Hi all,
Another month another blog I guess. Painting has slowed, but preparation work has taken place, with more Napoleonics for Pat going onto the table, meanwhile I have build the Perry Plastic British and French, then set about the Victrix French box, OMG what a nightmare in comparison to the Perrys. The poses don’t necessarily build a marching unit either, and I do like my French to be marching to glory, while the British firing poses makes sense., still have the Victrix British to build….. not sure what to do with them either, probably skirmish games. The perrys I think I will keep for making into the start of my big Napoleonic collection tho, which is very much on the back burner till there are more plastic options.
The new victrix Highlanders look too good not to get some sooner than later….
But the French heavy Cavalry from Perrys looks like the next purchase, especially if I do take the ACW stuff and Imagination it… thinking of doing something with the old Grande Army rules and Based units similar to the Impetus sizes, so approx 10cm by 5cm for most units, with 4 cavalry or 10 infantry, with officer, drummer or standard bearers on the bases giving bonus to activation. Which would give me around 25 bases of infantry and 6 of Light cavalry to play around with straight out of the boxes… so no dent in the wallet just yet, oh and with Victrix having British Foot and Horse artillery boxes available inside the year will mean adding cheap artillery is going to be easy.
Need to start shifting some of the painted stuff I have been getting thru, just not sure on what is going to be the best way forward, not liking Ebay or trusting Bring n buys anymore… any suggestions welcome! With my job (well me really) receiving a redundancy notice I will need to either generate some painting orders or sell my stuff to bring some cash in, hobby will move to the back boiler for a while, still the packages look nice and will cover the mortgage for a couple of months, hopefully the job market will improve next year too…. If not then there will be plenty of painting time… see looking on the bright side there!!
take care all
Shaun
Wednesday, 5 August 2009
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
EG-TNG (Enfield Gamers - The Next Generation)
Well the swan song evening of pewc saw me playing Rich in NW Europe again... I took the US figures against the might of the Werhmacht, so as to not offend my American fans by loosing i gallantly allowed the figures to double as French..... win win situation i thought, until i won... then hurriedly had to make them Morrocans instead.... pesky dice just wouldnt fail me, Am starting to enjoy 'Force on force' too.
June saw the painting desk return as i mopped up some half painted and pre-prepared AWI figures i have had lurking around for a couple of years, 270 Painting points i am shocked. 24 figure units being churned out every 3 days! 6 figure cavalry unit in an evening? madness
Following TMP figures of the new Victrix Highlanders and Perry Hussars... swoon.. cant wait for these... but Perry Cuirassiers first tho... still not sure what to do with them all tho. So far the Perry British and French are all based on pennies ready for skirmishes with 'Song of Drums and Shakos' but really only keen on the activations bit of the rules, rest is DBMesque... migth need to have a fiddle about.
Also have a lot of Perrys ACW figures, so might do a little imaginations thing with those and the spare heads from the Napoleonics boxes, probably end up looking like Carlist stuff!!
Laters Ox
June saw the painting desk return as i mopped up some half painted and pre-prepared AWI figures i have had lurking around for a couple of years, 270 Painting points i am shocked. 24 figure units being churned out every 3 days! 6 figure cavalry unit in an evening? madness
Following TMP figures of the new Victrix Highlanders and Perry Hussars... swoon.. cant wait for these... but Perry Cuirassiers first tho... still not sure what to do with them all tho. So far the Perry British and French are all based on pennies ready for skirmishes with 'Song of Drums and Shakos' but really only keen on the activations bit of the rules, rest is DBMesque... migth need to have a fiddle about.
Also have a lot of Perrys ACW figures, so might do a little imaginations thing with those and the spare heads from the Napoleonics boxes, probably end up looking like Carlist stuff!!
Laters Ox
Monday, 22 June 2009
the pheonix from the pewc.... ewww
Well Ponders End Wargames club or PEWC ( pronounced Puke) has folded.....
But we have managed to negotiate the same venue for the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month, from 7 til 11, for gamers based in Enfield to come along too.
