Dawn Patrol Miniatures game pics !

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OK I added the pics to this thread, look out below!

[Michael]

Nice, Where did you get the planes?

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Skytrex and also from the Wings of war minaitures game from Fantasy flight games.

most from Skytrex though.

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I am starting a Dawn Patrol (TSR game) campaign game with my game group and the pictures below show the culmination of about 12 months of preparation:

1. Purchasing 1/144 WW1 air planes (and WW2 but those are not ready yet) painting them and having them painted.
2. Creating hand painted 8 X 4 air war board.
3. Created custom stands form scratch, bases, tubing, magnets, clips etc.
4. Plexiglass hand etched and inked to duplicate squares on dawn Patrol board (this 8X4 board is actually larger than regulation board).

Enjoy the pictures!








Original board being recreated at 8 X 4

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Here is a picture of my mini collection, the ones on the top shelf are pre painted Wings of War miniatures (from fantasy flight games). You do not even have to paint them or assemble them. The bottom is old school assemble and paint 1/144 from skytrex www.skytrex.com/. I also have a bunch of two seaters finshed that are not shown.




Here is finished 8x4 hand painted remake

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final trench board picture

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Ok update to the game.

8 Players showed up and we had quite a furball. One Albatros was shot down (pilot hit) and all others planes went home with plenty of holes (and one lightly wounded newly minted Ace).

Enjoy the pictures

[Michael]

Nice.

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Here are pics form last night's game. The 94th Aero was escorting a Bristol Fighter over an enemy aerodrome. The Bristol was tasked with a recon mission. The Germans attacked fiercly and scored a mind bending 3 engine hits on one pass by an older Albatross! The Bristol started smoking yet ultitmatley completed the misison and forced a Fokker DVII down to boot!

I also include pictures on the Balloon hunting misisons that will take place in a few days and how I created the balloons by going to a craft store this afternoon.

Enjoy!

Martin Von Scrub draws first blood!


Captain Luis scores a Fokker in his Bristol.



Balloon Prep





Balloons under attack just 30 minutes later!

[Michael]

Awsome!!

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This was our 3rd mission on August 3, 1918.

We had a "what you see is what you get board" that included a trench line, with opposing balloon brigades facing each other. On top of that there was also random automated recon planes flying up and down the trench. It was equal parts dangerous and fun time for the hunters.

Jasta 11 and the 94th aero squadron really went at it and it was a draw.

There were 4 kills including both the German and American balloons as well as a DH4 and LVG 2 seater planes shot down out of the sky.

Lieutenant raymer of the French Escadrille also scored a very lucky balloon kill where he was almost shot down.

Enjoy the pics and read the captions for details...

The mission starts! Jasta 11 and the 94th jockey for position.



Pilots James Cunningham (3 kill pilot and Captain of the 94th) and Delvecchio (12 mission pilot of the 94th) aggressively strike the Drachen on the second turn.



The balloon goes up in flames, Cunningham gets lucky and scores 5 hits to Delvecchio's 4 and confirms the kill.



Emil Vogel and Helmut Stenier of Jasta 11 sandwich Charles Burthingy of the 94th with a bottom and top attack at 50 feet! Burthingy gets away unscathed.



Von Liebau of jasta 11 scores his 4th confirmed kill! he needed to score the maximum amount of hits on the right wing to bring the DH4 down.




Emil Vogel scores an allied balloon after braving enemy fire



Emil Vogel in his trusty Pfalz stalks an American SPAD XIII



The Balloons are down and the chase is on!


Cunningham blast a crippled two seater for his second confirmed victory (at 300 foot altitude) (4 turns of firing...) and becomes an official ace!



Jean Raymer sustains 3 engine hits on first pass at balloon and scores a killing blow.



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[Stephen]

Man alive, check out that balloon! That's really incredible. Must have taken forever to assemble all this. Really nice work.

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Hi Stephen...it took 12-18 months to get everything like you see it. The Balloon actually might have been the easiest thing ...just a 10 minute drive to a craft store and 35 minutes of painting and applying (gluing ) Cross and cockades etc.

Here is the latest from tonight:

Great game tonight with plenty of highlights.

Scenario: Lamb to the slaughter

2 british Se5As with 0/0 pilots on their first mission have been seperated from their squadron (one is very badly damaged).
German Jasta 11 lurks a few thousand feet above them ready to pounce.
2 brave British Camel Pilots climb desperately to try and save them.

it was a spirited fight that saw the SE5as turn agressive and deliver some blows. In the end one Se5a pilot surivived and the one flying the damaged plane perished.

Congratulations to Martin Von Scrub in his rickity crate Albatros for getting his first kill (him and Von Rolshoven had to cut a deck of cards to see who got the kill as they both scored and equal amount of killing hits on the SE's last turn).


Other squadron news that was taken care of:

Adolph Bulow has joined the squadron with a few missions under his belt and a Shiny new Pfalz XII has been issued to Jasta 11.

James Cunnigham , leader of the 94th aero squadron, has been promoted to Major

Rene Jeannot has recieved the Croix de Guerre medal for his outstanding achievements in combat.

and of course Martin Von Scrub has a confirmed kill.

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Here are some of the balloons we are working on and a Zep...

[Michael]

WOW!!!