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i m guessing if i used some of pa s higher quality casting metal it would make things easier i ll be posting progress on the painting of this unit soon cheers posted by littlejohn at 7 50 am 26 comments labels 18th 18th c classic wargaming homecast 40mm imaginations old school prince august workbench wednesday april 16 2014 the gateway drug if there is an old school of board games panzerblitz must be it with some upgraded rules and counters it s not bad at all here the 11th panzer squares off with a russian tank brigade given that i had sold most of my boardgames many years ago and the fact that i love playing with daddy s little men as my son calls them i would never have thought that board gaming resurgence would have occurred here at the lead gardens but i am here to tell you that the improbable has happened given that i have been unable to get any gaming or painting done for almost a year not to mention blogging it turns out that boardgames have been the gateway drug that has brought me back from non gaming oblivion since there are some great new game designs out there and many are quick to set up and play i have used them to get back on the horse and now after a crazy couple of months of buying and re collecting some of the classic titles and even attending a boardgames con in nearby charlottesville va i have now started to eye my miniatures with renewed interest i m about to order some of the new prince august seven years war moulds now that summer is approaching and some outdoor casting sessions are becoming possible and hopefully soon some new units to paint thanks to everyone who contacted me about my return to blogging and i m really enjoying getting to look at all your great blogs again the pb counters and variant rules can be found here and here posted by littlejohn at 8 01 am 11 comments labels boardgames tuesday january 28 2014 we are back victory ok so this is a bare bones post but this is just to let everyone know that i managed to get back onto my blog after a long slog with old passwords and accounts but as of this evening i m back in the blogging game posted by littlejohn at 4 30 pm 10 comments saturday march 2 2013 back to the front it seems that i have been skulking in the rear here at the lead gardens since my last post on dec 22 a age ago in blogging terms so i ve resolved to quit paying so much attention to work family and career and get back to what really matters pushing great masses of lead around around the green mile i hasn t been all work over the past few months and i did get bitten by the wings of glory bug to the tune of a few hundred bucks psst don t tell the missus jasta 37 s new machines just arrived at the front these albatri are destined for a repaint to make a complete unit and my son and i have been shooting each other s spindly crates down for the past few weeks with reckless and delighted abandon though mostly it s been mine that have been shot up the added cool of having the option of playing the game solo using the excellent solo ai from richard bradley herkybird has made the game all the more seductive the richard s solo ai charts are available for free on the tyneside wargame club site for me the best part about jumping into a new gaming period is the reading and the free offerings on google books of out of print texts on wwi flying have been keeping me up nights into the wee hours so as usual it s the too many projects but what the hell it s fun madness here at the lead gardens posted by littlejohn at 5 13 am 4 comments saturday december 22 2012 my box of britians splendidity i have a box of old britains that have been with me for the past 11 years i got them from my former girlfriend s father for christmas and they are still with me even though the girl is not she ran off with an italian chef but i think i may have got the better deal her father was a collector of toy soldiers and some of his collection wound up in the huge collection of malcom forbes so he was a pretty serious collector at that i managed to get some single figures and a partial queens coronation set one christmas from him that are really nice even if a little less than pristine collector quality as a gamer i always have a bit of a beef against the high prices that those figures are bringing these days as i currently struggle with my pencil pad and calculator to figure out how to make two little wars armies of the new spencer smith little britons happen here at the lead gardens i took a few of these old figures out of the box for a bit of inspiration a bengal lancer one of my favorites if you look close you can see her majesty herself after many years of service this fellow is in need of some rest perhaps in a nice rtv rubber mold this fellow in the pic is an old britians that i found at a flea market almost 20 years ago with a few guardsmen in home service uniform i think his is a pretty old vintage as the oval bases i think are pre 1940s i always loved this figure because of the stalwart pose and simple lines of the sculpting i think the figure was repainted by a prior owner i was thinking about this guy and wondering if i might try to make a rubber mold and try to recast a unit of these these may be a bit hard to cast at home without a spin casting set up so i m going to have to do some research to see if is at all possible i think the horsemen would be difficult as i think they would require a three part mold all the figures in pretty tattered shape but they have stayed