Finished a couple of figures I have had for about 4 years at least ,both Heresey miniatures The Manbat ,based on the movie Bram Stokers Dracula a really nice 3 part figure that has a wonderful pose and the other a Werewolf this is a 5 part kit and builds into a quite large figure the pose makes me think it should be chasing a huge bouncing ball or a thrown stick .
Fetch Boy
I am still not a 100% health wise so not been doing much but I aahd promised my Grandkids a game involving Scooby Doo , so I put a small game of Pulp Alley on for them whilst they have moved in with us . A great game that we all enjoyed and using the horror rules made it even better for them ,with some very appropriate cards being drawn ,Scooby and Shaggy moved from building to building stumbling over the plot points whilst the rest of the gang took on the bad guys .A slim victory for the Monsters though .Figures of the gang by Hasslefree ,mystery machine is a corgi diecast .Dracula and the brides arebad squiiddo ,the other monsters are miniatures I have had years ,I think the Creature is a Black tree not sure about the Werewolf, map bools by Loke Battle Mats
The Gangs all here
And the bad guys tonight are...
He said I only married them all because `i thought it was big of me (bygamy get it :-) )
first off Happy New Year to you all , My first game of 2021 was asolo pulp alley game ,I am still not feeling any where near a 100% so justkept the game simple to get used to the mechanisms and see what I thought . The game is greata nd the solo rules work really well using a special solo deck of cards and taking complete control of one side or league as they are called in the game and the cards and simple rules guide the other . My home grown scenario was for Blofeld and the bad guys to find and capture a scientist in his south american hideaway and Bond and his small group to stop them . Went well Blofeld found the Prof straight away and while he and Nick Nack persauded the scientist to join their palns for world domination ,Jaws and a gang of boiler suited minions kept watch for any inerfearing good guys . Bond ,Felix Leiter and Anja Amasova arrived and then things went wrong for the good guys ,Bond and Felix both drew cards that prevented them doing much but our KGB heroine went straight into action ,sadly staright into the arms of Jaws and made a sudden departure ,maybe to return in the sequel .Anjas sudden demise pushed Bond and his CIA friend into a flurry of vengeful action , the first to feel the wrath of our intrepid agents was Jaws , no easy task it took both good guys to empty their guns into him before the Giant fell . Meanwhile Blofeld ,nick nack and the prof had got into the geta way car but Nick Nack had trouble reaching the pedals and was stuck for a while , whilst Bond quickly took care of the gang of minions ,Felix advanced to stop the baddies from leaving and has poor nick nack found the keys to the car felix took some well aimed shots putting the vehicle out of action . The car caught fire and blofeld and Nick nack escaped leaving the poor boffin to his fate ,howeevr in an heroic act our side kick Felix rescued him from the wreck adn Bond sent our little villain to the great fantasy island in the dky while securely capturing Blofeld . ( who will probably escape from custody for another attempt at world domination). below are some pics I took .Figures are all crooked dice ,buildings charlie foxtrot ,cars assorted 1/43 scale die casts .Table from Urban matz and mat is aWarlord one they sold for Dr Who .
The Villains vehicles o ut the Scientists home
Bond and Felix arrive 
the good guys
the bad guys 
a few who didnt make this adventure
Blofeld and Nick Nack takfk to the prof and about their great pension plan 
Jaws 
Whoops that went wrong 
Ive been struck down with a really painful throat infection but managed to get my first game of Muskets and Tomahaks 2 in before I lost my voice and found my self struggling to do most things .I must admit I enjoyed playing the first version of M&T and was looking forward to v2 until i recieved it and found out the supplements , cards and tokens were really poor quality so put off playing until now. Well the game is excellent really enjoyed playing it and we were playing without too much consultation of the books after a couple of moves ,The game itself went back and forth and we were not sure who would win until the very last move , a very exciting and bloody adventure with the Brits stealing the game in the end .The random drawer of cards which can give you your opponents cards to play actually added alot of suspense and made it very tactical . Below are aseries of pics from the game , mat and table by Urbanmatz ,buildings mainly 4ground with the barn from warbases ,the pigsty was charlie foxtrot the treees fencing etc a mix of show bought and home made .The figures mainly Galloping Major with some AW and a few warlord /conquest) .
Santa brought me lots of amazing Presents but the wargaming stuff my good lady bought me are fantastic as usual ,no idea how she does it ,plus my kids bought me some military related goodies .
Every thing Pulp 
a couple of new books to pass the time with from my youngest son
My two youngest Daughters adopted me a Spitfire which includes a visit and a walkround of the SpitfireEven though due to work and ill health ive not been taking part every week ,Sheffield wargames society has been running on line zoom and Skype games since the first lockdown and has put on some fantastic games I managed to join in last night for a really fun game , Cluedo hostage rescue , a really enjoyable bit of fun played in under an hour with some great banter and as always good to see and talk to nice people .
Not setting myself apainting target for December i pulled out my old James Bond project rebased them and painted up the few remaining figures ,the rebasing was onto the clear perspex bases ,ive always been put off by the dreaad of having to pin and drill all the bases and figures plus the cost of the clear bases but found a cheap supplier (10pence per base ) and tried using super glue and activator which was asuccess so no pinning needed .Figures are a mix of crooked dice.nexus ,artizan and copplestone .
The best bit of any Bond movie should be the main villain lto r Blofeld (don pleasance ) Blofeld from the books Alex Trevalyn 006 and Hugo Drax
The unsung villains the boiler suited minions from a few of the films
and finally the Bond helpers Anya Amasova (BarbabraBach ) and Jack Lords version of Felix Just recieved my battle mat books from Loke and I am really impressed ,the books come in sets of 2 in a card slip case , they can be used as a single book or in multiples to make mats for role playing or wargames they lay side by side perfectly flat with all the images sey out so doors and stairs meet up to make a complete map .With the Kickstarter I recieved the little book of batle mats which depicts single rooms ,boats etc and a pack of town Trimmings which are reusable stickers to make the mats even more unique during your games ,I also ordered the first set of two books which were the Dungeon set .Really impressed with the quality ,diversity of the maps and the service from Loke will get loads of use out of these ,I put the only figures I had to hand on the mats so you can get aidea of scale they are28mm Crooked Dice spy fi figures .I will post more pics once `i get chance to use the books in aproper game .
