More WW2 painting

 

Still working on some WW2 bits for our Club's Sealion game at Warfare.

Some EWM Boyes Rifles - they are more robust for gaming with than the SHQ ones I currently have.

Hacked about airfix spares (I have an ice cream tub full to the brim of old ww1/ww2 airfix figures...) to make some casualty markers.

First Marlburian battalion finished

 

I finished the first battalion of 24 British this morning.  Block painted, some shading on face, black lined and then glossed.  All unbased as they will be used for siege games.

I am planning on starting the laser cutting of Dendermonde later this month and have 2 Austrian battalions on hand to paint (thanks for Alan Gruber's generosity) and need to order a few extra figures for another British unit.

After that, I will move onto the French.  Iam still hoping to find someone who has some 25mm Minifigs Marlburians they no longer want for a cheaper price than from Minifigs themselves...

Swashbuckler board complete

 

I have finished painting all the components for Swashbuckler.  Everything made by me except the tankards which were bought from an ebay seller.

I will add walls at some point but the game is playable now.

It all fits into one box with rules, dice, figures and everything you need for the game.

Swashbuckler by Yaquinto Games

 I played Swashbuckler when it came out in 1980.  It was one of the "Album" style games that Yaquinto produced where the board contains the game pieces.

I picked up a copy on ebay a few years back on a whim to see if I could convert it to a figure game to use with my Three Musketeers collection.

A random discussion over a boardgame a couple of weeks ago led to us trying the game out at the Guildford Club last week.

It was great fun and all 4 of us enjoyed it. You plot your moves for the turn over 6 phases and write them down in advance, so things inevitably go wrong.  There was a lot of mug throwing and chair tossing and Ray's character eventually died from being kicked after I got fed up with missing him with a sword.

The other players' were keen when I mention a miniatures version and I spent some time this week thinking about it.  I sketched up a board layout yesterday and spent today laser cutting the pieces.

Encouraged by the look of the board which uses 40mm squares, I started work on the other pieces and added:

Tables, Chairs, Carpets and the Balcony and Stairs.

I have drawn up the shelving units and just need to cut them.

Then I need to decide on tankards - I might 3D print them but experiments with using some files off Thingiverse and scaling them down haven't worked that well.

Once I have mugs it is pretty much ready to play - I will paint it at some point  and I will eventually add walls and might redo the Balcony as it isn't quite right.

Frostgrave Board

 I finally have enough terrain 3d Printed to fill a 3' x 3' board for Frostgrave.

Now, if it stops raining I can get the last bits undercoated and painted.

Using LOTR figures to make up the soldiers I think I also have enough figures for 2 bands for a playtest game as well...

Warfare Demo Game

 

 

The Guildford Club are running a Sealion style game at Warfare in November in 20mm and this has made me finally put some paint to some new figures.  I am about the only person in the club with early war 20mm ww2 so it looks like we will use quite a lot of my collection.
 
I have almost finished the Raventhorpe Home Guard characters set and knocked together a van from a Frontline Wargames Delivery Van - its a bit rough but will probably pass muster...

Just need to tidy up, varnish and then properly base them

Been a while

 I caught Covid for the first time shortly after my last post in April and it made me fairly ill for a couple of weeks.  it also knocked my rhythm out and I really lost my "mojo" for doing anything on the hobby including painting or terrain making.

I did managed some more terrain just before I got Covid.

This shows a 2' x 2' board with the terrain so far.  I have since painted a couple more ruins so getting close to having a 3' x 3' board ready for a game.

I also added some initial roads to the hex terrain - as I realised I needed some roads that could go over hills.

I finally played a game on the hex terrain last week - a One Hour Wargames FPW game.

I have been doing some commission work and have been making some Toy Soldier style Zulu Wars terrain of a fort and a wagon laager for Anthony as well as working on some movements trays, etc for people at the Guildford Club.

But I have struggled to get on with anything of my own.

The painting table as a bunch of 15mm ACW buildings to be finished, 40mm AWI and some 25mm Marlburians that need blacklining but I can't raise the enthusiasm at the moment.