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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Pzkpfw_Steve on November 26, 2019, 05:53:36 AM
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Hi guys,
I started posting on my blog again. although most of the text is musings about the state of historical gaming in hte city i now live, I did post pics of my Ottoman army.
https://stepphenthomson.blogspot.com/2019/11/long-time-no-see.html (https://stepphenthomson.blogspot.com/2019/11/long-time-no-see.html)
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Cheers,
Stephen Thomson
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Fab brushwork 8) 8) 8)
shame about the local wargaming 'scene'. Maybe the more you get to know the place the more you will discover?
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I've been in the area 4 and a half years now unfortunately.
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Bloomin'eck those are good. o_o
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That is a lovely unit. Did you do the chequey shields free-hand ?
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yes i did. i painted on a grid of thin black lines and then filled in the colours. took a while but I'm happy with the outcome.
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They are lovely. Chequy is very hard to do and requires a steady hand. Bravo.
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Splendid stuff - please keep posting! Have you thought of raising a few units from the Brigade Games Ottoman range - they may even be marginally easier for you to get over there than here in Europe (no fault of Lon who offers a superb service - just the vicissitudes of postal and above all Customs services!). Please keep posting - inspirational stuff!
I have a vague recollection of passing through Hamilton many moons ago - was there not a wargames store there back in the day? If so I wonder if it may establish some form of - no doubt spurious - causality between hobby shops and interest…
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There was Bayshore Hobbies in the west end. it's gone now. Black Knight Games is a larger store. they Carry the standard mainstream Stuff, as well as Warlord games. they have a pretty big gaming area.
But Hamilton has always had both an unusually large and active Gaming scene. For over 30 years the Military Interests and Gaming Society was a major Focal point of gaming of all kinds. I was based in the middle of Hamilton.
MIGS is a shell of its former self now. but its legacy lives on in many ways. The new Broadsword gaming group plays once a month in the RHLI Armoury and they Run a bi-annual mini-convention. Barnaby has done a great job of Organizing them.
I have considered adding some stuff from Brigade games. Unfortunately that requires money. I don't have any of that right now. I'm currently unemployed. I was thinking about getting a bunch of the Nizam I Cedid and using them as a sort of neo-almoravid empire. of course I'd be sure to paint them as passable Nizam i Cedid for the napoleonic period.
Actually i have been looking at brigade games a lot lately. I also want to build a platoon of USMC Parachute troops for Chain of Command. There are a few raider packs that have the right weapons...
Cheers!