Big Day Over - Back to Wargaming

Here's me and my good lady at the weekend. Nope, it wasn't for the rugby.



 

My youngest daughter Susan was married at the weekend.

Here she is with her new husband Craig.

Some of the photographs were taken at South Queensferry.

Downstream is the famous Forth Bridge.

Upstream is the Forth Road Bridge with the pillars of the new Queensferry Crossing bridge in the background.

I am reliably informed that this is the only place in the world where there is an Nineteenth Century bridge, a Twentieth Century bridge and a Twentyfirst Century bridge crossing a major river at the same place.

How good is that!

Now back to wargaming and where did I leave my paintbrush.



Casualty Markers, from the Bits Box

I made some more casualty markers for a chum using some odd bits from the bits box.

The cannon balls are way over scale but do the job nicely. They are pellets from a kids toy gun glued into a pyramid. The bases are 30mm square.

The rest are spare torsos, spare arms and heads from the bits box. I had no legs for them so I cunningly modelled them in the shade of some shrubbery.

The bases are 30 x 50mm. The dice holders are from Minibits.

http://www.minibits.net/

I also finished off some 54mm WW2 British infantry figures that my recently deceased chum had started. I think they are made by Airfix.

I hope to make up a platoon or so of these and put them on sale at a show later in the year to raise funds for charity.

On your marks, get set, Charge

I bought a packet of acrylic charge markers at the weekend from Figures in Comfort.

http://www.figuresincomfort.net/

Nice, but a bit plain I thought.

I married it with a 30x30mm MDF base from Warbases.

http://war-bases.co.uk/

I applied some paint and some static grass and et voila.

Now, that is an enhanced enhancement.

Baccus 6mm ACW - Army of the Potomac

I have just about finished the Union component of the Baccus 6mm ACW Boxed Set.

Not bad going for 4 weeks work including a good few distractions.

These will be my Army of the Potomac.

There are 10 artillery bases.

12 bases of infantry, two of them Zouaves.

2 cavalry bases with mounted, dismounted and empty horses.

6 command bases

All the bases are setup for Polemos, 60 x 30 for infantry and cavalry, 30 x 30 for artillery and commanders. I have left room for magnetic labels at the rear of the base.

Since I want to use these figures with other rulesets I have used 20 x 20 sub-bases which magnetically attach to the 60 x 30 base which is topped with steel paper. For example, Longstreet will need as many as ten 20 x 20 sub-bases for each Regiment and a starter Brigade will have three of them so I will need to get a few more infantry.

Attaching them is a doddle.

The painting of 6mm figures is not particularly demanding. I am a month away from being an old age pensioner and I coped with these OK. An 'impressionist' style is acceptable, certainly at tabletop level. I know that better hands and eyes can do more than I have.

So there you are, my Army of the Potomac (actually about 2 brigades but it's a start).

Just a few Johnny Rebs to do now although I expect they will take a little bit longer as they have less regular uniforms.

What do you guys and gals think?

Muddling On

I have made a little progress with some work-in-hand as I recover from a short period of illness.

I flocked the bases of some French Napoleonic infantry.

Now they just need a tricolour.

I made an additional 4 free standing figures for rulesets that require skirmishers to be deployed out of close order.

En Avant Mes Enfants.

A battalion of Hanoverians await some white paint.

I have painted and based the first 5 units of Union troops from my recent purchase from Baccus.

The rules supplied by Baccus are Polemus and they recommend an infantry unit is modelled on a 60x30mm base.

I would want to use these same figures with other rulesets such as Longstreet or On To Richmond so I made each Polemus base out of three 20mm square bases magnetically attached to the 60x30 sub-base.

A 10 stand Longstreet unit would look like this.

Here's how they look flocked.

From behind you can see where I will place the unit name and any other markers required by various rulesets.

Finally, and Thankfully my recent Muddling About, making extra shelves, reboxing some figures and generally tidying up has allowed one of my 6x4 tables to be cleared enough for gaming.

Woo Hoo!

Bearing Up

Bear with me guys.

I managed to slap some paint on some bases last night and flocked some other bases.

I hope to get my camera out this evening.

PS

Doc says I'm due a gall bladder scan.

Floored Again

Another bout of stomach pains has upset my schedule yet again.

Another unplanned visit to the Royal Infirmary overnight has set me on the path to yet another endoscopy, more tablets and who knows what else.

On the plus side it is a chance to catch up with my reading. (That is a plus isn't it?)