This is only a test!

I thought I'd test out my photography skills so I printed out some backgrounds and dug up the only two buildings I ever finished. These are 28mm scale from some GW templates I got from somewhere. They are pretty dusty and as you can see I never sprayed them with anything to tack down the loose bits. My hope is that, once I actually start building again, my models at least won't be worse than this.

Map Of Talomir Project

So to add to my gaming ADD I've begun a mapping project for Talomir, the world of WHAA and RRtK from Two Hour Wargames.

I'm not sure how hush hush it is, but there is some stuff in the works. Right now it is building off of existing maps that can be found in the THW yahoo groups.

Ordnance Maps of Roman Britain

Awhile back Paul (of the mancave) posted this link to a campaign for wargaming in Arthurian Dark Age Britian http://darkagewargaming.wordpress.com/category/age-of-arthur/

In reading through one of the posts, which are extremely interesting, the author made mention of using ordnance maps if you chose to do a map based campaign. So I thought I'd do a little search and found this site http://www.bibliographics.com/MAPS/BRITAIN/BRIT-MAP-FRAME-LOOK.htm

I'm trying not to let this lead me too far astray for now, but for me the tug of maps is almost irresistable. At some point I may take these and grid them further.

Enjoy.

Sean

PS- I was away on vacation for the last few weeks and found no time for posting. I hope to be posting again more regularly once my kids are in school.

Scale Rulers

I saw this on the bloglist for http://paulsbods.blogspot.com/ which had this post http://colshofer.blogspot.com/2011/07/rule-them-in.html which linked to this http://dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.com/2011/05/scale-rulers.html

So the upshot is if you want scale rulers buy them from here http://www.rulers-of-the-world.com/index.html

I think I will since I seem to be having some kind of issue with how big to make terrain for 1/72 scale.

The Hamlet of Eadagbrycg

As I flail about, trying to play my first raid, I made this map. As usual I am trying to learn several things at once and not fully accomplishing any.

Eorund had decided that in order to test the mettle of his band he would perform a raid along the coast of England.

So the trip is successful on a roll of 3+ and I rolled 3 (+1for Norse sailing, +1 for Gautar's Navigating skill. The trip thus costs 25, 1 for each man and so the band has 44 left in it's coffers.

They will attack the sleepy Saxon hamlet of Eadagbrycg (to me sounds like Eat a Brick).

The idea is to be representing a 3' x 3' table (bounded by cobblestones). The rough patch at top right is a hill and the river is fordable at the road. I used THW (Two Hour Wargames) terrain table to roll it up and then added the two buildings. Each square in the grid represents an inch of table top.

Generic Age of Blood Campaign Map

As requested by Paul from the mancave, here is a generic version of my Age of Blood Campaign map. Feel free to use it for your own campaigns. It is still a little rough but not too bad if you don't look too carefully.

Skal!

Happy Independence Day

Hi all,

Got back from LA last night with an interesting drive. Hit a small dust storm with about 15ft visibility and some rain which dropped the temp from 103F to 80F by the time we hit Phoenix. The West bound I-10 was not as uneventful. Saw two big rigs overturned and another that had rear ended a tanker.

So have a happy and safe 4th.

Sean