Beavers? BEAVERS!? Yes, beavers.
Well… it’s been a busy couple of
weeks around the Brown household! Dance classes and violin lessons wrapping up,
with extra rehearsals and recitals, we’re still getting ready for our year end
reporting next Monday – desperately trying to finish up a few projects for that
- and a final violin concert this weekend. In the middle of this the copy of
Game of Thrones Season Five I requested finally arrived at the library (being a
newly-released DVD there was no chance we’d be able to renew it and thus had 10
hours of TV watching to do in one week) and we got a call from our family
doctor a couple hours after The Boy went for a blood test, saying we need to
get to the hospital PRONTO! Turns out the lab found he had a blood-glucose
level of 42, which is apparently super high – like undiagnosed Type One
Diabetes kind of high! So that ended up with us spending the afternoon in
Pediatric Emergency and a couple days (and a couple of sleepless nights!) up in
the Pediatric ward…
Usually I get a lot of painting
done when watching TV series – I kind of just listen and half watch while
painting, but I’ve just been so worn out and tired I couldn’t even focus on miniatures
I was wanting to paint – even with my new reading glasses! So I actually just
WATCHED the whole season.
I also, FINALLY, got a bit of a
vegetable garden planted this last week… It’s a bit late, but hopefully we’ll
get a bit out of it. I never got around to planting anything last year. May is
just too busy…
Anyway, on to the minis!
(Remember: click on the pictures
for a bigger version):
The 2nd and 3rd Trench Mortar
batteries. (Figures are from Old
Glory Miniatures)
As I’ve probably mentioned
before, I’ve been trying to put together entire brigades from each of the
different manufacturers of 28mm Great War figures (well, makers of Late War
British – that can be passed off as Canadians – at least!). Unfortunately not
all the manufacturers of Great War Miniatures make trench mortars (I’m looking
at YOU, Wargames
Foundry and Brigade
Games!!). So a few of the brigades will have Miniatures attached from
other manufacturers – which drives that little OCD part of me CrAzY!? (Also the brigades made up of my OWN
models will have trench mortar batteries made by others as I’m too lazy/don’t
have the time or skillz to make masters for a trench mortar – but for some
reason that doesn’t irritate me so…)
Some spare figures from Old Glory Miniatures
that will be pressed into service as Brigade staff and signaler/runners.
Beavers.
Just… don’t ask… It seemed like
a good idea at the time…
(miniatures from North Star Figures)
Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:
More Canadians of the first division. Actually now I have
the Trench mortars finished up I could take a pictures of the whole 2nd
Brigade – which I now complete!
I totally broke my gaming budget
for the year and ordered the next three brigades worth of figures (from Wargames Foundry,
First Corps
, and Gripping
Beast/Woodbine Design) so hopefully they’ll be start showing up
soon-ish and I’ll get to work on those. I was going to order one more brigade
from Irregular
Miniatures just to be a completist.