I'm back from Partizan and completely bushed. The sun shone, the venue was fantastic and I met a whole lot of friends. I'll post some photos tomorrow, but for the moment, I have a somewhat shaky video of the game in full flow, playing cards everywhere and several generals with furrowed brows! The pile of units off table towards the end of the clip, are seven regiments of dead Vitellian cavalry. It was a bloodbath...
Sunday, 1 June 2014
Friday, 30 May 2014
Partizan in the Park preview
Cool pictures of the Partizan venue, nicked from Steve's Paintingshed.
There will be three of these, apparently, in a row. The weather forecast for Sunday is looking promising, too; sunny but not too hot. Can't wait!
Thursday, 29 May 2014
New terrain boards
Sunday's game at Partizan requires no fewer than 7 additional terrain boards. Here are four of them; two river banks and the Via Postumia (on the right).
Most of the boards are 12mm MDF with flocked paper pasted onto them. Several that needed contouring (the river banks, for example) are 6mm ply with 3 layers of 2mm MDF glued to them. The raised road is solid timber, and heavy, with it! Tomorrow I am going to add patches of long static grass to break up the big green areas.
Luckily, I had off-cuts of flocked paper left over from previous projects (and a gift from mate Ian), so the big expansion has turned out to be a relatively inexpensive undertaking. As well as for Cremona, the additional boards will be really useful for regular gaming chez Bat.
Wednesday, 28 May 2014
Pontoon bridge- done, but not yet dusted
It's built and painted, but I think it needs one final drybrush to make it a little lighter in tone. Today I'm going to get to work on the Po river banks, and on the raised Via Postumia. I'll take some proper pics at Partizan.
Sunday, 25 May 2014
Bridge over the River Po
...being a WIP shot of my pontoon bridge and the river it will cross.
The "Po" is a 6mm ply board with adhesive blue tiles from Homebase on it. I am cautiously pleased with the tiles which are much more hard-wearing than my previous attempt at a river. On the downside, they needed to be cut down to size, which was a real pain, and one can see the joins to some extent. The separate banks are also 6mm ply, build up with 3 layers of 2mm MDF. They sit over the edge of the river, disguising the join between the boards, and are the same thickness as the 12mm MDF boards that I will be using with the game.
The river will also do service as the Rhine, for 70AD games, especially if I can make up some models like the Liburnian that Skull and Crown sent me. I am considering making another 4' length of river, and a couple of narrower rivers, too.
If you are coming to Partizan on Sunday, and would like to move a legion or so about, please drop me a line!
Thursday, 22 May 2014
Pontoon bridge part 2
My bridge is coming on apace; it's just over 1 metre long. Last night I built the approach ramps from balsa, foam board and the inevitable coffee stirrers. The only work remaining is to build the supports that sit in the pontoons and prop up the roadway, and I can't do those until I've built the river, or I might get the bridge's level wrong. I also need to add the 4Ground balustrades and paint, of course. In the background I'm building a section of the raised Via Postumia.
The 1st Bedriacum (Cremona) game will be fought at Partizan on 1st June, and I still have a couple of places left if you would like to play; drop me an email at the address on the front of my blog. I'll also be running a somewhat larger version of the same game, along with several other big Roman battles, at the Wargames Holiday Centre on the weekend of 28th/29th June, at which I believe there are some spaces left.
Wednesday, 21 May 2014
More Romans and a baboon
A hasty and rather nasty camera phone photo of three units of Roman skirmishers that I'm basing. Most of these minis were painted by mate Legatus Hedlius; I've added some Black Tree poses for variety. A better photo will follow when the basing is finished, perhaps after Partizan. I owe Legatus a further debt of gratitude for recommending "Lewis" as a successor for my "Morse" boxed set, which I finished last night. So far I'm liking Lewis!
Finally, I've painted an old Citadel baboon to pass to Scrivs for the Keren game. IIRC it will have a role harassing the BBC, so presumably it is a fascist baboon. ;-)
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