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Fortuitous that this topic came up.
I’m contemplating creating the Nile, to be partly placed over my desert Cigar Box terrain mat for my Mahdist War games. The idea is to line a table edge up to 150mm wide with what will represent part of the river & one bank.
I’ve thought about buying some thick, blue vinyl & building the river’s edge to line it & butting this up against the mat. Or, similarly, using boards that show edge & water using various effects.
The various liquids seem to be very effective but on a board with only one lip, damning the liquid seems difficult. I’ve been looking (on Youtube) at this product:
As a gel, you spread it over the required area, creating eddies & waves with a coffee stirrer or some such, and it stays where you put it.
Any comments or advice on this is welcome.
donald
I gotta know….what figure & why?
The Jack the Ripper figure shown below. I don;t remember the manufacturer, and can’t seem to find it online either.
I don’t know he has been sitting there for so long. It just happened. There’s an episode of the Twilight Zone or some such in this.
Keep your eye on the little fellow….& his big knife.
donald
“. Depends if you think you’re playing a game or ‘recreating history’, I suppose.
A game, of course. The “games” that “re-create history” are either dull or delusional or both. donald
You’ll get no argument from me there.
I sound a bit judgemental & even harsh. Whatever amuses someone, provided they don’t expect me to necessarily conform, is fine.
My opinion of wargaming is that it’s an intellectual exercise, entertaining & is wrapped in a few wisps of history. Or at least it should be some mix of these.
I will add, it provides a stimulus to discuss history, which I also enjoy. But history itself? I don’t think so.
donald
Good advice offered in the above posts.
I’d add having a goal certainly helps with painting motivation.
Annually, for the past 9 years, we run a mega-game at a local Train & Hobby show. For our little group, this is the highlight of the year’s gaming ^ the focus of much of our terrain creation & figure painting.
In 10 days time, we’ll be running ‘Hannibal Ad Porta’ , a plausible battle where the Romans must stop the armies of Hannibal & his brother joining.
It will feature some 1400 1/72 & 20 mm figures. My contribution is about 400 figures for Hasdrubal’s army & a few hundred Romans. I’ve been working on it, on & off, for the last 10 months & the joyous expectation of the show has easily kept me motivated.
I finished my last figure, last night.
Here’s Hasdrubal’s 1100 point Field of Gory army on the painting table:
(More & better photos in 2 weeks).
donald
Hey, don’t dis Callan.
I stumbled on a cache of Callan novels & short stories recently. They are awfully formulaic & a product of their times. Despite my writing this, the literary & television characters (both a little different) are compelling. I wonder if the author, not writing for TV, could have used this character to create real literature?
Regardless, in both genres, Callan is an anti-social psychopath. His only real relationship is with Lonely. Consider this & the nature of their relationship. It’s not pretty. Downright disturbing, really.
(EW was, of course, an outstanding actor).
donald
I still have a lot of old Airfix soft plastic miniatures …but with time some of them became easily breakable and now fall into bits.
Yes, I think there was a time when the plastic used had a “Use By Date”. I don’t think anymore and the oldest of my painted figures is 30 YO & still robust.
I was glad to NOT see any mention of flaking paint on this thread. With some preparation, it was never a big problem & with the new plastics & decent paint (thank you, Vallejo) not a problem at all.
donald
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