with me because i don t have the heart to sell them on ebay even though i would probably sell them if i ever got an offer i m hoping all of my readers have a peaceful and fun holiday season i m splitting time shopping with my wife taking care of kids with some progress gaming and also making some organizational changes in my gaming space to make the gaming a little more pleasurable and less disrupting to the household it seems this time of year is really a time for reflection and remembering the good stuff happy holidays posted by littlejohn at 4 29 pm 8 comments labels classic wargaming homecast 40mm old school remembrances toy soldiers thursday december 20 2012 new musketeers just finished a new company of 40mm prince august homecast these fellows will do service as a unit of my imaginations i m gradually scaling up my imaginations collection to 40 42mm to fit in with my french and british so i m taking my already named units and imaginary history and up scaling them for my home casting project finished unit with the miscast muskets ready for repair these castings are from the newest pa molds that came out last november as always the pa casting is pretty easy except for some musket barrels that did not cast to the right length so i used my flat toothpick fix that works really well for most pa musket sword casting repairs it works as well as the round toothpick solution for wagon gun wheels i also did a few minor head modifications to get better three dimensionality and some more extensive mods to make a standing flag bearer but the pa figures particularly the artillery castings do well as a base for unusual conversions the toothpick fix super glue works as both the adhesive and as a way to seal the wooden toothpicks all painted up the toothpicks are pretty convincing and as a unit the fix is almost undetectable ready for the field posted by littlejohn at 3 23 pm 8 comments labels 18th 18th c imaginations old school prince august toy soldiers tuesday december 18 2012 an odd idea i was reading the classic little wars a few nights ago something i do from time to time to get re inspired and an idea was rekindled in my head regarding how to make woods on the gaming surface h g wells had a set of large rectangles of wood planks that when stacked served as hills though it s not mentioned in the text but outlined in some detail in his floor games his approach to making woods involved having the hill boards drilled in a grid to take short branch cuttings from actual trees to make his wooded areas you can just make out the grid of holes in the pictures in little wars i ve always wanted to give that idea a try but never had the wherewithal to tackle it given that it seemed like a bit more than was necessary to produce woods but the idea still hung around my thinking and finally ran into an opportunity to give it a try now this is an odd idea for sure as it involves damaging a game i own but i still thought it had good possibilities so i decided to give it a try a reb unit assaults a wood defended by union infantry and a battery of artillery the game board is a bit shiny and i was thinking a quick coat of matte spray might make the whole look of the game a bit more like a tabletop wargame rather than a boardgame basically i took the idea of drilling the game surface to accept trees to one of my battle cry game boards to try a way of producing wooded hexes without having to use the flat tiles included in the game the result is kind of cool but perhaps a bit out there if one wants ever to resell the game and maybe just a bit too fiddly i just drilled each hex vertices using a small bit 1 16 and sized to take the trunks of some nice little wire trees i got on sale at my local hobby shop i forget the manufacturer of the trees but they are simple twisted wire trees with some clump foliage glued on but when you stick them into the board surface it gives a fairly good alternative to the woods tiles i think this idea would work even better if you laid the gameboard on a piece of blue styrofoam insulation so the trees would hold better in the surface i m still not completely sold on this idea i just drilled a corner of one of the two battle cry boards i own just to experiment with it i have to give it a few days to see if i really want to drill all of my boards this way it just seemed to me that if i was painting the figures i should do a little more with the terrain it kind of warps the boardgame idea but the effect is pretty good i also want to do the full treatment of this idea for my 40mm homecast horse and musket stuff by doing up some layers of boards drilled to h g wells specs and not to mention the new spencer smith 42mm little britons has got me on full alert with calculator in hand trying to work out how to afford a classic set of little wars toys soldiers many thanks to ross for the link nothing like some experiments to get the gaming juices flowing posted by littlejohn at 5 39 pm 4 comments labels battle cry classic wargaming command and colors homecast 40mm memoir 44 prince august the table toy soldiers trees workbench older posts home subscribe to posts atom followers blog archive 2014 3 may 1 casting season april 1 january 1 2013 1 march 1 2012 52 december 7 november 9 october 9 september 4 august 4 july 7 june 1 may 5 april 6 2011 50 december 6 september 1 july 3 june 3 may 8 april 10 march 10 february 2 january 7 2010 56 december 6 october 6 september 2 august 2 july 5 june 10 may 11 april 3 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