Dreadful in Penedredfel..

 Found this upon my return-

What happened remains a mystery , was it a giant cat or the Beast of Penedredfel, we will never know. The  station personnel have silently dusted themselves off and the station also , restored by the Portly Controller aka the Duke of Tradgardland. We will watch and wait for further developments…

Back 1

 Just back from three nights in Copenhagen. 

Coffee and cheese roll ( danish specialty) outside Hart. Saw these lovely dogs.

Colourful housing occupied by military personnel l believe.

Splendid entrance to the fort.

View of ramparts and St Alban’s , the English church.

Gateway into the fort…

Garrison church in the fort.

Statue of the Danish king who rode round the city encouraging his people whilst under Nazi occupation.

Charming detail on a building.

Heads up

 I just want to give a heads up to this blog-

https://talesfromthetoyroom.blogspot.com/

It is full of wonderful toy soldier inspiration and well worth a visit. Pop by , you certainly won’t regret it . Always enchanting often surprising , it is a delight. I particularly like the miniature worlds created by Graham with their scenery and gardens too. 

Currently unable to leave comments there ( and many other blogs too) due to blogger. 

Vibe

 My enthusiasm for my current projects ( Hawaiians , Craigshire and VBCW Welsh)seems to have withered on the hobby vine. Knowing my enthusiasm will return at some point (plastic storage drawers opened and the work restarted ) I put things aside and looked for a wee hobby palette cleanser in the shape of 54mm figures and a pig-

Being lying around for ages. Funny thing is before I wargamed I painted 54s , often Rose Miniatures, all long gone. I got bored with the figures as they just sat on shelves. Got the Rose figures at the Toy Tub.

Filling the cracks  left by my bad assembly work.

A couple of old eBay Britains in the need of TLC…

On Saturday l saw an inspiring exhibition at the local museum/ library/ gallery 

Beautiful art on display, well worth looking out for…

Sailing by …

 It is a busy time at Penedredfel station. The “Boat” is being prepared for some track inspection work after the terrible storm of the other day-

The mast and yardarm have been collected from storage.

The driver of the “ Boat” or should it be skipper, waits patiently.

All is ready but where is the canvas sail ? A hunt for it has begun…

For more information on a similar contraption see below-

https://www.festipedia.org.uk/wiki/The_Boat

http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/sail/sail.htm

Moving forward

 

Most of the Hawaiian figures are painted and it was time to think of a game…

Eventually settled on 5cm square bases , figures stuck on with blue tack to allow their use in skirmish games.

Found some card and cut my 5cm square bases. Each base represents 25 - 150 men , depending on type , fighting as a distinct “ Company” as the rules call it.

Testing the basing size by drawing on paper, putting the figures on an leaving it. I came back and forward over the day to see if it would look better bigger or smaller.

The rules which l think should work well. They have a Polynesian army list btw..

The rules have period and locality flavour built in. All measurements are in units (u) which is the frontage of the company base, in my case 5 cm.

Seasons

 

Sunday saw us able to have coffee in the garden, maybe the last time this autumn, who knows.

Autumn has arrived and attempts are made to tidy up prior to winter.

A fox ponders things then makes for cover, stepping carefully through the luggage.

The leaves are changing colour.

The Acer turns a glorious red.

Finally a song-

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q0jawY8r-ik