Slow progress from Goblin Town

last night after the first week back at work I managed to sit and finally get into the plastics of Escape from Goblin Town.  

  
They went together nice and easily except for a couple of the Dwarfs.  The models sit snugly together and for some of the arms it took a bit of a wiggle to find the right place, but when I did they did just slip into place.

So I have just the Goblins to go and they should be hopefully done later today while watching the football and then it’s just to read the rules and I can get a game in before starting with the painting.

Worthy General

As mentioned in a previous post I have a soft spot for Thomas Jackson and do wonder how the war would of ended if he hadn’t of died so early on.  

I have managed to obtain a model that I think will fit nicely as Stonewall Jackson.  

  

The model is by 1stcorps and I am looking forward to painting him to lead my Confederates.  As part of the set there was some other Confederate leaders but this is the one I wanted the most

My precious

Another of the projects following Christmas presents that I received is going to be the Hobbit Strategy Battle Game.

 
I never picked up the Lord of the Rings version previously so I am coming at this as a total beginner.  I have been tempted over the last few years but didn’t touch it due to the expectation Games Workshop was going to stop supporting the game.  The news of the new Specialist Games arm of Games Workshop made me finally take the plunge.

I have spent quite some time searching ebay for different models and books that are now out of production and now wish I had picked the game up earlier.  

My main task has been trying to get the out of print sourcebooks and have all but the The Free People’s from the current set.  That is selling on eBay for up to £50.00 currently so it will have to wait or I will have to get lucky on the price.

As to plans with armies I haven’t quite decided yet and may make up some lists to see which I prefer but have ideas like Rohan, an army consisting of the Ringwraiths only, Harad – who couldn’t want a Mumak and the Shire.  The Shire is where I am having issues finding things on ebay.  

First of all though is to build the models from the set and see how it plays out.  

Get off my farm you pesky Yankees!

So I made a start with the Perry box and thought I would build up the scenary that comes in the box.   

 

I found the building which is made by Renedra quite easy to put together.  The instructions are on the side of the box and make perfect sense when you look through them.  The only really issue I had was it took a couple of attempts to get the roof to sit right.  

 
It looks good and I have something for the soon to be raised regiments to fight over. 

The other part of the scenery was the snake fencing.

  

I just clipped it and played around with the make up of the fences to just show and see what could be created.

 

Now next for the battlefield will be the two armies from the box but the small pieces of scenary have got me thinking about what trees, other buildings and cover could be created.