Greetings…
There lovely chaps have been waiting to get their bases for a while…
It feels good to get them done… I quite enjoy basing so it was a nice easy but productive fix…
Hurrah!
Greetings…
Yes indeed I have actually painted something…
It is a Victrix Miniatures Rus…
I must say it’s a real joy to have a paintbrush in my hand and be able to see what I am doing…
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Personally I think it could be a bit neater… but I would… wouldn’t I…🤣
I am looking forward to getting more done… That Lead/Plastic Alp won’t paint itself…More’s the pity.
All the best Aly
Greetings…
I thought I would see if a magnifying light will be of some help until I get both eye’s sorted and new reading glasses bought…
I been trying it out when cleaning up plastic bits and assembling figures…. It took a bit of getting used to but it does help a bit… I am wondering if a larger lens area make things easier.
I don’t think I will be using it for painting miniatures at the moment… As I have no real depth of field.
I can possibly see me using it in the future…
I know a few people who use magnifiers of some sort… They have said it took them a bit to get used to but now they don’t know what they would do without them…
This is all new to me 😁
All the best. Aly
Greetings…
More books…
I picked these up in Waterstones…
To be honest they are not much what I thought I would find interesting…
But they are indeed….
Classic Osprey…
A good background history about the development of the weapon, Lots of good pictures and Artwork…
Especially stuff from my favourite illustrator and friend Peter Dennis…
There are more books in this series covering different weapons… so very tempting.
My eyesight is definitely improving… The left eye is going to be operated on…on the 27th of the month
And then hopefully things will start to get back to normal…
Hurrah!
All the best. Aly
Greetings …
Napoleon’s Heavy Cavalry and Napoleon’s Dragoons and Lancers…
Yup!…
It was always going to happen…
And of course they are everything that I’ve come to expect from Mr Dawson…
Loads of pictures and information…I am certainly looking forward to taking a deep dive into the subject of Napoleonic French Cavalry…
Greetings….
I decided that I could do with an Airbrush…Yup! This is what happens when you have time on your hands 😆
I have had one before…Many years ago.. So it was interesting to see how the quality and pricing has changed over the years…
I bought a Harder and Steenbeck Ultra… From Element Games…
https://elementgames.co.uk/paints-hobby-and-scenery/Airbrushes-accessories/harder-and-steenbeck/ultra-series/ultra-2024ULTRA 2024 - Ultra Series | Element Games
Greetings…
Well there you go… Another year.
Thinking back over the last year I had the feeling that I didn’t do much… But it turns out I have done more than I thought…
A reasonable amount of games… Mostly Lion Rampant.
A bit more painting than I thought…
Of course I could have done a lot more but building work intervened along with various health issues…
Looking back I can now see when my cataracts started to affect my painting output… From late December to January onwards…
With my operation coming up and retirement on the horizon I am hoping there will be a lot more painted toys to show you all in the next year…along with many more games.
So here are a few pictures to show some of the things I did manage to do…
Napoleon’s Hussars & Chsseurs…
By Paul L Dawson…
Greetings…
Here is a lovely new book from Osprey that I snatched up as soon as I saw it…
https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/goths-ad-200700-9781472863065/The Goths, AD 200–700: : Elite Raffaele D’Amato Osprey Publishing
It’s a cracker… Full of excellent artwork and information…
All the usual Osprey fair… Easy to digest chapters covering the many phases of the Goth/Ostrogoth / Visigoth history….
It never dawned on me that when the Arab Conquest Armies crossed over from North Africa to Spain it was the Visigoths they fought first…
Now there would be a colourful collection…
The paper work has started to come through about my Cataract Surgery… So hopefully that is an indication that a date will indeed be set sooner rather than later…
I really want to paint toys…
All the best Aly
Greetings…
Last weekend saw this years gathering of The Wild Geese Wargamers…
As always it was a joy of an event…. Excellent Company, Excellent Food and Excellent Games…
I took part in three games… And much to everyone’s …( Including mine ) surprise… I did quite well 🙀.
Okay….
Here are the pictures…
Off course the first thing I did was go straight into Shiny 42mm Seven Years War…
Steve’s game was based on The Combat of Domstadtl-1758…
I was one of the Austrian ambushers…
Steve produced an impressive amount of wagons… All of which had to get over the bridge and off the table…
Our glorious Austrians attack the convoy… Vigorously.
It was close… But eventually the Austrians block off the bridge from the Prussians and started to cut them up bit by bit.
Hurrah!
Next up…
More Seven Years War…This time from Ken… And more wagons trying to get away over a bridge…
I was on the Austrian side…
The bridge with the wagons in the middle distance…
