tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11422822427764359362024-03-15T18:11:43.844-07:00Rabbits In My BasementJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.comBlogger860125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-8258327073656045252024-03-11T17:55:00.000-07:002024-03-11T18:00:24.993-07:00Lord Strythcyna's Cadiers (Royal Coftyrans)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiACKFU0USYO8SPxpO7UHSivAqCvwMlRW1l5aHAVDUwSvTBymBQjM9rkiBfn2Es0JhmKOR4bh-WXf80HU3A4TaB0h4qOp0ZLiNlQVX1J1O1JqW__OXBoQZbU_oDDiZzFe5fDCLrmFMdPnO9yM_z6YZIIpX511-IFYlhNKzCGLyPce4FT0G60lH7uQgpALaG/s1609/20240311_181604.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1571" data-original-width="1609" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiACKFU0USYO8SPxpO7UHSivAqCvwMlRW1l5aHAVDUwSvTBymBQjM9rkiBfn2Es0JhmKOR4bh-WXf80HU3A4TaB0h4qOp0ZLiNlQVX1J1O1JqW__OXBoQZbU_oDDiZzFe5fDCLrmFMdPnO9yM_z6YZIIpX511-IFYlhNKzCGLyPce4FT0G60lH7uQgpALaG/s320/20240311_181604.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The old and the new. a Trooper from Lord Strythcyna's Cadiers working with armoured contraptions from the 23rd Motor Machine Gun Wedge (Recce) somewhere in Toulmore (photo credit: Robyrt Cypu, Lyfe Magazine, Spring 1775)<br /><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>When the Crusade shook Alwynd's ancient stability, Lord Strythcyna slapped down his paper, blew a great cloud of smoke out of his pipe and declared to his butler "<i><b>Thundering ancestors!</b></i> The cheek of it! Something must be done, Huwl, d'ye hear me?"</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb-SM4fkF1iulW7bP4YFKeQ_6OdO21-6jQ59yYEUKl0UvSMHQViNDjtRCadgdCoOt8wzRZZ24BnJVwbO2ZrX1gBf9zmV8gLSKWTjXItsy5wL3JIX-WxfCb5SfCYdCC5Ft2bjY-hs8CUFfo3lajgE65bRPbw3WFbv9vi9lo6UVGWx-IE7Nnlaa3BxpMw9PC/s2733/20240311_180324.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2293" data-original-width="2733" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb-SM4fkF1iulW7bP4YFKeQ_6OdO21-6jQ59yYEUKl0UvSMHQViNDjtRCadgdCoOt8wzRZZ24BnJVwbO2ZrX1gBf9zmV8gLSKWTjXItsy5wL3JIX-WxfCb5SfCYdCC5Ft2bjY-hs8CUFfo3lajgE65bRPbw3WFbv9vi9lo6UVGWx-IE7Nnlaa3BxpMw9PC/s320/20240311_180324.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlVq3G5cZ-ilX3QWDt8sFCWpdQZ5Nv3KxNQ8zbvVbzKFlBRdQfxYdzO5EpsYdxfVfmIdbJhmxWjKQDUFlvKFpudFhk1Fm2V5pInbgUc04TDHeR3WoPT-2lXu9VcYOcpn8AIipfZSwOSQ7TOTdUS2VSiVggymEk_6eJBazD8LB2S8oMdqLS_uh5tVls8prV/s2264/20240311_180546.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2055" data-original-width="2264" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlVq3G5cZ-ilX3QWDt8sFCWpdQZ5Nv3KxNQ8zbvVbzKFlBRdQfxYdzO5EpsYdxfVfmIdbJhmxWjKQDUFlvKFpudFhk1Fm2V5pInbgUc04TDHeR3WoPT-2lXu9VcYOcpn8AIipfZSwOSQ7TOTdUS2VSiVggymEk_6eJBazD8LB2S8oMdqLS_uh5tVls8prV/s320/20240311_180546.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Always calm in the face of crisis, domestic or international, Huwl replied with a steady "Indeed m'Lord. Shall I fetch the estate manager?"</p><p>The estate manager was indeed fetched, and with Huwl offering sage advice, Lord Strythcyna decided to raise and equip at his own expense, a regiment of cavalry to aid the forces of Crown, Clan and Tradition; <a href="https://www.strathconas.ca/home" target="_blank">Lord Strythcryna's Cadiers</a> (Royal Coftyrans).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdfg9JoUbwEeKwAtO8KLYn-yvjx_JyVxuX-JZ9C4YvjW4PknmoIBRt00DDd0091ZsDgY3PdYG2sgqBKuOlCPWDDk-7kFJF80sU2frq03Cse8avA2Nch0gNzM5hEFhranxeE86fF64EZdG4ErAS2OLixMv0dVm2LDbASrMS0AFsYLWD8_7_9paaVilmvI7L/s2570/20240311_180339.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2223" data-original-width="2570" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdfg9JoUbwEeKwAtO8KLYn-yvjx_JyVxuX-JZ9C4YvjW4PknmoIBRt00DDd0091ZsDgY3PdYG2sgqBKuOlCPWDDk-7kFJF80sU2frq03Cse8avA2Nch0gNzM5hEFhranxeE86fF64EZdG4ErAS2OLixMv0dVm2LDbASrMS0AFsYLWD8_7_9paaVilmvI7L/s320/20240311_180339.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHGR3c-8QzOOsZkDgCwghlEmaBqcEoeDQX-2pldR-H9bEiWjuCtzWF7cIpLhYNYrAK4NgqnjRI_g5-hEACuLALaBc46ZzsYq0bribkMK6C3N-MzyJSUBkJwzTWbJA8nmJi4n9Y1EApBpS3DzxvMLmZoq4AD2tl5ag8F3R1icNPNlXHCS4rtkLvtwtns9ag/s2377/20240311_180426.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1849" data-original-width="2377" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHGR3c-8QzOOsZkDgCwghlEmaBqcEoeDQX-2pldR-H9bEiWjuCtzWF7cIpLhYNYrAK4NgqnjRI_g5-hEACuLALaBc46ZzsYq0bribkMK6C3N-MzyJSUBkJwzTWbJA8nmJi4n9Y1EApBpS3DzxvMLmZoq4AD2tl5ag8F3R1icNPNlXHCS4rtkLvtwtns9ag/s320/20240311_180426.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglcxzMBqek8t1ZBqZ_-O-7TuFMxj9xUp9tnY1chyphenhyphen0WXbe88ZXO74Ow5BrVCd0nRxnakmHMy_pLiNoejbjcHgx3JI6G5yiAnJyPqo97RrkDPmtucE0ztHf1WbeBCJ6TEH7AxTczGjm6Z-kgHjkLlVGpAmagaffc710xABLt6wEoD5pCL094bBm17YXz2cCR/s1925/20240311_180505.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1776" data-original-width="1925" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglcxzMBqek8t1ZBqZ_-O-7TuFMxj9xUp9tnY1chyphenhyphen0WXbe88ZXO74Ow5BrVCd0nRxnakmHMy_pLiNoejbjcHgx3JI6G5yiAnJyPqo97RrkDPmtucE0ztHf1WbeBCJ6TEH7AxTczGjm6Z-kgHjkLlVGpAmagaffc710xABLt6wEoD5pCL094bBm17YXz2cCR/s320/20240311_180505.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>The regiment, recruited from experienced veteran soldiers and cadier handlers on the Lord's estates, proved it's worth skirmishing with Crusader cavalry. After the Wall was breached at the Battle of Gate 18, the LSC covered the retreat of Royalist forces and at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Moreuil_Wood" target="_blank">Battle of Moryl Wood</a>, Is-Caerten Flywrdu's squadron charged to glory. They lost half their number attacking a Crusader heavy shotgun detachment from the 23rd Syccen Division that was in the process of deploying. But their mad, spontaneous charge successfully checked the Crusader advance and gave Royalist forces a chance to consolidate and dig in along new lines.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9T8sp3oT9vCeXGpX5Kdvl39u8CZleJ509xBPbODkN-6Syy7aruTcaUO3LQNoCgSHY1NtBDhX5gcS2bRuQx8Vch5DqXcAa9XbQHuTv6GFbGg_CmIj2dS61UnaEvnChJ8wq-8hHOWNDEjGRYSyXG6dDyArkkC4aaUJ_2XE9nsS0vTGAE042_d8U0-LcpifH/s2048/20240311_181317.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9T8sp3oT9vCeXGpX5Kdvl39u8CZleJ509xBPbODkN-6Syy7aruTcaUO3LQNoCgSHY1NtBDhX5gcS2bRuQx8Vch5DqXcAa9XbQHuTv6GFbGg_CmIj2dS61UnaEvnChJ8wq-8hHOWNDEjGRYSyXG6dDyArkkC4aaUJ_2XE9nsS0vTGAE042_d8U0-LcpifH/s320/20240311_181317.jpg" width="316" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI81FfpF1BFAKDD-yCe6i1bUWq4FvnM_8eDWROzveb1ZhBSUeexoK14SZkadJeLE2JbM7SApLiH1PB8okEyv7q2LvUS6RkiAniitMk-RIaq5JmRYNrmekAdfP_F31mamS_vfX99Q2sG_oIXTIdWiIi7PikBzvJgGTG6lf5SQHItajjUQTohlxj1tusgf5r/s2165/20240311_181346.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2165" data-original-width="2073" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI81FfpF1BFAKDD-yCe6i1bUWq4FvnM_8eDWROzveb1ZhBSUeexoK14SZkadJeLE2JbM7SApLiH1PB8okEyv7q2LvUS6RkiAniitMk-RIaq5JmRYNrmekAdfP_F31mamS_vfX99Q2sG_oIXTIdWiIi7PikBzvJgGTG6lf5SQHItajjUQTohlxj1tusgf5r/s320/20240311_181346.jpg" width="306" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip46RGdBYy1Csri6wqq-hS5GqYfwuX35fSjRIRQRGXliOXAVqI8c4n8UTe0SdlFgB0IeRyMP9E_lZ5aT3YzG5_5zbewZo1C651Nz3_t0b_ztHHTcNWaFjpWoR9z1oe0V4heTj9BwZ_Yg6kzTYq0urB92KX4vGNZl4lKWMLpFrm7RROsUTf-U2dcd0t3HPq/s1999/20240311_181409.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1952" data-original-width="1999" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip46RGdBYy1Csri6wqq-hS5GqYfwuX35fSjRIRQRGXliOXAVqI8c4n8UTe0SdlFgB0IeRyMP9E_lZ5aT3YzG5_5zbewZo1C651Nz3_t0b_ztHHTcNWaFjpWoR9z1oe0V4heTj9BwZ_Yg6kzTYq0urB92KX4vGNZl4lKWMLpFrm7RROsUTf-U2dcd0t3HPq/s320/20240311_181409.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Is-Caerten Flywrdu was posthumously knighted and awarded the Royal Star of Courage to the glory of his clan.</p><p>Joshua at Zombiesmith accommodated me with substitute heads, so I could equip <a href="https://zombiesmith.com/gwynt-cavalry-lancers/" target="_blank">Gwynt lancers</a> in bicornes with Coftyran helmets to make them look more like French First World War cavalry.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP_nmihBSmUHQ9ahOK6PiumtrH_4nOITz7CsYTgnqe5IgxikHwdblOfryMBNL5Pp5fSSMs6q3XTY3FAl4qHaon-vvxG2e9NL8rIagWwK6SjqQKUZCfz1yVTjmFG7KehQd8jQaR-Gz4xYoTMIsh6Ky6c9VEPkJV8NFT5gBMIzq9DlgXAtAczaheEy4JVcAS/s960/french-lancers-38431.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="960" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP_nmihBSmUHQ9ahOK6PiumtrH_4nOITz7CsYTgnqe5IgxikHwdblOfryMBNL5Pp5fSSMs6q3XTY3FAl4qHaon-vvxG2e9NL8rIagWwK6SjqQKUZCfz1yVTjmFG7KehQd8jQaR-Gz4xYoTMIsh6Ky6c9VEPkJV8NFT5gBMIzq9DlgXAtAczaheEy4JVcAS/s320/french-lancers-38431.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">French cavalry. </td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUsCvvKGGFNHnmXu3K3z9zMvk70TaP0N3VMMGGlIj6lONqHirnYPyVEbXTPKuHxDWW0iyvtLbYLogJ3cCxkBgRDP3GOo_ZbAl3HS-SX3u3p5BOTOME-ImLxxQYtZ906Yon3qG_LmuO06VAlqcsFbpTHJiThFc3rvW-9E8RXUEEKI6AaVjibDrQ992ygav0/s1931/20240311_180240.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1393" data-original-width="1931" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUsCvvKGGFNHnmXu3K3z9zMvk70TaP0N3VMMGGlIj6lONqHirnYPyVEbXTPKuHxDWW0iyvtLbYLogJ3cCxkBgRDP3GOo_ZbAl3HS-SX3u3p5BOTOME-ImLxxQYtZ906Yon3qG_LmuO06VAlqcsFbpTHJiThFc3rvW-9E8RXUEEKI6AaVjibDrQ992ygav0/s320/20240311_180240.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coftyran cavalry. Almost identical.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>These 6 figures took me three weeks to finish. But I have been distracted by getting <a href="http://www.hotlead.ca" target="_blank">Hot Lead</a> ready and <a href="https://rabbitsinmybasement.blogspot.com/2024/02/tortured-woods.html" target="_blank">messing about with glue, sand, paint and water effect resin</a> as well. Plus I think I was stalling waiting on the missing parts of my Zombiesmith order to be sent. But they're here now, so I can crack on with assembling and painting the rest of them.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1an7EuBPO3-SoWG_RnhSX9dhXoM05kSYeLfbba6qTUZOZ5jdSK1x8IFqdV8EewbVQUyU88UyDC1afSYKPE9HXxO2VXYDgfKsjRyi0JhNW24jCaqKu9ock9v9Cl6L8yN6yiTcAFo_YvA7r_lZvAsJn9FFFsxtGc0fO6JlmBqfGCNex8YTIImBZ1AjsN3j0/s4160/20240311_205314.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1an7EuBPO3-SoWG_RnhSX9dhXoM05kSYeLfbba6qTUZOZ5jdSK1x8IFqdV8EewbVQUyU88UyDC1afSYKPE9HXxO2VXYDgfKsjRyi0JhNW24jCaqKu9ock9v9Cl6L8yN6yiTcAFo_YvA7r_lZvAsJn9FFFsxtGc0fO6JlmBqfGCNex8YTIImBZ1AjsN3j0/s320/20240311_205314.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Second batch of cratered terrain on old iTunes cards.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>If you've followed some of the links you'll notice that I'm paying homage to another Canadian armoured regiment, the Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians), who served as cavalry in the First World War. C Squadron made their famous charge at the battle of Moreuil Wood in 1918.</div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-38753147110449313502024-03-03T08:55:00.000-08:002024-03-03T08:55:05.586-08:00Diceless Death in the Golden Triangle<p>Pasha Dan brought his ongoing fascination with the convoluted problems in SE Asia to the Basement o'Rabbits last night. And the stars aligned to result in 7 of us around the table for a change.</p><p>Last night was insurgents/bandits/drug lords/local militias versus government troops/drug lords in northern Myanmar.</p><p>We were using <i>One Hour Skirmish</i> rules, which is completely diceless. Each player has a deck of ordinary playing cards for activation, shooting and defense.</p><p>Ethnic Chinese militia are attacking government forces around the city of Lukau, notorious for catering to the decadent appetites of Chinese businessmen and party officials.</p><p>A government convoy is trying to get to the patrol base with drug making supplies. </p><p>Some local bandits/caravan guards are helping the Chinese long enough to get back their confiscated truck full of stuff (probably more drugs).</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl-Bo9Klx6IKN8APVh7CjtyoyEvYwT8ZO_ml8QaRsrw8deHoqwIrY_D6YiRGhARORzdfCAcQuaPI2GEJYEvZE_YCV6FTIh1S_D1pmr9p4OoLEFAB90lNmLKtmthX7ISU1JosVFd1R1u8C5P0rAqQCg9y-3Avd-hw-XU7gVBxP3epwVJAGKFAAcYQyrjBh8/s4160/20240302_203734.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl-Bo9Klx6IKN8APVh7CjtyoyEvYwT8ZO_ml8QaRsrw8deHoqwIrY_D6YiRGhARORzdfCAcQuaPI2GEJYEvZE_YCV6FTIh1S_D1pmr9p4OoLEFAB90lNmLKtmthX7ISU1JosVFd1R1u8C5P0rAqQCg9y-3Avd-hw-XU7gVBxP3epwVJAGKFAAcYQyrjBh8/s320/20240302_203734.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patrol base held by Big Pat</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZZEcmPVFAlM-dERPb4nxZBaqPLwTHkJRHWfhRiqiJm4Y-lOOVkWpiA285jtNM-1dSaJ4eH1lC26JpUgevokferQxwNVjzsgZJ29-0VZsHX5jPrUdfIeqZebYw3rz3DmkjEttRjYDpU5JROJIlF1Lg8xZ6aLyyFAFXszTvdworUXOm3rvVYsiY4yA27-Bh/s4160/20240302_203739.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZZEcmPVFAlM-dERPb4nxZBaqPLwTHkJRHWfhRiqiJm4Y-lOOVkWpiA285jtNM-1dSaJ4eH1lC26JpUgevokferQxwNVjzsgZJ29-0VZsHX5jPrUdfIeqZebYw3rz3DmkjEttRjYDpU5JROJIlF1Lg8xZ6aLyyFAFXszTvdworUXOm3rvVYsiY4yA27-Bh/s320/20240302_203739.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Busy highway traffic </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjnVAXYPOX7pZbG2cVSZ88VWyGm3YctXW-SB3TAG2HAhpnf3_D4QlNOol14wGXrJpM5Gti5loRKVdGOOADTvAh2aRstgy88YiOSo-rw5w3myPl7zSAEf3QKAPMIejDQUK3f31EN41eirwhfEygHyZdhmE9TdNsQj4zK3WsphTzIddACUFK3pHiIK3sj8gQ/s4160/20240302_203746.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjnVAXYPOX7pZbG2cVSZ88VWyGm3YctXW-SB3TAG2HAhpnf3_D4QlNOol14wGXrJpM5Gti5loRKVdGOOADTvAh2aRstgy88YiOSo-rw5w3myPl7zSAEf3QKAPMIejDQUK3f31EN41eirwhfEygHyZdhmE9TdNsQj4zK3WsphTzIddACUFK3pHiIK3sj8gQ/s320/20240302_203746.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My force of ethnic Chinese militia attacking the patrol base</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3JJE6Va0a0nQVgj-3LDEtgzNU0Bd8HW6kTGtkDlenCqTmd7ZMyrzfkSmg-h1mu_u06tROAI-MdkgLYz2Yea28hoHZhTcOq3NxdR1YT3PJLeQjGAIyxPulF4uck0GOEw4KdHH5Ab9J6VdKZlaT43mGXmCPyZ2TlqGrzfl6ZjicGAyeJboFfYP4sfaIbNl2/s4160/20240302_203845.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3JJE6Va0a0nQVgj-3LDEtgzNU0Bd8HW6kTGtkDlenCqTmd7ZMyrzfkSmg-h1mu_u06tROAI-MdkgLYz2Yea28hoHZhTcOq3NxdR1YT3PJLeQjGAIyxPulF4uck0GOEw4KdHH5Ab9J6VdKZlaT43mGXmCPyZ2TlqGrzfl6ZjicGAyeJboFfYP4sfaIbNl2/s320/20240302_203845.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Government troops in the base</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIH2T9QonzYLywO0VBGfEDNh5eayp0gWkD8XijE0V8x2qcHV2IWY5YqZsARHCPWp6DOiPAJSeQ13i0i-1wsKHH2lEizIq1JRnjRlDVi5V9_AfjPMFIpf0gRt2OMahWPWsQ-wTO0u1Eyp6RlK6dd-r6_e_56QM3p22ZDAANujKKP4gNMrZZVLz50_NUE9os/s4160/20240302_203850.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIH2T9QonzYLywO0VBGfEDNh5eayp0gWkD8XijE0V8x2qcHV2IWY5YqZsARHCPWp6DOiPAJSeQ13i0i-1wsKHH2lEizIq1JRnjRlDVi5V9_AfjPMFIpf0gRt2OMahWPWsQ-wTO0u1Eyp6RlK6dd-r6_e_56QM3p22ZDAANujKKP4gNMrZZVLz50_NUE9os/s320/20240302_203850.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nice Solido die-cast Panhard AML 90</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0vIrA5IDRhpGVmRPGjOKMDWdb2IKANfYd_5zk7O0Bdv5CPsu64H6HkqxWfkgTl4MIS5AAKPmGNQiuLV7CTi5Xwi5FqYtzIZnbWsAVmqY7R2os1ZJIozeJAK6l_8XLwi3eyWAooF5wWaDkFgZleeqtbcRYM9SmhWq8xxbOYB4var5FXOqujuN0Q7fNImZX/s4160/20240302_204825.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0vIrA5IDRhpGVmRPGjOKMDWdb2IKANfYd_5zk7O0Bdv5CPsu64H6HkqxWfkgTl4MIS5AAKPmGNQiuLV7CTi5Xwi5FqYtzIZnbWsAVmqY7R2os1ZJIozeJAK6l_8XLwi3eyWAooF5wWaDkFgZleeqtbcRYM9SmhWq8xxbOYB4var5FXOqujuN0Q7fNImZX/s320/20240302_204825.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The world's unluckiest RPG guy</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYpHq_QwaUytKrWthP6YL0tFfJJlNYvrPJr6v-Tg75Md4j9CAFaWtCw3H3QPYwaoNHQ2vFdlM7Rl6isHKYBOxluLFmygA3ttFEN7lMUEwQxNSUA_pofuDg5Pw8Mo1DVH2ATAraAjPj7bfVukCx5GsRRUxWbvhRBP_qlfGaFWZrTmEe7lte8pS4b-iPg8f_/s4160/20240302_205532.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYpHq_QwaUytKrWthP6YL0tFfJJlNYvrPJr6v-Tg75Md4j9CAFaWtCw3H3QPYwaoNHQ2vFdlM7Rl6isHKYBOxluLFmygA3ttFEN7lMUEwQxNSUA_pofuDg5Pw8Mo1DVH2ATAraAjPj7bfVukCx5GsRRUxWbvhRBP_qlfGaFWZrTmEe7lte8pS4b-iPg8f_/s320/20240302_205532.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Big Dave's and Weirdy Beardy's convoy of gov't troops and drugs</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRj-2e9NyVbp1UfkoNcGbv5WE_LOB7hRWDFbPm-NikI6ydjZ4dl258GaYwln-JvDyvTtjLdD-ZHldVTill29doByQ7q_LbSJGrwUtKpYNmqxFMyM4czZZ94HyketFFN6J0uzo0yJxS9mEf95vKV_yQHAwHMnJOtwvKnxiux8u2mmNcayBIF-t2PGNFFQIE/s4160/20240302_211112.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRj-2e9NyVbp1UfkoNcGbv5WE_LOB7hRWDFbPm-NikI6ydjZ4dl258GaYwln-JvDyvTtjLdD-ZHldVTill29doByQ7q_LbSJGrwUtKpYNmqxFMyM4czZZ94HyketFFN6J0uzo0yJxS9mEf95vKV_yQHAwHMnJOtwvKnxiux8u2mmNcayBIF-t2PGNFFQIE/s320/20240302_211112.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Twice shooting RPG at juicy truck target</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVgkQwaYeWNij-gFBk_ES7RytEcevznhTCNNFOt0wu1KJyQNfwScqKhuhdWDoE6IwQwwQNZCg7xjSy1D69qgnKnMGAL59BpGDW82L5I0G4XNMuhe17axohNlcaw3vVs1eIzMG1eYHfRehPX7uohmkiEGlGGbNnmBoCCzTGHCXnI_4Fjjsx1f6Q6LUBXElB/s4160/20240302_211107.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVgkQwaYeWNij-gFBk_ES7RytEcevznhTCNNFOt0wu1KJyQNfwScqKhuhdWDoE6IwQwwQNZCg7xjSy1D69qgnKnMGAL59BpGDW82L5I0G4XNMuhe17axohNlcaw3vVs1eIzMG1eYHfRehPX7uohmkiEGlGGbNnmBoCCzTGHCXnI_4Fjjsx1f6Q6LUBXElB/s320/20240302_211107.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Twice frustrated by Jokers!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_he-Ws4nQRm5n13IfMv2ckt8jRzvh8oFslnqDgB9Zdwkho4Z-AomoZNOqDMY-1TVPYbWTYJbYCIM8g7GbnR9RH1_TwTFyKwivkycQrlYNnlYiNQFouQB4m-2dc2kjPyr2xhQXaw9giErNE8CZjz3gcEobA71QLs8xxvm62OfTkdFcj97MSd3BrhoLiQwY/s4160/20240302_214733.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_he-Ws4nQRm5n13IfMv2ckt8jRzvh8oFslnqDgB9Zdwkho4Z-AomoZNOqDMY-1TVPYbWTYJbYCIM8g7GbnR9RH1_TwTFyKwivkycQrlYNnlYiNQFouQB4m-2dc2kjPyr2xhQXaw9giErNE8CZjz3gcEobA71QLs8xxvm62OfTkdFcj97MSd3BrhoLiQwY/s320/20240302_214733.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I finally get a decent Activation Points draw and no Joker to allow me to get advancing.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtCfOTK2FWqFXt3uiI60Jahg_jPnby-FhbaHFhKisPZ-m0ezTYQqAMJF-vJ97a2We3fn5nKM3qvc5bRMob1aKqbynh_oNKjevXqc-MbD_1FuHe7kKL042cLY3uvejcp9EJ5z4S8zgo13puodliDiSfT50BndZuKmACNAHYyxxBXRHCGY4w6EhpW39iORHf/s4160/20240302_214741.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtCfOTK2FWqFXt3uiI60Jahg_jPnby-FhbaHFhKisPZ-m0ezTYQqAMJF-vJ97a2We3fn5nKM3qvc5bRMob1aKqbynh_oNKjevXqc-MbD_1FuHe7kKL042cLY3uvejcp9EJ5z4S8zgo13puodliDiSfT50BndZuKmACNAHYyxxBXRHCGY4w6EhpW39iORHf/s320/20240302_214741.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Interrupting local traffic</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmQ76CXCt5XWoEv6NvalighOQLBP9EzpuNTYMMoYCXBlARaQGfHlHCuNuFxMi4kPw0YuDZF6AFyEQ4eAgvUODpegU3YqPoQvldPotkIEuzri3KOQc-R5WkUJPNTjduzFZBAIO3yWUfI4dmLsIu8fR6SDLFD4xDwZrqDhePJ2D_i3Xpbwl9wtgsa3GsdJUv/s4160/20240302_221613.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmQ76CXCt5XWoEv6NvalighOQLBP9EzpuNTYMMoYCXBlARaQGfHlHCuNuFxMi4kPw0YuDZF6AFyEQ4eAgvUODpegU3YqPoQvldPotkIEuzri3KOQc-R5WkUJPNTjduzFZBAIO3yWUfI4dmLsIu8fR6SDLFD4xDwZrqDhePJ2D_i3Xpbwl9wtgsa3GsdJUv/s320/20240302_221613.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Government troops bugging out through a hail of lead</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU8P-0oTJ1SSEfIljSEbEgb68bPBc3iYVhSz9gkimmFjwK-o0u2wUwqXlWV-iO0FiIfCUmKjqZFu3SYsAJuwER76aN9W5BwwVKbk3dHQ2ImOunAR_Wv6pmcpBEiYERYh5_1vYbsXe0w4ajFCpd9MX0aWuPtIqCVgherih7UXmYYAJAf19y0WafpW2-tkr3/s4160/20240302_223757.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU8P-0oTJ1SSEfIljSEbEgb68bPBc3iYVhSz9gkimmFjwK-o0u2wUwqXlWV-iO0FiIfCUmKjqZFu3SYsAJuwER76aN9W5BwwVKbk3dHQ2ImOunAR_Wv6pmcpBEiYERYh5_1vYbsXe0w4ajFCpd9MX0aWuPtIqCVgherih7UXmYYAJAf19y0WafpW2-tkr3/s320/20240302_223757.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These guys all died. Sadly no dramatic crashes. </td></tr></tbody></table><p>Interesting mechanics. Don't like the antitank rules though. I get making things hard to hit. But when I do hit with an RPG? Slow incremental damage doesn't make sense to me. I suppose a big card draw on the attack vs a low card draw on the defense would be a brew up? But even soft skinned vehicles seemed to have too many positive modifiers. But that's me. Your mileage may vary.</p><p>Pasha Dan wants to use these rules for this year's perpetually popular pulp adventure <i><a href="https://hotlead.ca/saturday-evening-700pm-to-1100pm/" target="_blank">Mongols With Mausers</a> </i>games at <a href="http://www.hotlead.ca" target="_blank"><b>Hotlead.</b></a> They should work fine for that.</p>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-3200135249028608242024-02-29T18:27:00.000-08:002024-02-29T18:34:43.592-08:00Shell Shattered Woods<p>If I'm going to have Quar running around WW1 battlefields then I really need shell blasted trees, and <b><i>lots </i></b>more craters, to be honest.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYYNNqt_t9D2sHMhwwVFUBjFtHWG5IHbBl6wyTjXv0lslncuqatCd8lRgkhWLcVSWlqjELpt6xGDxikmbIyo0CHUMeqyvwflxKHZS1TzKjhKK1ByZGc57D8wm_YlyDDI4mewu7t19vg24KnPZljw7qXo7uoTEJZffwcWulJl9XchwgvUx2ScRR9UyS0_ED/s300/300px-French_trench_battle.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="300" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYYNNqt_t9D2sHMhwwVFUBjFtHWG5IHbBl6wyTjXv0lslncuqatCd8lRgkhWLcVSWlqjELpt6xGDxikmbIyo0CHUMeqyvwflxKHZS1TzKjhKK1ByZGc57D8wm_YlyDDI4mewu7t19vg24KnPZljw7qXo7uoTEJZffwcWulJl9XchwgvUx2ScRR9UyS0_ED/s1600/300px-French_trench_battle.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Verdun</td></tr></tbody></table><p><a href="https://mogsymakes.net/first-world-war/" target="_blank">James Mogsymakes</a> has been doing some <a href="https://mogsymakes.net/2024/02/11/great-war-chain-of-command-pt-2-attack-on-the-farm/?fbclid=IwAR1cK_ayTGzUNigzhBsDmYZtMogJ-jHUT1REIZEaxT7O7W0-qTRexxQiPjU" target="_blank">really lovely looking Great War Chain of Command</a>. His terrain is rather inspirational.</p><p>While rummaging about in the basement looking for something else, I found some old, abandoned attempts at making 15mm field positions out of old gift cards and CDs as bases, with plasticene to build up the banks. I thought, "Why not combine this with my <a href="https://rabbitsinmybasement.blogspot.com/2023/11/quar-terrain.html" target="_blank">use of Gorilla Glue and sand</a>?"</p><p>Striking while the creative madness was upon me I set to, trying to ignore the Quar squawking about getting painted.</p><p>Sticks from the garden were broken roughly at one end and cut straight at the other. Flat end was hot glued to the base. I also used hot glue to build up some crater shapes before adding Gorilla Glue over top. I let the hot glue set up and then brushed water over everything. I then applied beads of Gorilla Glue, leaving the center of the craters free, and spread it around with a Q-Tip.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSeevuHmrIWjKZTCAo0I2WgIbh16NgRuTMtAMwFH8BzLxXqBmqi-mUCusTaGSKCRsL4fEjuUgHSdnuXrL-Ms7DDM-E0SL6O0DzY-xe_0y7R0q3iDt1IlqQVzibpczPPpaN1O_WmunK21RO4dfvasxStTupbMq1Ke0oGmdJ8103Vxx6VIyPSqH14B-At0S1/s4160/20240224_115942.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSeevuHmrIWjKZTCAo0I2WgIbh16NgRuTMtAMwFH8BzLxXqBmqi-mUCusTaGSKCRsL4fEjuUgHSdnuXrL-Ms7DDM-E0SL6O0DzY-xe_0y7R0q3iDt1IlqQVzibpczPPpaN1O_WmunK21RO4dfvasxStTupbMq1Ke0oGmdJ8103Vxx6VIyPSqH14B-At0S1/s320/20240224_115942.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Before the sand</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div>I made sure I reinforced the tree joins with more Gorilla Glue over the hot glue. I then covered each base in a deep layer of sand as the glue was applied.<div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNxcE5z05QMalQax3ibwsHCAaJOnFBHxtAXZpfiit4qGfhvD2ytik6ZsRIm5piVNktCJadQLCgsDJcw7AfuTfhHgbdPAzy2TDgQqF1tNqk5NzecLNA-1IiS2RACBvFJcXLDXC6H83XI2Mq5KHzJCKcXNRCQXfgrIcK7ehOMy5gC0jlO9OFEn212XktYuUJ/s4160/20240224_143603.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNxcE5z05QMalQax3ibwsHCAaJOnFBHxtAXZpfiit4qGfhvD2ytik6ZsRIm5piVNktCJadQLCgsDJcw7AfuTfhHgbdPAzy2TDgQqF1tNqk5NzecLNA-1IiS2RACBvFJcXLDXC6H83XI2Mq5KHzJCKcXNRCQXfgrIcK7ehOMy5gC0jlO9OFEn212XktYuUJ/s320/20240224_143603.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>In a second batch I made craters from plasticene, glued those in place and then covered them with more Gorilla Glue and sand to try and get deeper craters.</div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuEDusmJu1KBaM5Qus-Z650RfJK9JtOqmdywyLLYx-d17n0gE2ec28d6yygkK0YlxFwhUPuixbDD2EaKDzBEUCv7J1xPAL-P49aA8KXyccrQztcnOZ-ilKv1cGdmegxYJU-M5CBaMMZ8Apd3Hlibjh_3x3ge69gQjmuBX-2N8xCHrQBTzFOx-VkiA4COX8/s4160/20240224_143607.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuEDusmJu1KBaM5Qus-Z650RfJK9JtOqmdywyLLYx-d17n0gE2ec28d6yygkK0YlxFwhUPuixbDD2EaKDzBEUCv7J1xPAL-P49aA8KXyccrQztcnOZ-ilKv1cGdmegxYJU-M5CBaMMZ8Apd3Hlibjh_3x3ge69gQjmuBX-2N8xCHrQBTzFOx-VkiA4COX8/s320/20240224_143607.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Notice foaming blob of Gorilla Glue at base of closest tree trunk. Covered with some more sand after taking picture. It happens. You just add a bit more sand to cover.