As Craig R H might say

 Great game last night organised by Jon-

Lovely to “meet” some fellow bloggers for the first time too. As for my part in the game it would be summed up by a Stictly judge in the following terms “ Definitely a dice disaster, darling!”

Battle reports anon…

Blogger issues

 I am having problems with my reading list. Here it is 

It shows one recent post then the rest are from years ago. Yesterday it was a strange mix of recent and nine years ago. Very frustrating as I enjoy reading blogs with breakfast in the morning.☹️

A longer term project

 Quite a few years ago , well over fifteen probably, we had our joiner remove part of the kitchen worktop as part of a remodelled kitchen. It seemed too good to waste  so l asked him to cut it for me into ship or coastal defence vessel shapes. He did so as a favour as we knew him well and the resultant heavy wooden hulls were mothballed in the shed. I had a vague Little Wars, John Ruddle, Floor Games plans …

Fast forward to recently, to the video l got from Tommy Atkins. I noticed a box of sailors and some guns too not to mention some artillery crews which looked sort of Marine Artillery vibe. A thought grew in my mind that l might utilise these wooden hulks and do something in the garden…

Anyway the guns and figures arrived on Saturday and l got the wooden hulls out of the shed, brought them into the house and added the new Ruddle guns and figures-

So what do you think? It seems to be an idea. I will not be attempting accurate or semi accurate ships models but rather a toy soldier “suggestion “ of them. Thoughts currently are to use blocks of wood , possibly balsa for the ship’s infrastructure and metal or plastic tubing as funnels and torpedo tubes. Thoughts please and all ideas gratefully received. This is a Spring project ( able to saw etc outdoors then) so plenty of time to plan …

Down in yon Forest

One of my favourite albums and l do like this song particularly.

Renaissance updates

 Mike asked how the projects were going-

Got these figures as a sort of job lot on EBay. Many were headless, baseless, weaponless or a combination of all three.

Here they are with weapons and heads from the spares box plus bases added, if needed-

Next pictures after painting and on the battlefield-

I am pleased with how they turned out with a little TLC.

Unboxing John Ruddle garden gaming figures

 Recently thanks to Tommy Atkins l got a chance to buy some of the late John Ruddle’s garden gaming figures. The auction stuff had gone but I am delighted to have had a chance to buy some of the remaining figures at a very reasonable price. I was sent this video of what was left-

These are what l chose-

I think these are guns off his ships or costal artillery. Fascinating to see how he converted and utilised Britains guns- ACW and classic Little Wars one.

Delighted to give these a home an£ hopefully a chance to fight on…

Game on

 I hadn’t had R over for a game for ages, circumstances really rather than a lack of desire on the part of either of us. Anyway a date was pencilled in and arrived yesterday. I set the table up for either of the options of the day- Rapid Fire Reloaded or One Hour Skirmish-

In the end we went for One Hour Skirmish. I taught the game with just rifle armed figures.

We then moved onto a bigger game involving Leaders, smg, lmg etc.

Much of the action involved the house in the above picture which changed hands many times. We played with crew served weapons too ( hmg) which worked well.

All in all a good catch up and enjoyable game which emphasises fun and action over complications.