No membership, just 4£ for the evening, using the boards and terrain, or just the tables for card gaming, or even the study for a little Roleplaying...
http://www.enfieldgamers.co.uk/
is the new community site...
But we have managed to negotiate the same venue for the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month, from 7 til 11, for gamers based in Enfield to come along too.
No membership, just 4£ for the evening, using the boards and terrain, or just the tables for card gaming, or even the study for a little Roleplaying...
http://www.enfieldgamers.co.uk/
is the new community site...
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Oops...
Well failed miserably all three counts so far... at least the painting is picking up
So much has changed, but i am back painting now, and its tri-corns ....
have dug out my old American Revolutionary (or Independence, if ya prefer) and am ploughing my way thru them, done the Loyalist, British Line , Grenadier's and Lights... for a 180 figures this year and am now starting on the Continentals, pictures may happen when i get flags for the boys to wave about.
On the gaming front have given up on FoG, and am just getting back into Impetus hopefully.
But the club has up n died on me... Ponders End Wargames club is no more... as it became financially enviable. The last remaining players feeling it was time to move on.... sort of, so the club is dead, Long Live the Gamers? Irregulars? or whomevers... we are going to change the name, cut the costs of the website, reduce down to 2nd n 4th Tuesday evenings and hopefully increase our numbers back to at least a regular 10, its not Over cos the fat lady aint singing but it has come to the make or break solutions before the bank roll turns red... so if you are local to Enfield and are free why not come along, theats Enfield, North London in the UNITED KINGDOM..... for those in the wider community of the net...
I will be updating more often too as the new website is going to basically be a link to all the 'not members' blogs .... confused, yeah me too
So much has changed, but i am back painting now, and its tri-corns ....
have dug out my old American Revolutionary (or Independence, if ya prefer) and am ploughing my way thru them, done the Loyalist, British Line , Grenadier's and Lights... for a 180 figures this year and am now starting on the Continentals, pictures may happen when i get flags for the boys to wave about.
On the gaming front have given up on FoG, and am just getting back into Impetus hopefully.
But the club has up n died on me... Ponders End Wargames club is no more... as it became financially enviable. The last remaining players feeling it was time to move on.... sort of, so the club is dead, Long Live the Gamers? Irregulars? or whomevers... we are going to change the name, cut the costs of the website, reduce down to 2nd n 4th Tuesday evenings and hopefully increase our numbers back to at least a regular 10, its not Over cos the fat lady aint singing but it has come to the make or break solutions before the bank roll turns red... so if you are local to Enfield and are free why not come along, theats Enfield, North London in the UNITED KINGDOM..... for those in the wider community of the net...
I will be updating more often too as the new website is going to basically be a link to all the 'not members' blogs .... confused, yeah me too
Monday, 5 January 2009
2009 The Pledge
Ok, well last year was a nearly ....
I did manage to paint over a 1000 points of figures... from some WW2 10mm thru to 2 40mm LOTR figures... so all good., but mostly my painting was for other people or bring n buy sales (flea market) so hopefully this year i will keep more of what i paint, so AWI is probably my best bet and easiest start for the year... also i need to finish all the nearly done ancient units, thats nearly 200 painting points for free!!
Didnt manage to keep up the weekly blogs entries....
Didnt manage to put up a photo of everyhting i painted....
So this year i will opt for 1000 figure again, a weekly update and some photos.
Thanks to Iron mitten, Der Alte Fritz and Paintermeister for all the inspiration over the past year of hobby trials and tribulations.
I did manage to paint over a 1000 points of figures... from some WW2 10mm thru to 2 40mm LOTR figures... so all good., but mostly my painting was for other people or bring n buy sales (flea market) so hopefully this year i will keep more of what i paint, so AWI is probably my best bet and easiest start for the year... also i need to finish all the nearly done ancient units, thats nearly 200 painting points for free!!
Didnt manage to keep up the weekly blogs entries....
Didnt manage to put up a photo of everyhting i painted....
