Red Buses...!

Hey, so you wait ages for one blog post and then two come along at the same time!! I found some images I took of the extra figures that I did for the Montargis game at Partizan, so I thought why not pop them up here. They are pretty much all Perry plastics, which as my HYW collection is so old, most of my figures are not - so it was a great opportunity to add some new figures. Actaully I reaslise now that these were nearly all English figures, as we needed thre battles. The horse for the Earl of Warwick's flagbearer is a 3D print. The bombard on the wagon is also a print, with crew and horses converted Perry figures, it's one of those ideas which actually worked out OK as a finished model.

Real Estate - some progress

Hi, it's been a long time, but I'd heard that Blogspot had been revisited by Google and was slightly better to use, so I thought I'd also revisit and pop up some content. Progress on the medievals has been slower than planned. I have added some more French infantry, and also acquired some French mounted knights (from Dave Imrie) for a demo game that we put on at the ast Partizan show of 2025. This was based on the siege of Montargis in 1427. I should have posted about it on here, but there is coverage in Wargame Illustrated number 457 (January 2026) if you wnat to chase it down - it was a great opportunity to get almost all my HYW figures on a table at one time. This post is really just to share some buildings that I've been doing on-and-off for some of last year. They are all Hudson and Allen 25mm and all of them will be added to scenic bases at some point. My iossue is that I now cogitate too much about how I am going to base them and so inertia steps in. In addition I've had a repalcment thumb joint, to sort out arthritis whcih was making the holding of models for painting etc, too painful. I'm now in a rehab stage, which is taking longer than hoped, but I may be back to painting in April...we'll see. Hence the meantime is filled with planning (...too many ideas) and purchasing (...too much on the plastic/lead pile)!!

So, to the buildings. The double-storey ones are basically 2 of the same single-storey models cut and stacked. As the models are made of the light resin, this is an easy job and for the buidling that'll be a shop or tavern, it was just a matter of using a spare window and cutting it in. The longer barn has had plaster added to make it a bit more visually interesting, rehter than a totally wooden construction and I've added staddle stones (to stop rodents eting anything stored within).

So, hopefully not too long before a new post, either on here or more likely the other blog - Je lay Emprins - as there is some modest progress going on with my Swiss and they are defiebely a number 1 project for this year. Simon