Lots of Changes

Some huge changes since I last updated just on 5 months ago.

• I’ve moved house into a place on my own
• Almost finished painting a new Flames of War army
• Stopped playing ASL for a while – unfortunately
• No longer have ADSL – just dialup access for now
• May well be moving to Australia in 2008 rather than France as I originally intended

I’ll be posting here a lot more – I’ve got a few things I need to catch up on posting and then I’ll be updating on a daily basis hopefully including pictures.

Diary of a Late War army Part IX

What a great day. Not only have I managed to organise most of my miniatures logically, I found all my old tools and craft supplies so I’ll be back in the swing of things almost immediately. I set up the PC so I could at least avoid listening to crap radio for another day, and just afterI sorted that out, Evan arrived bearing gifts: a new office chair which I really needed, but get this: he went and made me some painting rods and a painting stand so I could keep going with the Late War Brits! He made a whole bunch of the rods and will do another stand so I’ll be able to have at least 36 figures on the go if needed. This means I’ll be painting by platoons if needed and I can also mix and match infantry, arty and vehicles without having to handle the castings at all until after they’re varnished. To say I’m blown away is an understatement. He even managed to change his usual remark about me being able to get my A into G to being able to continue my progress.I don’t think I’m able to paint tonight though as I’m a bit tired after unpacking all day. I think I saw some nice and cheap china display cabinets at one of the local goodwill type shops in town so I’ll have a gander at them on Thursday when I’m next in town (by which stage I’ll be ready to start doing the full basing for the brits as I’ll have the Resene paints and the field grass). I may just leave the next instalment of this as the final one when I’ve completed the basing of the infantry and just post once more after that when I’ve completed all the super-detailing and the objectives for this particular army.

TheArmy as it looks today (20 Sept 2006) except for the Cromwells and Fireflies which are still at Evan’s, the mortar platoon and the rest of the infantry :