A Sandbox

After a somewhat challenging half term, I am ready for a relaxing week off. To start with, a little bit of hobby reading to give me some inspiration..  i am also repurposing some terrain, using some vinyl floor tiles that I bought years ago and were using as beach sections. They have now been sprayed brown and cut into river sections. So far all I have done is add some sand to the river banks.  once they are dry, they'll get a PVA wash, drybrush, flocking and then I'll get a gloss varnish on the water. I'd like to get a game in this week too, I'll see what inspiration I get from the new book. 

Bank holiday comes, six pack of beer. So sang Blur, 30 years ago this year no less. Not much progress in my Dos Amos campaign, although I'm going to tot up a shopping list for the Cubans this week. And I've rebased some more terrain. The rest of the bank holiday has been spent on rebasing some 1:1 scale terrain, namely in the garden.  The kids old playhouse, now home to spiders and woodlice.  It won't exactly be the top of anyone's Pinterest page, but it's a WIP.  The other highlight of the weekend was a walk up the Porter Brook to Forge Dam and watching this big lad stalking about.  And this was my hobby work. A nice diversion from 6mm and my lad wants it to hang from his bedroom ceiling! A Revell kit, that doesn't include a pilot! Interesting paint scheme, I suppose as an escort fighter, fighting at altitude, a sky blue scheme would be more fitting than green.  All in all, a very pleasant weekend and a productive...