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG6H9jQXZMBpkWY85N-0kbpO88rMnAoXnp-72tY6XNRgYT77NiAJ6FeBrqAqiR1cNqP45R5_z9Dx66_Ox4BFIs9mwP71t9BCfmEWpFwnaX1lVMXFRAJYAtF4oVbNVy6SjiI-RUCN8HZlLlZTKi1Z-I9bzbHcbYFFcVzQcNpWEmOJEh1Xykh5akrH12gjE7/s4160/20240225_101140.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG6H9jQXZMBpkWY85N-0kbpO88rMnAoXnp-72tY6XNRgYT77NiAJ6FeBrqAqiR1cNqP45R5_z9Dx66_Ox4BFIs9mwP71t9BCfmEWpFwnaX1lVMXFRAJYAtF4oVbNVy6SjiI-RUCN8HZlLlZTKi1Z-I9bzbHcbYFFcVzQcNpWEmOJEh1Xykh5akrH12gjE7/s320/20240225_101140.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Excess sand shaken off. Awkwardly located pieces of gravel removed.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizqVmfugAo71eyyVdMKBlbGXKC6mPrII8issglYlVZyDVNaEd44mhBI5SVnUDHEb022bpcfkOzHy97WY7vnspZke9DUWrefHPrP6xhyphenhypheniObjXcSlA5u1AGeSL9xmbjrx6ac6gTtPfld9Z_MJBBNoBBcgAq3J5spqlY7_h7cy2OveZ_pOTogpcxPD7h3jt3w/s4160/20240225_101148.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizqVmfugAo71eyyVdMKBlbGXKC6mPrII8issglYlVZyDVNaEd44mhBI5SVnUDHEb022bpcfkOzHy97WY7vnspZke9DUWrefHPrP6xhyphenhypheniObjXcSlA5u1AGeSL9xmbjrx6ac6gTtPfld9Z_MJBBNoBBcgAq3J5spqlY7_h7cy2OveZ_pOTogpcxPD7h3jt3w/s320/20240225_101148.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_e7vC6WIOQw0zwloF2eHSz4O__gwRk93m2FdDQ3AXUHv8ZAXIDb-8S4tY4hToXRfO9pbVDiOoOeZP8Bo2kEVuWOEVuebbwNvfZkx5zDJAbHldMMFJ2F32Qo514z1m0nOeci9DhlV-HloD5O8XTXGaX0Rq0e-vCfeA6wJnMfh7_KbKn2VOqjWPSX_-sKao/s4160/20240225_101200.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_e7vC6WIOQw0zwloF2eHSz4O__gwRk93m2FdDQ3AXUHv8ZAXIDb-8S4tY4hToXRfO9pbVDiOoOeZP8Bo2kEVuWOEVuebbwNvfZkx5zDJAbHldMMFJ2F32Qo514z1m0nOeci9DhlV-HloD5O8XTXGaX0Rq0e-vCfeA6wJnMfh7_KbKn2VOqjWPSX_-sKao/s320/20240225_101200.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBglsLBn9mReHOJE868IdM6hyphenhyphenqMrgAgZ42e1AFF34_EO1DuwNQ0xhxAvE0__cYMtKLSTZCwwyXr1DkW_ehPYg-zjoK_-SJPvOBUGVURvHmNxe_m2cqRJyUFdr6sOFDAwtjAka4dVS03HcxJ634TSH03SjKnPetY6A12j_P69ERmo9ZP1byQ_h1d6AWy4F1/s4160/20240225_105502.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBglsLBn9mReHOJE868IdM6hyphenhyphenqMrgAgZ42e1AFF34_EO1DuwNQ0xhxAvE0__cYMtKLSTZCwwyXr1DkW_ehPYg-zjoK_-SJPvOBUGVURvHmNxe_m2cqRJyUFdr6sOFDAwtjAka4dVS03HcxJ634TSH03SjKnPetY6A12j_P69ERmo9ZP1byQ_h1d6AWy4F1/s320/20240225_105502.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Base coat of Burnt Umber applied.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_nI-718tb-6Cg_IwmHlDkJuBh09NxdeoYP8Iq6XFPVALNGycoqd_4unDfWkQoLwvho6EWo-IXsbwFWw_4AuIVzpgbP5Lw_cYwBO6N55YBVmwZTdNff8xAKvxRtEezK0bgTgeS55scS1NOtJGaYH-SL4nR8oBbQpE0JTJC-wyhY7vTLqY7iT7-gEyJmjVN/s4160/20240225_204326.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_nI-718tb-6Cg_IwmHlDkJuBh09NxdeoYP8Iq6XFPVALNGycoqd_4unDfWkQoLwvho6EWo-IXsbwFWw_4AuIVzpgbP5Lw_cYwBO6N55YBVmwZTdNff8xAKvxRtEezK0bgTgeS55scS1NOtJGaYH-SL4nR8oBbQpE0JTJC-wyhY7vTLqY7iT7-gEyJmjVN/s320/20240225_204326.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After dry brushing with tan and grey-green</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div>Even after all that, there was still some bits of DVD base and bright plasticene not covered by paint, so those were fixed with some burnt umber and a medium pointed brush.</div><div><br /></div><div>I then poured some <i><a href="https://woodlandscenics.woodlandscenics.com/show/item/C1211" target="_blank">Woodland Scenics Realistic Water Resin</a></i> into the craters that I had deliberately left smooth and dark brown, making sure I had a level surface to leave the pieces on to dry. Two layers were needed.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7lzuqeADn-KwoqVdgkYiijTatfLSCNnhK1WGSxTyASq3b-lYaSu8aInSFk6X6qIQ42dCCPyLaWRUABdFpLnm8tL8gBOabrcNTVFptuWi3up8NGr_kJBJ-C_VSwq0cVSLv7HgavLtBl4DTvUpEVOxzMPqUyefEkR-UJXwbdhIPNBv0miEuQ3Z2hz50I9p_/s4160/20240229_211534.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7lzuqeADn-KwoqVdgkYiijTatfLSCNnhK1WGSxTyASq3b-lYaSu8aInSFk6X6qIQ42dCCPyLaWRUABdFpLnm8tL8gBOabrcNTVFptuWi3up8NGr_kJBJ-C_VSwq0cVSLv7HgavLtBl4DTvUpEVOxzMPqUyefEkR-UJXwbdhIPNBv0miEuQ3Z2hz50I9p_/s320/20240229_211534.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finished bases</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>24 hours are needed to cure after each layer of water effects. I made sure the cure was done before flocking, because that green stuff gets <i>everywhere</i>.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipJIuVOOokW2J8CdkPeWzAciuZt7JpVL1cKRuuLS0GhAFTagIGxtxtT7eRWdjlIuuKwlDTpEdo7ZzoD89nkKlssfB_YbXqMkuE2uWH4HKR6-P8wnELy4jExgIHnawc9AI-wq4NYJdcCFOxOlUNt_pu8wQozsbALKRN-5yC2N4-1VjvRZBC7LvPUUVw5HJj/s4160/20240229_211335.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipJIuVOOokW2J8CdkPeWzAciuZt7JpVL1cKRuuLS0GhAFTagIGxtxtT7eRWdjlIuuKwlDTpEdo7ZzoD89nkKlssfB_YbXqMkuE2uWH4HKR6-P8wnELy4jExgIHnawc9AI-wq4NYJdcCFOxOlUNt_pu8wQozsbALKRN-5yC2N4-1VjvRZBC7LvPUUVw5HJj/s320/20240229_211335.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis-UnNwNxPdXZBaQ3z5JHjLCMEvEZXw76PPxh7ubvX0xjEVjP2hyphenhyphen6YzCm3vUB70mfl2yHzGO9b8Etb9IShC3djNMbcTQVBPOfYpbUGsppNWiz7Zs502TZDeaP4ukQSOk8Lhd2F42HNG43J1L07UaBt0aFMv8LLJNepzwODNrJSCQwqhB3F6oVJN_I15sYU/s4160/20240229_211356.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis-UnNwNxPdXZBaQ3z5JHjLCMEvEZXw76PPxh7ubvX0xjEVjP2hyphenhyphen6YzCm3vUB70mfl2yHzGO9b8Etb9IShC3djNMbcTQVBPOfYpbUGsppNWiz7Zs502TZDeaP4ukQSOk8Lhd2F42HNG43J1L07UaBt0aFMv8LLJNepzwODNrJSCQwqhB3F6oVJN_I15sYU/s320/20240229_211356.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><div><br /><p>While I was at it, I also found these two hasty defensive works made with twigs and sand glued to old iTunes cards. They just needed a bit of paint and flock to make them usable for Quar HSG teams</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhURNWykUuast7fwn-RtNHw52j__cCcjA8z206U6DBKpWXjHC53I-0O8JP6MWKdP-TWxRJ3f2JixbFC3fah2XtAojiHM7aqCFnuIzhyphenhyphenWxZLZqwcU0ZpSCXlpQkN2ruFfCe-c6DTM4bQ6NUauUvbDZ-F4VvvbQ_-uIvFpmfqjZX5_fhIzTqbm2x3puv2Amlo/s4160/20240229_211442.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhURNWykUuast7fwn-RtNHw52j__cCcjA8z206U6DBKpWXjHC53I-0O8JP6MWKdP-TWxRJ3f2JixbFC3fah2XtAojiHM7aqCFnuIzhyphenhyphenWxZLZqwcU0ZpSCXlpQkN2ruFfCe-c6DTM4bQ6NUauUvbDZ-F4VvvbQ_-uIvFpmfqjZX5_fhIzTqbm2x3puv2Amlo/s320/20240229_211442.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZHP0ENPU2iKQBLyrVjQARFxozu6CxZaJhzXRD8YxASWMoiGpLynWr1aaKcCMfg9SjEF9NN1iyriq_iQT-2wVQ8CWAuuTLiopLic3gwGT-VUa7_l2Lq2LsYJXAaYUe51hcpvb0W4DbbnNITtqV714PVDhVvCTl2RMUvQpgOJ3-DouBtMsziJKDubboyztK/s4160/20240229_211506.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZHP0ENPU2iKQBLyrVjQARFxozu6CxZaJhzXRD8YxASWMoiGpLynWr1aaKcCMfg9SjEF9NN1iyriq_iQT-2wVQ8CWAuuTLiopLic3gwGT-VUa7_l2Lq2LsYJXAaYUe51hcpvb0W4DbbnNITtqV714PVDhVvCTl2RMUvQpgOJ3-DouBtMsziJKDubboyztK/s320/20240229_211506.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I am so pleased with the result I started on another batch of nine more iTunes gift cards. I'm running out of sand!<br /><p><br /></p></div></div></div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-13426403808056337312024-02-19T13:02:00.000-08:002024-02-19T13:02:52.424-08:007th Cadier Mounted Rhyflers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLeYp_cbDwbcliXALAoF-Ksz3O4ZNe1WJv6bNXO1BLZOExW6Wa4MdKSq4m90KKYUlkLR3ZLCxDlBtNUces3BzzFg1aTC-1DRhTFW-UcVE076hTZD25QfeBeUq6gkXn7ESgsRFCdLzX2V-B2Xblv9mifMZ1D7aiyXVaMUZJmNfbSV3joAMnsmv_C4IYGdif/s1903/20240219_152233.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="1903" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLeYp_cbDwbcliXALAoF-Ksz3O4ZNe1WJv6bNXO1BLZOExW6Wa4MdKSq4m90KKYUlkLR3ZLCxDlBtNUces3BzzFg1aTC-1DRhTFW-UcVE076hTZD25QfeBeUq6gkXn7ESgsRFCdLzX2V-B2Xblv9mifMZ1D7aiyXVaMUZJmNfbSV3joAMnsmv_C4IYGdif/s320/20240219_152233.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Another snowy long weekend <i>with no errands(!) </i>means a lot of painting while listening to 80s music on YouTube.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhikTZxpp_uEmxM2T-swTs0cmj5Buwykh6F8-P719P99UOG9j9qPf6trwLwZtZipKONkDyAjigNuhHUryJip7L9Y4yxDCueyerXqDpaVznERPftQVThTwH-zNGNiPemLlVft4Yme8i9ZhuisBKi8IDg0r1jNbNu6VEQVt3Ps0br6jjT23ZIQ_Ik5GrvHVQf/s2901/20240219_152113.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1734" data-original-width="2901" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhikTZxpp_uEmxM2T-swTs0cmj5Buwykh6F8-P719P99UOG9j9qPf6trwLwZtZipKONkDyAjigNuhHUryJip7L9Y4yxDCueyerXqDpaVznERPftQVThTwH-zNGNiPemLlVft4Yme8i9ZhuisBKi8IDg0r1jNbNu6VEQVt3Ps0br6jjT23ZIQ_Ik5GrvHVQf/s320/20240219_152113.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>After finishing with the tractors, I bashed on with the cavalry. First up the Crusaders. As a nod to friends who served in the local Reserve Force Armoured Regiment, the <a href="https://www.first-hussars.ca/" target="_blank">1st Hussars</a>, which during the First World War were mobilized initially as the 7th Canadian Mounted Rifles, I am calling these fellows the 7th Cadier Mounted Rhyflers.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5eFjTgKGoMg3fBId4lXOzgqqEDG4LDFAUJdKGQz4Yfe93JvPVw-NavAzCU8Dwni1aPTSKo3vvQTjQAiROn3l7FL7jydqnzPI3cWNg6UIKtN5dUig86K-0CJ4jd6ot92u3xeidaO-XqvRmN_TtwZcDGbWgG7-lraMZ4o2pUDRos-7HX6eXt0VAyn9yQeNy/s2389/20240219_152148.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1481" data-original-width="2389" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5eFjTgKGoMg3fBId4lXOzgqqEDG4LDFAUJdKGQz4Yfe93JvPVw-NavAzCU8Dwni1aPTSKo3vvQTjQAiROn3l7FL7jydqnzPI3cWNg6UIKtN5dUig86K-0CJ4jd6ot92u3xeidaO-XqvRmN_TtwZcDGbWgG7-lraMZ4o2pUDRos-7HX6eXt0VAyn9yQeNy/s320/20240219_152148.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>The modern, mobile doctrine of the Crusade still has a place for cavalry, acting as mounted infantry and operating in cooperation with kites and light tractors to scout ahead of the tractor wedges, as well as providing vital security screening to the flanks and rear areas. In mountainous areas, the CMR are the only mobile force available to commanders.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3TygWLmcQMrQbasFI7v7JwJLM6IeMXE_tF6r7jE02tOO0acohMQjk8e-d5iFAbE0KurXSY2O7P1Lc-jBJY9lRga1KRv97sYpdIKVTZ1KPlTU6tM0R9pVTRSFJqQhymqCLWlv4Wv7vt_zcxNz1Wj5I5tGI6kxEd6B_ZFn43qvKlxvHx6uYGvQhIyW66xlc/s2398/20240219_152308.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1606" data-original-width="2398" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3TygWLmcQMrQbasFI7v7JwJLM6IeMXE_tF6r7jE02tOO0acohMQjk8e-d5iFAbE0KurXSY2O7P1Lc-jBJY9lRga1KRv97sYpdIKVTZ1KPlTU6tM0R9pVTRSFJqQhymqCLWlv4Wv7vt_zcxNz1Wj5I5tGI6kxEd6B_ZFn43qvKlxvHx6uYGvQhIyW66xlc/s320/20240219_152308.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Troopers with carbines</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLdj66TyzS_V0bixlANPryonJXaMcVJPXlFDNuIrF4D5Ox773r23QViJxMwRtH9fpfeU5grKvWrkBvc8CVN3OTRraAg6lG12KiPtdOTBNwhzwMHxGN17_vqfeuUmgkQk4_OXln3Fr2kf-5zhHwGQ7OSOypYtVEWeluufafMWLWZ_OGAsmijlWLTCnjj8Ot/s2532/20240219_152334.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2258" data-original-width="2532" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLdj66TyzS_V0bixlANPryonJXaMcVJPXlFDNuIrF4D5Ox773r23QViJxMwRtH9fpfeU5grKvWrkBvc8CVN3OTRraAg6lG12KiPtdOTBNwhzwMHxGN17_vqfeuUmgkQk4_OXln3Fr2kf-5zhHwGQ7OSOypYtVEWeluufafMWLWZ_OGAsmijlWLTCnjj8Ot/s320/20240219_152334.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>The Crusader cavalry have traded in the lances and bright uniforms of their royalist past for khaki and carbines, but they still retain some traditions; the blue stable belts and blue shoulder patches of the 7CMR harken back to their predecessors, the 1st Tok Hussars. I'm sure if we could zoom in, the brass buttons and belt buckles have the rearing cadier emblem of the 1st Toks.</p><p>Officers naturally still carry sabers, and they're always looking for a charge.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSCoLQC5sfb7669kph0VQmk5f24gx6WhmVYFRVhI_0y87IloSeA_kXfllfwivsL9t9I2exZFtspYGXCVLGV4FeSrEO18KaaWYSX3uGyDF3bFFzaQYuOkm5hx4pNW030EHm4q2hTYYKSaLNblUhH668cpyzFfBd7UnAxpSYD3pIWyasPt_HlmqD2ATsLyB4/s2125/20240219_152356.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2125" data-original-width="1889" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSCoLQC5sfb7669kph0VQmk5f24gx6WhmVYFRVhI_0y87IloSeA_kXfllfwivsL9t9I2exZFtspYGXCVLGV4FeSrEO18KaaWYSX3uGyDF3bFFzaQYuOkm5hx4pNW030EHm4q2hTYYKSaLNblUhH668cpyzFfBd7UnAxpSYD3pIWyasPt_HlmqD2ATsLyB4/s320/20240219_152356.jpg" width="284" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Big Quar with saber</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie-pQJ9qN8pUb-CYpz2oyjUruIoCgy84o4rlCoaQGwcztk8ayke5C-qpAnbytSGg8hwyH2Guq_GlgjeWAQu8lITcPtkcSbdZQgEaa9AmLnrhKXye8EG_TQ3oYXA86wopz7Vpf0gksEjuPaBAYQFShiCUGkLgmz455u2UZjXDoGS8tn9QqKEmkp4BxwrWJT/s2027/20240219_152410.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2027" data-original-width="1721" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie-pQJ9qN8pUb-CYpz2oyjUruIoCgy84o4rlCoaQGwcztk8ayke5C-qpAnbytSGg8hwyH2Guq_GlgjeWAQu8lITcPtkcSbdZQgEaa9AmLnrhKXye8EG_TQ3oYXA86wopz7Vpf0gksEjuPaBAYQFShiCUGkLgmz455u2UZjXDoGS8tn9QqKEmkp4BxwrWJT/s320/20240219_152410.jpg" width="272" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgad8Ycnejei6gsayzYk6I-96PRTipFEbVRrfk3fPK9JTMPEPNT5RSj1ihxyF1DhP9KLjTrmFb4UbQY5iffEV2aPGbFRZ242w3bC4FG5cS_DM6rgUZy_aFNSrc5QfVyt5Has-OVrIi4fPDAdazoV0rqwg62apiT9lqrqGlTLb2bJ7FWPFIp1b-5glHOTKwT/s1431/20240219_152436.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1431" data-original-width="1339" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgad8Ycnejei6gsayzYk6I-96PRTipFEbVRrfk3fPK9JTMPEPNT5RSj1ihxyF1DhP9KLjTrmFb4UbQY5iffEV2aPGbFRZ242w3bC4FG5cS_DM6rgUZy_aFNSrc5QfVyt5Has-OVrIi4fPDAdazoV0rqwg62apiT9lqrqGlTLb2bJ7FWPFIp1b-5glHOTKwT/s320/20240219_152436.jpg" width="299" /></a></div><p>7CMR were the Divisional Cavalry cawtrad for the 4th Tractor Division during the initial battles for Maer Braech, engaging in swirling cavalry battles with Croftyran cavalry. Their ability to fire their carbines from the saddle while at the gallop balancing out the Croftyran lancers advantage in close combat. Afterwards the cawtrad performed gallantly during the pursuit to the Wall, relentlessly scouting ahead and finding gaps in the Croftyran defenses.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWrfsXoifyPFV7CtesyqqFv4pdu-rJgfsOGE8qkq2-JvxJSp_YkLcAteBaOpAFNkEaTv-K3aQi2ZbarhnqsofANs2cF3vNYoBPZ8dz6i8aacotMJqeh1xeIX3uCHWWUFJQ8nFzKgocQUr706mqd7Ltx1WoCxZQToRq9B5UdF0BmpXqLMhYaeppV9MTy9T0/s1616/20240219_152449.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1616" data-original-width="1274" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWrfsXoifyPFV7CtesyqqFv4pdu-rJgfsOGE8qkq2-JvxJSp_YkLcAteBaOpAFNkEaTv-K3aQi2ZbarhnqsofANs2cF3vNYoBPZ8dz6i8aacotMJqeh1xeIX3uCHWWUFJQ8nFzKgocQUr706mqd7Ltx1WoCxZQToRq9B5UdF0BmpXqLMhYaeppV9MTy9T0/s320/20240219_152449.jpg" width="252" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trooper firing double barreled pistol</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_dGQPg9oImPWmaQLmtq2KtlRpEX3vN5cEz1lsss1Mw5sZc0oAlzmxRxGKhU9AggLaGrJ-G8SYi1Js7kD00qMm1ZmqWf-SGwl2qEoPYtKUJEWeIFsmDlIro5rJHNzvYwUm53VSZPqA3iKSvdU7eWYrppSmEwgj5AGvLemPnbqnNod1mXDv8sA2uhFtVBNO/s1547/20240219_152951.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1547" data-original-width="1336" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_dGQPg9oImPWmaQLmtq2KtlRpEX3vN5cEz1lsss1Mw5sZc0oAlzmxRxGKhU9AggLaGrJ-G8SYi1Js7kD00qMm1ZmqWf-SGwl2qEoPYtKUJEWeIFsmDlIro5rJHNzvYwUm53VSZPqA3iKSvdU7eWYrppSmEwgj5AGvLemPnbqnNod1mXDv8sA2uhFtVBNO/s320/20240219_152951.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I had to add <a href="https://zombiesmith.com/crusader-cavalry-officer-pawul-nahr/" target="_blank">this character</a>, even if it does mean I've got seven instead of an even six figures. Oh well, so sad, it's my army. Perhaps I should get another for the Croftyrans, and swap out his carbine for a saber?<div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtL_WV20D1encOgpgT992bnkk7mphOIdhujoZbJrLH1U-IJVr3LvHMyjvD01IUAmP4W2Luqpl0RUIUaKB4NNyUw525XBjwXau7eJML9Kz6ofiZ88BGngOCCXOk0G6xGnbBu2XT_UvO8tm80_Bq48sqbzfPeO8kcrr90lMYT52aWMHngm8n1Co4CdeAbFih/s1384/20240219_152513.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1384" data-original-width="1038" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtL_WV20D1encOgpgT992bnkk7mphOIdhujoZbJrLH1U-IJVr3LvHMyjvD01IUAmP4W2Luqpl0RUIUaKB4NNyUw525XBjwXau7eJML9Kz6ofiZ88BGngOCCXOk0G6xGnbBu2XT_UvO8tm80_Bq48sqbzfPeO8kcrr90lMYT52aWMHngm8n1Co4CdeAbFih/s320/20240219_152513.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The biggest of Big Quar</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjRI5SzorQzB1B8LGVEEtfRk-jX2VzkY6fOnYO0bjguHSfkZBaglOWvCHpHrDiafb3MyrHINOE8fLu7vKE95atlQJUx35IcNuViNAKYetrS2xB_2IKOfbz1VE2H4xgvpZq6B8nrhttAQpvSr3crgXqQ5IGQ95iI4iyUNPcDj-MlUg-NLh8Z7vDqjrlVkeY/s1527/20240219_152523.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1527" data-original-width="1188" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjRI5SzorQzB1B8LGVEEtfRk-jX2VzkY6fOnYO0bjguHSfkZBaglOWvCHpHrDiafb3MyrHINOE8fLu7vKE95atlQJUx35IcNuViNAKYetrS2xB_2IKOfbz1VE2H4xgvpZq6B8nrhttAQpvSr3crgXqQ5IGQ95iI4iyUNPcDj-MlUg-NLh8Z7vDqjrlVkeY/s320/20240219_152523.jpg" width="249" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjpw8N730YZ6JHNFYsjrVpDyDP_-pqC5XZjRmQOr5ym5Ws-l2LL24MdhyphenhyphenaUsjG5ABhXxkd-CcvddM_4pFyjsVVAmLnYElSi3jtMPgVfiuyc8soGA79CQIulluhGuxdMWWshJ4I4oPgPLaojG6Bredmi7E3glt8PVuse4X96bSChnpIbqDpBF1JniCGQ4l7/s1591/20240219_152533.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1591" data-original-width="1320" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjpw8N730YZ6JHNFYsjrVpDyDP_-pqC5XZjRmQOr5ym5Ws-l2LL24MdhyphenhyphenaUsjG5ABhXxkd-CcvddM_4pFyjsVVAmLnYElSi3jtMPgVfiuyc8soGA79CQIulluhGuxdMWWshJ4I4oPgPLaojG6Bredmi7E3glt8PVuse4X96bSChnpIbqDpBF1JniCGQ4l7/s320/20240219_152533.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhJx5L7DSgb1ulHphoKhfhNwhN_0LS-KUU6sQGAXLlRapf9WpI8_nQuylcp1UniIP6hOJx6Ukv6Tuy6gB8NA2vK4gXGqCBVmHRQooC0Ty7zuCIr8R0G7DOgmSISGz-4oWzGS8U9HDjq15EG1T2IuzKPpo079_OJE4ebxMvRPgisEPBc-dgtBuQT8S9kuZg/s1716/20240219_152612.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1716" data-original-width="1312" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhJx5L7DSgb1ulHphoKhfhNwhN_0LS-KUU6sQGAXLlRapf9WpI8_nQuylcp1UniIP6hOJx6Ukv6Tuy6gB8NA2vK4gXGqCBVmHRQooC0Ty7zuCIr8R0G7DOgmSISGz-4oWzGS8U9HDjq15EG1T2IuzKPpo079_OJE4ebxMvRPgisEPBc-dgtBuQT8S9kuZg/s320/20240219_152612.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><br /><p>Their mounts look like something dreamed up by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Giraud" target="_blank">French artist Jean Giraud (aka Moebius</a>). The off-white "hood" on their heads is a boney growth to protect them as they aggressively head-butt each other, for reasons known only to them. </p><p>I've also made good progress on their Royalist counterparts this weekend. They should, God willing, be ready for their glamour shots by the end of the week.</p></div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-86204626694248988692024-02-17T19:48:00.000-08:002024-02-17T19:48:49.115-08:00Crusader War Tractors<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9QaR0yOB2eQTt7SvE0rq7KgUBUHMSmy9EbDXxxmu_7sncI-DWaYZL16l_lg0dlwYp2F6zdfOQ1_6bxmRd7vQbTSQE5irnr-ekAV0454YvTLWnORyaU79ZfpANQYj4gSCroZ9VZj_KjcLP7WdpwNzjNcL6wLyReKlHZdJH5hnUjkDzMCnCgaJ1TmJ1fV1f/s2550/20240217_221835.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1582" data-original-width="2550" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9QaR0yOB2eQTt7SvE0rq7KgUBUHMSmy9EbDXxxmu_7sncI-DWaYZL16l_lg0dlwYp2F6zdfOQ1_6bxmRd7vQbTSQE5irnr-ekAV0454YvTLWnORyaU79ZfpANQYj4gSCroZ9VZj_KjcLP7WdpwNzjNcL6wLyReKlHZdJH5hnUjkDzMCnCgaJ1TmJ1fV1f/s320/20240217_221835.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caerten class Main Battle Tractor</td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's taken a while to get these armoured vehicles done for my Crusaders. But I've dug through my bits to find stowage left over from my <a href="https://rabbitsinmybasement.blogspot.com/2015/07/lav-wip.html" target="_blank">20mm Canadian battlegroup</a>, because all tanks need stowage. </p><p>The big turret bustles on the Centurion tanks were a puzzle. How to make them look full, without burning a fortune in resin and metal bits?</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEgeKixnStJEYGWZ7fp_gifyyUBbhheuQI2EUFwt50ggNjxMGQ0JhIIgRtrAyh3y-az1Mi75UTrUFAFO95k8OY4ydpSesNICMDgHdDSCOGHBCK0CauAjNK60zAwP5JVCaj9hWBY9oNzuV7gFcJxZM8Wry7QQc1E-qUZiQnQcCJbkmyDyaENAa3sKklYB3X/s4160/20240127_203211.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEgeKixnStJEYGWZ7fp_gifyyUBbhheuQI2EUFwt50ggNjxMGQ0JhIIgRtrAyh3y-az1Mi75UTrUFAFO95k8OY4ydpSesNICMDgHdDSCOGHBCK0CauAjNK60zAwP5JVCaj9hWBY9oNzuV7gFcJxZM8Wry7QQc1E-qUZiQnQcCJbkmyDyaENAa3sKklYB3X/s320/20240127_203211.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Big empty rack. From my game last month. </td></tr></tbody></table><p>I hit upon the idea to use blocks of balsa wood covered in squares if shop rag, to make tarp covered supplies. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtWpCcA4RTMEeMf-iKJyDSg_6ZQVLgeAzr3BPK-xhJyQk5G75mUYbA8JeKtzst0-qo9deU8rcTNAhUSSnIDkpwQd2VJ5HV4vPU7Xj5e7fGQ8rH_rhOw8ILKZ8I6nnJqtW-d3BEdfHW7Y5WMfzUPbChJwAbLZ8mMedZ6vzI-sJ2L331YHbg6obGJgLhFrN7/s4160/20240216_175206.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtWpCcA4RTMEeMf-iKJyDSg_6ZQVLgeAzr3BPK-xhJyQk5G75mUYbA8JeKtzst0-qo9deU8rcTNAhUSSnIDkpwQd2VJ5HV4vPU7Xj5e7fGQ8rH_rhOw8ILKZ8I6nnJqtW-d3BEdfHW7Y5WMfzUPbChJwAbLZ8mMedZ6vzI-sJ2L331YHbg6obGJgLhFrN7/s320/20240216_175206.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Getting stowage ready to paint. Normally I attach stowage before painting, but indecision etc....</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8DzK6DhSamQa15XlZspSTU0D6eawGKBjMhxJnErKAK_JRzR44kyBdknAqo3rTA9X_cgx_KiKcBky0xIOmvukguo0oxhcXfYgnT-xRe4reCjttQd1M2ivdG5mJ7c4-kQSbW8cl5_IBwz-wj1IExtmzkL_BAUYM-4gUaizY6XaUNHF_MUqYJKrCS70XqS-C/s4160/20240217_131039.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8DzK6DhSamQa15XlZspSTU0D6eawGKBjMhxJnErKAK_JRzR44kyBdknAqo3rTA9X_cgx_KiKcBky0xIOmvukguo0oxhcXfYgnT-xRe4reCjttQd1M2ivdG5mJ7c4-kQSbW8cl5_IBwz-wj1IExtmzkL_BAUYM-4gUaizY6XaUNHF_MUqYJKrCS70XqS-C/s320/20240217_131039.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making a filler</td></tr></tbody></table><p>First attempts turned out too big, because I forgot that folds of cloth to make the tarp added extra bulk. Fortunately, the glue hadn't stuck too well, so I was able to trim the balsa down and reglue the cloth in place. </p><p>A few shades of green and some ink, and things were ready to attach to make my tractors look lived in.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtT5r6Ad7hGh7Ky_m2D7_6BbaCcsm9BcNIhPXlAViv7yPV0Z9rnmCba8raJPildenUa5rsYw9RIuYX0ikWZwgNdIS8b71KCOPZAx_AyCpX0sP9_6vFUaCKUeMAlQTEicSKGH_p6mjx_gS1dS69wwp_LvVC5J9ukBgSoGtA3y973xL21jFRaSI5R-JfZSbI/s2274/20240217_221852.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1964" data-original-width="2274" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtT5r6Ad7hGh7Ky_m2D7_6BbaCcsm9BcNIhPXlAViv7yPV0Z9rnmCba8raJPildenUa5rsYw9RIuYX0ikWZwgNdIS8b71KCOPZAx_AyCpX0sP9_6vFUaCKUeMAlQTEicSKGH_p6mjx_gS1dS69wwp_LvVC5J9ukBgSoGtA3y973xL21jFRaSI5R-JfZSbI/s320/20240217_221852.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2125" data-original-width="3720" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTAK3BklXoYhyphenhyphenmdzm5VCjfkjZzWkXDZSqTN62HQs093XIoK08wpyRsiUTmbSob0h_RCnZuFqy9A_qbUgCzlZARhmD8y-ptFz1c2UKnMYsKPh7MT_FiBT-IPa5AGZp-RyvBpViyTKPuejKBYkhGWBvSugnW5mKU5yt5C-h8DKWqBvInXcvAnV0VLrdk88QY/s320/20240217_222248.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I like the stowage to have variation between each vehicle. Which is a big problem with cast on stowage, every vehicle looks the same. Stowage is a way to make each vehicle unique.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwUe39ZuzhGhxgIVBCTxetkZEuwJRlaswQ2KonJyg9fjcS1cjWv8GSE9C3-9xxZDDsaoVlcmbFI4pyDjlN9VarLpm7wywHHwu6BA0QbV2sV9QhU0j0ToBHOf7CEBzPM-erodd8ZWzVois5tc0eBm9x6LiXk5GZrgeONwoxZB71IQuPaDkfidAM0MCKxU5b/s3771/20240217_222321.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2518" data-original-width="3771" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwUe39ZuzhGhxgIVBCTxetkZEuwJRlaswQ2KonJyg9fjcS1cjWv8GSE9C3-9xxZDDsaoVlcmbFI4pyDjlN9VarLpm7wywHHwu6BA0QbV2sV9QhU0j0ToBHOf7CEBzPM-erodd8ZWzVois5tc0eBm9x6LiXk5GZrgeONwoxZB71IQuPaDkfidAM0MCKxU5b/s320/20240217_222321.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDGTkGS6owmZEiVCypQrPB4zg-SdBJJfiap06Z0zv5VT36-IIvmFzXRNJfPyaoKb-EVo3ZIiS-yenpnV59Rorn1m-8qm7LuoCYN2opqiWIHHuG9vluL4BnB2TFgqgAboijjyw1KG3Ju4SzfVf93qGRDbNWEadWIAjljKv3x2DeN2dgtcSD_kyXzp5d5Yhe/s3382/20240217_222330.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2424" data-original-width="3382" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDGTkGS6owmZEiVCypQrPB4zg-SdBJJfiap06Z0zv5VT36-IIvmFzXRNJfPyaoKb-EVo3ZIiS-yenpnV59Rorn1m-8qm7LuoCYN2opqiWIHHuG9vluL4BnB2TFgqgAboijjyw1KG3Ju4SzfVf93qGRDbNWEadWIAjljKv3x2DeN2dgtcSD_kyXzp5d5Yhe/s320/20240217_222330.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglUnUofJoTtfJPjPTMYbiJMwWGCZ2gc5qoteTAaGscxD_lo6FU8A41bJQVV_33c1odwYtkUXRdNH4_fWKIgHVDzoa0Ah7ICYRV3-3sQvxoQyDrD6Mbnxj1GQMSS0DnB8z7KI90Euv40tRLvBcCqhrfaCx-nZkTMlyeHhxFeWmee-sRAhdwK1dsMKSGBN6X/s3645/20240217_222338.