tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345740055295626972024-03-05T11:14:58.407-08:00Et In Arcadia EgoGarethGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11259610648100215121noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-734574005529562697.post-20261656696508395462015-05-06T00:23:00.002-07:002015-05-06T01:28:00.469-07:00What's been going onGolden Week in Japan. And a chance to update the blog. Ok, I admit I'm not good at blogging. Or rather, I'm not good at keeping a regular update. The best laid plans of mice and men, etc.<br />
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However, things have been happening. I've done very little painting, but other areas have been more productive.<br />
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First, for my Eighteenth century armies, I got and made up a star fort kit from the Paper Terrain company. I'd always wanted a Vauban style fort. I saw one in 15mm being used in a game at a show in Harrogate when I was a student. Finally, I have been able to get one, and have some armies to go with it. <br />
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I didn't include the fort buildings in the photo. You get some barrack blocks with the kit, one for each wall section, but they tend to clutter it up a bit. Instead, I use them as town houses, which means I have a fair collection now of buildings suitable for 16th, 17th and 18th century towns in 6mm.<br />
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I also bought the snake rail fences kit, which comes with about 40 feet of fencing! For 6mm, that's a lot. The fences don't need a base, they're free standing, but without one they tend to get knocked over or moved quite easily, so at the moment I'm working on ways to base fences. The fortress bastions for the fort have the same problem, so I have to make some bases to mount the walls and bastions on, too. Incidentally, I've kept the all the wall and bastion sections as separate elements. It's easier to store like that, and I can use single bastions as redoubts if I need to.<br />
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front, and despite my best intentions, I haven’t got much new stuff painted.
What I did manage to do was to dig out and start to repair my 6mm Great Northern War
armies. I’d just started painting these when we moved house a couple of years
ago, and unfortunately the boxes that they were in got a little crushed in the
move. The Russians suffered worse. They have a lot of broken bayonets that have
had to be straightened, not always successfully. Still, it could have been
worse, and for me it’s another point favouring my choice of 6mm as a wargames
scale. Larger figures would have suffered a lot more damage and been much more
difficult to repair. For their size, 6mm are surprisingly robust, and can take
quite a lot of mishandling. And if I do have to replace figures, fifty pounds
can provide the bulk of an army. When I look at the offers from some companies
of army sets for around five hundred pounds (these are 28mm figures), I really
wonder who can afford them. I certainly couldn’t, and I am much less stretched
for cash than many in the UK.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century","serif";">Also, my painting style has changed since
I bought them. These were the first Baccus figures I bought, and at the time I
was using a white undercoat with a dark wash on top. Since then, I’ve moved to
the black undercoat camp, so the first thing to do was to give the whole lot a
thin black wash over their existing white undercoat. Incidentally, I prefer to paint
undercoats rather than use a spray. I find that using a spray I always miss
bits. Although it’s not quite as fast, applying the undercoat by brush means
that I get a better coverage, use less paint, and get a better idea of the
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century","serif";">Anyway, I succeeded in getting the Swedes
done last weekend and the Russians will be started properly this week. The
figures are all based for Phil Barker’s unpublished <i>Horse, Foot and Guns</i> rules, but the <i>Polemos</i> rules from Baccus can use the same basing, so I have a
choice of which to use. It’s not my best painting, but it’s adequate. While the
bulk of the Swedish army is pretty simple (everyone has the same uniform; even
Charles XII wore a fairly plain coat) I wasn’t sure about the Valacks. I couldn’t
find any pictures of them, so, on a reference that they were Polish irregular
cavalry, I assumed they would be similar to the Saxon Uhlans raised a little
later in the century from the same areas, and painted them up in the same kind
of dress. A picture on the Gallica website dating from the 1730’s shows costume
very similar to the Cossack figures Baccus produce so I used it as my main
source.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century","serif";">My rules preferences depend on the type of
game I’ll be playing. For smaller battles, like those of the American
Revolution, I use <i>Black Powder</i>, but I
like HFG for GNW because they are about the only set I’ve played where the
Swedes have any serious chance of winning. In most sets, the sheer numbers of
the Russian army will overwhelm the Swedes despite their higher quality. When I
got the <i>Polemos</i> set I looked at the
list for Poltava; the Swedes get about 18 bases of infantry, against about 70
Russian. It doesn’t matter how much better the Swedes are in terms of quality,
sooner or later the Russians are just going to swamp them. The lists that come
with HFG give 5 elements of Swedish infantry against 18 Russian. Still long
odds, but rather better than under <i>Polemos</i>;
the morale rules in HFG mean that the Swedes might just be able to get away
with a quick, destructive attack. I don’t even want to think what the chances
would be for the Swedes would be in <i>Black
Powder</i>...</span></span></div>
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gaming on two successive weekends. This may not sound much, but in Tokyo it’s
quite impressive, particularly as I live in Saitama and outside Tokyo itself. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Century","serif";">I made
