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The News Stand: 12/06/2026

The week has ticked over, so it’s time to cover all the latest in the world of Ultramodern Wargaming. New releases from Spectre, previews from Combat Octopus and many others, and even a sign of life from Haywire. Read on for more!

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SITREP – Painted VBLs

03/10/2021

The VBLs are done. Sat down after a long day of work and managed to do the finishing touches. Touches such as “painting green” and “washing” and “hitting with two types of tan. I really like these little things, and can’t wait to get them on the wargames table. One thing I hadn’t noticed until started drybrushing was that I managed to get some pretty obvious contouring on the left-hand VBL (you can see the texture on the hatches). This was the one I printed at a shallower angle and I think the five degrees of horizontal brought it into…
SITREP – Something New Pt3

02/10/2021

Final day of doing testing for 6mm stuff. Today’s test was looking at more of the Guaro3d models to see how well they print in 1:285 vs their original scale of 1:64. For this I pulled out the Bushmaster (for testing wheeled vehicles), the German Puma IFV (which will be used alongside the Leopard 2s for Rettung) and then in the centre, the Turkish Atlay MBT which I’ve mentioned in the past for use in the Bazi Empire. As you can see from the end result, there are maybe some tweaks I should do with things like gun barrels, over…
SITREP – Something New Pt2

01/10/2021

More time spent looking at 6mm printing (haven’t been in the mood for painting). Today’s goal was partially looking at the Guaro3d models I’ve purchased in the past and seeing if they can be used in 6mm. I need to work on the supports but for the most part, yes it seems. Now obviously, these vehicles are tiny and packed full of details, so painting them might be quite interesting. I’ll take a look over the weekend. But if it works, it makes buying more models more worthwhile as they can be used for two different games. Also at the…
SITREP – Something New

29/09/2021

My original plan was to spend the evening painting. But thanks to a friend visiting, that plan fell through. Earlier in the day however, one of my other 3d printing friends started talking to me about some rules he’d been working on, designed for smaller scale figures. Of course from that, he pointed out where I can get hold of some figures for it… Yeah, I think I might be taking a look at 6mm Ultramodern. This is mostly as a way of extending out the ChargeReal – being able to do larger scale battles than 28mm can do and…
SITREP – Fission Mailed, the Sequel

28/09/2021

Original plan – spend the evening painting up my VBLs Actual occurrences – spend the evening getting annoyed with STL files from a certain kickstarter. Over the last few days I’ve been taking a look at the British Paras, trying to understand what’s going wrong with them. I even had a chat with someone who 3d prints models commercially who, upon looking at one of the files from the pack, proceeded to repeatedly say “WTF” while looking through the geometry before declaring the files basically DOA. I appreciate I’m new to this whole 3d printing thing but there are some…
SITREP – Weekend

27/09/2021

Had a busy weekend – a few friends visiting and a Sunday airsofting up at Dirty Dog close to Darlington. Fun running around, need to improve my fitness/strength to be able to carry the gear I want to. As with all weekends, good for actually seeing people, bad for getting hobby done. Tonight’s work has mostly been cleaning up after playing host (and recovering some sleep) so our weekly hangout didn’t happen. But I have some stuff planned for this week: Finish off the pair of VBLs. Finish the figures I need for next week’s fantasy game (at the moment…
SITREP – One More Cultist

24/09/2021

I spent most of my afternoon cleaning up my 3d printing room so someone can sleep in it on the weekend but managed to squeeze in painting up one final cultist for group of five. I’m still really big fans of the Northstar cultist figures. They are a great set of parts for building a force, and part of me is tempted to pick up a few more to assemble a collection of dirty, horrible adventurers. As for my own setting, these are supposed to be matching to the Rangers of the Shadow Deep cultists I’ve painted. Hence the splash…
SITREP – Fission Mailed

23/09/2021

Alas, I ran out of time to get my stuff ready to game with tonight. Long day at work, not enough time to finish the models I wanted to and so I pushed it back. Instead had an evening of TV watching and hanging out with The Sister, while also writing up a little more of my battle reports from the fantasy games. However, I also had some time to play with the UK para STLs I bought from Kickstarter. I have to admit, the 1 hour turnaround from payment being taken to files on my hard drive that occured…