Baptism by fire,well almost

I was given Kelly kettle for  Christmas and decided to give it a go the other day in the garden-

I thought I had set a fire well with  paper & dried sticks collected by Jan and the girls in Falkland but to no avail.The second firing was little better- hotish water but not boiling. I will try again soon.
Up ,far too early, to a sunny Tradgardland. I decided to do some semi flats-

whilst listening to an excellent Radio 4 play "Miss Morison's Ghosts" on my  i pad on radio iplayer.
Oh why I'm here any thoughts on good renaissance wargames rules? I didn't like DBR ,am tempted to return to (inspite of fears re book keeping) George Gush's but am open to suggestions...

Spotty Seal

My middle daughter (the textile designer one) has now created an Etsy Page with items she has made. Here is an  example-

Do pop over and have a look at the link below. I am a proud dad indeed.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SpottySeal

Uber Old School - an update

Remember the above? I had the following email today-

"Dear Mr. Gruber,

I will try to translate the rules in English. It will take some time, perhaps we publish the rules in the Zinnlaube.

You must be patient for a while!

Thank You for Your understanding.

Best wishes

Ignacio Czeguhn"

It is great that a member of the group will be willing to do this for me .Further details will be posted when I hear more...

Inspiration

Really liked this image and also the ideas it suggested to me...

Sunday

Found this picture on the internet-

If you click on it you will see figures like those in the previous post.Secondly I downloaded this-

Its the BBC dramatisation from the late 1960s of the Hobbit.I started listening to it when ironing today and it was splendid.Well worth a listen in my opinion.I have started the game and Ross's rules are working out well.

A game

Set up a game yesterday before the sun came out and I could  cut the grass and garden. I will play it over the next few days.Anyway here it is-

Army Black are defending a town and have sent skirmishers forward into the woods.

Army Black's right wing including band.

Army Red cavalry massed on the left wing.

Army Red Highlanders in the fore ground with machine gun behind and Staff behind that.

Rules are "Post it version of New Tin Army by Ross -

http://gameofmonth.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/the-kapelle-field-force-marches-again.html

Semi flats

Torrential rains in Tradgardland have left me in the house this morning rather than outside as I would prefer. I have been looking at some 40mm semi flats which need painting-

I am loathed to go for a purely khaki colour scheme and have been looking at Haswell Miller's Vanished armies for a few pointers. Any suggestions for uniform ideas sources most welcome.

I have one semi flat tank and I was thinking today about trying to scratch build some others. But not sure where to begin.I would ideally like to try some of the British interwar vehicles that so appeal to me. Anyone tried their hand at such a thing?