it to the February Pub Con in Shimo Kitazawa. Pub Con is an occasional gaming
meet at the Good Heavens British style bar. The games tend to be board games
rather than figures, but there is an emphasis on multi-player games, and quick
and easy games, so it’s usually quite lively. I managed to lose an adventurer
to a mugging on the way out of the successful looting of a dragoon’s hoard in a
Dungeon Quest game; got shot down in a Down in Flames game; wiped out a rival
gang of thieves in an experimental game; and finally had a series of shoot outs
in a game of Ca$h and Guns. All told, it was a great day. The venue has food
and drinks, comfy chairs and sofas. It’s a little difficult to find if you don’t
know the area, and the Google map still seems to show the venue located at an
earlier address</span>...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century","serif";">The next Sunday I watched Robert and Giovanni's French getting beaten, before starting a game of Command and Colours Napoleonics. We didn't finish, but it was becoming an interesting game, and gave me a good idea of its potential. I'm already thinking of substituting the unit blocks with 6mm figures. Another project beckons...</span></span></div>
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GarethGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11259610648100215121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-734574005529562697.post-23982834457568083682015-01-10T16:52:00.002-08:002015-01-10T16:52:56.779-08:00Happy New Year!Happy New Year to everybody! A little late, I know, but better late than never. The Christmas and New Year hostilities are finally over and life is slowly returning back to something resembling normal.<br />
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One thing I have realized in the last couple of weeks is just how much of a 15mm/6mm gamer I am. Santa left two boxes of Victrix 1804 French infantry. Beautiful 28mm figures, and quite fun to put together, creating different poses. But painting?...... I really hate painting 28mm figures. Seriously, I find it much, much more difficult than the smaller scales. There's too much detail, and mistakes are easier to make. And there is definitely a tendency among 28mm gamers to emphasize the modelling aspects of the hobby. I've looked at videos on Youtube and read blog articles about how to paint 28mm figures. They all assume you want to get that 'Games Workshop' art standard. They cover shading, highlights, and how to bring out tiny details on every figure to create a perfect work of art. Look at the pics of Victrix' figures on Google. Beautiful, but more dioramas than games figures. I don't want a diorama, I want an army to game with. I have neither the patience nor the ability to paint figures to this kind of standard. (So no photos this time.) Nor do I have the time. After painting 3 figures, I went and painted a regiment of 6mm French AWI infantry (48 figures) as relief. So much easier!<br />
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Regarding 28mm figures, I'm at one with Pete Berry's rant on the Baccus website. The current fashion for gorgeously painted miniatures is relatively recent. If you look back at photos of games from the 1970's or early 1980's, the painting standard is not brilliant, but it is acceptable. It's a standard that anyone can aspire to. I look at what appears to be expected, and move on to the smaller scales. I'll keep on trying to paint them - the figures are lovely, it must be said - but I can honestly say that it'll likely be the last 28mm purchase I make. After this, back to the little guys. Small is beautiful! GarethGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11259610648100215121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-734574005529562697.post-76324484506196245572014-12-26T23:06:00.000-08:002014-12-26T23:06:47.356-08:00Christmas is over, the New Year beckons.<br />
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Happy New Year, everyone!GarethGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11259610648100215121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-734574005529562697.post-53783815863914562912014-12-23T16:47:00.000-08:002014-12-23T16:55:58.505-08:00Christmas is coming.....and I'm trying to get some of my current projects out of the way before the Christmas presents are opened, and new projects initiated.<br />
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December is always a bit hectic in our family; three birthdays, a wedding anniversary, and being in Japan, we tend to treat Christmas and New Year as separate events (well, the wife does...). Add in the end of year parties, hangovers and the rest, and the time to paint stuff shrinks dramatically. And my painting rate is pretty glacial; I belong to that faction of the hobby that tends to go for the game first rather than the painting. However, I am slowly getting things shifted. The Renaissance galley fleets I really need to finish. They've been painted bit by bit, so now I'm trying to get down and do the lot. The Genoese are just about done; just the bases left to do with the water effects (which I'm still learning how to use effectively), so now I'm on to the Venetians, who are now in the shipyard.<br />
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The colours are similar to the Genoese, mainly red, but I've left the hulls as a dark brown, and have left the poop awnings as simple canopies rather than trying to go for the 'cover all' effect of the Genoa squadron. The flags are printed so the next task is to trim the cast ones from the mast heads and put the paper ones on. Then it's just the basing to do. Together, the Italians represent over half the Christian fleet. The next to do are the Spanish and Papal ships and galleasses. Then I can worry about the Turks and Barbary pirates. GarethGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11259610648100215121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-734574005529562697.post-59399895067016046262014-12-10T02:15:00.000-08:002014-12-10T02:15:18.811-08:00<div style="text-align: justify;">
