Fez wearing mother fudgers

The last of my Turks, I have a little group of Turk officers but probably wont paint them up for a little while as I have some other things to paint up first. I have really enjoyed painting up these Gripping Beast Turks and will be looking to purchase some more in the future. My thinking is I can use them for back of beyond games, some WW1/WW2 and pulp games.

I'm also still trying to resist buying some Viking figures and looking at the new Saga rules which are being sold by Gripping Beast.

That's no shed

I just had to pop up some pictures of this. Now as fellow VBCW fans will be aware the rather madcap world of VBCW inspires madcap creations. Well I have wanted to build something a bit wacky for a while.The idea of an improvised armored car disguised (badly) as a garden shed has been something I've wanted to try.

This turned out a bit bigger (taller) than I was expecting so I will just say its built on the chassis of a tractor, which explains it being quite tall. Its basically a very lightly armored car with a vickers at the front, which looks like a garden shed. Making rural recon easy :)

I'm in Glasgow tomorrow for a job interview so it will probably be Saturday night or Sunday sometime before this is painted. There are some little things still to add, hinges on the back door stuff like that, but generally speaking I'm pretty pleased with my construction.

Some more Turks

Following the announcement at work that I'm being made redundant in 6 weeks I decided to sack work and come home. On the upside I spent the afternoon painting up these turks in an effort to focus my mind a bit. Its not as bad as it sounds to be honest as I had already decided to relocate from the Midlands to Scotland with the wife, still was a bit of a shock, and now means I HAVE to find work before 1st November.

Dont fence me in

Another little project, completed late yesterday evening and painted just now. Basically a few lengths of fencing. In the future I need to add another couple of lengths and a gate. I made these to use to break up the battlefield, edge roads/buildings etc.

A bit of property

Knocked these up over the last couple of evenings.

The first building is a little bungalow with a flat roof extension at the back. This  needs a bit more work, mainly on the base but other than that its finished.

 The other building is a small warehouse . The warehouse yard is designed to join onto the side of the shops I built previously which can be seen in an earlier post named "shopfronts" The signs on the warehouse were created by the wife in photoshop. I am particularly pleased with the small crane, loading dock thing I have built on the side of the warehouse.

These are both finished with a variety of scalescenes textures. The plan with building these was to get enough together so I have a small collection of buildings which can be used in a range of periods. I have also made a selection of roads using the tarmac texture.

Johnny Foreigner

Just finished painting up the first of my turks, I picked up these quality figures from Gripping Beast when I was at Partizan. I got a pack of 10 infantry figures and 4 officers in Fez hats. I got them with the Fez just for the sheer hell of it, and I like the splash of colour it adds to the figures.

I'm thinking that I might try and work them into VBCW as the personal guard of some Turkish lord who was England when the civil war kicked off. They could also be of use in Back of Beyond and WW1 games, and I guess possibly even some WW2 games.

In any event these figures are really nice, and I'm enjoying painting them.

The other Partizan

Some pictures above, some taken by me, some from Partizan's website, of the game which me and some of the chaps from GWP put on at Partizan last Sunday. (and a picture of me and the chaps at the bottom) Was a very fun day and the game went well, especially when you consider that it was organised only over the internet and the first time we ever laid out the table was on the day of the game. 

The game was a VBCW, the king and consort visiting RAF Wittering when a number of the other factions turned up and had a go at grabbing the king. We didn't quite get to a conclusion, although the local police came closest to winning, and taking the King into protective custody. 

The buildings were supplied (in the main) by me, Ook and Panzerkaput from GWP as well as a huge hanger which Bungle from GWP built in two days, and had functioning doors. A really enjoyable day and I even got to use my RAF LDV. 

Partizan itself was also really good, I spent a fair amount and saw some other great demo games. We have been invited to return next year, although I probably wont be involved in organising that one as I am moving back to Scotland, and its a bit of a trek.