Salute 2018 - Crooked Dice part one

Crooked Dice have taken on the Pardulon range in anticipation of their releasing a Post Apocalypse game later in the year.

They had examples of their new modular truck on their stand.

 There are a lot of components in the blister

 They also had a HMMWV,

It does appear rather small for a HMMWV, but not too small to be unusable,

William Killian (on a base) and an Empress PLA infantryman.

Salute 2018 - Rubicon Models part one

Rubicon Models had a stand at Salute this year.

They had their new Resin vehicles, their new figure blisters and prototypes of forthcoming kits.

The Citroen 11CV is a multipart kit with under frame detail and a French decal sheet.

Components.

They also had the vehicles they have designed and manufactured for Heer46. This includes the Waffentrager tank destroyer.

The components are finely cast, looking almost like plastic injection mouldings.

There is chassis detail.

And the hull is hollow, with a bayonet fitting for the turret.

They also had their personalities blisters.

The figures looked tiny, but actually they are not as small as they appear,  William Killian for scale.

As you can see, they are of a similar size to my standard figure scale, but are of a slighter stature.

They also had the new Jeep trailer, not sure what I am going to use it for yet.

The personalities sets come with the new Rubicon bases.

Post War French Paratroopers

Empress French Paratroopers.

The squad.

M24 Chaffee - Bovington

There is an M24 Chaffee light tank at the Tank Museum at Bovington.

The Baron

The Baron.

Evil Bear Combat Support Drone

Evil Bear brought out their Combat Support Drones a while back, I bought a wheeled version I think at Salute.

The kit comprised a hull, two sets of wheels and a remote controlled GPMG. The weapon mount is identical to the resin GPMG supplied with the Panther kit (together with an HMG) which will allow weapon swaps.

The hull has four front mounted sensors plus four sensors on the four corners.

Shown here providing fire support for advancing SAS operators.

Equipped with extensive day and night vision system, the drone can advance with troops or proceed in advance of troops. The stabilisation system allows it to fire while moving.

The four scanning sensors allow a degree of autonomy in movement.

 There is a winch on the rear of the hull, though I might consider it control cables as an alternative.

 This particular variant uses wheeled locomotion, Evil Bear have a tracked version armed with a heavy machine gun in the remote mount. There is space in the turret space to add magnets without having to make any changes to the model.