Last time at Salute Nick Dorrell and I brought the Poltava 1709 game and we had a blast on a 16 feet table and even came back home with an award (more about that here) – this year we will only bring a normal sized 6 feet table. However the loss of width we more …
Continue reading Salute 2023 – Sharing the Joy of Six, the 6mm Charity Project
As I reported in an earlier post the Little One and I wanted to get another Space shuttle for the Stargrave/5 Parsec Stuff (see the earlier post here) so we got the 1/55 scale Moon Bus from the 2001: a Space Odyssey Movie from 1969. It really has a nice retro feel to it. It …
Continue reading The 6mm Charity Project and Spawn of Speed’s Tour Bus – The Slaying Hawk – Part 1
Follow this link to take you to the Baccus 6mm homepage with a link for signing you up on the discord server so that you can attend the Joy of Six event! I will be presenting my Lund 1676 game at the Joy of Six through a Video that will be released shortly before the …
Continue reading Lund 1676 and the Charity Project at Virtual Joy of Six 2021 on 4th July
Following on from the last update (link here) when we had about 60% completion we are now well over 80% there, with 36 of the 44 entries sent in. The Denswe side is in the “lead” with 19 of the 22 units in total vs the Siarus Army at 17 of 22. However the Siarus …
The following draft document contains some background to the two armies that forms part of the 6mm Chartity Project that is currently in full Swing (you can read more about this project here). The Battles that will be eventually be fought will utilise the fine Twilight of the Sun King (ToSK) ruleset. The lists for …
Continue reading 6mm Charity Fun – an overview of the Two Armies (first draft)
A background to this project can be found here. And a number of painting guides has been produced, a good start is this one as it contains links to the other ones. Following on from last weeks update (link here) were we had about a 25% completion we are now well over 60% there, with 26 of the …
A background to this project can be found here. And a number of painting guides has been produced a good start is this one as it contains links to the other ones. So all the models has been sent out to the brave painters and I have had the pleasure of receiving 14 of the …
JUST A NOTE TO SAY THAT ALL SLOTS ARE NOW FILLED FOR THIS PROJECT – THANK YOU ALL WHO HAS VOLUNTEERED FOR THIS. MINIATURES WILL SENT TO YOU SHORTLY AND I WILL GET BACK TO YOU WITH FURTHER DETAILS. Let us build some small armies together.. This is a long post and in summary it …
Continue reading Community effort to jointly paint some 6mm armies for fun and charity!
A few days before Christmas I was invited to speak on Sean Clark’s podcast Gods Own Scale, where I covered some thoughts and reflections from the year that just passed (link below the picture, if you want to check it out). https://godsownscale6mm.podbean.com/e/episode-40-the-one-with-per-broden-again/ It is always great to catch-up with Sean and it is well worth …
I really love the old Copplestone Castings, currently sold by Forlorn Hope games, in the UK (link here). My Star Grave/ 5 parsec heroes Spawn of Speed are from the Rocker range (see more here and here), these are the rebellious heroes of the Space Sagas. The Little One and I talked about doing a …
Continue reading Revolution on Planet Pot – first thoughts on a Stargrave / 5 parsecs Campaign
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