Ruckus! What is happening...

 

Above first pics with the new camera 

Never Mind the Ruckus has taken over my life! I go to sleep and wake up thinking about nothing else!

 My days are taken up with Ruckus! When I am not writing rules or scenarios or writing about the game, I am making terrain for photo shoots or painting figures, none of this is terrible, it’s all fun, if a bit all consuming, but it means I have neglected my blog… And it means I have not posted anything here in a good while.

So, what is happening? Why has it become so hectic? The rules are pretty much written after all.

Well, it’s because Wargames Illustrated have decided to support the release of the game next year with a whole load of goodies! Two dozen figures specific to Ruckus, objective markers, tokens…even terrain! What is more I get to say what they are and what they will look like! How brilliant is that? Meanwhile, I am getting to grips with my first ever proper camera and learning how to take proper photographs. The more I can do, the less WI have to do and the quicker the game will be ready for release.

I have built, painted, and based four buildings and about four meters of fencing. I have renovated my thirty-year-old hills and my many, many trees. I have been kit-bashing peasants and painting sheep and cattle and have made start on the Hundred Year War Retinues. I have had no time to actually play any games!

 Here are some pics

A peasant! He is a kit-bash of Victrix Dacian body, Frostgrave barbarian head and Fireforge arms!

 

More Peasants

Kitbashes, mostly Fireforge with various bits

Perry villagers

Every village has one...this one is called Ferg...with four R's

 

I have about three dozen of these now, these pics are all taken on my phone, before I got the camera.I must get a group photo of the whole village!

Gustav! Mercenary Captain with his Profane Device! An old Grenadier figure

Sir Walter Deveraux a Perry Plastics figure

Archer for my Free Company the Couer Rouge

He has a Frostgrave cultist head, I think, on a Medbury? body

Ragged Staff Miniature, available from Martin Brooks Etsy shop, Ragged-Staff-Miniatures, a lovely sculpt

Front Rank, Captain of Archers

Lord Callan from Giants in Miniature, here painted as Sir John de Barre

Sir Henry Holland Duke of Exeter, a real bad egg

And now ...with the camera

All the above are from one set up, mostly just cropping the same pic!

A pic to demonstrate the "blocked shot"

"Defending an obstacle" I am not particularly happy with either of these pics! Oh, the quality is good, I am not sure that they demonstrate just what I want to express though... back to the studio ahem...attic... I guess