RIDING TANDEM!

OK back again after a day off playing games :)

My daughter expressed an interest in the piece of Warhammer Scenery "Gardens of Morr".  I had a look at bits and pieces on the 'net and decided to buy it and have a go.

I like making my own buildings etc but I really like the detail on this product and it lends itself to modification possibilities by adding my own scratch built objects to it for a large Diorama.

I walked up to my local Games Workshop (just 10 minutes away) and was lucky to get the last one in the shop!  Buying it involved a process of refusing paints, glues, brushes etc as I already have a large stock of such items - even after gifting my daughter a few items .... but it has always been "hard sell" at GWs.

Surprised to find that they no longer do rule books etc for games such as "En Garde" that I used to play through the University Zines in the '80s.  Maybe the students today spend more time in the Nightclubs than playing such games (?).  A shame really as it would be much easier now to play such "play by mail" games via todays electronic means.

I digress.....

Walked back home and opened the box.  I was pleasently surprised to find it filled with 4 sprues and no padding!  Also surprised by the level of detail on the mouldings and lack of the many moulding marks I was used to in my old "Games Workshop" days

I am looking forward to painting this Piece and will do so in tandem (hence the title) with the House.  That will help prevent me getting "browned off" with doing just one thing.  I am the same with quite a few things.  For example I always have 3 or 4 books on the go at a time

Just a couple of Images:-

The Box

Just One of the Sprues

Stick to the task - not the glue!

SCALE - USUAL WARHAMMER CONFUSION

The scale of the building is 1/24.  That is 1/2 inch equalling 1 foot.  The dimensions are:-
Width       - 11 inches
Depth       - 10 inches
Height      - 11 inches (up to the eves)

The Warhammer figures are built to 28mm scale which is smaller than 1/24 but as the House is already part built I have to keep to that scale.

Luckily my daughter is doing undead figures such as Vampires and Skeletons to go with it and they are a good size.  The building would NOT work with the smaller figures such as gnomes.

Warhammers scale of 28mm is arbitrary and confusing as "28mm" could mean up to the eyes of the figure or to the top of any headwear - it is not explained.  It is also not explained which figures are the 28mm "norm" from which the others are scaled.  In consequence some of the figures do not even scale properly to each other or the commercial terrain and buildings.  Just take a look at some of the Gametables in Games Workshop to see the mismatches.

So, in future, I will just have to adjust scale depending on which figures are going to be occupying the diorama.

Right - Off to bed to read some of my latest Simon Scarrow book and relax before putting in a few hours on the model tomorrow.

Mind those sharps objects and dont sniff the glue!