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 But quite different from the last one.

Went for a walk down on Chatley Heath the other week and there's a wonderful semaphore tower from the early 19th century. Not much use in normal games but I thought it would be perfect for Mars. There is a telegraph system on Mars but with Sky Martian raids destroying the lines and the engineers hard pressed to keep up it's a good opportunity to have something with a more reliable form of communication.

We can also use it for our (eventual) games of England Invaded/Battle of Dorking when it gets off the ground. One of the reasons why it hasn't been based (keeping my options open).

 

 

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'Tango' has no permission to take anything from this blog, neither does Bill (even though I reckon they are the same person) or anyone else for that matter.

This was done a while ago for a friend but I've finally gotten round to taking some decent photos of it.

It's a kit bash of a Red Planet Miniatures Sky Martian skiff along with some scratch built elements for the 'Earther' parts. The guns are from HLBSC (who will be putting them upon his new website soon after they disappeared for a bit).

Although there is an English flag on the mast, it's really owned by an independent trading company under the guise of British traders ad hiding behind the might of the British army on Mars :-)













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There has been a sort of tradition that Sunday is VSF day and this year was no exception. As most people leave on the Sunday throughout the day (various trains and planes to catch etc) it was a sort of ‘pick me up’ game with people coming and going as the day went on.

Not too much of a report as the game is part of a long running campaign which can be read on the Red Planet Miniatures blog (although I have several games to put on there to catch up before I post this one).

The basic plot was that a British Officer by the name of Allan Farquarson had been having his wicked way with the Imperial Japanese Princess and tensions between the Japanese and British empires had becomes strained to the point of war.

The Japanese has captured Allan and were holding him in an allied City Martian outpost waiting for a large relief column to come and extract him to earth. The British and their allies; the Germans and Americans, were out to take him back...













Suffice to say, they succeeded.

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But back next week so to keep you going here are a few photos of  some of the VSF antics I get up to. I hope to have some more comprehensive posts regarding this but seeing as a lot of it was some time ago I'm not relishing the text part...

I'm posting this now due to the time difference but next week it'll be the usual early evening timing

First few pictures (and the last two) are from some games that have been played in the past, middle pictures are scratchbuilt neffs and buildings. The buildings use element from the Victorian range in the catalogue Here which is going to have a bit of an overhaul in the next few weeks.

On to the photos!
























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As some of you know, my favourite forum (The Lead Adventure Forum) has a painting competition called the Lead Painters League. Basically it's a ten week competition where participants have to (ideally) enter a new 'team' of at least five figures each week with three weeks being special bonus rounds. Points are awarded for the bonus rounds and for new entries.

Quite the challenge...

Most entrants seem to use it as a good excuse to get a whole new batch of figures painted for what ever projects they have on the go and I was no exception and now the competition is officially over I can post my entries.

I failed to get new teams in for two of the rounds but all the new entries I managed are below. My painting quality seems to have improved during the contest, let's just hope it stays that way...

Round 1 - Shimazu ashigaru for generic samurai gaming

Round 4 - Korean archers for generic samurai gaming


Round 8 - Rourke's Drift characters for the British invasion of Japan (hence the different hair colours).

Round 10 - Girls and Panzers for the Akira project.

 The competition is a great impetus to get stuff done, it's just a shame I'm away on holiday so I can't carry on lol

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