Weekend Update

Well, it's still Winter Quarters here in the Duchy, but that doesn't mean things haven't been moving along, albeit slower than desired. 

Her Royal Highness, Fiddles, doing what she does best

With COLD WARS less than a week away, I have some small details that I need to finish for my games. I'll be running two 1/600th scale ACW Naval games, one Friday and one more Saturday. I did need to construct a town as part of the scenery. 

I used old beer mats and Monopoly houses purchased on Amazon. Tomorrow I'll start painting and tarting up the bases. 

Ideally, I'd like to get some fields and farms using the same materials. 

And for the game, I will christen a brand-new sea cloth.... 

Purchased from the soon-to-be-closed Jo-Ann Fabrics. This is a 2-yard piece. I'd like to get another 1-yard cut of the same material, for smaller games. And there is an excellent colour for a ground cloth in the same material. Hopefully, I'll get a chance to pick some of that up before it all goes bye-bye. 

Finally, in addition to my Cod Wars ships, I've been working on a New Project for The Portable Wargame rules. 

Napoleonic Imagi-Nations

Useable for both TPNW and A Gentleman's War

No, I haven't hit my noggin. I have been a devotee of The Portable Wargame series of rules for some time. I also had a collection of figures that were gifted to me. But they were British Napoleonics and I had no opponents. And they were old true 25mm figures to boot. 

Well, after seeing some other blogs and getting some other ideas, I decided to grab a couple of job lots of true 25mm mixed Napoleonics. But I hate the period. So.... I decided to go the Imagi-Nation route. 

I'm basing mine on uniforms from the French Revolution and from small Italian and German states. 

Not sure where this is going to go, but we'll see. So long as I'm rolling dice and pushing lead... meh.