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2483" data-original-width="3645" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglUnUofJoTtfJPjPTMYbiJMwWGCZ2gc5qoteTAaGscxD_lo6FU8A41bJQVV_33c1odwYtkUXRdNH4_fWKIgHVDzoa0Ah7ICYRV3-3sQvxoQyDrD6Mbnxj1GQMSS0DnB8z7KI90Euv40tRLvBcCqhrfaCx-nZkTMlyeHhxFeWmee-sRAhdwK1dsMKSGBN6X/s320/20240217_222338.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQMKnIk5nseNuvhg-L1H4ANA4I_p7mXNrJHlIF1s1N2ziGbQhR3p6gKX8PpiVkEcr-HkQiriYXoCAUcVky5a1IBGuetzQo_mq7pS7cOBhUMl13erbbhhTWw8iBsA4St4c1Rbgor7DvgJS4mrtkorUgVv638gEowk9ljhJJ8RBoyPk3H12SUSvbT6PVXrjG/s3449/20240217_222346.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2375" data-original-width="3449" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQMKnIk5nseNuvhg-L1H4ANA4I_p7mXNrJHlIF1s1N2ziGbQhR3p6gKX8PpiVkEcr-HkQiriYXoCAUcVky5a1IBGuetzQo_mq7pS7cOBhUMl13erbbhhTWw8iBsA4St4c1Rbgor7DvgJS4mrtkorUgVv638gEowk9ljhJJ8RBoyPk3H12SUSvbT6PVXrjG/s320/20240217_222346.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I also finished off these two light recce tanks that Don printed for me. I'm calling them Pykpyks, after the small, intelligent squirrels that the Quar use to carry messages.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiOgbihQYj7EaH5N6FZ4Z1CT48SQVdAwVeTPT9MmISQjucGNwE0_8YNZYcyU41sdToIqno7fYNGlj9saUmWenZAABc1gBj8hBFVFLdLc3TDn-vTGtminKq3dQgAAYjGGGdklttk96vz4K1vlkAya51zxpi4i_fVq-Rj-5hN2lP3P5ELvJc2GwHEPPksmum/s3625/20240217_222400.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2100" data-original-width="3625" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiOgbihQYj7EaH5N6FZ4Z1CT48SQVdAwVeTPT9MmISQjucGNwE0_8YNZYcyU41sdToIqno7fYNGlj9saUmWenZAABc1gBj8hBFVFLdLc3TDn-vTGtminKq3dQgAAYjGGGdklttk96vz4K1vlkAya51zxpi4i_fVq-Rj-5hN2lP3P5ELvJc2GwHEPPksmum/s320/20240217_222400.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEWPsgMdZXNyc6Dmr4Xt3fm5TSAwXGEJugZ4tQIW601R1qhkcKrGZygI2S7-RrRxWQosTLTQdzp6kOCBdk1VQ_aQSmbBJmM45tuDbHHKN0ybRkXwJfO25e0-rxPgBhirway5ieEcRNgvF4jqS6fGKlEnT6Y6aZIXNrUrUXx54z45njt_ABOHMRcXjwxT7a/s3272/20240217_222419.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2377" data-original-width="3272" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEWPsgMdZXNyc6Dmr4Xt3fm5TSAwXGEJugZ4tQIW601R1qhkcKrGZygI2S7-RrRxWQosTLTQdzp6kOCBdk1VQ_aQSmbBJmM45tuDbHHKN0ybRkXwJfO25e0-rxPgBhirway5ieEcRNgvF4jqS6fGKlEnT6Y6aZIXNrUrUXx54z45njt_ABOHMRcXjwxT7a/s320/20240217_222419.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turret bin is from a 15mm Sherman Firefly</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p></div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-42836102021560228972024-02-07T15:05:00.000-08:002024-02-07T15:05:48.999-08:00Plastic Quar! Oh, Wait....<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dYLMiu9kXt4" width="320" youtube-src-id="dYLMiu9kXt4"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p>So the long anticipated plastic Quar starter set is <a href="https://zombiesmith.com/quar/the-new-28mm-quar-range/" target="_blank">now available to order</a>.</p><p>I confess that I suffered considerable sticker shock and disappointment at the price of USD$79/Cdn$108! After all I need 3 or 4 sets for what I've got planned. </p><p>As a crusty old we-used-to-convert-our-miniatures-with-plasticene grognard, who's always looked at boxed sets with suspicion and distrust, I was dismayed.</p><p>But after some comparisons with other games (Test of Honour, Infinity, Judge Dredd etc) it seems that this is <i>actually</i> a pretty good deal. If I needed the rules, dice, and bases, that is.</p><p>So I'll just have to be patient, trust in the Ancestors, paint my metal figures, and wait for a plastic figures only option.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nk8GlfvZeKY" width="320" youtube-src-id="nk8GlfvZeKY"></iframe></div><p style="text-align: center;">Unboxing Video </p><p><br /></p>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-31716155016279945972024-02-05T12:51:00.000-08:002024-02-05T12:51:11.304-08:00It's A Charge Lads!<p>I bought a unit of cavalry for each side during the Black Friday Sale. Joshua Qualtieri was very accommodating and gave me Crusader and Croftyran helmet heads, since I want more of a 1918-interwar look, rather than a 1914 look. All his cavalry figures use the same bodies, so this was a very easy conversion once I selected the basic figures.</p><p>The Crusaders are inspired by Canadian Mounted Rifle regiments during the First World War. During the Hundred Days, the Canadian Cavalry Brigade performed valuable service leading the Corps advance in cooperation with armoured car units (significantly, the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Automobile_Machine_Gun_Brigade" target="_blank"><b>1st Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade</b></a>, the first fully motorized combat unit in history) and aircraft. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN6AWWeSilteSBUCb6-1ELuZTDvfnWhtY1h3sbNithD07_iqONLiWMJzD4MCCP6HI5A0-Tj_vNh6WPcPfFThqxpQmXNZ85rpS1h-nWXaTIm7PLZYHNtE64jIKxaBD78m5BLSj83Yj7WBIzlutiI95pl64T2ay5o3ER_oBx6gEVM6MYeBFhg4AElG-UiK-i/s2994/20240203_093832.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2994" data-original-width="2481" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN6AWWeSilteSBUCb6-1ELuZTDvfnWhtY1h3sbNithD07_iqONLiWMJzD4MCCP6HI5A0-Tj_vNh6WPcPfFThqxpQmXNZ85rpS1h-nWXaTIm7PLZYHNtE64jIKxaBD78m5BLSj83Yj7WBIzlutiI95pl64T2ay5o3ER_oBx6gEVM6MYeBFhg4AElG-UiK-i/s320/20240203_093832.jpg" width="265" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crusader cavalry trooper firing derringer </td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWhtkKhTrXj5PB2X8Ojg4lKxOxU4KmHD-RHO-Pl8LoZkbXAMhxgNhqCIbOk04obj3bv52JhRqYNlPIbxQwy95bWEcaeU4cVoKE7ZQNnFs1LG5RCeyvAn_TeEmhSExSMPHodNrxCOBtFv_1vDZdGvNJKrvecCCm7YH5Cmok4UbvuggLfayTOwfyXOioRCX/s2089/20240204_150428.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2089" data-original-width="1528" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWhtkKhTrXj5PB2X8Ojg4lKxOxU4KmHD-RHO-Pl8LoZkbXAMhxgNhqCIbOk04obj3bv52JhRqYNlPIbxQwy95bWEcaeU4cVoKE7ZQNnFs1LG5RCeyvAn_TeEmhSExSMPHodNrxCOBtFv_1vDZdGvNJKrvecCCm7YH5Cmok4UbvuggLfayTOwfyXOioRCX/s320/20240204_150428.jpg" width="234" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All the pieces! Before...</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8u9jjAXWgK2CE6TMKpRsqVwPAgZgxoGOUWblDFdjuH7-tGImctFLrsg3X5u-XOc-tbFato3QpOY-bdP5IeH0K36bkJNcJB3UiY9nJ37p8gbrE4c27qe_bfdjEgJbJ_XleRam1chFTi6bEn6aoXfOihjRibOyujeeh5hlAOdcrlaYYY0fYu6ZItxRt-o8v/s2704/20240203_093836.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2704" data-original-width="2284" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8u9jjAXWgK2CE6TMKpRsqVwPAgZgxoGOUWblDFdjuH7-tGImctFLrsg3X5u-XOc-tbFato3QpOY-bdP5IeH0K36bkJNcJB3UiY9nJ37p8gbrE4c27qe_bfdjEgJbJ_XleRam1chFTi6bEn6aoXfOihjRibOyujeeh5hlAOdcrlaYYY0fYu6ZItxRt-o8v/s320/20240203_093836.jpg" width="270" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After, firing a carbine from the saddle </td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>The Croftyran cavalry are inspired by French late First World War lancers. Because I like lance armed cavalry. And it helps them look more traditional than the Crusaders. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzFlFErqzm9vDpyn8eBOFtWx-hlvCQRZMWxebs776r-pbG4Y8Xc8vXJt47wag752y4IJ0ETQyhJXgWn9K4NNBNVh69ois1eHuzCmKts3BLPa9Y8IyB_-7mN8EZLzuzsN9lmUkeHeC2Wsa37Q3DgVDUZcMcUzANEp_cLYcqoSj4qQ-IsQQA5D_BR1tcPC4v/s1884/20240204_150531.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1884" data-original-width="1519" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzFlFErqzm9vDpyn8eBOFtWx-hlvCQRZMWxebs776r-pbG4Y8Xc8vXJt47wag752y4IJ0ETQyhJXgWn9K4NNBNVh69ois1eHuzCmKts3BLPa9Y8IyB_-7mN8EZLzuzsN9lmUkeHeC2Wsa37Q3DgVDUZcMcUzANEp_cLYcqoSj4qQ-IsQQA5D_BR1tcPC4v/s320/20240204_150531.jpg" width="258" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Royalist cavalry. Before...</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwIGGz3-41zZTX3XqeHX0b-FilCZYFSeGI37vlEzOzR5IquyYwyzv1-QfkLoMzbstWn_5fE4UGBP-PAvRAhaZlJGwuVvYjDOzuhnZ5LjkDMuSeHY1UeedFP-gutj0KUCz-Yc-DDZ5tKDrFOegIrABLkTnbH6HF6dJ4sf2P5oYDsTQtN60MBxuR10wKSIUy/s2810/20240203_125005.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2810" data-original-width="2536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwIGGz3-41zZTX3XqeHX0b-FilCZYFSeGI37vlEzOzR5IquyYwyzv1-QfkLoMzbstWn_5fE4UGBP-PAvRAhaZlJGwuVvYjDOzuhnZ5LjkDMuSeHY1UeedFP-gutj0KUCz-Yc-DDZ5tKDrFOegIrABLkTnbH6HF6dJ4sf2P5oYDsTQtN60MBxuR10wKSIUy/s320/20240203_125005.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimySiCmpPx9YUGbrNA1PjFGdqgF8bVL-AyfAwPlU6yX7OBQbp3yZxuxwYOTFcwpGy9z6jxl8pkJR1us8pNBlFkTtDXymnnIJnS00QzvjuaBq-j5Y0VQYxuX7Qsp1gkGnjOqD_X3g-O_teqHZgRPoXUiZfeResiNT2Sx8boA_pB3Q3aYlt4Zy5-91Bmgy9H/s4160/20240204_160145.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimySiCmpPx9YUGbrNA1PjFGdqgF8bVL-AyfAwPlU6yX7OBQbp3yZxuxwYOTFcwpGy9z6jxl8pkJR1us8pNBlFkTtDXymnnIJnS00QzvjuaBq-j5Y0VQYxuX7Qsp1gkGnjOqD_X3g-O_teqHZgRPoXUiZfeResiNT2Sx8boA_pB3Q3aYlt4Zy5-91Bmgy9H/s320/20240204_160145.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Weekend's progress, 4 of each. 5 more to go. Then the infantry and weapons teams!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYrhW6ruwCdDOMctOVa9n4xMSPm7wSf_wLkDpViHZeF1p_wV4cU_wD4UKSo3QcgYmDQwJktmdA9JNfLRs7rveC4gsyXBN73joRHVlWnQ0US30TBjS4EVBaB0phhIVeqxgVgRyhN99iL2YFUs58YboCyQcT4NrwJtw6soNZlmQZMg9hcOgdk420DnHLm9yv/s2114/20240204_160154.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1835" data-original-width="2114" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYrhW6ruwCdDOMctOVa9n4xMSPm7wSf_wLkDpViHZeF1p_wV4cU_wD4UKSo3QcgYmDQwJktmdA9JNfLRs7rveC4gsyXBN73joRHVlWnQ0US30TBjS4EVBaB0phhIVeqxgVgRyhN99iL2YFUs58YboCyQcT4NrwJtw6soNZlmQZMg9hcOgdk420DnHLm9yv/s320/20240204_160154.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Noticed a proper tractor crew head on one of the head sprues, so that's a second Centurion ready to paint!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Progress is slow, because the little fiddly bits need to set properly before gluing the next piece on. And spending time over the weekend organizing <a href="www.hotlead.ca " target="_blank">Hot Lead</a> as well. But I'm just taking my time and enjoying the process. The infantry and weapons teams will be faster, I'm sure.</div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-48028265447158222112024-02-04T08:42:00.000-08:002024-02-04T08:42:13.842-08:00A Seven Year's War Game!<p>Thirty years or so ago, we were playing a lot of Seven Years War in 15mm using <i><b>Warfare in the Age of Reason</b></i>. Our armies got rather large.</p><p>Then Scott had to sell off his Austrians and French and my I was left to <a href="https://rabbitsinmybasement.blogspot.com/2016/07/a-whiter-shade-of-pale.html" target="_blank">slowly build my own in-house opponent for the Prussians</a>. </p><p>I last had my SYW figures out in <a href="https://rabbitsinmybasement.blogspot.com/2013/12/see-i-have-done-some-gaming.html" target="_blank">2013 for a game of <i><b>Maurice</b> </i>with the Mad Padre</a>.</p><p>In the meantime, Scott has been able to rebuild his Austrians so it was about time they got on the table.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_MNNQwq1v3qMHHKyC3WvGhbWXGwkbx_bqRe72hSKsvvWWIamdgj992OXL9Ldd84bNWHTx_IqQC_yIf8KB-mxbaIu4t-pQdc_zk7tBUp04S9MpJnSyjJirEEuA0MVi5lAOOQiDLepUCTLKetSczVR7cwL2TIudVMJ3c1KY8F9BO-nmv3wgdorZ295XFTsU/s4160/20240203_204120.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_MNNQwq1v3qMHHKyC3WvGhbWXGwkbx_bqRe72hSKsvvWWIamdgj992OXL9Ldd84bNWHTx_IqQC_yIf8KB-mxbaIu4t-pQdc_zk7tBUp04S9MpJnSyjJirEEuA0MVi5lAOOQiDLepUCTLKetSczVR7cwL2TIudVMJ3c1KY8F9BO-nmv3wgdorZ295XFTsU/s320/20240203_204120.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Prussian left</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7PLdfD0sIfadWgj9-rdafeBo83Mvc7rWtZxlKZBHH0GL__Ld49jTgF5QssRKPgMnLoTbQlHSpA92J5fgcLmLqGKT8pZp2f3EMb8-e0QRtrP9wlmt4WYVubAv1IUFWKP-p7P2R4K2yGZk0KfpmGWyL9YUHr3bPTtXjXAHixECL5VlABeSv_Is2BijdfMlW/s4160/20240203_204125.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7PLdfD0sIfadWgj9-rdafeBo83Mvc7rWtZxlKZBHH0GL__Ld49jTgF5QssRKPgMnLoTbQlHSpA92J5fgcLmLqGKT8pZp2f3EMb8-e0QRtrP9wlmt4WYVubAv1IUFWKP-p7P2R4K2yGZk0KfpmGWyL9YUHr3bPTtXjXAHixECL5VlABeSv_Is2BijdfMlW/s320/20240203_204125.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Prussian center </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUIfEi1nIsgcyhS0Wuu5719NyfF0agrRDDqMPhgUPw6XWQMesuifnCRctSZ19Fmb2CmnrigjaIeMuF0iPDk2ctU-xUaTEPqkKYC6x3CY9Sy9mH03plEbeNTFsPknqRefeovjqhAueC04LTNMeaB9_Oyo9s-iL-KMLxucEVF0wDSP3nag9M8ngfOoZwFTsv/s4160/20240203_204134.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUIfEi1nIsgcyhS0Wuu5719NyfF0agrRDDqMPhgUPw6XWQMesuifnCRctSZ19Fmb2CmnrigjaIeMuF0iPDk2ctU-xUaTEPqkKYC6x3CY9Sy9mH03plEbeNTFsPknqRefeovjqhAueC04LTNMeaB9_Oyo9s-iL-KMLxucEVF0wDSP3nag9M8ngfOoZwFTsv/s320/20240203_204134.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Austrian right and center. He's massed 6 regiments of Cuirassiers and Dragoons </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE6PTqXtquf_eMpBjK-YEFT8gn7lFwZU-4CaEAQ_K1hXYqZbndVkNTkWGVx-ILnORDv2MD1EvdU8_ZLe7B0pWcnKAew3O_6zp08I8-EoBx-NTbVJAgUklm3-saVU9okEynLD9ZiAmFvMGdQW_QhRpAJ0hvqCo2-DqCd7cKgd5QpS0Wwatw533R8KRlhKBw/s4160/20240203_204139.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE6PTqXtquf_eMpBjK-YEFT8gn7lFwZU-4CaEAQ_K1hXYqZbndVkNTkWGVx-ILnORDv2MD1EvdU8_ZLe7B0pWcnKAew3O_6zp08I8-EoBx-NTbVJAgUklm3-saVU9okEynLD9ZiAmFvMGdQW_QhRpAJ0hvqCo2-DqCd7cKgd5QpS0Wwatw533R8KRlhKBw/s320/20240203_204139.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Austrian musketeers </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw-nDOTC6371hgiVxE6GspWVOSUpP8WAO44UmSONpmfJiy3qgVzpkMShO6yFHSkC2cb_7ZMT-AAUHBA0DvJi8dKmaD0Hf6HFVxFNmrCc4mgfA7nPATG3qJk3ypO2umH88YNPAYh2DpYZKiAx9jE4O9t9WfNqdSWYFwtKbdxuWauIuQjkxhZAFDtTNVLyEM/s4160/20240203_221821.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw-nDOTC6371hgiVxE6GspWVOSUpP8WAO44UmSONpmfJiy3qgVzpkMShO6yFHSkC2cb_7ZMT-AAUHBA0DvJi8dKmaD0Hf6HFVxFNmrCc4mgfA7nPATG3qJk3ypO2umH88YNPAYh2DpYZKiAx9jE4O9t9WfNqdSWYFwtKbdxuWauIuQjkxhZAFDtTNVLyEM/s320/20240203_221821.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Austrian hussars and Croats looking pretty on his left<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPKn-sxo9_HhXiZvwo2pe54hYomnLCDhngxG5vSdzuj40zlDrwjmkRBks_eQtTxaywP1fsWnsezgzPeRhnyCSMA19tA-ul3xs0xPfumq2VuEuMiG0UrJ5SDuf9ejiXoDFFyAarhWjH2apmBbO5iFTACrY1dzr0xDLMuQvag-Fke3ULxFq_TgX35HLatzgj/s4160/20240203_221828.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPKn-sxo9_HhXiZvwo2pe54hYomnLCDhngxG5vSdzuj40zlDrwjmkRBks_eQtTxaywP1fsWnsezgzPeRhnyCSMA19tA-ul3xs0xPfumq2VuEuMiG0UrJ5SDuf9ejiXoDFFyAarhWjH2apmBbO5iFTACrY1dzr0xDLMuQvag-Fke3ULxFq_TgX35HLatzgj/s320/20240203_221828.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My light troops on the right; hussars, jaegers and Freikorps. <br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkX3aUEvRnne1gQ5ANqI9-ewPT5ta8jMZegwTSVpzY9U9AeIuoa7tbRyNIiR7GbQPmRys5CDh6AtNiknFauKyq1UUEoeGOG2OKFrJ04WtkioQ_CwoH9yg7Uo8u8uoKvmtJ6nvJSOrv8sCFcHM0RxbTtwUo0VD6x1bHnTuSWNXUIX8GiE2yx8VI3Idd4V1u/s4160/20240203_213633.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkX3aUEvRnne1gQ5ANqI9-ewPT5ta8jMZegwTSVpzY9U9AeIuoa7tbRyNIiR7GbQPmRys5CDh6AtNiknFauKyq1UUEoeGOG2OKFrJ04WtkioQ_CwoH9yg7Uo8u8uoKvmtJ6nvJSOrv8sCFcHM0RxbTtwUo0VD6x1bHnTuSWNXUIX8GiE2yx8VI3Idd4V1u/s320/20240203_213633.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thundering Doom approaching like the Rohirrim at Minas Tirith </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4TaanYB9XuLFm98A9Ez473r1-hlHQJU6ZVxg_3YOQqTnfr8kdkmJYl4pYPqSjtowNc1AjQZMXooTnrjnyVzFkYrwFI5KbZwbHU3Eyc_gWB8I3OO3n_RlrqRgytvkRrFTUo14_c94Ww_Vp-P-L2zt4yGHSe-jxbx3DwLZi11Eoaed4K9sT-Kj2Kb-5r8Ls/s4160/20240203_213638.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4TaanYB9XuLFm98A9Ez473r1-hlHQJU6ZVxg_3YOQqTnfr8kdkmJYl4pYPqSjtowNc1AjQZMXooTnrjnyVzFkYrwFI5KbZwbHU3Eyc_gWB8I3OO3n_RlrqRgytvkRrFTUo14_c94Ww_Vp-P-L2zt4yGHSe-jxbx3DwLZi11Eoaed4K9sT-Kj2Kb-5r8Ls/s320/20240203_213638.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See those Musketeers with all the hits and the "Unformed" marker? Yeah, they won't be there for long. Notice Scott's team shirt. I'm sure it helped.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpHX1H1eQEeABodcZn-peJsYHNPm0Gxqm8ukV5vS9d2c2cq3gl8jObmiP1ld9ElhPqTHM4tKt4rdAt8sNoRYrrhhIZLsr325LeBl9jQ_2IN9P6BQ-JVrxXs23Uf4aVlpJcovZEqA1HJFJ871QN9UzlAJb0s-R-x63cJgQwSRKQKUceZuqPmF75GlibrSW-/s4160/20240203_215210.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpHX1H1eQEeABodcZn-peJsYHNPm0Gxqm8ukV5vS9d2c2cq3gl8jObmiP1ld9ElhPqTHM4tKt4rdAt8sNoRYrrhhIZLsr325LeBl9jQ_2IN9P6BQ-JVrxXs23Uf4aVlpJcovZEqA1HJFJ871QN9UzlAJb0s-R-x63cJgQwSRKQKUceZuqPmF75GlibrSW-/s320/20240203_215210.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ouch baby, very ouch. Ridden down the first line and about to rout the second line.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZKIcdbARQVBdJL1r4cXoxFyPj6PeLwFu94AO27CipppA0-iJTQ4pGOg87XJEmTzwtsAi3r7qlp4G5kFnoJGgoZCjqdLsBBLUoPu8JxWsRlnq02jNuU0qFLtpws8jJY_8hdv6nkgsYy8cfpudJeI1HkpyZDQAYmqfOc2F3K3bd4Un5oxxICz3EjfRfY7mz/s4160/20240203_215214.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZKIcdbARQVBdJL1r4cXoxFyPj6PeLwFu94AO27CipppA0-iJTQ4pGOg87XJEmTzwtsAi3r7qlp4G5kFnoJGgoZCjqdLsBBLUoPu8JxWsRlnq02jNuU0qFLtpws8jJY_8hdv6nkgsYy8cfpudJeI1HkpyZDQAYmqfOc2F3K3bd4Un5oxxICz3EjfRfY7mz/s320/20240203_215214.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Breakthrough! After this picture was taken, we realized that I could counter-charge with some dragoons and one of the cuirassier regiments had to back up to fight my dragoons. Not that that changed anything for the infantry.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqOdaQD5JhVfgd_4NvkjheIwoR54s1h7g7xFoXZSTchZ9rgKiFrUfCu1d99VdVqeWBQZckvHSudyIm8-syF3valPg6joFKLycm9gewG5BrmdbfKEg8m_nyYtFj6dWLhtJIPBpj4sAq04lCLnGj2JqbgPjktpIbtEPj2XpO6n-_fB2h51_9Sl1RbaXE8fnN/s4160/20240203_215805.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqOdaQD5JhVfgd_4NvkjheIwoR54s1h7g7xFoXZSTchZ9rgKiFrUfCu1d99VdVqeWBQZckvHSudyIm8-syF3valPg6joFKLycm9gewG5BrmdbfKEg8m_nyYtFj6dWLhtJIPBpj4sAq04lCLnGj2JqbgPjktpIbtEPj2XpO6n-_fB2h51_9Sl1RbaXE8fnN/s320/20240203_215805.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A second battalion of Musketeers about to be ridden down</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfVG_IXdkLt0zIGww9SK0zNn5a_zeORs-39oFVUTbpVQXSWB5acVQMbb2URgu1eILQl94uzs0mqKld0ImDNQ7hxdnGpm95gRum3KXD43N2Sob6YOt8IR4htujZla5uN34tO29zGwJXWUEAEgfmAtXdqmCe7XtpoD-sf257vgWrsIvm5sNdjk1FRd_JK4jx/s4160/20240203_221856.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfVG_IXdkLt0zIGww9SK0zNn5a_zeORs-39oFVUTbpVQXSWB5acVQMbb2URgu1eILQl94uzs0mqKld0ImDNQ7hxdnGpm95gRum3KXD43N2Sob6YOt8IR4htujZla5uN34tO29zGwJXWUEAEgfmAtXdqmCe7XtpoD-sf257vgWrsIvm5sNdjk1FRd_JK4jx/s320/20240203_221856.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Swirling cavalry fight as dragoons try to plug the hole.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Initially I was rolling hot with my artillery fire, dispersing a couple of battalions of musketeers. Although we agreed that we probably had too many batteries on the table for an 18th century battle.</div><div><br /></div><div>But then when he launched his big cavalry charge my dice rolling went badly and things went rather pear-shaped. His cuirassier regiment that broke through two lines of musketeers also overran my Life Guard Grenadier battalion! The Foot Guards finally saw them off with a volley and they retired in disarray, with only one hit left before dispersal.</div><div><br /></div><div>Counter-charging dragoons also rolled badly and were dispersed for their troubles, so this left my left wing and the cavalry brigades faltering. I had hoped that the "new unit curse" would help me, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to extend to whole new armies.</div><div><br /></div><div>We were trying to use <b><i>General d'Armee</i>,</b> but I'm not sure how well it reflects the period. Artillery is perhaps too powerful, and infantry musketry not powerful enough.<br /><p><br /></p></div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-56496902098524833862024-01-28T09:40:00.000-08:002024-01-28T09:40:12.310-08:00Quar of Command <p>I had my first game of the year, and introduced Big Pat to both the Quar and <i>Chain of Command</i> Saturday night.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_G_T9zJUQIZqeJ64AB1RegQELEB8AB5TlXN-ZAGYx4UUZbXcQyzGYcIgxMF9XwyMk5nhz6530iPOtPP-WEO4VwOwv7PO5gF7f6ZrItczLZqDjoZTs45H8MiYkU_7H7z8FCDLyTD9qGUjRy7lA_m-1gqjscP23mLVuqLBz-HVKKjsMT4AifYI252L3UHfw/s3329/20240127_233940.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2866" data-original-width="3329" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_G_T9zJUQIZqeJ64AB1RegQELEB8AB5TlXN-ZAGYx4UUZbXcQyzGYcIgxMF9XwyMk5nhz6530iPOtPP-WEO4VwOwv7PO5gF7f6ZrItczLZqDjoZTs45H8MiYkU_7H7z8FCDLyTD9qGUjRy7lA_m-1gqjscP23mLVuqLBz-HVKKjsMT4AifYI252L3UHfw/s320/20240127_233940.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Contact front! Artillery contraption! Load AP! Fire!"</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>We've had a thaw this week and Friday after work was warm enough that I got my Crusader tractors out to the driveway and sprayed with a black undercoat.<div><br /></div><div>Saturday I had some time to start splashing on Tamiya NATO Green and then I tried a Quarish variation on NATO 3-Colour camouflage with dark grey (Vallejo German Grey) and Tamiya khaki stippled on using a cheap make up brush. The Centurion model is big enough I decided to try making some triangular stencils to make the camouflage just a little different from NATO and give a bit of a nod to the Art Deco camo on my Royalist tractors.</div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Jsxv-syBaeMQCa1hCjBJTix3yhWw2FP5DRNImp2SewvGkkikcS8J8Amx6VsP8GtwNDbTPTslX-VJyy6B5LGuXiwMbxCXEmwJL5N7NcBiv8fZ73G-Ijz33u_fQ_8QVbog2dGrUIiEDxNDR3NlQ4e1nOS2jSpXPEgD0vMb6FWVjAnrRCZR2sPsoKamhYEy/s2969/20240127_130414.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2204" data-original-width="2969" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Jsxv-syBaeMQCa1hCjBJTix3yhWw2FP5DRNImp2SewvGkkikcS8J8Amx6VsP8GtwNDbTPTslX-VJyy6B5LGuXiwMbxCXEmwJL5N7NcBiv8fZ73G-Ijz33u_fQ_8QVbog2dGrUIiEDxNDR3NlQ4e1nOS2jSpXPEgD0vMb6FWVjAnrRCZR2sPsoKamhYEy/s320/20240127_130414.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crusader light recce tractor substituting for the Alithean</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgosu-FAVudpgBXtCXxDJzP9jHprVslUi_Y-MAq9YNHd7reN2OsL-uNAiLOaOf-m7VnTx2WrJD0nYCJvWXeXEezPZUXDGfAxXl9TyWHTNzE1qTybgeXjpnXLqRzs3Rmf6GMK8V6fd1zCHPSjTTnUP7OWKoB6cWhy_qeSscTHpBylGptpOtBgPieweG-FNwb/s4160/20240127_170823.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgosu-FAVudpgBXtCXxDJzP9jHprVslUi_Y-MAq9YNHd7reN2OsL-uNAiLOaOf-m7VnTx2WrJD0nYCJvWXeXEezPZUXDGfAxXl9TyWHTNzE1qTybgeXjpnXLqRzs3Rmf6GMK8V6fd1zCHPSjTTnUP7OWKoB6cWhy_qeSscTHpBylGptpOtBgPieweG-FNwb/s320/20240127_170823.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heavy tractor to substitute for the Baeliog. Not quite finished, but close enough for a game.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Both sides had some pretty heavy Support Options, but I wanted to try some things. The Cook accompanying the Royalist commander could use pigs to remove d6 shock from groups. Big Pat kept forgetting to do this, and I kept forgetting to remind him. The Squirrel Handler accompanying the Crusader commander had 4 messenger squirrels that he could use to change command dice results. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF1otp9JpQmbahODy0R7YalRvsBrNjs_nJTFKaarqdJsr3tUX6Lfq6SVEfoRmdwJaTa3TKDZ_cdi4bfbk6N4ebdkHeouipzpPZO0Kaqf2SjQS0K25oIsMPXMkDoC8qt4iJjL2gnwMz2EgXqTWOTZc3iQEWV90V9KqPjmHFkqNqKr0urfVyHJNmJM-Axjyl/s4160/20240127_205149.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF1otp9JpQmbahODy0R7YalRvsBrNjs_nJTFKaarqdJsr3tUX6Lfq6SVEfoRmdwJaTa3TKDZ_cdi4bfbk6N4ebdkHeouipzpPZO0Kaqf2SjQS0K25oIsMPXMkDoC8qt4iJjL2gnwMz2EgXqTWOTZc3iQEWV90V9KqPjmHFkqNqKr0urfVyHJNmJM-Axjyl/s320/20240127_205149.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red chips are Crusader Jump Off Points, Blue are Royalist. Pat had a second just off camera to the left and a 3rd above his hands on the table edge. My 3rd is way off camera to the top on the table edge.</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Hmk7S7EkrPbXGgb3Y6hydkvSGEqtoKeWzcQD60ptA-cHTQYZlOeMSY1T-tcK4SWBTosA2L7MdAgMf1h9hKXzvuf9gieaI72Dd_utSufLfQKprIxAkgz4tFpyCmFaIyAbICnxkw4Nw25QjMiheX7zGbTQKcAQ34HI0On1nQ6dYDQzNqN6neriNPaIvvBz/s4160/20240127_203211.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Hmk7S7EkrPbXGgb3Y6hydkvSGEqtoKeWzcQD60ptA-cHTQYZlOeMSY1T-tcK4SWBTosA2L7MdAgMf1h9hKXzvuf9gieaI72Dd_utSufLfQKprIxAkgz4tFpyCmFaIyAbICnxkw4Nw25QjMiheX7zGbTQKcAQ34HI0On1nQ6dYDQzNqN6neriNPaIvvBz/s320/20240127_203211.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caeretan class Main Battle Tractor deploys on table</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpRgzu-C4pwRCyneXCK3ShtfjSu7KUDcxN8IkU0DfMbKpdIDaCiw4qaw-ij4bq7zA0SzsdzqAAJjYqrzK2q-Bm7P2dCgOl8fvvLAkl2HWg7ZYMDCyWLvGIbAzpV8ltyHjyXBFR2o2oA6WSYCoNV3t_x1-xo3BQoaUCCGhvgVH9cRrjGdkBEGQoGmzyDy5l/s4160/20240127_203227.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpRgzu-C4pwRCyneXCK3ShtfjSu7KUDcxN8IkU0DfMbKpdIDaCiw4qaw-ij4bq7zA0SzsdzqAAJjYqrzK2q-Bm7P2dCgOl8fvvLAkl2HWg7ZYMDCyWLvGIbAzpV8ltyHjyXBFR2o2oA6WSYCoNV3t_x1-xo3BQoaUCCGhvgVH9cRrjGdkBEGQoGmzyDy5l/s320/20240127_203227.