The League of Augsburg

OK so these pix are not the best and were done very quickly on the iPhone but I thought before I flew off again I'd share the punctuation mark activity conducted during my construction of Derry's walls.

I have prepped up one each of all 20 sculpts so far mastered but only managed to complete the painting of four. They were are real joy to do and actually very quick due to the elegant simplicity of...

Firing and Loading codes make a brilliant firing line

Things are hectic right now so I have been slow on the blogging front, receiving a B minus on my report card and falling behind on my class work... must do better Hilton , you slacker!

A lovely and interesting selection of poses in the Loading group

Anyway, enough.. here are more and better pictures of the GNW Russians with all 5 codes now...

Musketeers standing

Clibinarium has been very busy over the last few weeks. We have a preview of the first three sets of Russians for the Great Northern War.

Pikemen standing

It is likely we'll have five codes ready for the end of July which will allow us to offer Standing READY and Standing FIRING LINE battalions. Two further codes are being finished right now.

Command standing

Here are some preview...

210615 1015 - Zaventem Airport - the final dispatch from your front line correspondent at Waterloo 200. Last night's re enactment was quite different than the first.

British Light Cavalry

The Allies were all deployed already, no marching on. Napoleon did a circuit of the field to equal cheers and boos. The Allied guns (7 possibly 8 batteries) pumped out shots like they were using free money.

Falling...

Setting a precedent for the blog today by posting twice in the same 24 hour period. The occasion I believe, merits a different approach at least for this week anyway.....

Walking to our seats this is the view of the reenactment field.

Having had a sleep I can write a little more about yesterday's action. The re enactment took place on the ground between the sunken road and the initial jump off...

Union Brigade attack D'Erlon's Corps

I feel words are somewhat superfluous after this evening. I have just arrived back at the hotel and it is probably time to hang up my dice because no experience will top what I saw tonight. I took over 400 shots in less than 2 hours. This is raw stuff with no work so straight from the field.

RHA Battery

I think I'll reflect a little with my head on the pillow and...

Skirmishing practice by the 71st Foot at Hougoumont

Continuing my front line report from Waterloo on the very day 200+ ....

Cavalry! Cavalry! Close up!

As we walked by La Haye Sainte 0855 17th June 2015

70+ degrees and at 0835 we are standing on the site of Wellington's Elm. Little did we know that within three hours we would have seen Royalty and found an ex-Prime Minister of the UK in his post ministerial job!

Has the World Cup moved from Russia to Waterloo?

Grand stands along the attack route of I Corps

Just what have the done with the hallowed...

French vehicles - notice the colour wargamers!!!!

I am fully engaged as Battlefield Tour Guide on the Geek Nations Waterloo 200 event which began yesterday in Belgium. The schedule has been pretty full so far. Yesterday we were at Ligny for 0900 and sampling the new Gerard Museum with the bonus of a re-enactor bivouac containing KGL, French and Prussian units.

French wagon at Ligny

I spoke with some...

Many of our members have been patiently waiting for what seems like an age for this mythical book on the Irish Campaigns which I seem to have been promising for years.

The story is simple and up till recently typical of projects which are poorly handled. A 'fuzzy' brief, non specific time frames, confusing allocation of responsibilities, no project manager, scope creep and conflicting priorities...

This man is leading us a merry dance

There has been an awful lot of...

Atop the butte on a beautiful early summer day

I've said it before.. the internet is a wonderful thing. I was 'connected' to Teras Cassidy of Geek Nation Tours by Dave Taylor ex of Wargames Illustrated in the US. Dave thought I might find some common ground with Teras who runs an interesting 'hobby holiday' company focusing on wargaming vacations in exciting locations around...