What are you working on....?

[Lluis of Minairons]

I've not long ago started an early 18th century Ottoman army, for a long term  campaign my gaming mates and I are planning to run next year.
Such campaign will be loosely based on the real 7^th Ottoman-Venetian War (1714-1718), and will somehow be a continuation to a what-if Late WSS campaign whose aftermath gave a slightly different end of war.

It's a somewhat complicate but very fun kind of campaign (imho), with a main narrative in storytelling form giving alibis for the players to run either wargaming or RPG scenarios, or even small campaigns. I'm ruling it from a blog (https://defiant-principality.blogspot.com/). It's in Catalan language mainly, although I also run some sort of English translation in another forum with a wide Imagi-nations section (Fife&Drum Minis).

[Matías]

Beautiful paint job Radar! They look superb!

[Radar]

Many thanks Ivan

[Leman (Andy)]

PP ACW figures, plus a few other types, in order to try out the new F6 C19th rules. Went through my box of unpainted ACW figures and pulled out all the PP ones to try and give an overall 'look' to the finished product. My first base is a unit of ragged union troops using some PP and a few others. These figures were already painted, so I rebased for ease and speed of movement using a base from Simon Miller (TtS), listed as FK&P14e:



I have spent the last couple of weeks also painting up 8 Confederate infantry command sets from PP with a v to these becoming Cleburn style western theatre units with the distinctive blue flag with white disc. The flags, available from Wargame Vault, are very accurate (10 in all for Cleburn's division) and are in larger size for gamers who like big flags on their figures and also historically accurate size (in reality these flags were quite small). They are also historically accurate in that the battle honours and unit distinctions only appear on the obverse of the flag. The first single base Confederate unit unit, a firing line, is almost complete.

[Radar]

Those are nice Leman. I really like the uneven edge to those FK&P bases. If I was starting afresh I think I'd utilise them
Today I am channeling my inner King Théoden "so it begins".
First batch of 21 headswaps. Only another 63 to do after this.

[Wardy64]

Hi Leman

Those bases are interesting, tried looking under tts, who is it that sells them? Are they the same ones that a Simon uses.

Dave

[Radar]

wardy

https://bigredbatshop.co.uk/collections/all/bases

[Wardy64]

Cheers Radar.

Dave

[Leman (Andy)]

Wardy, unfortunately Simon Miller, of the Big Red Bat Shop, has sold out of the bases that Simon used. He sent me a very nice response to my order by saying that he did not expect to get any more in for some time, if ever. He did however point me to the FK&P14e base which he sells, then sent me by way of comparison the last TtS base of the size used by Simon that he had, and the FK&P base to see if it would make a good substitute. It did and I ordered a goodly number - only for infantry and dismounted cavalry though. I will order some deeper ones for mounted troops and keep my artillery on 30x40mm.

Here is the FK&P14e base on top of the TtS base. The width is approximately 90mm. There is also a second photo to show how the FK&P bases can slot together, making storage easier, plus there are holes for rare earth magnets.

[Wardy64]

Hi Leman
They are really quite nice, I like the way you have based the Civil War infantry.

Cheers

David

[Leman (Andy)]

First of the Rebs - Cleburne's division - 1st and 15th Arkansas.



Unit designations on obverse only

[Leman (Andy)]

I am posting my photos from Facebook. Does anyone know how to do this and make them smaller so they fit this website?

[Administrator]

modify the post - and change the width parameter in the IMG tag

so

[IMG width =500]

say

[Leman (Andy)]

Thanks a lot for that.

[Leman (Andy)]

Now working on some MDF storage trays from Commission Figures to fit in my RUB boxes. Just completed two 50mm depth and a 40mm depth which fit neatly into a RUB 9L box. The dividers in the trays split them into three equal sections into which my newly based ACW figures fit perfectly. My aim is to have all the figures in the two 50mm trays with the gaming paraphernalia in the top tray - one box to cover a complete game, with the mat and rules, charts etc in a bag. I would like to do this with a number of games, Bloody Barons 2 being my next target.