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A mythical beast - a female wargamer! I got back into wargaming in the summer of 2011 after a very, very long break and haven't looked back since. I must admit that I seem to be more of a painter/collector than a gamer, but do hope to correct that at some point in the near future. My gaming interests span the ages, from the "Biblical" era all the way through to the far future. I enjoy games of all sizes, from a handful of figures up to major battles (see my megalomaniacally sized Choson Korean and Russian Seven Years War armies).

Sunday 8 April 2018

Sunday Workbench 08 April



Did I say that I'd finish painting the second batch of "retinue warriors" by the weekend? Oh well, best laid plans and all that. As it happens, I got rather distracted by Gaslands and have spent a fair bit of time watching YouTube vids, downloading files and printing things out.

And that, I must confess, is why I have only just finished painting and varnishing them today. I'm sure you'll agree that the wait was worthwhile:



I'll be starting work on the third batch for the "retinue warriors" (officers, standard bearers, musicians) tonight.

Once the "retinue warriors" are done, that just leaves this little lot to paint:


As I'm on leave this week, I think I should get a fair way to finishing this army before I have to go back to work.


For Gaslands I'm going to need some terrain and what better than a load of shipping containers. So I decided to have a go at building some out of foamboard. And made a few mistakes. Such as cocking up measurements, not thinking about how to "frame things...


Having thought I'd learnt lessons from the first set, I then proceeded to make a second set. And cocked up on the measurements and framing again, just not quite as badly.


And then I made a third set, this time of the short 20 foot containers. The measurements were right this time, but I did mess up on the framing again.


I had a go at adding some plasticard strip framing for one of them:


What a faff that was. I think if I ever make any in future I'll have to come up with some other way of framing them - maybe a card fold-around?

Anyway, with those mistakes made (and soon to go in the bin)I thought I'd take a look to see if anybody on the Gaslands group on Facebook has done any paper terrain files. And they had. A few downloads, a bit of printing and cutting later and I have twelve short shipping containers ready to use.


To limit the bulk for transporting to the club, I opted not to glue them at this point. However they are a bit light and there's no way to fix them in place so I cut some suitably sized pieces of foamboard to insert in the bottoms:



Foamboard inserted
Container unfolded for transport

I also printed and cut out some gates for one of the scenarios:


Again, these aren't glued.

I did print a set of templates and tokens out on card instead of paper, then got them all cut out:


If we decide that we do like the game, then I might invest in some acrylic templates and tokens.

And a shot of all the "terrain" I've worked on this weekend, when I should have been painting figures:


Ciao!


Edit: - Just spotted that this is my eleventy-eleventh post!

6 comments:

  1. I do like the containers Tamsin!

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  2. Happy anniversary??? Tamsin, the Philibusters look excellent too!

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  3. Another great batch of figures and a whole week off. There be quite a few posts I think lol.

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  4. When you said you won't doing the challenge I thought there would be fewer post and a lot less Painting. I was wrong:-) Nice work!

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  5. Well they certainly do the trick Tamsin, smashing work.

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  6. @ Ray - thanks, but which ones? :)

    @ Herkybird - cheers! Not an anniversary, but it will be another eleventy-eleven posts before a similar numerical coincidence occurs again ;)

    @ Dannoc - thanks! The number of posts will depend on how quickly I finish things. There will be at least two before the weekend I think :)

    @ Dan Foley - cheers! My output hasn't been at my normal Challenge levels, but there was no way I could manage that again this year :)

    @ Michael - I was quite pleased with how the paper models looked and how strong they actually are :)

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