Wargame Holidays Wargame Holidays Friday, 14 September 2012 Mass Producing Trees Trees have been on the agenda for the past couple of evenings.  I'm making another 500 or so to cover the 45 foot table with the things for the French and Indian War games.  Doing them in batches of around 50-60 as its a messy job and takes up a lot of room - drying time is a issue too, although the old dehumdifier speeds things up.  All of this lot are oaks or similar with the same colouration, there will be other shapes, sizes and hues of green to break things up. I've been using Botanico Eco Moss - a kind of sisal string bedding material you're supposed to use for hanging baskets. Can't find any within twenty-five miles, so have reverted to the horsehair. I tear a bit off, roll it up into a ball, dunk it into some green paint/PVA/water mix, wring it out and then drape it onto the twig.  Then I dunk the whole lot into an enormous bucket of home made flock. Shake off the excess and leave to dry overnight.  Should be as hard as a rock by then.  Just give it a quick blast with spray varnish and done (apart from the base of course). The reason I'm making so many is that the table is 45 x 6 foot and even a couple of hundred are lost on it. Posted by Wargame Holidays at 23:01 5 comments: Email This BlogThis! Share to X Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Labels: 28mm , French and Indian War , Painting , Terrain Two New Jersey Regiments for the Union army Decided to make these New Jersey regiments - mix of Hinchliffe and Tradition figures, a lull in the raining means they are finished off! Couldn't risk the flags running in the rain when I was varnishing them! Posted by Wargame Holidays at 22:57 No comments: Email This BlogThis! Share to X Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Labels: 28mm , American Civil War , Painting Warlord Games Greeks - rather a lot of them! Have finally sorted out all of the Greeks ready for assembly, priming and painting.  Here is the true horror of it all: If all goes well, these 1500 figures will be done by the end of January! Posted by Wargame Holidays at 22:54 4 comments: Email This BlogThis! Share to X Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Labels: 28mm , Ancients , Greeks , Warlord Games Wednesday, 12 September 2012 Meet The Spartans First shots of the latest stuff - have actually made some progress on the Greeks for the 2013 season despite being side tracked with ACW and terrain (not to mention about 60 ebay sales). Had hoped to put up the last ACW regiments for the time being, but rain has stopped varnishing. Here are the Spartan command stands. The 3 stand base is the Spartan King. The Spartans have three divisions, each with 5 36 man hoplite units as as well as skirmishers and so on. The figures are Gorgon and Wargames Foundry. The bases are by Warbases (their 60mm round ones). The hoplites will be based up on their 60x40mm bases six figures to a stand. Posted by Wargame Holidays at 09:41 2 comments: Email This BlogThis! Share to X Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Labels: 2013 , 28mm , Ancients , Greeks , Hail Caesar , Painting , Spartans , Warbases Wednesday, 5 September 2012 More ACW artillery and limbers & a wood store Last of the artillery for the ACW, more Reb and Union batteries.  Four more limbers and a nice little wood store. Posted by Wargame Holidays at 07:02 No comments: Email This BlogThis! Share to X Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Labels: American Civil War , Painting Saturday, 1 September 2012 Battlegames 31 is out and we're in it! Good old Henry Hyde - not only a great magazine again, but Diane's regular terrain piece and a article by me! Do yourself a favour and get a subscription, you won't regret it! Battlegames Magazine 31 is out! Not just Diane's regular article, but one by me too! Wargames widow Diane Sutherland is "Wargaming with herbs"! She's been making marvellous market stalls for exotic locations. And let me make it clear that the herbs are all legal...Jon Sutherland, commander of the Wargames Holiday Centre in Crete, general of a hundred wargame armies, one-time loyal servant of Games Workshop, father to countless wargames projects, and husband to our wargames widow, regales us with his first article: "Shiny syndrome, or just what is it that makes wargamers tick?" Posted by Wargame Holidays at 05:04 1 comment: Email This BlogThis! Share to X Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Labels: Battlegames Magazine , Holidays , Painting , Promotion , Terrain Latest ACW additions Bought a batch of old Minifigs, Hinchcliffe and Tradition figures (which needed a total repaint) to add to the bits and bobs I had left over.  Managed to squeeze four new 25 figure Confederate regiments out of them.  Also got hold of four guns for the Reb artillery bases I had just finished. Best of all - after sitting unpainted for 30 or more years, I finally got around to painting a pair of wagons (Hinchcliffe).  More new bits and pieces to finish off to round off the ACW collection.  Another Reb Regiment, five or six Union regiments, about 30 Reb cavalry, 50 or so Union ones, four or five limbers, four more Union guns, a bunch of skirmishers and some brigade commanders. At that point enough is enough.  Antietam is on the agenda for next season's games - although we will still be offering Gettysburg or Chancellorsville if people prefer. 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Meet The Spartans More ACW artillery and limbers & a wood store Battlegames 31 is out and we're in it! Latest ACW additions New Indian Mutiny buildings in 28mm August (3) June (3) May (3) April (110) 2011 (2) October (2) Popular Posts French and Indian Wars - scratch building forts I like commercial resin houses, but I much prefer to make my own.  After all, who else is going to have one just like that?  Here is my firs... Mass Producing Trees Trees have been on the agenda for the past couple of evenings.  I'm making another 500 or so to cover the 45 foot table with the thing... French and Indian War Game First outing for the French and Indian War collection back in 2009.  This was an early game and we tried The Perfect Captain's set - Moh... Normandy 1944 - shots of one of the games Part 1 This battle was fought between guests from Britain and Belgium in June 2011.  Each time we run the game we make changes to the set up and co... New Indian Mutiny buildings in 28mm With this little lot - picked up on ebay - just a little spruce up necessary - we're fit and ready to do the siege of Delhi!  Can't... Hill 107 overlooking Maleme Airfield, Crete After our Danish guests in August 2011 taunted us with tales of sipping beers on Hill 107, we just had to go.  Visiting the site which is th... How to make a Sudan Mud Fort I had visions of doing the Sudan in 28mm using the excellent Perry figures and was stunned by the quality of their plastic Ansar.  I could t... Normandy 1944 - shots of one of the games Part 2 This is the second batch of shots from the same Normandy game.  We always like to throw in extra elements and specific missions for the comm... Scratch Building Trees This is one of the simpler methods to use.  You'll need some moss substitute (used for hanging baskets), some twigs, a hot glue gun, mdf... 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