With so many days at home in this pandemic, I painted a lot of “old lead” (and plastic) have in my reserve. One of the projects I was lingering is a WW2 desert Italian army for . The infantry was already done, so I focused on tanks, armored vehicles, trucks, wheeled guns, and some planes. The entire army in a single go: I started to paint it deployed on my table for each step, and I discovered it was a natural “timelapse”. Here are the photos, with some tricks on painting the WW2 tanks!

Recently Manny Granillo from Hoplite-Research (HR-Games) contacted us about his divisional level World War two miniatures game called . It is a game that none of us here at NDNG ever played and we were excited when Manny sent us a copy of his rule set that just celebrated its 10-year anniversary. Besides the basic rules, HR-Games has a plethora of campaign, scenario and nation specific books that not only cover every combatant of WW2, but also other conflicts such as the Great War and contemporary battles.

By Tom Burgess

When the WWIII Team Yankee US nationals point levels went to 120 points this year, I was a bit beside myself on how I was going to expand my Soviet collection. At 100 points it already was huge and filling up my ground unit transport cases.

So I decided to go “vertical” and buff up my air support for my Soviets. I already had two of the older resin SU-25s that Battlefront offered previously and a friend offered me a set of the new Battlefront plastic SU-25s () at a price that I could not pass up. Since I now had both the older new sets, I thought it might do be nice to a bit of a combination review and comparison.

With Red Devils book coming out end of May, we have almost all paratrooper lists for the MID period in – we just miss the Blue Berets from USSR. Time to see how the Airborne troops improve their original army, and which one adds the most to the original roster.

Since the lockdown, many of us have been busy painting our ships and we look forward to the time we can once again play with our boats with our fellow gamers (more on this later). From reading the posts on Facebook a lot of gamers have wondered about which boxes they should pick up to fill out their fleets and the best answer is that “it depends”. This article will help you understand the three different points levels the game is played and what ships will most likely fill your fleet at those point levels.

By Robert Kelly

Photos by the Author

This is part 2 of Robert’s visit to the Norwegian and Danish War Museums.

My wife is Danish, and we usually travel to Denmark each spring. We secured two return tickets on the Copenhagen to Oslo.

The cruise leaves Copenhagen each day at 1630 hrs, arriving at Oslo for 0945 hrs the next morning. You get to spend the whole day in Oslo, and then the ship leaves Oslo at 1630 for Copenhagen, arriving at 0945 hrs the next morning.

I didn’t actually see the Danish War Museum after getting off the ship, but it makes for a better story, so let’s pretend. I’m actually using photos from a number of previous trips.

by Dennis Jensen

I was at my local hobby shop and they had the GaleForce nine Galactic Warzones Bunker for sale at 40% off.  I’m not sure what I’m going to use it for but at normally $35 it was irresistible at only $21!  The Galactic Warzones line is clearly designed for Star Wars Legion and is 28mm scale. The GaleForce nine buildings are pre-painted and are solidly cast.

As you can see in the below pictures they are nicely painted, and the piece would look really good on the table.  With that said I couldn’t help but add a little more detail in the form of weathering and painting up the control modules.  For an extra 15 minutes of time this piece really pops.  Whether you plan on re-painting this piece or leaving it as is I highly recommend you finding room for it in your hobby bunker!

I have been in a painting slump ever since November 2019. I have had this happen to me before where I go months without painting anything, however with the lockdown and the fact I really wanted to play with the amazing 6th Rate Frigate from so I found myself back at the table.

By Robert Kelly

Photos by the author

Next week we’ll showcase part 2 of Robert’s trip, the Danish War Museum.

My wife is Danish, and we usually travel to Denmark each spring. Though my understanding of the
Danish language is not too bad, hanging around the in-laws’ place for two to three weeks straight tends to get rather boring.

So, I’m always looking for other things to do like going to sporting events, checking out the gaming scene at clubs like Tinsoldaten in Aalborg, or Einherjerne’s in Aarhus. We always take a side trip or two, so when my sister in law offered two return tickets on the Copenhagen to Oslo mini-cruise we jumped on it.

The price of the tickets was very reasonable and included a room with a washroom. We found out that they seem to have made most of their money at the onboard restaurants and duty-free shops.  It was $120 Canadian for a buffet diner for two with water. The cruise leaves Copenhagen each day at 1630 hrs, arriving at Oslo for 0945 hrs the next morning. You get to spend the whole day in Oslo, and then the ship leaves Oslo at 1630 for Copenhagen, arriving at 0945 hrs the next morning.