For a change, when I rummaged through my bags of loot I picked up at this years Salute, I was very surprised at how much there was!! (That never usually happens???)
So firstly was my Salute Goody bag, the Saladin figure, some Dwarf figures, some very handy magnetic bases from Warmag and another base, I've not really delved into what it is yet?
All of these will be snowified, for the Retreat from Moscow and the Winter War.
A mix of figures for Jason and the Argonauts, from Wargames Foundry, Crooked Dice and Fenris. From Warlord, some Bolt Action dice, (£18 for dice!!, my heart bleeds!) and artillery markers and some free Konflikt 49 sprues. Paints from Sheppey Models and 15mm Ottoman tents form Debris of War.
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.
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.
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