Work in Progress - New Terrain and Scenery Bits.

I've not had a lot of progress with hobby stuff of late, especially painting and larger terrain pieces such as buildings etc. This is mainly due to lack of space and a proper work area / painting desk but hopefully this situation will improve in the near future as some work on the house finally gets under way. This will give me more room to set up a new painting station and get to work on some of the things that have been hanging around for an age...

In the meantime I have had to make do with a temporary spot at the dining table when I can!

Recently picked up a few smaller pieces of scatter terrain and other bits as below....

First up is a batch of resin pieces from TT Combat and their rather nice 'City Scenics' range. The sets include a nice mix of modern flotsam and jetsam such as rubbish bins, mattresses, armchairs, a sofa and large fridge. Casting is pretty good with very little flash etc and the sculpts are a nice addition to any modern city setting. 

Next up are a huge stack of mdf crates and boxes from Gary at Figurebitz via the Book of Face. These are excellent and fabulously cheap to boot! Gary will burn any logo (within reason) into three 'sides' of each box. Of course you can just use the three sides from another set to have the logo on every side. I of course opted for '7TV'.

He currently has two styles of boxes - general cube shaped and a long box. Here we have Frank showing us around the warehouse, albeit none too pleased at the current working conditions...

The mdf forklift is another nice bit of kit from Figurebitz. Picked up a few other things from the range including some rather tasty 'Computer Blocks' that Crooked Dice will soon be stocking.

Next up is some very versatile fencing, this time again from TT Combat.

Last up is a few more sections of 'Mill Wall' from Warbases. I bought a load of this a couple of years back, with a couple of 'Mill Gates' and immediately bought some more but never got around to putting it together. Its pretty plain and basic but potentially really useful.

Frank is from Hasslefree Miniatures.

Pandemic.

Played a couple of games of the excellent 'Pandemic' and actually managed to beat the game...for the first time!

It was a close thing but great co-operative play with Rob H, Robafett and Andrew won the day for us.

18/01/17.

Congo - The Last Queen of Aksoum (Adventure 2).

Played two games of the excellent new Darkest Africa game Congo: Adventures in the Heart of Africa.

This was the second game of the day. For the first game go to Adventure 1.

Once again, this was essentially a (slightly) modified version of "The Last Queen of Aksoum" from the scenario bulletins.

We played this as a 4-player game, with 2 on each side. This time Robafett and I took the Zanzibari with Andrew and Chris taking on the British contingent.

The scenario essentially entails a hardy group of British explorers and their allies having to escape the table carrying a prized artifact. A Zanzibari group plans to stop them and take the artifact for themselves.

As we were more used to the rules and the various tricks and cards available (particularly the use of stress tokens) this game was a much tighter affair. The British used a similar tactic of leaving a rear guard (in a very pretty firing line) which did well in holding back a large part of the Zanzibari force. On this occasion the main 'White Explorer' group (i.e. the Adventurers and the lead Explorer Lord Huntingdon) tried to flee through several distracting moves but were ultimately caught out and exposed. The Adventurers were slain to a man and the sole survivor (Lord Huntingdon) tried to escape on his own. Alone and terrified he almost managed to escape but as can be seen in the last pictures, various cards and stress tokens were played on him and he ultimately fell to his knees in desperation and raised his pistol to his head...he has not been seen since.


Figures from Wargames Foundry and Copplestone Miniatures owned and painted by Andrew and myself. Terrain and scenery by Andrew and Chris.

Congo - The Last Queen of Aksoum (Adventure 1).

Played two games of the excellent new Darkest Africa game Congo: Adventures in the Heart of Africa.

This was essentially a (slightly) modified version of "The Last Queen of Aksoum" from the scenario bulletins.

We played this as a 4-player game, with 2 on each side. Robafett and I took the British for the first game with Andrew and Chris leading the Zanzibari.

The scenario essentially entails a hardy group of British explorers and their allies having to escape the table carrying a prized artifact. A Zanzibari group plans to stop them and take the artifact for themselves.

Through some successful movement and deployment of a protective rear guard, the British (led by the maverick explorer Lord Roberts) made it off the table with the artifact and fairly minimal casualties. Despite their plundering of the British camp, the greedy Zanzibari were unable to stop the explorers from escaping and took several casualties.

For the second game go to Adventure 2.

Figures from Wargames Foundry and Copplestone Miniatures owned and painted by Andrew and myself. Terrain and scenery by Andrew and Chris.