Your chance to give feedback on map size / figure photos size and amount

Ok guys, so here we have a chance to change something for the better (if you deem it necessary):

vote in this poll at Ambush Alley Games' forum, please. All feedback is welcome.

Are there enough pics of painted eye-candy (miniatures) in our supplements? Are they big enough? yes / no?
http://ambushalleygames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=8473

Do the maps for the scenarios need to be bigger on the appropriate pages within the book? yes / no?
http://ambushalleygames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=8472

HUMINT, November 2011, Vol. 1: new releases for gaming "moderns"

HUMINT = human intelligence. A new series of posts on my blog about news of various tabletop miniature producing companies concerning "moderns". The pictures were taken off the producers' catalogues with their prior permission. Cheers for that guys! Links to their webshops can be found within the right column of my blog (see sources for 20mm....).

Elhiem Miniatures (now also has Wartime in stock):

3rd November
New releases out now as listed by Matt himself:

Wartime Miniatures:
Bushmaster models - limited stock
New CIV2 and CIV3 sets replace old sets. I still have 2 sets of CIV3 left if you want them.

US01 02 and 03 - Modern US Army I also have US05 but, only 2 sets so first come first served!

MA7 and AVC are both vehicle crew for modern
AFVLBW5 and 6 are new


Elhiem Figures:

COLD WAR NATO:
NAT01 Generic G3 riflemen
BW01 West German G3 Riflemen

COLD WAR WARPAC:
DR03 East Germans (reworked weapons)

US 2000+:
IOT03 The Third fire team of US Army in IOTV armour.

SPECIAL FORCES:
SF10 Devgru Command team
SF11 Special Forces Support team

Somalia Day of the Rangers:
DEL02 Delta Force Fireteam
DEL03 Delta Force littlebird snipers and bench seats

VIETNAM:
VC01 New range of Viet Cong

Tomorrow's War meets Battletech: House Davion's "Shadow Hawk" painted

Another one of the famous N-scale "unseen" designs. This is an 1/144 scale plastic kit from the Dougram animated tv show.

I will change my plans. No more 15mm. I am going to use Mechwarrior Dark Age 10mm figures as they appear to be more in scale with the Mech's cockpit.

Martel Model 5 Medium laser (arm), Holly Long Range Missiles (shoulder) and Armstrong J11 Autocannon (other shoulder) in firing position

Armstrong J11 cannon in upright position and jump jets. Note the head-mounted Holly Short Range Missile pack.

Side view with more details of the armament. Warning labels included ;-)

HUMINT, October 2011, Vol. 1: new releases for gaming "moderns"

HUMINT = human intelligence. A new series of posts on my blog about news of various tabletop miniature producing companies concerning "moderns". The pictures were taken off the producers' catalogues with their prior permission. Cheers for that guys! Links to their webshops can be found within the right column of my blog (see sources for 20mm....).

Wartime Miniatures releases:

new range of Modern US Army. FireTeam 1 including 1 with Door knocking equipment
FireTeam 2 including 1 with SRAAW in pack and seperate Bipod for SAW Gunner

Platoon HQ (Pl Comd, Medic and RTO)

BushMaster GPMG Gunner and Digger

Generic Nato crew

SF troops

Afghan trader

Afghan Man

Females in Bhurka

Vickers MMG + Crew

Piat Team

Reviews and Interviews - Diehard GameFAN's musings about Ambush Alley Games' stuff

You might find those articles as interesting as I did:

http://diehardgamefan.com/2011/10/12/tabletop-review-force-on-force/


http://diehardgamefan.com/2011/10/12/tabletop-review-tomorrows-war/


http://diehardgamefan.com/2011/10/12/interview-with-shawn-carpenter-of-ambush-alley-games/

100,000 views. I am speechless

Hi there,
well I just clicked my own blog today and there it is: 100,000 views as of this morning! I can barely describe how that feels. This is nothing but my private little non-profit portal showing around my hobby stuff and talk about releases of friends' little miniature companies. That I would reach more than 100,000 views within one year I wouldn't have thought possible.

Some of you that follow blogger on a regular basis might have noticed that it was a little quiet over the summer months. Obviously there are reasons. For one that I am going through some rough times with a family member being seriously ill and for second, because I have started a second blog (yeah, that's right - another one) that completely will cover my Warhammer 40,000 related hobby endeavours. You can find it at www.swordofordon.blogspot.com
Last but not least I am also still into developement and testing of Force On Force supplements and I have to take care of two forums of which I am a moderator, which means I have to read a lot and take care of "my" communities (of which most are grown up enough to basicly run on their own).

So what's going to happen here in the future? Well, we at Ambush Alley Games have another bunch of books coming up soon. Ambush Valley Vietnam will be released this month (October) as well as Tomorrow's War going to follow right away.

Work continues on another four main supplements for release next year and some additional projects that are supporting Force On Force but aren't exactly Osprey releases (which means they will probably be .pdf download only).

My moderns are on hold at this moment for I am painting 40k stuff en masse (watch the blog!). Nevertheless I have decided to finish off the mid-'90s Bundeswehr that I started years ago, I have artillery support for both, Marines and Army (US) on my painting table and the ever present Chinese PLA will get finished hopefully later this year.

I'd like to thank all of you who visit this blog and comment about my stuff. I also would like to say "thanks" to Brian, Rob, Shaun, Mathew and all other vendors who allow me to bring their latest stuff in my hobby news section. You are supporting our hobby by fulfilling our wishes!

