ECW project - For King and Parliament

[paulr]

Final dry brush and figure bases done on the current batch

Hedges flocked

Sabots and bases painted and labeled

Next batch still waiting for space on the painting rods

Did some more work on the layout for the game at Easter, I think I've figured out how to include Cheriton Wood 

[paulr]

Current batch sorted ready for basing

Next batch on painting rods now waiting for the day to warm to undercoating temperature

[Techno]

And taking some photo's ! 

(There really has been a lot of wonderful 'eye candy' on the forum, recently !)

Cheers - Phil

[paulr]

Next batch undercoated yesterday morning

Visited small local convention ValleyCon yesterday lunch time

Enjoyable second half of a Napoleonic game last night

Current batch based yesterday afternoon & flock touched up this morning

Armour base coated on the next batch this morning

Further progress today will be limited due to my wife's birthday

[paulr]

Progress has been further delayed due to high temperatures, currently 25C and it is nearly 8pm here

Forecast is for hot weather for the rest of the week

[Techno]

Send some heat over here, Paul.

Cheers - Phil

[pierre the shy]

Enjoyable second half of a Napoleonic game last night

We won!! The Highland Brigade a good day, capturing a village from the French and spiking the guns of a French foot battery, though the 7th Hussars got a bit carried away, but those French Hussars were in charge reach.......bugler sound the charge...tally ho  

Back to making smoke markers for Cheriton game....  

[paulr]

Given the tight timeframe between now and Easter I've 'outsourced' a couple of tasks for this project

Pierre the Shy is making some smoke markers to show units firing

His good lady has already kindly made some bags for us to draw our chits from

Roy, the host for our regular Saturday games, is painting my Leven buildings

All this is letting me focus on:

• getting all the troops painted
• working out the terrain map
• working out the troop deployment
• making the hedges
• making the ridges
• making extra sets of chits
• recruiting players

[paulr]

Still too hot for any painting

This run of hot weather is forecaste to break tomorrow night

I managed to get enough motivation together to cut out a large batch of counters 

Six players have expressed interest in playing in the Cheriton game at Easter so we will have enough players 

[paulr]

Still too hot for painting

24C at 9pm

I found a shady spot so I could varnish the current batch of hedges

I sanded the edges of some of the chits I cut out yesterday

I've prepared the flags for the current batch and will glue them once it has cooled a bit more, so the PVA doesn't dry too quickly

[Techno]

Still too hot for painting
24C at 9pm

Strike a light, Paul !

It's probably about minus 2C here, at the mo'.....Minus 10 in some parts of Scotland, overnight, apparently.
How do folk ever manage to survive in places like Siberia !!!
I think some our friends over the other side of the Atlantic are going through some horrendously low temps at the mo', as well.

I'm complaining, because I'll have to go and do some soldering upstairs in the pole barn pretty soon.
My poor little fingers are going to turn blue.

Cheers - Phil

[d_Guy]

Yesterday was -19 C w windchill, -27 C. Warmed up to a balmy -11 C today w windchill -18 C. Not the coldest place over here by far.
Spring is coming.

[Steve J]

Hard for us to imagine such cold Bill. Just hope our cousins across the (frozen) pond are all OK.

[paulr]

I've seen some of the weather on both sides of the pond up north and wasn't expecting a lot of sympathy  

Keep safe and warm guys

[paulr]

The weather has cooled down a bit, high of 23C today, so I have been a lot more productive

I've touched up the flags on the current batch
Too windy to varnish them, but less wind forecast for tomorrow

On the next batch:

• Armour dry brushed
• Buff coats base coated
• Buff coats dry brushed
• 'Uniform' jackets and trousers base coated

Next batch of hedge bases cut and glued