Carronade

The chap in the middle of the photo is me,to the left my regular opponent of nearly 30 years standing and to the right a member of http://westerhopewargames.blogspot.co.uk/ whose club took the photo.They were really friendly chaps who put on a great medieval game (54mm and cost only £60) which can be viewed at the above link.We really enjoyed talking to them .
It was good also to to talk to-
Tom, Bill about his and Colin's superb WW1 in East Africa game,Richard,Steve Rimmer and his excellent WOTR game not to mention generous handout and Chorley cake etc,Hugh from my Edinburgh University Wargames Club days in the 1980s,Jim D and some chaps from Slingshot/Society of Ancients. Add some interesting games,other chats and traders and a most enjoyable pie and you can see what a great show it was!

Who are you?

Is this chap a Polish Pancerni or what? Minifigs?

Below is a Lamming (?) Roman general  which I will use to command my new Romans. What make is the other chap?

I am a most fortunate chap...

Martin Rapier wrote this recently on his blog-

A sad feature of getting older is the increased prevalence of your contemporaries dying, and in the case of wargaming, this also means their collections being passed on by the bereaved families. In some ways it is quite comforting to think your 'stuff' living on and continuing to be used by people who appreciate it.

In this vein I recently acquired some figures from the estate of the late Robert Plumb,

I have been very lucky to have acquired  some figures from him too this week-

Old school and painted - couldn't ask for more!

Any thoughts on manufacturers greatfully recieved.

I am indeed a lucky fellow ! See these next when I have sorted them out into armies,finished bases and added spears on my Pavilioned in Splendour Blog in action- soon I hope!

Carronade?

Anyone off to Carronade in Falkirk tomorrow? I hope to do so .

A tad grumpy in Tradgardland- a haggis/herring war?..

Grrr , someone has taken my wife's cable so I can't down load the " On the workbench" photos  I want to upload here!
Anyway enough of that and a written update instead. The Airfix chaps are in various states of painting,undercoating and basing.I am pleased with the look of them and am enjoying painting figures I recall from my youth...
The idea has been to raise units of 12 infantry based in threes on 60mm by 30mm basing. The rules will probably be either Neil Thomas's 19th century ones, Bob's Big Board Portable Wargame 19tn century, Ross Tin Brigadier or maybe some very simple concoction of my own.
The Airfix Germans paint up well as Norwegians as this old photo shows-

I have been painting Norwegian troops and Scotland based Rifle Volunteers to oppose the Norwegian landing. I t has been fun to research the uniforms and potentiality fight some battles over terrain from my neck of the woods. I envisage regulars coming by train over the Forth Rail bridge as reinforcements or marching from Redford Barracks to battle. I have even managed to raise a few volunteer cyclists too. I am suspending disbelief and enjoying planning some games. The "One hour wargames" book has arrived and is an interesting read and I will use the scenarios as game ideas too.

Plastic rot problems and questions...

I have been painting and preparing 1/72 Airfix chaps of various vintages.It is part of a project using the figures I was given by generous Bloggers some time ago and pertains to the recent previous posts.
 Some have plastic rot and fall apart at a touch of the finger!Two questions - can I use them if I cover them in glue ( if they don't shatter when working with them)  or something  and if I do will the rot spread to other untainted figures? Sorry if I have asked this before but I can't recall what I should do...

May Day

Happy May Day from all at The Crumpled Kobold coffee house in Tradgardstadt! Have a good weekend ( be it two or three days) one and all when it comes.