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Friday, 19 July 2013
Attack! 2013 it's TODAY
Saturday 20 July -Sunday 21 July - two days of Wargaming in Devizes Wiltshire.
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
What I have been painting
Just a quick glimpse of some of my latest efforts in 'The Bunker'. Not having done any painting in a while I have decided to finish off some of the unfinished figures to clear space for the newer projects!
So 20mm Vietnam are making progress - but so are the 10mm & 6mm Vietnam too.
So 20mm Vietnam are making progress - but so are the 10mm & 6mm Vietnam too.
Sunday, 31 March 2013
Time to paint
Having awoken before 6am yesterday and not being able to go back to sleep, I did something I've not done in ages. I went into the Bunker and did some painting.
In fact I did a fair amount of painting; trying to finish off some if those figures and units that have been gathering dust whilst waiting for a few finishing touches.
You know how it is. A new book, film, podcast, rule set or enthusiast at the club means a new project. Current projects are pushed aside; older projects get put so far aside that they are offside and abandoned projects get relegated back to storage boxes. This 6mm AH-1 helicopter for Vietnam is for one of the latest projects. It is from Heroics & Ros.
Iain Dickie visited last weekend and commented that I seem to have three painting tables. Not so. One is for painting, one is for preparation and the other is for basing and finishing. You'd think that the former editor of Miniature Wargames would have cast his experienced eye over this and known immediately what the set up was. But no! All he did was spot the 'secret army' figures I'd carelessly left out half painted.
For several years thee of us at DDWG (Devizes & District Wargames Group) have been painting 10mm Qin Chinese for a Warmaster Ancients game against the Bournemouth-based Purbeck Brotherhood of Ancients (my old club from when I was first starting Wargaming). A 'secret army' as we wanted it to come a complete surprise to our would be opponents who have a huge collection of armies to choose from.
Then, about 18 months back, Iain announced at a competition that he was starting his next army - The Qin! He said that he just had to build an army that included cavalry called the Wo Hoo.
The three slow working painters of Qin rolled their eyes and gave an inscrutable smile.
Our intentions of putting a spurt on lasted briefly. Iain finished his Qin and was losing battles before the paint had dried on our little men. I still have at least a dozen units to paint - about 360 infantry figures. Will has his 4 horse chariot units and generals to paint and Steve...well he took a diversion and painted a whole Korean army from the Warmaster Medieval book before finishing more than three units if Qin.
It's amazing how complicated painting can get when you simply need to make the time.
You know how it is. A new book, film, podcast, rule set or enthusiast at the club means a new project. Current projects are pushed aside; older projects get put so far aside that they are offside and abandoned projects get relegated back to storage boxes. This 6mm AH-1 helicopter for Vietnam is for one of the latest projects. It is from Heroics & Ros.
Iain Dickie visited last weekend and commented that I seem to have three painting tables. Not so. One is for painting, one is for preparation and the other is for basing and finishing. You'd think that the former editor of Miniature Wargames would have cast his experienced eye over this and known immediately what the set up was. But no! All he did was spot the 'secret army' figures I'd carelessly left out half painted.
For several years thee of us at DDWG (Devizes & District Wargames Group) have been painting 10mm Qin Chinese for a Warmaster Ancients game against the Bournemouth-based Purbeck Brotherhood of Ancients (my old club from when I was first starting Wargaming). A 'secret army' as we wanted it to come a complete surprise to our would be opponents who have a huge collection of armies to choose from.
Our intentions of putting a spurt on lasted briefly. Iain finished his Qin and was losing battles before the paint had dried on our little men. I still have at least a dozen units to paint - about 360 infantry figures. Will has his 4 horse chariot units and generals to paint and Steve...well he took a diversion and painted a whole Korean army from the Warmaster Medieval book before finishing more than three units if Qin.
It's amazing how complicated painting can get when you simply need to make the time.
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Attack! 2013
Planning for Attack! 2013 is well underway and detail are on the club web site: www.ddwg.org.uk
The dates are 20-21 July, open 10am - 5pm, at: Devizes School, The Green, Devizes, Wiltshire SN10 3AG.
Trade stands, participation games, bring and buy, real ale bar and light refreshments will all be available for your Wargaming pleasure plus the following Competitions:
40k (Sat),
Dystopian Wars (Sun),
Warmaster Ancients,
Field of Glory Ancients,
DBM 3.1,
Field of Glory Renaissance and;
Flames of War.
The dates are 20-21 July, open 10am - 5pm, at: Devizes School, The Green, Devizes, Wiltshire SN10 3AG.
Trade stands, participation games, bring and buy, real ale bar and light refreshments will all be available for your Wargaming pleasure plus the following Competitions:
40k (Sat),
Dystopian Wars (Sun),
Warmaster Ancients,
Field of Glory Ancients,
DBM 3.1,
Field of Glory Renaissance and;
Flames of War.
Friday, 27 April 2012
The DDWG Salute trip on 21 April 2012
It hardly seems like a year has past since we were all stood sleepily beside a coach early in the morning on the day of Salute.
