ALY MORRISON'S "BUTTERFLY" ADVENTURES IN THE WORLD OF WARGAMES AND TOY SOLDIERS

Saturday 12 October 2024

From My Side of the Table… Another Game of Lion Rampant.

Greetings…

The other week Matt, Israel, Alessandro and myself got together for another game of Lion Rampant using our Wars of the Roses toys…

In true period style we swapped sides around…

Alessandro (Somerset) and myself (De La Pole) v’s Matt (Tudor) and Israel (Bouchier)

The scenario was very like a treasure hunt/rescue… Three travellers were wandering the table all with useful information in their possession… whoever “rescued “ the most was the winning side.

Two of our Wanderers… There is also a Merchant/Trader but he had already scuttled off…

The Wanderers moved randomly… When a unit made contact with them they could run away, come with them, come with them but slow you down or cause them to change sides…

We kept things as simple as possible 😁


Our brave boys prepare for battle and a bit of  “rescuing “…

That’s the Trader keenly headed towards us…



Gratuitous images of my brave fellows… Well it is called From “My” Side of the Table 😁.


Okay…. Here are the villains…
There is not a lot of moving going on here… The Gods of Dice did not favour Israel and Matt on this adventure…


Israel builds a wall of green dice in an attempt to keep me away… The Wanderers decide to move away from us… Except for Brother Drinkwell who falls over the hedge…


Israel and Matt… Still not moving much…




Brother Drinkwell knows which side has the best wine cellars and joins us with gusto…


The Trader ponders his next move…The Young Lady has headed off  in the direction of the Tudors (Matt).


Off camera there has been a lot of action…With Israel coming of worst and losing a lot of men…
In desperation he challenged me to a duel…
It’s a resounding draw 🤣
Unfortunately I actually met my demise shortly after this … my men carried on and sought revenge (Or more likely just didn’t care 🙄)
Israel also met his end… The good old arrow in the eye routine… A classic 🤣.


We have the Trader now… Hurrah!


Alessandro’s men get stuck into Matt’s archers while rather surprisingly the Young Lady persuades her Tudor “Rescuers” to change sides… Oh how we laughed 🤣🤣🤣.


The Trader and Brother Drinkwell head safely towards our end of the table…


The last picture… And nearly the last man… 
But not for us😁…

This was a hoot of a game… Especially considering that the scenario was knocked together in the few minutes before we started…
My dice throwing was unnaturally good… Matt wanted to know what I had done with the real Aly 🤣😈.

We were having such a good time that no one took any pictures of the out and out massacre that Isreal had to endure… He didn’t seem that enthusiastic about taking any himself for some reason.

I  would like to do something like this again but with a bit more planning… Possibly more like a treasure hunt game involving wandering characters and loot…

All the best.  Aly















Thursday 3 October 2024

Lion Rampant… A Merry Monk.

Greetings…

My friend Israel bought a pack of Wargames Foundry Medieval Civilian Character figures…


He suggested that it might be fun for our little Lion Rampant gaming group to each paint a figure of our own choice…
This was mine…


A nice simple figure…Full of character and a joy to paint…

The Habit is… Citadel… Doombull Brown.
The Cord is… Foundry… Drab Light 12C.

As always everything was given a wash of Alys Brown Liquid and re-highlighted with the original colours.

The paints are Wargames Foundry and Citadel

The base is as always…

This little chap will hopefully be taking part as a Character/Victim in a game quite soon.

All the best.  Aly



Saturday 21 September 2024

Shiny Napoleonics… The Thuringian Battalion… Part 3

Hurrah!…

Another stand painted…

This unit has really been like pulling teeth… I honestly don’t understand why it has taken me so long…

But here they are…

The Coburg Contingent…




They have been pretty much painted in the same way as the Weimar Continent but with Evil Sunz Scarlet turnbacks and white belts…

https://alystoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2024/08/shiny-napoleonics-thuringian-battalion.html

All I have to do now is the command stand… which is in a very Prussian looking uniform…

Hopefully this won’t take too long…

As I write this Nottingham is in the middle of an incredible full on thunder, lightning and rain storm…

The rain is quite literally flailing the back of my house… I opened the back door to try and watch the lightning… but I had to close it because my shoes were getting soaked…

That will be the end of summer then…

I blinked and missed it 🤣…

All the best    Aly


Tuesday 17 September 2024

Shiny Napoleonics… The next Building.

