Operators are sent to an Insurgent training facility somewhere in Northern Europe. Sitrep suggests up to a dozen insurgents in the area. Operators sneak in to avoid the two roving patrols. With enemy in the open the order is given to engage. Bravo opens up with the grenade launcher but misses wildly in the blustery …
A game of Spectre Operations played on 20th February 2019. Lawrence and Glenn's Nigerian International Security Assistance Force’ (NISAF) vs Arthurs Anti-government militia (AGM). In the Nigerian jungle. Unfortunately there was a minor breakdown in comms in team skirmish Preston and I had brought some terrain suitable for Afghanistan and a large contingent of Empress …
A game of Spectre Operations played on Friday 15th February. Arthurs Russian OPG vs Glenns GRU. Somewhere in Russia.All figures are by Spectre miniatures. Uri is unhappy Uri is unhappy, things haven't been going too well recently in the Russian mobster business and he's having to give up some of his territory to another OPG …
A game played on Wednesday 13th February 2019. Arthur's close protection team vs Glenn's SAS. In, well we never really said where we were. Spectre Operations the 28mm modern skirmish wargame by the folks at Spectre miniatures are due for a 2nd Edition. Expected in time for Adepticon in March. With the 2nd Edition on …
With the bases for all of the walls and buildings traced at scale size from the satellite map of the compound I had to start laying out the cuts for the walls. The heights of the various walls are well documented in articles like this: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/02/world/asia/abbottabad-map-of-where-osama-bin-laden-was-killed.html?ref=world A simple scaling calculation gave me the height of …
I have started the Hobby Boss 1/200th scale model of the pre dreadnought ship Mikasa. I visited the ship which is preserved as a museum near Tokyo in 2013. Mikasa today represents how she looked at the battle of Tsushima in 1905 and many features of the ship differs from my 1902 kit. As I …
A test post from the mobile app. Building spectre miniatures vehicles at Harlequins Preston.
Before starting the Pakistan compound project I had completed an Afghanistan compound based terrain set to play out some of the events leading up to Operation Neptune Spear. I started with some great MDF buildings off eBay which I extended with a couple of buildings of my own design and a set of compound walls. …
Our trip to Vapnartak 2019 led us straight to the Spectre stand to pick up some new goodies. Amongst the goodies on offer was their brand new vehicle the LTV (light tactical vehicle). This is the US Militaries replacement for the Humvee, but is also attracting interest from other countries including the UK. Enough of …
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On Sunday we had our annual visit to Vapnartak at York Racecourse. This post is to test and play around with how to present images on the blog. Images can be made to go full screen by adding the image as a gallery, a gallery of one image is fine. Making terrain great again on …
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