For You Victorians

I am been a very busy boy recently trying to get illustrations out for the Naseby book that is has left me with very little time for anything else. But I shouldn't moan as I am loving it. Anyway have you seen these from 4Ground yet? it looks like they are going to be releasing a Ripper Street Range in May with lovely red brick houses, a police station and a factory. These look blooming nice too.

From 4Ground's Newsletter

The first buildings of our new Whitechapel to Baker Street range come out in early May but we will have very limited numbers available on our stand at Salute 2013.

This new range also includes some rather big buildings! To start with we have a Warehouse, a Police station and Brick Terrace Houses.
All the buildings have a red brick exterior and are perfect for any Victorian game, or of course any post Victorian Urban environment.

My wallet is going to take such a pounding once these are released as they will fit nicely into my VBCW games.

Partizan test shot of Queniborough

Here are some test shots of Queniborough for the game at Partizan this Sunday, to given an idea of the layout of the place. So will all know that this will of course change but I now have the idea.

The Manor house, the roads, fences are missing as are a couple of farm building but in general the idea and layout is there.

I love the barricades and with everything else in place it will look good, well I hope so.

The modern building and the church are by Warbases who do some excellence Mdf buildings and a good 28mm church, which is so hard to find. The older building are from 4Ground who do some lovely pre painted building in 28mm with interiors, for the lazy model maker like me. The standing stones are PanzerKaput Building Enterprises and are the Humber Stones were Humberstone takes its name from.

A Medieval House

Yes I have finished the medieval house that I got along with the barricades from 4Gound. I rather like this cottage as it is a good size and has a teddy bear fur roof which once PVAed looks a bit like straw. I got this as a part of my Partizan game and I thought a thatched cottage would be nice. In fact the village has a few thatched cottage but one named Rupert's Cottage in honour of Prince Rupert and who where I thought he stayed at first until I realised I was at the wrong end of the village. Here is a couple of photos of it.

A Mountain of Walls

After spending most of this weekend either making a cottage, looking after three Maine Coon cats for the father in law or painting walls I find myself after watching Grimm rather glad the weekend in over. There will be most of the cottage in the next couple of days and the cats are cats, loving, big and killers to me, have a bad allergic reaction to cats fur I have finished three sets of 4Ground damageable walls. I am glad that the most of it is done just the bases to do and then finished. I have also got around to building my Austin K2 as well.

I Hate Scenery

Okay thats a general statement and I really dont hate scenery at all but having three packs of wall from 4Ground and rendered and painted the plastered parts of the wall its now brick time. I am bloody hating the time it is taking to paint the bricks and I am other about a third of the way through them. Still I need the wall for Partizan and it not that much that really needs doing just takes forever.

But happiness turned up today as a Thatched Cottage and Bared Wire barricades from 4Ground came in the post. I havent started on the cottage but I thought that I would  make up one of the barricades and I think is looks okay. Now I need to throw a lick of paint on it and rust the wire and its done. Here is a picture of it for you to make your own minds up about it.

You can see in the background an experiment on wheatfields and I think that I have the right colour now.

More on the Partizan Game.

In the meantime both Lord Quenby and the Bishop of Leicester have been invited to talks with the VIP. Being the heads of the Catholic forces at Quenby Hall and the Anglican League forces at Laude Abbey, both have chosen to come to this meeting, either out of advantage or curiosity, but both agreed to not being any troops with them. Of course they did.

And other factions and leaders, both local and from further afield, have been gathering they forces and making plans to either capture, hinder or take advantage of the developing situation.

Here below are the Town Hall and a couple of cottages from a company called 4Ground. I have to say for the price there are very good MDF building kits. They come pre painted and have instructions on how to build them which is very easy. The roofs come off the building as does the upper floor revealing the fully painted inside walls and floors. I have to say I rather like these buildings, wall and other things there do. They are of a good, high standard and well worth the money for them.