On the painting tray: October 2015

Just to prove that I'm not dead, but alive and well in Cheltenham. No gaming organised yet, although I have visited one club which is quite far away from me on the other side of the town. It's no big deal, though, since the new job is really heavy and most nights I can't be bothered thinking. I am hoping that once semester begins properly things will calm down a bit. I did go to Colours at Newbury for the first time, courtesy of a certain Roy Boss, president of the Society of Ancients, who lives less than fifteen miles away in Cirencester. That meant I got to meet some of the Society people I previously knew only from t'intertwebs, such as Phil Sabin and Richard Lockwood. Afterwards, Roy very kindly gave me a large number of mostly painted 25mm Early Imperial Romans, enough to make about a legion and a half, and also loads of nicely painted, almost finished 28mm Caesareans, some by Foundry and some by Companion Miniatures - the Foundry ones were also sculpted by Mark Copplestone, so that will give me another legion to add to my growing hordes. Thanks, Roy! I think he felt sorry for me or something. Thanks also to Roy and his wife Karma for feeding me after Newbury. In the meantime, I've set up and started a legion from scratch. Photographic evidence:

This is my rather messy painting table.

And this is what I have managed to achieve so far. Not a lot, but at least it's a start. And now for some rather belated photos of Colours:

Phil Sabin's Zama game. First time I've actually seen Lost Battles in action.

A rather nice gridded 15mm game of Agincourt.

Lovely wintry game. I can't for the life of me remember the battle, but it sure looked purty.

Nice scenic for a skirmish game.

At the other end of the same table.

This was right next to the SoA game: stretcher bearers in no-man's land, WWI. I think the hats were compulsory.

Napoleon in Egypt, including camelry.

More from the same game.

ECW: Battle of Newark, I think.

And again.

Playmobil chariot-racing!

Because you can take them apart, you can show the carnage on the racetrack. This looked like proper fun.

Large 15mm game of the demise of Ariete. Above are some of the advancing Brits.

A longer range shot shows the waiting Italians too. Lovely models.

And that's it so far. I don't have a desktop in my houseshare, so I'm nipping round the corner to work briefly on Saturdays to try to keep up with my gaming, including edits for Slingshot. I'm doing nowhere near as much in the way of gaming as I did in Glasgow, but it's still happening...