It Was A Quiet Saturday Morning.....

 and Ross was home alone and playing around instead of finishing those Marines.....

Aux Armes!

One of the several reasons I've been making an effort to downsize my collection of figures, is so that I have more time to spend on the look of the games and of the photos, and have enough room to be able to store everything properly whether that is scenery and raw castings filed away so that I can find what I want quickly, take pictutes without a great effort to hide the slums and have room to put a cup of coffe down without making a special effort!! :) 

"Hearts of Oak are our Ships, wrinkly is our sky
We always are messy, tidy, boys tidy" .

It took me a while to jury rig an extension to the harbour so that my frigate could appear on table to duel with the battery, and to jury rig a backdrop for photos, but only minutes after that to remember that many if not most RN frigates were already heavily into short range carronades which would be pretty much useless for fighting a battery on top of a cliff. Phew!  No need to work out some rules for that bit.  Actually, no need for the ship model either (once again....), or the backdrop.  Oh well, it was fun to do anyway. Definitely need the better permenant backdrops that have been slowly working their way up the Toodoo list for a while now.

(and yes, my wife was on her way to a dogshow when I borrowed the light blue table cloth which is screening the heaping piles of junk which often cover the side cabinet instead of being properly stored inside it or somewhere else. ) 

OK, more coffee then back to the painting desk. My back is still complaining after the drive to Fredericton and back last weekend so its short stints of painting. They'll be done in time to play tomorrow though.