Oh man! Thank you so much! 
I’m looking for something tactical to play with my son. This might really work!
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That looks like a lot of fun! Both building the battlefield and then the game!
I’ve been hoping someone would make a table top style VR game, where I could move around the the battlefield, from above, like when you’re board gaming…
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Feeling from those rules and scale is like when you play Panzer Corps on PC, respectively SSI Panzer General. We love it!
The game is definitely tactical because before you can fire on the target, you must find a target first! Despite what you see as a player on the table your units there don’t know automatically about everything on the table until you are not opening fire.
In my eyes, this rule set is absolutely a masterpiece. Especially Rapid Fire Reload. Easy to learn, play, and with a feeling of WW2 realism.
Of course, you cannot expect (ultra) realism from a game that uses only D6 for all rolls but we as players know that the game is still a game, and isn’t possible on the brigade level to simulate everything in detail!
Highly recommended!
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I found Combat Mission to be a bit like this, though I have not spend much time with the modern variants of it. I played Command Decision with 1/300 miniatures before, but our battlefield looked nowhere as neat as in @Rapier screenshots.
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Another DSV and Gunpla from me. I panel washed both and applied a matte coat.
The new vessel is the Shen Hai Yong Shi or Deep Sea Warrior. It has a max depth of 4,000m. That was a pretty impressive feat for a Chinese submersible in 2009 when it launched.
Though, I placed it next to my model of the Jiaolong or Flood Dragon which has a max depth of 7,000m. Not so much a deep sea warrior when juxtaposed with that. I do have to say, Trumpeter’s kits for these DSVs are REALLY great. They’re beautifully molded and easy to put together. They’re honestly a great step up from a Snap-Tite in that they don’t require glue, but it helps, and they look good with minimal painting. Great gift for someone who likes obscure machines or scientific ones.
The gunpla is an Acguy. I could have puttied some of the seams in the feet, but I like gundam kits because of the minimal painting involved.
My next project? This:
Though, I think I may replace the old Soviet Red Stars with Uki markings. I might even try to give it a Uki fractal camo pattern. That really nice set of blue and greys they like to use? So good.
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I missed this post - I have been wondering the same for a long time. I gave away a few to neighbouring children, but with reluctance (so I only gave away the worst builds).
I looked at selling in some detail a couple of years back - there are some very interesting in-depth articles about it posted on the internet. The quality of builds is. apparently, not the main deciding factor - seems some real poor builds are fetching cash - but the biggest hurdle is delivery.
That was what stopped my ideas and made me leave it. First, you have to have a way of getting the model to the purchaser in one piece - as well as deal with the inevitable types that will say it arrived broken even when it didn’t.
Then there’s the real danger that what is now an enjoyable hobby will turn into a chore.
So… I’m still stuck with a few shelves full of models, none of which I want to lose, and no more room for finished kits.
Edit:
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This, for sure.
Even if I could convince the panel of nit-picky judges in my brain that anyone would even be remotely interested in paying money for one of them, the logistics in trying to pack it up so that it arrives in one piece are too daunting. I know people do it, but mine can barely stay in one piece sitting still, no chance across the country!
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the guy whose article I read did go to some lengths to explain how he managed it, but it still sounded way too ‘iffy’ for me. Especially with how the local mail service tends to handle parcels.
edit: From the second article above!
Most of the folks that ask me about my experience selling are OK with all of the previous points. But when I get to the point of describing shipping, that is where they get scared and say “never mind”.
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we can sell all our stashes, we can stop worrying about our display space, this is going to be free on epic store soon 
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btw whats your opinion on this no-paint modeling?
does it make sense to you? in the sense of following creations
or more like this? no!? really? 
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Everyone does their own thing.
I have neither the skill nor the patience to paint a ‘realistic’ scheme.
I have been tempted to build a chopper and paint the whole thing (including canopy) ‘Green Army Man’ green 
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aircrafts on outside display have usually also the canopy painted, so no worries there
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Not sure how “scale” this is, but I’ve been bashing some egg plane series models by Hasegawa! A fine display of a Harrier that’s holding in too much thrust!..
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Honestly, if you have an airbrush, you could give it a marble-white or stone-like coating… maybe paint in some fake SSAO (Screen space ambient occlusion - Wikipedia) and it’d look absolutely, positively stunning!
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I finally found the time and motivation to have a final crack at finishing the Lynx.
One of the things that kicked me in the notionals was the rotors - not just the folded position, but the decals.
I normally always paint my rotors, but I was worried I would mess it up, so I used the decals despite fears that I would never get the upper and lower edges to join seamlessly - or even at all. That turned out to be the case and I tried a couple of techniques to get it right, but instead it’s a right mess.
So I decided to just finish building the model and try and cover up the mess, then probably this will be one of the first to go in the bin when I need space.
The folded rotors are going together much better than I’d anticipated, but it’s obvious how much of a mess they are - I haven’t uploaded the photo of the view from the other side, because it’s too embarrassing.
Did a bit on the tail part as well - that light on top had a horrible, chunky clear part to represent the glass lens, and would have looked rubbish, so I painted on the red and then put a large blob of canopy glue on top, which I hoped would dry completely clear. It didn’t quite do that, but I think it will do - for this model, anyway.
I’m still fighting the urge to strip down the rotorhead and rub down the rotors completely and start again, painting them instead. Would probably end up not that much better, so on it goes, as is.
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definitely 1:EGG
1:Egg…well said! They are fun to build, one can get wrapped up in this hobby and I wanted to step back a bit and have a laugh. Here are a few others I’ve been building.
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Oh man those are fantastic
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