Tonight I got the Hill fort sort if finished, it was basically dry brushing everything again…
I got some more chariots done too as well as printing another pile of Romans…
Oh yes and while I remember whose idea was it to get a pair of kittens!
Today I got some more paint on my larger 2mm Hill Fort. I also got some paint on the legion sized base as a test run for Strength and Honour when it comes out…
Now I did purchase some new rules to try out. These are by Mini Wars TV and are called Age of Hannibal…
Joe and I had a look at them yesterday and we think they will work for our 2mm forces. We are going to base the miniatures on 30×40 mdf bases.
We are almost ready to make a start on the 6mm Italian Wars forces. We are just finalising our lists then an order will go into Irregular.
I was having a mooch in a box under the bed and I came across this lot…
It’s a pile of 6mm Irregular stuff in the background and some H&R WW2 stuff in the foreground.
Tonight we returned to the Sudan for another battle between the Ansar and Anglo Egyptian forces. It did turnout to be a bit of a one sided affair.
We organised our forces, I took some naval ratings, Egyptians and Sudanese, with a Gatling. Joe went for the the Ansar. I was lucky with my command values, but not so with tne officer attributes, having one drunk, one cad, one short sighted chap, a brave one and the general’s favourite nephew . The naval ratings were led by the cad, and the Sudanese by the nephew…
So from left to right some really useless Egyptians who were both poor shots and unenthusiastic. Next are some okay ones, but their officer was short sightedness couldn’t shoot beyond close range, we then have the Gatling gun led by a brave chap and finally the naval ratings and the Sudanese.
In the scenario Joe was expected to defend the town, and therefore had to drop his points to 18.
My subterfuge was to put the useless troops as far away from the fighting as possible…it worked as their dice rolls were impeccable and as I was rolling 8 plus on all of my dice the fact they were useless wasn’t obvious. The force steam rollered forwards and engaged the cavalry in the trees. They took a couple of casualties, and then got annoyed by the firing and charged… sadly they fell short and were caught in the open. All of my units managed to fire and made short work of them and the unit of fanatics coming up behind.
To be honest with two units out if five down, it was pretty obvious that my forces only had to stay put down fire at long range…
My dice rolls were pretty jammy tonight and the Gatling failed to fire or move only once… I have a confession to make. I was hitting on fours, it was only when I went to tidy up that I realised that I was reading the Gatling stats from the last game. So a big apology to Joe for being a cheating B*stard. I should have been hitting on a five.
We have decided that the Ansar are going to have hidden set up, as was the case in reality, they would often appear in their hundreds outof defile etc. This will make jt a bit harder for the British, but jt should stop the stand and just shoot approach.
Today was another midge day, we were putting up and electric fence and it was a nightmare until a breeze got up. On the upside I still have my fetching veil
Happy Blog Day to Me, Happy Blog Day to Me, Happy Blog Day to Me – eeee, Happy Blog Day to Me!
Yes I have made it to another Blog Birthday… I sort of cannot believe it, but this old piece of Internet bonkersness has been going for four years today…
In that time I have made 1468 posts, and had just under 10,000 visitors (okay 9890 to be exact)…Which is quite unbelievable too.
I am now on 752 days of daily blogging, so for the last two years I have bored you at least once a day, sometimes twice and on the odd occasions three times.
But I do want to say a big thank you to my regulars who have been great fun to be around and who have actually been a great support when the bumps jn the road appeared. Let’s not forget those people who popped by to see some toys and also to the people who just randomly drop by and leave a like, even though sometimes it seems like they dropped on my post by accident.
So where do I go from here, I don’t have a specific direction apart from keep adding to it, I am eventually going to run out of space, my 6gb of space is 75% full already. I should really stop the daily blogging, as it would allow me to go to bed at a sensible time and stop boring you all if nothing else. Problem is it has become a habit… plus I wouldn’t know what to do with the spare time… well apart from sleep.
I was going to show you some pictures of more printed stuff, but after a whole summer with a lack of midges, they have made up for it tonight. I have never, ever seen them so bad, so as the shed is about 15 metres away I thought sod it, the pictures can wait until tomorrow.
So once again a big thank you and I hope you will join me for the next four years on my journey with teeny, tiny army men.
