Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

David and I met up at Leighton Buzzard Wargames for another run out of Hammerin' Iron, Peter Pig 's awfully fun ACW riverine rules. We used the same fleets as last time, see the link to see them. The scenario was I (as Union) had to sink all but one of David's boats, he had to sink half of mine.  It took me until at least turn three before my any of my fleet arrived! A Miami class ship was positioned to stop the Confederates leaving the table. Next turn, while all bar one of David's fleet approached, my second ship, USS Planter, appeared. It only has front and rear guns, so position has to be careful! My two started picking on CSS Selma. A few turns later, and my boats arrived en masse! On the left, in the far distance, Miami (I) is fighting off CSS Tuscaloosa, but CSS Selma is surrounded by USS Planter, USS Miami (II), USS Sassacus, and the mighty, tiny USS Fuscia. They all proceeded to smash into the Confederate ship. To the left, you can just see USS Essex arriving ...

 Lee asked me to do some terrain for him, I thought, yeah, why not.  Oops, missed a field! Caught it now and sorted it A VERY large Timecast order arrived. About 2kg worth of Timecast latex and three bridges! Glad I had a 2" brush handy to start the process off with base coats and inks. I painted these in the same basing colours as Lee's GNW Swedes and his ACW Union that I completed previously. Roads: Not the best light, but no way were two foot sections going to fit into my lightbox! Clumps and tufts match his basing too. Fields A mixture of ploughed and growing (watch for Timecast's new 28mm range) Rivers in two sizes, with fords. These have a dappled pva layer over them to give them a semi-gloss finish. You can just see the stippling on the fords The Timecast river sculpts are smooooooooth, so the PVA helps trick the eye. Bridges and rocky ground The blue isn't that bright! Love Timecast's details! They wor...