What are you working on....?

[Radar]

Thanks.

[martin goddard]

Yes like those. Good pun Les, with "executed"!

[Radar]

Thanks, indeed it was.
Next task avoidance activity, cleaning up and preserving a demi-culverin cannonball recovered from Marston Moor.
Somehow my goal is to complete 4 regiments of Royalist horse before Christmas. Only then can I contribute to the Peter Pig pension pot by adding 5 regiments of foot (including drilling out more lowland pike hands ) and a little bit more ordinance. And a star fort.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Very nicely done, Radar!

And there must be some kind of story behind your cannonball?

[Radar]

Thanks.
Alas no interesting story behind the cannonball. Purchased from a metal detectorist

[martin goddard]

But a story could be woven?

[Radar]

Sadly the relative I know about who lived at the time was Parliament's treasurer of Lancashire, so a bureaucrat rather than a contender for having his leg/arm knocked off by the said cannonball.

If only it was Napoleonic! Another relative was a real life Sharpe: Wellington conferring a field commission on him due to daring do.

[Radar]

Cannonball complete. From this:

To this:


By my reckoning it is from a demi-culverin: weight (9lb) and diameter fit with weight and bore from period artillery tables.

Now back to death by brown paint

[Colonel Kilgore]

That's impressive - Hammerite?

[Radar]

Nope, gentle wire brushing on worst bits of corrosion, then soft brush. Quick spray of Waxoyl, then a buff with a soft cloth.
I asked a friend (archaeologist) best way to preserve without wrecking it.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Well it's very impressive. I guess you don't want to be dropping it on your foot...

[Radar]

Thanks.
Absolutely not. What damage could a solid 9lb cannonball do? I'd have said probably a bit, not massive amounts of damage. I've reappraised that notion.9lbs in such a small object: it feels a lot heavier than you think it should,  dropping it from  table height would make a mess of the floor so I hate to think what it would do fired out of a cannon.

[Hman]

Just doing a Team Yankee British Force for a Mega at Entoyment in December. The wonders of doing Head Swaps and a bit of Green Stuff to make "Hairy Helmets" foliage on top ! Some the figures are Battle Fronts and other are Martins PP ranges. US Marines and others.

Will you post pictures of the completed army?

Like the use of USMC figs...

[Smiley Miley 66]

I will in a week or so. Weymouth Weekender to do first. Get scenery ready for 3 games plus some other bits and pieces.

[Duncan]

https://flic.kr/p/2ahdbHC
https://flic.kr/p/2cYm3aW
I have been working on some conversions for my Chaos Dwarf army. I have uploaded photos to my flickr accountvand made them public.
My most recent is an armoured Bull Centaur Sourcerer and a squad of Chaos Dwarf Lancers mounted on mechanical steam powered chairs.
These are all 15mm.