Retreat from Moscow - Naked trees!

 

I had a nice little box turn up at work, not at home for obvious reason!! I might look daft, but I'm not that daft! 

At The Other Partizan last month I ordered 20 trees from the Tree Fella

Which duly arrived not 10 minutes ago. Just gotta base them up and add a little bit of the white stuff to snowify them up! Me and Lee are supposed to be meeting up and getting some terrain stuff sorted, whenever that'll be???

Lest we forget

 

Retreat From Moscow - Deployment Markers or Command Stands

 

As if I haven't got enough to paint already??

Me and Lee are planning to use Sharpe Practice for our Retreat from Moscow shenanigans

We spoke about the Deployment Markers used in the rules, I had a few spare figures and said about using some of those instead of a counter as per the rules?

Lets just say I got a tad carried away and only used 2 of the spares I had and bought another 2 packs of Perry's to make them both.......

The standard bearer is one of the spares, he's from the plastic Guard figures from Victrix.

I must say, I'm pleased with how they both came out.

Lee hasn't posted any photo's on his blog of the 2 stands he made, he posted a video on You Tube BELOW, instead. Its only after I finished mine when I looked back to Lee's and realised he only painted 3 figures per base, Damn!!!!

I've gone for the full effect....5 figures per base!!!

We both bought our flags from Andy at Grubby Tanks

The spare I had for this base, is once again the standard bearer, but this time he's a Front Rank figure.

The figures are a mix of Perry's from packs, FN51 Support Staff and FN53 Hangers On High Ranking Officers, while the bases are from Warbases.

Which way, should we go?

Unfortunately most figures on the bases have no thick coats of scarves to keep them warm, but hey, they're the best of the best in French elitism, they're making the decisions, so they don't need to keep warm??? Do they??

So what are they Deployment Markers or Command Stands?

Retreat From Moscow - Yet more Scatter Terrain

 

I seem to be collecting lots of scatter terrain for my and Lee's Retreat from Moscow project.

These two wagons are all the way from China via Temu, (once again, don't tell, the kids!)

They only cost a few quid for the pair, so can't be bad.

They are the same wagon, both carrying bails of hay. I didn't want the hay showing, to make them look like they're carrying boxes of some kind. So I cut the top layer off of one model and covered both with a piece of kitchen roll and painted it with several layers of PVA glue.

I'd ran out of MDF bases and didn't want to wait for an order, so used card instead to get that random kinda shape.

So there we have it, more terrain.

Retreat from Moscow - Trees

Both me and Lee are still trying to get our Retreat from Moscow shenanigans to a point where we can put on a game. I've been buying trees.....loads of 'em! We do plan to have a day where we can work on the trees, but I thought I'd get a quick head start.

Back in June, regular readers may recall, me and Lee had a mega terrain day and snowified loads of terrain, including some sabot tree bases, (easy storage). So it was about time we filled some of those bases.

As I said, I've been buying whole forests of trees from ebay, Temu and other sources including these. They were the easiest to get to, to be honest as they were purchased at The Other Partizan a few weekends ago. The 2 greener trees are from the Tree Fella, my plan was to buy loads of his trees, but he only had 2!!! I need to get back to hm as he was supposed to be making us more? 

The others are from the most excellent, The Last Valley, the trees were glued to a 70mm round base and given our usual snow effect. 

I experimented how to put the snow on the trees, this time I made up the snow, very wet and dabbed in over the trees, mainly on the raised areas. It was very messy as the branches flicked the snow everywhere, with very little actually staying on the trees!! Groan!

With the next small batch the plan is to spray the trees with either watered down PVA or spray glue and sprinkle the dry snow powder over.

Well, that's the plan at the moment anyway???

Fun & games with Pazoot!!!

Earlier this month me and Lee, or rather Lee and me,  as I'm his sidekick!!, were invited down into deepest darkest Deal, in Kent, for a day's fun and games with Paul, from Pazoot, You Tube Channel.

There was lots planned for the day, firstly...

