Sadly these were not the words uttered by my wife on our wedding night but it’s broadly what she said when she saw the fully assembled engine shed she’d bought me for my birthday. And she’s not wrong. It’s going to form part of the terrain for my VBCW lads to fight over but the size of this and the warehouse (which is taller and bigger) has forced a bit of a rethink. The individual terrain tiles I’d purchased are not going to cut the mustard (individually too small) so after Xmas I’m going to the Brico for a metre square piece of insulation board that I’ll cut into bigger chunks. The engine shed and the associated track can sit on one section while everything else remains movable on smaller pieces.
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| Oooh ‘eck it’s big. 28mm chap included for scale. Top comes off and doors open so you can fight inside it too. |
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| T’other end. |
Also in the same vein we have 10 new combatants from the Albertine faction (he became George VI in our world) who I’ve begun to disparagingly refer to as the Rotary Club Rifles. The name might not stick.
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| A poor quality picture, soz. I particularly like the crouching figure on the right with the Brompton FC scarf and the German Maxim 08. |
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| Here’s a better picture. Odd how you sometimes get a favourite figure isn’t it? |
Finally to go with the engine shed you need an engine. Here’s mine, very much under construction. Although this is a civilian loco there are a decent selection of armored ones (eastern front?) in the same Sarissa range.
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| Should look okay when it’s got the coal wagon thingy on the back. |
What else is there to show you. Ahh yes..
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| A nice bit of barbed wire |
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| Fuel drums courtesy of my mates at TEMU I think. |
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| Homemade rubble pile number 1. A good use of all the MDF off cuts and sprue. |
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| Lots and lots of wall to duck behind. |
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| A big old water tower with a ladder on the far side o gain access to the top. Nice kits with a decent bit of heft to them. Assembling them like the plastic 100YW infantry is a bit of a ball ache, but you can’t have the halfpenny and the bun now can you? |
It’s entirely possible that I’m getting more fun out of making all this than I will playing with it, but we’ll see. Found myself looking at Battletech Alpha Strike on the internet yesterday. No Broom. Bad Broom. Broom must stay focussed.
Toodleooh for now mes amis.
