Another Walk - and some SCW Progress

 Weds 28 Dec and another beautiful hot sunny day, so we headed about 2 hours SE of Auckland to a walk we half completed a few years back. At the time my wife was wearing strapping on one of her knees, and the knee played up a bit on the first part of the journey, so we turned back at the halfway point. Today, with no injuries, there was nothing to prevent us completing the walk successfully!

The sign says it all really - on our first attempt, we only made it to the Lower Lookout!

Some impressive bush....

.... boulders.......

.....and climbs, took us, in about 35 minutes, to the first lookout.

The very impressive Wairere Falls

A bit of a scramble on the first part of the second section of the walk

And more bloody stairs!

But the second lookout, at the top of the falls, was worth the effort

And back home midafternoon, for a well-deserved reward!

Now, some wargaming content. I have had it in mind for a few weeks now to create some 20mm buildings with a specific Spanish feel to them. Having followed the progress of Ray on his" Dont Throw a 1" blog, I decided to copy the designs of his mdf buildings from the "Empires of War" range, adapting the measurements to hopefully suit 20mm as opposed to 28mm.

Thanks to work throwing out large numbers of old ring binders recently, I have a fair store of thick card stock in hand for basing and building purposes!

Aerial view of building work so far

A Spanish style church

Roofless small house with 20mm figure for scale

Larger farmhouse

A partially completed three story town house.

More work has been done on these since the pics were taken, and hopefully I will have a small village worth of building ready in the next few days.