Britcon 2022

Britcon 2022 - Nottingham

Britcon returns on 13th-14th August at Nottngham Trent University. They are putting on DBM 15mm 400 AP Singles with the theme being you cannot use an army that you have taken to any tournament in the last five years. This means the 2017 Gaming Year up until the time of the tournament.

This means that I cannot use the following armies

2017 - Khurosanians, Wallachians, Later Muslim Indians, Welsh

2018 - Abbasids, Scythians

2019 - Scythians, War of the Roses, Sargonid

2020 - The Mighty Covid-19 Alliance

2021 - Yuan

2022 - Serbian Empire

Between now and Britcon there are a few more tournaments being held

25th-26th June Venta Icenorum 400 AP Singles OPEN Theme - I took Serbian Empire & didnt have much success due to the enemies taken, lots of Bw X & Bw S

16th-17th July Attack 500 AP Doubles Open Theme

plus

17th-18th September Iceni 500 AP Doubles Open Theme - army taken will be published in due course.

15th-16th October BHGS Teams at Picketts Lock Sports Centre - 400 AP singles

22nd-23rd October Vexillium 500 AP Doubles Themed any army between 477 AD & 1071 AD

It was confirmed that any army from Book 1,2 & 4 are allowed as long as they are chosen from the date range specified.

Book 1 - Early Vietnamese

Book 2 - Classical Indian, LPIA, Early Armenians, Tamil Indian, Kushan, Scots-Irish, Nobades Blemye & Beja, Later Moorish, Alan, Hsien Pi etc, Abyssinian, Early Visigoth, Early Ostrogoths, Pictish, Sassanids, Burgundi, Gepid, Early Franks, Old Saxons, Packche Korean, Koguryo Korean, Silla Korean, N&S Dynasties, Hunnic, Sub-Roman British, Visigoth, Patricians, African Vandals

Book 4 - Komenan Byzantine, Cilician Armenian

I can possibly field 6 from this list plus 37 from book 3?

https://drewjarman.blogspot.com/2014/09/dbm-armies-i-can-field-with-little.html

Will make the tournament quite interesting especially if Patricians become the default safe option or elephants turn out to worry the knights in the time span.

Additionally there is a DBM Tournament just outside Paris in Aulney Sous Bois

5th-6th November 400 AP Singles Any Army up to 1066 AD

15mm Anyscale Resin Tents - Part 3

15mm Anyscale Resin Tents For Sale

Back in November 2019 I blogged about painting up Anyscale Resin Tents to sell. I have finally painted up the last 12 tents I have for sale.

They are simple enough to be totally generic for use with almost any army and period,

1st  Batch of 6 tents

2nd Batch of six tents

Last up are some LaserCraftArt animal pens which I have had waiting to be completed for a few years! They are simple MDF baggage type elements idea to use to indicate where livestock might be contained within an army encampment 

1st Batch of Animal Pens

2nd Batch of Animal Pens

Thats all to blog for now 

This brings the painting tally so far for 2022 to

240 foot [72 elements]

9 Feature Pieces [9 elements]

20 Baggage Elements

24 rebased Infantry elements

15mm Chinese - Update

Rebased T'ang Chinese Militia

Having completed my T'ang Chinese back in June 2019 I thought that I had nothing more to do with the army. Upon reflection I decided that I didn't like the uniformed look that the Chinese Militia blocks had.

see blog entries

https://drewjarman.blogspot.com/2019/01/late-tang-chinese-part-7.html

and

https://drewjarman.blogspot.com/2018/12/late-tang-chinese-part-5.html

for the original units. I decided that I will rebase them and took half of the completed elements to mix up the colours to give them that irregular peasant look. I still have another 24 bases to mix up but for now they can wait.

Thats all to blog for now 

This brings the painting tally so far for 2022 to

240 foot [72 elements]

9 Feature Pieces [9 elements]

24 Rebased elements

Bronze Age Warriors - Minoan Part 4

Minoans Part 4

Having got fed up painting Minoan Infantry I decided to paint up the few missing items that really make for a good looking army. I got a friend to 3D print the specific items as I cannot justify purchasing a 3D printer.

Knossos was the capital city of Minoan Crete. The city pre-dates the Minoans by quite a long time frame. Its been the subject of multiple excavations over the last 150 years. 

I wanted a Built Up Area to act as a feature piece if I ended up defending Minoa. I had considered scratch building a feature but struck it lucky when I found exactly the item I wanted on this 3D printed Items site.

https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-knossos-palace-crete-greece-201037

The item is inspired by this structure in Crete.

My friend Dave found the 3D models and he kindly gave me the four missing Triakonters I needed to complete the Minoans. The ships come on their own bases so I had to put them on larger bases and build up the surface so the galleys blend into the sea. The are available to download from here.

https://www.wargamevault.com/product/377531/Ancient-Galleys-2?fbclid=IwAR2oUOaeSlpNdVUzBpoLzb8MFaJ8hX2LMGndlDPUjQaoa6nqB-ySLM_Xy20

They painted up really well and using Vallejo Sandy Paste for the sea was just rough enough to be painted etc to look like it was sea.

No Minoan Army would be complete without a Minotaur. I decided to make mine a huge bronze statue. I got it from Thingiverse https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3456137

I asked for two 3D prints because I might end up selling one on. They are on standard 40mm x 40mm bases so can be used as baggage elements

Over Xmas 2021 Dave at Museum Miniatures announced that he was providing a free STL file of a Trojan Horse. He had no plans to sell it as the model is far too large but is perfect for 3D printing.

Here is his publicity shot from the company Facebook page.

Museum Miniature Model 3D STL file

I got two printed out by my mate Dave and have tried two different colour schemes.

Thats all to blog for now 

This brings the painting tally so far for 2022 to

240 foot [72 elements]

9 Feature Pieces [9 elements]