Major Ballsup's Hobby Shed

Quite a busy week on the hobby front.  I've some time off coming up so I'm trying to clear the decks before that and be in a good place to crack on for the last third of the year.   Painting/modelling  I finished the three British Generals for the Sikh Wars thereby finishing all my outstanding Sikh Wars and 20mm figures.  You can see them here . I've made some good progress with the sprue of Great Escape Games Gunfighters.  I previously used some of the arms when I made the Cultists ( here ), and now I've assembled and been painting the 5 models you can make from the sprue. Research & Reading I've finished reading "Vindolanda" by Adrian Goldsworthy.  I really enjoyed this and have already ordered the second one from the library.  Of course the danger is that I've been looking at the Imperial Roman period as a possible new project.  I've got a small 10mm Punic Wars collection already but I do like the idea of some Imperial Romans. ...

After a very hectic time at work last week things have calmed down.  Being far less tired I've managed to get some productive hobby time in.  Painting/modelling  I'm very pleased to say that I finished the unit of  Bengal Light Dragoons for the First Anglo-Sikh War.  You can see more of them here . I made some more progress with the three British Generals for the Sikh Wars.  These are very nice figures full of character.   Research & Reading I've been reading "Vindolanda" by Adrian Goldsworthy.  I do like historical fiction, but there's so much out there of such variable quality that I put some time in to research what I'm going to read and focus on the better stuff.  The author is a noted Roman historian and so far it's a very good read. I've been working on a new Ambush Alley scenario set in The Algerian War.  This conflict has been my other main project this year and I've been keen to play a game, which hopefully I'll do in t...