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Royalists occupy the big farm house. He's put a 5 quar Heavy Shotgun team on the second floor from where it can dominate the village.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIJtD0Ed1NLDlsae6WUpR_NyAMaNQ_7wwKihM2FZc0U1huMhikKOJq0Ufd2egrPVw3MF61WhK_XHClPGlCqIh8ykTtLWzJr5D7oYvCjwH2C_X5h3rRtlJT1T3uzBnzucibsxBx-yUdN2UrXTOu5c6cHij8BxRafRx7_HY6lzgvpAdyZGekXkfecyyQosUH/s4160/20240127_204958.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIJtD0Ed1NLDlsae6WUpR_NyAMaNQ_7wwKihM2FZc0U1huMhikKOJq0Ufd2egrPVw3MF61WhK_XHClPGlCqIh8ykTtLWzJr5D7oYvCjwH2C_X5h3rRtlJT1T3uzBnzucibsxBx-yUdN2UrXTOu5c6cHij8BxRafRx7_HY6lzgvpAdyZGekXkfecyyQosUH/s320/20240127_204958.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Contact Front!" Engaging the Royalist gun tractor.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpiRAWsmhZNrOFX8FWwzV-NQdjakMKUPKtJFE4FenF5Ju0rl05cbEJrJTiDCNNMByRjgEN7keEslQCPY5doEBSRPnT49WGV6BfyTtUV55fJxBcVhHeqA0VHbXKXCscEZnLkxEET9zGVNkyVTGRMq0n_wwOwqOvFord1SUtUeNCAvK4Iqq38EqLCEEI1ND_/s4160/20240127_205135.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpiRAWsmhZNrOFX8FWwzV-NQdjakMKUPKtJFE4FenF5Ju0rl05cbEJrJTiDCNNMByRjgEN7keEslQCPY5doEBSRPnT49WGV6BfyTtUV55fJxBcVhHeqA0VHbXKXCscEZnLkxEET9zGVNkyVTGRMq0n_wwOwqOvFord1SUtUeNCAvK4Iqq38EqLCEEI1ND_/s320/20240127_205135.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOPFKEXzEqAVC1f9MUSXOFbOMBZlB7UlUY1nV7Y3dkrfLdWWCMX-sE8B8b_j2JyYdaqbwa23HYoSD2LAk81vDPzC2stHcnLoFnlXzkoc9_lKW51efm_4lqEWJunz_I5xXlcO2JGqIKHNVY_HgAdUnvN99L141a6LJRooaqmxQdhBwkbgea8SQzBHseU6CY/s4160/20240127_205138.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOPFKEXzEqAVC1f9MUSXOFbOMBZlB7UlUY1nV7Y3dkrfLdWWCMX-sE8B8b_j2JyYdaqbwa23HYoSD2LAk81vDPzC2stHcnLoFnlXzkoc9_lKW51efm_4lqEWJunz_I5xXlcO2JGqIKHNVY_HgAdUnvN99L141a6LJRooaqmxQdhBwkbgea8SQzBHseU6CY/s320/20240127_205138.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Big Pat contemplates his options</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzPa5BN-Myxjy_FPj5Sl4tk04KjocBguRgu9IaoSAXaS0oD6t28L9zuk56ssvT0elDRmvLJRJ6NQyP_iEXcH7D_W1lvzhcUdKyQcbpboGuAvdN1DIF0Sb3V0dWUkvpRDPbEU0aLXYSh13AsJTDuGd8Ez38oN5tipstyPnfZcHl3OZFVBJjcuxV4gzz52W9/s4160/20240128_121209.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzPa5BN-Myxjy_FPj5Sl4tk04KjocBguRgu9IaoSAXaS0oD6t28L9zuk56ssvT0elDRmvLJRJ6NQyP_iEXcH7D_W1lvzhcUdKyQcbpboGuAvdN1DIF0Sb3V0dWUkvpRDPbEU0aLXYSh13AsJTDuGd8Ez38oN5tipstyPnfZcHl3OZFVBJjcuxV4gzz52W9/s320/20240128_121209.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taking care of the HSG team with direct fire HE. His Junior Big Quar managed to escape the collapsing structure unharmed.</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgieHV03K3eF0iha7gDJztm5Qe7gCvg9Py09X-jIKAuomTkNUXuAiuXYyrlQkU7wTa3a1d_iXW7v09ch64ownvA3ly1NhW2y9dFioUehl7AcNJLOz8_MHV8MeFpGu03JOLLUxhYrxb9_CyHptXxYSAhqlRvAVKX5tsKsRXOsjqqMqFNKRzgeMUK0b0GJfD9/s4160/20240127_224613.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgieHV03K3eF0iha7gDJztm5Qe7gCvg9Py09X-jIKAuomTkNUXuAiuXYyrlQkU7wTa3a1d_iXW7v09ch64ownvA3ly1NhW2y9dFioUehl7AcNJLOz8_MHV8MeFpGu03JOLLUxhYrxb9_CyHptXxYSAhqlRvAVKX5tsKsRXOsjqqMqFNKRzgeMUK0b0GJfD9/s320/20240127_224613.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Advancing past the brewed up Gun Tractor</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5uhcniIPFa76xUcOOIQJ0vWxfj_LbJ07FnkWZeKZr2GY6mZZQRRNZG03NGntYs_MBQs2KqG6Bf7FirWXCXkwNWo2oKroVD2vTN5K-Vs-6Zjlrt-PqwaSzj8wCZVSKjbJAxgOuv2OLTE80BxGPqdrOrWA296kKmiUfGgB23GhpI3Xzy1XyIGbPdN9JvaQV/s4160/20240128_121731.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5uhcniIPFa76xUcOOIQJ0vWxfj_LbJ07FnkWZeKZr2GY6mZZQRRNZG03NGntYs_MBQs2KqG6Bf7FirWXCXkwNWo2oKroVD2vTN5K-Vs-6Zjlrt-PqwaSzj8wCZVSKjbJAxgOuv2OLTE80BxGPqdrOrWA296kKmiUfGgB23GhpI3Xzy1XyIGbPdN9JvaQV/s320/20240128_121731.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fire from the HSG and a couple of snipers had put a lot of Shock on my LMG section in the house. I moved my commander up to rally it off but Pat got a double move and charged in with a section from the standing grain. He broke my section and captured the house, but next turn I counterattacked with the troops in the yard and wiped the intruders out.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5P1DFfNoca5bfhWwInXuC4hkbmYcOZrlSQR9MT3C3ugYTIdCKaE4lHbmEicmVIEmJZbNhD3kyk4JgyhQGzUha1mdfIc44s24ovW1sDlqeYkCws1QdQQH91rAu2RqpBQjGqfqB2yDy1g83ky4oe3oyzrX7BeVOEP4HVAtF2GPjZ3j0s64_lnv3H1ofifOf/s4160/20240127_224621.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5P1DFfNoca5bfhWwInXuC4hkbmYcOZrlSQR9MT3C3ugYTIdCKaE4lHbmEicmVIEmJZbNhD3kyk4JgyhQGzUha1mdfIc44s24ovW1sDlqeYkCws1QdQQH91rAu2RqpBQjGqfqB2yDy1g83ky4oe3oyzrX7BeVOEP4HVAtF2GPjZ3j0s64_lnv3H1ofifOf/s320/20240127_224621.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yawdryl class Recce Tractor sweeps around the flank to knock out a Royalist Armoured Contraption</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH-1GvGPfU8SqBpyzfWUC7mZUJiXhMRs-IUGA0ZD_gLoVIvCEkcfU6lXQg006wZGrWjTr-Ah48JcQWs1_E-fQ2fWlkYdGD-pZdUDtvj5fbDnKANJQFUMDsiYP4yaM7eSN53sY7foClELLBd0WUzgEl8Avx0rgWPGkdXubW7jiPa2PhPf3koT7UWalMlmRj/s320/20240127_224722.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Royalist Gun Contraption blocks my cheeky dash up the road to seize a Jump Off Point</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoYORlRQc634DSNTq_VsSU0ktNIeFddOpdBiAZEQNLbnpBbwJBoQ3XRHvaeiqf1GJcH5CxM37BeOD3fa7N_APVxpdmrMVBKcVNnF-NElEnwf0qxJNVwXF29zPGJLGmwF8pINQXyluHmROwHoP7cdWTwT3XOns31LD5opXyV2IfmmWt_9LcFaVKXBymC7F0/s4160/20240127_233859.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoYORlRQc634DSNTq_VsSU0ktNIeFddOpdBiAZEQNLbnpBbwJBoQ3XRHvaeiqf1GJcH5CxM37BeOD3fa7N_APVxpdmrMVBKcVNnF-NElEnwf0qxJNVwXF29zPGJLGmwF8pINQXyluHmROwHoP7cdWTwT3XOns31LD5opXyV2IfmmWt_9LcFaVKXBymC7F0/s320/20240127_233859.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chasing Royalist infantry who have an excess of Shock, and overrunning a Jump off Point (you can see the blue chip just under the treads) </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZRHB-bRlyF_hyphenhyphenjjG0iIA6eosXeqqz37kw0SnL7uRFheIrLua0eGZtCXXmRMo105Ah-_eXXhLH9lBh2GbGQ1tNyyYtWzb0Oy7yclCh5ZMCWpifddaKczqBXVuQ4dRjkvDjDLdbQat6isxvL92BZnWl_fWShwikqlEdDMqk7vWXChqc4mfCGyv8v_8KUaWG/s3329/20240127_233940.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2866" data-original-width="3329" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZRHB-bRlyF_hyphenhyphenjjG0iIA6eosXeqqz37kw0SnL7uRFheIrLua0eGZtCXXmRMo105Ah-_eXXhLH9lBh2GbGQ1tNyyYtWzb0Oy7yclCh5ZMCWpifddaKczqBXVuQ4dRjkvDjDLdbQat6isxvL92BZnWl_fWShwikqlEdDMqk7vWXChqc4mfCGyv8v_8KUaWG/s320/20240127_233940.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7MVjHNhtzdjgXmSR7TvNLC2zRDI9ekzOR0iKTRHrumMzCCp7kttg-iHV62sDt-OMR74iRLRZZPhh7ktj9Mal6knksV8C17ENIRKPAzY3BOiYd8fP8PaMGDbqMFNogpREZVrj9ANre55bFPUQYhT-0cREAhtUeiNEHKnc9NK4Bs-5EY1eYAI3cosfRmP21/s3902/20240127_234002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2639" data-original-width="3902" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7MVjHNhtzdjgXmSR7TvNLC2zRDI9ekzOR0iKTRHrumMzCCp7kttg-iHV62sDt-OMR74iRLRZZPhh7ktj9Mal6knksV8C17ENIRKPAzY3BOiYd8fP8PaMGDbqMFNogpREZVrj9ANre55bFPUQYhT-0cREAhtUeiNEHKnc9NK4Bs-5EY1eYAI3cosfRmP21/s320/20240127_234002.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I could have played a CoC Dice to end the turn, removing the JOP I'm sitting on, and collapsing his Force Morale, but I decided to blast the Gun Contraption instead, which ended the game as well.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div>I'm really liking <i>CoC</i> for the Quar, I just need to tighten up the stats for the various AFVs and wait for the plastic set to get more basic ryhflers and Big Quar. The Royalists need some field guns to counter all the Crusader armour. I also didn't bother with ryhflegrenades and bombers since only the Crusaders have them right now. Once I make some for the Royalists then it will even things out.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-49606258744069363862024-01-12T18:40:00.000-08:002024-01-12T18:40:44.976-08:00Movement Trays <p>"It's just a small skirmish game. I just need a dozen figures or so. I'll base everyone individually."</p><p><i>Narrator's voice: "Indeed, he would not stop at a dozen figures. Or even two dozen."</i></p><p>140 orcs and goblins later....</p><p>My Middle Earth armies and my Samurai are all based individually. Which gets tedious to move, for obvious reasons. </p><p>Fortunately both collections are organized in 6s and 12s. So I got Don to print me some movement trays. Some ranked up, and some looking skirmishy or warbandish. </p><p>Most fit 1 inch fender washers, my base of choice. But I also got some to accommodate the 20mm washers I use for dwarves and goblins. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Jg0mcROrvdtyHfNpnHf7HXfeUtIgAcNbeY6J0obQ40wrxHo56OEL9JLWoR6aV73y1Q7VbWYOx-wx5XklYbf4plpNx7_7t-KKAXuS0FtwlQPrwKkrN3behEVhWdA_SGVgijPMaIjFYEVUT7K-njUTcXeNTtzRMImrQun1HGc0_e4D4phdyoKx-LtISv2U/s4160/20240112_171917.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Jg0mcROrvdtyHfNpnHf7HXfeUtIgAcNbeY6J0obQ40wrxHo56OEL9JLWoR6aV73y1Q7VbWYOx-wx5XklYbf4plpNx7_7t-KKAXuS0FtwlQPrwKkrN3behEVhWdA_SGVgijPMaIjFYEVUT7K-njUTcXeNTtzRMImrQun1HGc0_e4D4phdyoKx-LtISv2U/s320/20240112_171917.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0KhIw32jlUTRHImf6R2Z0XfAciBlOznViMxMy8SVFcx6fF4B1ybggnSbaqaCdhwuX2KKmM5I0W-6T8isnE6Bbbr7b6W3oHLVaTcWDc4TXyW5bkItgFInZXj_lJYMRlM5quPLaF1fqGBrBT_eAg-W1CeTAU7qajHxLiixE3vP_qGhRToT0glduvVHad7GT/s4160/20240112_171326.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0KhIw32jlUTRHImf6R2Z0XfAciBlOznViMxMy8SVFcx6fF4B1ybggnSbaqaCdhwuX2KKmM5I0W-6T8isnE6Bbbr7b6W3oHLVaTcWDc4TXyW5bkItgFInZXj_lJYMRlM5quPLaF1fqGBrBT_eAg-W1CeTAU7qajHxLiixE3vP_qGhRToT0glduvVHad7GT/s320/20240112_171326.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I noticed a few fit problems setting up the first picture, but it's just sand or flocking overhanging the edge that I'll have to remove. <div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8SLoy6cLjZwX7Gs1MbNgKQvmjHqIrEkTp9NlcTOgGMHprGLlOsrXREqUrypsb-Z-jU-K4jOstamVdqxZ1dxzytia8vHkkTLjvuzjy0Uz_dvvhMud5-BjsEyQ4_3MgvFtldpb0xaJlYoRn2HdN-eBOFe0CEI5BVCvU1pvsml3l1hCgvBxAOMAoJMwjKdRN/s4160/20240112_172218.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8SLoy6cLjZwX7Gs1MbNgKQvmjHqIrEkTp9NlcTOgGMHprGLlOsrXREqUrypsb-Z-jU-K4jOstamVdqxZ1dxzytia8vHkkTLjvuzjy0Uz_dvvhMud5-BjsEyQ4_3MgvFtldpb0xaJlYoRn2HdN-eBOFe0CEI5BVCvU1pvsml3l1hCgvBxAOMAoJMwjKdRN/s320/20240112_172218.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The stands will help define groups in<i> Seven Spears</i> too, and hopefully make it easier for people to know what is what. <br /><p><br /></p></div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-62563749255965545392024-01-05T21:00:00.000-08:002024-01-05T21:00:00.137-08:00Crusader Tractors<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yIo5SvOOjAI?si=rE552xy7s_rEsyiq" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>
<p><br /></p><p>My Royalist Tractor Corps has (thanks to Dan) managed to get quite well equipped with two tractors and two armoured contraptions (armoured cars to us humans), but I was stuck on something for the Crusaders. The 'official' Baeliog tractor (see the video above) looks like the results of a KV-2 and an Excavator being in a dark room with a bottle of wine. Zombiesmith has said 28mm versions will be for sale, <i>someday</i>, but I'm impatient and want tractors <i>now</i>. The Toonkrieg models are goofy and fun, which fit Quar well. I looked long and hard at the Somua S35 and Char B as possible contenders. Then I discovered the <a href="https://www.wargaming3d.com/product/toonkrieg-centurian/" target="_blank">Toonkrieg Centurion</a>.</p><p>I don't hide my love for the Centurion tank. And the Quar will give me another chance to have them on the table. Honestly, I think acquiring all these Centurion tanks is my version of a mid-life crisis. Cheaper than a sports car or affair with a redhead half my age at any rate. </p><p>So I sent the stl to Don, who printed out 3 for me. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3liVblCLt6u7qGOUC5ZOG9IiG-aPbyweNhVrIgOag6VK-sPSIzniFBJMWxRb-F-f08nE2cvfHb9qsd4kxl9n8R8fYKA7FNGySc7Mv5_FKHMwBKDxLQTEwT-vL2bo2fb2z3CmxTvTygFJvbHU8dKPa2QT7mc5nNOkrqOIFlsssS0lytvxtd5Ct3WfTEMA9/s1080/IMG_20231229_153431_610.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3liVblCLt6u7qGOUC5ZOG9IiG-aPbyweNhVrIgOag6VK-sPSIzniFBJMWxRb-F-f08nE2cvfHb9qsd4kxl9n8R8fYKA7FNGySc7Mv5_FKHMwBKDxLQTEwT-vL2bo2fb2z3CmxTvTygFJvbHU8dKPa2QT7mc5nNOkrqOIFlsssS0lytvxtd5Ct3WfTEMA9/s320/IMG_20231229_153431_610.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I cut the bobble head off the Toonkrieg TC and used greenstuff to attach a spare Quar head. I'm holding off converting the other two TCs until my Black Friday order from Zombiesmith arrives, which has extra bits and heads for conversions.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGusvITt54LW7TONCdKonysNgwlE4PwMWBy1oklLfLD2dli3NuKrkSpvWGywgmdzSirtxvSK28nJLvJzk8Ybw0o3hgGqYjrmJ01qn7MWmP3uxS-ngCCg0MkhdGUIbg1NuPTajJjr_4oTbYOWMGnR44ff1NHPcmEDcNQSCnkTpSRc7mqP4IT3khYaovIGPG/s4160/20231229_145147.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGusvITt54LW7TONCdKonysNgwlE4PwMWBy1oklLfLD2dli3NuKrkSpvWGywgmdzSirtxvSK28nJLvJzk8Ybw0o3hgGqYjrmJ01qn7MWmP3uxS-ngCCg0MkhdGUIbg1NuPTajJjr_4oTbYOWMGnR44ff1NHPcmEDcNQSCnkTpSRc7mqP4IT3khYaovIGPG/s320/20231229_145147.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Toonkrieg bobble head character </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnPalgpEXl9nDsEUaBmbsB94XJrJ8pMjNaEVCx0aJA9kaVrdM4CIysRtY4kZoLiMN3Ppz3YUnN_WAdZSCzNmEUEHushLHM1Yi1dRqUysHPMlww76C7fYaxOnA_Z3vv2CC-GSibCqtlKqNbmFZBwnTuKSm9YtrE1rzKm5nhJHoJ32sWBZ-qs0oTpeQrRFwB/s1080/IMG_20231229_153431_934.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnPalgpEXl9nDsEUaBmbsB94XJrJ8pMjNaEVCx0aJA9kaVrdM4CIysRtY4kZoLiMN3Ppz3YUnN_WAdZSCzNmEUEHushLHM1Yi1dRqUysHPMlww76C7fYaxOnA_Z3vv2CC-GSibCqtlKqNbmFZBwnTuKSm9YtrE1rzKm5nhJHoJ32sWBZ-qs0oTpeQrRFwB/s320/IMG_20231229_153431_934.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quar head</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRBPMpqUUimcWyWqPKJcAbJl9r7cP1c998f6IaeXwnFKcjemSr5A5K8RPtvxAQkEpJgDZq0aKbueCaxJABUQhZVf-AH2teemvDdzLbNyinEFTPZCo7Liozl6pUYJEDjf0rZ7XHAFxDqXJZ1u5lngIf6ea6mKVMKqCKZxlAxwa7HvCvopqIa9X0f8VsanKD/s1080/IMG_20231229_153431_993.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRBPMpqUUimcWyWqPKJcAbJl9r7cP1c998f6IaeXwnFKcjemSr5A5K8RPtvxAQkEpJgDZq0aKbueCaxJABUQhZVf-AH2teemvDdzLbNyinEFTPZCo7Liozl6pUYJEDjf0rZ7XHAFxDqXJZ1u5lngIf6ea6mKVMKqCKZxlAxwa7HvCvopqIa9X0f8VsanKD/s320/IMG_20231229_153431_993.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I was worried that they'd come out too big, but I think they look OK. Now I just need some nice weather to undercoat them and start painting.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizvO7cD_rE5Bu6XVR-KnxaNlAPr0A0EwG6nhiLlpGrpFqkQDkFYV-TvfA7J8l2MuZkuzICnr54Mb7mPL8LjwF7a0Zl6OiIfKJTQ0QKPCMrkl4Ei-1IR8bW8SZsqrbOcnDsqnE-eI-x8ufjXRvQMjc8zwAi6lsYuZ91Ha8v1q-2HtNyIZUQ_nI_ebF6y9wl/s4160/20231228_131043.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizvO7cD_rE5Bu6XVR-KnxaNlAPr0A0EwG6nhiLlpGrpFqkQDkFYV-TvfA7J8l2MuZkuzICnr54Mb7mPL8LjwF7a0Zl6OiIfKJTQ0QKPCMrkl4Ei-1IR8bW8SZsqrbOcnDsqnE-eI-x8ufjXRvQMjc8zwAi6lsYuZ91Ha8v1q-2HtNyIZUQ_nI_ebF6y9wl/s320/20231228_131043.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Checking size before gluing sideskirts on</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div>For a light tank another Quar group member found some quirky fictional "interwar" inspired tanks. So I got the stl for this one. Scaled for 15mm at 100%, so I got Don to embiggen it. It didn't loose too much detail. <div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9XXaXFz2MZfYbR8K3jkf10a9FIGFqIN8IMXhj0VFD4ObseAOCvzjD8dZYvlzHw5HWP4R16FsYR7bPgTfnt9ajINglQnGXc0aHpRXvPCckCdszeaz4v9FjFG-sI1S59E7PrkcKo6DQInnr1lfvrwfdWG6Dbk3WoIXsowBWOqGHy-DRgX1jfA4qwvGg7tX1/s1080/IMG_20231229_153432_039.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9XXaXFz2MZfYbR8K3jkf10a9FIGFqIN8IMXhj0VFD4ObseAOCvzjD8dZYvlzHw5HWP4R16FsYR7bPgTfnt9ajINglQnGXc0aHpRXvPCckCdszeaz4v9FjFG-sI1S59E7PrkcKo6DQInnr1lfvrwfdWG6Dbk3WoIXsowBWOqGHy-DRgX1jfA4qwvGg7tX1/s320/IMG_20231229_153432_039.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Now, I just need my bits from Zombiesmith for heads and stowage, <i>and</i> a mild spell to undercoat these.</p><p><br /></p></div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-34100992345550612422024-01-03T21:00:00.000-08:002024-01-03T21:00:00.130-08:00First Pieces for 2024!<p>Some boring, but useful, Scatter Terrain to start the year with. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV31MKi0ZsWBBzwjWiN02bxQPI7fIm0b1WCqXC2STkUR7y0Mob2cqH-GNTx4Rm8ZEBKTmoGnZsVaPzauTeJNG6Ojd00aMeJ9Va4dCjLtF5bi92qPoXtAlncuVu-Ry_V0j8xh1eTlwfx8Aa9IvWJAGYdQx1k0oRJIK68djF6u1gkcv8cdh6KLnsBDdaek8p/s4003/20240102_174919.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2493" data-original-width="4003" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV31MKi0ZsWBBzwjWiN02bxQPI7fIm0b1WCqXC2STkUR7y0Mob2cqH-GNTx4Rm8ZEBKTmoGnZsVaPzauTeJNG6Ojd00aMeJ9Va4dCjLtF5bi92qPoXtAlncuVu-Ry_V0j8xh1eTlwfx8Aa9IvWJAGYdQx1k0oRJIK68djF6u1gkcv8cdh6KLnsBDdaek8p/s320/20240102_174919.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>While printing tanks for me, Don asked "Anything else?"</p><p>I had just been working on Quar scatter terrain, and was thinking I needed more haystacks. </p><p>So he included six good sized haystacks. </p><p>I could handle painting these in between coughing fits on New Year's Day, so I did. </p><p>I think these will show up a lot now, whether in Middle Earth, Medieval, Napoleonic, or Quar villages. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMs2Ikrf6q5VAZH-9A65i-uBmibAcSnmxmKEO4IsF-IOcJLmf1CM5MMwAz6EGXNBOxf7-IjDoIFnpagoOxI4okjoyphjkPsOW47PGv6GKE-SG50ZMAybHvslRkpmSrduK0KHjr1i4gRGYG1CEQsMWR9jkhzBijLqv0YXHX_C-Qvmj5mLRpoZt6YRwUY-zR/s3347/20240102_201938.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2397" data-original-width="3347" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMs2Ikrf6q5VAZH-9A65i-uBmibAcSnmxmKEO4IsF-IOcJLmf1CM5MMwAz6EGXNBOxf7-IjDoIFnpagoOxI4okjoyphjkPsOW47PGv6GKE-SG50ZMAybHvslRkpmSrduK0KHjr1i4gRGYG1CEQsMWR9jkhzBijLqv0YXHX_C-Qvmj5mLRpoZt6YRwUY-zR/s320/20240102_201938.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With a Quar Ryhfler for scale </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-90337575112160852792024-01-01T10:47:00.000-08:002024-01-03T04:44:35.238-08:00Slow Burn Nostalgia<p>The Centurion is the BEST tank ever, and my favourite tank of all time. So playing with them is something I want to do.</p><p>I have happy memories of playing with my <strike>Rocco</strike> Roskopf Minitanks Centurions, die cast Dinky Saracen APC and <a href="http://plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=53" target="_blank">Airfix Infantry Combat Group</a> as boy, fighting Cold War battles against Russians and a JSIII tank.</p><p><a href="https://rabbitsinmybasement.blogspot.com/2020/05/border-clash-with-borduria-2-games-in-1.html" target="_blank">A game I played 3 1/2 years ago,</a> featuring a border clash between Mantovia and Borduria got me thinking, and looking around for Centurion models.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgArYe-VD94M6A8l5nPQ0q_oebJFNMkozHoVrE3pOy2_tnf4n4jKvS3fkpHkM1CsxNR_80gxBqTa-jR0PR3A8cm2E9ThGGYl_QP21qxVUTZtHvPHO9QneA2DBucxxNmXxjQbf_yHa_amFp6mC4RffvDgiXBQOLd5yZGwx9c2JwDlVk8z5vzGqmMcpctrk3u/s2342/20240101_131230.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1712" data-original-width="2342" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgArYe-VD94M6A8l5nPQ0q_oebJFNMkozHoVrE3pOy2_tnf4n4jKvS3fkpHkM1CsxNR_80gxBqTa-jR0PR3A8cm2E9ThGGYl_QP21qxVUTZtHvPHO9QneA2DBucxxNmXxjQbf_yHa_amFp6mC4RffvDgiXBQOLd5yZGwx9c2JwDlVk8z5vzGqmMcpctrk3u/s320/20240101_131230.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Minitank Centurion</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgVeSok5AInGM2lIAvL6LbjXcbU4UJjCo2jCvPFhuFShlQ1ot17SZT5oqEcV5gGtK7fc7qdc70yd1nWHa5bV8LQOTtePNcOU0t4X9B2LQQEjmEpUcyC3FJ-nBiNKdzQLMpWmtu5kXmW7D0ZQo50va9p_omqtKwS2YywSyx3SA9NJrUzUF8iPShFmvRg5IV/s800/AIR1703a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="221" data-original-width="800" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgVeSok5AInGM2lIAvL6LbjXcbU4UJjCo2jCvPFhuFShlQ1ot17SZT5oqEcV5gGtK7fc7qdc70yd1nWHa5bV8LQOTtePNcOU0t4X9B2LQQEjmEpUcyC3FJ-nBiNKdzQLMpWmtu5kXmW7D0ZQo50va9p_omqtKwS2YywSyx3SA9NJrUzUF8iPShFmvRg5IV/s320/AIR1703a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzBOiP2K0GKVOIraFkVAs7YAWdYhonKl0IglpCAeIl3lY_d-J4L4jo3ku-uLp81JgfANL_f0uqTCw_IMj9LNVPm_CwQdZMcX8jywprhR3rTEHXBEb5zYYqYEULp9tIrU_9P_SeWz27ofcY4J-yy-OFZ4mrftI8L5t7gxT-DlbC7MrY5tJ5jusx_LMDDQpC/s714/AIR1703Box.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="583" data-original-width="714" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzBOiP2K0GKVOIraFkVAs7YAWdYhonKl0IglpCAeIl3lY_d-J4L4jo3ku-uLp81JgfANL_f0uqTCw_IMj9LNVPm_CwQdZMcX8jywprhR3rTEHXBEb5zYYqYEULp9tIrU_9P_SeWz27ofcY4J-yy-OFZ4mrftI8L5t7gxT-DlbC7MrY5tJ5jusx_LMDDQpC/s320/AIR1703Box.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old Airfix Combat Group. Note their vaguely 1950s-60s British army look</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>My good friend Don is getting quite adept at 3d printing and offered to print reinforcements for both Mantovia and Borduria to modernize them. The Sherman Fireflies and T34/85s will still see the table naturally, but I <i>want</i> Centurion tanks. </div><div><br /></div><div>Just after Christmas a box arrived. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEdA8yTnZ0CGI0kGWCjOcX3y3RvG6voYkK5Vlvy1aEcTHrTek6gt17ocYxxX0h2a-bLr_H5hxu6ICY-lcdnTVvR91aZd_zlGTzt9yMg3Q9ySJVtlXiZi3tBr-wk98u2tXchMq2sjIXxUYqaFlInpW_qleqkDOXgCxwazSF2u8srXH3-8oY7HpTG3KA26EM/s4160/20240101_131328.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEdA8yTnZ0CGI0kGWCjOcX3y3RvG6voYkK5Vlvy1aEcTHrTek6gt17ocYxxX0h2a-bLr_H5hxu6ICY-lcdnTVvR91aZd_zlGTzt9yMg3Q9ySJVtlXiZi3tBr-wk98u2tXchMq2sjIXxUYqaFlInpW_qleqkDOXgCxwazSF2u8srXH3-8oY7HpTG3KA26EM/s320/20240101_131328.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bags of fun!</td></tr></tbody></table><p>A half dozen Centurion MkIIIs and a dozen T54s with some supporting vehicles for both sides. The .stls have a design flaw in that the center turret peg needs to be sanded down to fit in the hole first before I crack on with painting. But I've been too sick with this RSV nonsense to try such work.</p><p>Now I just need to sort out rules and infantry. Part of me says <i>O Group</i> for the mental stimulation, and part of me says <i>Rapid Fire Reloaded </i>for the ease of play. Or <i>Seven Days to the River Rhine</i>. Or <i>I Ain't Been Shot, Mum</i>.</p><p>This won't affect the tanks very much, but it will affect how much infantry I need to get and how they will be organized.</p><p>But I'm not going to be rushed.</p>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-19876740744187763712023-12-31T11:06:00.000-08:002023-12-31T11:08:24.837-08:002023: the Year of Unexpected Projects<p>It's been a funny old year.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaAPANt25c1NBdcqmFurjYrsMEK_LBvMD2J76WqGV8eJe37zF5Qr65REA8PbK-jiEiGcBxdkcLCHiEnQWXiRPHkWI7jo3OBoEXHlEff4KxWdA9thX0GBwZN1PlVc9UXXe-WUg1LbMwtkHjX0MUPRtqoVHCPNXPo7ZhulRReBcB_IjcmT6djPbj6pKZYXEM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="159" data-original-width="320" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaAPANt25c1NBdcqmFurjYrsMEK_LBvMD2J76WqGV8eJe37zF5Qr65REA8PbK-jiEiGcBxdkcLCHiEnQWXiRPHkWI7jo3OBoEXHlEff4KxWdA9thX0GBwZN1PlVc9UXXe-WUg1LbMwtkHjX0MUPRtqoVHCPNXPo7ZhulRReBcB_IjcmT6djPbj6pKZYXEM" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>My painting, and gaming, has been all over the place. Dan giving me a copy of <i>Xenos Rampant</i> definitely took things in an unexpected direction and got my 15mm Expanse stuff out of the box and some terrain built, plus a few things knocked off the leadpile.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgts14m4CRvUy4fETaKzkvEOM0bapWLnabUeWftkjdFFs2gk89yBQBchGAHBoMEvwO3igOCM4H7h_9Skk8mCD9JXesCXgMYIW-ZuN9-YBrcENnflBqgxmrazPSnHF016TklY23b_fAYI0r8PhpN0u5MaQpw1PVJH7aIfKNSOw1_hAAow8DjyS9v3rk3gn-s/s1863/20230204_175020.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1537" data-original-width="1863" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgts14m4CRvUy4fETaKzkvEOM0bapWLnabUeWftkjdFFs2gk89yBQBchGAHBoMEvwO3igOCM4H7h_9Skk8mCD9JXesCXgMYIW-ZuN9-YBrcENnflBqgxmrazPSnHF016TklY23b_fAYI0r8PhpN0u5MaQpw1PVJH7aIfKNSOw1_hAAow8DjyS9v3rk3gn-s/s320/20230204_175020.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEktQ44Adss5UibSqmBZ3W5UQGyohu4-zAAcYic1qd-La2AGw7cglzM1QPsNF2OHyT90KSNNwpYcD5ZLSMJMrRJHpbb6-OQDuN3cu21eKEzWEDSELPeHifd1w-QPuSSl8VK3N4hgBlbaVENlOo_2WJ35HFyUo6eOjKlYJnhb6raFIAOx1itTwIs1YffvKQ/s4052/20230405_214809.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2344" data-original-width="4052" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEktQ44Adss5UibSqmBZ3W5UQGyohu4-zAAcYic1qd-La2AGw7cglzM1QPsNF2OHyT90KSNNwpYcD5ZLSMJMrRJHpbb6-OQDuN3cu21eKEzWEDSELPeHifd1w-QPuSSl8VK3N4hgBlbaVENlOo_2WJ35HFyUo6eOjKlYJnhb6raFIAOx1itTwIs1YffvKQ/s320/20230405_214809.