Target Locked On: Falklands '82

While I diligently work away on a few too many projects, I figured that I would show a project which might not ever reach my wargaming table. Lets talk the air war over the Falklands in 1:300 scale.

These little jets were purchased on Etsy, the shop owner absconded without completing the order but did manage to ship these to me before they went on the run. Luckily, Etsy has a good policy on these sort of snafus and I was able to get my hard earned dinero back. These are cool if simplistic little 3D printed miniatures. They came painted and decaled to boot! Hopefully I can source some more planes with matching decals to complete at a later date.

RAF HARRIER

I originally had planned a full complement of Harriers, a couple of Vulcan bombers (Black Buck Raids), and slew of different Argentine aircraft from the French made Mirage, Israeli Dagger (Nesher), and the British Canberra bomber. I even started to look at some ships for the British armada before this project went on a indefinite hiatus. I based these with Litko flight bases which are nice but have the disadvantage of being physically glued to the bottom of the aircraft.

Fuerza Aérea Argentina A4 Skyhawk

The ruleset that I originally chose, Target Locked On!, seems like a blast to play, although I have yet to properly play a round. As previously mentioned on this blog, I based my homebrew rules for the Russian Civil War aerial combat off some of the mechanics from TLO! As the title might suggest, this game has a neat mechanic for locking on and/or evading radar for missile attacks. I have seen some other Cold War jet-age rules/miniatures and may give this genre another crack, either with these miniatures or different miniatures in another conflict.

Keep Rolling those 6's

 -15mm Dieter