So this year i will opt for 1000 figure again, a weekly update and some photos.
Thanks to Iron mitten, Der Alte Fritz and Paintermeister for all the inspiration over the past year of hobby trials and tribulations.
Thursday, 4 December 2008
I'm back.....
Well its nearly over i guess.... that was a quick busy year. Full of twists n turns in the real world, suffice to say it was mostly not good for painting lots of figures.
I was also pretty gutted after the Colours show at Newbury to be the victim of having figures stollen and given very short reply from the organisers, so i find myself NOT wanting to paint for bring n buy sales now, my friend Bob will have a stand at Salute so maybe i will paint some up for then.
Still on the painting rack are Romans and Greek ancient figures in handy 24 figure units.
Still on the preperation block are Napoleonic French and Italians troops.
Recent purchases are the new Plastic Napoleonics from Perry and Victrix, hit n miss.
New 20mm ww2 Normandy Germans , yum
and i may have fallen completely off the wagon and bought a load of Westwind Gothic horror pieces, and the entire Pirate range from Black Scorpion. oops
I was also pretty gutted after the Colours show at Newbury to be the victim of having figures stollen and given very short reply from the organisers, so i find myself NOT wanting to paint for bring n buy sales now, my friend Bob will have a stand at Salute so maybe i will paint some up for then.
Still on the painting rack are Romans and Greek ancient figures in handy 24 figure units.
Still on the preperation block are Napoleonic French and Italians troops.
Recent purchases are the new Plastic Napoleonics from Perry and Victrix, hit n miss.
New 20mm ww2 Normandy Germans , yum
and i may have fallen completely off the wagon and bought a load of Westwind Gothic horror pieces, and the entire Pirate range from Black Scorpion. oops
Monday, 5 May 2008
Happy Jedi Day - may the forth be with you
Well another rubbich month for painting
only manged to finish 18 Artillery crew for Mike and 39 for Pat... nothing for me again, so 57 in total not bad i guess.
Went to Salute, got some 20mm Valiant GIs, just the one box tho... wish i had gotten more, cant wait for the new Germans.
Also bought some of the new Perry Miniatures ACW.... they are very pretty, the cavalry are just possibly the best i have ever seen, got 8 boxes of infantry and 2 of the cavalry.... I think i will be doing ACW again somehow. Hope there next release is either NApoleonics, in which case i will have to really think hard about the rest of my future hobby or Seven Years War would be good. They are almost certainly gonna be summit blackpowder to go with the new rules comming from warlord games written by the Nottingham wargames Mafia.
My review of 'Beneath the Lily Banners' went up onthe wargames journal site, guess that makes me a published author..... next up will a sort of campaign/hobby/painting article, in the style of the GW foramtted 'Battle of 4 gamers', should be fun.
Hopefully I can finish some of the 170 odd figures that are sooooo nearly finished, switching to Ancients may not been my best idea as abreak from Muskets, live n learn.
Cheers Shaun
only manged to finish 18 Artillery crew for Mike and 39 for Pat... nothing for me again, so 57 in total not bad i guess.
Went to Salute, got some 20mm Valiant GIs, just the one box tho... wish i had gotten more, cant wait for the new Germans.
Also bought some of the new Perry Miniatures ACW.... they are very pretty, the cavalry are just possibly the best i have ever seen, got 8 boxes of infantry and 2 of the cavalry.... I think i will be doing ACW again somehow. Hope there next release is either NApoleonics, in which case i will have to really think hard about the rest of my future hobby or Seven Years War would be good. They are almost certainly gonna be summit blackpowder to go with the new rules comming from warlord games written by the Nottingham wargames Mafia.
My review of 'Beneath the Lily Banners' went up onthe wargames journal site, guess that makes me a published author..... next up will a sort of campaign/hobby/painting article, in the style of the GW foramtted 'Battle of 4 gamers', should be fun.
Hopefully I can finish some of the 170 odd figures that are sooooo nearly finished, switching to Ancients may not been my best idea as abreak from Muskets, live n learn.
Cheers Shaun
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