The first Christmas presents to myself have started arriving. Two boxes of Victrix 28mm 1804 French infantry. I bought them largely because Victrix had a 20% discount on them last month, so I gulped, and shelled out, mainly so that I have my own figures to join in the club Napoleonic games in Tokyo. At 17 pounds for 60 figures they seemed a good deal, about 8,000 yen, including P&P (buy them from Amazon Japan and you pay between 11,000 and 14,800 yen per box!!). </div>
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Other items on the waiting to arrive list are Rousselot's "Napoleon's Army" and Command and Colours Napoleonic. I also got the US and Japanese fleet packs (plus some battleships) for the Coral Sea from Scale Creep miniatures. I actually ordered these back in September, but not everything was in stock, so they asked me if I minded waiting to send everything in one package. They've arrived just in time for Christmas.<br />
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So it looks like 2015 is going to be focused on two themes; naval (galleys and WW2), and Brown Bess (my C18th War of Spanish Succession, AWI and Napoleonics). Busy times ahead!</div>
GarethGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11259610648100215121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-734574005529562697.post-40614822172808833832014-11-28T20:58:00.001-08:002014-11-28T20:58:11.291-08:00AWI CollectionHere are some more snaps of my AWI collection. As I said previously, this is still very much a work in progress. I still have more cavalry, Continentals, artillery and French to paint up. In the meantime, these are the meagre forces at my disposal for the defence of Liberty and Freedom.<br />
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The 3rd Continental Dragoons.<br />
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Continentals, including Kirkwood's Delaware light infantry, 2nd Rhode Island and the Continental Marines (c'mon, you've got to have the Marines!).<br />
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Militia. These were the most difficult to paint. I tried to get a mix of clothing colours and styles. It's not always obvious in this scale, and period paintings show a lot of quite dull colours - browns mainly - but I think I did an adequate job of capturing the 'not regular' appearance of the units.<br />
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<br />GarethGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11259610648100215121noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-734574005529562697.post-25554483047170265562014-11-24T05:21:00.003-08:002014-11-24T05:21:51.554-08:00I've always loved ships, especially sailing ships and galleys. As a kid I
had some wonderful books on the subject, and read avidly about biremes,
triremes, carracks, galleons and the rest. Yet somehow I never really
got into naval wargaming, at least with miniatures. I bought the Avalon
Hill 'Trireme' games and 'Wooden Ships and Iron Men' rather than buying
ships. I still bought rules, though for the most part they were so
detailed as to be unplayable except by the dedicated. I'm not into masses of record keeping and charts. One exception was a set I picked for the grand sum of 50 pence at a show in Nottingham. It was a very short set from WRG for C16th naval warfare. I thought it looked fun, and bought half a dozen ships to have a game. Over time, I acquired a few more ships. I liked the period, and looked at other rules, but never really liked them as much. I left all the ships at my parents' when I came to Japan.<br />
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Then I picked up a copy of Roger Crowley's 'Empires of the Sea' on a trip home. Somehow it reignited my interest in a big way. I dug out my old ships, brought them back and managed to persuade some of the gamers in Tokyo to give them a try. The game was a success, and I sent of to Navwar for more ships. So I now have a pile of lead to sort out paint. Eventually, I'll have Holy League and Ottoman/Barbary fleets to face off. New ships are being assembled and painted, some old ones repainted. Just for a taster, here's the Holy League's Genoese squadron in the shipyard.<br />
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These are also on my other blog, The Kapudan Pasha's Blog, with some old pictures of some ships in action.GarethGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11259610648100215121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-734574005529562697.post-80470667166361251172014-11-21T19:07:00.001-08:002014-11-21T19:07:38.201-08:00I am a wargamer living in Japan. Like most gamers I have a range of periods of interest, and flit from one to another over time. And, like most gamers, I have piles of unpainted miniatures in storage. One reason for starting this blog was to be able to post pictures of my miniatures and games, simply to give me some inspiration to get more painting done. <br />
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I thought about trying to create blogs for each interest, but it would be way too much work, and (as you can no doubt see from the quality and format of this blog) I am not particularly computer savvy. As time goes on and I become better at creating and formatting posts, I hope that will change, but until then, please bear with me.<br />
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So, to kick off, a couple of pictures of some of my American War of Independence figures.<br />
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The figures are all Baccus 6mm. One of the members of the West Tokyo Wargamers, Matt Ashton, is building up the British/Loyalist forces, while I'm doing the Rebels and French. The top pic shows some of the militia units, the figures in the lower are Continentals. We use the Black Powder rules and just measure everything in centimetres rather than inches. They seem to work pretty well and let us use some quite large armies. Our standard unit size is 48 figures, and when I finally paint everything up, I'll have about 24 Continental and militia regiments, 4 French, plus artillery and cavalry. The British have similar numbers. I haven't bought the Warlord Games AWI supplement yet, but it's on the Christmas list. <br />
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