Time...just not enough of it!

Hi Chaps...just to apologise for my lack of posts...being a single parent is time consuming to say the least. Add to this my never ending search for the truth as too what happened to my wife and son...all this equals no wargaming time.

I did dust off some plastic figures and may have a go at painting them up to the best standard I can manage...they seem smaller than I remembered! Is it my eyesight?? Does this happen to anyone else? Even the mighty 28mm are not the giants I once thought them to be! The plastic soldier review is an excellent web site and I often go there for some inspiration, who runs this site? Who ever is responsible it must be one of the best resources for wargaming ever!

Oh well, keep blogging! I know I have'nt done much but i keep popping onto around a dozen blogs each week to keep up with what is happening in the real world...well done chaps.

Till next time!

Buildings and Das...

Hi All,

I have been fiddling around with white Das, its funky stuff that dries in a day or two. As you can see my first efforts have had odd results but I will still make a mold so that I can populate my board with streets of terraced housing. I certainly could'nt afford to buy resin terrain and I have deliberatley kept the frontage small, a shop and a pub are on the way along with two different house designs.

I will complete my house over the weekend and paint it up, hopefully it will be useful for a lot of periods, the very British civil war to pulp games (not that I do either in this scale!). I could put up a tutorial but youtube has some great videos on how to do this...thanks for looking.

I will apologise for the picture..my computer finally committed Hari Kiri so I am on an old XP system from my backup computer-does anyone know what programme will allow me to alter a photo?

Thanks.

Whats happened at Games Workshop?

My son has recently attended a local club where it seems everyone plays Warhammer 40 000. Naturally he wanted to have some figures of his own (he had been using his bigger brothers), so off we went to a Games workshop stockist....

It took some time for the initial shock to wear off but really I still cant believe it-up to £15 for a figure because it had special abilities in the game?? The army boxes started at £65 and a box of 5 was £15....even my son who was really keen to start his own army refused to part with his piggy bank of savings at those prices.

So what to do? 20mm Hat to the rescue! My son is on the Plastic soldier website as I speak decideing which to order, thank god forHat.

Will post some pics later.

A new day!

Hi Chaps,

I have just spent a pleasant afternoon floating around the blogs that I follow (I follow lots) and its been inspirational! I had totally forgot about Hordes of the Things...my 9 year old son would love to game that...and then there is the painting, zombie games and lets not forget that feeling of being amongst kindred spirits.

There has not been much happening wargame wise in the Hendrickson household except for the boardgame "Zombies" which my son loves and is getting too good at. In short I apologise for the lack of posts but the weight of life in general took over-until this afternoon.

So...I have a parcel to post too New Zealand-sorry that man for the wait and some figures to order and to paint...but most importantly some games to play with my son!

Thanks chaps you all helped out today.

Plastics are everywhere!

Hi All,

its been a few weeks since I blogged but life has that annoying habi of interfering with ...well everything! Picked up Wargames Illustrated and I am so pleased to see the plastic revolution continuing though as yet nothing has really grabbed my enthusiasm but I am putting that down to just life in general.

I have been catching up with what everyone has been up to there are some amazing people out there!

Keep blogging!

AK47 Peter Pig Mercenaries and Militia

Hi,
I crept into the garden to take these pics of my last few painting session endevours. I am seriously enjoying painting 15mm, so much so that I may even try and paint some Serb or eastern european types along with some vehicles....just need to sell a kidney to fund it (15mm =more expensive than plastic 28mm!!).

there are 10 stands of militia and a couple more professional...also 4 battle winning mortar stands to paint up, by which time I will have ordered again-Peter Pigs stuff is more addictive than crack cocaine! Awaiting basing are 3 buildings-they seem so small to build in this scale...but even my small table suddenly looks rather large.

Have a good weekend and keep painting!

Blogger Templates and Peter the Pig (is great).

Hi All,

I made the mistake of fiddling with my blogger template and then wrestled for hours (OK 10 minutes) trying to ungirlify it! So sorry about the new look which is akin to some mad 70s theme.


The real reason I opened my blog was to praise Peter Pig...excellent service, next day delivery and quality products. There is currently a unit of professional types almost completed along with a few militia. The types of figure doesnt really matter for me as I like all of them-the chaps fighting "tackle out" strike me as odd and frightening...I will post pics shortly but will they need blurring?

Have a good weekend chaps!