Another few quick updates today as much continues to get done on several projects. First up is the mat for my Napoleonic scenario for Aspern-Essling. This table uses my standard 6 foot by 8 foot layout with a 4 foot by 4 foot section added to cover the river crossing (I have several sets from Perry for the pontoon bridges and engineers).
Once again David S. did an amazing job on the fur mats and I couldn't be more pleased. Pictures below that I quickly snapped with my phone ...
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| Aspern-Essling mat. |
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| Aspern-Essling mat. |
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| Aspern-Essling mat. |
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| Aspern-Essling mat. |
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| Aspern-Essling mat. |
One of the things I really need for this game is Austrian/German looking buildings. So I ordered some and they've arrived. I'll have to scratch build the Granary ... just another thing I have on my to do list. Right now I'm looking to run this game at PacifiCon in September (play test well before that). I still have a lot of work to do on my Austrians to get ready for this game (once I finish Waterloo prep for my French, which includes the extras needed to do Aspern-Essling).
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| Austrian/German buildings for Aspern-Essling. |
This past weekend was a little busier than I expected, but I still managed to finish 3 more limbers and guns to add to my almost finished artillery expansion for my French Napoleonic army.
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| 3 more limbers and guns for my Napoleonic French army. |
And on a different note, my briefcase tabletop for my Blood Bowl Orc team arrived from Tannhauser Gate Studio. He did a great job on the field and I've already contracted him to do a field for my Chaos Dwarves (lava themed). I grabbed a couple of pictures from his Facebook page of the table folded into the briefcase mode and being unfolded. I played a game against my son the other day and snapped a picture of the field right before I setup the game. The scoreboard is magnetized and keeps track of points and rerolls, and has the scatter template on there as well. Each end of the field tracks the current turn for the half being played. Each dugout has neat little details.
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New Orc field for Blood Bowl - just setting up for a
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| The field folds into a briefcase. |
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| Unfolding the field. |
Certainly much more to come as I make lots of progress. While all this effort has been rewarding I do really need to get out some miniatures and play a frigg'in game soon!
Great stuff Jay! That mat is just enormous. Love that color green on your limbers :) Brilliant little case too, having it magnetized is such a great idea.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ivor! :-)
DeleteCongrats on the WI article award - I heard my vote pushed it to the top :)
Deletelol ... of course ... your vote put it over the top! :-) hahahahaha --- honestly I'm shocked. A friend FB messaged me this AM ... otherwise I would have had no idea.
DeleteClever, creative and convenient...excellent!
ReplyDeleteThanks Phil!
DeleteReally looking forward to the battle. Unless I am playing Lannes, or anyone else losing a foot...
ReplyDeleteCheers
Ths
lol ... Lannes it is ... I'll bring crutches :-)
DeleteHi Jay, is the water effect on ur a paint job? If so, wow.
ReplyDeleteDude that briefcase is SWEET! I don't play blood bowl, but getting a case like that I just might!
Cheers
Kevin
ur is slang for fur:P
DeleteLol ... thx! Yes ... paint and Woodland Scenics water effects.
DeleteLooking good! I don't recognize the buildings; what make are they?
ReplyDeleteThx! Buildings are from Total Battle miniatures :-)
DeleteJay,
ReplyDeleteI am glad you liked how you mat came out. It was little more stubborn than expected. However, I am plowing on forward with Waterloo, which will be a lot of fun. Maybe, your game will out do the Museum's Diorama!
Yes, I'm very pleased with it :-) Excellent, I'm very excited for Waterloo ... and if it can compete with a museum diorama all the better ;-) lol
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