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>But Middle Earth wasn't totally neglected either, with useful additions to the goblins painted and 36 dwarves added to the hosts of Durin. There's still another 3 dozen to go I think.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwohX860y-PKiuJw3Ai3LfuG4RXVWt5Jz5Do_0vT8nmrtO6Z9SC_XjIUsKJNeAxMkDgNtpjAOOukyQ8GdoGhxXmSVqeLstwvU1psuCsLai6sn20ryvcD-NEdB7SQUHSplgFbWOMfwG9s9EJIT3k_skLC5Ama_6S_dZqvhDJjVOLZxm46CuPbh5q_xqJlbn/s2578/20230220_101612.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1685" data-original-width="2578" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwohX860y-PKiuJw3Ai3LfuG4RXVWt5Jz5Do_0vT8nmrtO6Z9SC_XjIUsKJNeAxMkDgNtpjAOOukyQ8GdoGhxXmSVqeLstwvU1psuCsLai6sn20ryvcD-NEdB7SQUHSplgFbWOMfwG9s9EJIT3k_skLC5Ama_6S_dZqvhDJjVOLZxm46CuPbh5q_xqJlbn/s320/20230220_101612.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhklDAkFyUxlgsWMkvMKJZkIYkLFYqlQzmuo2QcBuPeQhY9coLoHx71OLDEZH0kbDqYtLzpHYvLLcZVbCTr0F_0krqF2YwLVWZTRU1w762qgQnXMBFd-iRihRIvDM7lAGJzfkiLfnLWtjb1xO8R-mWl2HycswQzQItqqMaCSSKnYKXe_xZuP-rUphyphenhyphenHPrFf/s3050/20230701_133827.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1804" data-original-width="3050" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhklDAkFyUxlgsWMkvMKJZkIYkLFYqlQzmuo2QcBuPeQhY9coLoHx71OLDEZH0kbDqYtLzpHYvLLcZVbCTr0F_0krqF2YwLVWZTRU1w762qgQnXMBFd-iRihRIvDM7lAGJzfkiLfnLWtjb1xO8R-mWl2HycswQzQItqqMaCSSKnYKXe_xZuP-rUphyphenhyphenHPrFf/s320/20230701_133827.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9lWrCAkVUPNGUrPSLH3iorpO7q32iEVrdLxT3CMS5JbLwD3X1QwzRbyGvzQMlCwGzvyQaANM8vg1iJzfZWOWDN2OXb7OmkKg4DwZzl8yqmJpKY8XwIHwhN4DTgWHGjjlvsn3Dc-qcia9pCi8NP6ghji1zeRslZXruVJaC6EdApgEWeqmGDW7tNR1Oa8bp/s2592/20230827_120702.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="2553" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9lWrCAkVUPNGUrPSLH3iorpO7q32iEVrdLxT3CMS5JbLwD3X1QwzRbyGvzQMlCwGzvyQaANM8vg1iJzfZWOWDN2OXb7OmkKg4DwZzl8yqmJpKY8XwIHwhN4DTgWHGjjlvsn3Dc-qcia9pCi8NP6ghji1zeRslZXruVJaC6EdApgEWeqmGDW7tNR1Oa8bp/s320/20230827_120702.jpg" width="315" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Very pleased with my Dwarf supply echelon</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAjXLUSNnViNrHfd6K29NPNlCoxYqKTdz4ne2Yk5SBexdU9zXW7fJ4GGSGUG0GBfJ6cnpOUxKxNmmY7r8sdgESCuDvdBv0eSnEvKcqng0N56qE1CBTvZy0le1ihlCC7fnD3oLiJU8JT44Gi3gXGM_bwZSFNXzZKFjbCLjY49nyiFtxiG4gO5jAbNGfJlNq/s2839/20230827_120854.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2316" data-original-width="2839" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAjXLUSNnViNrHfd6K29NPNlCoxYqKTdz4ne2Yk5SBexdU9zXW7fJ4GGSGUG0GBfJ6cnpOUxKxNmmY7r8sdgESCuDvdBv0eSnEvKcqng0N56qE1CBTvZy0le1ihlCC7fnD3oLiJU8JT44Gi3gXGM_bwZSFNXzZKFjbCLjY49nyiFtxiG4gO5jAbNGfJlNq/s320/20230827_120854.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVHlp-XgVQtiT1ZQDYKGM6wZM1V_Y17Xfb8wwg1KtxfIWjdNj6trp12bV2dMyiHmLcj769j9Me_SjmYokQBs_cuNfLZSiLGCjbv87RC7kMY_EO1p0qi6icuS6ZySJJX9UpFoXfrnE18kbGQCz5fz9Bx7cHftFkmD0IsXuK1GuA0oXt6MjURI4Ej-TF5bLx/s2711/20230827_121525.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1696" data-original-width="2711" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVHlp-XgVQtiT1ZQDYKGM6wZM1V_Y17Xfb8wwg1KtxfIWjdNj6trp12bV2dMyiHmLcj769j9Me_SjmYokQBs_cuNfLZSiLGCjbv87RC7kMY_EO1p0qi6icuS6ZySJJX9UpFoXfrnE18kbGQCz5fz9Bx7cHftFkmD0IsXuK1GuA0oXt6MjURI4Ej-TF5bLx/s320/20230827_121525.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>And Hobbits. Random musings resulted in my acquiring a complete new army of Hobbits, who managed to have a small solo game.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGILrneWH4G06LUTery3xH77z1aYg-th8zrSVtit9dcCutFsXCCrp24Wes1-tFznKqdQwSYWiYtBmXkRiBfqWTEF8LpX0V7E_eMyLsEOL2tqHd3vOqAaIi2JcF314sqEQ59Oe47-uWX8Fu7euJBKFwjo82IOz1HmXehnPkJOeAWHKklWh9nH11gJYQ77ge/s2342/20230306_211834.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1373" data-original-width="2342" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGILrneWH4G06LUTery3xH77z1aYg-th8zrSVtit9dcCutFsXCCrp24Wes1-tFznKqdQwSYWiYtBmXkRiBfqWTEF8LpX0V7E_eMyLsEOL2tqHd3vOqAaIi2JcF314sqEQ59Oe47-uWX8Fu7euJBKFwjo82IOz1HmXehnPkJOeAWHKklWh9nH11gJYQ77ge/s320/20230306_211834.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzJAp0UJjQOlGn9BHGEkLRMw0nDKThplINd5kT4aAouWghrYoX5wFt_mTcW2hWxK0BhWrZt2c6mSO6XzbSKbjnlMJDFRG2svBhWSp0yCEst19r6RFC0LkV-dFe5dqnWcbKSAQUorSsodILqvjmfGdISbT0DH0tYShi7kZd28lt_rROuFWQWIVK91PKjmRC/s2970/20230409_175143.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1888" data-original-width="2970" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzJAp0UJjQOlGn9BHGEkLRMw0nDKThplINd5kT4aAouWghrYoX5wFt_mTcW2hWxK0BhWrZt2c6mSO6XzbSKbjnlMJDFRG2svBhWSp0yCEst19r6RFC0LkV-dFe5dqnWcbKSAQUorSsodILqvjmfGdISbT0DH0tYShi7kZd28lt_rROuFWQWIVK91PKjmRC/s320/20230409_175143.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLRhNooTfulAWzRi6FMoDVNiJUO-10IuVfZACFZKyB4tOmXGqwq-ofdMyZgIGQbL-j_3H0m7CwvyzgeY18ljAEzghbA4lDW0_YlFbEQlyRCHonWm6FkBYDSl5r4bRiA0cOwjtJaLPqfi_W6KbgDGY29UTtN4VRJxookLfID90ldYPN6jApY_sWpBvZE4nc/s2241/20230414_213322.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1381" data-original-width="2241" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLRhNooTfulAWzRi6FMoDVNiJUO-10IuVfZACFZKyB4tOmXGqwq-ofdMyZgIGQbL-j_3H0m7CwvyzgeY18ljAEzghbA4lDW0_YlFbEQlyRCHonWm6FkBYDSl5r4bRiA0cOwjtJaLPqfi_W6KbgDGY29UTtN4VRJxookLfID90ldYPN6jApY_sWpBvZE4nc/s320/20230414_213322.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbFFoh9b6DjTh5ZmbGfDxuYuHBqtbF7ldSq6LMoqHU1BOKDgIkozSI_FaGHAYHh57WpDYK4-bHwvs-w2s6QOkibDCLFfvpjE_utpFo3BWUPNNqLmEFZaV202HEvPu7NNUAkogPXQ5qEPu61LbZfUcSxa24PiCs9V-99zz5IWznclzjjo4XUbQEQp3fgGcj/s3991/20230421_210535.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1814" data-original-width="3991" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbFFoh9b6DjTh5ZmbGfDxuYuHBqtbF7ldSq6LMoqHU1BOKDgIkozSI_FaGHAYHh57WpDYK4-bHwvs-w2s6QOkibDCLFfvpjE_utpFo3BWUPNNqLmEFZaV202HEvPu7NNUAkogPXQ5qEPu61LbZfUcSxa24PiCs9V-99zz5IWznclzjjo4XUbQEQp3fgGcj/s320/20230421_210535.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://rabbitsinmybasement.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-battle-of-bicklethorn-farm.html" target="_blank">Goblins invade the Shire!</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia1zGiVD5vzDhnpR-rBsXVbBmxf8bYpoFlYaS8k0VFxioQnH-3_ndv2mnjt86VjC0dYDmJ7qpewdvfeSIl07r5WVF4I4D9HAtD81MNU3Yg6Mq97TfnY_F_35kF4wXUR6_EzRhe38st86EGl1R1pEXfhmxrfoEVELCgpdMV7zdbJ4GR_mgU-ffrjZ7BG7LB/s3294/20230421_212940.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="3294" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia1zGiVD5vzDhnpR-rBsXVbBmxf8bYpoFlYaS8k0VFxioQnH-3_ndv2mnjt86VjC0dYDmJ7qpewdvfeSIl07r5WVF4I4D9HAtD81MNU3Yg6Mq97TfnY_F_35kF4wXUR6_EzRhe38st86EGl1R1pEXfhmxrfoEVELCgpdMV7zdbJ4GR_mgU-ffrjZ7BG7LB/s320/20230421_212940.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://rabbitsinmybasement.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-battle-of-bicklethorn-farm.html" target="_blank">The Battle of Bicklethorn Farm</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Napoleonics weren't completely neglected. I did add some more to my 1809 Austrian force, and there was a game of <i>General d'Armee</i> with Scott, but not much <i>Sharp Practice</i> action.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNBBUA0BJkNJ77ulBTFELd8ve2lg_WvLb-YKfe75pQpOJsnJMRHWpYpJRdgw8lErGZMM6IN5DwVo26QlFnOXhRDRhENJwYspcIgo0NRad_ipIXaLs1u26wrAkRxtOKA93n584rafnFYRCjLiRFAOIEFMou7V0nZiCvR5_PTQW_9bm_BVnxCi-3gGUhe3Po/s3158/20230701_133526.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1694" data-original-width="3158" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNBBUA0BJkNJ77ulBTFELd8ve2lg_WvLb-YKfe75pQpOJsnJMRHWpYpJRdgw8lErGZMM6IN5DwVo26QlFnOXhRDRhENJwYspcIgo0NRad_ipIXaLs1u26wrAkRxtOKA93n584rafnFYRCjLiRFAOIEFMou7V0nZiCvR5_PTQW_9bm_BVnxCi-3gGUhe3Po/s320/20230701_133526.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAfBxIUesge0tiMM59FxV3cClw_FVt092lV1UHKloBI4sCQtv7PmLTmcs69Cv7hPqHw8JmBU7rFn8SpxmHXUJVQZdE5qw6UsnRr5aY2B5AJeLXw_C9107yRsv-vT-msOpRtdqkcTCppSGrX6ix_IMhTKCxlKTptT8PJPS2hELzRK2d63xAYrSDKnhlZK04/s1080/IMG_20230829_064224_938.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAfBxIUesge0tiMM59FxV3cClw_FVt092lV1UHKloBI4sCQtv7PmLTmcs69Cv7hPqHw8JmBU7rFn8SpxmHXUJVQZdE5qw6UsnRr5aY2B5AJeLXw_C9107yRsv-vT-msOpRtdqkcTCppSGrX6ix_IMhTKCxlKTptT8PJPS2hELzRK2d63xAYrSDKnhlZK04/s320/IMG_20230829_064224_938.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicCQwGCzBYr_NKEu2TgksoDaxj8v8JjCm3I7mFUmUEIxm9IZotstKYYzStRexe7l3mmyb1ZW3AFA8ouXehhfAXzlwIYCbfGwtl4gmdExUG4V08UYB-1AZMtW7yoAMhiYQwFIf_ZNx0E1JvfXmju3-7xviyLwf5SoY8GW6wyLtsblFuPTBsE0O_3HrGehU2/s4160/20230701_223514.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicCQwGCzBYr_NKEu2TgksoDaxj8v8JjCm3I7mFUmUEIxm9IZotstKYYzStRexe7l3mmyb1ZW3AFA8ouXehhfAXzlwIYCbfGwtl4gmdExUG4V08UYB-1AZMtW7yoAMhiYQwFIf_ZNx0E1JvfXmju3-7xviyLwf5SoY8GW6wyLtsblFuPTBsE0O_3HrGehU2/s320/20230701_223514.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The big surprise from out in left field were the Quar. Their grimsical, goofy, dumpy, comically depressed nature, and the openness of the Quar community seized my imagination like nothing else has really. So the bellicose bug-eating denizens of Alwynd occupied a lot of my mental space this year with painting, building, <a href="https://rabbitsinmybasement.blogspot.com/2023/12/piles-of-poo-quar-scatter-terrain.html" target="_blank">terrain making</a>, and some games.</div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRljYGXTtLrP1Fhyphenhyphene8p1n7kr12q0Cub9bJQapaLeC3FtjuiygMwCgJ76oMoZu4GMcCMWjyAGntRujyc7rtYEokoJJ6Q5kRSPnRS-QGt7E5jSB3vweO2w8nfnJ-d3zZ7N99roMGYoHL0nv352St_yxVy_KH2ag82tMCIY3IfIonSBVy53Ve4BU_EeaPO4d5/s2693/20230715_170800.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2083" data-original-width="2693" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRljYGXTtLrP1Fhyphenhyphene8p1n7kr12q0Cub9bJQapaLeC3FtjuiygMwCgJ76oMoZu4GMcCMWjyAGntRujyc7rtYEokoJJ6Q5kRSPnRS-QGt7E5jSB3vweO2w8nfnJ-d3zZ7N99roMGYoHL0nv352St_yxVy_KH2ag82tMCIY3IfIonSBVy53Ve4BU_EeaPO4d5/s320/20230715_170800.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A refurbished VSF tank is given a new lease on life.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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I'd been neglecting them for so long I was starting to think I should sell them. Watching <b><i>Ran</i></b> on Prime, and not having any Quar to paint, gave me a burst of enthusiasm. Getting back to my painting fundamentals, meant that I managed to assemble and paint <i>everything</i> that I'd had sitting in the box for 10 years. So I promptly ordered more, as you do, because the sides were unbalanced, and I'd like an in-house opponent for my Daimyo.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVXKkr047-WAxX78kOvXOjjJ0j6Ish8sUK7o0u4FjzQDfDWgRZ41cE3QVZ8fobsVKoZ2gCbKYXjf96hmgvDOnz4q6UjA-QufdBnasrYbgA-5fS21-_ZNC6yjQqEuuJpFcggSWpvqEgnwNVgpb2F9vje1MNMgNdYIXxySM93VLVfEk9BJyggxlewdCztz8z/s2372/20230918_103212.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1772" data-original-width="2372" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVXKkr047-WAxX78kOvXOjjJ0j6Ish8sUK7o0u4FjzQDfDWgRZ41cE3QVZ8fobsVKoZ2gCbKYXjf96hmgvDOnz4q6UjA-QufdBnasrYbgA-5fS21-_ZNC6yjQqEuuJpFcggSWpvqEgnwNVgpb2F9vje1MNMgNdYIXxySM93VLVfEk9BJyggxlewdCztz8z/s320/20230918_103212.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1817" data-original-width="2500" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS0o28VXCS2SLGUoIGFbCDa96JfNqArVerGHdmwVjPpRiB9nWZkzfpHz0vpv8HdqtOVy3l_OBpU16YsXK_BYTTmOu9cBmWZoGS7wCz5DBlnV7sWn8D2cjwqJasXn5YOXU01VK-U28WI8HAEsSRo4WxFY9G2dV8lbQftlrrVv89UlIKdeqQHXNDKRmAjY5G/s320/20231217_140318.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last finished figures for 2023</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjmYSz6a24iuvq6mNx1ruy71PULdBy_2Vr1fR1xjCeu9ZvxLFzNld_Cl5RofMSaZ6URPOdCO8k9FtvBJWk7HUDOhCn0_HzHch3DOiyVwkQhLsohqEvNYC-S29EuJ6Z-uHwPo04Y9n79gsEu6rc0jbkXPcgK1_X8ld5tO7EhuCRgHW-F7jQj__uMD1xOnNQ/s3239/20231217_140634.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; 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But the Mad Padre came down for a shortened visit, and my playing for the year ended appropriately with some <i>Xenos Rampant </i>in both 15mm and with the Quar.</div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQeB7Wtcw7NmIj6qkKarUVO3s9liDIW30bX0X08x6uR4Drm-XR9D47Gzbc3WCn_1fByf22IWPdf7iES9u-2566xEx6dO165X4mX8LtY-DMx-MQ4wfcVmtSY0jKMbEnO0VFKqFbhUs-3XfaqRWiu3OLRqP9ZsiWJdovUzTeJlBOzBRr_cuK6rwKhwnVvR1g/s4160/20231227_114750.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQeB7Wtcw7NmIj6qkKarUVO3s9liDIW30bX0X08x6uR4Drm-XR9D47Gzbc3WCn_1fByf22IWPdf7iES9u-2566xEx6dO165X4mX8LtY-DMx-MQ4wfcVmtSY0jKMbEnO0VFKqFbhUs-3XfaqRWiu3OLRqP9ZsiWJdovUzTeJlBOzBRr_cuK6rwKhwnVvR1g/s320/20231227_114750.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Martian Marines fight over mining facility with Mike's Space Kitties</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Mostly solo, as changes in everyone's circumstances has meant that getting together to play has been more problematic this past year.</div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2he78S_nb5qmh8CBWi7hqoHlN-NEAlgHd7Fco7yM-ajab4f1YDAdoxjdYtfeFLvnxy56sJxEFAAFdm0qf0k5mm8ddDcWUCZiHvsLntWFeR6XyKqvlvBpT1j5D2ld2npPcIJ7iVG0P_tEA51tdU7iGeLASWTlU6DywTiT18WYxBO32eS0XZECOe73JutGP/s2245/IMG_20231202_172018_453.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2245" data-original-width="2245" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2he78S_nb5qmh8CBWi7hqoHlN-NEAlgHd7Fco7yM-ajab4f1YDAdoxjdYtfeFLvnxy56sJxEFAAFdm0qf0k5mm8ddDcWUCZiHvsLntWFeR6XyKqvlvBpT1j5D2ld2npPcIJ7iVG0P_tEA51tdU7iGeLASWTlU6DywTiT18WYxBO32eS0XZECOe73JutGP/s320/IMG_20231202_172018_453.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">End of year mood</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Hopefully the <a href="https://rabbitsinmybasement.blogspot.com/2023/04/quar.html" target="_blank">plastic Quar</a> come out soon so I can round out my forces with more ryhfler sections. It's been "soon" since August. Back to Alwynd is where I would <i>like </i>to go, with a few side trips to Middle Earth and the Napoleonic Wars. But I'm not going to bother with goals for next year. They don't seem to matter. As the Rabbi says: "If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans."</p><p>I'll go where the mood takes me and paint what Fortune puts before me. </p><p>Hopefully I'll play more, even if it's solo.</p></div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-44527267298717430832023-12-28T10:55:00.000-08:002023-12-28T10:55:20.093-08:00OP Thundering Dice 2023<p>Had the Mad Padre over yesterday for what has become our annual gaming play date, <i>OP Thundering Dice</i>. It used to be more often, 2-3 times a year, but changes in circumstance means that our schedules really only align over the week between Christmas and New Year's.</p><p>First off was a 24 point game of <i>Xenos Rampant</i>, with my Martian Marines fighting his Space Kitties, for control of the Unobtanium Processing Facility on Ganymede, or Hyperion, or Litterbox IV. We aren't sure. 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We also kept forgetting the <i>Firefight</i> rule. I killed a lot of kitties, especially with my LT calling in <i>Fire Support</i>. But his tank was a bugger and he had a full section of heavy infantry on the objective, so we called it for lunch.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI2MYcOQtFQ1W1BQZSkas4BpsYLnP1sv_TfgSyNVYFBf9vamO_rCcUaChDsGFEqqjUmjmIIzP4WCSvMyREGg8TK1S2SVjX4jjX6LzUpEMp11YXImm9DWA5giNmy6WV5vNHvN5pXkl3jIMHzIJNHLRaXBat4C86AipqtM6fcCCBTnCkb-XWolArs9zJY28F/s4160/20231227_123139.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI2MYcOQtFQ1W1BQZSkas4BpsYLnP1sv_TfgSyNVYFBf9vamO_rCcUaChDsGFEqqjUmjmIIzP4WCSvMyREGg8TK1S2SVjX4jjX6LzUpEMp11YXImm9DWA5giNmy6WV5vNHvN5pXkl3jIMHzIJNHLRaXBat4C86AipqtM6fcCCBTnCkb-XWolArs9zJY28F/s320/20231227_123139.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>After lunch I introduced him to the Quar. We used <i>Xenos Rampant </i>again, because it turns out I'm still sick and just didn't have the mental energy to use <i>Quar of Command</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Royalist (me) and Crusader (the Mad Padre) probes clash over a village. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO9L2im4cgbkj8aR2-HGORgW7h5Oq-9Y0JBGm_slj7TbHfq3vbTVcjolfopIvydGbUyuNd08SXyv_ECA2kyx3GAtK-tKNv8LxR1vnDI-WFGhu_1bgoYeoCRITr4iHeftWkJy7RYK75lQ3JqiFPpunUHRVGPwYZKTF0r3q5wwfW7FBiVpQ0s95Mz285JQ9g/s4160/20231227_160257.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO9L2im4cgbkj8aR2-HGORgW7h5Oq-9Y0JBGm_slj7TbHfq3vbTVcjolfopIvydGbUyuNd08SXyv_ECA2kyx3GAtK-tKNv8LxR1vnDI-WFGhu_1bgoYeoCRITr4iHeftWkJy7RYK75lQ3JqiFPpunUHRVGPwYZKTF0r3q5wwfW7FBiVpQ0s95Mz285JQ9g/s320/20231227_160257.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcBEaZodyL7zSB-BZJvf_eg3V6u6RXnBBxvS0lGVeJjOLbSA5SJvdrkk39mH3INiDX7L_lc21XzBluamTDWHqF4Jxj7zd6SoY3GaOYBpIJ6P569PN2Yhvy8PJ1zl714O5AjiQn4sB6KrA7C-rzvhfOF-FnLzjVMWmxABnd1wA3blO9Ej8UIOsBN8y7Fenc/s320/20231227_161741.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Fun was had. My ryhflers successfully close assaulted a house. We traded shots. My HMG and Heavy shotgun both engaged his kite which buzzed about. But there were more dead green jackets littering the gardens than blue coated defenders of King and Clan. Again, we kept forgetting the <i>Firefight</i> rule.<br /><p>The plan was supposed to be a third game after dinner and bacon and eggs this morning, but he could see I was struggling, so he went home after dinner.</p><p>Very curtailed. But still fun. Today is hiding under a blanket watching TV. Over Christmas, the Son-in-Law hooked us up with some channels, so I've got a few things on <i><b>Paramount</b></i> and <i><b>Apple TV </b></i>to catch up on.</p><p>I hope I didn't give him any germs.</p></div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-14475306233844726142023-12-17T11:24:00.000-08:002023-12-17T11:24:12.219-08:00The Last Samu... Oh, Who Am I Kidding?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB6dhq5y4V6gSf-5QMl7C_-qjulyGM3f-CD17zlYEc28smZwuUYP54bP_Yrpcw3tudT6F5XjBkJ4pWOPl6-yLvXFB9CMZXRv0TvbsaYHQKsIl_uWJWiHFTlmuYzNwsqltwOVvPpuwQitGSZ1aGUDzaopt1Q_qqt3Jgx2lEnIREdgZoIGVzCBc2_rA34UJy/s2896/20231217_140439.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2172" data-original-width="2896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB6dhq5y4V6gSf-5QMl7C_-qjulyGM3f-CD17zlYEc28smZwuUYP54bP_Yrpcw3tudT6F5XjBkJ4pWOPl6-yLvXFB9CMZXRv0TvbsaYHQKsIl_uWJWiHFTlmuYzNwsqltwOVvPpuwQitGSZ1aGUDzaopt1Q_qqt3Jgx2lEnIREdgZoIGVzCBc2_rA34UJy/s320/20231217_140439.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>My last 18 ashigaru have been sitting and waiting for 6 weeks while I got distracted by terrain for the Quar.</p><p>But using up my last vacation day to eat bacon and paint last Monday got them completed and ready to be based. </p><p>Nine ashigaru with yari.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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But Big Pat came over and a 3 hour 45 minute painting session got the basing on the ashigaru finished and these 5 civilians completed from white primer to the flocking tub.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBB71fTwn3LWhUuJsXXE09uYCpzcUK-BxueIf1xxi_YQBAq7otNFCczwauEq0YkcBzRuZJRy5jmEEcQQF5-m1LR0apNp5crMw6OvAfQgq28f7QwBKzGzLhi3JBAyRS74GM4maG8qZZWYukkbbeCNw1EW7L1Mo7vbClrWxoCKlfTQtQ5eesOpmsMdSrwCgh/s2822/20231217_135954.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1435" data-original-width="2822" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBB71fTwn3LWhUuJsXXE09uYCpzcUK-BxueIf1xxi_YQBAq7otNFCczwauEq0YkcBzRuZJRy5jmEEcQQF5-m1LR0apNp5crMw6OvAfQgq28f7QwBKzGzLhi3JBAyRS74GM4maG8qZZWYukkbbeCNw1EW7L1Mo7vbClrWxoCKlfTQtQ5eesOpmsMdSrwCgh/s320/20231217_135954.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOgHCYUDJG-3ZQ-CR7MiGAdXAaNnB2sU_Is63UHngTvVlCtdJjK69QTI_IoqOi90wFUFSPDUTZd8l-QJrwz8_1j75RLZ1yl3JaYPhoWzEnb_cH49c9MrqkHxC9PW6Nw7eCvkADLjQVuuNY_E9i_XaO-GVEheyztzPIkQDouuT4Stqe-rN0iEDwmIIkTi3r/s3147/20231217_140029.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1849" data-original-width="3147" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOgHCYUDJG-3ZQ-CR7MiGAdXAaNnB2sU_Is63UHngTvVlCtdJjK69QTI_IoqOi90wFUFSPDUTZd8l-QJrwz8_1j75RLZ1yl3JaYPhoWzEnb_cH49c9MrqkHxC9PW6Nw7eCvkADLjQVuuNY_E9i_XaO-GVEheyztzPIkQDouuT4Stqe-rN0iEDwmIIkTi3r/s320/20231217_140029.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYhWREt4BkLQ5QcOV8q9kzaTt1B6I2HydU1vlNTC_pqcgL02iCweXwen6pJaTPeRCHPOtqdQH7bxRwFyZrZPMdukDVF9O3M2DL56HBr87ciRsYReHp6tpfLR0epY0DHbY9MIedQWYx_FSd__JqNP59GRePBRM-u_yh4_w4GEw_tgusdRGcb8HpCqZ2GrX0/s2966/20231217_140053.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1896" data-original-width="2966" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYhWREt4BkLQ5QcOV8q9kzaTt1B6I2HydU1vlNTC_pqcgL02iCweXwen6pJaTPeRCHPOtqdQH7bxRwFyZrZPMdukDVF9O3M2DL56HBr87ciRsYReHp6tpfLR0epY0DHbY9MIedQWYx_FSd__JqNP59GRePBRM-u_yh4_w4GEw_tgusdRGcb8HpCqZ2GrX0/s320/20231217_140053.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I do have reinforcements for the Ikko-ikki sitting an hour's drive away at a friend's house (the sick Austrian commander). I ordered through this friend because he buys so much Perry figures that he gets a decent discount! But I won't be seeing him until the week after Christmas now. <div><br /></div><div>I'll have to console myself with painting some Napoleonics in the meantime. But for a couple of weeks at least, I have <b><i>all</i></b> of my feudal Japanese painted!</div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-75053003902338398652023-12-07T18:01:00.000-08:002023-12-07T18:01:23.138-08:00Piles of Poo: Quar Scatter Terrain <p>I love scatter terrain. I find it really helps make the table more immersive and gives the wargaming table a character and sense of place. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR_Cq4IgPYzDK3QXnWt_FlP73qWvqfv6Ha0gSniBzsKVq4FEPGT1frAg-KKdqVwN7LH8mQ89xWjJ-p5_LeApfxGuVKG1TutrKvCSqlgJXjcU0sE6Ubp1kEFecTRvhHrCXg7cNeu9ht2yOCobRr60lIMh1BstbK5VfrK_eaWFsmHyCbo-oqzVptEr11bonC/s2615/20231207_204753.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2615" data-original-width="2504" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR_Cq4IgPYzDK3QXnWt_FlP73qWvqfv6Ha0gSniBzsKVq4FEPGT1frAg-KKdqVwN7LH8mQ89xWjJ-p5_LeApfxGuVKG1TutrKvCSqlgJXjcU0sE6Ubp1kEFecTRvhHrCXg7cNeu9ht2yOCobRr60lIMh1BstbK5VfrK_eaWFsmHyCbo-oqzVptEr11bonC/s320/20231207_204753.jpg" width="306" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roadside shrine to the Ancestors</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>I've been thinking about uniquely Quar scatter terrain. What would make you say "oh that's a quar village!" rather than just somewhere in Napoleonic era Germany? Without making completely new buildings, that is.</p><p>What might a quar farm look like?</p><p>I've already made garden patches and wood piles for my Medieval village. Those are already being redeployed to Quar tables. But what else?</p><p>Quar like to eat bugs. Worms, beetles, grubs, crickets, etc. So Quar farmers would raise bug. Lots of bugs. So boxes to raise bugs in.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjATBuMsUJwHNgS-uKf4pDK-_X2_lVVYYXelpwbWjnu32k0F_2LJwt6A97wzwLl2kE2uJ5CvA-HnwBEcgwIUfLXY8s97apCqI8_7BHtaBT5ZpSrcJJgtCtzsCi1o1xISUJSqjWIdIpv_Uj4iNEb2_e25071ZTMDfb9l_hhqcpSoGxS7FOiO7zZr6q040lPR/s4096/20231207_204818.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2492" data-original-width="4096" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjATBuMsUJwHNgS-uKf4pDK-_X2_lVVYYXelpwbWjnu32k0F_2LJwt6A97wzwLl2kE2uJ5CvA-HnwBEcgwIUfLXY8s97apCqI8_7BHtaBT5ZpSrcJJgtCtzsCi1o1xISUJSqjWIdIpv_Uj4iNEb2_e25071ZTMDfb9l_hhqcpSoGxS7FOiO7zZr6q040lPR/s320/20231207_204818.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bug boxes, dung heaps and a pile of random stuff I made years ago</td></tr></tbody></table><p>I had bought some half inch wooden cubes years ago, for some abandoned game design. I simply added feet cut from match sticks, glued them to spare Renedra bases and then painted. They don't need to look tidy or precise, because most farms I've seen everything looks rather worn and repaired.</p><p>And dung heaps. Because bugs like poo.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxc7ulc051dLAZPcVMazXepUVZRaN77UWDAgYPRaBru3sE_ViMcUpuwiWAlO4R8e0msTApXQexRdBtgkMBtkYI69DBTbCM4cNWZRzchr168X4oNfJB39i4ZNbMd0vsv0M3rKpz7nsbwQNnTKLA0GI1DyQvdbcFdxfmSM0MDoEHFk1d5sq9i0D54YQKfJND/s4160/20231203_110818.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxc7ulc051dLAZPcVMazXepUVZRaN77UWDAgYPRaBru3sE_ViMcUpuwiWAlO4R8e0msTApXQexRdBtgkMBtkYI69DBTbCM4cNWZRzchr168X4oNfJB39i4ZNbMd0vsv0M3rKpz7nsbwQNnTKLA0GI1DyQvdbcFdxfmSM0MDoEHFk1d5sq9i0D54YQKfJND/s320/20231203_110818.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In progress, assembly completed </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPJ4KS9B9rDiLnIHtotLXmMqV8V4VsFzXmlCLQLyr553mUw8gBFBfzpDm7phmCI6T3LQv3l4vBagf2n_RkqtXf2_FsSbO3-G2PYUvJEgUOsXWX5FJVppJEoGxM2gkspKSSRjyxSm33Z_u328yUSsqyAhhO0SJjZuC5r4trZTtkd9lm1gVeAsfFAKaaYZyB/s4160/20231203_110822.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPJ4KS9B9rDiLnIHtotLXmMqV8V4VsFzXmlCLQLyr553mUw8gBFBfzpDm7phmCI6T3LQv3l4vBagf2n_RkqtXf2_FsSbO3-G2PYUvJEgUOsXWX5FJVppJEoGxM2gkspKSSRjyxSm33Z_u328yUSsqyAhhO0SJjZuC5r4trZTtkd9lm1gVeAsfFAKaaYZyB/s320/20231203_110822.