Tale of X gamers

[DanJ]

Thanks for the kind comments 

The triangular barbed wire protrusions are called "trianglular barged wire entanglements".  They are free standing and not part of the main base board so I can use them in other games, I based the design on a number of sources which show barbed wire entanglements laid out in triangles in front of the trench lines, the idea being that they would funnel infantry into machinegun killing zones where the MGs would fire allong the edges of the "triangles" This works very well in game terms as I made the trianles 6cm on a side so infantry require three orders to cross a single triangle with any failures resulting in them stuck on the wire in the open "hanging on the old barbed wire".

The blasted trees were easy, 25mm washers with a nail through the hole in the centre, push broken bits of twig onto the nail then finish the bases to match the terrain.  Once I'd worked out the technique I did about 30 in a hour or so.  Snap the twigs to get that "shattered by shelfire" look.

The figures are based for my "Flanders Fields" rules, infantry are on 3x1.5cm bases, tanks 3 x 4 (Light) or 3 x 6 (Heavy), MGs 2 x 2 squares.

I've played Peter Pigs "Square Bashing" with these bases and had no problems, I quite enjoyed Square Bashing but had issues was with the "feel" of the game which felt more like a very high level board game than a miniatures game, so I wrote my own 

[Maenoferren]

Where do we start showing/telling what we have been up to?

[Nosher]

I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of my 100YW French and English so i can make a start...

[lentulus]

Where do we start showing/telling what we have been up to?

Well, there are some tartars in the order that will arrive next week, but the big turkish order will be a while yet.

[nikharwood]

My update:

- WW2 Italian battlegroup ['43 mainland]: done: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=1277.0
- Dungeon Set: dungeon done; figures & accessories undercoated
- Indo-China: French Paras: half-assembled
- Indo-China: Viet Minh
- SYW Prussians: ready for painting
- Jacobite: British: half assembled
- Jacobite: umm, Jacobites
- Sudan: British
- Sudan: umm, Sudanese

Now I'm back at work I'm trying to spend at least an hour a day on stress-relief...so I might make some good progress with a bit of luck.

[Sean Clark]

Apologies for absence but my wife has been in hospital with some pre birth complications. We are booked in for a C Section on Tuesday and all is now under controln. Going from an uncomplicated pregnancy with a planned waterbirth to this has come as a shock and my bold ambitions for painting little men in this tale of x gamers has taken a bit of a back seat but I shall post some bits up when done when time permits.

Apologies if this seems to he one of those occasions where somebody sets out with lofty ambitions only to fall at the first but real life can sometimes be like that can't it.   

Feels like somebody somewhere shouted "anything but a 1"

[Nosher]

No worries Good luck to you both for Tuesday

[Maenoferren]

Stuff the figure painting, good luck with the c-section on Tuesday. However if you have to stay in the hospital like I did having to travel to Aberdeen. They chucked me out at 7.00 so I took a whoile host of paints and fuigures with me and got loads done 

[lentulus]

Is this number 1?

Anyway, great experience.  The experience of seeing each of my sons for the first time was absolutely indescribable.

[nikharwood]

Good luck for Tuesday 

[Captain Verbeek]

I have completed a Colonial British Gardner gun and based up my first battalion of "Cavenderi" colonial pictures to follow.

[Nosher]

11th sept. 100YW English and French Armies both based three days after landing on my welcome mat

I'm now as high as a kite on superglue and my dining room smells like pissy nappies... dont you just hate basetex! .

Next step, 24 hour curing time followed by pva/sand on bases. Hoping to complete this bit tommorow.

[Maenoferren]

30 bearers, 3 rhinos, flying lizard (now a pteradon) and vehicles all done (bar the weels on the truck) 12 glued to individual bases,they just need the sand etc added to match into the rest of the terrain. The rest will multiples on a larger base - not sure whether to do circular or rectangular
The link below shows them in the early stages

http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=1312.0
6 hunters glued to bases needing undercoats. 2 tigers soon to be painted as Smilodons put onto bases, also need undercoating

[nikharwood]

Latest from me:

- WW2 Italian battlegroup ['43 mainland]: done: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=1277.0
- Dungeon Set: dungeon done; figures & accessories done: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=1377.0
- Indo-China: French Paras: half-assembled
- Indo-China: Viet Minh
- SYW Prussians: ready for painting: Grenadiers done: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=709.30
- Jacobite: British: now all assembled
- Jacobite: umm, Jacobites
- Sudan: British
- Sudan: umm, Sudanese
- SCW Legion: 9 x infantry units +  HMGs painted for use at Colours (no pics yet cos they're still on loan!)

[lentulus]

My spray-fume-sensitive wife being on a business trip this week, I completely primed my SYW backlog  -- which is rather a lot now that I look at it    . But when the main Turkish order arrives next week it jumps to head of the queue.

[Nosher]

100yw stuff was basetex'd up earlier this week and a trip to halfords today will hopefully see them undercoated this afternoon.

For all intents and purposes I could be starting paintiong these early next week (if real life doesn't get in the way!). Good to see others are making progress too

[Nosher]

French bases now had fist and second highlights and a single unit of 6 stands of french bowmen completed.

Once I get my own PC back up and running I'll start a seperate thread

[Maenoferren]

on hold as painting and basing my mates Doctor Who Ice warriors, normal service will rsume when I get back from GLasgow, Actually I might take the figs and paints with me  3 nights in glasgow so will need something to do 

[DanJ]

After nearly a month without painting 

I've finally got started on my French WW1 and 7YW armies, first off the production line a battalion of WW1 infantry and a couple of tanks. 




and a German field gune which crept in from somewhere

[nikharwood]

Those are funky