Busy, but not very productive.

Well, I missed my first blog entry last week. With a broken furnace and fighting the mother of all colds, I was definitely not myself last Sunday evening, when I should have been blogging.

But I think I'm still doing OK. I finished-up a bunch of figures that were destined for a table far, far away and neglected to take any pictures of them before I packed them for shipping. But, I hope to see some pictures of them at a later date.

With them off the bench, I got a good start on my next batch of 33 newer-issue figures for my ACW project:

These 33 will get matched-up with 66 old Airfix figures to give me all the Confederate rifle stands I'll need for my first game of Fire & Fury.

I have been thinking ahead to the terrain I'll have to be dealing with. One concern is wooded hills. I'm not sure how my hills will be made: forms under the ground cover or models. Either way I go, the trees that I have on bases really won't work very well. So I bought these trees without bases at A. C. Moore crafts, making good use of their 40% off coupons.

I'll also need to put together a peach orchard. Fruit trees are not especially big or sturdy, so I was happy to find these at A. C. Moore, too:

Always on the lookout, I was pretty tickled when I found this Torii gate for my Samurai at PetCo. None of my Samurai are painted as of yet, so I had a couple of Boxers stand-in for scale.

Yesterday we had a "Maine Game Day" here. These are rare events not to be missed! I played in two games: 25mm Alamo (using a variation of Sword & the Flame) and 25mm AWI (Two Hour Wargame's Black Powder Battles).

The Alamo game should be of interest because the Hudson & Allen model was used for the Alamo (not a great pic here, but it'll give you an idea as to how big it is):

A better pic, showing the detail:

There were some beautiful games, like this 6mm ACW:

And some beautifully painted bad guys.

Well, I guess that's enough for now! Hope to make another entry next Sunday. Thanks!

Bluebellies.

It's been a strange week for yours truly. Some low-life got my debit card information and did some internet shopping. My bank and the merchants invloved were all great and I have money back in my checking account, but I can't say it was a pleasant experience. Also this week, I got the word that the product I work with will no longer be available after January 1st. I guss I feel like a Studebaker mechanic in a lot of respects. So long as there are Stubebakers on the road, I should have work and my skills are still transferable.

Well, enough of that reality stuff! I continued to make progress on my not-ready-for-the-blog project and got a small bunch of Yankee infantry mounted for Fire & Fury rules. My Yankees had been mounted for use with Johnny Reb rules.

The HQ figures are 23mm from Musket Miniatures.

I think they look better now that they're remounted and the stands have been "flocked".

My first game using these guys is going to be Longstreet's attack on the Peach Orchard, Wheatfield, Devil's Den and Little Round Top, the only difference being that the Yankees are not going to get the massive reinforcements they actually got. So it's just going to be ol' Dan Sickles out looking for trouble:

And the Yankees have some Zouaves to act as artillery magnets.

That's all for now, I have a kid tapping his toe waiting for the PC. But before I go, I was out doing some yardwork today and thought this was worth a picture. Bye for now!