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Coming up for air

Seeing Mason off to College last Summer Has it really been 9 months already? Reading Jon's most recent update for WSS's great wargame survey has me thinking about the online portion of my hobby again. This blog has essentially joined the hundreds/thousands of historical miniatures 'dead blogs' that reside here on blogger. (A recent foray through the 141 blogs I am still subscribed to show roughly 2/3s have not updated within the last two years). Jon's post highlighted where we report we are getting our inspiration from. I admit part of my own blog fade is due in large part to what I see as the fragmentation of the hobby in the digital space. I continue to chip away at my Thirty Years War project (including a trip to the Rhineland-Palatinate last April), and the search for army inspiration, paint schemes, and battle histories has exposed me to the vast array of digital sources to be searched. Video sites like youtube ...

TYW- What about the Tercios?

One of my biggest struggle with completing this project has been the representation of the massed infantry Tercio of the Imperial forces versus the the layered Brigades used by the Swedes. The woodcuts for Breitenfeld (1831) show the Imperials in their Tercios with 4x sleeves of gunners each and the Swedes in their smaller brigades. The balance of the forces seems to be roughly 1 Tercio = 1 Swedish Brigade in overall strength, with the Swedes holding the advantage in firepower. Warlord's rules seem to address this issue by adding another pike block to the existing formation increasing its width by 33%. Changing to single unit basing makes this somewhat troublesome. My challenge is twofold: 1) Come up with a viable way to represent the formation on the table and 2) Find a way to represent the difference meaningfully within the rules. Shown here is a prototype to fit the bill. I went from a 3.5" x 3" base to a...

What A Coyboy! II

Earps and Friends Seven months later , and I at least finished the sets! I have had had the balance of the Earp and Cowboy sets from Gunfighter's Ball sitting on the painting table for quite some time. I decided to do some experiments with shading black models that led me to complete the Earps themselves. Wyatt and Doc Ready for the OK Corral. The Cowboys I did the same for Johnny Ringo, so it left only a couple of models left to be finished. One of those was Ike Clanton as seen in "Tombstone" which ranks as one of those nice models that isn't very game friendly. Not much use for a Cowboy model with guns! Johnny and some friends. That said, it is nice to get this small project finished and off to the side. Hopefully I can cajole my son into trying out "What A Cowboy" when he comes home for a visit. Thanks for looking

Baccus 6mm Austrian Casualties

Following up from the Adler French casualty tokens I have these Austrian ones from Baccus. These are just the Infantry tokens from the set. (I still have 15 Cavalry casualties to do.) You get 40 infantry pieces in a pack and they are fairly good half castings. The detail is perfect for the scale, and they are much more durable than the Adler figs. (There is nothing sticking up to snap off.) The castings include a mix of Helmets and Shakos with some grenadiers thrown into the mix as well. The cavalry figures will take longer as they are no where near as clean. In fact the detail is very hard to pick out and they look more like molten lumps without the paint. Not a slam, it is just that I had a hard time telling them apart from the Norman casualties I got at the same time. If I had any other critiques of Baccus' current casualty line it is that lack of similar French castings. (There are British and Russian packs, so I assume...

Figurehead 1-6000 Scale Imperial Japanese Fleet Part 1 -Cruisers

Another long neglected project getting its due attention. Another hold over from the 90's is my interest in WWII naval actions. I was quite taken with the DOS-based Shipbase III computer moderated game system, and collected several GHQ 1/2400 Ships for all the Axis and Allied powers. While that scale worked wonderfully for small engagements like the Bismark or Savo Island , it really doesn't work on a 4'x6' table for large fleet actions. Thus my interest in Figurehead's 1/6000 scale ships. I finally broke down and bought a couple fleet boxes back in 2003. My first deployment to Iraq proved to be a distraction I did not overcome and I promptly forgot about them for a few years. Obviously, I am giving them some more attention. I purchased the Japanese Coral Sea/Midway set and the American Midway set plus a couple of extra packs of Merchants, Iowa class Battleships and Essex carriers. The minis are note exceptionally detailed, and yet still...

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