Friday 30 August 2013

Catching up again

Catching up with recent doings

I've been busy doing War gaming related things, just lackadaisical with keeping the blog up to date on those doings.

I am going to be running a Napoleonic game for my local group in September so I thought I should do some work on them, I've not used them in quite a while.

First thing I decided on was getting some resin buildings, to replace the paper ones I used, A quick check of E-bay and I found a dozen, at a price I could stomach. here they are, partially painted, some of the buildings are comically small, but I'll use them anyway.







Then I decided its time to re-base my infantry, I have been meaning to do it for years. The rules systems I've been using lately, the numbers of figures on the base is irrelevant, only number of bases matter, and I think they would look better 3 to a base instead of 4 and as bonus it would make my armies bigger. The original bases were number 27 illustration board that I cut in to roughly 15x20 cm rectangles, I decided to get some wooden laser cut bases. I looked at Litko, saw their prices and looked elsewhere, I came across a company called minibits.net and they also had something called dice frames that I had heard of but hadn't been able to find and they also sell bases. I ordered from them. I got more bases then I would have from Litko for 2/3 the price, the downside their bases are 2mm MDF vs. Likto's 3mm plywood.

Dice frames, mounted onto 25mm circular bases with one of the red dice I ordered.

Bases come in 30 -20 bases per bag and each bag costs an English pound, roughly $1.50 Canadian.
The order also came with these, they were full until I based some French and Anglo-Portugues
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French Infantry
French Command stands

Anglo-Portuguese infantry,with some British Rifles (skirmishers) in front

British Command Stands


Doh! this is what happens when you re-base several hundred figures in one go.
After I had enough of working on the 6mm buildings I needed a change.

I decided I would do WW2 in a new scale, because the new game here is Bolt Action, and everyone has 28mm armies. Also those who don't play BA use 28mm, I think Greg and I are the only people in town that do WW2 in 1/72nd scale.

20 Heroes of the motherland



Plus 5 not so heroic soldiers.



Now that those figures are painted, its time to get back to preparing for my 6mm game.