Imperial Japanese Army Air Force

I started putting these together as the vanguard of Japanese forces for the Flying Tigers campaign in the Check Your Six! rulebook. They haven't been used (yet) but I really enjoyed putting them together,

Mitsubishi Ki-21 Sallys, 60th Sentai. (Heroics & Ros, Dom's Decals)

Mitsubishi Ki-15 'Babs' light bomber and Nakajima Ki-27 'Nate' fighter (77th Sentai). (H&R, Dom's Decals)

Nakajima Ki-43 'Oscar', 64th Sentai (H&R, Dom's Decals)

A bit of camera experimentation...

Spanish Republican Air Force: a couple of additional aircraft

I painted up this pair of planes a while ago for my Spanish Civil War solo campaign thing but thought I'd post them: a Dewoitine D.371 and a Polikarpov I-15 from Heroics & Ros.

Sesquiplanes and Biplanes are a little challenging to put together but who would one be to refuse a challenge?

Also, I had fun with the camo on a GHQ Soviet tank I got in a sample pack.
I think it's a T-90. Happy to be corrected. I added a tank commander as I'd lost the hatch. He's a Heroics & Ros Soviet infantry dude cut in half.

Naval wargaming

The local gaming group seems to be moving in the direction of putting together a proper an epic Team Yankee campaign (full-15mm-scale) based on Red Storm Rising and modelling the outbreak of WW3.

Working independently, I started planning for Cold War naval and aerial wargaming in the North Atlantic/Arctic area, particularly the GIUK gap. The air warfare rules will be simple - I've already settled upon AirWar C21. For the naval aspect, a set of rules called Shipwreck! (yes I think it has the exclamation mark in it's official name) look promising as they seem simple enough, yet covering all aspects I expect I will need. The rules are available from Wargames Vault, are reviewed on Boardgame Geek, and have a Yahoo Group.

In preparation, and as an experiment with naval basing using magnetic strip, tile and textured Selleys, I have done up a single civilian craft (1/3000 scale from Navwar miniature).

Behold - my smallest-scale miniature yet - the fishing trawler, the (not-so-vast) Bering Sea!