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">HO scale shovel from bits box</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0EB-U30tyysvhwrMOoLcHElOHIj8dyndhc0zoKx4cXQL58SVhGN1y2xLHiDHSpdUi_nkxVaLvB3gwdZLdHJGfkfBV86-UVNCsQimoRCxeyd8kIHBcmxRRr1U7iResPLKr9IRE09xXb8gdLpTEiKuRsN3AuA4a2jeJLSKyjkH4egkrmLm16CQtgOHTCWuf/s4160/20231204_200244.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0EB-U30tyysvhwrMOoLcHElOHIj8dyndhc0zoKx4cXQL58SVhGN1y2xLHiDHSpdUi_nkxVaLvB3gwdZLdHJGfkfBV86-UVNCsQimoRCxeyd8kIHBcmxRRr1U7iResPLKr9IRE09xXb8gdLpTEiKuRsN3AuA4a2jeJLSKyjkH4egkrmLm16CQtgOHTCWuf/s320/20231204_200244.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hmmm, looks a bit like a coconut cluster before inking</td></tr></tbody></table><p>I made the dung heaps by trimming a chunk of off cut insulating foam into a rough pile shape and gluing it to a wooden craft shape base. I then smeared it with Gorilla Glue and buried it in coarse model railway ballast. Dark brown with highlights and then I glued on some dried grass static grass. This was too bright so I toned it down with watered down brown ink.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQloBLscoIXQVXFzyKcTAtKJFibCc-nOZ5UxdOy3L5fidVNH3ctX9u16ISXjYe6MiQoZFheY9PGxDnEbiDqoDkw7XwnPjFiG2CvMdIWTJYEJB3HuX0tsfWiusx6XBziv_LEFjCl2cdGQJlQICXG9befpWsYC6mACBVSwwodW5b3ifDhvsDrj9bNpyNnfOW/s3514/20231207_205016.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2908" data-original-width="3514" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQloBLscoIXQVXFzyKcTAtKJFibCc-nOZ5UxdOy3L5fidVNH3ctX9u16ISXjYe6MiQoZFheY9PGxDnEbiDqoDkw7XwnPjFiG2CvMdIWTJYEJB3HuX0tsfWiusx6XBziv_LEFjCl2cdGQJlQICXG9befpWsYC6mACBVSwwodW5b3ifDhvsDrj9bNpyNnfOW/s320/20231207_205016.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I also made a roadside shrine to the local clan ancestors. I haven't seen any official fluff, but I imagine a very old carved stone, on a platform with votive offerings of cakes and flowers.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLGYHTXf1k52-qXSqifjKfgxOQPE-0hbY_1-H70mnIuq1JNa0g1Gfr7A2P2pF8zErPxyCR53CJysgfBQh2t9jUHpd0pBCCJT0AdoyxVEN8R54JTQzibfObEJx6O0xTNAK_iMrbWWDtl7XLJ8y2cWTg1tNSBxMJNZZKGf2MVMq92klLhH9Va-R-wsULCB8U/s4160/20231203_110827.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLGYHTXf1k52-qXSqifjKfgxOQPE-0hbY_1-H70mnIuq1JNa0g1Gfr7A2P2pF8zErPxyCR53CJysgfBQh2t9jUHpd0pBCCJT0AdoyxVEN8R54JTQzibfObEJx6O0xTNAK_iMrbWWDtl7XLJ8y2cWTg1tNSBxMJNZZKGf2MVMq92klLhH9Va-R-wsULCB8U/s320/20231203_110827.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>A rectangle of insulation foam and a plinth made from layers of cardboard. The cakes are disks of plasticene. The vases are cut off plastic coffee stirrers with some flower tufts glued in. The insulation foam pitted a bit from the aerosol paint, but I made that a feature since it's an obviously ancient stone.</p><p>I also made a village well. Something that has been an oversight until now. Big Pat gave me some stone construction kits which <a href="https://rabbitsinmybasement.blogspot.com/2015/12/ruins-of-numenor.html" target="_blank">I've used before to make ruined walls etc.</a> One kit had some curved stones. I used these for the well itself, glued to an mdf disk from the <a href="https://rabbitsinmybasement.blogspot.com/2022/11/our-lady-of-kapusta.html" target="_blank">discarded onion dome of my Russian church</a>. The cover was banged together with matchsticks and cereal box card. The bucket is from some spare artillery equipment.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiMzegQGzPvIrDR_2_6_hTnWhKRkQJiSpsDWO9QU6OqOW3PZFS4rbPNOzrLjFw_AjHU8o38KNmOoWcMehAuEB2LuSkBplMLtI2altPDu2P34NoN27kbyQsSrGKBdHCe7wfrC5Od0QV3V-7C8wMq1cl7U5MCkt8808Z2sXJJTVL-leE6KHNIQwZwqYR8kon/s2521/20231207_204904.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2521" data-original-width="2494" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiMzegQGzPvIrDR_2_6_hTnWhKRkQJiSpsDWO9QU6OqOW3PZFS4rbPNOzrLjFw_AjHU8o38KNmOoWcMehAuEB2LuSkBplMLtI2altPDu2P34NoN27kbyQsSrGKBdHCe7wfrC5Od0QV3V-7C8wMq1cl7U5MCkt8808Z2sXJJTVL-leE6KHNIQwZwqYR8kon/s320/20231207_204904.jpg" width="317" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Village well. Useful for Medieval and Napoleonic era Europe too.</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-73160293947647370452023-12-02T14:12:00.000-08:002023-12-02T14:12:38.992-08:00Quar of Command<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1YImixYF_UPOUnl2WK7zQOHysDDoUvz6O9ToxbhLG4wv7dLhBAkRQfOVflOISsGcxr8E966CfsPItdtUfoaDWrjUgaspFTSXyidccjBUvhmeph3zKhFwgvI7WBAc-g5plfwSm9amlkzZvyFZkUmth_f3FAxvYG1E-Iu2jx4Jj0tHxkWi2532TMyusMISm/s2438/20231202_160924.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2438" data-original-width="2245" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1YImixYF_UPOUnl2WK7zQOHysDDoUvz6O9ToxbhLG4wv7dLhBAkRQfOVflOISsGcxr8E966CfsPItdtUfoaDWrjUgaspFTSXyidccjBUvhmeph3zKhFwgvI7WBAc-g5plfwSm9amlkzZvyFZkUmth_f3FAxvYG1E-Iu2jx4Jj0tHxkWi2532TMyusMISm/s320/20231202_160924.jpg" width="295" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not all heroes wear capes. A lone ryhfler faces his destiny!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3TQmtuS8iHGj9_NapPUbh6JTA6pmqG7EBERFx_OjoadlyFusNEjIEdDO5q678mmmCrpb45hdqBnAvyDVmpAEZjJuhDlezMszZzOF5kmX_B7hoNsL6YUWpbhuc0vz1moFpNQD8e2sbblRGKDtVI34hM0Xdn5qnzYndHfvCHC5I6IQLVlcC-ki5xnZ6KyGB/s4002/20231129_195702%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1969" data-original-width="4002" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3TQmtuS8iHGj9_NapPUbh6JTA6pmqG7EBERFx_OjoadlyFusNEjIEdDO5q678mmmCrpb45hdqBnAvyDVmpAEZjJuhDlezMszZzOF5kmX_B7hoNsL6YUWpbhuc0vz1moFpNQD8e2sbblRGKDtVI34hM0Xdn5qnzYndHfvCHC5I6IQLVlcC-ki5xnZ6KyGB/s320/20231129_195702%20(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><i>Milwer Derval ap Brachyn checked on his squad. Huw was on sentry, watching through a gap in the sandbags, his Ryshi 20mm heavy automatic ryhfle close to hand. Nob, his other Ryshi gunner, was snout deep in a ration bag. Yon, was cleaning his Bogen. Podwyn, the youngest member of their squad, and in fact, the entire company, was mooning over a lip-sticked photo of a girl he'd become acquainted with at Madame Maeb's Beetle Buffet when they were in reserve.</i><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>"How's your Bogen, Pudding?" Podwyn looked up. "Pudding" had become his nickname in the squad after their first sortie to the Buffet. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Podwyn picked up his ryhfle and with practised ease, ejected the magazine and pulled the action back to clear the chamber before handing it to Derval. Derval worked the action, noting how easily the well cared for and clean weapon was working. "Good job, kit. Now help me with these grenades." Podwyn tucked the photograph inside his shirt and dragged a box of grenades towards him.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>They were a bomber section, carrying an extra burden of grenades, plus grenades specially adapted to be fired from the heavy Ryshi ryhfles. "Why're we called 'Bombers', and not 'Grenadiers', Derval?" Podwyn asked as he finished fusing a five headed Anti-Tractor Bundle Grenade and setting it down carefully.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>"Because," Derval said thoughtfully, inserting the fuse on a ryhfle grenade. "Grenadiers is an old Royalist title. Being all fancy and above other quar. 'Bomber' is just a job, like Daffyd over in 2 section is a machine-gunner. And besides, call us 'Grenadiers' and Nob there would want a big fancy plume on 'is helmet."</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Nob looked up from his bag of beetles. "Good for tickling the ladies, a big fancy plume!"</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Their laughter was cut short by Huw. "Ancestors! Here they come!"</i></div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfxNHn_dZCfoQccMWvTT_ZldkoK6_85Hc2cHCAEZjWoG0ydsRKGfo6w1PGnaqBq9dCrCmIKBQQPkbj1sZOzoOr8p-HYmBy5t-zy-tjjGb_WE2LAaGjGDCTshWhwxM50bbtHQ6edro_RpYAzoxP-InD4BPnM_V0H3RRkTwgVgYkaCj489-a8FoQnufUXmBM/s4160/20231128_211722.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfxNHn_dZCfoQccMWvTT_ZldkoK6_85Hc2cHCAEZjWoG0ydsRKGfo6w1PGnaqBq9dCrCmIKBQQPkbj1sZOzoOr8p-HYmBy5t-zy-tjjGb_WE2LAaGjGDCTshWhwxM50bbtHQ6edro_RpYAzoxP-InD4BPnM_V0H3RRkTwgVgYkaCj489-a8FoQnufUXmBM/s320/20231128_211722.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patrol Phase</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjChZVPpBoo0f0EHxklWIGre4c0rDXKulF8EVfD1FDtfrFK8TVR7aaQS9s2gLXEOTe7vd2OHBOdT8UrxOx2kKmOjrjcI0Az4qUXouOoF8Td2Se20iUM4AiaKzDbeF7MW7ngCFNY5JBUiLky_uuQgrRw8-W8oCszS3JNdOqK6g-Cuzci1kqvrwgk-fI9uwtk/s4160/20231128_212124.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjChZVPpBoo0f0EHxklWIGre4c0rDXKulF8EVfD1FDtfrFK8TVR7aaQS9s2gLXEOTe7vd2OHBOdT8UrxOx2kKmOjrjcI0Az4qUXouOoF8Td2Se20iUM4AiaKzDbeF7MW7ngCFNY5JBUiLky_uuQgrRw8-W8oCszS3JNdOqK6g-Cuzci1kqvrwgk-fI9uwtk/s320/20231128_212124.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crusader Jump Off Points</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG3a7VmTdbbFuE9D8XizU2OmGBk_V_y1jgTfVxunNkH4SfEZcQcgoQI3VUBmLYsdAL-tblOxUN-owFiAqiTHTHE7CWdYofR9BsC_Cdib345hevGl6PhvUc8lIwzY5kiP510NYDAYUhmBKpZnxTPIiBrGNaVbB10XKhJZVNR6f86C7Rj73RgZz4MroEg7E7/s4160/20231128_212133.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG3a7VmTdbbFuE9D8XizU2OmGBk_V_y1jgTfVxunNkH4SfEZcQcgoQI3VUBmLYsdAL-tblOxUN-owFiAqiTHTHE7CWdYofR9BsC_Cdib345hevGl6PhvUc8lIwzY5kiP510NYDAYUhmBKpZnxTPIiBrGNaVbB10XKhJZVNR6f86C7Rj73RgZz4MroEg7E7/s320/20231128_212133.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Croftyran Jump Off Points</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaRiYK3IYrZfSsgOIZTRANVyvp93TsKaOHr7UjeAdm2NnCHEQspx7FTwHbatlOULIzwDgdM_l0paUAcIWPoMmbqTCic_I1fGzhsj-4F7AT0VuseESLDgKpT4KZEtSug-x9JQ4ULu2Nye3cQQNszD8_YES7qaqDuOT4uyvXYG68yNuwnshHva1jtzBR76i-/s4160/20231128_213141.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaRiYK3IYrZfSsgOIZTRANVyvp93TsKaOHr7UjeAdm2NnCHEQspx7FTwHbatlOULIzwDgdM_l0paUAcIWPoMmbqTCic_I1fGzhsj-4F7AT0VuseESLDgKpT4KZEtSug-x9JQ4ULu2Nye3cQQNszD8_YES7qaqDuOT4uyvXYG68yNuwnshHva1jtzBR76i-/s320/20231128_213141.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Croftyrans deploy their M-3B HMG team</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8fX52atGrD_C0JfTraO5k_S1tUxXULkFB5NiIl8X2d-pk59gjfRZkCQnmdRKslIhmfO70PVcZOqTEKZh6gJctPzQwuKxXyRwvQJ1FyCSof1fvJqZqNyXpfdrBVdOzFUP-PYsUT2QZfS2nUKHDRRmAQZGAbZGOpBT6Fe0LaFKQquQ06kd9j48-ZIneUfxe/s4160/20231128_213145.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8fX52atGrD_C0JfTraO5k_S1tUxXULkFB5NiIl8X2d-pk59gjfRZkCQnmdRKslIhmfO70PVcZOqTEKZh6gJctPzQwuKxXyRwvQJ1FyCSof1fvJqZqNyXpfdrBVdOzFUP-PYsUT2QZfS2nUKHDRRmAQZGAbZGOpBT6Fe0LaFKQquQ06kd9j48-ZIneUfxe/s320/20231128_213145.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Iron Keep rolls on</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigh9DTfIBf-Fh1LW0AJ3GXQRqopyYWRA3NOJaGmzvcnrJLtOjN5J4aewXil7p1XvkDiS8sJWeSeLzvjM5tSs5cXpU-MKs-yCOjCRhgkWkU8xWXipu57JoAMAQZnWyUjL2xmb89U81jD2g3K0IccA4LlpU_gG5YkU1AYdyyHg-hbfWJe5wuYKY6ZYV7u_JF/s4160/20231128_213157.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigh9DTfIBf-Fh1LW0AJ3GXQRqopyYWRA3NOJaGmzvcnrJLtOjN5J4aewXil7p1XvkDiS8sJWeSeLzvjM5tSs5cXpU-MKs-yCOjCRhgkWkU8xWXipu57JoAMAQZnWyUjL2xmb89U81jD2g3K0IccA4LlpU_gG5YkU1AYdyyHg-hbfWJe5wuYKY6ZYV7u_JF/s320/20231128_213157.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Section of Armoured Cars arrive on flank</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div><i>Caerten Bleg and Master Yawdryl Vaark blew their whistles. "Stand to! Stand to!" Vaark grabbed Dervel's arm. "Brachyn! take your squad into the forward post and enfilade any bugger that comes at us!"</i></div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp4sGbypFfxtOBXGlnh8tyc3xjGdY9XJ2Whe4XpcUiO7A_5WnsR7NoSioe2jiZQm2z2xQtA9hNZHKQv-bTcCQiNVfSgI4qehwuEssRFbVbsSVmfYBwp6Gsql5HgU4G6gcQvj-mjPhBSWYLCU70Y8_gogddfGmNbJ7gt6B1npwOzPw1SwlILLf3fvLZmBnq/s4160/20231128_213207.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp4sGbypFfxtOBXGlnh8tyc3xjGdY9XJ2Whe4XpcUiO7A_5WnsR7NoSioe2jiZQm2z2xQtA9hNZHKQv-bTcCQiNVfSgI4qehwuEssRFbVbsSVmfYBwp6Gsql5HgU4G6gcQvj-mjPhBSWYLCU70Y8_gogddfGmNbJ7gt6B1npwOzPw1SwlILLf3fvLZmBnq/s320/20231128_213207.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crusaders begin to deploy. Brachyn's bomber section in forward position.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><i>They ran through the trench crouched down as machine gun bullets began buzzing across the tops of the sandbags. They got into the pit, Derval had Nob and Huw on either side, Yon and Podwyn were behind. Their main job was to carry the extra bags of bombs and help load the ryhfle grenades. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Derval risked a peak over the sandbags, ducking back as bullets kicked up dust around his head. "They've got a machine gun in the ruined farmhouse, about 80 meters." He pointed the direction against the wall of their dug out. The three senior team members propped up their Ryshis at the correct angle for the estimated range while Yon and Podwyn set high explosive, fragmenting bombs into the muzzles.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>"Fire!" the heavy weapons banged and the three bombs lobbed through the sky. Before they could hear the explosions, Derval barked "Again! Fire! Again!" The machine gun fire stopped suddenly as they heard the flurry of bangs as their salvos of bombs began exploding among the ruined farmhouse. Huw risked a peak. "That got the ancestorless bastards!"</i></div><div> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB4WX3K2BZ9SCCJY70b7bwx0AlHHQWBfzJHFdW2sIQ3uqlAIk3tz1kZdw3FDYi-s09EmM5U9-Q5JBY0u2Cs6IpwWf1ctuc0il3yX6fAElPEALKRbRf9VCzcF9-LfOJjmT8L6kFMOnTXzY2EBUzwfNIiA6XtDfeRqwjZ_FNWDXqkhzRUZATapbx2f-yAXYE/s4160/20231128_214630.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB4WX3K2BZ9SCCJY70b7bwx0AlHHQWBfzJHFdW2sIQ3uqlAIk3tz1kZdw3FDYi-s09EmM5U9-Q5JBY0u2Cs6IpwWf1ctuc0il3yX6fAElPEALKRbRf9VCzcF9-LfOJjmT8L6kFMOnTXzY2EBUzwfNIiA6XtDfeRqwjZ_FNWDXqkhzRUZATapbx2f-yAXYE/s320/20231128_214630.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shower of ryhfle grenades break the Croftyran HMG</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div><i>"Get those tractors!" Derval ordered. The three of them began blasting away, hoping the heavy rounds from the Ryshis would have some effect on the massive war tractors now rumbling towards them.</i></div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwtWnaCkhPzHNUhIjb_FlMT5vYP_A2hDx0CaIi3_DiIKWtOLU4xYd-ZVNpukmGGttxxmyGjb8q8tQmO3itJ-_bxUaalTUogEMtPgqwae4LpPj5D_4hfAywWNKw66FX27m-VL5soR7RCQoq818RK5w6iFFEmT2EB9AojNWY5P41xiLRubAcbt8EJ1dSYCHy/s4160/20231128_215648.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwtWnaCkhPzHNUhIjb_FlMT5vYP_A2hDx0CaIi3_DiIKWtOLU4xYd-ZVNpukmGGttxxmyGjb8q8tQmO3itJ-_bxUaalTUogEMtPgqwae4LpPj5D_4hfAywWNKw66FX27m-VL5soR7RCQoq818RK5w6iFFEmT2EB9AojNWY5P41xiLRubAcbt8EJ1dSYCHy/s320/20231128_215648.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tractor deploys. Armoured car with howitzer begins to open fire on the trenches.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcMt_oY6AHlV5WDzUHug8HbJWiY9kYagp6KGjLdheO-s6Xdlkr5_k5Tu4BP4blVbcZUDTl4qi_-73r41TCJqNIv0_hpQn6WuLN7pilEj3fQzh7NDLoTQK-J97kbRTXthzTcV3mKN1ST_778ZVmenR-sbFkkE2DnCvQDAPXtTpsLZZPWgdnfyhb70JeZpH1/s4160/20231128_215704.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcMt_oY6AHlV5WDzUHug8HbJWiY9kYagp6KGjLdheO-s6Xdlkr5_k5Tu4BP4blVbcZUDTl4qi_-73r41TCJqNIv0_hpQn6WuLN7pilEj3fQzh7NDLoTQK-J97kbRTXthzTcV3mKN1ST_778ZVmenR-sbFkkE2DnCvQDAPXtTpsLZZPWgdnfyhb70JeZpH1/s320/20231128_215704.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Royalists try a flanking move with a couple of squads</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9H437qKd5a7CTROlyD3j_i9m92UcqGqCzkNFFwWD5SCUE8DHRLCFlbCHEcD-tvT7V34eRNcP_0v_3TeizLkAFKSg7aL_1WqQhvQDjWwrxEhOqmPRwDR9O9w3lp63eeWUVPDOymmMPsLUwvaC4M1DrP0uh_8iAcY2w37P7iWXjiQ9QFAo-YC0CPnu6Gw4m/s4160/20231129_192731.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9H437qKd5a7CTROlyD3j_i9m92UcqGqCzkNFFwWD5SCUE8DHRLCFlbCHEcD-tvT7V34eRNcP_0v_3TeizLkAFKSg7aL_1WqQhvQDjWwrxEhOqmPRwDR9O9w3lp63eeWUVPDOymmMPsLUwvaC4M1DrP0uh_8iAcY2w37P7iWXjiQ9QFAo-YC0CPnu6Gw4m/s320/20231129_192731.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><i>The tractor coming straight for them was enormous, bigger than the house Derval grew up in. It's lumbering slab sided bulk filled Derval's vision as they madly fired, aiming for vision slits and gun ports. Both tractors stopped and spat fire. The smaller tractor mounted a howitzer that blasted the trench behind them. The big tractor had machine guns firing from it's upper level. Derval could see a quar on top of it, waving signal flags directing the attack. He took careful aim, squeezed the trigger while checking his breath, and was satisfied with the Signal Quar's head exploding from his 20mm bullet.</i> </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrn-09DKCZZOLcQUQqRFt39LCcajM93R4tytE6ZHi_r-IjnjX_Q-3jdwWLUUge9CpRD3hmvRVADAP5_Ej8wZ6DAkwAPg3YkiaDc9-lL18XUXJEmvPTIt8ugDWZuH-Lyla6bi4GhO7XoSqlbFrXEdIcVc_WvuzV7rmruVGg0fUxrMhRwYjgi9BjTD2nEDKF/s4160/20231129_192738.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrn-09DKCZZOLcQUQqRFt39LCcajM93R4tytE6ZHi_r-IjnjX_Q-3jdwWLUUge9CpRD3hmvRVADAP5_Ej8wZ6DAkwAPg3YkiaDc9-lL18XUXJEmvPTIt8ugDWZuH-Lyla6bi4GhO7XoSqlbFrXEdIcVc_WvuzV7rmruVGg0fUxrMhRwYjgi9BjTD2nEDKF/s320/20231129_192738.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><i>The Iron Keep ground closer. A steel rain fell among them and clouds of dust rolled over top. Derval's squad fell around him, screaming and clutching at wounds. Miraculously he was unscathed. "Stretchers!" he bellowed, and began to desperately wrap dressings over fountains of blood.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>The giant tractor continued grinding towards them, spitting fire, and ready to crush everything in it's path. Podwyn gasped and garbled, blood flowing from his shoulder. Derval wrapped a dressing on it, tying the knot tight over the wound. "Hang on Pudding! We'll get you out of here. <b>STRETCHERS!!" </b></i></div><div><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><i>The stretcher team grabbed Yon, who was closest, and dashed away, ducking under the streams of machine gun fire. The enemy tractor would be crushing them before everyone could be evacuated. </i></div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO4Fot7bZcfsJR9zCPcSeXKdG2hlqZz8EgifNHPGfQZOq9XJcZy2kIqNN15q8NNn4mky70YXFpD88rBUaWyLyRQmkuhUKW6X937_kvAeNAF__62v1JO85XVwYJpLWpwCu7QbYyWpQHLP5kMxXSZjL9QeUvos2IkDFIy8HNeIa6xJ-dVqz8FlIQUgbTq5r5/s4160/20231129_193144.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO4Fot7bZcfsJR9zCPcSeXKdG2hlqZz8EgifNHPGfQZOq9XJcZy2kIqNN15q8NNn4mky70YXFpD88rBUaWyLyRQmkuhUKW6X937_kvAeNAF__62v1JO85XVwYJpLWpwCu7QbYyWpQHLP5kMxXSZjL9QeUvos2IkDFIy8HNeIa6xJ-dVqz8FlIQUgbTq5r5/s320/20231129_193144.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Royalisrs get a couple of double turns. Tractors start whittling down the trench defenders. Crusader HSG team is wiped out.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbMfqFTPkqp2oGaqqJzAk766ZaJWkO8C3ytwYVxzymZUcKpqIaOA44Gf_Fqud_X2o5tP0q5ASgJz7s5fOrz0sBgsEGvO0Tt6PB00gBQ7Q8HGCVdy5sD8VE3bLAzNfp1qYrq2BgKSw3frXuGFWyp3SsSVpiLItpSiQXIhR2wg0T8-QHpMP8M3r1dmudRbID/s4160/20231129_193858.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbMfqFTPkqp2oGaqqJzAk766ZaJWkO8C3ytwYVxzymZUcKpqIaOA44Gf_Fqud_X2o5tP0q5ASgJz7s5fOrz0sBgsEGvO0Tt6PB00gBQ7Q8HGCVdy5sD8VE3bLAzNfp1qYrq2BgKSw3frXuGFWyp3SsSVpiLItpSiQXIhR2wg0T8-QHpMP8M3r1dmudRbID/s320/20231129_193858.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Squad on left is about to be broken by Bogen and LMG fire from the trench.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOUvo-kgPDelfSWf2fquS0IwuoTpXetdDaXCQAmqJf6ANZnu3YV9JCHD5HAv1a1yJWR1eLNaQd0vmJ-nN3t00x67XVucNStXDhI8OyIxSKJTEt60oMKTsSnvXPSYmsRe_GOV7A_LhT-cwvI1ZiIlDDLkJztpthMAiCiKN_3UqzkNfT6U53dDhSMenwjtkk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="295" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOUvo-kgPDelfSWf2fquS0IwuoTpXetdDaXCQAmqJf6ANZnu3YV9JCHD5HAv1a1yJWR1eLNaQd0vmJ-nN3t00x67XVucNStXDhI8OyIxSKJTEt60oMKTsSnvXPSYmsRe_GOV7A_LhT-cwvI1ZiIlDDLkJztpthMAiCiKN_3UqzkNfT6U53dDhSMenwjtkk" width="221" /></a></div><br /><i>A black rage fell upon him. Seizing an Anti-tractor grenade in each hand he leapt from the pit and dashed towards the wire. Bullets splashed up dust around him. He pulled the pins and hurled both grenades with an inarticulate howl. They exploded against the front of the tractor. The giant machine stopped with a lurch and smoke began billowing from the driver's vision slit.</i></div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVGonFkpjHu_clH3BmOd0sWjNG6twnU2Bl0TOpNQiTFhx5w-ImI05ZrPW1g9IIIehA7vpTR1kg0ZnvkBPYnLAMv4hbZ_epBJekyP8x_fSIefFrweHOQ-REEJA2KXt2Sxt0ybo10-htaYTMU_R2da95pYU_hcBrR4aM3pjGykIRrABs6r8y0w9nf-AVRKN4/s4160/20231129_194556.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVGonFkpjHu_clH3BmOd0sWjNG6twnU2Bl0TOpNQiTFhx5w-ImI05ZrPW1g9IIIehA7vpTR1kg0ZnvkBPYnLAMv4hbZ_epBJekyP8x_fSIefFrweHOQ-REEJA2KXt2Sxt0ybo10-htaYTMU_R2da95pYU_hcBrR4aM3pjGykIRrABs6r8y0w9nf-AVRKN4/s320/20231129_194556.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crusaders get a triple move. Milwer Brachyn runs forward to throw two Anti-tractor bundle grenades at the Iron Keep, putting on four shock and immobilizing it.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><i>Derval came to his senses, standing by the wire. Death filling the air around him. Royalist troops were emerging from the back of the tractor. He became aware of Vaark shouting. "Get back here you mad bastard! Covering fire! COVERING FIRE!"</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>He turned and ran back to the trench, leaping over the sandbags. Picking up his Ryshi again he began firing at the squad that was now attracting all the Crusader's ryhfle fire.</i></div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKGJnMx8_zDza3HQq7u2ZDMaeSRvN5_ZrrDAzdPjUOSHij2cAdL-ZD8Pvv7DsGTvRrrKo6_3pNboMeqLT1LlTbOuSmqDkX3BgFsLrgFmF4sVmuRhn_3ey0xDy_TO0ohIo3RBjG0fgfh-TDx52rVevVQl0JxqQvR6oRhlpxaSMyROYN_WJMLHJupA8TrAGi/s4160/20231129_195128.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKGJnMx8_zDza3HQq7u2ZDMaeSRvN5_ZrrDAzdPjUOSHij2cAdL-ZD8Pvv7DsGTvRrrKo6_3pNboMeqLT1LlTbOuSmqDkX3BgFsLrgFmF4sVmuRhn_3ey0xDy_TO0ohIo3RBjG0fgfh-TDx52rVevVQl0JxqQvR6oRhlpxaSMyROYN_WJMLHJupA8TrAGi/s320/20231129_195128.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Squad deploys for back of the Iron Keep. The Royalists are losing Command Dice now, limiting their options and giving Milwer Brachyn a chance to run back to his trench for more AT Grenades..</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE22O1XtMBnY_aPgnLXJcF2pbW5nASGeq_xlA0mdjMY1n3eKgRbjPtUbOd_fosJiJYLDqfsZqGot_AT5Oewu_vdA3c57snpChFPcCq5yFdSmcjozMaWwpw3VTEAMMAvAwby8idmj_QWQltONuNjQm5UAP8yxlDEAnaqoisI-gcqLMqX02g1Ch7IozCq2yd/s4160/20231129_195702.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE22O1XtMBnY_aPgnLXJcF2pbW5nASGeq_xlA0mdjMY1n3eKgRbjPtUbOd_fosJiJYLDqfsZqGot_AT5Oewu_vdA3c57snpChFPcCq5yFdSmcjozMaWwpw3VTEAMMAvAwby8idmj_QWQltONuNjQm5UAP8yxlDEAnaqoisI-gcqLMqX02g1Ch7IozCq2yd/s320/20231129_195702.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><i>The two enemy gun tractors were still firing explosive shells at the trench behind him, but small arms fire was dropping off as the Royalist infantry were suppressed among the shell craters. Derval grabbed their last AT grenade and jumped over the sandbags again to attack the Royalist tractor a second time. When his bomb exploded against the armoured hull, hatches popped open and the remains of the crew jumped down and ran for the rear. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Seeing their command tractor abandoned and smoking, and their infantry fleeing, the remaining Royalist tractors turned around and retreated. </i></div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBCyhj7betnMj4O0ZrP2UwM33C4el5ZXwexEC6ZGOr2TDpc6t4DbQLypQY0-tZMZgnOdh7adGt5-zge9gfoGDEx8RGPideyLnXLqKqhnqjEbExtQ79kv2ln47OVdgHQNhYc0cKzWnqh1L6LfZUsnuhGB4-Co3pZKo03T2_IgGOo9-rBPnlC3_YYhNW-3UJ/s4160/20231130_195626.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBCyhj7betnMj4O0ZrP2UwM33C4el5ZXwexEC6ZGOr2TDpc6t4DbQLypQY0-tZMZgnOdh7adGt5-zge9gfoGDEx8RGPideyLnXLqKqhnqjEbExtQ79kv2ln47OVdgHQNhYc0cKzWnqh1L6LfZUsnuhGB4-Co3pZKo03T2_IgGOo9-rBPnlC3_YYhNW-3UJ/s320/20231130_195626.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last Croftyran Ryhfler squad is broken, plus the Iron Keep takes two more shock causing it to be abandoned. Royalist Force Morale is 0. Milwer Brachyn will be getting the Medal of Insanely Courageous Foolhardiness, also known as the Star of Valor.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBMc9MLP3jX8kACoWCbX555ZSMQeh5LQN1zduHVuKmZP2IRESYH6j4t_1zA0ykqE8QCYbWmgY6SAt4_4XJ8ocKDSal0lRinFa12tNA5ByMxLIMuMLH-DU90Iks9IMpE3GSZHxkVa4FwbYGzmyzwtGsTFiIo7TLaZ53qaIIzx2FZ30Biq-KNoT0JjxSqbPj/s4160/20231130_195631.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBMc9MLP3jX8kACoWCbX555ZSMQeh5LQN1zduHVuKmZP2IRESYH6j4t_1zA0ykqE8QCYbWmgY6SAt4_4XJ8ocKDSal0lRinFa12tNA5ByMxLIMuMLH-DU90Iks9IMpE3GSZHxkVa4FwbYGzmyzwtGsTFiIo7TLaZ53qaIIzx2FZ30Biq-KNoT0JjxSqbPj/s320/20231130_195631.