Decided I'm going to need another piece of terrain to pose models on and decided to refurbish this town board from my Newten project from years ago.
Loving how it looks. Doing this has renewed my enthusiasm for doing more terrain.
I'm thinking about plans for: forest/jungle bases (waited for far too long to do); refurbish some 6mm buildings (for play-testing); and; redo my current 15mm building to be more flexible (taking them off terrain boards and basing them instead).
Having survived another year around the sun it's that time for resolutions, except I don't do them because the reality is that it is very hard indeed to keep to resolutions that require substantial change.
So, as I posted on my other blog, I'm going to wing it as usual.
Above is the current state of affairs on my workbench, sadly mostly neglected over the holidays, though I did do a small amount of painting to make some older models painted yellow pop a bit more.
Which means paint some
miniatures, and keep
doing because they're fun things I enjoy doing.
Or Happy Hols, Merry Xmas, and any other alternative greeting that is appropriate. I'm ecumenical about celebrating at this time of the year.
Another picture taken by my beloved of our tree. She is the light of my life. So from us both, have a lovely day and catch y'all on the bounce.
Just an update to say that not only am I still working at knocking Big Little Wars into shape, but that a couple of fans are working on making OHMU War Machine available as a PDF.
Whether this is a facsimile of the original, or a revised an updated second edition has yet to be clarified?
There are pros and cons to both approaches, and shades between a facsimile that's revised to more extensive changes that bleed over to modernizing the combat resolution and command and control mechanisms to meet the current standards for wargame rules and making it a new edition.
Either way, if all goes well there will something coming, but as to when, I have no clue. It depends.
I've mostly finished the rebuild CAS-4CP model. It still needs a coat of gloss varnish before
adding decals, and then afterwards I will need to spray matt varnish.
I'm so glad I've finished this rebuild because this rebuild has been a bit of a slog.
I think the added bulk really adds to the feel that the Buster is big, much bigger than the conventionally sized Ape and Dog combat armour suits that the Army and Marines use.
Mostly finished meaning that I need to spray some gloss varnish and then add decals and then spray again with some matt varnish.
So, this is the third Special Forces CAS-3-Mod-1 mech finished for my
Combat Armor Suit Detachment Alpha that appeared in my second novel,
Strike Dog.
The remaining three mech models for my Special Forces unit are waiting some TLC on my workbench. As they say, watch this space.
I recently acquired from Badger 3D a lovely resin printed Kurganets-25. I need to clean some minor flash off before painting, but the quality of the resin print is outstanding.
You may be asking why I bought this? Well, I reckon that this IFV will be around for the foreseeable future and is therefore perfect for games in my SF setting.
Besides which, I mention the Kurganets-25 in my World of Drei series of short stories.
Three takeaways from the 2023 Great Wargaming Survey are resin printers are popular, 98% of wargamers are in the hobby for life, and the average age of historical wargamers is rising.
Actually, go watch the video, it's worth watching.
My takeaway, we are all getting older, even us SF &F wargamers. The survey while an outstanding achievement is still self-selecting for those who know and can be bothered to answer. Caveat, none of us are getting younger.
That's all. Sharing because I care about stuff I do.
It has been a long time since I posted a Thanksgiving post, but today we're recovering from last night's meal with Susan's colleague from work, Simon Bland, who really appreciated being invited to share a feast with us. He's lovely.
And while Simon didn't want his picture taken, and Susan was far too flustered to have hers taken, she took a lovely picture of me, which I'm going to share just because I love her for taking it.
Y'all have a great weekend, and catch you on the bounce.
For the first time since Covid lockdown in 2020 we've been to a wargame show. We met up with Paul from The Man Cave. He described our conversation as erudite, which is totally flattering given the amount of cussing a typical conversation with me entails.
I looked around the show, but only bought some size 0 Kolinsky sable brushes that were on offer. I saw a lot of bargains, but I need more stuff to paint like I need another hole in my head.
Susan took a picture of me looking at temptation and resisting the urge to buy more stuff. There were plenty of great looking games being run.
Above and below are a couple of pictures of the impressive games on show.
For a full on video showing what we saw, check out Big Lee of Miniature Adventures, who has you covered.
And Susan caught me on camera wondering around the vast hall. As you can see there was a plethora of tournaments games being played on the day too.
And afterwards I gave Paul a lift back to London in my M1009 CUCV Chevy Blazer.
We were blessed with nice weather and had a great day out.
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