The summer has seemed to pass in a hot fug of work and family stuff to so, so ages since I have been able to post, or game very much. Starting my own business has been a real roller-coaster! So just a short, proof-of-life post...
More pictures to follow shortly, but I have managed to get some painting done. This has mainly been a bunch of Roman Auxilia for my youngest, but I have also done some more troops for the War of the Spanish Succession: some Hanoverian Horse and Foot, complete except for the flags, with some Prussian and Bavarian Foot underway, with a couple of odds-and-ends units from other nations too. Earlier I completed a bunch of Baccus WW2 stuff, which I don't think I have posted before:
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| US SP artillery and anti-aircraft, plus some 105mm Shermans |
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| German SP anti-aircraft artillery, plus an SP gun and a Desert PzIII with the long 50 |
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| Some Nebelwerfers (critical for doing Normandy!) and a few Achilles SP AT guns |
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| The Nebelwerfers |
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| Some German guns |
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| and the whole lot in one go |
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| Some Crusaders and some Valentines, plus some more SP AT guns |
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| more German SP guns, Panzer IIIS, and some Sd222s. |
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| And some more US tanks, including an ARV |
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| And for something completely different, some Cataphracts! Realized I was missing some, but they are a very versatile troop type for Roman-era warfare. |
I have played a couple more battles in my shadowing of the Polemarch's 'War of the Stuart Succession' campaign, but not had time to write them up properly. However, as a snippet:
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| A French invasion! |
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| Fighing amongst the coal pits! |
Hope springs eternal, and I have been promised a bit of a break next month, so I should be able to complete a few more models and get some more games to the table, whereas the majority of gaming time in the last couple of months has gone under the category of 'pondering gaming' rather than painting or playing. Still, that's not nothing and I have managed to at least refine a vary disparate list of things I was vaguely considering to something more like a plan, with an attached shopping list. But we shall see! We have also had a bit of a change-around at home, so I might have a little more storage, painting and gaming space to use, which should help a bit too.
The Valentines and Crusaders look very smart! Good luck in your business venture and Il look forward to some more posts soon.
ReplyDeleteThanks Martin, appreciated. The British Armour is in a 'Caunter version', I think is the best way to describe it! Doing it fully accurately on detailed 1:300 (ok 1:243!) was a bit beyond me, but hopefully it captures the spirit...looking forward to using some of the schemes you have used recently when the Grants turn up.
DeleteAll sounds positive, and hopefully even more positive over the next few months. Pondering gaming is still gaming. I do it a lot!
ReplyDeleteThanks Shaun. I have got some stuff to post and hopefully some time to do it, next month if not this.
DeleteThanks for the update and as always you have a lot on the go painting wise. Fingers crossed for your new business and I hope you get some time in soon for some games:).
ReplyDeleteThanks Steve. And yes me too! My life is better when there are some games in it...
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