Tonight I’m working on a design for the Olympic Hotel from the movie Blackhawk Down. This should go very nicely with my “Target Building” model.
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“In The Game Room”, Teaching TAC II
This week on “In The Game Room” I teach Chris to play TAC II and he proceeds to kick my ass.
(watch on YouTube in 720p HD format for best look)
Today’s TAC II Game
Chris and I had a very fun game today. We played 5 turns in about 2 hours time. This was Chris’ first time playing so there was a more than normal amount of explaining rules going in but still we managed to move things along nicely and somehow (beginners luck, I’m sure) Chris managed to beat me. Good times.
(Photos are in no particular order)
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- Americans entering the town
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- T-90-s and BMP-2s coming into the city. Don’t tell them there is a HMMWV hiding on Baka Laka Daka Street.
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- Bradleys got their asses handed to them early in the game.
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- Two M-1s in a very sad state
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- The Hind is out of the game
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- A Russian hilltop barbecue
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- Apache down. A sad moment.
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- Apache inbound
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- It’s not going well for the Bradleys
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- Stopped and deploying the portable TOW launcher.
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- Winners and losers. The two HMMWVs retreated off the table leaving two T-90s and one BMP2 to claim victory.
Two Battalions of Malakastani Gatas
All painted up and ready for weathering. These are Malakastani Army Gata (The Cat) medium tanks. These are almost identical to the Argentinian TAM tank, they are German Marder APC chassis and German Leopard 1A4 turrets.
Ready for this Thursday’s TAC II game
Tomorrow I will be playing TAC II with my friend Chris and we will be filming the game for a tutorial video I’m doing for In The Game Room. The board is all set up and the cameras are in place. I’m looking forward to tomorrow.
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- Russian armor ready to be destroyed
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- Americans lined up and ready
If all goes well the video demo will be a two camera shoot with the main camera shooting straight across the table at the two players and another camera mounted on the ceiling looking almost straight down on the board. The overhead camera will be the main view with the player view being a “picture in picture” window overlaid over the main video.
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- Main camera and monitor
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- Overhead camera
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- Monitor for overhead camera
In The Game Room – Episode 5
Episode 3 of In The Game Room is now online
In this episode you get to meet my friend and new co-host, Chris and get to know more about both of us as gamers. We go way back and talk about how we got our starts in gaming and how it led us to where we are today. Chris asks me about how I turned my hobby into a successful full time business. We talk about his brief love affair with Robotech and his new found love for Flames of War. I go on a rant about miniatures scale and I talk a little bit about some new projects I’ve been working on.
So, strap in,,, it’s a 44 minute ride and I hope it’s half as fun for you as it was for us.
In The Game Room – Episode 2
A short video on preparing metal miniatures for painting.
More T-14 Armatas
When I first started making the T-14 Armata, I painted up 3 or of them for myself. A few days later a customer ordered 5 or 6 packs of them (25-30 total) …. well as the guy that makes these models I could not have a someone else having more of them than me … so I painted up 27 more tonight 🙂
GHQ T-72 TUSKs
Got them assembled and painted with Russian Armor Green and then drybrushed with 50/50 mix of Russian Armor Green and Flat White. Then a quick blackwash. Tomorrow I’ll add the weathering powder to finish them. I think they’ll look fine. Right now they look very dark ,,, but most Russian tanks do look very dark.
Allens Micro Armor Blog 