We hardly been going any length of time before I heard strange sounds coming from the rear of the coach. A wheel bearing going? A hole in the exhaust...no, just the Big Sleep:
While the others were having to join the long queue to get into the show, Will Watson and I strode past with our exhibitor badges. We were joining the Evesham Wargames Club - which I think was only Dane Stevens, as the other participants in the re-fight of Antietam came from London, Oxford and three of us from Devizes.
The game was using Kallistra's new 10mm American Civil War figures on their hex terrain with some simple rules (two sides of A4). So here are some pictures:
We had great fun and a lot of interest in both figures and terrain. Beasts of War came over for a look and Dane and the game are seen (briefly about 90 seconds in) on the Salute Tour feature.
It seemed a long day and my feet were aching by the time Will and I were headed back to the coach at 5pm. The downside of playing in a game is that you don't get to see much of the show. Fortunately Gripping Beast were very near to us so my pre-order was simple to collect and find more things too. I topped up with 28mm Norman crossbows for my new Saga force, the new War and Conquest Ancient Rules by Rob Broom (looking very good to me as I read through them), the new Saga supplement Northern Fury plus some Saga dice.
I also picked up some 28mm plastic Norman Knights from Conquest Games who were selling the boxes at a bargain £15 from their stand. They had also released their crossbowmen and I thought they looked very nice. I've started making the 12 knights up and hope to be painting them sometime this weekend.
Apart from that I bought bases from War Bases, some desert sand weathering paint for my 15mm 8th Army vehicles plus a couple of magazines. I also picked up an order from Warlord Games for my friend Gary Walling; I enjoyed looking at the copy of Pike & Shotte he had ordered and may even buy it myself in the near future. It has some great photos and illustrations and I know the rules work well as I had a play test last year at Triple Helix Wargames one weekend.
Roll on next year.
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| Off to Salute 2012 - some 23 members of the Devizes & District Wargames Group |
The game was using Kallistra's new 10mm American Civil War figures on their hex terrain with some simple rules (two sides of A4). So here are some pictures:
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| Kallistra's 10mm Confederate infantry |
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| Union Infantry advancing |
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| View from the union side |
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| Confederate left flank |
We had great fun and a lot of interest in both figures and terrain. Beasts of War came over for a look and Dane and the game are seen (briefly about 90 seconds in) on the Salute Tour feature.
It seemed a long day and my feet were aching by the time Will and I were headed back to the coach at 5pm. The downside of playing in a game is that you don't get to see much of the show. Fortunately Gripping Beast were very near to us so my pre-order was simple to collect and find more things too. I topped up with 28mm Norman crossbows for my new Saga force, the new War and Conquest Ancient Rules by Rob Broom (looking very good to me as I read through them), the new Saga supplement Northern Fury plus some Saga dice.
I also picked up some 28mm plastic Norman Knights from Conquest Games who were selling the boxes at a bargain £15 from their stand. They had also released their crossbowmen and I thought they looked very nice. I've started making the 12 knights up and hope to be painting them sometime this weekend.
Apart from that I bought bases from War Bases, some desert sand weathering paint for my 15mm 8th Army vehicles plus a couple of magazines. I also picked up an order from Warlord Games for my friend Gary Walling; I enjoyed looking at the copy of Pike & Shotte he had ordered and may even buy it myself in the near future. It has some great photos and illustrations and I know the rules work well as I had a play test last year at Triple Helix Wargames one weekend.
Roll on next year.
Sunday, 8 April 2012
An Easter Saga part 2
I have just found out that the the stand next to the one I am on at Salute is Gripping Beast!
(I'm helping Wyvern Wargamers run a 12mm Antietam game using Kallistra figures and terrain)
(I'm helping Wyvern Wargamers run a 12mm Antietam game using Kallistra figures and terrain)
An Easter Saga
Having not done any painting for ages I decided that I would get the brushes out this weekend. This is partly prompted by my recent purchase of the Saga rules from Gripping Beast.
So after I finished some work on Friday I felt justified in popping down to Triple Helix Wargames in Westbury. I had in mind making a start on a Norman warband by buying a box of Conquest Normans. They didn't have any! So it was Gripping Beast Norman bow and spear instead.
I had also bought some Gripping Beast Vikings off eBay in the week - except I'm not quite sure that they are from Gripping Beast. But they still look the part.
Here are a couple of progress shots. More to follow sometime soon.
It seems to me that whenever I mention these rules other people tell me how great they are. Warbands are either already being used or about to be built. Salute may see lots of Dark Age figures being bought.
So after I finished some work on Friday I felt justified in popping down to Triple Helix Wargames in Westbury. I had in mind making a start on a Norman warband by buying a box of Conquest Normans. They didn't have any! So it was Gripping Beast Norman bow and spear instead.
I had also bought some Gripping Beast Vikings off eBay in the week - except I'm not quite sure that they are from Gripping Beast. But they still look the part.
It seems to me that whenever I mention these rules other people tell me how great they are. Warbands are either already being used or about to be built. Salute may see lots of Dark Age figures being bought.
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