Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Prepping for Camerone Day +150...

A week from today -- on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 -- myself and a dozen or so fellow "Cameronistas" shall find ourselves engaged in an epic struggle, of 28m miniature proportions, refighting the greatest battle of la Legion Etrangere.  

However, I still have a few things on my Camerone Day "TO-DO" list:


(1)    base & terrain and paint the new bases for a bunch of very nice PALM TREES I bought a month or two ago;

(2)    build a short-end 2'x2' sq. terrain board so we will be able to fit the abandoned dam onto the layout in its historical position without the table being overly cramped;

(3)     repair 3 damaged corners on my pre-existing Maiwand Day terrain boards;

(4)    effect modest repairs to spots spread across the Maiwand Day boards which have sustained wear-&-tear damage over the past year-and-a-half or so;

(5)    build some overlays to put atop one or two of the nullahs on my Maiwand boards, so they can better play the part as flat ground-cover -- if I manage to pull this off in a decent-looking & useable fashion, it will come in very handy for future games requiring flat ground more than 4' x 6', which is the largest clear flat ground I can arrange using my terrain boards right now;

(6)    clean up and clean out my office-turned-"Camerone Day"-game-room so there's enough space for the dozen or so players I expect to put in a showing on April 30th;

(7)    ...exhale and try hard not to collapse while doing so!!!

Stay turned for some visual updates as and when I can manage them -- and please wish me LUCK, 'cause I'm definitely gonna' need it...


***Here's a first batch of pics.  I've managed to get the palm trees done, as well as a handful of other trees I had sitting around meant for Afghanistan, which will fit well in Mexico as well, plus I've gotten about a third of the way through the additional little terrain board:

















































































































Then the box with the T-shirts arrived...





Now back to the table...






Prepping the 2'x2' expansion board...