Lockdown Reading

So, some books bought over the last year/gifted, have to be read.

Utterly Dwarfed, somewhat delayed after they shipped the European pre-orders to Canada rather than Germany.

My latest BoB book, a Xmas pressie, part read, packed away, rediscovered.

Bought RoSD before Xmas, liked it, and then they brought out the deluxe version in the New Year which came with an exclusive figure. The figures brought out so far were rather static poses, but this new figure was worth it, plus the extra material in the book, so I am now re-reading and comparing both.

Next up, Lockdown MDF.

Life Intervened

No updates for 4 months – the longest ever…:-(

During this time I have had multiple bouts of a mystery stomach bug, and then last week tendonitis which resulted in a 9 hour stint in A&E followed by a couple of days in a splint.

Should now be back with a newly revamped laptop (Tuesday) so am busy rebuilding links, bookmarks and passwords.

Above picture shows part of an entirely new army and genre (yes that is a Panzer IV in the background) I have got into, along with some fairly obvious things like a Stegadon for Ghost Archipelago.

Stand by for some updates (finally).

End of Hiatus

Well I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus on the blog due to council related stuff.

The referendum has been won – 85% in favour of our neighbourhood plan.

The village hall committee have been removed and are being replaced.

I now have ~9 games to post. And another couple tomorrow planned.

Gavel

Ok, just finishing off some more Mantic Terran stuff, so here’s another item I got this week.

Yes – a gavel.

As regulars will have noticed, I allude to the fact I am chairman of the local council, and had a particularly contentious planning application with an expectation a lot of the public would turn up and want to have their say.

On top of which, when attending training courses – yes councillors do get training – I had been hassled to get a gavel.

So now seemed to be the time. So I had one produced for me by a local carpenter.

The carpenter turned this order round in one day despite being away over the w/e. he did his homework and found out that traditional gavels are made out of yew tree wood.

So that’s what he did – I think he enjoyed it as an alternative to his main business of kitchen units and work tops.

Fortunately, I did not have to use the item during the meeting as the council was prepared beforehand via a BBQ we held, and as I read out the list of complaints we had already received and simply asked “Does anyone have anything new and novel to add to this discussion ?”.

Its my own personal property, and I think it will be useful for adjudicating in RPG and war-games sessions if the players get unruly. 🙂

Facing reality can be difficult

Living Statues

Just a quick one – the Living Museum scenario in Frostgrave has six statues. It’s taken me ages to sort these out but here they are finally.

I totally stole the idea from Jon, and indeed made his kids drink loads of orange juice to get the right bottle tops.

I settled on hero quest men at arms figures, cheap, static and no loss to the gaming community being painted as statues !

I started off with these two – I based them in plain round bases to make sure they couldn’t be mistaken for actual models.

They then went on top of the bottle tops, which were in turn mounted on 40mm round flagstone bases.

So now I have enough for another scenario for when I host.

Register to Vote NOW

For those of in the UK, you now have until midnight tonight to register to vote.

Having just sold my house and gone into temporary accommodation with my parents I’ve had to do this, BUT it takes all of 5 minutes.

Click here to register to VOTE

Don’t leave it to the last minute as the website will probably be overwhelmed.

Five minutes of your time, is small change compared to the efforts of millions over the years to gain and extend the voting franchise in this country. Don’t let them down.