Once more unto the breach then it seems!
My previous blog, 1642 and all that, was initially conceived as a one off way to cover a counterfactual ECW campaign, a fitting means to document the culmination of a years worth of intensive (for me) miniatures painting. There would be no “filling” posts or amusing anecdotes, no step by step updates on new army builds just documented battles within a campaign framework.
Well that was the theory anyway.
Having committed myself to a randomly generated narrative, the whole shebang came to a slightly premature (though hopefully satisfactory) end, far sooner than I’d expected.
Encouraged to continue the blog by some very well meaning folks I pressed on with ventures new, gradually realising that I was putting myself under pressure to provide content when time and resources no longer really allowed. It wasn’t long before anecdotes and all those filler posts I’d sworn never to produce began to appear!
With my trusty old Mac on its last legs, “feeding the beast“ gradually became a chore, and, coupled with the struggle to provide new and diverting content I sensed it was time to think again.
Hopefully this new blog will remedy matters since I am resolved to only post as and when I feel I’ve something of value to add.
I’m still hoping to revisit the ECW campaign that I ran in 6mm but for the last few months I’ve been working towards something similar for the War of the Roses in glorious “15mmOvision”.The bigger scale means more detail and therefore (for me) longer painting times - but the Peter Pig figures I’ve been working with are lovely and definitely worth the effort.
I’ve spent a fair few quid on rule sets and books covering the period but have settled (like most war gamers) on writing my own - provisionally titled Mud Blood and Steel. The pictures below show units on my standard 6cm x 3cm bases.
