April - June 2002

27th April, Salute. Good show, loads going on. (David went with Bernard, Graham, Iain and Thomas). Helped Bob and Tim run the Megablitz game. Bought the rules, also PBI2, AK47 mortar crew and dead and some extra river sections. Megablitz worked well with lots of people showing interest. Afterwards, I decided to ditch "Bastogne to Berlin" in favour of MB, so I bought a reel of magnetic tape and some steel paper (£7-50). Started rebasing 1/300 scale forces. Have standardised on 2cm * 4cm bases (except for Transport and Leg infantry).

Have decided to model units from Patton's III Army and its opponents. It looks as if I'll be able to create 2 or 3 armoured divisions and at least 2 infantry divisions for each side. Will need to buy some extra models to fill some gaps in the orbats…

June 02: David continues with LOTR. He's made a really nice hill and his painting technique is improving! Clearing up room for Terri's visit. Finished painting the Irregular village pack (people, animals, packages, cart), extra figs for 1460 campaign rules, new Essex dismounted knights, a group of monks and a few extra 15mm pirates.

Bought the 1/300 WW2 stuff to fill out the MB orbats. Painting and basing now.
Set up the next ECW campaign battle (the 14 vs. 8 element one).

Discovered a useful trick on the Internet. My bases are Avocado Green mount board. I bought a brown marker pen and coloured the edges of the bases brown - they look much better now. So much so - I'm doing ALL the bases I have (and that's a lot!).