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><i>Derval was still standing at the wire as Vaark lead a patrol forward to check the enemy dead and inspect the lifeless tractor. Vaark stopped beside him and offered his tobacco pouch. Derval found his pipe and wordlessly got it going. "Maddest, bravest thing I ever saw kit" the old veteran softly said as they puffed.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>"I had to save the boys" Derval whispered.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>"You saved every one of us, lad."</i></div><div><i><br /></i><p>So ended a solo game of Quar of Command played out over three evenings. I used Karl Lowthian's and Andy Skinner's<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1699625277021907/permalink/1967026843615081" target="_blank"> notes for adapting Chain of Command to the world of Quar</a>. I also used the WW1 adaptations for CoC, found in the <a href="https://toofatlardies.co.uk/product/2014-christmas-special/" target="_blank">2014 Christmas Special</a>. Other than that, I didn't do anything special for solo play, the Command Dice adding enough friction and limiting my options.</p><p>My take aways are I need to refamiliarize myself with <i>Chain of Command</i>. I need to be able to distinguish Junior Leaders better. And I need more troops for each side. And more Support Options. Even though I've ordered some more figures during Zombiesmith's sale I'll still need 5 or 6 plastic sets if I want two full platoons for each side! I am aiming for something that can handle up to six players using <i>Xenos Rampant </i>as well as personal games using <i>Chain of Command</i>. </p><p>Fortunately, in the "official" Quar fluff, a Company is 4x 10 quar sections plus a Support Weapons section. Which equates rather well with most First World War platoon organizations, or a platoon plus reinforcements/Support Options in <i>Chain of Command</i>.</p><p>I think once I get the plastic set, I need to make a Derval ap Brachyn figure, AT bundle grenade in each hand, as a Big Man.</p><p> </p></div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-37064571085147008642023-11-25T20:30:00.000-08:002023-11-25T20:30:52.182-08:00Quar Terrain<p>To further increase the First World War theme for the Quar, I obviously need barbed wire sections.</p><p>After weeks of looking at how-to videos, pondering, planning, and over thinking, I decided at 9 PM last Sunday night to <i>quit fucking about, and just do it! </i>and started making barbed wire sections. </p><p>I laid out sixteen 3"×1.5" bases on a piece of fiber board paneling. Cut them out with a knife and steel ruler, beveled the edges, and drilled holes with an electric drill. </p><p>By bedtime at 10, I had this:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioxt9ETbEJVZciTaICE-m9bll0AXreMTapTI7lq2wpVRg3jr_9JiItOb5CGyLr2DKCV2sIrJvS7vLsV4aKJtjNqbQNxw56ed_LxjzymzH502-l0Hhk1F_rtjO_-hrsfV80V1Z7RkKVD1d266AKd5lOgygmYUJQjZ1u8d0RY__TrVFenIqjAsiyS3IjTGwQ/s4160/20231119_214809.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioxt9ETbEJVZciTaICE-m9bll0AXreMTapTI7lq2wpVRg3jr_9JiItOb5CGyLr2DKCV2sIrJvS7vLsV4aKJtjNqbQNxw56ed_LxjzymzH502-l0Hhk1F_rtjO_-hrsfV80V1Z7RkKVD1d266AKd5lOgygmYUJQjZ1u8d0RY__TrVFenIqjAsiyS3IjTGwQ/s320/20231119_214809.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I cracked on with the first eight to learn as I went. After gluing in all the posts, sand was glued on, and things were let to dry until Wednesday:<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYL73A-juImnl-7_MDpOFt62g7z52_6ssPIRRSmb3xPTCEsi-vIaojTTlenWwcRbRdlv4lXLZT-Y6gXGA6Np3KfqNB94DILE8X_uwsE8Fx1rdwk_M0uB8AaPQOoLLlBy2-ndU8DkJS7yHbw_OO65SYhvleKGcucJMAE30VhyphenhyphenQvtmoMtjnB49L4EczuZMT/s4160/20231124_164200.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYL73A-juImnl-7_MDpOFt62g7z52_6ssPIRRSmb3xPTCEsi-vIaojTTlenWwcRbRdlv4lXLZT-Y6gXGA6Np3KfqNB94DILE8X_uwsE8Fx1rdwk_M0uB8AaPQOoLLlBy2-ndU8DkJS7yHbw_OO65SYhvleKGcucJMAE30VhyphenhyphenQvtmoMtjnB49L4EczuZMT/s320/20231124_164200.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>A spray of Tremclad <i>Leather Brown</i> and then dry brushing craft acrylic <i>Cashmere Tan </i>and Vallejo <i>Grey Green</i>. Posts were dry brushed craft acrylic <i>Slate Grey.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>This is the same palette I used for the trenches, to keep things visually consistent. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA7eh5XGEXjyCVeuSveHEwMmMWp-TJioJtoPnbHFou2xbzd_4xQQuDZuPDEeVme816c2ZF8JAe7rv0Z99s8xxENEifwXM826BuDEhWEihTz4KeMTTW7EJ5o-Vhfwl4ZjGTFp7hpiKm0ljFdET2Ke18PlBHtfdRn18SbRtWM1kGPVoILlSPzSrH31jZ31pV/s4160/20231124_203328.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA7eh5XGEXjyCVeuSveHEwMmMWp-TJioJtoPnbHFou2xbzd_4xQQuDZuPDEeVme816c2ZF8JAe7rv0Z99s8xxENEifwXM826BuDEhWEihTz4KeMTTW7EJ5o-Vhfwl4ZjGTFp7hpiKm0ljFdET2Ke18PlBHtfdRn18SbRtWM1kGPVoILlSPzSrH31jZ31pV/s320/20231124_203328.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The posts then got some brown ink.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWBQUu9KH79vkRAvr_8DsvNAAMbZgNNO_RPteV4m8eRBDtc8zEyO896EEjuCx0E3wIic2aZA49jyIvNYmBp-bk7KmUVhdrUwg60PfAWtGzPBUM3lzuFOyJIrFR9vSOW7M5G-synxsMG5D-qpVFT7fPMpqcaNZpaayoh5rJ8MMu6cYXqieB2P0ZplzoT_jR/s4160/20231124_205359.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWBQUu9KH79vkRAvr_8DsvNAAMbZgNNO_RPteV4m8eRBDtc8zEyO896EEjuCx0E3wIic2aZA49jyIvNYmBp-bk7KmUVhdrUwg60PfAWtGzPBUM3lzuFOyJIrFR9vSOW7M5G-synxsMG5D-qpVFT7fPMpqcaNZpaayoh5rJ8MMu6cYXqieB2P0ZplzoT_jR/s320/20231124_205359.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Then flocking. You can vary the amount of flock for more tortured landscapes.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_NZe2JvCh0V-6YRHe0arB0hIz7tz7r9f0XGsnecIPAKfQwoSduZ-AeDXugQo1oXQ4JNokcNyC4tAdHb4aYL8BhT3qW-ckv934x1xrEW357yHCzfgoweQlvj4p5jUNO4Mr5x5mF-k8M_bLsXLOpfQa1gsJJ_oL23N0ZC3NBSzC_Q9om0EW6dDNnaHOXovg/s4160/20231122_212948.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_NZe2JvCh0V-6YRHe0arB0hIz7tz7r9f0XGsnecIPAKfQwoSduZ-AeDXugQo1oXQ4JNokcNyC4tAdHb4aYL8BhT3qW-ckv934x1xrEW357yHCzfgoweQlvj4p5jUNO4Mr5x5mF-k8M_bLsXLOpfQa1gsJJ_oL23N0ZC3NBSzC_Q9om0EW6dDNnaHOXovg/s320/20231122_212948.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Then it was stringing wire. No glue. I'm just twisting lengths of screen window mesh wire around the posts. A couple of feet for each section, so there were at least two, and sometimes three strands between each post.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJG-bW97sNeeON5H_GjP6izf2CoyxjFUZ2wT8TjDlLwTk9sxAdctkkERTjGI0Px9emPynxrrDxpeQ9PwVIoHZKRSWVTBJkthq5IA0_QBuZuFigQv3Sq4-33L2zREh5Jw3Tels7DZbI-3-qxI5dfNbugUVgKbavLLKeY20S35g7H4fS9lSq6n8BAcs7WQSU/s4160/20231123_220237.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJG-bW97sNeeON5H_GjP6izf2CoyxjFUZ2wT8TjDlLwTk9sxAdctkkERTjGI0Px9emPynxrrDxpeQ9PwVIoHZKRSWVTBJkthq5IA0_QBuZuFigQv3Sq4-33L2zREh5Jw3Tels7DZbI-3-qxI5dfNbugUVgKbavLLKeY20S35g7H4fS9lSq6n8BAcs7WQSU/s320/20231123_220237.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I then hit the wire with some brown ink to make it look rusty.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisiLVpwBs6GAHj9m8quiIFCNCvuuCndBdKlcLMjqqEO0xuqshsi_yMBKAeAoastzCyyKm6GVWw74ib33Sjn54aGyDsMnIgfaEruiwn2pyTFlVhx1NYy3IHLdbCwKuQIkB_6F5rcpsGEO1TpbMPKDQ-hdwFub7F6ZUzRjPT4tkJeWYb4IINtmBAmTwFOKUN/s320/20231123_220251.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">While inking this section I realized the wire was a bit thin, and added some more to thicken it up with more strands.</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div>I also decided to make some scatter terrain featuring craters and broken wire while I'm in the zone.</div><div><br /></div><div>The craters are formed with a bead of <i>Gorilla Glue</i> and sand.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDG9Bw0rpEMcJpaAD9MyphYvk1Zb2XatQdTx2htFopkKwwYaPEDHDsp0YhTxIgSsieJq5QwAFo0VOW8nsrJsIP2qWN0RxelaZV18x1UBeaMpE6jhJHB29WuCVG6rzuGwr-UQSqqeyDyU7CyQGmHUy9dc6so0r8dMInQwZcNT6eVgx88XosQmbgL8wNf7-E/s4160/20231124_211420.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXnaPq6zfyasj1nIbjcEdV71HCOnaMGHkhke7BZxwjt84zfConq6f8KeEE8ER-wwXiLSFmaRgPbavXMoMuH8VYB6q0XWnvtvqiZibDJ8mMEnAVdHTEVekLSoISTpyZjvBqovjtJu3MgTismmVId0pqvlkvh9t3pioGEOhLkyOUdq3GALiwO_45u7sZFvZM/s2668/20231122_173051.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2668" data-original-width="2001" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXnaPq6zfyasj1nIbjcEdV71HCOnaMGHkhke7BZxwjt84zfConq6f8KeEE8ER-wwXiLSFmaRgPbavXMoMuH8VYB6q0XWnvtvqiZibDJ8mMEnAVdHTEVekLSoISTpyZjvBqovjtJu3MgTismmVId0pqvlkvh9t3pioGEOhLkyOUdq3GALiwO_45u7sZFvZM/s320/20231122_173051.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>A milestone last night as I was presented with my Canada Decoration for 12 years service.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW3te35bFqPGmbTayLvJR0HbPcTALRfIgY_wa4d08Xl_Ir1wjwxdeXx9O2vojnyHyMaYXw2h_T0WwzROiTxQDkjlz-gwZXWWeJy16H5Fab1n1cnKRNe59Bx72QcL45Ju45Mt9pcwNh3u9RuTYblUSItUpAS2kqXysFFzuwR22nW7gtzmwxpcAEZ4mQnP8z/s3350/20231121_205232.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3350" data-original-width="2382" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW3te35bFqPGmbTayLvJR0HbPcTALRfIgY_wa4d08Xl_Ir1wjwxdeXx9O2vojnyHyMaYXw2h_T0WwzROiTxQDkjlz-gwZXWWeJy16H5Fab1n1cnKRNe59Bx72QcL45Ju45Mt9pcwNh3u9RuTYblUSItUpAS2kqXysFFzuwR22nW7gtzmwxpcAEZ4mQnP8z/s320/20231121_205232.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><p>This is the least of all Armed Forces decorations, jokingly referred to as the award for "12 years undiscovered crime."</p><p>But for CIC officers it is 12 years of evenings, weekends, vacation time. Unlike Primary Reserve, we are expected to work more than our alloted 25 days pay per year. I always tell new officers that with prep time on lessons, and planning activities, they should expect to work twice that.</p><p>And when you see a bright young person flourish, and tell you what a positive influence you were on their life, it's worth it.</p>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-44423672327106542532023-11-19T08:35:00.000-08:002023-11-19T08:35:11.987-08:00Quar Return!<p>"Parade! Parade <i>AAAA</i>ten-SHUN!" Yawdryl Vaark spun on his heels as the company of ryhflers banged to attention, boots and ryhfle butts crunching on the gravel. He saluted Caerten Bleg smartly.</p><p>"B Company, 95th Light Infantry ready for inspection, Sir!"</p><p>Bleg smiled. "Excellent. I'm sure even the new ryhflers will be up to standard."</p><p>Vaark spun about. "Cump'nee! Prepare for inspection, <i>PREEEE</i>-sen' '<i>harms</i>!"</p><p>Boots crunched again. Hands slapped stocks and weapons were raised to a neat 45 degree angle with bolts pulled back to reveal hopefully clean, oiled breeches.</p><p>Vaark walked beside Bleg, casting critical eyes on the soldiers. The ryhflers casting furtive, nervous glances at them as they passed, for much depended upon this inspection. Any fault found could bring the Caerten's wrath down upon all of them. If Bleg were in a bad mood, a bit of dirt could cancel their entire weekend pass.</p><p>"Podwyn, how are you today?" Bleg asked the company's newest, youngest, ryhfler as he peered down the barrel of a Bogen. "Just grand, sir. Never 'appier." Bleg examined the open breech. "What's this? Lint from the cleaning flannel caught in your breech!"</p><p>Podwyn's snout drooped. "Sorry sir...."</p><p>Vaark sighed. Everyone tensed, expecting the worst.</p><p>"You'll be sorry when you're being overrun and your Bogen jams, won't you?"</p><p>"Yes sir...." Podwyn's snout drooped lower.</p><p>"And then poor Yawdryl Vaark here will be killed trying to save you and your dirty ryhfle. Is that what you want, young quar? Hmmmm?"</p><p>Podwyn crumpled under Bleg's icy glare. "N-n-no, sir!"</p><p>"Right, well, I'm feeling magnanimous today after the Smyrnol complimented me about the company's training this week over a glass of his rather excellent port. Clean it again and show it to Yawdryl Vaark after parade. Then you can join your comrades for leave."</p><p>The company visibly relaxed.</p><p>The rest of the inspection went quickly after that. Caerten Bleg marched away humming a tune, eager to get on with his weekend plans, which involved a bottle of champagne and some chorus girls. Yawdryl Vaark returned to the front of the formation. </p><p>"Cump'nee! Stan' hat <i>EEZ!</i>" He raised his clip board. "Right, stand easy and listen up! Weekend Safety Briefing."</p><p>Groans from the ranks.</p><p>"The Termite Box is off limits to Other Ranks this weekend." Louder groans. Vaark peered over the top of his clip board. "Shut it! Not like you mob could afford to even look at the menu there!" He cleared his throat and continued. "Right, let's see. Troops are to avoid confrontations with the local populace and to not buy any dodgy drinks being sold from the backs of farm wagons. A Company had three ryhflers go blind last week from drinking poisoned hootch." </p><p>"Sounds like my Uncle Smeg's homebrew, that." Guffaws.</p><p>Vaark ignored the comedian. "Right. Have fun. Be safe. Remember there's Partisans and Spies about, so <b><i>don't</i></b> go off on your own. Be back to barracks ready to get back to work in 48 hours." He dropped his clip board to his side and straightened up. "Cump'nee! Cump'nee <i>AAA</i>ten-shun! Cump'nee <i>DISSSS</i>-missed!" Dsicplined crunching and banging was quickly followed by happy chatter as the formation dissolved into a mob of quar eager to stow their weapons, grab their wallets and head into the delights of the town.</p><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Kiss me goodnight Yawdryl Major!<br />Tuck me in my little wooden nest,<br />and don't forget to wake me in the morning...</i></div><p>The band of comrades eventually pitched up in front of <b style="font-style: italic;">Madam Maeb's Beetle Buffet</b> in a cloud of laughter. If the large brass firefly, with it's abdomen lit up yellow, wasn't already a hint, the prominently posted Certificate from the Medical Officer declaring the establishment Fit for Use, was clear indication that there were more delights inside than just food.</p><p>"This looks like a right yin, eh?" Nob said and led the charge through the doors.</p><p>"Well chosen china!" Derval looked around approvingly. A small band played lively music in the corner. Some ryhflers from other companies were singing along. Some were dancing with local girls. Beside the bar was a buffet. A sweating cook was just dumping some fried beetles onto a platter. "Might spend the rest of muh leave here!"</p><p>A matronly looking female guarded the entrance. "Hello luvs. That'll be a crown cover charge each for the buffet."</p><p>They groaned. "Tut now. The buffet is all you can eat. Beer is 2 an' 6 and it's 'alf a crown for 'alf an hour."</p><p>"I'm no sure I'd last half an hour! Will she give change?" Nob laughed.</p><p>"Half an hour for what?" Podwyn asked. He'd clearly been distracted by the smell of the fried beetles.</p><p>"Never you mind, Pod my kit." Dervel chuckled as he dug in a pocket for a crown.</p><p>Podwyn finished off his third bowl of fried beetles. "Oh these beetles is champion!" He licked his bowl and snout clean with a long agile tongue that made the girls sitting with Nob and Dervel gasp with wide eyed admiration. "D'ya think there's owt for puddin', like?" he asked. Nob laughed, spitting his beer. Dervel whipsered into one girl's ear and gave her a half a crown. She got up off the sofa, straightening her rather skimpy dress and sashayed over to Podwyn, who was currently thinking if he had 2 and 6 for a beer. "C'mon luv," she said. "I'll be your pudding, and show you something else you can use that tongue for!"</p><p>As the slightly confused Podwyn was lead upstairs, he heard Nob shouting "Be brave young Ryhfler! Do the Regiment proud!"</p><p>Yawdryl Vaark sat on the porch of the Senior N.C.O. quarters, drinking a beer. His weekend had been a good dinner in town, then a drink and a pipe with Master Yawdryl Tarquin and reading Alkynder's treatise on the use of light infantry in vertical envelopments. He now watched his ryhflers straggle back to barracks, disheveled, debauched, and some still drunk. Some were still singing ribald barracks songs. Podwyn was singing loudly, carried on Derval's and Nob's shoulders, wearing a brassiere on his head where his garrison cap should have been. Vaark laughed into his glass. He'd be filling out a few missing kit reports and deducting lost uniform items from their pay.</p><p>But at least he didn't have to retrieve any from the MP lock up.</p><p>************************</p><p>Appropriately enough, Dan visited me on Remembrance Day to give me a set of <a href="https://www.ironcladminiatures.co.uk/ourshop/cat_302098-Trenches-28mm.html" target="_blank">Ironclad Miniatures resin trench pieces </a>he had bought many years ago and never got around to doing anything with. He thought that my Quar would like them. A can of dark brown spray paint and a couple of make up brushes from the dollar store later and they painted very quickly. Tremclad <i>Leather Brown</i> spray paint, then dry brushing <i>Cashmere Tan</i> craft acrylic, and Vallejo 70886 <i>Green Grey. </i>Craft acrylic <i>Slate Grey</i> for the wood and <i>Antique Green</i> for the sandbags. Then a brown ink wash over both, and then I went back over the sandbags with another dry brush of <i>Antique Green</i>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiusUvDie6gNU-0p52WqTbvObQOrL-tq3y4fonxkJOg2KJmluPvOnol2Y9AUFT_oBF6fKYYoCwVJflalSfDorjzRUpJTQFned-f7Zjl4dR-ahPFzTNBGKz_xaoOXA2pKvzUmT_22qK4fM98_C81NwKqsLFMb0lIeQnxoZcHqSLrS26xlFOzDKFaVCjreDmR/s4061/20231118_093340.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2284" data-original-width="4061" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiusUvDie6gNU-0p52WqTbvObQOrL-tq3y4fonxkJOg2KJmluPvOnol2Y9AUFT_oBF6fKYYoCwVJflalSfDorjzRUpJTQFned-f7Zjl4dR-ahPFzTNBGKz_xaoOXA2pKvzUmT_22qK4fM98_C81NwKqsLFMb0lIeQnxoZcHqSLrS26xlFOzDKFaVCjreDmR/s320/20231118_093340.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXepffoqqhR8fbsx3LJWAv8CLktwUEv_DfwRwu_S4S7cXr44UnILf2RnqbffN2dcUviZ9v2e-2XkGKSrqTu4Xz8uWGZ3kSRLsYX9WErB_-Foa87-o2VKe-3NNi_VhyXmlCq6IF6ieaeR2EuzwuWSx3AhA-TSiNsX6tUmJ_ObnGqMqiCh3ufKWD4hBKMVgs/s4071/20231118_093343.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2492" data-original-width="4071" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXepffoqqhR8fbsx3LJWAv8CLktwUEv_DfwRwu_S4S7cXr44UnILf2RnqbffN2dcUviZ9v2e-2XkGKSrqTu4Xz8uWGZ3kSRLsYX9WErB_-Foa87-o2VKe-3NNi_VhyXmlCq6IF6ieaeR2EuzwuWSx3AhA-TSiNsX6tUmJ_ObnGqMqiCh3ufKWD4hBKMVgs/s320/20231118_093343.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb3AXnynWmZPpqEkjOgKCameedGgZ8Jo2U7J6bmWS1plGRvCJlcuvYVQdM_7M5zpqZt1tCH2-OkvdQiwL4p9tAqbIuz784i7XWe9VHS9VYNhF1A1GQnx9LDi1pQ7yRS0kGZDy7ODbr5pUlkExkFligsMcWyO0dGOEBv_f5MjZ6C-9Oxssh1Ib1E0TWeUM7/s4160/20231118_093432.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb3AXnynWmZPpqEkjOgKCameedGgZ8Jo2U7J6bmWS1plGRvCJlcuvYVQdM_7M5zpqZt1tCH2-OkvdQiwL4p9tAqbIuz784i7XWe9VHS9VYNhF1A1GQnx9LDi1pQ7yRS0kGZDy7ODbr5pUlkExkFligsMcWyO0dGOEBv_f5MjZ6C-9Oxssh1Ib1E0TWeUM7/s320/20231118_093432.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I saved the gun from the Airfix coastal battery (another gift from Dan!), which I turned into a space <a href="http://rabbitsinmybasement.blogspot.com/2018/06/hyperion-station.html" target="_blank">Forward Operating Base</a>. I thought the gun would look good on a VSF landship or something. But I made it into a fortress gun with a base made from some think sprue and a domed wooden washer I had salvaged from an old piano.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7pBI6bR-sGmVTCpLZk0u0vT9lF9f7kw2Nn-knxSl9kZ2V-0TWLYFJIPccZd9JScD3bR5oJ3B6hyphenhyphenSHD8VzLhWynaHTAK5-wBaXP5dO9VFkdTZ75foWyPMt95fDrnxyDWUI2D4efQ7H9JowvqdViUlGUOTmmtG5xCRa4pG43uc4KtX5qp5L_R06T5lQNS4Z/s3517/20231118_093521.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2503" data-original-width="3517" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7pBI6bR-sGmVTCpLZk0u0vT9lF9f7kw2Nn-knxSl9kZ2V-0TWLYFJIPccZd9JScD3bR5oJ3B6hyphenhyphenSHD8VzLhWynaHTAK5-wBaXP5dO9VFkdTZ75foWyPMt95fDrnxyDWUI2D4efQ7H9JowvqdViUlGUOTmmtG5xCRa4pG43uc4KtX5qp5L_R06T5lQNS4Z/s320/20231118_093521.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkyRsLxMI1Dh505r9PRubeALrP5QwwZ1QRsVdJUZPabbQ9l83iplLMGMf7OUfYkfLIh3JxmiFy0Q_ApJv0ilESaCXHtG9RK1jqf00cfpEnrnUAgNQhcHjUbqn7BkRf4qowY-bQvOO3OEknFjG3Yvf8NdbB_A7jGuASx8lpRRuAp4d6RPwmY5VNS9ZkTE60/s4160/20231118_093803.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkyRsLxMI1Dh505r9PRubeALrP5QwwZ1QRsVdJUZPabbQ9l83iplLMGMf7OUfYkfLIh3JxmiFy0Q_ApJv0ilESaCXHtG9RK1jqf00cfpEnrnUAgNQhcHjUbqn7BkRf4qowY-bQvOO3OEknFjG3Yvf8NdbB_A7jGuASx8lpRRuAp4d6RPwmY5VNS9ZkTE60/s320/20231118_093803.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRIozoV6aD_PdaXlfMC2EvRKg5aKn_3e0x0fLj_PHRppEhdUN6ffSkHl5iag3AP3Vlm5u8es4SMzY_YzxzF-Ik94-OnmrFD8D2DWSyXbQuR4hw-HaBZjcTSnELyhofWzl8Rt3YCfCfq12XLZNw0gEQRGqCof4TjGJakZPWHtL0tcwNwOlC2panRDxLhMAR/s4160/20231118_093812.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRIozoV6aD_PdaXlfMC2EvRKg5aKn_3e0x0fLj_PHRppEhdUN6ffSkHl5iag3AP3Vlm5u8es4SMzY_YzxzF-Ik94-OnmrFD8D2DWSyXbQuR4hw-HaBZjcTSnELyhofWzl8Rt3YCfCfq12XLZNw0gEQRGqCof4TjGJakZPWHtL0tcwNwOlC2panRDxLhMAR/s320/20231118_093812.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxWR6XHw8-xdB7Q32nELlgkG_QhlxqFy01gO7aqDrq1z-N2-qYGM5UoyUsC9Pf9FfuLuaRVjAP5FbZjpQiKkWXG4meXygZsTsMG-DR-XbV7wtec_A9YmnKdgmGNBVdFMUiLekf22SWDG8VMHHCMNeIdEVUGmtHJzYE__9uSXcGdRv83yEJOw-WItWjh26F/s4160/20231118_093826.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxWR6XHw8-xdB7Q32nELlgkG_QhlxqFy01gO7aqDrq1z-N2-qYGM5UoyUsC9Pf9FfuLuaRVjAP5FbZjpQiKkWXG4meXygZsTsMG-DR-XbV7wtec_A9YmnKdgmGNBVdFMUiLekf22SWDG8VMHHCMNeIdEVUGmtHJzYE__9uSXcGdRv83yEJOw-WItWjh26F/s320/20231118_093826.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Note entrance to a dug out</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Dan has also given my Quar a couple of armoured cars. One is a 3d print he picked up at Fall In this year. It's a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garford-Putilov_Armoured_Car" target="_blank">Garford-Putilov </a>used by the Russians in the First World War and Civil War. It certainly looks awkward enough to suit the Quar.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoU4Jh-3JNbpST5TEHqSKr1YbBB1MT1jHJHQrC17JamXpRE3SFjEIDSnQt_tLadCVYMGVtKzs4kc6hPlgpdHGGQk5yfD-xXlocFXdvApy8k_ZpHoMJ9A_tL35GDhV89kMKuFuK70mEmh4qVxH-uZ1UV2HPfMD-rW3V3iTUik8qADmrWl5Xycu2h_wZcafc/s2354/20231119_104825.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1657" data-original-width="2354" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoU4Jh-3JNbpST5TEHqSKr1YbBB1MT1jHJHQrC17JamXpRE3SFjEIDSnQt_tLadCVYMGVtKzs4kc6hPlgpdHGGQk5yfD-xXlocFXdvApy8k_ZpHoMJ9A_tL35GDhV89kMKuFuK70mEmh4qVxH-uZ1UV2HPfMD-rW3V3iTUik8qADmrWl5Xycu2h_wZcafc/s320/20231119_104825.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMxaGwKnFCXQb0gL82MTJSTwo93xdPtewwpBIHw1RHSrdFMXa56Ry6P9C0v_fw4iqE8P7tGSVwMPqE3yEjH84xE9dsRhNEiADvohxGGWA2c4c6s_kZIg6mvjRqrtNTwNj_U8gmmRO41U5xafhUu_pS30gpouGpbohHgC2jQdDzroe8CVydU6PdGF5-d7fx/s2512/20231119_104856.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1835" data-original-width="2512" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMxaGwKnFCXQb0gL82MTJSTwo93xdPtewwpBIHw1RHSrdFMXa56Ry6P9C0v_fw4iqE8P7tGSVwMPqE3yEjH84xE9dsRhNEiADvohxGGWA2c4c6s_kZIg6mvjRqrtNTwNj_U8gmmRO41U5xafhUu_pS30gpouGpbohHgC2jQdDzroe8CVydU6PdGF5-d7fx/s320/20231119_104856.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirpQLyjXYP9UZPDtkzpjG0MwVH1SVSf0JP_3SqZL_r8HjKt59sJA8QOJ2YbvPeMP48a1xjPgcJdSkr8tj4CBtgyyx5wz7_ynDNa8gvFwsWMZ0FByXkQBhoTtiW5QTO4y86VLw17Jna7n7UBs9ccSaEaOWHiC1QzYZ7ylpItIFrBJbeHlNEcc5DaeOP5Tgq/s2262/20231119_104928.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1657" data-original-width="2262" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirpQLyjXYP9UZPDtkzpjG0MwVH1SVSf0JP_3SqZL_r8HjKt59sJA8QOJ2YbvPeMP48a1xjPgcJdSkr8tj4CBtgyyx5wz7_ynDNa8gvFwsWMZ0FByXkQBhoTtiW5QTO4y86VLw17Jna7n7UBs9ccSaEaOWHiC1QzYZ7ylpItIFrBJbeHlNEcc5DaeOP5Tgq/s320/20231119_104928.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7zYmipt0KoGAwXrJNW23yu1SoX7nH8pzCw42uE_xiPWzFvOL8mnoUDFRcuMazz8iL-IcMLQGRQW1PoiTe3U_e6UtZUV7XX6goGvrLMvzpFwFfj1zMuG4mkPLSy7c5Im1hUAifpgIWxbu3DuRMDj2jXUoq9F7YgLSF24jtZTJXdlgb7O6AzmFHHyIeatJ/s2265/20231119_105010.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1507" data-original-width="2265" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7zYmipt0KoGAwXrJNW23yu1SoX7nH8pzCw42uE_xiPWzFvOL8mnoUDFRcuMazz8iL-IcMLQGRQW1PoiTe3U_e6UtZUV7XX6goGvrLMvzpFwFfj1zMuG4mkPLSy7c5Im1hUAifpgIWxbu3DuRMDj2jXUoq9F7YgLSF24jtZTJXdlgb7O6AzmFHHyIeatJ/s320/20231119_105010.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The second is a 1/35th scale Polish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_FT-B" target="_blank">Samochod Pancerny Ford Tc</a>, used in the 1920s. It was apparently an awkward kit to build, but my Royalist Cavalry Corps are grateful for the mechanized upgrade.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzHArtbVdrgz6xXWbID3MQuIgmTKY0pBNIjhdL1p3WLe-aLkHTN8eG3tgCSQt5hLyMT-qhnFZxseHzKIIA3vihyphenhyphenWtrFEzYW5tutI5x1D4vV7UUsIUMiH6WGutkuHS2PkZaCNRS3TK7yzRf2PJZV5B3BVo8Lhrp89Ojw3u1CnEgw4v5MWYd0NOV-jWS4GjB/s2397/20231119_105035.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1856" data-original-width="2397" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzHArtbVdrgz6xXWbID3MQuIgmTKY0pBNIjhdL1p3WLe-aLkHTN8eG3tgCSQt5hLyMT-qhnFZxseHzKIIA3vihyphenhyphenWtrFEzYW5tutI5x1D4vV7UUsIUMiH6WGutkuHS2PkZaCNRS3TK7yzRf2PJZV5B3BVo8Lhrp89Ojw3u1CnEgw4v5MWYd0NOV-jWS4GjB/s320/20231119_105035.