Celebrating 18 Years of Blogging

 

Today my blog is 18 years old. When I started this blog to record my wargaming days, I was hoping that it would inspier me to do more in the hobby. Well the truth is I have failed to do what I wanted this blog to do. When I was made redundant back in April 2014, I thought that I would have plenty of time to go full pelt into the hobby, but life has very much got in the way too much.

I had hoped that my painted figures would be through the roof by now, but I have not finished any units for over 5 years now. I have 2 units that are half done, so I have plenty to do now. By now I was also hoping to have some DIY terrain made, but space is not available for me to do so. My little wargame cupboard is full of painted/unpainted figures, terrain, bits and bobs from wargaming shows. So this year things will have to change (fingers crossed)

Due to owning a very small house, I am now thinking of a wargaming shed at the bottom of the garden. This would have to be well insulated so my little men do not freeze to death and fall apart, or come to think of it, myself.  I would love to have electrics fitted, but that really depends on cost at the moment.

So if your one of my followers or you have just happen to find me, then I really appreciate your time. Let’s hope that this year my blog will be a lot better to view for you.

Vegetable Patch

 

I bought this off eBay a few weeks ago now. The item can be a vegetable patch or allotment plate and it came from Howard Scenic Supplies.  I have purchased from Mike before and it was a reasonable price with very quick delivery.  As you can see from the picture, that you can have any combination you wish as they are separate bases from the main base.  I know that I could of done this myself, but at least it gives me a template for future projects.

Why have I purchased it? Well I hope to get my Airfix Le Haye Sainte up and running. I have been collecting bits and pieces for it for years now and I think that I am ready to do the project soon.

www.howardscenicsupplies.co.uk

Cannon Ball Stacks

 

Cannon Ball Stack

Now I know that there are a lot of gamers out there that like their gaming table to be neat and tidy. I must admit that I am one of them gamers, but I have never seen my idea at any wargame shows or on wargaming blogs, So I hope that I am unique with this project. The idea was to show when the gun was in action or not. With the cannon ball stacks by the gun means that it is in action or without the stacks, the gun was damaged or out of action. Way back in the mid to late 70s, I made some small cannon ball stacks for my artillery. At that time I did not have many guns, so I made just the five to scatter around the table. 

Old stacks

These were made of old finishing lead weights which was given to me back in the 70’s from someone that gave up fishing. I came across these some time ago, while I was looking through my wargaming cupboard and thought that while my painting mojo is dry, that it might get me back into my hobby by doing some small projects that I have in mind. 

Old and New ones based

As you are unable to get the old lead weights now, due to the lead poisoning, I purchased some 3mm metal spacer beads from a craft shop while on holiday last year. These are just the right size and here they are all glued with PVA on their 20mm MDF bases. Once based and painted and flocked, they really came out well for my scatter terrain. Now I can use bigger beads for the howitzers.

All finished

Happy New Year from the General

 

I would like to wish my 13 followers and all wargamers around the world a very 

Happy New Year.

Well, yet another year has been and gone, so I am hoping that I can finally sit down now and start to paint once again, as I have said before, that some of my figures just need finishing off. 

I also hope to go to some wargaming shows over the year, and really hope that we will start to see some more production of new figures coming out in 2026 for the Waterloo period. So please keep looking at this blog. Knowing that people have been looking over the year with no productivity. I am sure that we can have a much better year with my blog.

Merry Christmas from the General

 

As we near yet another end of year, once again my output for painting figures is a big ZERO.  Saying that though, I have painted up all of the 23 horses for the Scot Greys but still no troopers finished. They are still waiting their final paint check. Unfortunately it’s now five years without producing any completed painted figures. Why does life get in the way?

There has been some good news in the plastic model world of late, and that is that Linear-A are going to release their French Engineers box number 024 very soon, which has got me a bit excited, but still no sign of any new Napoleonic figures for the 1815 period from HaT. Fingers crossed for the New Year then.

I will try and sort myself out once again in the New Year and get these Dragoon figures done that have been sitting around for years now. Still have loads of things to put on this blog but once again they need just finishing off. So I hope that things will improve at my end soon.

With the people that have taken a look at my blog over the years. Last year I had just over 113,000+ views and this year we are up to 201,000+ 

So wherever you are in the world, I would like to say many thanks for taking a look at my blog.

 I hope that you have 

A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS!