Singling Book - ACW Book

Playtesting is progressing. I have started the wrapping up of the images for the game. I have a few more playtests to go. Too many things going on to be able to finish this out lately. I hope to have this ready for release by month's end. I am very close.

I have sent an initial copy of the ACW book to the author of Dawn of Iron to review. I am also slowly building up all of the needed models. There are the newest elements of the fleet.

This is 3 prints of the USS Commodore Perry to represent the Commodore Perry, Hunchback and Morse. Then two prints of the CSS Jeff M Thompson to stand in for the USS Commodore Barney and USS Shawsheen. Then a print of the USS Harriet Lane and a print of the CSS Tuscarora (to stand in for the CSS Seabird).

I still need some standins for the following US Ships:

Ship	Image
USS Isaac N Seymour
USS Ceres
USS General Putnam
USS John L Lockwood	No Image Found
USS Henry Brinker	No Image Found
USS Underwriter
USS Stars and Stripes
USS Philadelphia
USS Southfield

Search for Models - 1/600 ACW Naval

I am looking for suitable models for several ships for my ACW naval supplement. I have 9 vessels that I have not found a suitable stand in model for or an actual model for. I have reached out to two manufacturers of STLs for the period and am waiting to hear back. HEre is what I am missing:

Ship Name	Dimensions	Notes
USS Ceres	108'4"x22'4"	Sidewheeler
USS General Putnam	103'x22'	former tug
USS Henry Brinker	82'x26'7"	screw steamer
USS Isaac N Seymour	100'x19'8"	sidewheel tug
USS John Lockwood	114'x24'	sidewheeler
USS Philadelphia	200'x30'	sidewheeler
USS Southfield	200'x34'	double ended sidewheeler
USS Stars and Stripes	124'3"x34'6"	screw steamer
USS Underwriter	170'x23'7"	sidewheeler

I am currently having some models printed that I own but have not been able to print. The Jamestown is one I had not only printed but had fully painted. Then I dropped it and it shattered. I also am having a Wabash done (upscaled USS Minnessota) and a model of the Forrest. I have the models to play most of the scenarios that I have written. Some of the larger ones are missing a few ships that I outlined above. I hope to start playtesting these soon.

North Carolina Sounds - 1862 - Dawn of Iron Scenarios

I have done some more work on the my Mosquito Fleet book. I think I have all of the scenarios fleshed out. There are at least seven scenarios in the book. With the help of the rules author, I have managed to get ship stats on most of the vessels. I have finished with all of the maps. I still haven't found suitable models for all of the ships that are in the scenarios. I have narrowed them down a bit recently. I have reached the point where I can start playtesting the scenarios that I have for them.

I am really looking forward to trying these out. I may change the activation for my games to be card driven similar to Kiss Me Hardy with each ship having a move and fire card. Then use the rest of the Dawn of Iron rules as is.

Singling

The town is really coming together. I took pictures over the weekend but always have issues with things in the background of my images that make them look bad. I started to mess about with some photo editing tools and produced this.

Definitely better than the shelves and other stuff in the background. This is a view of the school house and building 28 on the right and buildings 8 and 9 on the right. I will add some additional snow to this and see how hard it will be to clean up. Not sure if it will stay on the rooftops. That is left to be seen.

Terrain Complete for Singling

I managed to complete building 12 over the weekend. This is a damaged row house that US troops occupied the attic of and used the holes in the roof to shoot a bazooka down onto the German Armor in the street below. I went with one of the color schemes mentioned for the town with a tile roof. The visible roof frames are cut up sprues from the other MDF pieces of the model. I am not entirely happy with it but it works.

I have the table now set to get some playtesting in on the scenario for the center of the town. I am getting really close to being done with this. Here is an image of the central portion of the table. Visible are buildings 8, 9 and 10. Also the large pile of horse dung in the center of the courtyard. Also visible are the school and building 28 in the upper right hand corner. The courtyard to the left is where there American tanks were located and exchaned shots with German Jadgpanzer IVs after destroying part of the wall. It is not very clear in the image, but there is an elevation change running behing the school across the top portion of the map. Building 28 is on the upper level of this.

Anyway, this is a very promising start. I need to figure out a way to take better pictures and have a backdrop from which to place behind it so my shelves and other hobby stuff is not seen,