100 Posts and Counting

Wow. I just realized I have kept this up for 100 posts. Not bad.

I am at a pausing point and wondering what to pursue next. My to do list is long but I am not sure what I want to try next.

1) Finish basing WW2 French infantry.
2) Paint Dark Age Early Saxons.
3) Paint Dark Age Britons.
4) Paint additional Naploleonic French
5) Paint Napoleonic Russians
6) Paint Napoleonic British
7) Paint and rig a 28 gun Frigate
8) Paint some terrain up.

Not sure what I want to do next. Any suggestions?

New Post on Platoon Forward Stories

I was able to get in a game of Sharp Practice over the weekend. I wrote up what happened to Captain Beesley and his light company over on Joe's Blog: http://platoonforwardstories.blogspot.com/.

It was a fun solo game. I was able to try a French column charging into a British line. It nearly worked. I remembered the more 1s than 6s rule this time and plenty of cards ended up being drawn. Mostly by the British. The French had lousy luck with Bonus Cards. Getting mostly useless ones.

One thought was to include a Pas De Charge card into the main deck for the French. This would be to offset the Sharp Practice card in the main deck for the British. That would have made the British position much more sticky as the French would have been able to close more rapidly.

JR Miniatures Stalingrad terrain

I started painting my two story ruin yesterday. I had it primed black with Army Painter black paint. I started painting the wooden floor and the primer started coming off as I painted. That got me scratching my head. What happened? I scrubbed the model down to remove most of the primer (about 75% came off). What did I do wrong? I thought I was supposed to prime resin. Does Army painter not work on resin?

Any ideas out there?

Finally Complete!

Well, I have finished with the Mud and Blood supplement for the Eastern Front featuring the Russians and Austro-Hungarians. I have 9 scenarios as part of it. That may change. Still reading on the 1915 Winter campaign in the Carpathians. That may add one or two to the mix if I find anything suitable.

That and some momentum has started with the Dark Ages supplement. I was glad to see that there is still interest on the lardy list for that.

Ramblings

Well the blog has actually reached 3,000 page views. Not too bad. This has proved to be a fun way to motivate myself to paint more.

I just picked up a JR Miniatures Stalingrad building online. It is the two story building corner with stairs leading to the second floor. I am very happy with the purchase. Now I just have to paint it up instead of leaving it as it is like most of my terrain.

Can someone offer any tips on painting ruined buildings? I am not sure really where to start.

Oh! Update on the East Front Mud & Blood. I have 8 scenarios finished for it as well as all of the text for the Austro-Hungarians and Russians. If I can carve out some time, I can get this finished in a few days.

The Dark Ages rules keep cropping back up with interest on the Lardy list. So instead of finishing a project, I dabbled with that a bit today. Trying to figure out how many scenarios to include with it. Not really sure.

Well, at least this kept me distracted from missing out on Historicon this year.