Cold War Hot Hot Hot
A wargaming blog primarily focused on the 1980's Cold War turned hot...
05 July 2025
The HSTV-L... or the LAV-75... or the RDF/LT... who knows...
07 May 2025
A Horde (almost) of Hummers
One of my (ridiculously too numerous for words) projects that has been plodding along in the background for a long time is finally starting to see the light of day. I've been collecting HMMWV kits and models for years now and am now starting to work my way through them. Very, very slowly...
Anyway - as always it seems the kits/models I got most recently tend to get finished the fastest - so here they are in no particular order.
22 April 2025
Cymbeline Mk 2 Radar System
Just a quick post today. I've been lucky enough to get a new 3D Printer - my old one had kind of died - and even though it has already started to get pretty cold here, on the warmer days I've been able to print the odd thing or two. Most of those I'm going to hold off showing (even though some of them are super cool) until I've actually painted them.
But in this particular case - as it was a wee bit more complex and it's kind of a bit different, I thought I'd show this mobile radar system.
Here's all the bits for 2 FV432 mounted Cymbeline mortar locating radars.
And here's how it looks put together
Not shabby at all isn't it. At some point I might print another radar so I can build it closed up for road travel. At this stage it has been undercoated, and I'll put up some more pics once it has been properly painted.
I do have an in game role for this vehicle, so that's good as well.
If you're interested in getting one of these, I picked up the file from Wargaming3D I've dealt with the designer and he is a very nice chap!
Just in reference to my previous post - I thought I'd let you know that I managed to sort out all the photos on the blog going back to March 2019 before they disappeared down thge Photobucket black hole. From time to time I will continue to attempt to go back in time and replace the photos - but I'm not sure how far back people would really bother looking, so unless I get specific requests it may take quite a while to redo the whole blog.
I also need to make sure all my old painting guides and TO&E explanations have pics as well.
Anyway, that's all for now. Should have a load of new painted vehicles to show you soon.
Thanks
Richard
29 March 2025
Potential Disruption of Services
Hi everyone. Just a quick note to let you know you may see some changhes to the blog over the next few months. This is because I have after about 10 years or more of using photobucket, I've decided that it's just getting too expensive so I'll have to move on from them. This will mean I will lose 99% of the photos on the blog - something I've been trying to avoid for years - and will slowly have to go through as much of the blog as I can to try and restore photos.
Fortunately I still have pretty much all of my photos stored on my laptop - but it's going to take a long time to sort it out and some post may never get re-populated with photos. I'll start with the latest posts and work my way backwards - so unless you want to look at something from years ago, you shouldn't notice much difference.
Who knows...
So please bear with me as I slowly try and sort this out.
Thanks
Richard
08 March 2025
Some West German vehicles
So like I said in the previous post a mate had sent me a few West German bits and bobs to paint for him - for which I got some very nice goodies in return - and due to a range of circumstances which I won't bore you with I was, strangely enough, able to knock them over fairly quickly. The photos were quickly taken before the vehicles were packaged up and stuffed into my suitcase!
I was also able to try out a couple of things, including using my airbrush, so was generally pretty happy with the finished product. Over a black spray undercoat I used Vallejo Air Colour NATO Green for the base coat and Tamiya NATO Black and NATO Brown for the cam colours. I then did a black pin wash, used the Vallejo Air NATO Green as a dry brush, and then Vallejo MC Black Grey and VMC Flat Brown as the drybrush colours for the Tamiya cam colours. Hope that all makes sense.
These first two are BobMack 3D prints of the Jaguar 1 with HOT ATGM fired under armour. I was super impressed with these prints which were incredibly crisp and detailed. Both designer and printer ought to be congratulated. I added cam netting to one of them - all the other detail is simply an excellent model.
11 February 2025
West German AFV Data Cards - An updated version
Hi All. Sorry I haven't posted anything for a while. It's been a bit of a crap summer and I haven't had much time, energy or most importantly the right head space to deal with any gaming. I have done a bit of useful reading - which has led me to make some changes to my helicopter and aircraft rules - and I'm currently working on a new design for Army Lists.
Recently a mate has just sent me some lovely 3D printed Jaguar 1 & 2s which was the push I needed to complete this little side project (as in a good excuse to put off some painting!)
So just like the US 9ID Data cards, I had a bit of fun including some speculative AFVs in this West German set.
So here they are:
02 October 2024
US 9th Infantry Division (Motorised) AFV Data Cards
Well, I'm a little embarrassed. I thought I had posted up the Data Cards for the US Army's 9th Infantry Division (Motorised) a while back, shortly after I had finished and posted up the lists for said division.
So whilst looking around on the blog after putting up all the Soviet cards, I suddenly realised I hadn't at all!
So here they are now.
You can also find them at the Data Cards Tab at the top of the page. Please have a look and let me know if you find any mistakes etc. Or even better pictures!
Thanks
Richard