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUscLRfm69ATuuZAOBlRDUEybhY6S_eBLv34UeFcJ1D7nkqJEtLjrCE1-syerF_esQfiZ8DADcYXScG7CaBepbqkfO6O-FCNLWYwapDHyZvD9t101i7MAgC9WdqhmMEIZ-9hpSrfrgAs85-CVi3MeYQHotGbwAT0OdDgObykFmyEapHOSToEedKWOUd-hd/s2365/20231119_105050.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Ouch. Although the bushi with yumi (horse archer samurai) managed to take 4 of the bushi with yari (samurai with spears) with them,</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKJ0UApMiroWX-ZDTyQaOnTFLS6oFu0bC9o-nfTgj7i1-NMkBepKpctUA4r2ls64VV26jbEiuYb12y5SPfugm_Kt6O4zG-v92dT0cuWAHB_ORgbjwmLvqhLMdrZCTReKtAql7SXSsWTJ0xqfbsxIaYOSW5HRlhytvNNqLobqtovuJ5ztEUYN2_7nidb2oZ/s4160/20231104_225352.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKJ0UApMiroWX-ZDTyQaOnTFLS6oFu0bC9o-nfTgj7i1-NMkBepKpctUA4r2ls64VV26jbEiuYb12y5SPfugm_Kt6O4zG-v92dT0cuWAHB_ORgbjwmLvqhLMdrZCTReKtAql7SXSsWTJ0xqfbsxIaYOSW5HRlhytvNNqLobqtovuJ5ztEUYN2_7nidb2oZ/s320/20231104_225352.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQhW7mV98p4EVdbq3GiNPAIuCkVzdSVS3_IEvJ3tMpdYN6pkJ1fwBIbdNzbp0fLEwm9TCz8geyPXgihbi4vyC415Hgqot2MUnVdE8sEKrV1t0wn9MHVjVZoZysok-mseDAI_pnCqpdyBiUVHwBOgR3jl_5ppWTppgzLdOmEgBSv4UmyVeEAuSfRS-xL7Bm/s4160/20231104_231002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQhW7mV98p4EVdbq3GiNPAIuCkVzdSVS3_IEvJ3tMpdYN6pkJ1fwBIbdNzbp0fLEwm9TCz8geyPXgihbi4vyC415Hgqot2MUnVdE8sEKrV1t0wn9MHVjVZoZysok-mseDAI_pnCqpdyBiUVHwBOgR3jl_5ppWTppgzLdOmEgBSv4UmyVeEAuSfRS-xL7Bm/s320/20231104_231002.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hatamoto clear archers out of woods</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoP57sREzTum6qUvUy_ArxVwVZoPE3WQJc-amJgv3ZIS3wGBhDj-3FfK-OXSDXCbJvGwapOfl7ZWT80cWCxhz9WTSFNwVgf4OPMXCh6JMDecY5APpr_pjgyVf-qwIi83T32U82-E5k_qpyeuXM9eu-ndM9u7c3qcsedVoH723f__7gxHr1VV8e1ufdsfCW/s4160/20231104_232951.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoP57sREzTum6qUvUy_ArxVwVZoPE3WQJc-amJgv3ZIS3wGBhDj-3FfK-OXSDXCbJvGwapOfl7ZWT80cWCxhz9WTSFNwVgf4OPMXCh6JMDecY5APpr_pjgyVf-qwIi83T32U82-E5k_qpyeuXM9eu-ndM9u7c3qcsedVoH723f__7gxHr1VV8e1ufdsfCW/s320/20231104_232951.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fight to the death! Samurai Big Man and last sohei archer kill each other.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPbdMh8-dJxGaur55FU6PmVg_ejeGVMYKFsXKgV9jV-F2nMCAWvEyMykebgtdfV9iH4G3bXLSrVDnqCfzpU3vd9qbMZW_sib2h0zLTZYYgfz00MvSh8lEvFnG7QSjZAeFRNn-T-oZBXXLsBn7vVXPjxt_QaCE_bq0EF4zExVGV9IJbgwcEtY3CTU3NhJaZ/s4160/20231104_233404.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPbdMh8-dJxGaur55FU6PmVg_ejeGVMYKFsXKgV9jV-F2nMCAWvEyMykebgtdfV9iH4G3bXLSrVDnqCfzpU3vd9qbMZW_sib2h0zLTZYYgfz00MvSh8lEvFnG7QSjZAeFRNn-T-oZBXXLsBn7vVXPjxt_QaCE_bq0EF4zExVGV9IJbgwcEtY3CTU3NhJaZ/s320/20231104_233404.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Remains of the Daimyo's cavalry wipe out a shattered group of sohei, dropping the Ikko-ikki Force Morale to 0.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Big Pat had fun because he won. His die rolling is notoriously bad, so he was happy for a change. Weirdy-Beardy started out badly and struggled to recover; his cards weren't coming up, his initial deployment off his DP was a traffic jam, it seemed he couldn't roll any 5s or 6s to save his life. He did mangle Pat's ashigaru-yari, but at a heavy cost and it was too little too late.<div><br /></div><div>So I should probably next go back to <i>Seven Spears</i> and see about importing the things I like from <i>Sharp Practice; </i>Deployment Points, moveable DPs, Support Options. I'm still internally debating whether the Command Cards in <i>Sharp Practice</i> are "better" or "worse" than the Fate Cards from <i>Dux Britannarium/Seven Spears</i>. I like the Random Events in <i>SP</i>, but how to reproduce that in S<i>even Spears</i>? I would also like <i>nobori</i> (those big banners that an awful lot of man power was assigned to) to actually mean something for game play.</div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-27916546766588377082023-10-29T13:29:00.001-07:002023-10-29T13:29:32.898-07:00Samurai Assortment <p>In the two weeks since my flurry of assembly, I've bashed on with getting paint on things. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioaXOkVkEG9GyW73yliHPQ4JXcTIw1uGtPcWx8cJ5SODAdYYcSUdX-KcBay1W0Bf1VX-mSKt03P6OjIBIndMi-uKqjfSQ-CLoA9vqnr5wxRr3Zpm3swiGnzDOe7v9MpEXxiSPdpCKlI_FdQfA-mzd5ayPg9-YYmL6l379_N6SEFB60sQl7bd0N4OL-rVx4/s2181/20231029_125029.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1879" data-original-width="2181" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioaXOkVkEG9GyW73yliHPQ4JXcTIw1uGtPcWx8cJ5SODAdYYcSUdX-KcBay1W0Bf1VX-mSKt03P6OjIBIndMi-uKqjfSQ-CLoA9vqnr5wxRr3Zpm3swiGnzDOe7v9MpEXxiSPdpCKlI_FdQfA-mzd5ayPg9-YYmL6l379_N6SEFB60sQl7bd0N4OL-rVx4/w200-h173/20231029_125029.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p>First done, mainly because they were the easiest, was the group of unarmoured warriors converted from Pulp Figures Tong gangsters. I spent a little more time on the skin tones than I usually do.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfnfaxWSnOZvgNbEfwyQnWijkEsMw-kw50zK7OjrII3oWHGGXcailxC9OLhryazyHjxxZ5cYYi1M5Y_CN1gAQugHynXZ3mU5Hgq2awLuXmxSk0UPQEEY2sjXf1gzrDxV-Ot1ZF4WFQOXn9S9KY-XI6A7cyjvHl-JAb_a2CILxWAjKRtBp7Be-Bu0qvFlSS/s2067/20231029_123858.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1493" data-original-width="2067" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfnfaxWSnOZvgNbEfwyQnWijkEsMw-kw50zK7OjrII3oWHGGXcailxC9OLhryazyHjxxZ5cYYi1M5Y_CN1gAQugHynXZ3mU5Hgq2awLuXmxSk0UPQEEY2sjXf1gzrDxV-Ot1ZF4WFQOXn9S9KY-XI6A7cyjvHl-JAb_a2CILxWAjKRtBp7Be-Bu0qvFlSS/s320/20231029_123858.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizcGtdeixE71jppPmj8T2GEP3sJNOUO4VEHBsWB1GoMi6bTw0gvAi2aVCv8-YoDeP6g9ZOolYPdWq1sPBbtlRoCVc7CAucGfmd7NUkK7blFvIndtJVh24mrQ0YD8lL6sp32OZV0R8fnKls2jv3ppA5Nc3yHPmnA0wkPUCp65X5hxPtQ7Ob2MNoBL8jlXGT/s2385/20231029_123928.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1834" data-original-width="2385" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizcGtdeixE71jppPmj8T2GEP3sJNOUO4VEHBsWB1GoMi6bTw0gvAi2aVCv8-YoDeP6g9ZOolYPdWq1sPBbtlRoCVc7CAucGfmd7NUkK7blFvIndtJVh24mrQ0YD8lL6sp32OZV0R8fnKls2jv3ppA5Nc3yHPmnA0wkPUCp65X5hxPtQ7Ob2MNoBL8jlXGT/s320/20231029_123928.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I also have this fellow, ready to give an energetic drum solo. The drum came to me already quite nicely painted. I should make a pavilion for it.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9xRfUFnDl3S9TOJQ_r4SmqKiHXeBmeL9LhbBt49i_Q70tTSyLr6IyOBGf2guVSs6cOOESb8E_6Py7vkz4rQ9IOimJH8LCXXCFjx4QoRzp2loZltSxI4JjpjYP0203ITHNop15IMP76aZRvWHSbadBsZjUXE6U0jDriIaIyCtRmfd4QghZzi5MV4zYV4Ga/s2333/20231029_124011.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1872" data-original-width="2333" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9xRfUFnDl3S9TOJQ_r4SmqKiHXeBmeL9LhbBt49i_Q70tTSyLr6IyOBGf2guVSs6cOOESb8E_6Py7vkz4rQ9IOimJH8LCXXCFjx4QoRzp2loZltSxI4JjpjYP0203ITHNop15IMP76aZRvWHSbadBsZjUXE6U0jDriIaIyCtRmfd4QghZzi5MV4zYV4Ga/s320/20231029_124011.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Next is this handful of mounted bushi which were given to me years ago already based and primed. They're from <a href="https://theassaultgroup.co.uk/product-category/medieval-asia/page/5/" target="_blank">The Assault Group</a>. They're from an earlier era. By the Sengoku Jidai Samurai had moved away from mounted archery and were acting more as shock cavalry.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3vGrwKic0pP1JRagAa2rkJMrVa4F88Zuk6bSn3F5y4z6TMPjEXYb5ifsFvAFzqxoY2tgmG5-M6mI6S96kdvrHk2rGrsPo_HXjwZO-w1NX9Z0eVoX1dpbJA6dOJAx6W3XS1bFYYEa_HybCUVdTkuq0ngmKe-rwC_eN9mGjg5WhTkXDTb0GPJfriU-iyUwa/s2112/20231029_124531.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1683" data-original-width="2112" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3vGrwKic0pP1JRagAa2rkJMrVa4F88Zuk6bSn3F5y4z6TMPjEXYb5ifsFvAFzqxoY2tgmG5-M6mI6S96kdvrHk2rGrsPo_HXjwZO-w1NX9Z0eVoX1dpbJA6dOJAx6W3XS1bFYYEa_HybCUVdTkuq0ngmKe-rwC_eN9mGjg5WhTkXDTb0GPJfriU-iyUwa/s320/20231029_124531.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjrCfq-hHrfilWabKJob8wLbjV4wmbLwHMycWWFwT9O1d49pXtpQIJhsH37DlbHUm_J66Vy_S7N4MZ4CqbfJL4JkbESNFvmRXqHrS_y4pHfIIRV5EZvQUAFh7ZLHavv4GduH6ILtjKK03vhKvxXhSo3O687LesK3m-PFMe773qfyNtQFIBOjkAeChvVbtP/s2054/20231029_124552.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1731" data-original-width="2054" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjrCfq-hHrfilWabKJob8wLbjV4wmbLwHMycWWFwT9O1d49pXtpQIJhsH37DlbHUm_J66Vy_S7N4MZ4CqbfJL4JkbESNFvmRXqHrS_y4pHfIIRV5EZvQUAFh7ZLHavv4GduH6ILtjKK03vhKvxXhSo3O687LesK3m-PFMe773qfyNtQFIBOjkAeChvVbtP/s320/20231029_124552.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>But I think lighter armoured, mounted archers in archaic armour works for Ronin living off of raiding and banditry. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRuJgotlTAitjKomQq-UXt2fBm-dMRQrmTUvwOJPTmz6dgy4K9ff9WyM_esQUS2gcwDreq_IHt4sKGwOOGHdaxONs9Gku-860oVExvP0-tzYff6mjhlFf8e0f_SXJ7l8JzuvqatvPpqhCYdcIwcUJhruEDHda-lYi7srFXPeywUm_tRFV8ctT9PXKp-yC6/s1875/20231029_124631.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1256" data-original-width="1875" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRuJgotlTAitjKomQq-UXt2fBm-dMRQrmTUvwOJPTmz6dgy4K9ff9WyM_esQUS2gcwDreq_IHt4sKGwOOGHdaxONs9Gku-860oVExvP0-tzYff6mjhlFf8e0f_SXJ7l8JzuvqatvPpqhCYdcIwcUJhruEDHda-lYi7srFXPeywUm_tRFV8ctT9PXKp-yC6/s320/20231029_124631.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Their much more individual and elaborately laced armour did slow me down. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1639" data-original-width="2099" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivfYyRh9QkUhWjsdQXJwxFTrQnqjsrOm9rTlPDJOdVGV_6rjEE5S-HYXTWDNf9J_wuzK6UWxIc8m9ZSoCEK6lpntGAoa7rAE2krkJrpNPbKEaeXcGYJCTIq1zhdRJNdKJlblp56yOs3TEFDzFM77P3nTTpBCRwcYb-xE1KUW8gDqth4pit5sfxcMjPtgFc/s320/20231029_124730.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I had originally thought of using the chap in red armour as my overall commander, but with his quiver of arrows I decided to keep him with the archers. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjujJtlFIA4nE60T2ftmcW0bJfaBd0C3WH7HLMQRUGC_Wvbj9nib6fRz4ac8D4zROX-LNHF-LPaQ_JE_2diw0Ap1FpUInUQWFyDFbaD4JxXuG0NsF5QQA7hwilNX4SBDULsk1C0jL0axSH73fUFZ70nF-afm80Ip7RJLjvMWtf4LbpwiC0WULQ1g8SltAzc/s2081/20231029_124405.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2081" data-original-width="1904" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjujJtlFIA4nE60T2ftmcW0bJfaBd0C3WH7HLMQRUGC_Wvbj9nib6fRz4ac8D4zROX-LNHF-LPaQ_JE_2diw0Ap1FpUInUQWFyDFbaD4JxXuG0NsF5QQA7hwilNX4SBDULsk1C0jL0axSH73fUFZ70nF-afm80Ip7RJLjvMWtf4LbpwiC0WULQ1g8SltAzc/s320/20231029_124405.jpg" width="293" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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His blue armour provides a nice contrast to the dominant red of the Daimyo's force.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB1kf-3PKD4Un3Mdav-wWJLiHF6nV19Qgu-aCQWZ3rC5n1yLa69gBHPGtqVJXEx5Owxf-Zd4_u5_R-XP1OQclXJV181SvO-Bki-8umIRa962Fr05wk_8MJeG7EMEHb2hVeN0z0seNxrGv5OZr1ps11gGdib0F9iweSKWiDlIA8j2iGTpuLilnWsk5YjtEy/s2066/20231029_124436.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2066" data-original-width="1977" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB1kf-3PKD4Un3Mdav-wWJLiHF6nV19Qgu-aCQWZ3rC5n1yLa69gBHPGtqVJXEx5Owxf-Zd4_u5_R-XP1OQclXJV181SvO-Bki-8umIRa962Fr05wk_8MJeG7EMEHb2hVeN0z0seNxrGv5OZr1ps11gGdib0F9iweSKWiDlIA8j2iGTpuLilnWsk5YjtEy/s320/20231029_124436.jpg" width="306" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCJ3NiEGX4TAvRQHf1ztibZvK2qLK1mfrrPQGIHTai4n7t3j10XX806GgS7UazweqIDDJNRY7wcwBOcyP3c0rlEoF4_ZhcJzVLk41yG2XpZ1iaFjHmYmNIo9kID6dkzOUL1FTtHFroVRkrx3mT6xhdlFMh4ntVLd4SLtPDZ_CBeWGLSq-BUTZbguGovqHJ/s1892/20231029_124449.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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I've just got 9 ashigaru with yaris and 9 ashigaru with teppos to paint for Yokshie Tokubetsu. Can I get them done before the order arrives?</p><p><i>Stay tuned</i>!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi66GOUSZ8v4QP3br328TcAe6_yVh_uacrAGR69TW6HIQqanE_YDGf2LwrFtW1bei9xRdLGbmv-cYT93fNk8f-wzRH-CKTbfuBwl42RhYyew6FOn1hUqYICoUzMm82RtiPwG-KRbp5ea8kmS4ijJWC2H01IXSpZkUPgGyvhvAaDmlzKRSTEBIY03zv1ShwX/s1283/20231029_162249.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="969" data-original-width="1283" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi66GOUSZ8v4QP3br328TcAe6_yVh_uacrAGR69TW6HIQqanE_YDGf2LwrFtW1bei9xRdLGbmv-cYT93fNk8f-wzRH-CKTbfuBwl42RhYyew6FOn1hUqYICoUzMm82RtiPwG-KRbp5ea8kmS4ijJWC2H01IXSpZkUPgGyvhvAaDmlzKRSTEBIY03zv1ShwX/s320/20231029_162249.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-83674717535017226952023-10-22T13:33:00.004-07:002023-10-22T13:33:53.892-07:00Heaven and Earth (Samurai Movie)<p>A random post on the Feudal Japanese Miniature Wargaming Facebook group helped me find this 1990 Samurai epic. I rented the DVD many many years ago but have never been able to find it since. Mostly because in 1993 Oliver Stone also released a movie of the same title.</p><p>So Sunday lunch was spent watching this extremely colourful retelling of the struggle between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeda_Shingen" target="_blank">Takeda Shingen</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uesugi_Kenshin" target="_blank">Uesugi Kenshin</a> over Shinano province that resultd in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Kawanakajima" target="_blank">five battles of Kawanakajima</a>.</p>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ex-h3f2peqE?si=dTzUApUCRSwZUbW1" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div>There's also an Osprey about the campaigns. </div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142282242776435936.post-87127788856074637812023-10-15T18:51:00.000-07:002023-10-15T18:51:18.321-07:00Sunday Samurai Stock Taking <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRvkcRkLvdgocJEPlQ_nznFgBHrOs9_H-59QpOe938NN99hTCjrwCNVNN3Aq_wLjWeE0w0EeQAxTfAMd4e9CaqP9x-sxrMtJzB3dxG0lNYuJ0oSuviUJRiCAFQg8SPqQbmxPRYqlCkm9LxfDQiVgIMwYTbUAwpuphLKf-egibB7NaQ40TX-wnQzW_Wk7NJ/s586/1-japanese-scribe-granger%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="586" data-original-width="583" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRvkcRkLvdgocJEPlQ_nznFgBHrOs9_H-59QpOe938NN99hTCjrwCNVNN3Aq_wLjWeE0w0EeQAxTfAMd4e9CaqP9x-sxrMtJzB3dxG0lNYuJ0oSuviUJRiCAFQg8SPqQbmxPRYqlCkm9LxfDQiVgIMwYTbUAwpuphLKf-egibB7NaQ40TX-wnQzW_Wk7NJ/w199-h200/1-japanese-scribe-granger%20(1).jpg" width="199" /></a></div><p><a href="https://rabbitsinmybasement.blogspot.com/2023/10/battle-at-tea-house-of-autumn-leaves.html" target="_blank">Last weekend's game </a>got me delving into the Big Box of Unpainted Samurai, and seeing that although I've got significant reinforcements for the Lord of Tea, the Rebels are still awfully outnumbered. </p><p>So I started checking the<a href="https://www.perry-miniatures.com/product-category/metal-ranges/samurai/" target="_blank"> Perry</a>, <a href="https://www.kingsfordminiatures.org/sengoku-jidai" target="_blank">Kingsford</a>, and <a href="https://awminiatures.com/product-category/28mm-samurai-16th-century/" target="_blank">AW Miniatures</a> webstores. I also discovered the <a href="https://footsoreminiatures.co.uk/collections/test-of-honour-warring-clans" target="_blank">Footsore Japanese figures</a>, but they are stupidly expensive at around $9 a figure! I did a lot of math and sample shopping carts and checking of currency exchange rates over the week. Kingsford are <i><b>really</b></i> nice, and <b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: medium;">Canadian</span></b>, but packs of 4 for Cdn$18.99 makes them about twice as expensive as Perry. AW have some groovy palanquins, one of which would make a nifty objective for a scenario, but I'd have to convert angry villagers into ronin/ikko-ikki types. Perry have what I want, and the prices aren't terrible. I'd be able to buy about twice as much for 25% less compared to Kingsford. I'm still kicking the tires on a possible Perry order.</p><p>In the meantime I started assembling. I had a bunch of stuff that I'd bought second hand from a chap at Hot Lead about 10 years ago, so there were four duplicate Samurai waving katanas. A couple of broken scabbards and a miscast sword too. Encouraged by my figure modifying with the Warlord plastics, I got out my trusty Dremel to replace katanas with yaris.</p><p>For this era the rank and file Samurai would be primarily fighting with yaris, so more Samurai waving katanas about isn't what I wanted. Yari armed samurai on foot is what is really lacking in the Lord of Tea's <i>sonae</i>. Rather than buy a pack of samurai with yaris I thought I'd just try and make a couple. Fortunately I've got quite a stash of extra feudal Japanese weapons.</p><p>And if I messed up, oh well, I bought the figure for $2 10 years ago. I'd just buy a proper pack from the Perrys.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo7RCri7zo4zGu_X9reXPje5XwlK0xuIjfVGg7VX2WoKXgX_b291uJP7opkIfAPaqG7xQwon7SHZvAzv5UHjBGiWLDOXXsFpXkTtWKX3u90zUSqUH3grHMfYsQ1qu3yjQXweJ7AvOqx9zSs8udxYiqzwDtxZQMzUzB5lUDY3_ETqy7dUAI2jMb3-iPDnGE/s4160/20231013_225718.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo7RCri7zo4zGu_X9reXPje5XwlK0xuIjfVGg7VX2WoKXgX_b291uJP7opkIfAPaqG7xQwon7SHZvAzv5UHjBGiWLDOXXsFpXkTtWKX3u90zUSqUH3grHMfYsQ1qu3yjQXweJ7AvOqx9zSs8udxYiqzwDtxZQMzUzB5lUDY3_ETqy7dUAI2jMb3-iPDnGE/s320/20231013_225718.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Conversion on left.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcMGgBBNSBIgRf-qijXBScsG9I9NWDrRvCXdwYPN-j0rSvAA3SJDAdswN8sBHoza_IrEGC0HAOZwZheA4LXIGojhMFlHkfhI2hA3vZsDg7cDA5nyWGeYv2SLpQEy4PsOCRbxRhwSJjP4wrusZmUpTn7-XAB9IED4R33M7DG1iBfiuuLNaBhUlVyKt4Rdky/s4160/20231013_225728.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcMGgBBNSBIgRf-qijXBScsG9I9NWDrRvCXdwYPN-j0rSvAA3SJDAdswN8sBHoza_IrEGC0HAOZwZheA4LXIGojhMFlHkfhI2hA3vZsDg7cDA5nyWGeYv2SLpQEy4PsOCRbxRhwSJjP4wrusZmUpTn7-XAB9IED4R33M7DG1iBfiuuLNaBhUlVyKt4Rdky/s320/20231013_225728.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Conversion on right. Removed the distinctive deer antlers as well. Used an antler to replace the broken scabbard. Gave him the less used naginata to work with the overhand grip.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXl0_gQPHXBo_qfe0M8c-UqYelVP3oYvv9aqCu0OnxN4jdB110Ez96xX15ovYP66qLUGlxsCGID6hgayoB346C9sQYiqbHeUXKsRoVp-h2VT0kEmUo_-yfQkC9I0i7134UnuNXXdFfyHnU9xMlR1-4wNGpsUhd1taQMnxqCTmgvi9HIi9SYIxxgfrUrPDQ/s4160/20231015_140514.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXl0_gQPHXBo_qfe0M8c-UqYelVP3oYvv9aqCu0OnxN4jdB110Ez96xX15ovYP66qLUGlxsCGID6hgayoB346C9sQYiqbHeUXKsRoVp-h2VT0kEmUo_-yfQkC9I0i7134UnuNXXdFfyHnU9xMlR1-4wNGpsUhd1taQMnxqCTmgvi9HIi9SYIxxgfrUrPDQ/s320/20231015_140514.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Replaced sword with yari on the mounted samurai as well.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzMCfkD5gytzlJmgYg9XXdzw3kbd-aRZaW9gnMix5UrpegeiCOYAirbUjBZ8C55RSo9cyb3HQqtKG4EjygUwY1WhkZ8kpbNtKEPXj6L5rwtapWDFW4Jg8g9uG6lV8DB0l8dUfoFHXgWoSiTCY8qcjPNXdmlQPy2bR9YIrRedxCkVN-_aF3slDfRtj_mLmj/s4160/20231015_163937.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzMCfkD5gytzlJmgYg9XXdzw3kbd-aRZaW9gnMix5UrpegeiCOYAirbUjBZ8C55RSo9cyb3HQqtKG4EjygUwY1WhkZ8kpbNtKEPXj6L5rwtapWDFW4Jg8g9uG6lV8DB0l8dUfoFHXgWoSiTCY8qcjPNXdmlQPy2bR9YIrRedxCkVN-_aF3slDfRtj_mLmj/s320/20231015_163937.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All assembled! Just waiting for glue to set before priming</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>This flurry of activity has resulted in 3 mounted samurai (1 with yari, two with katana), 6 samurai on foot (four with yaris/naginata, 2 with katanas), 9 ashigaru with yaris and 9 ashigaru with teppo. </div><div><br /></div><div>While I was getting some 19th century sailors out to give to Mikey last night, I also discovered a bag of <a href="https://pulpfigures.com/products/category/22" target="_blank">Pulp Figures Yangzte River Pirates</a>. They were left overs form Dan's Back of Beyond stuff, and I guess he didn't find them suitable for converting into bandit types. Shaven heads, bare torsos, pants, open hands on three of the five. The footwear on a couple are wrong, but I'll hide that with grass. So give them yaris instead of the curved swords they come with and they're now another group of ikko-ikki.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg25dI-X15j3KOlz6lOuMDz0Jmcuvw6FMrFWIdl-EYhvlB5SsS9v-7tDpAAVx13dK-b4g7JmCu9QKlHa64r8KLQNdWo3uZXZe8Y0bT0SUvhipbnqSGZQYIEinL4rdltnv_iKaewbfm_xt6wTDZaAqa0JDX0yrxEjYCeVno8mnpex-jXov3EwR3HjX2v1LWM/s4160/20231015_093511.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg25dI-X15j3KOlz6lOuMDz0Jmcuvw6FMrFWIdl-EYhvlB5SsS9v-7tDpAAVx13dK-b4g7JmCu9QKlHa64r8KLQNdWo3uZXZe8Y0bT0SUvhipbnqSGZQYIEinL4rdltnv_iKaewbfm_xt6wTDZaAqa0JDX0yrxEjYCeVno8mnpex-jXov3EwR3HjX2v1LWM/s320/20231015_093511.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">While rooting about I realized that I had not one, but two, holy men among the primed but unpainted Perry civilians. These painted very quickly on Friday evening. I used contrast paint for the blue robe. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVkRmj16lP9nDD99RRN-1kqZTsw3IMIi6GqiK1lsbjM_DuzKma0AWoJ_9trcAUPK8zR-XYXpjWLwNe0xfFeaeov68dU-L2dGOWtDK1-ATJYs4U5Fr-4o9S_0XbKPcvPR7RW5vGm8amGwvJZ1JUxKyaYoOYnutlsacGXIYpFbFyEdiadTvPpMVYUy44vKpe/s1522/20231014_132859.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1361" data-original-width="1522" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVkRmj16lP9nDD99RRN-1kqZTsw3IMIi6GqiK1lsbjM_DuzKma0AWoJ_9trcAUPK8zR-XYXpjWLwNe0xfFeaeov68dU-L2dGOWtDK1-ATJYs4U5Fr-4o9S_0XbKPcvPR7RW5vGm8amGwvJZ1JUxKyaYoOYnutlsacGXIYpFbFyEdiadTvPpMVYUy44vKpe/s320/20231014_132859.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4u-d_LgPgLJXuHcZxlsYK9vyDF32v-B5n6uMGI7R0xv2tC5m7yrnpf5s9GzSZgto8924XVCocua7MAJ2qoHffGafmnH8-L8m4FHBlbY2dPUWlxja0bzfFbw-we5QJsDzWAnJDn-UIcFzCIWC97D7GHLnIFtARLcwrnTl6wdt8-om9dXvX4CGOxXUX9G-q/s1651/20231014_132909.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1465" data-original-width="1651" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4u-d_LgPgLJXuHcZxlsYK9vyDF32v-B5n6uMGI7R0xv2tC5m7yrnpf5s9GzSZgto8924XVCocua7MAJ2qoHffGafmnH8-L8m4FHBlbY2dPUWlxja0bzfFbw-we5QJsDzWAnJDn-UIcFzCIWC97D7GHLnIFtARLcwrnTl6wdt8-om9dXvX4CGOxXUX9G-q/s320/20231014_132909.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7v9kArnsdj96rULiShfzBJMGvD-TKsqXi9V91Owgb940JHRzsV8yiO-CCh4KE1DtO_UBT6erWuNnmdMw3L7ZN5-d0BcaXIas-JlaK_sFSHeyu3dtQNvZ5HHOj7EploGW9oOMXO2Fj0AccBerV6olDQsNSpiA8h4qrx7-9NCL9VqmcoLn1Be-4_JeBjwfb/s1422/20231014_132927.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1422" data-original-width="1340" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7v9kArnsdj96rULiShfzBJMGvD-TKsqXi9V91Owgb940JHRzsV8yiO-CCh4KE1DtO_UBT6erWuNnmdMw3L7ZN5-d0BcaXIas-JlaK_sFSHeyu3dtQNvZ5HHOj7EploGW9oOMXO2Fj0AccBerV6olDQsNSpiA8h4qrx7-9NCL9VqmcoLn1Be-4_JeBjwfb/s320/20231014_132927.jpg" width="302" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLZn6N1uTzQRCWppdVteE-E8e-h-Hmv2-KPSSG6Qeoha3laOD9QYyXpAPPGqsh6Pyjc5cQ2NM2wYmQwBT3jcVg145gbCG-Ak3IPUenvcnuoVD9p7E9HF4CNLOwRZNK5PtSEDVOI-5BUPr4YG-mx1P9JUx8TZ50aZTi74_IKHQB-yWtZDH-jd5smHABkDpt/s1448/20231014_132936.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1448" data-original-width="1291" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLZn6N1uTzQRCWppdVteE-E8e-h-Hmv2-KPSSG6Qeoha3laOD9QYyXpAPPGqsh6Pyjc5cQ2NM2wYmQwBT3jcVg145gbCG-Ak3IPUenvcnuoVD9p7E9HF4CNLOwRZNK5PtSEDVOI-5BUPr4YG-mx1P9JUx8TZ50aZTi74_IKHQB-yWtZDH-jd5smHABkDpt/s320/20231014_132936.jpg" width="285" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I also painted some wooden disks as themed Deployment Points. The script on the left is a Buddhist chant.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFweojqoWJxtT3IXgD32NaTwwgAAmf-z2EhrP5XtrDnhLycDXSRus-3IeUuZ_86IZphBdlYq2gMbGs0pswW0Jyfye8XvXb5VYVBabIt0iPb9uIivxJ__FSu6e-Mi7L83pExOytwVwwxkzMRkTFroWPhHfCx7IVaBvZhDGncYWeCTlebjqrgh1QqwUEvFNA/s4160/20231015_142022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFweojqoWJxtT3IXgD32NaTwwgAAmf-z2EhrP5XtrDnhLycDXSRus-3IeUuZ_86IZphBdlYq2gMbGs0pswW0Jyfye8XvXb5VYVBabIt0iPb9uIivxJ__FSu6e-Mi7L83pExOytwVwwxkzMRkTFroWPhHfCx7IVaBvZhDGncYWeCTlebjqrgh1QqwUEvFNA/s320/20231015_142022.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Just some civilians and extra bits left now!</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitaEPLZ4jcHGN-YOWSCnwlMnv1b_Fo5Q-pXy0vSdmZH-ZT89cSPEiQjdVL-YncxH5J36T0XgNa0us8X9OAoiJ7u18Sw7fmIFgZKMzf4C_vQV5qrTciBDimRvAYkLRIM6UqRIWTiUFkxcmici0hHRRirdRP6jbrlnKm_yp1aEXkt7M03pbF3ZBoJJrcLQ_X/s4160/20231015_163923.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitaEPLZ4jcHGN-YOWSCnwlMnv1b_Fo5Q-pXy0vSdmZH-ZT89cSPEiQjdVL-YncxH5J36T0XgNa0us8X9OAoiJ7u18Sw7fmIFgZKMzf4C_vQV5qrTciBDimRvAYkLRIM6UqRIWTiUFkxcmici0hHRRirdRP6jbrlnKm_yp1aEXkt7M03pbF3ZBoJJrcLQ_X/s320/20231015_163923.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Empty!</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14996350912869829140noreply@blogger.com2