Cod Wars Ship Update

 I managed to get some work done on the 3D printed vessels for the Cod Wars. As they were printed with PLA, the ships needed a small bit of clean up with a hobby knife. I had to take some care around the trawl portion of the vessels, though. 

A bit of a wash up last week and then last night I mounted them on bottle caps for priming and painting. 

Currently, two coats of grey Gesso later, this is where we are at.

Some of the trawlers and one of the OSVs

One of the ocean-going support tugs

One of the ICGV patrol boats

HMS Leopard

I am hoping to get some paint on a few of these ships this week. Next weekend is my drill weekend in Vermont, so I'll have to find some time this week to work on them. Now, time to look for some colour pictures of said ships...

 

New Year, New Post

 The new year finds me using The Portable Wargame (TPW) and Volley and Bayonet as an impetus to rebase and rejuvenate my 25mm AWI collection. Some of these figures are near on 25-30 years old and haven't seen the table-top in far too long. 

Rather than sell them, I thought about rebasing them for either Sharp Practice or VnB. But then, I took a good, long look at TPW. 

I do like gridded boards, although I think I'll do a new one with an offset grid. But here's the game table as it's currently set...

Kindly ignore all the ancillary clutter...<ahem>

In this particular episode, three units (stands) of Continentals and three of Militia are entering from the left hand side of the board. The Hessians (four units) arrived on the road from the bottom of the board. 

Currently I'm in between Turn 5 and Turn 6. I pulled the card (using an old technique that Ross Macfarlane uses) for Turn 6 before I came downstairs and it was a Red card, which means the Continentals shall have the initiative. 

As an example of what the new units look like:

Four stands could be four individual regiments, or it could be two regiments or brigades, each of two stands.

A close up of my 1st New Jersey Regiment (The Jersey Blues) They are, indeed, my favourite unit... 

I really do need to get the bases finished, eh? 

I'm really enjoying TPW. I have another small project that I will use it for, that is close enough to where I need to base figures for a set of rules. These may be them. 

Hopefully, I'll be posting a full BatRep tomorrow.