Battleground setup

Katherine and I made the 5 minute drive from home to the location of the Battleground show to set up this evening. We got most of it done but hunger drove us to leave without deploying the French.

The rest I can do in the morning without any pressure. More to follow.

Some useful finds in the pet shop

The first item was actually picked up at Crisis last month. It's the Indian God Ganesha, and it might do for something in India when I get my Sikh Wars stuff ready.

While shopping for cat litter and doggie biscuits I came across the following interesting and probably useful/useless items. The first two I thought would be suitable for a Darkest Aftrica game or two. Sponge Bob Squarepants fans will recognise the second one.

 This last piece might also do for the African jungle but equally would not be out of place in an Italian Wars game or in a French Revolutionary Wars War game set in Northern Italy.

Cossacks raid supply train outside Zurich

Something silly I know but I came across an old pontoon wagon earlier this week so had a brainwave.    It will look good in the streets of Zurich. Then I can eat it. Unless the Cossacks get it first!

Newly rebased Cossacks for my Russian army in Switzerland and Northern Italy. I think the bigger skirmish bases look good and certainly make it perfectly obvious that these troops are skirmishers and raiders and not battle cavalry other than in exceptional circumstances. Note the big hound running down the fleeing Frenchman.

Battleground prep. A few more bits for Zurich

With the Battleground show less than a week away it’s time to panic and er....make check lists and packing figures and terrain, plus producing some info for the game.

I came across this casting in my bits box so had to do something with it, and a bit naughty. Here it is.

I also based up some limbers to pull my French 12pdr battery. These are the Perry French in Egypt castings but they do just fine. I've used the Renendra plastic limber bases rather than mdf.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0brzkzx/they-shall-not-grow-old

A piece of completely stunning and humbling tv if ever there was such a thing. Remarkable colourisation and digitised newsreel from WW1. We forget that for the men at the front the war wasn’t in monochrome but in glorious and gory technocolour. I’ve seen some of the footage before aim B&Q  it in colour it really hits home. Truly a different world to the one we live in now. A horrendous experience for the men who were there but from the words of the many veterans recorded by the BBC in the 1960s one filled with that wry British squaddie sense of humour and desire to ‘get the job done.’

Some oddments for Zurich

THE LAUGHING COW

THE SAINT BERNARD

A SAINT BERNARD

HEIDI

Not alot else to say really. I have too much time on my hands clearly.

Some tattied up buildings

Mainz Cathedral

I've been picking these up off eBay over recent months,  ready made and relatively cheap. Most have been removed from scrapped railway set ups. They're obviously slightly under scale but en masse they look pretty good. Actually I prefer under scale to over scale like some otherwise excellent mdf creations. These buildings are destined for my Zurich 1799 game and will represent the city, behind some Vaubanesque walls.