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

Presents to Self

 

I might not be doing much in my wargaming hobby, but I have brought a couple of Christmas presents for myself from ebay. They are the "Conflix Models" by Bachmann and they are added additions to my village collection. They are both in 28mm scale which I do not mind with my 20mm figures. I have brought another Merchants House (above), which now gives me two of these and the other one is of a Ruined House as below.

  

Farm Complete

At last I have been able to go and visit my brother’s house in Ramsgate, Kent and to pick up my last Hornby building, the Derelict Farm House.

You might have seen a couple of entries ago, that my kind brother went to the Hornby shop and picked up the building for me. 

This now completes my farm buildings in this set and I cannot wait to get all of the set out to have a really good look. Time to think about the walls which will go around it.

Birthday Boy

It was my Birthday a few days ago and yet another year has flown by and getting nearer to that BIG 60th. The good news is that I did get a nice piece of Terrain from my partner and it’s was from Conflix the 28mm model of the Money Lenders House.

Now I do have a few of Conflix buildings and although they should be for 28mm scale and for fantasy wargaming, I think that they will slot in very well with my Napoleonic figures. The village is now growing and I do love the new buildings that they have brought out and I hope that they will add to the collection.

Not wargame related but I also received the Walking Dead DVD Season One. I do love the series and looking forward to Season Three next year as I do not have Sky.

Another Skaledale Building

Over the Easter weekend I managed to go to my favourite toy shop in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk and brought another model from Hornby to add to my collection of buildings.

My next model was the Derelict Stables (R9648) at a bargain price of £16.45 pence. Again made in resin, the model looks again a bit small for my chosen size in wargaming but it does look good.

Still it will add a bit more to the derelict farm that I will make up when I can get a chance to do a bit of wargaming.

I also had to buy some more paint and what a big jump in the price. This time last year I was paying just £1.30 pence a tin. It has now gone up to £1.49 pence a tin but still cheaper than the RRP of £1.70 pence. So in just two weeks I have spent just over £50 already this year.

Skaledale Buildings from Hornby

Well we are nearly a quarter-way through the year and I have made my first purchase of the year.

Hornby Skaledale do a great range of model buildings for the railway enthusiast but you can also use some of these for your war gaming tables. I have seen the new range of derelict farm buildings that will do for my Napoleonic battle fields and at the weekend I went along to the toy shop and brought two of the four models available and made a bit of a saving on them.

First up was the farm barn (R9647). This has one of its double doors open and two windows on one side. The other windows on the other side of the barn are boarded up.

The model is well made and painted to a high standard as it would be from Hornby. The windows are great for my little 20mm Airfix/Hat figures as they could use the windows to shoot from.

Also I brought the farm outhouse (R9649) and again it looked great, but a little too small when you stood it by the barn. And like the barn, some of the windows are left open, but when I stood an Airfix figure against it, it was almost looking into the top window.

Still there are two more bits to go along with the theme, the derelict farm house and stables. These look okay in their proportions to my little men and I hope to get these when I go shopping again in April. I made a little saving on these two buildings. The RRP for the two is just over £35 in Modelzone, I managed to pick both up for just under £31. Bargain!