The move went well, a few things have gone missing though as they do, I still haven't found my electric shaver, so I've been walking round all unkempt, so I had to go old skool and buy a wet razor. That's a tenner less on figures now!!
The pic above is my soon to be Wargaming Room, but I think my soon, is a completely different soon than Mrs R is thinking. AS you can see its still full up with unopened boxes. Now a lot of these are mine, I used to collect 45 records, back in the 80's and 90's, but when Abi, Daughter no2 was born in 1994, they all went up in the loft, now I knew I had a few, but didn't quite realise there were 46 boxes of them!!
So these need sorting out, I thinking of selling some and hiding the rest back up the new loft, but who knows???
We were waved off by Postie and Alison as we drove off, Posties not happy I'm moving away, and I will admit its gonna be strange not having my pal living next door anymore.
Postie and Alison shedding a tear!!! Yeh right!!
We're a week in after the move and its not a lot better, still got tons to do, just to try and get straight, so there's not going to be much hobby time for me, although saying that, some of the Rejects met up on our Monday paint and chat and had another go of Reject Richard's 16th Century Navel rules, he's a clever chap our Richard, he does have the knack of writing a decent set of rules, Here's a link to his write up of the game on his blog,
Its been a very busy few weeks at Casa Rousell, The Rousell clan is on the move so there's been a lot to do.
We finally have a moving date which is this coming Thursday the 3rd July, so wargaming and painting has been pushed to the back seat, apart from the markers above, which tbh were painted a few weeks ago, and I didn't get round to posting them. At Partizan me and Lee decided to buy some Warbases counters to use for Shock markers in our up and coming, Retreat from Moscow shenanigans using Sharpe Practice. Lee's done the same, but he was a tad more creative than me, putting different things on his, logs, wheels, dead and such. I went for stones, nice and easy.
Organizing moving and sorting all the crap that you've accumulated over 35 years is difficult enough, without Mrs R pre-booking a weeks holiday with her Mum, to Spain for the week before we move, (she wasn't to know that at the time though, of course) and my daughter doing the same, sunning herself in Cyprus.....again! I'd already booked the week off, when Mrs R and my Mother-in-Law, were away, I had planned a weeks worth of fun and games, but the moving date destroyed my plans.
And, I've been looking after Prince Bodie, my Mun in laws Poodle, who thinks he's human and doesn't do a bloody thing he's told too either!!!
Me and Lee did manage to get a day in Posties shed, to work on some of the terrain we've been buying. We chose one of the hottest days of the year to work in Posties shed, I don't think I've ever been that hot, it was like working in a bloody sauna!
Lee, the tart that he is made a short video of the day that he posted the other day, on his YouTube channel. If you haven't seen it take a look. We were both very pleased with what we managed to get completed. Firstly of 7 foot x 7 foot, wargaming mat, which started out life as a 7 foot square throw from Dunholm.
To this we patted on grey paint, then two layers of white paint. When that was all dry we spayed the mat with 2 cans of GW white spray, it may well need another going over??
Before
During
After
The other major job we did was to paint up all the luvvly Last Valley river sections we purchased at Partizan in May and another lot that came n the post too! Andy does make Snowy river section already, where he just doesn't paint the gound, which was perfect for us, so we matched the ground in with how we'd based our figures. I will admit to being very pleased to how these came out. They're a perfick match!
How we bought them from The Last Valley
With a base sand added.
All the white has been painted Earth Brown
After giving the Earth brown a heavy drybrush of white, we them wacked on our snow mix.
Lastly we bought loads of sabot tree bases from those great peeps at Warbases, they come in 2's, 3's 4's and 5 trees to a base. Why do you need sabot tree bases you ask?
There's an easy answer.......storage. Instead of having bases with a few trees on which will be a nightmare to store, we or rather (I) decided this was the way to go, all the bases can go in one box, the trees in another.
Easy!
So there you go, a very busy few weeks.......which is gonna carry on for the next few weeks after I move.
Its going to be strange not living next to Postie, like I have for the past 35 years, it was always so easy to pop next door for a game or a cuppa.
The gate in the middle of our fence, where I will no longer go through to play a game.
Think Posties gonna nail it shut!
Well that's me for today, I have got other posts ready and raring to go, but they'll have to wait.
I bought a fair bit of scenery at Broadside this year. I spent a few quid at the most excellent Debris of War, adding another 7 of their excellent trees to my growing collection
Along with 5 of their pond bases, I'm going to try and winter a few of these up for my and Lee's Retreat from Moscow shenanigans!
£40 for 19 packs of Minifigs Ottoman Turks. I would really like to add some Turks to my 15mm LOA armies, it'd be great to play the Siege of Vienna in 15mm. I've already got loads of figures in 28mm for Donnybrook, so why not an army for Beneath the Lilly Banners ass well??? Of course I'd need some Poles as well........
The Flea market was a great success, I bought all this lot above, from one chap, some of which I'll winter up
And these 3 hills, which I might winter up or might not???
I also picked these up for the quite ridiculous price of £25 for the pair!!!! I've very often ogled these and other in the range at shows on the Pike & Shot Society stall. I already own the Spanish and one of the Dutch books, they are a must for the period. I nearly fell over when I saw the price!!!
They're usually £50 each.
The last thing I bought again from the Flea Market was a pack of Foundry Pirates for the measly sum of £2, they're now £18 a pack. I previously used a lot of these figures when painting up my Haitian Revolution project, most were converted into Haitians.
Lee was winging that he wanted to buy something. I've been buying a few trees here and there for us to winter up for our Retreat from Moscow game, I saw these earlier in the day, so suggested to Lee to open his moth filled wallet and buy some of these trees from Pumpernickle Games.
We're hoping to meet up next week and do a days work on all the terrain we've bought, hopefully we can get a lot done in the day???
