It's That Time again

 

Yup, another year older. I would like to thank my family for this years birthday presents, which I must admit I have wanted for some time now.

It’s a “Static grass flocking applicator kit”. It comes with the applicator, brush and some dark green static grass fiber bag. I also received some “Summer Grass” from Scenics.

With these goodies, I am hoping in the future months, as winter is coming, to do some terrain pieces. What about my dragoons I hear you say, they are coming along nicely and I hope to have the first batch done soon, if life will let me. 

More Grey's

Still very much WIP but here we go with my second batch of horses for the Royal Scots Greys (2^nd Dragoons) The one with the blue bottle top is for the trumpeter and I'm still going with the mixed greys. Total horses painted now 16 out of 23. I know that they will never win any painting competitions, but as it’s only me who is going to see them, it doesn’t really matter. I like them anyway. Back to painting, but my next post of these will be of the troopers, all 6 of them.

Back in the Saddle

 

Finally after a period of 4 years, here are my first batch of horses for the Royal Scots Greys (2^nd Dragoons) I usually paint all the horses first and then the troopers when I paint my cavalry units, why? I don’t know, but I thought I would change that and paint them in batches of six, but here’s nine of them. The Horses are from the old Esci set and although there are some errors with horses/troopers, they will still fit in nicely with the rest of the heavy cavalry that I plan to paint up. These are the first completed batch since 5^th August 2020. I don’t know why, but I did not feel the urge to paint since then although I have picked up the brush now and then. I decided not to paint all the horses the same colour as most wargamers do, so I have mixed them up a little. Really pleased how these have now come out. Still let’s hope that I can continue in finishing these off as they have been hanging around for far too long.

Broadside Games Show 2024

For my second wargame show of the year, yesterday it was another trip down the A2 to Gillingham, Kent for the Broadside Games Show run by the Milton Hundred Wargames Club.  

When I reached the Medway Park Sports Centre which only takes me about half an hour to get there, the car park was full as there was yet another college Sport’s day on plus a funrun day in the park next to the sports centre. I managed to find a parking spot which took me nearly 15 minutes to find one, and it was free to park. The venue was right at the back of the sports centre and it was easy to find your way there. I paid my £4 entry fee, which I must say is a really good deal, and entered the hall. This was around 11.40am and it seemed really busy.

The first thing for me was to look around the trade stands and there was plenty to offer buyers. After I could nto find any 20mm plastic soldiers on sale at Salute I found a stand that sold mostly plastic figures, called 1-72 Model Figures, so out came my short shopping list, but there were none of the Hat 1/72nd figures that I wanted. Oh well. After a quick walk around the trade stands, I visited the Posties Rejects with their Battle of “Croix-de-Bouquets, 1792”. A unknown battle between the revolutionary black slaves and the French. A interesting battle and the game was planed by Ray Rousell in which he made all of the terrain and painted all of the figures. Here are a couple of pictures of that game.

The Village

I found a little room with hot/cold drinks machines and a few tables to sit. So I had my lunch inside this year as it did not look all that good outside. Once finished I went back into the hall and started to look around at the tables layout. There were a hand full of demonstration games and a nice area where people were selling their second-hand goods. There were 18 wargaming tables on show, some really small and a couple of large games this year.  I went back to the Posties to see how the battle was going. It was nice to see and to talk to Ray, Big Lee and the rest of the group. They even had cake there made by Sparky. I had a time at the show even though I did not buy anything. Returned home about 3.30pm. If you have not been there, may be you should try it out next year. Here are some pictures of the other games.

"DORNIER DOWN"
The Shepway Wargamers

"PEGASUS BRIDGE"
The Retired Wargamers Reloaded Group

"A CROWN OF THORNS"
Deal Wargames Association

What a Great Shame

Just saw this today on Facebook and it’s very sad for everyone that usually goes, that SELWG 2024 has been cancelled. It seems that the show has struggled to attract traders for the last few years now, and to increase attendee numbers. But they are saying that they might be running a smaller event in the future (next year earliest), so hopefully this isn’t the end of the SELWG Shows. I must admit that I have only been to the Lee Valley Centre once and that was last year. Not as good or big as when they had it at Crystal Palace. Lets hope that they will move it back to south of the river next year.