Monday, 21 April 2025

Market stalls…

Some market stalls… these are utilising some 3D printed tables which were pretty awful, the tops and goods they came with were unusable with such pronounced layer lines no paint job would help. They came with canopies which I think can be saved with a lot of work, but they will come later…



Fruit & veg with the previously shared baskets of fennel and carrots (and converted parsnips and red onions) and sack. The apple crate is from Ainsty if memory serves, the berries are railway scale apples (not that they say what scale) but with one of the empty baskets work nicely. Loose apples in greenstuff.



Cheese monger with the most popular cheese of the 17th century - Cheshire. I do my research. Made from jewellery beads, I took a press mold and did a greenstuff copy so I could slice one. Cutting board from balsa and cheese knife from plasticard. Wine bottle is a 3D print and the chest from Crooked Dice.



Pamphleteer. I added an overhead beam and a front piece so I could have display sheets. The pamphlets were found online, reduced and printed. The stacks were just multiple bits of paper, and greenstuff stones to keep them down if the wind picks up. Chest again from Crooked Dice.



Pottery of various types. Earthenware jugs made from nesting plastic tube. Large jug in wicker is from Fenris if memory serves, but may be Ainsty (had them an age). Plates and bowls from Oshiro. I pressmolded the topmost large plate to make a greenstuff shattered one under the table. Vase was from the terrible 3D print market set and smothered in liquid greenstuff. Again, chest from Crooked Dice. Loose apple and table cloth for some colour.



And an attempt at a group shot…



Various bits of scatter…

Some scatter - tents from Renedra and various trade goods from Ainsty. There were a lot of single wool/cotton(?) bundles and the L shaped stack, so I stuck five of the singles into the square stack for ease and should add to the market vibe…




Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Colonel Bills Elizabethan Border Reivers

 I was very kindly sent some samples for Colonel Bills new range of Border Reivers as I was curious how they scaled up.

I’d heard that the Flags of War Reivers were a bit big compared to most historicals, but that’s not the case here:


The photo is awful, but my desk is full of market hall bits at the moment. But, Antediluvian conquistador, Colonel Bills Reiver, TAG Elizabethan gent, Colonel Bills Reiver. Lovely figures and I will be getting more at some point.

Available here: https://www.colonelbills-store.co.uk/store/late-elizabethan-border-reivers-c131883566

Sunday, 9 February 2025

Father Shandor - the comic strips 7-9



















And that is all that are currently out there. There are synopses and the odd page scan of the subsequent stories, but nothing complete. Hey ho, hope this slight diversion from the usual nonsense was of interest…

 

Father Shandor - the comic strips 4-6



















Oddly, this doesn’t seem to get the views without some text, so here you go… parts 4-6.