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February 2026 hobby update

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I didn't manage to reach the hobby heights  of January this month.  Strangely enough feeling better has impacted hobby time as I've felt well enough to do other things but it's all swings and roundabouts. Completed Here's what I completed during the month: 20mm Platoon 20 Vietnamese civilians.  The majority of the painting for these was done last month, with just some highlights, varnishing and basing to be completed.  They're nice "classic" wargames miniatures, not over fussy or detailed and for those newbies only used to plastic or 3D print figures probably appear basic, to which I’d say bollocks. 15mm 16th Century arquebusiers.  I finished off the rebasing of 22 Essex Miniatures figures onto single 15mm round magnetised bases.  This gives the flexibility for keeping them as singles for  skirmish and forming units for larger games. I need to work out how to base the pike and musketeers, in a way that captures the era but is also practical for gaming,...
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Verrotwood Game 9 - How Winter kills

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Introduction A savage winter has descended upon the Verrotwood. Beast, man and things less easily categorised, struggle over the scraps in a desperate battle for survival.  When a flock of carrion birds is seen circling in the sky, the cultists of Wisentii and The Uncoiling of Beiysss set out to see if any sustenance can be gleaned from the forest.  The last stragglers from a herd of wild cattle have become stuck in deep snow and scavenger birds have spotted them.  This has alerted not only the cultists: a pack of desperate wolves (Forest Beasts) and a bear (Greater Forest Beast) have also descended on the clearing.  The cultists will have to fight hard to take any prizes. Set up This game is played on a small board over four rounds.  The four stranded cattle are placed in the centre of  the board.  The cultists activate from opposite edges.  The wolves and the bear are placed on the side edges facing each other.  The wolves activate as a pac...
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January 2026 hobby update

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January 2026 has been a curious month.  On the downside I've had what seems like a perpetual cough and cold for almost the entirety of the month.  The weather has also been dismal.  However, where this has stopped me getting out and exercising, I have done a lot of hobby stuff, swings and roundabouts and all that.  Consequently this is quite a long update.  Here's what I completed this month: 48 Baccus Franco-Prussian War Infantry finished as French Foreign Legion for my 19th Century French Armée d'Afrique collection.  I started these early in December and they had sat on the table since.  However, once I got back to them I knocked these out quite quickly.  Lovely sturdy Baccus figures, this gives me another unit and a bit to make a total of three FFL units for The Men Who Would Be Kings.   Verrotwood Cultist.  After the bloodletting of the last game ( here ) the Wisentii cult needed a new cultist, so I bashed one together using Northsta...
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