Displacement Activity #5

 Those of you who actually read this blog will recall that I was diverted last month into a couple of terrain additions: a cotton field vignette, a small barn for N American games, and a small 4 figure vignette depicting the construction of the perimeter bank, ditch and palisade suggesting a Marching Camp for the Republican Romans. To complete the piece I had a further figure and three stands of pilum, helmet and scutum from the Crusader Miniatures pack of Romans in camp. In addition I also had two resin tents, cast from the Ian Weekley originals, via Magister Militum. Also to hand was a small fire which I think came with the Agema Miniatures haruspex set. After painting I arranged them on a 150x150mm terrain base from Warbases, applied my texture mix over PVA, washed it with Country Maple and finally applied static grass, clumps and tufts. I hope it will do...

When I have completed the Allied Italian cavalry to support my Republican Romans I hope to lay the whole collection out on the table in GHQ, both to encourage my stalling painting mojo and to give any interested reader the sense of what the games might look like. As an aside, while I've not yet bought the projected Spanish cavalry for my Carthaginian army I did buy a book!

Almost forty years old, by publishing date on inside header page, and in perfect condition from World of Books and with free postage. A nice general read about the period, dated obviously in places, but I was pleased to add it to my small library.