Rebasing my ACW for F&F; adding to my Aerials for WW1 HitT & making BUA modules for SYW - it's been a busy week. Here's some shots of the BUAs

Defiant Grand Duchy of Lorraine Regiment holds on to the Town

Peeping Pierres

Howitzer fire can be damaging to your health

The Red Baron. Anyone know where I can get a Snoopy model?

3D trenches - got 'em done at last

The trench modules in place

German troops man the trenches 

The barrage begins 

& here's what I'm working on now.... WW1 3D trench system - bit of a gadfly, I'm afraid.

Here's what I've been working on forever, it seems....

At least, that's the Foote - also got some Artillery, Horse & Dragoons but RoF does need quite a lot of bases to get the full flavour of the game & it looks like I'm doing both sides as usual.  Mixing the purple was a bugger... I'd be fielding almost twice as many bases if I went with PP's system but I guess I'm just stupid.

Told you it'd be slow ;(

I've been experimenting with a new trench system based on modules with trenches cut into the landscape. As soon as I have something concrete to photograph, they'll be added.

Also going great guns on the ECW Regiment of Foote  stuff. Again, pics to follow.

Further, I've decided to do a finite campaign in 15mm for fantasy - only humans (ie no dwarves, elves or orcs) but with magical stuff added, so Magicians & nasty stuff that can be summoned.
This has been prompted by an article on Mapless Campaign Cards & the decision that I can no longer subscribe to never-ending projects.

I want rules that give me a good game in 2 hours & armies that will not break the bank. I'll get back to you with the details.

That being said, I chose Colonials as a period because I wanted to field the good old British Redcoat. Unfortunately, I got interested in the Mahdist Wars - nary a redcoat in sight!
However, my erstwhile wargames opponent Zach has begun to build up both sides for the Zulu War so I guess we'll be redcoating it enough soon.

Only games I've been getting recently are Hordes of the Empire Mahdists & I'm happy to say that Dave the Drum, who had been getting way too smug with an unbeaten record since we began, got stuffed 3 times in a row by yours truly. Just got to coax Zulu Zach out to have a go.

I'm taking this slow as I don't really know what I'm doing ;) but hope to have some step-by-step how to items up soon. I'll start with the desert stuff - it's what I'm mostly into atm but I've also decided to consolidate all my terrain into items I can use for every rule set I employ. More on that soon.

i

Trench building

Hey, this is all tooooo new for me.... Having spent forever on several terrain & army building projects lately & having come up with what I think are some good ideas. I thought I'd share them with everybody to help out any others out there struggling to get stuff done. It may be a little while before I can figure out this new-fangled blog thing so bear with me. Come back later & I may have something to interest you or at least divert you for a few idle moments.

ian