Ambush Blitz evento/event - Gazala 1942 Campanha/Campaign

No próximo Sábado dia 17, a Brigada Tripeira desloca-se a Lisboa para participar em mais uma Campanha anual organizada por Jerboa Wargames.

Este ano a campanha desenrola-se em África - Gazala, em Maio/Junho de 1942.

A comitiva Tripeira é composta pelos Generais Jorge Faria (7th Armoured Division), José Miguel Mendes (Divisione Fanteria Motorizzata 101. "Trieste" - Azzi) e Pedro Casimiro (21. Panzer Division - von Bismarck), e pelo seu aliado de outros territórios a Sul do Rio Douro, o Generalíssimo João Pedro Peixoto, grande mestre da arte de pintar miniaturas (e colaborador da J MINIS), que vai prestar todo o apoio necessário para a manutenção da boa disposição desta excelsa Brigada.
Á nossa espera estão os nossos amigos e anfitriões habituais deste evento, bem como dos restantes representantes da BT, o internacionalmente conhecido Carlos Briz (the locomotive man) e do Mário Laranja (colaborador da J MINIS), mentor da implementação do Ambush Blitz nas terras algarvias.
Até Lisboa

Next Saturday, 17th, the Brigada Tripeira travels to Lisbon to participate in one more annual campaign organized by Jerboa Wargames.

This year the Campaign takes place in Africa - Gazala in May / June 1942.

This delegation is composed by the Generals Jorge Faria (7th Armoured Division), José Miguel Mendes (Divisione Fanteria Motorizzata 101. "Trieste" - Azzi) and Pedro Casimiro (21. Panzer Division - von Bismarck), and its ally from other territories located at South of the Douro river, the Generalissimo João Pedro Peixoto, grand master of the art of painting miniatures (and J MINIS designer), which will provide all necessary support to maintain the good mood of this sublime Brigade.

Waiting for us, are our friends and regular hosts of this event, as well as other representatives of BT, the internationally known Carlos Briz (the locomotive man) and Mário Laranja (J MINIS designer), mentor of the implementation of Ambush Blitz in Algarve.
See you in Lisbon.

Brigada Tripeira

Spanish Civil War & Locomotives Series nº 12 - by Carlos Briz

(Class 4021 locomotive - Madrid-Zaragoza-Alicante Railways)

Someone told me that only 4 of these Bloch MB.210 bombers were delivered during the war.

What a lucky shot for the Spanish bomber crews...

(Class 4021 locomotive - Madrid-Zaragoza-Alicante Railways)

This Savoia-Marchetti bomber over here has a great camouflage paint job!

The SCW also served as training ground for this fine piece of hardware! 

The Italian 8.º Stormo Bombardamento Tattico was stationed in the Balearic Islands by the end of 1936 and dedicated itself to attack targets located in the Spanish western coast.

JF/PC

Spanish Civil War & Locomotives Series nº 11 - by Carlos Briz

(Class 4021 locomotive - Madrid-Saragoza-Alicante Railways)

Fresh from the drawing board, or something close to that, here you have a couple of brand new dios.

Carlos, do not forget you have been summoned to appear in Lisbon on the 17th this month, since the guys from the Brigada Tripeira combat team are scheduled to participate in the annual Ambush Blitz tournament, organized by our good friend Jerboa, and it would be a good time to make an update on our chat.

Mário Laranja, from Algarve, is also a mandatory presence in this event.

The guys from Lisbon have been training hard all year in order to reverse the results of the last tournaments, but I already want to warn them that we are going in strong! 

The word "strong" here means that we are going to read the Ambush Blitz rules prepared for this tournament only on the voyage to Lisbon (as usual...), since we want to make it a fair event and this way we can even the odds...

By the way: Jerboa, do not forget that last year's prize still has not been delivered....

(Class 4021 locomotive - Madrid-Saragoza-Alicante Railways)

Well, is this an outstanding version of the Junkers Ju 52, or what?

JF/PC

Espimodel 2011 - Vídeo promocional

Espimodel 2011 from Núcleo de Modelismo de Espinho on Vimeo.

WWI Locomotives & War Series nº 21 - by Carlos Briz

(Class S 3/6 locomotive - Bavarian State Railways)

Here they are, two brand new dioramas by Carlos Briz, coupled with two outstanding J Minis buildings, created and developed by these expert modelers, Jorge Faria and Mário Laranja!

As you can see, Carlos in always hard at work, never missing out on quality stuff to include on his fine dios!

The Pfalz D.III came late in the war, but did not receive a good welcome by the Luftstreitkräfte personnel that was forced to handle it. 

It was what you could call a "flying coffin"...

(Class S 3/6 locomotive - Bavarian State Railways)

The Roland CII you see over here was used for reconnaisance purposes, but was not very popular with the pilots, due to its poor handling.

JF/PC

WWII Locomotives & War Series nº 34 - by Carlos Briz

(Class 4-6-2 locomotive - French Indochina Railways)

Two outstanding seaplanes coming up!

(Class PLM locomotive - French Railways in Algeria)

The French, like many european powers, saw it's land empire expand mainly during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Portugal was one of the first countries in Europe to establish colonies in other parts of the world and one of the last to leave them.

JF/PC

A BRIGADA TRIPEIRA na ESPIMODEL 2011 - 2

Estamos quase a chegar!!

Almost there!!

http://forum.modelismo-na.net/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=17562

BT

A Brigada Tripeira na ESPIMODEL 2011 (de 3 a 11 de Setembro de 2011)

Mais uma vez, a Brigada Tripeira vai participar no próximo dia 10 de Setembro, na exposição de modelismo "Espimodel" que se vai realizar este ano.

