Blog recommendation

 Do pop over to this recently created blog-

https://ratspikeandrenegades.blogspot.com/

Full of interesting reading and visual delights, not to mention the promise of fascinating posts to come…

Claymore

 Enjoyable visit to Claymore in Edinburgh followed by an excellent BBQ .

The blurb from an excellent 18th century game.

Lovely Imperialist.

Excellent Ottomans.

A public participation game. Liked the use of a full sized shield plus background info.

Gask ridge towers and Romans were most effective.

A charming TYW scratch built fort.

Figures from the above game in 15mm , great effect en masse 

Battle of Linlithgow in 15mm

They also did it in 28mm , l think, with Wofun flats.

I do enjoy seeing a Napoleonic naval game. 

A Border Reivers skirmish which looked fun to play.

My only purchases. Rules from the folk putting on the 15mm TYW game, love the name of them! Book from Balkan Dave who was putting on the excellent 18th century Turks v Imperialists game.

Lovely bbq and catch up with friends  and family in the late afternoon /evening. For the first time ever a seagull attempted to take food from the bbq whilst it was cooking!

I enjoyed chatting to old friends and new at the show and to those putting on the games. Particular mention of a reader of this blog who brought Airfix related magazine articles for me photograph. Thank you for your thoughtfulness. More on this anon…

New transport for the Home Guard

 

The Sargent showing the new platoon transport to an unconvinced ARP warden.

The platoon training with the new transport.

Admiring the sign writing skills on the van. The ARP warden is still unconvinced.

Local top brass having a shufti.

Notes

1. Miniature signage by my middle daughter, using her artistic skills.
2. Both sides of my family were from Pork Butcher stock. They came from Germany around 1900 and had shops in Leith and Edinburgh. My father was the first not to work in the shops.
3. There was a large German Pork Butcher community in England and Scotland.
4. 1927 was the year my father was born.

Bring out your old lead…

 Anyone got any of these to sell?

Old school’s not out for summer etc

The figures from the previous post are now just about ready for the table top.

Opps noticed the shield boss on the elephant rider needs painting, easily fixed.

Here they are ready and waiting to raid the far flung corners of the Empire.

Popped these old school delights on a single base as a unit of Dromedarii on patrol.

Here’s a link to an article on them-

https://www.historiascripta.org/classical-antiquity/dromedarii-camel-riders-in-the-roman-army/

In other news l managed to do this yesterday 

Really wasn’t digging too enthusiastically at all, was most surprised when this breakage occurred.

Finally really enjoyed the Prog at the Proms on bbc iPlayer. Well worth a listen, some great interpretations of some classics. 

An old school sort of day

 It began by reading this splendid blog post over coffee-

https://pampersandp.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-further-tarriance-in-hyboria.html

And continued thus-

Looked out these Airfix Ancient Britons from the shed. This is the colour l recall from my youth. Sadly these have plastic rot and will need to be disposed of.

Looked out these from the shed also and took them off their tired thin card bases. Wondered if this broken hollow cast elephant might be deployed with them…

I ordered the Airfix’s magazine below from eBay recently, it arrived pm.

Interesting series of articles from Bob O’Brien on converting Airfix figures.

Some examples of conversions, even mentioning Banana Oil!

An interesting review from the same magazine re WRG rules. The magazine cover below.

Currently getting the Minifigs ready for the tabletop and their newly acquired elephant too. I envisage them to be some sort of desert raiders , a thorn in the flesh of many.

And now for something completely different or the horror, the horror!

 

Branching out in my modelling, a wee estate loco for the garden railway. Even with instructions and an article in a garden railway glossy this is daunting!

Making a start.

Other stuff on the painting desk, plastic and resin.