Darrell Hindley shows us in this great article a demo game made by Gripping Beast and Comitatus Miniatures at Crisis. Very athmospheric gaming table. via darrellhindley.co.uk

My gaming club is currently preparing for a participation game at the annual german wargaming convention Tactica in Hamburg next year. We are going to present a Great War gaming table depicting the so called Kaiserschlacht in 1918. We preparing a 28mm gaming table showing a trench which is manned by the Ulster Division and attacked by the 6th bavarian Sturmregiment. 

I decided to paint miniatures and vignettes for this project. Therefore I am working on color schemes and dirt, blood and mud on the models which is not an easy thing to paint. 

However I think I can still add more dirt, as you can see. 6 of the models are cleen, because they were the first models to paint. The next 6 models look far more dirty. I must admit that I forgot to paint dirt on the helmets....

To be continued...

I would like to share some pictures I made in the Hungarian National Military Museum (Hadtörténeti Múzeum) in Budapest. I visit the museum on a regular basis since my wife is from Budapest and we visit this beautiful town often.

The museum is one of my favourite places there. The presentation is a little bit old fashioned, but you get quite a lot of information about all epoches of hungarian warfare. The second world war is looked at in four rooms. There are also quite bix exponates like a Heeresanklopfgerät PAK 36 with Stielgranate and a Schwimmwagen. Not many texts are translated, especially in the older exhibitions. However if you are in the topic this should not stop you.

Currently I start painting a Hungarian FoW army, so I brought back into my mind these pictures.

Several weeks ago we had a very nice game written and hosted by Rusus. The idea is quite simple: In a small town, the quarters have a football match against each other. There are only a few rules: no weapons, no other rules. Just get one of the balls in your home area. Every player has 4 miniatures and some houses representing the quarter. This can be any miniature of the players choice. We had some very funny combinations during the test game.

The game will be played at the German Tabletop Convention in Hamburg the Tactica, next year. I played with some WW1 miniatures and luckily won the game. However I can recommend to play some fun games with your stuff, too. This keeps us away from getting too serious.