Como habitualmente, o nosso grupo de 'Jogos de Simulação' vai efectuar alguns jogos demo sobre a WWII.

Também como de costume, a BT convida todos os interessados e curiosos a participar.

I feel compelled to make a truthful translation from portuguese to english of JF fine words, since he is saying that if someone manages to win a fair fight on the wargames table, sheduled for the 10th of September on this modelling event, he will be offering (as a prize) a free "paint job" of as many models as you can carry.

Do not miss out on this opportunity!

JF/PC 

WWII Locomotives & War Series nº 33 - by Carlos Briz

(Class C 50 locomotive - Japanese National Railways)

And here you have another outstanding trio of dios!

Ok, now you know why poetry is not my thing...although when a guy looks at Carlos´s stuff you kind´a feel some inspiration coming up!

(Class S-2 locomotive - United States Navy)

The M10 gun carriage is one of my favourite tank destroyers!

Those of you who like to play the old "Blitzkrieg" PC wargame know what I mean...

(Class Sentinel Shunter locomotive - Great Western Railways)

I could say something like "this is new to me!", regarding this particular locomotive, but I will not, simply because where locomotives are concerned, they are ALL pretty "new" to me.

JF/PC

Spanish Civil War & Locomotives Series nº 10, by Carlos briz

(Class 030 locomotive - Spanish Northern Railways)

Here we are back to Carlos outstanding dioramas, once again related to our spanish neighbours!

A fine piece of modelling, that torpedo boat over there (on top of all the rest, of course)

(Class 030 locomotive - Spanish Northern Railways)

What is this? 

Do you believe that even the americans sold airplanes to the Republican side?

Who else would remember to call an airplane "Peashooter"...

(Class 030 locomotive - Spanish Northern Railways)

Spain, at the time, was a place where anybody could make "an easy buck", and even the russians could see the point of capitalism...

JF/PC

DAK Krauts by JMM

The brand new miniatures beautiful painted by a great guy and a true friend, JMM.

These models represents some units of Deutsches Afrikakorps, specifically the 21st Panzer Division.

SdKfz 222, Recce unit

WGS miniatures

Steyr 1500 Light Truck

WGS miniatures

 Rommel Staff (the guy in the back-middle) and a captured Dorchester command vehicle
Pendraken miniatures

HEIA SAFARI

JF/JMM

A BT em treinos - BT ABlitz training games

Com vista à participação do pessoal da BT na Campanha de Setembro de Ambush Blitz em Lisboa, reuniu-se no passado Sábado na minha casa, o núcleo duro da Brigada para efectuarem vários jogos de treino.

Os exércitos seleccionados foram, a 21ª PD Alemã e 7ª DB Inglesa (com algumas unidades em falta).

Testaram-se as mesas 3 e 5. Na primeira mesa a vitória pertenceu ao grupo de combate britânico e na mesa 5 os Alemães conseguiram a vitória nos turnos finais.

De qualquer modo, foi uma tarde de Sábado de reencontro de amigos bastante proveitosa, já que o General JMM foi de uma mestria exemplar como consultor especial e privativo da BT, no que diz respeito ao torneio de ABlitz que se avizinha.

Temos de repetir a dose mais vezes!

In view of the participation of BT staff  in Ambush Blitz September Campaign in Lisbon, we met last Saturday at my house, the core of the Brigade to carry out several games.

The selected armies were, the German 21st PD and English 7th AD (with some units missing).
The tables tested were 3 and 5. In the first table the victory belonged to the British battlegroup, and in table 5 the Germans won the victory in the final rounds.
Anyway, Saturday afternoon was a very fruitful friends reunion, since the General JMM was a masterly example as a special private BTconsultant, with respect to the ABlitz tournament ahead.
We have to repeat it more often!

As unidades Alemãs ao ataque.

Reparem no fantástico HQ alemão executado pelo JMM, com o Rommel em pessoa.

German unit attacking.

Look at the amazing German HQ by JMM, with Rommel in person.

Uma vista geral da mesa 5 e nosso guru das regras, JMM

(o copo contém ice tea)

Table 5 general view and our rules guru, JMM

(the glass contain ice tea)

As 'boxes' defendidas pelos Ingleses

Brits defending the 'boxes'

Uma 'boxe' em grande plano (25 pdr e infantaria).

'Boxe' close up (25 pdr gun and infantry)

JF

A Brigada Tripeira em Faro

Aproveito para apresentar o trabalho do novo elemento da Brigada Tripeira, Mário Laranja.

Entusiasta recente do nosso hobbie, que está a fazer um esforço para iniciar um grupo de wargamers na zona de Faro.

Escolheu, e muito bem, as regras Ambush Blitz para se iniciar nas lides dos jogos com miniaturas.

Aqui fica o trabalho dele, uma adaptação de material cénico ás placas com hexágonos da kallistra.

Espero que gostem.

I take this opportunity to present the work of the new Brigada Tripeira guy, Mário Laranja.

Our recent hobby enthusiast, who is making an effort to start a group of wargamers in Faro city.
He chosed, the Ambush Blitz rules to begun playing with miniatures.
Here is his work, an adaptation of cenic material with kallistra hex's.
I hope you enjoy.

JF

Indochina War & Locomotives War Series nº 2 - by Carlos Briz

(Class B 5 locomotive - French Indochina Railways)

Here you have more goodies related to the wars in Indochina.

The French had a lot of limitations in the matter of supplies during this conflict, leading some authors to think that that was the (main) cause for the failure of a western power over a third world country.

(Class 280 locomotive - French Indochina Railways)

However, in the case of the later conflict involving the USA, the argument that firepower and abudant supplies  alone were the recipe for victory did not prove it's point.

JF/PC