A blast from the past .

From The Vintage Casting Group on Facebook , from an era when boys and girls were fearless in the face of molten lead and 1st degree burns and a sailor suit was all the PPE you needed ! .

 

Seasonal painting project .

I managed to get some painting done over Christmas , my order from Replica Miniatures arrived so I was busy gluing up and painting the Naval Brigade figures I wanted . They are Britains solid re-casts and here are manning an old 4.7 gun . 

Here is a Naval landing party , again modern re-casts , I could do with ordering another 4 of these to make it up to a unit whilst using 'A Gentleman's War' rules .

Here they are again resplendent in gloss varnish and traditional pink cheeks .

 

A Merry Christmas to one and all .

 

The Season's Greetings to all out there in Bloggerland .

A Christmas game - Hook's Farm .

Here is the map from 'Little Wars' and I will try to interpret it and play a game on this terrain using 'A Gentleman's War' over the Christmas period .

Here we have my set up taken from the book .

From another angle .

Red Army's deployment .

Blue Army .

The battle is set up and ready to play over the Christmas period . I of course will be using 'A Gentleman's War' to play the game and if I remember to take photos the results will be reported here in the New Year ,

 

The Vicar of Firely Church.

 

Here is the new incumbent of Firely Church , Mr Collins . After a fruitlessly search on eBay I found that  Replica Metal Soldiers do a re-cast of an old Britains (?) casting so I included him in an a pre-Christmas order to them and a fine if slightly pompous chap he is .

The 2021 Thousand Mile Challenge .

 

This will be my fourth year doing this challenge , looking forward to it .

Wargaming humour No. 41

Freshly gathered from the internet .