I'm still retired,and if anything it's getting better!! This is part two of my "projects" from last week,and involves some compounds/buildings I bought at Carronade show last May.
I bought,at the bring and buy, three separate compounds/buildings,which I intended to use in any desert setting I could think of-Alexander through to WW2,and most certainly Colonial!
The buildings are fine,but too small to house many figures,so I decided to combine two of them to form a sort of Fort/Village........................
This is just one of the compounds,to show what I had to work with.I needed to cut off a strip of the base,and knock down(ie remove) a section of wall,to achieve what I wanted from each of the two I was working with.
Using a Stanley knife,and remarkable skill(with hardly any cuts or major transfusion needed) I have managed to "slice" the strips off the bases and remove the wall sections,resulting in the two,soon to be joined, compounds looking like the above!
These two photo's show the finished product-I had thought about joining the two permanently but it would present storage problems,so I have left them separate,but easily "pushed" together for gaming purposes.
By adding the third,complete,compound,I can have a small village or larger Fort.
If you put a building on a wargames table,some fool will occupy it!!-in this case colonial Egyptians,just to show how it can look.
Now on to Vapnartak(York show)-what can I say?-Bring and buy was moved to a much better place,with loads of space-well done to the lads! Footfall seemed very low compared to last year,catering was,as usual,up to a high standard,games tended to be an awful lot of WW2,traders seemed to be doing well,but I have decided not to attend again-up and down those bloody stairs does my knees in!!-but we had a good laugh,met some old friends(and Robbie!) and a good day out...........................
Top photo shows the long,long queue to get in!-bottom photo shows Graham,Dave and Paul,plus a bloke from "Peaky Blinders"(Chris!!) who met up with us to finalise arrangements for Falkirk!(they look cold because it was!!)
Top is general view of the downstairs section,bottom is the very busy cafe.
Roll on next Sunday-probably down at Dave's doing a WW2 game.
The discerning reader will remember that back in December,my lovely wife(aka THE WIFE!) bought me a plastic kit of a Roman galley,well ever since I've been trying to get my hands on another model,with no luck.
However,last week,when "trawling" through Amazon site,I came across the very same model,being sold by a company in Frome-I subsequently sent for it,and it arrived on Saturday.
My time to build the model has been at a premium this week,but I have eventually finished it-hurrah!!
At this price,and free postage,what is there not to like?????
Various stages of construction,showing shields,castle and tent and hull c/w oars.
Model complete and painted.I found that it took me less time to complete this time,because I knew what I was doing(Hmmmm!)
A view from the stern(or back if you're not of a sailor-type disposition!!)
Shield detail!-I hope the "symbolism" of the black and white painting has not been lost on the readers who can remember that the original model was painted in red and white!!!
As it sails quietly across the kitchen table,I feel a Sea Shanty coming on,or is it just the need for a glass of Navy Rum??
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