Picking up those brushes again.

Hi and welcome to the occasional mutterings of Dave Doc, a military modeller and some time gamer. Gaming and model making has given me a real education, History & Geography(obvious really), Artistry, Politics, Economics, Logistics, Project Management -you try building miniature armies without the last 3.

I will use the blog to record my creations & the odd occasion I actually do some gaming.

I have always been inspired by the aesthetic side of gaming. Playing on well constructed terrain using excellently painted units is always a joy.

Sunday, 3 March 2019

Gaming - Hammerhead - a good day out

A bunch of The Old Guard were at Hammerhead yesterday , enjoying a show with a good atmosphere and decent shopping too. MartinC , JamesM and I  had travelled on Friday to make a weekend of it , Pete and John joined us early on Saturday.We spent Friday night over beer and curry chatting through some future planned games , and then looking at a combined project. This will be 1967 Arab Israeli war done in 3mm over a very large table so we will do big battles on a larger scale .

 James took time to go round and take pictures of all the games which he has posted here. There were some good looking games. Martins write up is here 

We played 7 games of our Pulp game - Pyramid of Doom. Most of the participants were young future gamers who had a good time charging around. The mission was accomplished on all games .


We had a lot of positive comments re how good the table looked , which was good. its always one of our criteria for a good game.

the pyramid o doom!

Pete from the OG played the first game to warm things up. Martns maniacal laugh suggest he knows what  nasties await!


the skulls represent lives left on the galant rescue party

The stash sourced was good . I picked up stuff mainly to help with storage wars and extra stuff for the Normandy project.

Pill boxes and tank traps 

2 x 50mm deep really useful box inserts from Sally 4th 

Magnetic sheeting for box inserts , and vac formed shell holes

Pack of 15mmStuarts, couple of packs for Sudan vignettes and angle measurer

proper Tales of the Golden Monkey figures and decal top up

a 1/144th die cast P38  found on the bring and buy..for £2

All in all a great weekend.

6 comments:

  1. Top weekend. I use sure my laugh is maniacal. I always thought it was a mix of charming, engaging and condescending

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  2. Looks like a grand day out. The table looks superb!

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  3. Well done chaps, looks like a cracking day out.

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  4. Good looking game glad it went well...🙂

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  5. What a really impressive table and setup - glad you had a great day out

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