Update re POW ship

For anyone interested here is a link to a website about Stobs POW camp .It contains lots of interesting information and now a picture of my ship too.Enjoy!
http://stobs-camp.bizhat.com/Pages/Page7a/POWcrafts.htm

Fury of the Northmen (9th/10th century Tradgardlanders I suppose...)

Across the snow covered land they came,following their mounted chief and his Raven banner. Through the  forest they came in search of gold and slaves.

They hoped their foe's guard would be down in this season of frost ,snow and ice.

Meanwhile ,ahead in the forest,wait Saxon scouts alert for any movement or sound in the forest. Suddenly they hear labouring of men in snow cursing and stumbling as they come.
To be continued...
Please vote now on if the Scouts will be seen by the Vikings- see right hand side for poll...

Coffee in a different light or a tale of two bases

Well I am a tad disappointed as the snow has come to nothing or so here.I know I am a romantic about snow and that it has been a real pain to many of late but nevertheless I feel a little cheated.
Uptown with Jan this morning I bought Wargames illustrated ,not something I do often but it does seem to have loads of interesting articles again  this month-French Indian wars,Sonderbondeskreig etc.
So this afternoon I got on with some figures-

A few weeks ago a combination of having run out of basing material coupled with a lack of desire to fork out money for modelling products  led to experimenting with used coffee grounds. I mix the coffee with wood glue to make a basing medium which adheres to anything I have yet tried it with. The above picture shows me using it to enhance the button bases I used for my 18th century Ny Tradgardland militia.
I also set up a trial Mythical Earth basing experiment,one simple card and one with added coffee,stone and scatter-

I would be interested in your opinions of the respective styles.Part of me like the pure old school card look whilst the terraformed one looks quite good too. Perhaps I ought to try Springfield's interesting idea he suggested in a comment to the previous post.

Base fellows etc

The weekend at last.I spent ages trying to get by bus and delayed train to a course this afternoon on to find it not on.Still I cannot grumble as many of you have had terrible snow just recently.For us it is merely a smattering at present and impacted in no way on my journey
Thanks  for the fauna ideas-I will act upon them this weekend I think.It is quite frustrating in a way - for example I really like the Pulp miniatures Big Foot but the postage for one figure makes it not viable.
The Mega miniatures look good and loads of other tempting figures too.
Anyway  on to my main reason for posting- Mythical Earth figures basing. I am wondering if I like the simple green card look.I wonder if a juxtaposition between the simple figures and a more scenic style of basing would look good.Before I try it out let me know what you think...

Fauna not Flora- help sought

Evening all!
The flora is taken care of in part by the trees I bought but I now looking for the fauna.
I am looking for suggestions for manufacturers of 28mm  North American/Canadian wildlife  for use in my French Indian Wars games- bears,wolves etc. Also any ideas for Big Foot and other appropriate mythological figures appreciated.
many thanks
Alan

Books and an update...

Back home from work this evening and the postman has called. He brought two books.The first was a book by Common Ground about the idea of Parish Maps- individual communities  and their attempts to map a local area showing that which is important to them.Secondly a novel which I was recommended to read by Paul of Funnylittlewars /Borduria Calling fame.I will start one tonight hopefully.
No painting at the weekend apart from working on painting part of my late mother's flat. Too tired for hobby stuff tonight and will chill.The 4ground French Indian War building arrived and looks good but will require a clear mind and is for another day.Plans are afoot for some North west frontier gaming but it will probably wait until half term...

Purchases

It's two in the morning... well between six and seven on Sunday morning actually but it has the Leonard Cohen vibe that the song has if you know what I mean. I have finished the Weekly Plans,emailed them to myself and safely saved them -huzzah!
Yesterday whilst uptown ( uptown means the shops in Dunfermline whilst into town would mean going to Edinburgh-I  could even confuse myself) yesterday with Jan I bought the above reading material.I don't buy all the glossy mags but if something catches my eye I will purchase it.In this case it was articles about Charles the Bold - a longtime,ongoing interest of mine.The other articles are interesting too and it was a good read.
I finally succumbed to this Osprey in light of my current french Indian War vibe .A good read,great piccies and much inspiration.Incidently Brigadier General John Forbes lived in Dunfermline for part of his life.Plans for today are a little up in the air dependent on weather etc.Have a good Sunday whatever ou do.