The Confederate Army is complete!!

Sorry for the long delay in posting my painting activities but life has been busy and with the good weather time is spent out in the sun while it is here!

So over the last two weeks I have completed the two General stands that I needed to complete the Confederate Order of Battle for the Battle of First Manassas based on the scenario book from Altar of Freedom.  I also managed to paint up another house for the game and this great little stone fence, which can be used for the Battle of Fredricksburg.  It is modular so I can line up the 4 straight parts and it will provide cover for four stands of Infantry. That is a whole division worth of solders!!

I also took the time to take a picture of the whole army with the names of each brigade annotated.

Well next is to finish the buildings and build more trees for the terrain.  I am shooting for a game some time in May.

I hope you like the miniatures.

Have a good week!

The end is near...

Hi again!

I hope you all had a good weekend. I was busy with family commitments but I had some time to work on the 6mm ACW Project.  I painted up the first of my Leven Miniatures 6mm ACW Buildings. I have enough to have all the buildings and a bridge for the Battle of 1st Bull Run. This is the "timber shack" building from there ACW line, I think it came out great.

I also painted up a confederate Brigade of Cavalry and two Head Quarters stands.  The tents are just thick card stock that I cut and folded to the desired shape.

You will also see the first of the 350 trees that I bought for the 6mm games that I enjoy.  I will work with some other basing materials to try to get the best results.

Well have a good week. back to work tomorrow.....

Gibraltar of the West, 1863 Viskburg Campaign book released

Happy Friday to all of you!!

Yesterday the guys over at Altar of Freedom released there first Campaign book.  It looks great!

I have looked through it briefly and they have already updated the random events cards since the release yesterday.

They have also provided an AAR of one of the campaigns they ran at there local club. 

Check out the link here to the web page where you can get all the information Gibraltar of the West

Oh I almost forgot, it is FREE!!!!

Enjoy!!!

Blood Eagle rules and another dice bag!

Hi everyone,

I got a new set of rules this week.

 They are Blood Eagle! Skirmish warfare in the legendary Dark Ages.

So what is different in these rules than other Viking era skirmish rules? Well for one thing there are magical powers that both Pagan and Christians can use.  Also there are Legendary creatures, like trolls and other mythical beasts.  The possibilities are quite interesting. So yes you will start seeing 28mm Vikings and such posted here in the near future.

I also took some time to make another dice bag for my larger mixed dice that I have had in a cardboard box for a long time.  Now I have a good bag for them and hopefully the bag will last a long time.

Well that is all for today.

Have a good week and I hope you have a great weekend!!!

American Civil War Confederates in 6mm. The Infantry is done!!!

Hi again,

Well it has been a long week, yes it is only Wednesday.

Last night I finally finished up the last of the 6mm Confederate Infantry that I will need to start playing Altar of Freedom and the 1st battle of Bull Run. 

I added some skirmishers to the infantry ranks on these 4 Brigades of Infantry. I also created a stand of Infantry in column to add some flavor to the Army.  I have plans to do a Union stand with the infantry in Square formation, but that is later!

So please enjoy the pictures of the Rebel Infantry.  All I have to do is paint up a brigade of Cavalry, two General officer stands, and a few more Head Quarters stands.  Then it is on to the 6mm buildings!

Have a good night!

More 6mm Confederates and some extra stuff from this weekend!

Hi everyone!

Well it has been a busy weekend. I had 4 days off and I was able to get some work done on the 6mm ACW armies for Altar of Freedom.  I finished 4 more brigades of Confederate infantry and I was able to get in two Federal Artillery stands.  The Union Artillery are from Adler and the infantry are from Baccus.

I also made a small dice bag out of some fabric I had at the house from other projects. This bad is the first I have made like this and I think it came out good. 

The dice are very special.

They are bone dice that I bought at the National History Museum in Copenhagen. I purchased a total of 20 dice. They are very nice and they are heavy compared to modern dice. I plan to use these during my 6mm Viking games for Sword and Spear.

Well I hope you all had a productive and fun weekend.

See you next time.

DFFCON 2016

Hi everyone!

The National Museum of History after it opened to the public

Well this has been a great long weekend for me.
On Friday Soren and I drove to Copenhagen for the 2016 DFFCON wargamers convention.  It was help this year in an amazing room in the National History Museum.  There were a lot of visitors, probably over 150 people came to see what we were doing. There were a lot of game set up and all had fun.

The gaming room! Really nice!!!

The game masters setting up the tables before we open

Another view of the room during setup

On Saturday,Soren and I ran two games of Form Lind of Battle and the players fought the Battle of Koge Bay in 1677.  I created the Order of battle based on the miniatures we had and the historic ships that took part in the battle.  I will do a separate AAR of the two battles once I get some more time to look over the data from the battles.  Both games ended as a Danish victory but both battles were good and there was a lot of fun at our table.

Our little game!

The two Navies lined up for battle

A game of Ronin!

Great scenery for a game of Sharps Practice

More amazing terrain for the Ronin game

WWI aircraft game

Great trench work!!!

A village somewhere in France??

The Eastern Front for Chain of Commad

On Sunday we ran a what if scenario for 1918 with our WWI ships we have.  The USA was escorting a troop transport and was intercepted by a German squadron out for a fight.  It was a good game with exploding ships and lots of excitement. Again I will do a AAR once I get some time.

Great looking 15mm figures for Chain of Command

German Tanks!!!

WWI Trench warfare.

Koge Bay 1677!

Soren and I with the first group to fight Koge Bay

CY-6

CY-6 with B-17's!

Enjoy!
More to come soon!!!

The kids table!! Great way to draw families into the room!

The battle rages in the game of Sharps Practice

The action is hot!!!

The Eastern Front is cold!

The ships all lined up for battle!

Our WWI naval game!