 

Paul had set up a game of Bolt Action for us both. Lee drew the Brits and I played the Germans

Paul has got some gear I can tell you!

And its all a tad expensive too!

Oooooo look? I'm on TV!

Lee looking very pleased for himself!

We were treated to a Fish n Chip lunch at the Coastguard in St Margret's Bay.

And very nice it was too, thanks Paul!

I won't go through the game, as Paul will be posting some action photos and film on his channel. But very annoyingly on the last turn of the game, Lee scrapped a draw, the lucky bugger!

Then Lee was interviewed for Paul's channel.

Boy that boy can talk!

As it started getting dark outside the lads from Paul's local club East Kent Wargames Club, started to turn up, one table looked like a Sci Fi game of some sort while these guys set up a Rapid Fire Relaoded game.

We were both interviewed talking about our favourite 5, which will appear on Pazoot, sometime soon.

The favourite 5 were

1 Something from your early days of wargaming.

2 Something from your favourite period 

3 Your favourite tool or accessory

4 Favourite item from a stalled project

5 Favourite item from a recent project

Plus

6 Bonus - Anything you want to show off or talk about

 So join the Pazoot channel if you fancy seeing my and Lee's favourite 5, and if Paul keeps it in, me getting rather miffed........sidekick indeed!!!!!

What a great day, thanks for the invite, Paul, we both thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. 

The Other Partizan.......Loot

It must admit, I was quite surprised rummaging through the Loot I collected at The Other Partizan last weekend. I knew I'd bought a few bags of stuff, but didn't realise how much!!!

Firstly the last 4 trees from the Last Valley stall.

I wanted the unpainted version, but Coritani had sold out, so I had to have the painted version.

Why an Anciet Greek ruin you ask???

And why all the loose columns???

Well.......my 10 years old nephew loves Greek Mythology, so I'm gonna paint up some bits for him, and lead him up the wargaming garden path, well hopefully anyway?

I also picked up a few paints from Coritani as well.

A bit of a mixture here, all from those great chaps from Warbases. Firstly more wagon's for the Retreat from Moscow, paints, some magnetized bases, for the Greek Mythology project and a new knife. I've somehow misplaced my favourite knife during the move a few months ago. It';; probably turn up now I've bought a new one?

A random buy, this chap used to frighten the life outta me when I was a kid, the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!!

He may come in handy during the up and coming Painting Challenge?

I'd not seen these before? a wagon and outhouse from Warlord, they were a bit pricey tbh, but I thought I'd give them a go, Skytrex did have loads of other great looking buildings from Warlord, but I'd need a 2nd mortgage to buy any of them.

The previously mentioned Greeks from Foundry, I bought Jason and the Argonauts and Hercules and the Argonauts. to fight them I bought two packs of Skeleton's , who spring out of the ground when the Hydra's teeth are thrown into the dirt. Also a pack of Gods, including the big man himself.

Also yet another wagon, this time from Iron Gate Scenery and some scenery from Ironclad Miniatures.

Four building from the Tree Fella, all 3D printed, me and Lee bought 3 damaged building at the last Partizan.

Unfortunately one of the roofs is wrong and doesn't match the building.

Arrgghh!

They should look pretty decent with a lick of paint on.

At the bring and buy I bought another 2 buildings, a ruined stables.

With a removable roof

Which should fit into my Donnybrook collection very well.

From the same guy I also picked up this medieval/tudor house

Again this should fit into the Donnybrook era.

And the roof comes off too!

Next up and also from the Bring & Buy, this medieval house.

It was only when I took the photos for this post I realised that the building doesn't have a door!!!

So I'll have to add one, if I ever get around to it, that is?

From the same guy I bought these 4 ECW buildings, the chap, carefully placed all 4 an the previous building in a box, as he lifted the box all 5 building fell out of the bottom, smashing one into firwood!!

The offending building is now all glued together and will need a little touch up as there were a few pieces missing.

Well I think I did rather well, don't you?