Once again, cheers for the nice comments, guys! For me, this really is one of the things that justify the amount of work put into this.
Besides, all of the gamers who tried them told me that the rules were highly playable, too!
If you consider coming to Horisont
http://sites.google.com/site/horisontesbjerg/welcome in Esbjerg or Tactica
http://www.hamburger-tactica.de/tactica/tactica_d.htmlin Hamburg, you will certainly have the opportunity to check it out!
I suppose another option, rather than the silver fork hadles, would be a disk (painted black with the moon but gradually fading to white with the sun) like you sometimes see in old clocks or pocket watches.
Fastolfrus, what a great idea!
I will most certainly consider something like this in one of my next projects.
Am I reading it right you have the facilities to cast brass and STEEL.
Gamer Mac, I do. Not at home, of course. Painting the cogwheels in brass colour would have resulted in clogged-up cogs(My, that sounds weird!) and I would always have the fear from rubbed-off colour on the moveable parts. Plus, the machine has a nice, heavy feel now.
Hey, Karsten, as it became a bit hectic after the award ceremony at the end of the show, just let me congratulate here for the very much deserved "most original wargame" award: your game is a real gem, and I'm looking very much forward to participate in it some time early next year ... 
Cheers, Michael! As You might have noticed, I could not resist returning the congratulation in your own Crisis-related thread! And yes, I really hope to see you next year as a gamer somewhere in northern Germany!!
Allright, now for the last pics I am going to post in this thread.
Yesterday evening, I took the opportunity to photograph all of the miniatures involved. While editing them, I noticed that some of the pictures got a bit blurry(...and off all things, the one with the protagonists really came out bad!!!
), I apologise for that. Most of the miniatures are by Blue Moon Manufacturing, some are Wargames Foundry and a few even are rare old Citadel miniatures.
All of the following pictures are colour photos with only levels adjusted!
Here goes:
The lighthouse keeper on the left was the first time I have tried out painting a light effect on a miniature:
Here in Northern Germany, in some old stories, most notably 'Der Schimmelreiter' ('The Dykemaster') by Theodor Storm, a pale horse is considered something like a bad omen, something eerie. When I saw Herzog's 'Nosferatu' with Klaus Kinski, I noticed a riderless dark horse galloping through the streets. I knew from the beginning that I wanted something like that on my table, too! But mine had to be PALE:
The famous rat-catcher Beckmann and his vicious dogs:
Done.
Now off to paint something really bright and colourful!
27 March 2010, 10:52:36 PM
