A brief Indian sojourn

Haven't got much painting done in the past few weeks - family holiday and then a work trip to India.  Justa few photos of the trip.

Did the obligatory trip to see the Taj Mahal

Saw some interesting things on the drive down there.

Dodged a few trucks on our side of the highway on the way back.

And of course managed to get something on topic - part of one side of the

Red Fort in Delhi.



Don't worry - normal service will be restored soon.

Part of a lead mountain

The process of sorting out miniatures and terrain stored all over the house continues so it can be boxed and placed in the cupboards under the table.

So, this is what my lead mountain looks like (or to be completely truthful I haven't yet pulled out all the projects from their various hiding places).

It is like a week long shopping trip - similar to Historicon visits.  I am discovering things that I had forgotten I had or had lost among the various boxes.  Given the size of the mountain, I think it may be the last shopping trip I enjoy for a while.

ECW Judgement

Just painted up Redoubt's Gibbet set.  Used a picture from the the Alternative Battle of Worcester as inspiration (as shown in the WI Great Wargames Special).

Fevered activity at the paint desk

After spending most of the past 2 months getting the games room done, the deadline for the 30 June phase of the year long Guild build loomed up very quickly.

So it has been a frenzied week of painting something up for each of the five tasks I am doing.  At 8.30am this morning, the table looked like this.

On the table is:

• A bit of captured french now german armour to add to 2 M36s already done for the 20mm NWE- they just need varnishing and thankfully it is a nice sunny (if cool) day
• A unit of 15mm ACW Zouves with the glue drying attaching them to the bases
• 28mm ECW vignette
• 2 20mm buildings with drybrush coats drying awaiting some pastels
• A brigades worth of Adler Polish Napoleonics - there's no way the brigade will get done as planned - hoping to get a battalion done.

Breakfast now and then call in a few favours to avoid household tasks to get it done by end of the day.

Terrain racks finished

Lots of woodworking and most of the joints fit and match up - so not bad.

This is a terrain rack that will allow us to store the TSS tiles we have when others are being used on the table top.

All in place waiting for the frame and table top to be placed - needed to stop as it was very dark and raining outside - not good for the power saw!

Progress continues on the room

Busy weekend so far - cupboards all finished and lights installed.  Very happy with the Ikea cupboards that were on special.  Especially when I had originally planned to make them myself.

Need a trip to the hardware store to get the timber to make the terrain racks and the table top.  BUT, it is pouring rain and I need to do the work with tools like a router etc in the yard - so brakes are on at the moment.

Notice the 'test' unit in the cupboard.