Greetings…

Here is the next of my new buildings…

Decoster’s House…

Once again from Sarissa Precision…

https://sarissa-precision.com/products/decosters-house-15mm

From their 15mm Napoleonic Range…

Another nice easy to build model… And fun to do…

This was painted more or less the same way as the previous buildings…But this time I used Citadel Deepkin Flesh for the walls…

It’s a nice colour… I may have to use it again.

The mojo and butterfly seem to be in harmony at the moment 🤣🦋🤣🦋…Hurrah!

A few more buildings have been ordered…

All the best.   Aly

Sunday 15 September 2024

Shiny Napoleonics… Another Building.

Greetings…

Here is the next of my new buildings…

As with the previous one this is also from Sarissa Precision 

https://sarissa-precision.com/products/low-country-cottage-15mm

A nice little Low Country Cottage… Very easy to assemble and a joy to paint.

I have painted it in the same style as my earlier buildings…

https://alystoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2021/09/shiny-napoleonics-my-first-building.html

I might get another one of these as I think they could be useful for creating a small village.

I can certainly feel the warm glow of hobby mojo rising in my heart 😁…

 ( of course it could also be the cheese I ate last night)…

Another building coming soon…

All the best.   Aly

Tuesday 10 September 2024

Shiny Napoleonics… A New Building.

Greetings…

Well… It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted anything…

I really lost my painting mojo for a bit… So I thought I would just try and clear some bits and pieces that I had had on the desk for a while…I did a bit … But it did nothing for the mojo.

So I’ve done something different…

I’ve been building and painting some more 15mm (scale) MDF Buildings for my Shiny Napoleonic project… And I have thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Here is the first…

A nice Central European Church from Sarissa…

I replaced the MDF dome with a similar sized wooden bead and put some thin card behind the window openings.

The figure is a Minifigs S Range mounted officer…

As I have said before… I like my buildings to have a modest sized footprint so 15mm buildings with 20mm figures works well for me…

This was a lot of fun… I had forgotten how much I like making terrain… I have a couple more on the go.

As they ( who ever they are) say a change is as good as a holiday.

This was painted very much in the same way as my first 15mm building…

https://alystoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2021/09/shiny-napoleonics-my-first-building.html

The main difference being that the walls were painted with Citadel Administratum Grey… With was lightly highlighted with an Administratum and Palid Wych Flesh mix.

The building was from here…

https://sarissa-precision.com/products/european-church-15mm

Next up will probably be… Another building.


All the best   Aly



Sunday 18 August 2024

Shiny Napoleonics… The Thuringian Battalion… Part 2

Greetings…

Yes!… I have indeed completed another stand for this project…

The Weimar Continent…

The figures are again slightly altered Minifigs NN7 Nassau Infantry.

Given how simple the uniform is, this stand has taken a ridiculous amount of time to finish.

I put this down to Real Life, Hot Weather and Work… All getting in the way.

That said…They are done and I am very pleased with them.





Two down… Two more to go… So finished by 2025😁.

The Tunics are… Foundry… Forest Green Shade 26B.
The Yellow bits are… AK Interactive… Volcanic Yellow AK11042.
The Trousers are… Citadel… Administratum Grey.

The paints were Citadel, Wargames Foundry and AK Interactive.


The bases are as always…

https://warbases.co.uk/product-category/bases/round-cornered-bases/mdf-rc/

I have made a start to the next stand… Hopefully they will not take as long.

Having said that… The builders are due to return soon and my Butterfly is flexing its muscles at the moment 😁


All the best.   Aly