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D-Day Action
Some images of the Gentlemans' Wargames Parlour 2007 Big Game action.

30/05/2008

Normandy Road Signs/Advertisements
An A4 sheet of French roadsigns to download and print off. Various designs by Chris Woffenden and others c/o Valiant Miniatures. It's a large (2.7 MB) pdf file of print quality. It is free to use for personal purposes but it is copyright and must not be used for commercial purposes without the express permission of Rapid Fire Publications Limited.

20/08/2007

Painting a 1944 German Infantryman
A pdf painting guide download. Colin demonstrates a basic method of painting a new Valiant Miniatures hard plastic late war German rifleman with Humbrol acrylics.

12/07/2007

Geilenkirchen - The British Attack
Details of the Siegrfried Line (November 1944) game staged by the Sherwood Wargames Group at Triples 2006 (thanks to the group for permission to reproduce their handout).

04/05/2006

A Pacific Island Construction Project
A photo feature on work in progress on a 14' x 4' island which should (hopefully) make an appearance at the 2006 Battlegroup North show at Elvington on 13th/14th May.

23/03/2006

Painting Plastic Figures III
Richard continues his guide with a trip to the Pacific and focuses on the excellent Revell US Marines (and updates the Pegasus Germans as well)

06/03/2006

VG Charts for the Spanish Civil War
John Bruce of Force of Arms has kindly provided four VG Charts for the equipment used

Pre-War Army and Para Military Forces
Nationalists and Insurrectionists
Republican and Government
Improvised and Unusual Vehicles

22/01/2006

Russian Front Demostration Game at Antics
Richard reports on his recent outing in the snow.

01/12/2005

Operation Nostalgia
Richard hosts a spectacular Aegean game at Clifton Road Games in Exeter.

21/10/2005

The 2nd Rapid Fire! Games Day
Richard reports on his second outing to Antics model shop in Plymouth.

08/09/2005

Sunshine Tour 2005
Richard Marsh takes Rapid Fire out and about in the South West.

08/08/2005

Painting Plastic Figures II
Richard shows how he created the 1944 British infantry battalion which features in the new Rapid Fire! rules book.

26/04/2005

Painting Plastic Figures
Richard provides a step by step guide for preparing and painting soft plastic figures

01/09/2004

The Battle for Ville Beurre Foss
Richard writes up a test game using our newly developed divisional organisations (scaling things down by a third to accomodate the bigger battles).

22/08/2004

Modelling a Sherman DD Tank
Converting a HaT Armourfast plastic kit. Ideal for beginners.

01/06/2004

Gold Beach and Wake Island
Photos of the Gold Beach and Wake Island games at the Elvington Show. Thanks to Julian from Chiltern Miniatures for bringing WI along to the show and for supplying some of the pics.

22/05/2004

Vernon
(a photo feature and write up on the Vernon game from the NW Europe scenario book that Richard put on at the Fisticuffs show on 1st May 2004.

18/05/2004

Gold Beach
(a construction project for the Elvington Show 2004/60th anniversary of D-Day)

16/03/2004

Omaha Beach
(a photo feature of Dave Andrew's game)

14/12/2003
11/12/2003

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