Completed Flames of War 15mm Orchard terrain with a platoon of US M3A1 Stuarts moving through it.

Orchard Terrain feature (mini-tutorial) and updated M3 Stuarts

After Christmas I had to make a trip to Michael's, the craft store. They had much of their Christmas inventory on sale. I found these cheap little trees for 70%, or about $1.20 a set, so I bought 5 sets to make an orchard terrain feature. The tree boles were pretty cheap plastic so I …

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US Airborne Field Artillery

Over the summer between work, vacation, and various family matters I did very little painting. Now that fall has arrived and I have time to work on my miniatures again I decided that before I allowed myself to buy anything new I needed to complete the three unfinished projects sitting on my work bench. At …

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Flames of War U.S. Army

I started playing Flames of War with the Open Fire boxed set which included 4 Sherman Is (M4s for my purposes) and a Parachute Rifle Platoon. So my US Army was the second force I built. It expanded with the addition of the 2nd Parachute Rifle Platoon and some artillery and the AT guns. Since …

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