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18th century Spanish

Are the old London war room 25mm Spanish leather coated colonial troops still in production? If so who makes them now?

Society for Convivial Anachronism again...

I thought about my hobbit kickstarter figures in this post from  last October-
http://tradgardland.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/society-for-convivial-anachronism.html
Now here are the hobbits armoured-

I also painted up some other hobbits for reduced unit size Dragon rampant ,not to mention their warg opponents-

I hope to play the game over the coming days...

Pre owned bargains

Some pre owned buildings (Airfix) recently bought and awaiting renovation work.

A 1941 book filled with interesting photos bought in a charity shop today for £1.99!

Airfix infantry combat Group

Anyone got any of these chaps to sell?

It was 50 years ago this May or when Plan(et)s collide

Yesterday after school I went to a C.P.D  (continuing professional development or teaching for teachers) event locally. Often CPD  is not the most inspirational thing in life but yesterday's was different. It was about WW2 in Dunfermline, the role of the Home Guard and Polish troops here in the War. The talk centred round detailed maps of the defence plans for here if an invasion had come and the actual remains left such as concrete road blocks and trenches.

I had heard some it before but  there were fascinating new details such as the Home Guard officer who built an armoured car (sadly no pictures) out of a Buick car. I left inspired and greatly enthused.
This morning I was looking through old photocopies and found my copy of all Charles Grant's Meccano magazine articles  on WW2 wargaming.- " Introduction to Battle" ,the first of which was dated May 1968. The two things combined in my mind and an idea of an idea began to form for a new project to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the rules and combine  it with a Grantian ( if I can conjure such a word up)take on modelling local buildings. An old school homage to a battle that never happened.

A "Portable Wargame" Napoleonic game.

I set up this game today to play using "Developing The Portable Wargame" ancient  rules as per the post on ( http://gameofmonth.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/1759-minor-affair.html )

I used layers of the Hexon to add hills.

Figures used are Jim Duncan's Swedes split into two forces. I was pleased with the look of the thing and it will be able to be kept up over the next few days.

This afternoon I prepared some Copplestone Hobbits for painting.