Birthy Happdays!; I'm A Winner!; Bloggers' Meetup at Salute

Birthy happday to me! Woohoo, 21 (again? Ed.) today! I've had a quiet celebration on my own with a  Chinese takeaway and a tub of Haagen Daas ice cream. I suppose a prize draw is in order, especially as I've also reached 350 followers.

And it's "Birthy happday to Ray" as well - His Most Universally High Imperious Kingliness is 45 today. What a great blogger and painter to share a birthday with.

I had some unexpected news today. Carl over at Hitting On A Double 1 had a prize draw to celebrate two things - reaching 50 followers (he deserves more - pop over and start following!) and the first anniversary of his blog. Winners were picked at random from his followers. Well, I was one of them and two Mordheim figures will be on their way to me shortly.


Salute 2013 Bloggers' Meetup

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After last year's success, Ray and Fran are hosting a repeat this year. All gaming bloggers attending Salute on 20 April are invited to join them at 1pm in the location shown by the red dot.

They may even bring a big red dot with them to make it even easier to find. In case the big red dot is confusing to you, this is in the seating area next to the bring & buy stall.

I'll be there and (assuming I actually finish them in time) will be revealing my Secret Projects.

Something scary; Making my mind up

It's my birthday! Woohoo!! 21 today!!

Oi! You at the back! I'll have none of those comments about "how many bloody times has she been 21 already?" if you don't mind!

And the scary part (other than the number of times I've been 21) is that it's Ray's 44th (or 45th if you believe Fran) birthday today as well (the birthday being today, not the 44th or 45th part).

Having got up earlier than my body and brain like this morning in case my Amazon delivery arrived early on, I was particularly annoyed that it didn't turn up until after 5pm. If I'd known they would be delivering it that late, I could have gone out for a few hours to do shopping and stuff.

Anyway, the books arrived and I've been taking a flick through the FoG:R rulebook to see what the differences are from FoG:AM. It looks to be much more straightforward in fact.



Making My Mind Up

Right, so, well, errrmmm....

Yesterday I posted that I had pretty much settled on Early Thirty Years War German Protestant as the army I'd be building initially for FoG:R. However, I've been having second, third and fourth thoughts about it and am now thinking about

Danish! Besides having plenty of information about uniform colours and flags available, it offers plenty of opportunity for fun pastry-based Latin mottos on  regimental standards, eg Diligit Deus Noster Scilis (God Loves Our Pastry).

Mind you, I could plump for Saxony with the E30YWGermProt list, and use Saxon's discography to provide  mottos (again, suitably translated into Latin).

Alternatively, if I'm clever about it, I could make up removable standards using thin brass tubing that can slip over pikes which would allow me to use the figures for whichever nation I care to. That sounds a much better plan, doesn't it?


A Distinct Lack of Painting

Getting up earlier than my body and brain like me to is not good for painting, so I haven't done any yet today. I'm still not really up to detail painting, so I might just do some easy stuff on the Alans and Scythians - black dry-brushing tails, manes and cannons of the horses destined to be bays and either applying the appropriate washes or dry-brushing the armour of the Scythians if I have time.