A couple of big guys!

With the ECW project now sold and on it's way to the new owner I'm currently focusing on more Wars of The Roses 15mm's for Noel (60 Mercenary Crossbowmen) and 1/72nd's for Old John. I also agreed to paint a couple of large scale (1/16th!) WW2 tank crew figures for a friend of my Neighbour who builds and displays incredibly detailed model tanks including full interior and engine but does not enjoy painting figures. He is currently working on a 1/16 HUGE Panther model. I just hope that I can do them justice! I'm going to ask Tony if I can share a few photos of his work here on the blog.

Project ECW is done & now up for sale!

 A bit of a shock maybe or just what I have been doing here for over 10 years? I have really enjoyed the challenge of putting this project together, very happy how it turned out but once again can find no enthusiasm to actually play the game! Thus it's going up for sale on eBay to clear the decks and I have another small railway project in mind next. What I hope is that it will sell to a gamer who will really enjoy owning this unique set up and enjoy playing it.

I'll leave the eBay link below where I'm asking just £150.00 plus shipping. This a very reasonable price taking into account all of the miniatures plus the printed C&C mat and the terrain items, dice set etc. The link to the printable rules/ cards etc can be found on Tony's blog link below where its a FREE download so everything you need to unpack and play the game. I'd be happy to paint additional troop bases for the new owner at just £15.00 per base of foot or horse if required for bigger games. I'll probably use trusted and reliable FedEx shipping which is about £10.00 within UK or around £30.00 to USA.

Finally, please be kind in the comments, I know some will think I'm mad but for me the pleasure has been in the planning and bringing to fruition an idea that presented a bit of an interesting challenge and now I will move on. Any questions you can contact me at : lgramson@yahoo.com

Cheers,

Lee.

Finally, a few photos of what's on offer.

eBay link to sale:   https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/128136823191

And to Tony's ECW rules for the game. https://prometheusinaspic.blogspot.com/2016/10/my-own-ccn-based-rules-for-english.html

I'll settle for this!

 A quick follow up from yesterdays post. Painted up a few of the Battlescale 6mm scale buildings with an added 5mm foamboard base which allowed me to slightly increase the height of the doors. I think I'm happy with this now and I printed some cobblestone textured paper which I glued to 70mm hexes as a base for a BUA, I'm thinking maybe a single hex to represent a small hamlet, two for a village and possibly three to represent a small town but each hex can only be occupied by a single base as per C&C rules.

The above said I have to say a thank you to Norm who suggested the idea of replacing an occupying troop base with a marker of some kind, I really like this idea too!

The buildings still look underscale of course but I can live with that in the game.

How best to represent villages and towns on a small hex grid?

 This week I'm starting on a regiment of 30 Dutch infantry for Old John but also working on how to represent buildings for my small grid hex board when my standard bases are 60mm x 25mm which doe not leave much room for terrain in a 70mm hex. I now have some lovely Battlescale 6mm models which do look a bit small as expected but I have added a base of 5mm foam board to increase the height slightly and will be painted to match the model. I'm going to paint some today to see how this works and if I feel it acceptable aesthetically for what after all is a boardgame with miniatures.

Workbench overview!

I also did a fairly quick experiment using a semi flat printed house on both sides of a 5mm foamboard core, a suitable image, copied, pasted, flipped o one side then printed and cut out! You can see the result below, I think it scales up well and can be fitted around a base of troops in the hex, probably a couple of such per hex. I'm also working on a church using the same method. Not sure which works best yet  but we shall see later this week hopefully.

I received another box of cavalry sprues from Caliver books (nannyog on eBay) and also a set of the Epic Parliamentarian generals in resin which are excellent little sculpts.Can't wait to get them painted.

13.5mm Epic resin!

Finally I'm looking hit markers for the game and might well use the Warlord Pike and Shot counters (see below) which are great and I have painted up a set for Noel some time back. They have numbers to show number of losses. I did try a crafty copy and print then glue to 20mm disc (below) but think the set wold be worth the £19.00 cost.

A crafty copy/paste/print on a 20mm MDF disc!