Clearing the Decks

It's been a bit quiet here over the last few days, as I've been working long hours and have had little time free for painting or wargaming. This weekend it's also the other half's birthday, so we'll be busy celebrating, but I'm hoping to crack on with the 1/2400th scale ACW project nonetheless. I've decided to concentrate on painting the river gunboats rather than completing the bridge terrain module, as the latter isn't essential and I still haven't worked out exactly how to go about it.

In the next month or so, I have some more contract work to do but after that it's a bit of an unknown, so I may well have a few days or even a week at home to make up lost time. I'm going to focus on the 1/2400th scale pre-dreadnoughts and late Victorian ironclads in the last part of the year, as I have started both of these projects and really want to get them to the point where I can play a scenario or two before the end of the year.

I've also bought two 1/2400th scale starter fleets for the Sino Japanese War from Tumbling Dice, to add to the mountain of pre-dreadnought lead that I already have under the workbench. I've had a long term interest in this conflict after taking part in a 1/3000th scale game of the Battle of the Yalu River many years ago at the club, in which I commanded the IJN Matsushima. I didn't achieve much, firing only one shot from the massive main gun and missing, but I really enjoyed the game so have thought about wargaming it myself for a long time.

So, look forward to more pre-dreadnought painting in the not too distant future, assuming I can clear the decks and get cracking, pushing my other air and land wargaming projects over into 2021.