Friday, 5 March 2010

100Kday!

I'd very much like to thank all the people who have visited this site since last March, and who yesterday took my page load numbers past 100,000 hits, with just over 51,000 unique visits.  I've hugely enjoyed your feedback and comments, and hope to meet some of you in person at Bletchley and Salute.  Here's an old pic of some happy Germanic cavalry, in celebration.


 In other news,  I played my first game of Flames of War last night with some local gamers from Dark Nights and Bloody Dawns in Wood Green.  It was very enjoyable; how did I  manage to completely miss FoW until now?  The 15mm WW2 figures were both numerous and beautifully painted, and I'd very much like to use them again.  We used Western Desert minis, and I will hopefully show DNBD how a Memoir '44 Western Desert game would compare.  Might even try their minis on a big hex grid.

Finally, I will be starting board 7 for Zama, today.  Joy.
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13 comments:

  1. Tony5 March 2010 at 10:09

    Congratulations and very well done, a Blog to be (very) proud of.

    Tony
    http://dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.com/

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  2. BigLee5 March 2010 at 10:33

    milestone indeed. Congrats & great blog. Looking forward to seeing Zama at Salute.

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  3. BigRedBat5 March 2010 at 10:54

    Cheers guys! BL, I'm currently up to my elbows in sharp sand and PVA, to that very end.

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  4. Caliban5 March 2010 at 11:17

    Well done Simon. Here's to the next 100K

    Paul

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  5. Javier5 March 2010 at 13:18

    Congratulations, I follow your blog since a while and is very enjoyable. I'm also currently building up a republican roman army and your work is very inspirational.

    Cheers,

    Javier

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  6. BigRedBat5 March 2010 at 13:24

    Thanks chaps! Javier, why not post some photos?

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  7. Javier5 March 2010 at 13:31

    Posting some photos would be great, however I have not own blog yet. I just send Keith from Aventine Miniatures some pictures and he kindly publish them in his web. Coming back about the blog I don't know if I would have enough time to keep it updated regularly.

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  8. BigRedBat5 March 2010 at 13:38

    Hi Javier- now I recall seeing your stuff there; great painting! Here's a link for anyone else who wants a look (scroll down the page).

    http://www.aventineminiatures.co.uk/page3.html

    What transfers did you use on the velites parma, please? They look very useful.

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  9. Javier5 March 2010 at 13:45

    Thanks for the compliments. For the parma shields I just used LBMS transfers. Follow the link and you will reach the transfers:

    http://www.aventineminiatures.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=26&products_id=145

    I was thinking about the white ones with the wolf but i plan to use the red transfers with the roman she wolf (http://www.aventineminiatures.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=26&products_id=143 ) for the legionaries scutum so finally i opted for the red ones. And i must admit they look great too.

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  10. BigRedBat5 March 2010 at 14:00

    The red wolf ones are nice... but I think I'll stick with white for my first two legions.

    I'd not noticed that VVV transfer; will be handy! Thanks.

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  11. Andrey5 March 2010 at 16:23

    Hi Simon!
    You have interesting blog.

    Andrey.

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  12. WarRaptor5 March 2010 at 19:44

    Youve got a great painting style! I cant believe it has taken THIS long to get to 100K!

    Congrats!

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  13. Secundus6 March 2010 at 14:18

    Well done your blog is a wealth of ideas and inspiration. Keep up the great work!

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