Welcome to 2021

Happy New Year to you all! This post is a bit of a mixed bag, a few bits and pieces completed over the last few days, and a few non wargaming pics too.

First up. the last two stands of my unit of Copplestone Bolshevik sailors

Next, its three images of the sailors HMG support group

I picked up these two pack mules from a hobby store just around the the corner from my workplace. They are by a company called Deep Cut I think and are very detailed resin models. The mounted figures are just there as a size comparisons

Regular readers may recall a few weeks back, I had some cattle for use in future Border Reivers games, acquired from Serious Play in the UK, and that Iain mentioned he had a set of 1/48 farm animals by Esci (I think) My friend Andrew then chimed in with a comment that he also had the Esci set. When we met up for the fantasy game earlier this week, I purchased the set from Andrew for a very modest sum - below are the contents - 4 bulls, 8 other cattle, and four each of pigs, sheep, goats. kids, piglets and farm dogs, plus roosters, chickens, turkeys and other birds - pigeons I think.

Here is the first batch of cattle, alongside some of the Serious Play ones and a couple of the Reivers to indicate scale - I think they work very well, and I now have a herd of around 20 cattle .

Thats it for wargaming progress this time. Following are a few Other World photos that may be of interest

My wife and I drove into Auckland on New Years Eve - above and below a couple of views of Auckland waterfront around 8pm

Below is the old Wesleyan mission house, from which the area gets its name - Mission Bay. The building is now a restaurant

Above and below - farewell to AD 2020 - sunset over our back garden around 9pm

And welcome AD 2021 - on Friday 1 Jan, we spent a night away from home at a nearby coastal resort called Castaways - here is the view from our little balcony shortly after arrival...

.... and a bit later on....

....  and a bit later still!

And lastly...home grown strawberries. The first image was taken on 7 November and was one of the first lots picked although definitely not the very first

And this last image was taken yesterday, 1 Jan - we had around the same volume of strawberries from our garden for almost two months - not bad going!

I hope everyone has had a good festive season and that 2021 is a far more palatable year than its predecessor was. I look forward to continuing to share this wonderful hobby with you all!