Cheers,
Stephen
Tonight I nipped back to the Thursday club (Thule Gamers) and we had a bash at the Submarine Game…
We couldn’t get the torpedos to launch, this could have been for one of two reasons… A the software was glitching or B.. we were crap and were probably pointing in the wrong direction… place your bets. We then tried a board game of Casino Kings, I think it was.
Joe and I are backing the Sudan on Saturday, so look out for a game report after that.
Well sort of…
I was asked by my neighbour to help move some shuttering for a concrete pour. It is about 8 metres long and about 60cm high and weighs quite a bit, so after chucking that around in his garden, I couldn’t really be bothered to do that much. I did photograph the cavalry…
For some reason they were still sticky on the bottom, resin, or whatever it is isn’t a good idea when sticky so I gave them another blast on the curing station. This time they were upside down. I also rescued the 10mm ruins off the build plate as well as printed some more gauls … I think I have about 30,000 now 😀
This evening was all about tidying up my pile of crap that had built up around my painting station. There were failed 3D prints as well as ones that were too big or small. I basically couldn’t get moved for stuff… can you remember this lot from around about February… Still in the box on the left hand side of the station!
This is after 45 minutes of tidying….the miniatures on the left can be seen neatly tucked away in the first picture above… I really, really should finish them.
To be fair, some of the stuff on there is mid move or in the case of some of them, things I was going to do tonight.
My 2mm cavalry all came out fine last night. This evening I was printing a church for 10mm miniatures….
So that was a balls up… 10mm on the left, 6mm on the right… oh well it will come in handy for my 6mm WW2 stuff. I am hopefully printing the ruins at a sensible size!
I am going to find something to store the W.I.P stuff so that it isn’t just lying around everywhere. When I went for the station… (I cannot spell bureau) I bought some plywood to make boxes to go underneath it. This is still sitting in the shed uncut.. a little job to do sometime methinks.
I was mooching around in a box the other day and came across these things…
These originated in the mid 70’s. I think I got mine in about 1980. My mate and I couldn’t afford the miniatures so got these instead. I was just talking to Joe about these last week and as if by magic they appear. I actually managed to buy the rules this evening too. As was the fashion in the 70’s there are lots of tables and book keeping required, but for £4.00 I thought why not especially as the two army lists in the rules are Roman and Carthaginian.
I got mores slicing done this evening, this time I printed off a pile of light and heavy cavalry.
I painted some of the 2mm stuff too as well as added some sand to the hil, fort and 80×40 base. The base is a test run for the new rules that are coming out later this year.
As I type this the kittens are definitely having a mad half hour. They are chasing each other all over the place.
Most of this evening was spent shrinking and slicing various buildings for a pal of mine.
I spent a good old while shrinking and hollowing, then I found some interesting freebies on My Min Factory…
The doors on these are 8mm tall so not bad for 6mm, they will need a bit of a size increase To go with his 10mm forces.
This evening I got some more done in the light cavalry and slingers and pretty much got them finished…
I also worked a bit more on the 6mm ruins, got some green mould lines on them and also worked out a bit of an idea re a base for them…
The above is some of the pieces, there will be a second smaller one too. Now to be honest, I am contemplating using some modelling compound to build things up a bit. Embed the ruins in rather than have them sitting in the top of a ‘billiard table’ base.
My musings today were around the 6mm Italian wars. Now if you remember I had a bit of s wobble about price versus Aesthetics a while ago… the one that sent me down the hunt for some rear rankers to reduce the cost… you can see my ramblings Here . So after much deliberating I came to this conclusion…
Irregular Miniatures in the front rank and shrunk and printed ones in the rear ranks.
So today, when we released the kittens I needed something to do whilst they were tearing around the lounge…
The kittens are in the crate in he background… as they were feral they were scared so we gave them time in safety to get more used tomus and the dog. I reckon if we just had the one in the foreground (Gizmo) then she would have been out a while ago, but Pixel, in the background was extremely nervy, so we gave them the time they needed.
So, for something to do I decided to tidy up my painting station and I came across some smaller bases and, as you do, I started fiddling…
It got me thinking, do I need to have the miniatures covering the whole base as in the case of the right hand unit, or could I go for something smaller to base them on. This reduces the ranks to three. Now the one thing I couldn’t find straight off were the irregular miniatures to try them on the front rank. I will have a ponder at this problem tomorrow with them in situ in the front.
Bogenwald 