Some pictures from Carronade 2021 in Falkirk.

With a bit of a cautious cheer, we welcomed the return of the Carronade show at Falkirk. This was the first games show in 2 years. 

All the usual Covid restrictions were in place, but it was good to see some very nice games and some familiar eyes above the necessary and compulsory face-masks. 

Apologies, I meant to post pictures a week ago, just after the event, but here are some games that caught my eye. 

A very nice AWI game in 28mm. Black Powder rules. A very nice cloth mat and lots of terrain.  

A game of Bolt Action. This one using the fur mat idea. 

Another game of Bolt Action. There were quite a few games of BA at the show. This one was a Dad's Army type of scenario. Again, lots of terrain made for a good skirmish game. 

Another Bolt Action game.  This one was a bit of a "ye wot". A Pacific island attack on a cloth mat that was 26 foot long and 6 foot wide. Very impressive. 

An ancients bronze age game. I can't remember the rules, but the figures were nice. 

A nice 15mm Seven Years War game using Black Powder. Again, like BA, it was interesting to see the amount of games that used the BP rules. 

I thought this was a nice game, though slightly spoiled by the stats cards being placed full on the table. I think it would have been better to have left the stats cards at the table edge to let the eye focus on the figures, terrain and scenario. 

A Thirty Years War game in 15mm. Lutzen. And at this point, Gustavus is still alive.

A nice British in India game in 28mm. It's not clear in the photo, but the cotton wool markers on the guns had little red flashing lights inside to suggest the artillery firing. 

And that was it. There will probably be more and better pictures on the Falkirk Carronade website.  

While there, I met some old friends and familiar faces that I hadn't seen for a long time. It was good to chat and know they were OK.  

Also had a very good chat with a fellow club member about ongoing projects and a desire to cut down. I came away from the conversation (and the show) refreshed in gaming thoughts and focus. When I got home I cleared away some stuff from my workbench and decided to focus on two projects and to try to get them fully painted and finished. Both have been in a state of semi-completed for well over a year. More on them later (though the 3D adventures continue...). 

Some more ramblings from the world of 3D printing

Here are some views of other stuff I've done. Some good, some bad, some were just good ideas at the time - a bit like buying metal and plastic miniatures and rulesets. 

A combined picture of some 6mm American civil war and a 1750's British infantryman for AWI or French and Indian Wars.  At the right of the picture are some ACW infantry I boosted to 10/12mm in the software.  

Here is the British infantryman beside a Perry miniature from their plastic AWI range. Quite good size-wise. 

And painted up. Not bad at all. I could be critical about the footwear and some minor bits, but the chap is OK. I got a full set of these chaps; marching, advancing, firing etc. along with usual command figures. 

Some paint splashed on to the ACW figures. They came out OK.  

A bit of wonderful silliness. This is the kind of figure I've seen in passing and thought - why not. I also got skeletons for a possible Dragon Rampant type game. 

Some tanks. These are 1:200 scale but can be up or down scaled I did these as a test to see if I could revisit a Kursk project at a scale smaller than 15mm, perhaps 10mm. They came out OK when painted. 

I think I'm discovering that the same attraction in normal miniatures, is just the same in 3D; the desire to get some new figures and pick up whatever catches the eye. But that's now changing, a bit. 

That's it for now.