Major Ballsup's Hobby Shed

In El Ande county The Watchmen* and the Chartwell Boys* have always been rivals.  However, since DM Faultt of the 'Boys took a shine to Carl Walker's girl Kimmie at The Corkin Cheese saloon, things have taken a turn for the worse.  At the abandoned homestead of the Hodges family, the two rival gangs decide to shoot it out. Turn One Starting positions Tony LeGrand (Shootist) is first to activate and his Action Dice are 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5.  The 1 allows him to moves which he does five inches .  At the moment though he can't utilise his other dice so his activation ends. DM Faultt the Gunslinger leader of the Chartwell Boys, is next rolling Action Dice of 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4.  He uses a 1 dice to move 4 inches and the other 1 dice to move a further two inches. This takes him into a good position hunkered down behind a wagon.  At this early stage his other dice can't be used. It's Boy Freeman's turn to activate.  The Shootist rolls an impressive 1, 5, 5, 6, 6, ...

Bloody hell where is this year going?  It's a sign of getting old isn't it, the months whizzing by?  I started the month feeling like death (there's an irony here when you look at one of my rule purchases) and it turned out I'd got a dose of Covid.  Strangely although I had no energy for things like exercise, after the initial couple of days I found I could paint and I used the extra time not doing other things to press on and get stuff done.  It's been a milestone month in that I have now finished over 50% of the 28mm figures I started the year with which is great for morale.  I'm also back in the swing of posting more regularly with five posts added to the blog this month.   Completed I completed all the 28mm minis that were in progress as we ended April: Two more late-Roman spearmen and staff slinger and archer leaders (more  here ).  Finishing these enabled me to get this collection onto the table for it's inaugural battle (see below)....