Sunday 2 March 2014

Weekend in the garden and Middle Earth

                                                           This before. Now here is after-
The ground has been leveled,a path reinstated,fencing put up,the border planted up,compost bins moved and our new car ( delivered yesterday) a Honda Jazz in the drive. I'm not terribly into cars beyond them being a mode of transportation but ( for a non-driver) I am very taken with it...
We have been busy in the garden and I have had no time/energy for gaming.However I have begun to rebase the Mythical Earth chaps on individual penny bases to allow skirmish gaming. I also converted a elf to ride a hind as a scout/king- haven't quite decided yet.A work in progress as below-
Uruk-Hai with some weapon conversions and repairs.
Finally got round to basing/painting my hobbits.Again another work in progress.Not my favourite figures but they are growing on me. Hopefully they will defend the Shire in a game very soon...

6 comments:

  1. I admire your gardening skills - still to wet here to get anything done in mine . Think the rebasing is brilliant ! - always think single basing gives each figure its own entity , I remember owning figures like those many many years ago !

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  2. You have made excellent progress in both your garden and your Middle Earth wargaming project. I wish that I was doing as well!

    All the best,

    Bob

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  3. Wow - your garden is looking good Alan. There is about 1.5m of snow and ice in mine, with more to come. It will be some time before I catch up to you!

    Your new car will be very popular with the family...

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  4. Looking good in the garden....if you fancy a working holiday down South come and do mine :-) The ME stuff is looking great, we must get our heads together about hassling Dave Ryan into re-releasing them.A 2 pronged attack initially and then blog our hearts out to drum up support.

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  5. Your garden is shaping up nicely! We finally got some rain here this weekend, but still way short of the average. We will need a lot more to get out of the drought.
    The ME figures look quite "old school" (because they are). Nice work on the conversion of the elf to ride a hind. Seems more suited to being a scout - not "flash" enough for a king, but that's just my opinion.
    ("How do you know he's a king?" "Because he hasn't got s*** all over him.")

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  6. Delighted to see somebody doing some gardening! Here in New England we have a foot of snow on the ground and temperatures for the next week at least in the 20s (F).

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