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Bat basing part II
This is part II of a three piece posting on using my new irregular bat bases. In part I I prepared the base and attached the minis.Above I have carefully applied BigRedBatGunk to the wooden Bat Bases...
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Bat basing part III
Shire billmenI covered around a half of the bases from my last post with static grass using an electric applicator, and then glued tufts on top of them, perhaps 60 on each base. I then added some...
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Sorting out the lead mountain
This week I've been reorganising the downstairs portion of my Lead Mountain. Most of the downstairs lead mountain is stored above the bookcases in my lounge. Here are the "befores". The Foundry boxes...
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To Newark with Ballista and chums!
On Sunday I'll be at Partizan Wargamign and History at its new Newark Showground home running a game of To the Strongest! with Dr Phil Hendry and his wonderful Middle Imperial Roman and Sassanid...
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To Partizan and back...
This weekend I went to Partizan and met up with a lot of fine wargaming chaps, including but far from limited to James, Steve, Phil and Matt of the Newark Irregulars, Curt and Mrs Campbell of Analogue...
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Free Ballista is in the shop
Mate Keith at Aventine Miniatures very kindly gave me a small batch of the Young Ballista miniature that Adam sculpted for Harry Sidebottom. Ballista is the hero of Harry's "Warrior of Rome" series; a...
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Hexing the square
Ray Ashton in Melbourne has been playing TtS! on a hex grid. This game used the TtS! Sengoku army lists, Baccus samurai miniatures on Hexon terrain. It looks very pretty and apparently it worked very...
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Magnesia 190 BCE
Here's a shot of a scaled-down test game of the battle of Magnesia that Ian Notter, Andrew Brentnall and I plan to take to Crisis in November. The scenario worked very well- Antiochus smashed through...
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Scorpionmen WIP
A really terrible shot of some Rapier Miniatures scorpionmen that I'm working on for my recently-revivified Gloranthan project. These were given to me by Sebastian Rogers c2005. I'm completely...
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Chitin dryin' in the sun
Here's another WIP shot of some of the fantasy minis I've been working on this week, with their matt varnish currently drying in the sun. The Scorpionmen are the first Gloranthan minis I've painted in...
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Scorpionmen
Here are the finished Scorpionmen for my resurrected Glorantha project, it has only been 11 years since Sebastian gave them to me. A slow burner.I have some more plans for there; a Queen, a hero and...
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Battle of Horn Gate
Today we played a jolly game set in Prax, using modified To the Strongest! rules, at Broadside in Sissinghurst. It went very well and there were some hilarious incidents. One poor young player drew...
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Thorakitai and t'other Partizan
This (clickable) photo is of the latest unit to join my Hellenistic forces- a phalanx of early thorakitai. These are the armoured equivalents of thureophoroi, wearing a mixture of linen and bronze...
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Montgomery 1644
I have a very enjoyable day, today, experimenting with ECW rules with Andrew Brentnall. Andrew has a fabulous 10mm ECW collection. We fought Montgomery 1644, above. I was defeated, but it was a...
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Rebasathon
Above are a pair of my new 19cm-wide Batbases. I designed these for my own collection and will gradually re-base many of my troops onto them. The idea is that the irregular edges, with a chambered...
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Rebasathon II - Not a tray bake!
The Great Numidian Rebasathon continues apace. Above I've partially based 24 out of a required 40 stands. Each pair of stands will join together along the long edge to form a unit of ten light horse or...
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A Midsummer Night's Gaming
I had a very pleasant outdoor game this evening with mate Ian using my new pike and shotte armies. The armies were freshly sprayed wooden blocks. It took about an hour to purchase and spray them, a...
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Ten Green Bottles...
...turn out to be highly efficient weights for holding down Batbases whilst the superglue cures, that will hold the magnets in place.They will also provide a useful lubricant for the baser, later today...
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New Sagebrush steppe mat
On Friday I received the first batch of a new Deep-Cut mat design. It is so new that it doesn't yet have a name but I am calling it "Sagebrush steppe".This is a design that I encouraged Deep-Cut to...
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A Civil English War
Had a fun day of chat and play-testing my forthcoming ECW rules with Andrew Brentnall (co-writer) in his Suffolk fastness. Above and below is the warm-up scenario, Montgomery 1644. I lost two of my...
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