Literally "Setting the Scene"

 

As followers of this blog you will already know about my and Lee's Retreat from Moscow project. 

With all the figures nearly complete it was time to turn to terrain, we already bought the rivers and tree bases and mat, as seen in our previous posts. But ideas have been buzzing around my head since we started painting the figures, I've done my research online and found loads ideas, notably from Mark's blog, 1866 and all that.

Then I found Pat Smith blog again, that's been inactive since 2020, Wargaming with Silver Whistle, I used to follow Pat's building prowess religiously, as I'm sure some of you did. Not sure where or what Pat's up to knowadays??? Anyway I remembered I bought his first book, Setting the Scene Winter Wargaming,  so I scanned my wargaming library and couldn't find the book anywhere???? Panic set in.......so I out a message out on Facebook if anyone had one they wanted to sell. I had an answer in a couple of days a chap called Ian, was willing to part with his copy, only problem was he lives in Melbourne, Australia!!! There's me thinking the postage is gonna cost as much as the book itself, but Ian had other plans. His cousin was over visiting from Wales and was going back home the next week. So Ian's cousin packed up the book and also Pat's next book vol 2, the Mediterrain, (it would have been rude not to!), and took them home to Swansea, where they then posted them to me!!!

The Wargaming world is a luvvly thing, isn't it!!

Ian then told me he also has a blog, but its not been updated for a while, This 28mm Life, which I'd visited and commented on many many time. What a small world we all live in!!

So I thought I'd take a few photos of the books and let them to the talking, both books are a must and well worth the cost and miles!!

Thanks Ian!!