I finally bought some of Tumbling Dices 1/600th aircraft after walking past their stall at nearly every show in the Southwest over a 4 year period and always saying "nice, but I just don't fancy another period".

My best mate (who is also a gamer) always loved the idea of Korean Mig V Sabres so I thought a starter pack for under a tenner wouldn't break the bank.  Little did I know that this would lead me to a painting a large collection of aircraft not only for Korea but also for Vietnam.  I now have (1 model to a flight) enough aircraft for a US Navy Alpha Strike as well as a USAF strike package.  I have stayed away from the B-52s (up until now but fingers are itching)  as one of the scenarios in Downtown needs 20 models so this would have to be a huge demo game (and over £100 worth of metal to paint up).

• Thud Ridge is by wings at war who make a series of simple air to air rulesets cover a couple of periods.  http://freespace.virgin.net/candc.russell/pageThudRidge.htm
• Downtown is a boardgame that I came across which allows me to playout, using miniatures, complete Strikes into North Vietnam.  The game has a website http://www.airbattle.co.uk/downtown.html

So 1/600th scale is the only way to go, and I have added a Hotz Mat as well.  Need to add some more terrain as well as some hill items and we will be on for a game or two at the local club. 

Downtown and Thud Ridge Images are here with details of my Forces.  I have also written a very basic guide for US Tactics and DRV Tactics for Thud Ridge

Finally to get a feel for the Thud Ridge game have at look at the Battle Reports for a couple of blow by blow small games (larger games will cover the turn activities and not phases).

I have now added a piece on a modelling and painting project adding a flight of F-111A to the US for 1972 games as well as section on detailing USN aircraft.

Lately I have been looking more towards Downtown and thought that it would be useful to show how the conversion of the board game to miniatures has gone.