HAPPY CANADA DAY!
1 July 1867 - 1 July 2020
(or Dominion Day as it was when I was young.)
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Impromtu Canada Day Parade
Born and raised in the suburbs of Montreal 7 decades ago. Began playing with toy soldiers at 5 years. Started painting & converting at about 12 yrs and wargaming about 15 yrs. Never really stopped.
5 years in the Black Watch of Canada Cadets, 5 years at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean followed by 4 in the navy. 25 years with CPC in IT simultaneous with 23 years running a boarding kennel. Inherited my love of toy soldiers from my mother's father. Married with a pack of litle Italian Greyhounds and a cat. Prematurely retired and enjoying leisure to game, maintaining our 170 yr old farmhouse and just living.
Sunday, June 28, 2020
Rainy Days and Sundays
Perfect day for playing a game once I had to put away my brushes.
Didn't take long to get a simple meeting engagement underway.
Didn't take long to get a simple meeting engagement underway.
But, by the time I had played three turns, it was time to go make supper.
...... to be continued
Born and raised in the suburbs of Montreal 7 decades ago. Began playing with toy soldiers at 5 years. Started painting & converting at about 12 yrs and wargaming about 15 yrs. Never really stopped.
5 years in the Black Watch of Canada Cadets, 5 years at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean followed by 4 in the navy. 25 years with CPC in IT simultaneous with 23 years running a boarding kennel. Inherited my love of toy soldiers from my mother's father. Married with a pack of litle Italian Greyhounds and a cat. Prematurely retired and enjoying leisure to game, maintaining our 170 yr old farmhouse and just living.
Saturday, June 27, 2020
Unfinished Business
Back in the early 90's Ron and I got into Fire & Fury in 15mm. Armies were quickly painted up and the games began. For the next two years, our little, informal, Friday night group mostly played 15mm ACW Grant Teasers. Then, suddenly, things changed. Some players got posted out, others joined us, periods changed, scales changed, games of some sort went on for a while longer but by the end of the century, regular Friday night games were a thing of the past and the Civil War was over.
The clean up and reorganization of my room continues though I am getting close enough to start being able to imagine it (relatively) organized and tidy and once again suitable to host a friend or two for a game. However, yesterday I stumbled on a little bag of unpainted 15mm acw. Some left over Old Glory Zouaves and some Freikorps infantry that someone donated.
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| Our Fire & Fury era was pre-digital, pre-smartphone and I don't have so much as a single photo of any of those games. However, in Jun 2011, a handful of our ACW 15's came out to try an early draft of the Portable Wargame: https://gameofmonth.blogspot.com/2011/06/portable-civil-war-with-morschauser.html |
About 8 years ago, as part of my downsizing, (desperately needing space) I decided that I didn't really need ACW armies in 15mm, 20mm and 54mm. Since I had both sides in 20mm, and they were being used, I decided to keep them and let the others go. The plastic 54's I donated, the 1,000 odd 15's were sold off in batches.
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| One day's work. They're smaller and fuzzier than they used to be and they won't stand still while being painted, but they'll do. |
I've always felt a little bad that I left Ron's Yankees stranded, so I have decided to paint up what I can so that once the "Light's Come On Again" I can gift them to Ron so that his Yankees can least play some small Portable ACW games.
Three stands will nicely fit in a hex and at that unit size, I have enough figures for 5 infantry, 2 Zouave (Tigers and....??), 2 gun crews and 1 cavalry unit. There will have to be more scrounging and borrowing I think.
Born and raised in the suburbs of Montreal 7 decades ago. Began playing with toy soldiers at 5 years. Started painting & converting at about 12 yrs and wargaming about 15 yrs. Never really stopped.
5 years in the Black Watch of Canada Cadets, 5 years at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean followed by 4 in the navy. 25 years with CPC in IT simultaneous with 23 years running a boarding kennel. Inherited my love of toy soldiers from my mother's father. Married with a pack of litle Italian Greyhounds and a cat. Prematurely retired and enjoying leisure to game, maintaining our 170 yr old farmhouse and just living.
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