FREE PRIZE DRAW - We have a Winner

Back in November I posted details of a Free Prize Draw that I was going to run to commemorate the 1,000,000 Dampf's Modelling Page Blog view - for details see this link.

My plan was to have a free prize draw with the names of all the Blog followers/commentators placed in a hat and a winner drawn. In the end, I asked my daughter Holly to choose a name at random. Holly chose Craig Andrews and when I asked he why, she said.

"Well he's obviously Welsh, a Wizard and Mad, what's not to like!"

I will be posting a prize to Craig in the next couple of days. Congratulations and I hope you like it.

Tony

Christmas Presents

In addition to new jeans, jumpers and a polo shirt, I received socks, underpants and three bottles of Port but the gaming/history items are listed below.....

The Templars by Michael Haag which looks like a very interesting book was off Sue.

A History of the World in six glasses was a gift from Holly and reading the introduction this looks like I will enjoy the premise - history separated in to seven ages - Beer, Wine, Spirits, Tea, Coffee and Coca Cola.

The Hot Glue gun and glue sticks was another gift off Holly.

The Lord Aquilor a gift from Gary, Beckie, Finley and Charlie.

Then the real prize - an illustrated book by Paul Kirby showing hundreds of both pencil sketches and full colour illustrations from Terry Pratchett's Discworld was a gift from Dave and Fee.

Thank you to everyone for the fantastic Christmas presents.

Tony

Merry Christmas

With just two sleeps until Christmas day, I think it's time to put the keyboard away and wish everyone a very Happy Christmas..

Tony and family

An Industrial Narrow Gauge Adventure - the layout part fourteen

The signage on the metal salt pan was inspired by The Lion Salt Works, Cheshire and OSO Salt, a small independent salt produces based in Droitwich Spa. I produced an A4 master on my computer and then extended the letters by drawing around a large diner plate to produce the curved lower edges. Once I had the design stencil I wanted, I cut out each of the individual letters and taped it to the black painted pan.

The OSO SALT was stippled onto the pan with a large stiff brush and then I repeated the steps to produce the Ltd.

Once the stippled paint was dry, I used a fine brush to touch-up the edges with slightly off-white acrylic paint..

Please note; the salt pan is not attached to the brick-built base. I still have to weather the rusted iron pan before I can glue it in place.

Tony

Scale Model World 2017 - part four

 Part four and with a couple of exception these are mainly WW2 aircraft with a few What-If's.

Tony

A Stroll in the Park - part two

Following on from yesterdays post; Orcs in the Webbe - A Stroll in the Park (see this link), I have included a couple of additional images of The scratch-built Signal Tower. The Tower was originally built following a request from Henry Hyde (editor of Miniature Wargames) but with Henry moving on, the article was never used.

The expanded article (with additional images) was re-written and is now included as one of the chapters in Dampfpanzerwagon Guide No. 3 - Models for Wargamers. For details of how to order a copy, please use this link.

The final image shows seven of the ten models featured in Models for Wargamers and once again should you wish to order a copy, please use this link.

Models for Wargamers is a limited edition and self published book and is available from me for £18.00 plus postage.

Tony

NB. Free prize draw see this post for details.

Orcs in the Webbe Advent 2017 - A Stroll in the Park

Image 'borrowed' from OITW

Day Thirteen and another short story/scenario written by me.

A Stroll in the Park was originally written for Ragnarok, the Journal of the Society of Fantasy and Science Fiction Wargaming or SFSFW back in 2012. With the demise of the magazine the article was never published. Craig of OITW has included it here as day thirteen of this years excellent Advent.

For full details of this story, see this link.

I hope you enjoy it.

Tony