Category: WIP Wednesday

As a break from our regular Wednesday posts we present this week a look back at our Open Day.

We had six games on the day covering a wide selection of periods and scales. One of the selling points of the Maidstone Wargames Society is if you’re into it we probably play it.

We start with Stephen’s Road to Damascus Saga game. Saga has proven very popular at the club mainly the Age of Vikings, but Stephen presented a Crusades game for the open day.

The game boasted some new scenery in the form of an Arab Manor house.
The Arabs were victorious on the day.

We now move to the English Civil War. We have a number of members who regularly play Field of Glory, between them they have many armies of different periods and scales.

For the open day they put on an 15mm ECW game for a change.

I don’t know who won on the day but their were many excited exclaimations that can only mean some fortuitous dice rolling!

A new game to the club has been Strengh and Honour, this has been played as a 2mm Ancients game to give a sense of scale.

Here we have Roman Legions taking on the Celtic hordes.

For the open day I finally got my Naploleonic Balloon game up and running. But then failed to take any pictures of it as I was busy running the game.

A phot was taken of all 10 balloons on the battlefield, the game needs a little bit of tweaking but much fun was had in being blown around by the wind all day. Hopefully this might make it to be a show game one day.

Moving to the Franco-Prussian war and the Battle of Spicheren, this was a pet project of member Tony G who thought they’d try a new period for the open day. Tony did this in 6mm and wanted to represent the terrain dominated battlefield.

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a more hilly, wooded landscape to have a battle.

Tony also made the towns and villages using paper models for the buildings. Quite a challenge at this scale.

And onto the last game of the day, Tony F and Phil decided they had been neglecting the first age of middle earth for their Lord of the Rings games.

This gave Phil the excuse to paint up some real big beasties, much to worry of Tony F, but luckily there were enough Elven heroes knocking around at that time to meet the challenge.

I’m assuming this is Elrond going toe to toe with a Balrog? Phil definitely went big with Balrogs, Beasts and Trolls in abundance.

I do feel however that this picture should be part of a caption competition!
As to the game I think it was declared a no score draw at the end of the day.

Thanks to all the members who put on games, and to those who visited us on the day.

If you are interested in joining the Society please feel free to visit us on any of our regular meetings. The club Diary can be found here. Any further details about the club can be found on our website.

 

I thought the weather might slow the members down a bit. This week we start with Phil and some Lord of the Rings Goblin archers.

Next up and Mark H has made more progress on their WW2 Soviets, clearly 6mm froa bit of a distance!

We move onto John La who has decided to create some new trees. Here we have the wire armatures. Home made trees is not something I’ve ever tried.

I’m keen to see the end result.

And lastly for this week Marcus has some worms. The least said the better.

Let’s see what next week brings.

The sunny weather hasn’t kicked in yet to slow the members down.

We start with some markers for Stargrave from Stephen. Followed by the finished Pilgrims from Andy.

Andy has also made progress on the Salute Viking figure.

Now we have some large boulders from John L.

Moving on and it must get boring soon for Tony F having to paint yet more elves. First up a captain and magic user.

and some more rank and file elven warriors

Mark J has proven they don’t just paint 28mm vietnam miniatures with some 6mm Tiger tanks.

Sticking with the 6mm theme Mark H has started painting Soviet Infantry

And lastly for this week, Eric has been painting up a fantasy tree.

Close up of the base of the tree

So we’ll see you next week for some more work in progress.

 

It’s a bumper crop this week. We start off with a big beast from Phil to give the forces on Angband a helping hand. And Phil has made progress on the orc horde.

Next up John La has finished part of a new river set.

Moving on Mark J has made more progress on their Vietnam project.

Now we move on to Marcus with some more miniatures for Frostgrave.

And some unexpected heroes for another future project.

Andy has almost finished the Pilgrims.

And last for this week Stephen is getting ready to paint some more 15mm Wars of the Roses miniatures and also a cardinal Hugh DeVious coming to a crusade soon.

See you next week.

This week has been mainly dominated by progress on games for our Open Day this June. We start with the most picturesque which was Tony F’s Elves for a Lord of the Rings battle in the First Age.

Staying with this theme, Phill has put a bit more paint on some more Orcs. Apparently a lot of orcs will be required.

Next up I’ve finished all of the individual rods for my Napoleonic Balloon game.

Lastly for this week Andy has made some more progress on their pilgrims.

See you next Wednesday.

We start this week with Eric and some Romans, apparently Eric only has 18 of these to paint, but does have 40 celts as opponents to go!

Next up Andy has made more progress on some Pilgrims and the Salute Viking.

John L has made a start on a new river section, there’s been a bit of debate about how to make good river sections, will be interesting to see how these turn out.

And lastly for this week Marcus has been busy with some more Frostgrave terrain, this time some interesting magical circles.

See you next Wednesday.

Just a few things for this week, I wonder if the improved weather is having an impact on production …

First up Stephen has finished a unit of Romano-British cavalry they are calling King Arthur’s knights.

Next up Phil has decided to paint more orcs  for the upcoming battle in the first age Lord of the Rings game for the Open Day.

Let’s hope we also see the big beast in the game as well.

Now we move onto Paul L who’s been putting together some 3mm paper buildings.

Hat’s off to Paul here, 3mm paper models can be quite the fiddly challenge.

And last for this week, I’ve been painting up the supporting rods for my Balloon game for the Open Day.

I’m trying to get them to blend in a bit by dry brushing a sky blue colour with white. Might need some more work.

See you next Wedneday.

We star this week with Tony F and more Elves for the coming Lord of the Rings battle of the first age at this years society Open Day.

Next up and Andy has continued work on the pilgrims and Salute 50 miniature.

Good to see Andy also uses a grey primer the same as me. I never mastered painting with a black primer.

Next up and I’ve made some progress with my Napoleonic Balloon game, also for this years Open Day.

The French balloon crews are all done and I’ve added flags and a name to all of the balloons. I also decided to sculpt some sand bags to hang on the baskets.

And lastly for this week, Marcus has done another miniature for the growing Frostgrave collection.

That’s it for this week, see you at the next one.

It’s another Wednesday and despite the bank holiday the membership have made some progress on their various projects.

First up Mark J has some more Vietnam era US soldiers.

I’m not entirely sure how many squads are in the pipeline on this project.

Next up and Stephen has created a spaceship from a toy on a magazine. Getting Stingray vibes from this one.

Now we have Eric turning from the usual chaos thugs of some kind to a bit of terrain. This time with some rocky outcrops.

And last for this week, Andy picked up some medieval pilgrims from Salute so these are next in line for some paint along with the Salute freebie Viking Warlord figure.

See you next Wednesday.