Round-Up 2024.1

 Just some notes and pointers:

(a)  6.3.24 - found on Facebook today.  Only a small amount of text:

Donn Cooks HAMAA:
Historical African Martial Arts Association
Mohsen Mahfouz - Chariots made for a film.

13 pics - don't know how to access the originals!  Really useful guide for scratch-building.

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                                            (b)  Tues 5.3.24 - some painted Haitian peasants:

https://onelover-ray.blogspot.com/2024/03/ahpc14-haitian-revolution-haitian.html

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(c)  DBA - Gt.Houghton - Sat 2.3.24

1.3  Nubian  v  1.2b  Early Egyptian -   4:1 win - quite uncharacteristically I shot the enemy to pieces
2.68a  Pictish  v  3.52 West Frankish -  4:1 loss - cannot handle fast pikes
2.43  Maccabean Jewish  v  2.19a  Seleucid -  4:2 win - managed to kill the elephant early on
2.11  Gallic v  2.10  Camillan Roman - 4:1 win - got the warband working plus lucky dice

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(d)  Painting/modelling progress

I now have enough figures to re-constitute my Bedouin army.  What I am still short of is 60mm x 80mm chariot bases.  Looks like a serious order has to be made considering just how many of my plastic armies are chariot-rich.

Sorting out my Libyans/Kushites but stuck on the later spearmen.  A suitable box of Carthaginians will have to be found.

Sadly nothing completed as my freezing garret does not encourage loitering.  

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Unexpected Item in the Painting Area

 

                                                       Bedouin army by Alan Ferrency

I needed to take a quick break from working on my Bedouins so I placed my paint tray in, what I thought was, an out of the way place.  Soon after I heard a crash whilst I unable to do anything about it.  When I returned to my painting set-up I found a white monstrosity sitting in the middle of all the chaos - quite unconcerned. My almost completed Bedouins had been scattered to the four winds.  

After searching as best I could, and consulting my army lists, I realised that only a few figures were lost - 3 x camels, 3 x camel riders and 1 x chariot wheel.  Having just purchased a box of Bedouins to get a miserly 2 camels I was not best pleased.  

Guess that I will just have to 'bite the bullet' and order yet another box!  Still one man's misfortune is another man's profit!  

Later - with a new surplus of Bedouin foot - I re-arranged the deck chairs.  The camels I could now manage but all the riders not so.  Time to rummage around in PSR.  The Zvezda Carthaginian box ZVE8031 has 12 Numidian riders (6 without shields) so I looked carefully at them.

 

Not ideal but acceptable.

In the meantime I sorted out the Nubians and made some progress on the Libyans.  With 2 x 20mm armies ready to photograph I looked for my camera.  All seemed well with the world until I actually tried to take a photograph.  I hadn't realised just how long the camera had been snoozing in the cupboard.  Little or no charge in the thing.  It is also stuck in video mode.  Next job - try to find the manual in order to restore all my settings.  Never rains but it pours!

Too Many Irons in the Fire

 

Being a wargaming butterfly means seeing shiny things and being unable to resist buying them. The result is a ton of unfinished projects that, realistically, may never reach fruition.  With no loft access at the moment I am working on a sub-set that consists mainly of 15/20mm 'ancients.

(1) 15mm DBA armies - added a few more this year - Kushites, Germans & Huns.

(2) 20mm DBM armies - only 2 of these extant - Egyptians and Trojans.  The former have been tidyed up with unwanted Armati figures going to the 'spares box'.  Some of these have formed the basis of DBA armies (see below).  The Trojans still need to be split into 2 armies - Trojans and Achaians.

(3)  20mm Chinese and Arab figures will be moved to the Renaissance box to provide more DBA-RRR armies.    

(4)  20mm Book 1: In the process of forming DBA armies - part painted and assembled armies (including scratch-built chariots) for Nubians, Early Bedouin, Early Libyans, Kushites, Medes,  Etruscan, Greeks, etc

(5)  20mm HotT armies - only a little paint on them - Elves, Dwarves, Goblins, Ratmen, Lizardmen.

(6)  20mm Jacobites - plenty of figures - unpainted

(7)  Spaceships - have converted some 40k bits into federation-ish craft (and painted them).  Trouble is that I need some stands - maybe Litko - but where can I buy them?  Ed - found a source and put in an order.

(8)  Sailing Ships (ex-Risk) - have quite a number of these - few painted and never tried out the rules.  Seen some clear plastic bases on some blogs and would love to know where to get them.  More research needed.

There are plenty more figures and models sitting around needing my attention.  Far too many in fact.  Given my painting rate I will need to be a centenarian before they are finished.  I Don't recommend being a wargaming butterfly.