Thursday, 23 February 2012

Pendraken Painting Competition 2012 - British "12th Regiment of Foot"

Mais uma participação na competição de pintura, com uma base de infantaria representando o 12º Regimento de Infantaria Britânico.

Another entry, the British "12th Regiment of Foot", protagonists in the Battle of Minden on 1th August 1759 and the Battle of Vellinghausen on 16th July 1761.



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Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Pendraken Painting Competition 2012 - The "10th Dragoons”

Mais uma participação na referida competição, com uma base de cavalaria pesada representando o 10º Regimento de Dragões Britânicos.

Another entry, the British Heavy Cavalry, the "10th Dragoons"



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Monday, 20 February 2012

Pendraken Painting Competition 2012 - The "Blues"

Mais uma entrada na Competição de Pintura da Pendraken 2012 http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/board,61.0.html:
Os "Blues".

Another entry to Pendraken Painting Competition 2012 http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/board,61.0.html:
"Blues", the Royal Horse Guards".




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Friday, 17 February 2012

Buffalo Mark IV & LVT's - 1/144 scale

O conjunto completo de veículos amfíbios blindados da Wargames-South.

A new set of Amphibian armoured vehicles from Wargames-South.

Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT)
1/144 scale miniatures




The Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) was a class of amphibious warfare vehicle, a small amphibious landing craft, introduced by the United States Navy, Marine Corps and Army during World War II. Originally intended solely as cargo carriers for ship to shore operations, they rapidly evolved into assault troop and fire support vehicles as well. The types were all widely known as amphtrack, amtrak, amtrac etc., a portmanteau of amphibious tractor.

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Monday, 13 February 2012

sIG 33 Howitzer 10mm vs 1/144

Mais uma comparação entre escalas/tamanhos de figuras.
Neste caso, diferença de tamanho é bastante evidente.

Another comparison between scales / sizes.
In this case, the difference in size is quite evident.

Left - Pendraken 10mm / Right - Wargames South 1/144



The Invasion of Poland had shown that the sIG 33s assigned to the infantry gun companies of the motorized infantry regiments had difficulties keeping up with the tanks during combat. The easiest solution was to use a spare tank chassis to carry it into battle. It was first mounted on a Panzer I chassis and given a lightly armored superstructure. This produced an adequate vehicle, but the center of gravity was very high, and the chassis was overloaded. As a result only a few dozen were built. Since the over-loaded Panzer I chassis was too small for the gun, production switched to models using the chassis of larger, more suitable tanks. In 1942 the PzKpfw II chassis was modified to accept the sIG 33. This version also received better armour protection. Eventually production switched to a modified version of the PzKpfw III and later still to the Panzer 38(t).

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Thursday, 9 February 2012

leFH18 Howitzer - 10mm vs 1/144

Vou dar início a uma série de posts relativos á diferença ou comparação entre as escalas 1/160, 1/150 e 1/144 (de acordo com o referido pelas marcas), ou dos tamanhos 10mm e 12mm.
Não pretendo fazer qualquer comparação entre a qualidade dos modelos dos vários fabricantes, de modo a evitar alguns mal entendidos.

I will start a series of posts related to the difference or comparison between scales 1/160, 1/150 and 1/144 (according to the brands info), or 10mm and 12mm sizes.
I do not intend to make any comparison between the quality of the models from various manufacturers, so as to avoid any misunderstandings.


Esqª - Pendraken tamanho 10mm / Dirª - Wargames-South escala 1/144

Left - Pendraken 10mm size / Right - Wargames-South 1/144 scale



The 10.5 cm leFH 18 was the standard divisional field howitzer used by the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. It was designed and developed by Rheinmetall in 1929-30 and entered service with the Wehrmacht in 1935. Generally it did not equip independent artillery battalions until after the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943. Before 1938 the leFH 18 was exported to Hungary and Spain. 53 were also exported to Finland, where they were known as 105 H 33. 166 leFH were exported to Bulgaria in 1943 and 1944 (until February 1st, 1944).

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