Växjö miniconvent

Väs-con

A weekend not long ago we had a little mini-convention at our club. We tried to show off some of the lesser played and obscured games at the club.  Its not all warhammer -40k –fantasy. 
We used this day as a small promotion day for lesser known games.
I used this day to show of my painted Napoleonic’s, some of my DBA collection and as a debuted for playtesting my Treemoss fantasy project (more on that later).

Erik held some demo games with my DBA armies.

Daniel showing his Trafalgar stuff and held a demo game.

Tobias showing his newly painted Americans in winter cammo ready to take on the Huns at Battle of the Bulge.

Dino showing some of his 28mm ww2 Americans, Russian Napoleonic’s and some 15mm Germans.

All pictures stolen/borrowed from Tobias as I forgot to bring along the memory card to my camera...

French artillery

With some new Napoleonic troops just arrived I thought that it would be best to at least finish of one halfpainted unit before I started on those.

The lot fell on these artillery pieces. 

The miniatures are Victrix plastic british artillery but I swapped the bodies for some spare French Victrix one. 

I think that they turned out great if you don’t look to closely on the arms as these are in British style. But I don’t think that it will be noticed on the battlefield anyway.

A small and easy conversion just as it should be.

And I already got a dedicated officer for them since before.

  More on him here.

New books

This summer I have read a lot of books and it was time to replenish the stash.
The lot fell on these two.

The Varangian Guards. I have always been a little interested by the Varangians. Originally Scandinavians taking a oath to the ruler of Miklagård (The Great City or the City of Michael, Constantinopel).

The plan was to get some more knowledge about them and to give me some inspiration and an excuse to introduce them as homecoming Viking warriors in my Tree moss fantasy project. Hopefully they could be a colorful addition to my collection. 

Central Africa by Chris Peers with a thought it can give me some more knowledge when it comes to different tribes of Africa or just inspiration in general to my TribalAfrica project.

I just love the feel of the book; it feels good to touch the book. Strange feeling but it is really something special with a real book. 

The book has some neat pictures and some photos of real tribes. By first impression I can strongly recommend it, by content we will see but it looks promising.