Thanks to all of you, who also are members at the AAG forum, The Guild and the German GW-Fanworld ("moderns" part of the forum) for your support, your criticism and nice comments. You are a great community that I am glad to be member of.

Once again my personal gratitude to Piers (aka Big P from GMG) who brought me into this - its all your fault, mate! :-D

Panzergrenadier platoon for my mid-'90s Bundeswehr

These are among my first ever painted "moderns" after years of GW related stuff. I used Revell kits and boxes of infantry for those mid-'90s Bundeswehr Panzergrenadiere (all plastics in 1/72). For some reason I have never shown my early works, but as I never tossed them away and recently stumbled over the box they were in, I thought I might as well share them with you. :-D

For the pic above I cheated - the Marder IFV isn't this command squads' vehicle. I have to admit the one for these guys up to day has not even been built, although I have it sitting in my shelf for years (maybe I should finally do that *doh!*)
The whole platoon - minus its command squad.

Six Grenadier dismounts and their dedicated transport: Marder 1A3 from Revell.

The dismounts, to include squad leader, 40mm grenader launcher, MG3 gunner, dismounted MILAN ATGM starter and assist. gunner.

FlaRakPz Roland for my mid-'90s Bundeswehr

A pretty simple conversion. A Revell 1/72 Marder 1A3 was combined with the Roland missile turret of a Rocco Minitanks Roland.

Although the turret is 1/87 it doesn't look too small in my opinion.

A GW 25mm base does the trick: I used it to increase the height of the turret.

Looking at it from this angle shows that you can actually mix some different scales on some models. ;-)
I have a platoon of mid-'90s Panzergrenadiere that I never showed in my blog. I will take some pics the coming days and post them too.

HUMINT, September 2011, Vol. 3: new releases for gaming "moderns"

HUMINT = human intelligence. A new series of posts on my blog about news of various tabletop miniature producing companies concerning "moderns". The pictures were taken off the producers' catalogues with their prior permission. Cheers for that guys! Links to their webshops can be found within the right column of my blog (see sources for 20mm....).

TheHobbyDen release:

UAZ (enclosed)

Elhiem Figures releases:

SA7 Anti Air Missile teams

82mm Mortar and Crew

AGS17 Plamya Grenade Launcher and crew

SPG9 Recoilless Rifle and crew

Somali armed with LMGs

Somalis armed with RPG's

Rioting Mob

Somali civilians with AK47s

Somali mob unarmed

Somali unarmed civilians

Delta Force Snipers with support

TheHobbyDen releases:

more boxes and stowage

Land Rover

Recce Land Rover

alternative Land Rover

Container Truck

IDF Shot-Upgrade Centurion

A note from Andy Grubb (regarding Britannia and other stuff)

Hi guys, just passing on this message as I know quite a lot of you are waiting:

by Piers » 15 Sep 2011 12:49

Spoke to the Grubster last night...He wanted me to pass on a message to everyone, especially here on The Guild.
Firstly he wanted to pass on a big 'thanks' for everyones support and patience with him while he is sorting things out. He really appreciates it.Secondly, to those waiting for orders - He aint forgotten you! Everyones orders will get there he is working through the pile... and its a big pile!

I also wanted to say something myself. Having know Andy for, must be nearly 15 years since I first spoke to him at Wargamer in Aston many moons ago, he is one of the old cut of traders. The reason Dave wanted him to take on Britannia was that they were cut from the same cloth im my opinion. If you are waiting on stuff - You will get it. Andy is working through a backlog generated by an overwhelming response that he didnt expect to get, on top of a busy show schedule and sorting out all the Britannia stuff. To give you an idea of the scope of that, he still hasnt moved everything from Britannia and he still hasnt sorted all the moulds out! Andy wont mention it himself, but he has been working till 1am and 2am most nights trying to get everything done, sort out Britannia, cast and mould and attend shows... Oh and have a life too! Not too mention getting a second website finished! Anyway, I just wanted to pass that on and say he is still cracking on and its all going well. He still has alot of hard graft to do... but he is getting there. We also discussed the African Militia figures that Dave sculpted and sent me. Andy hasnt as yet found the mould for these, nor the other BAOR releases that Dave had ready just before he passed away. If the African mould dont turn up, I have offered my test-casts that Dave sent me to be used as masters. Hopefully that will work out. It would be nice tribute to Dave to get his unreleased work available for people to enjoy.

HUMINT, September 2011, Vol. 2: new releases for gaming "moderns"

HUMINT = human intelligence. A new series of posts on my blog about news of various tabletop miniature producing companies concerning "moderns". The pictures were taken off the producers' catalogues with their prior permission. Cheers for that guys! Links to their webshops can be found within the right column of my blog (see sources for 20mm....).

S&S Models releases for September:

paramilitary or police type forces,

these have modern body armour and webbing and are armed with modern us weapons, m16a1's and m60 mg's

ladies from africa, sold in packs of 8 assorted

M106 mortar carrier with mortar and crew (S&S also sells another mortar variant - 107mm and 82mm are available)

bedford rl 4 ton gs

ural 375 gs truck

half figs to create drive-by shooters: the white spec ops, european criminal gangs or body guards...

the africans....

...and after last month's Iraqis - here the Afghans.

TheHobbyDen releases for September:

HMMWV shelter carrier