28mm ACW Foundry Confederate Cavalry and If Facebook existed during The American Civil War?

These 28mm Confederate boys are mine and are from Foundry Miniatures and were a joint venture between myself and Battleaxe Painting Service (Ray and Postie) back in the good old days, I'm working on some 2 page ACW skirmish rules adapted from some Postie used for an French-Indian wargame we had a while back!

I'm trying to remember what unit this is.........?  

 

......and if Facebook existed during the American Civil War?

........and don't forget Chris has a giveaway over at Wargamer's Odds and Ends which ends on October the 7th!

Pimping the cailin, loot, owning a Mr. Lee, Ray's luck, deadly terms and what the hell boobs and doughnuts!

Anne is having a massive giveaway over at her blog and it's a corker, so to stop Ray winning again make sure you enter as the prizes are quite brilliant, (cailin is gaelic for girl)........

"This give away is being sponsored in part by author Patrick Hatt. You can find Mr. Hatt's Amazon Writers Page at http://www.amazon.com/Pat-Hatt/e/B00AGFMYVC."

I received these miniatures and socks from Lord Siwoc from his blog "Brains and Guts"........

The socks herald back to an incident when Ray won yet another prize from the same blog and a certain pair of socks went missing and ended up on a certain appendage and Ray refused them after that........

Mr R Lee sent me a figure for the masters collection which is a lovely sci-fi beauty.....

Here she is with some of the other masters.............

A close up, these are all 28mm scale figures......

I asked Ray for a response to his recent luck, the lovely figure and is he sharing any of those brushes, this was his typical normal response.......indifference and a lack of caring or remorse!!!!

Deadly terms.....really deadly, I could be saving somebody's life here!

28mm Hinterland Princess Viktoria-Luise, Anonymous Book, Dice Shenanigans and........

...........how will you die if you found yourself in a slasher movie!

28mm figure from Hinterland Miniatures of a Princess who is a colonel in a Hussar regiment hence the death's head emblem, nice figure but deserved better, far nicer painted version on the Hinterland site.....

Andras found this picture!

Received this book from Edwin but not..... as when he ran his competition I was interested in this book in the give away but did not win as my luck with most competitions is atrocious, so anyway this arrived in the post with a note......

The note.........and thank you to my anonymous giver......much appreciated, half way through it already........

BigLee and his awful, awful dice rolling..... incredibly awful luck with dice and usually when I'm on his fecking side in a game and the challenge issued by Ray was is he the worst dice roller ever? I tried the challenge and yes he still is!!!!!

This little picture challenge tickled me.........

Seemingly I would end up as"The sinister stranger who is taken hostage at the very start of the film (pre-credits!)".

Compared to some of the outcomes this is not too bad..........

Have a good week if you can and don't forget the Google+ button for sharing and more communication between blogs,,,,,,,,,,,

BLOG-CON draws closer and Sidney Roundwood has asked for some help, BLOGGERS FOR CHARITY has had some good news and PR due to our mate Loki!

Still not started painting but getting there, just found out where I left my Mojo:D

28mm Painted Hasslefree Grymm Walkers for 15mm Sci-Fi and......

...........Ian is giving away stuff to celebrate 500 posts and being 2 but not any brushes as they're mine!

These 28mm scale Hasslefree Minis Grymm (sci-fi dwarves) Walkers were bought and painted early this year to go with my 15mm sci-fi Colonial Marines as Dreadnoughts, nice models as you come to expect from the Hasslefree family.

I've added some 15mm figures to show scale........

15mm Rebel Minis figure...........

15mm Khurasan Exterminator model.......

.....and don't forget Ian is having a give away but stop saying you want the brushes as they're mine.......I need them....to see how the other half lives......so there!

Star Trek : Attack Wing Miniatures game, first impressions........

An early birthday present from a good mate (no not Ray!) dropped in my lap the other day, my birthday is actually on the 23rd of this month (address can be supplied for any other early birthday presents:D), I knew little of the game other than it seems to be based on the Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game which I have played and actually like but my mate has nearly everything so this is my fix.........

In the basic starter box set you receive 3 ships, Federation, Klingon and Romulan as pictured below which to me should be the highlight of the box but they're not, they feel a little plasticy (which is what they are made of obviously and not as well painted in my opinion as the X-Wing models) but they are Star Trek models and will be fine for the game (I'm probably being too fussy).........

There are far more races to choose from according to the book including (not all at once and probably in phases like X-Wing), Cardassian, Borg, Ferengi etc...you can customize your ships with upgrades and famous names from Star Trek, the Federation and the Klingons are my favourites and with my birthday coming up I will add a ship or two and give the game a go but the Warbird has really annoyed me.........and I think the scale will be an issue for some too!

Pictures could have been better but Picassa has lost it's edit button!

Some pictures of the starter pack ships.......

The Warbird but the fly in the ointment........

.....is this fecking mold line, my friend has contacted Wayland Games and they have requested a picture (could be a one off hopefully)......

I have included an X-Wing to give an idea of the comparison between the games and size and scale.........

Some of the items included, you get 5 attack and 5 defence dice which is 2 more than X-Wing.......

Some character cards, familiar faces for all the races...........

The ship cards are very similar but with higher attack stats........

Cloaking is included and quite interesting rule and an essential one too, also you have shields that can be after being disabled can then be turned back on in the next turn but not if they were damaged and then will remain so for the rest of the game......

Other small differences are that the range for movement is up to 6 and that you can back up your ship in the rules (go backwards basically).........

What you get in the box........

.....and then there's this..........

First impressions are sort of fair but I'm looking forward to sorting a game out and seeing what happens, will it outdo X-Wing?.........shields up!