Wargaming Back on the Blog

With the revival of this blog, a concerted effort is simultaneously going to be put in on the Lancaster Wargames Club Blog with battle reports etc. And lots of pretty picatures - to wet your appetite here is the situation mid game.

Soviet Armour massing to breach the German Lines - Late '43

Any comments or queries will be happily received.

JR

British WW2 Gliders

So finally getting around to indexing my current troops.

Gliders

First of all here are my scratch built gliders for my British Airborne Division. Just a few matchsticks glued together, cut to shape make the glider itself.

Horsas

Painted all in black then the top half was painted in dark green. This was followed with the brown before the white stripes were added. Finally I retouched up the black and added the black stripes on the white.

Hamilcar

The models I feel are effective if not perfectly accurate. I use these for gaming with my 10mm models, although they are probably closer to 6mm or even smaller. I will eventually post the orbat but for more information on the Horsa and Hamilcar Gliders please click on the names.

Next time; 1st Brigade

Board Games

It turns out that I have many boardgames; many of which haven't been played with. To highlight this, the above picture is just a small selection of the games I own, as well as some boxes of wargames stuff. I'm going to try and review a few of these as I play them. I can't think of the top of my head all the games I own but from what I can remember:

• Carcassonne (Plus 2 Expansions)
• Pandemic
• Zombies
• Wings of War
• Few Magic The Gathering Decks
• Arkham Horror
• Lords of Waterdeep
• Trivial Pursuit
• Elder Sign
• X-Wing
• Munchkin
• The Hobbit
• DnD 4th Edition
• Monopoly

Muchos Historical Wargames Stuff

Return of the Dice

So its been over 2 years since I wrote my last post. Many things have happened; kids, new jobs, moved house.

And as have the ongoing projects; trench tiles are still (very slowly) going, WW2 divisions are multiplying and I'm even painting 28mm skeletons!

So stick around and I'll be posting pictures of my current formations, as well as WIP.

Giving Up Spending

Soooooo, I'm getting towards skintage :( things need to be done.

First of all less spending, this means no buying random crap and less trips to t'pub.

Secondly make more money, this means a lot of modelling needs to be done and as much as possible stuck up on ebay and sold, so watch this space.

At the same time I need to keep occupied and keep in touch with people so I'm thinking my life will basically involve work, playing football and inviting people round to the Trenches "to have fun" modelling/keeping me focused on projects.

Oh and get more pictures on here :)

Actual Splurge

So, the weirdest thing happened to me tonight, my dad told me he loved me. I'm a bit scared to be honest, its not happened in many a year! It could be bad news or it could be that I told him about how shit my head got last year - woops.

With respect to that time, I messed a lot of things up around then so for those that it applies to - in fact anyone I've done something stupid to; here is a very public apology.

But the future is bright - finally moved out from home, got a job and some plans (not enough really but oh well :p).


So now for the weekend ahead; I'm going to pick up my next commission from home to get worked upon. Watching the rugby, few bevvies at pub and maybe a boardgame if got nothing else (cheap weekend :p).

So as such; Boardgame anyone?

Boardgames, Club News and Modelling

Only one more week til I can get back to some serious modelling and painting. Many ideas, plans and commissions to be worked upon :)

In the meantime I've been spending my game time playing and getting new boardgames, or rather trying to - I swear the dice are trying to kill me! First of all some old school monopoly where we played that you had to go around the board before you could buy properties - I WENT TO JAIL 3 TIMES!!!

Then last week bloodbowl - I rolled nye on everything below average - I mean don't get me wrong I made a horrific blunder early doors and my opponent wasn't overly lucky - until the required 6 for the interception at the end of course.

Rant over, I've now gone and purchased Arkham Horror. Really looking forward to bringing a co-op game to the Cow-Barn (our current gaming HQ :p) so I can kill everyone else with my dice, not just myself. So look out for a review of this in the near(ish) future.


The club website really seems to have started to take off with a horde of reports and TOEs from my friend AE. Loads of detail and the TOEs can be really easily converted for use in other rule sets.


Lastly, the future. As previously mentioned I have a lot of models to paint up; some for me, some to sell and some so I can dispose of on ebay. I also have continued my thinking aka Dragons - gonna buy some putty and maybe modify some existing models (beyond all recognition of course) into some basic shapes.

As per usual any comments would be appreciated - either to keep me on track or indeed to try something different - more picatures will follow once I've unpacked.