Merry Christmas!

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas (or happy holiday break)!  I hope you all enjoy your time with family and perhaps some tiny little miniatures!!

I look forward to what 2017 will bring for us all!

Lastly, I figured I would share some choice Christmas memes for you to enjoy ...

More coming soon ... the madness doesn't cease ... even at Christmas :-)

Bolt Action Modern Game - US versus Russians

This past weekend I headed over to my buddy Dan Kerricks house to play a game of Bolt Action modern.  We incorporated most of the new rules from v2.0 of Bolt Action and played it out.

Unfortunately the weather was very cold last weekend here and I think it infected our dice rolls ... I didn't manage to knock out a single vehicle ... nor did Roy who was playing opposite of me!  I played the Russians advancing through the field while Dan took the other half of the Russians up through the town.  Roy was opposite me with US and Matt ran the US troops on the town side.

We just played a simple meeting engagement ... the US was under strength for the battle ... but the dice rolls were so cold all around that it really didn't matter.

Dan's Russians in the town managed to do some damage ... enough to call it a minor victory for the Russians ... but it was a draw in my opinion.  Might as well have been using foam pool noodles to fight each other ....

Anyways ... I took some pictures with my phone ... they are below :-)

 

Helm's Deep Project Update #3

My plaster supply is all but gone at the moment ... I have about 1 cup left.  That is 25 pounds of plaster so far.  I will say there is a goodly chunk of waste that comes along with casting ... I've gotten much better but my initial casting was not very efficient.

I have 10 pounds of plaster on order ... and it says it should be delivered today.

My effort this round has been on catching up the side outer wall and tower to the "floor" height of the ramparts.  I also finished up the interior of the door through the side wall and added the door between the interior hallway and center of the Hornburg.  I got the stairs done and floor for the center Hornburg and I'm slowly building up the interior wall.

I'll be finishing up the floor for the hallway and stairs leading up to the entrance to the center part.  Once the flooring is complete I can start building up the interior wall higher ... much higher now and it will make it a little more difficult to do the floor.

The good news in my big fat hands can easily reach into the hallway.

I'll be starting into the floor of the ramparts when the new plaster arrives and building up the rear tower ... that should be done in the next update if all goes to plan ... ha!

Put out a Perry Miniatures ACW figure so you can
get an idea of the scale ...

Starting to take better form now ... stay tuned for more updates!