at least in Montana, USA - dedicated to LBH.
Friday 18 October 2024
Little Bighorn 1876 in 20mm (part 11) - One more Sioux/Cheyenne foot warriors batch
... and probably the last one, at least in the near future, as I´m out of Indian figures. Including the two last US cavalry companies still on the making, I have around 400 figures total for both sides. The US side at LBH had a total of around 700 men (and one boy on vacations). At a ratio of 1 to 5 you need 140 figures which I already largely overcame (also due to have the same figures both mounted and dismounted), but on the much bigger Indian side, of say 1800 men (a ratio of close to 3:1 in favor of the Indians), you need 360 figures from which I only have around 210, and that is counting with this group, still far from the aim.
The figures are my remnants Revell, Atlantic and resized Airfix. There is an obvious exaggeration of feathered bonnets here, even if these were not exclusive of chiefs, but they were important as I was running out of figures and the feathered bonnets give lots of colour to the group. With so many feathered bonnets no one visiting my collection can call them Egyptians or Celts. The kind of thing that happens quite a lot :).
All stands got spray primed with terracotta from Spectrum also in order to get the skin indian color something that speeded painting a lot as skin color is dominant here.
Next: last companies of 1876 US troopers.
Friday 11 October 2024
Little Bighorn 1876 in 20mm (part 10) - The river and H company, 7th Cavalry
In the middle of the last few posts I´ve been toying with LBH terrain namely the river, hills and trees. While all hills and trees are old things the river is brand new. I tried to follow the course of the river close to the action points, both east - Custer Last Stand, Weir point and Reno and Benteen defence and west - Benteen´s failed southern attack.
I took the opportunity to make some extra pieces of river that can be used in other scenarios.
Sunday 6 October 2024
Little Bighorn 1876 in 20mm (part 9) - The second group of mounted troopers - D, E, F and G companies - of the 7th Cavalry (Airfix and Atlantic based)
Monday 30 September 2024
Little Bighorn 1876 in 20mm (part 8) - More dismounted troopers (companies D,E,F and G)
Friday 27 September 2024
Little Bighorn 1876 in 20mm (part 7) - The Indian Teepees