My plan at the weekend is to create enough scenery to cover our small living room coffee table for a small 5-10 vs 5-10 skirmish involving the outskirts of a small farming community. At the moment the list of things I need to create over the weekend are as follows:
Various sizes of wheat/crop fields, using the cut up door mat method
Sections of track way/ dirt roads from vinyl floor tiles
Paint up the Dry-stone walls that I nabbed off ebay
Create some CD sized forest pieces using twigs and pan scourers.
Base up some of the aquarium plants I have for undergrowth
Paint up a cheap towel to use as a gaming matt similar to what's used on the Last Chance War blog (http://lastchancewar.blogspot.co.uk/)
Hopefully if I manage to finish all of this time I should have a decent serviceable setup for future bat reps.
All of the above has to be created without making any noticeable mess otherwise Mrs Ilikepainting lead will cut me so wish me luck.
Not a huge amount of miniature progress this week:
I've no idea who manufactured the sheep but in my opinion it's an awesome mini. The peasant with the sheep is I think a Foundry mini but for the life of me can't find him on their site, he came with
As I never know how to end a post I'm going to starting signing off with images that I've taken kind of like a visual full stop, there will be no rhyme or reason to these photo's only that I took them:
Switzerland November 2011
nicely done figs, let me know where you get your mat from I'm looking for one myself but can't find a plain one. That is thick enough
ReplyDeleteThanks very much, I'm hoping that I'll be able to pick one up in a pound shop, I'll let you know.
DeleteNice stuff and best of luck with the game with the Mrs - I managed to tempt Mrs Thantsants once or twice with Skulldred.
ReplyDeleteMinis look great but I'm loving the mountain pics - bit partial to a bit of mountain climbing/hill walking and still wondering why I set up home in the Vale of York!?
Cheers, I'm hoping the game goes well, I may have to fudge some rolls to let her win as she isn't the best loser :)
DeleteThe middle picture was taken from the top of Klein Matterhorn at 12,740 feet which was amazing as you can get a cable car most of the way to the top (Europes Highest) and it feels like you're arriving in a bond villains mountain lair as there's a restaurant up there partly carved out of the mountain.
I think the real thing here is finding out how to get ones wife to play wargames with them. I mean, they're nice figures and all (very well done and all that), but clearly, the how-to we're interested in is the mechanism with which you coerced the dear lady :)
ReplyDeleteAnd: nice sheep :)
I have a feeling my wife is just humouring me in agreeing to play but she already has some geeky tendencies (Xbox RPG's and fantasy novels) so I don't think it's going to be to much of a system shock :)
DeleteA friend of mine Lord Siwoc had an objective (a little prezzie) that she had to fight her way too.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a perfect idea, strategically placed bottle of Hoegaarden/monolith it is then :D
DeleteLooks good! And good luck/well done with getting your wife to play. Song of... is a great and simple introduction; I play an only very slightly streamlined version with my four year-old.
ReplyDeleteThat pointing chap IS a Foundry figure from their Armed Peasants pack MED208. I picked a set up from Caliver Books and am very happy with them.
Thanks very much and cheers for ID'ing the mini
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