Rejects Ray's Ops Room.

 

My Ops Room is finally finished, the walls, ceiling, Painting table and Gaming table are complete!!!

Here's the old room, which I filled with all my stuff after moving in a year ago.

My daughters old computer desk was my makeshift work bench.

While most of my figures, paints and terrain were stuffed into boxes.

The first thing that need to change was a new garage door. Originally it was one of the old up and over style doors, but as this was going to be the new entrance, (I was using the back door, but had to go through my daughters bedroom to do that). I wanted a 1/3 door, rather than opening the whole thing.

The garage was split in two, the back half was the previous owners office, while the front was the home of the bins and any crap that wouldn't fit anywhere else in the house!

So this stud wall had to go!

Now once upon a time in my youth I used to be a bricklayer/builder, but my body now says, "No". So I spoke to Reject Steve who has every handy tool you can ever imagine, to come and do some work.

First thing was a new stud wall, up against the 2/3's garage door.

I did help......I made the tea!

There we have the new stud wall, ceiling, lights and plugs

And my new painting desk too!

Then I started the decorating.

Also need to extend the flooring out to the new threashold.

That's all the decorating done, walls and ceiling all painted white, so its nice and bright!

To give us room to do all that work, I'd put, most of my collection in storage, so with a little help from Postie it all had to be put back in.

Then a month or so later it was was time for the table, as its a garage and I've got a hell of a lot of stuff, I could only really fit in a 6x4 table, but that will do me fine!!!

I wanted it quite high as well, so I can fit loads of boxes underneath, full of terrain and the like.

Its also on wheels, so I can pull it away from the wall.

So here's the table. Well done Steve!

And here it is all loaded with boxes underneath.

 And with a Geek Villian wargaming mat too!

The plan is, when I get around to putting a game on for the Rejects, I can wheel the table to the right, so we can fit in both sides, although it doesn't look like it it does fit.

Now all I need is a name for the new room, anyone think of a good name?

 

1812 The Retreat from Moscow - Ben's 1st game!

 

Just a quick update, sales of 1812 The Retreat from Moscow are going great and today a fellow blogger Ben has posted up a battle report of his first game, 

1812 Retreat from Moscow - Scenario 1 - The Barn at Dawn

Check out Ben's blog  Miniature Wars you may have missed or click the link below. Ben took advantage of the offer to buy both the rules and the 10mm Pendraken figures, he's been busy painting up the figures and making terrain over the last few weeks, so check out his post, he had some real hard decisions to make!!!

https://miniwarsyoumayhavemissed.blogspot.com/2026/08/1812-retreat-from-moscow-scenario-1.html

Retreat from Moscow - French Wagons

Its back to the 25mm Retreat from Moscow project for todays post. I did want to have a few wagons in our first big game at Broadside, but ran out of time.

My plan was or should I say is, to paint up a dozen or so wagons, so we can field a large wagon train running away from Moscow.

So here are the first two. This one is from Iron Gate Scenery with a Redoubt horse.

With a Warbases load.

The next wagon and cart load are both from Depot Battalion, sold by Warbases, The two horses are Iron Gate. 

Now the problem I found is I couldn't find French Napoleonic drivers sold singularly. Most nowadays are sold along with a wagon. Now of course, I'm painting up French figures who should look cold, preferably in a great coat. What to do?

I searched through my massive box of unpainted figures and found these two figures, which are actually, Depot Battalion c17th Century Civilians.

The big cuffed coat worn in that period looks very similar to a Napoleonic French greatcoat. I did need to file the cuffs down a little and replaced the floppy hatted heads with some Warlord plastic heads. I'm very pleased how they came out!