Tuesday, September 7, 2021

#TerrainTuesday: Repainting the Garrison Gazebo

Hello Friends:

Picking up the blog again after taking August off for some home projects, family visits, and a most enjoyable time with my son John who came out all the way from British Columbia on the West Coast to hang out with his dad.   I’ll have a report on What I Did On My Summer Holidays here shortly.

For now, to satisfy the entirely self-imposed demands of #TerrainTuesday, here’s a project that I dragooned my son into helping me with, the Mad Padre garrison garden gazebo that was sadly in need of cleaning, repainting and re-staining since it was built some twenty years ago.  Between the two of us we blasted it with a pressure washer, scraped and cleaned it, power-sanded it, painted and stained it, and generally refurbished it.  John was mostly cheerful about doing the work in the midst of late summer heatwave and was paid handsomely in beer.  The roof tiles show their age but the structure isn’t robust enough for the ladder work required.  Still, it looks rather good, I think, and the lovely Joy is grateful.

Since 1to1 terrain scale is a bit of a cheat, here’s a 6mm battlefield that I threw together just now to give Osprey’s Absolute Emperor fast-play big-battle Napoleonics rules another go before passing judgement.  Bit of a mix of stuff in this photo:  Paper Terrain roads, rubber river sections from Baccus, mostly Timecast bridges and buildings all on a Geek Villain grasslands mat.

Three Austrian corps will defend against a somewhat larger number of French who will have to cross the river and advance from bottom to top of the photo.

John and I have tried these rules a few times with smaller forces while he was here, so another go tonight solo and I’ll try to give my impressions on the rules on #NapoleonicsThursday.

Blessings to your tiny landscapes.

MP+

13 comments:

  1. That gazebo looks professionally done Mike, especially like the colour of stain chosen for the floorboards. Great job!

    Looking forward to that batrep on the new rules. Table looks typically lovely mate.

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    1. Thanks Dai. There's a little more work on it that I'd like to do - my son and I painted the inside roof panels a dark blue, and I have an idea of finding some luminiscent star and planet-themed stickers for the grandkids on sleepovers, but that may have to wait until next year.
      I hope to have some thoughts on the rules shortly.

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  2. Lovely looking gazebo. The small scale terrain looks aces too.

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  3. Great job on the gazebo refurb. I bet I could find some work for you too...

    Looking forward to your impressions/review of the rules.

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    1. Thanks Jonathan. I suspect the work you might find for me would include fixing that hole in you spare bedroom! Saw that on your blog, sorry that happened.

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  4. Lovely job on the gazebo refurb and look forward to your thoughts on the rules.

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    1. Cheers, Steve. Currently giving AE one more shot before I write a review.

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  5. Wow! A diamond restored!

    I'll keep my eye on Thursday.

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    1. Thanks Ross. If I could set up a table there, I could call it the Garrison Garden Gaming Gazebo!

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    2. Here's where 2mm figures are the answer!

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  6. Terrain in both scales looks excellent.

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