Monday, 2 July 2012

New Subbuteo Astro Pitch


Fantastic Pitch, players slide along nicely. I have secured this to a MDF base with surround walls.
New Teams have arrived from the Subbuteo Premiership Range;

63783 Blackburn Rovers
           Everton
63135 Liverpool 2nd
63753 Tottenham Hotspur 2nd
63151 Newcastle Utd 2nd

Pictures to follow.....


Slot Car Pictures (1/32)

Camera

No update pictures as my camera has broken, need to save up and get a new one.

Saturday, 28 January 2012

Sharp Practice - Two Fat Lardies

Wargame rules for large skirmishes in the Black Powder era....

Just arrived.


Hopefully a review and battle notes to appear soon.............

Thursday, 26 January 2012

Waterloo Diarama - Perry,

A excellent diaroma of Perry, Front Rank and Calpe 28mm Napoleonic Figures - all collector pieces painted and based by various artists in this scale.





Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Sharp Practise - Education Session

Advice on how to play Sharp Practise - Good Videos

http://grognard1789-lesgrognards.blogspot.com/2011/04/toofatlardies-sharp-practice-videos.html

Ideas for Making Rivers

This one uses 1/8" thick heavy duty vinyl tiles to make my rivers > http://wargamesandstuff.blogspot.com/2010/02/making-rivers.html

Excellent idea, machine cut ends and exactly 12" long - the sky's the limit.

Also use 00 gauge bridges, you should be able to find old type bridges or even new ones depending on time period.
http://www.igg.org.uk/gansg/00-wargame/river.htm

Monday, 23 January 2012

Flag Links / Suggestions

Flags - here are some you can print off > http://www.warflag.com/

Real looking Flags > http://www.flagdude.com/

More, select the size you need also what effect > http://www.maverick-models.com/flags.htm

Prints, Transfers etc > http://www.battle-flag.com/

Basing Figures

Basing figures is always a nightmare - in my opinion.

Different base sizes for different games and rulesets. I have searched the internet and not found very much advice really.

So I have decided that I will just use my own - as I don't usually play against anyone else I thought whats the point of worrying. I will base all my figures the same and that way everyone is equal.

I have been using a company call warbases (http://www.warbases.co.uk/) and have put all person figures on 20mm circular bases, cavalry (2 x horses) on 40x60mm. Skirmishers can be put on a 2x1 movement tray with infantry etc on a 6x2 tray. Casualty and other markers on 40mm bases and Command on 50mm.

I'll do some pictures soon....

WarHammer Historical - Waterloo





One on its way.........

French Napoleonic Heavy Cavalry 1812-1815





Had these for a while but just getting started on these, hopefully 2012 will be a lot better for painting :o)






A new project to create Napoleonic armies for 2012 is underway. Painting guides and photo's soon.

Thursday, 30 December 2010

Citadel Wood Painting Guide - Part Two

After the parts had been removed from the sprue and cleaned, they were put together and I used Green Stuff to fill the gaps. Once this had dried hard I undercoated everything in Chaos Black - any missing parts were painted over afterwards.

Not all paints used are Games Workshop.

Base:

1 - A heavy brushing of Scorched Brown to all of the base
2 - A heavy brushing of Dark Grey (Vallejo 70994) to stones and slates
3 - Highlight everything other than stones with Dark Earth (Revell 82)
4 - Highlight Dark Earth with Olive Brown (Revell 86)
5 - Highlight Olive Brown with Light Olive (Revell 45)
6 - Hightlight stones drybrushing with Basalt Grey (Vallejo 70869) and a lighter highlight with Light Grey (Revell 76) finish with a very dry highlight of Skull White.
7 - Add Flock to areas. In this case I wanted lots of ground to show.
8 - Any dropped wood was left Schorched brown and had a highlight of Dark Earth (Revell 82) and Medium Fleshtone (Vallejo 70860)

Tree Trunks/Branches:

1 - Undercoated Chaos Black
2 - Heavy dry brush of Scorched Brown
3 - Highlight of Dark Earth (Revell 82)
4 - Very dry brushing of Medium Fleshtone (Vallejo 70860)
5 - Stones and boulders had a brushing of Dark Grey (Vallejo 70994), highlight Basalt Grey and Light Grey with very fine Skull white for final highlight.
6 - Flock added to match base.

Wednesday, 29 December 2010

Citadel Wood Painting Guide - Part one - Look in the Box

Just arrived for Christmas.
Have a look at the sprue...



Once the parts had been removed and cleaned up, which wasn't much to be honest theyw ere glued together and all gaps filled with green stuff, ready for undercoating with choas black.