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!