A gift for my wife

 I’m still busy ticking over on my projects (the constant state for many wargamers) and whilst I actually seem to be making progress I had to take a short break (from my own self induced nonsense) just before Christmas to make my wife an additional, last minute present.

Now when we got married many years ago I promised her that I’d get her a pony. I know. As I’ve been retired (against my will) for ten years or so I think a pony may well be out of my financial reach. Then I had an idea (actually I had it last year but the display case I bought from Woodland Scenics was sadly rubbish) and managed to find a suitable vessel on Etsy. On the 22nd of December the display case/bowl turned up and I set to work. I didn’t sleep much during the next couple of days but I was very pleased with the end result and more importantly so was my wife. The diorama is all scratch built and based on a 50mm ply base from Warbases attached to the supplied cork with PVA. The horse and tree are procreate and the greenery is either Silflor from Mininatur or Woodland Scenics (all of which I already had in my stores).

Whilst it’s not my usual fare I thoroughly enjoyed the sculpting process (and work best under pressure) and my wife was delighted. 

Brilliantly, for Christmas, my wife bought me some 15mm Stormtroopers (Highlander Miniatures) and my brother in law bought me some GZG Tomorrow’s War RANG troopers to be my rebels. Since then I’ve been basing and re-sculpting to add some aliens (non-humans) into the mix. Hopefully soon I’ll get some pictures up and some games played using either the original Star Wars Miniature rules, Chain of Command, Spectre Operations (a very useful toolkit system) or maybe the new Tomorrow’s War ruleset that’s in development.

Stay safe

BeneathALeadMountain