BattleTech set (very poor)

I bought this Box set well over a year ago as I loved playing it as a kid. As I want to run the game at blog-con I broke out the figures and must say if this is the production values they put into the game now no wonder it seems very poorly supported now, I know they used to have big European competitions in the 90's while now I only see one of the blogs I follow playing it now and then.

The figures are a very poor plastic molded piece of rubbish, the detail is almost not there and where the figure has been produced in more than one part no care has been taken sticking the bits together and they seem to have used a paste brush to put on the glue.

If you think of them as just game pieces like chess pieces or drafts then they are ok but as wargames miniatures they are shockingly poor. Fortunately the game is still as great as I remember and I have dug out and finished some very fine metal Mechs I had in the loft. I will paint up the plastic ones as they will be find for one off games (which lets face it is all I will be doing with this game)

I am very busy painting at the moment and will have plenty to show you soon, I am also heading up to my Dads this weekend and meeting up Loki and Kev so we can play test the Bloggers for Charity game and nail down once and for all the rules we will use and the figures we need.
Peace James

New Bloggers make it easy for us old'ns

So I like may of you bloggers follow a fair few blogs and when you start out if the blog has no follower gadget or is from a different platform, you could simple follow it by adding the URL to your blogroll shown below.

As a total blog whore I now get this message when I try to add more to my blogroll

This cause's me great pain :) so on a effort to easy my pain I would love it if anyone new to blogging would add the followers gadget to their blog, you can hide it down at the bottom if you want but without this gadget I can not add you blog to my roll. With it I can carry on adding to my hearts content (401 and counting). It is a little more involved than it used to be but to help out here is a how to for you.
On your Layout page click on new gadget you will get the window below you then need to click on the more gadgets tab (I have highlighted it in a very understated way for you).

 

 

On the next window scroll down to the bottom of the page and you find the followers gadget.

 

 

All you have to do now is save the gadget in the next window and choose where on you blog to put it when that is complete you should have something that looks like the last picture.

If you have followed these steps then you can sit back and wait for all us blog whores to find your little part of the blogosphere, if you want to encourage followers go out and comment on blogs you like follow them and always list you blog under your comment.
Peace James

 

 

Plaid new style.

I have been busy painting a fair bit of plaid recently and have picked up a new way of doing it off a blog, the blog is a fantastic one about the Scots in the Civil war, check it out Project Auldearn 1645. So inspired I created the below plaid.
If you are wondering why I am only showing the back of the figures it is because these are part of a SAGA Irish force I am painting for Loki as part of a Community Trade.

I am very happy with the look of these and I will be sticking with this style from now on. I have also finished the base's on Johns F&IW French which will be packed up this weekend and sent home next week.