I may have to revisit the colours once I have seen the terrain on the mat. For the next three tables the owner would like me to use Games Workshop's 40K terrain kits with the basing themed to specific Battlemats.
Monday, 21 July 2025
Rocky Wasteland Terrain
I may have to revisit the colours once I have seen the terrain on the mat. For the next three tables the owner would like me to use Games Workshop's 40K terrain kits with the basing themed to specific Battlemats.
Sunday, 18 May 2025
Bloody Miniatures: A Thunder of Hooves
After spending quite a bit of time this past twelve months working on 15mm terrain for our Napoleonic and Crimean War games, I have returned to painting Bloody Miniatures. A Thunder of Hooves was the first batch of mounted figures from Bloody Miniatures.
Pack BM 042 is The Troopers. Well armed and uniformly equipped, these would be great for representing horse of the New Model Army:
Pack BM 043, The Flashing Blades, do look a bit dandy with their lace and feathers:
Monday, 14 April 2025
Battle of The Alma; The Game
This past weekend was the Trumpeter's Salute gaming convention in Burnaby British Columbia; our game - The Battle of The Alma - was Friday night (which freed us up to play games over Saturday and Sunday).
The Battle of the Alma was fought September 20, 1854. The Allies, led by Lord Raglan and Mareshal Jacques Arnaud, landed troops and supplies over 5 days from the 14th to the 19th near the port of Yevpatoria, 45 KM north of Sebastopol. The Russian Commander, Prince Alexander Menshikov was suprised by the allies, he had not expected them to attack so close to winter and therefore had not reinforced the Crimea. What he had available, he rushed to the ridge above the Alma, a naturally defensible position, where the Russians deployed numerous guns in two hastily built redoubts. The force was intended to delay the allies as they headed towards Sebastopol, however, preservation of the Russian force - especially the guns- was utmost in Menshikov's mind.
Our game focuses on the British attack across the Alma, and up the ridge towards the redoubts, with the French potentially appearing on the western flank (as they did in reality). The British are deployed north of the Alma (the left of the photo), with the French in reserve (unbeknownst to the Russians) and the Russian forces are on the plateau, top right of the photo:
Sunday, 6 April 2025
The Battle of The Alma; Part 2
I am very happy to say I will not be up late Thursday night, struggling to finish the terrain for next weekend's convention game Friday evening, as I have managed to finish this project well ahead of time!
With the panels done, I just had to make some emplacements to represent the Russian redoubts and a few vineyards.
Monday, 17 March 2025
The Battle of The Alma
One of our group is hosting a game at the Trumpeter's Salute convention next month and we decided to repurpose some of the panels from our Wagram game as - like Wagram - the Battle of The Alma, features a small river (the Alma) at the base of a hill.
For this game I needed to make three more panels to extend the heights beyond the Alma as Russian reserves will be parked there, along with two redoubts (the goal of the attacking allies).
Two layers of static grass (2mm Woodland Scenics and 4mm Peco), followed by scrub brush (Woodland Scenics foam bushes and Scenic Express SuperTurf) matches the new panels to the old ones.