Conrad Kinch

Things have been a little lively of late, but I did manage to do some hobbying this afternoon.

Twenty odd figures green-stuffed onto proper bases. I got some of them textured. 15 minute job. These are all for #stargrave.

#egandoctrine

Spot of #egandoctrine last night. Finished off another four snow covered hills. Hoping to do a Stalingrad scenario next week, so these will see some use there.

A second batch with some added stones, vegetation, etc are drying in the shed before they get their snow treatment.

Wrapped up in a good book (John French, British in India 1825-1859) by the fire while Mrs Kinch and the Kinchlets watch Strictly.

More Sikhs!

I can confirm that Sir Harry is well.

The kids were given dire warnings not to wake Dad as I haven’t had a lie in in a while.

11am - Sir Harry wakes me by poking my face and miaowing for food.

The hypocrisy of being given out to by a cat for sleeping late!

Pictured: Sir Harry Flashman VC (total hypocrite)

This remains one of my favourite photos of the Kinchlets and also a stark reminder of the dangers of reading your children the LadyBird Book of William Tell.

Watching El CID with the Kinchlets.

The LadyBaby is very taken with Sophia Loren.

Writing without alcohol.

It can be done. But at what cost?

My daughter has discovered that you can actually wear veils without needing a wedding dress.

She was very accusatory when asking me how long I’d known about this.

I suspect I may have a teenage Goth on my hands.

It appears that Young Cribb is part of a conspiracy to overload my bookshelves.

Pavia 1525 being a case in point. A critical battle of the Italian wars between the Hapsburgs and the French King, it involved trench warfare, armoured knights, Swiss mercenaries, Landerknechts and massed firearms.

What a mix of people.

I was best man for a pal earlier this year and received this as a very thoughtful gift. I need another period like I need a hole in the head, but there’s something fascinating about it.

I think this is revenge for when I got him a complete Gibbon after he’d read the abridged.

Reading with Bear today.

He was particularly taken with the picture of his namesake at Waterloo.

We also had a long conversation about Bonaparte and how someone who was undeniably great can also not be good.

#ladybird #books #history

Who knew change was bad!

/mums and dads, kids as young as eight and everyone in between.

It’s rugged, simple and very easily modified. A credit to the author Richard Borg whose games I’ve enjoyed ever since.

Looking forward to continuing our Normandy campaign Tom.

I regret nothing. I realised last week that Memoir 44 was first produced in 2004 and will soon be having its 20th anniversary.

I’ve played a lot of this game and almost always enjoyed it. It works very well multiplayer. I’ve played it with pensioners, young offenders, non gamers/

A few of my 1/72 scale Egyptians on patrol.

A mix of Hinton Hunt, Strelets and converted Italeri figures.

I would recommend Gemmell heavily. Alan Mallinson writes a very different sort of Napoleonic soldiering to Sharpe, but he’s excellent. Flashman is funny and brilliant. Harry Sidebottom writes rattling good Roman stories.

Second for Gemmell. The Jon Shannow books are excellent.

It went rather well all told. Twelve players got stuck in and got two games each. We played each battle once, then switched and got a few pints in afterwards.

Organised a games day on Saturday.

Game was Overlord Memoir 44 - a multiplayer variant of Richard Borg’s board game. I replaced the game price with 1/72 figures and increased the size of the hexes from 2 inches to 5 inches.

We played Sword Beach and Bastogne.

Spot of history with the Kinchlets last night.

What’s the best thing about it?

Well well well what do we have here?

#warhammer #oldhammer #heroquest #boardgames

Mrs Egan [looks up from magazine, sighs] : “He’s in the garden with heavy flamer again, isn’t he?”

Watson: [nods]

I’m reasonably sure my son still thinks this is something I just made up.

You do 15mm Second World War?

I want my dressing gown back!

Introduce yourself with three books that you love.

Kim - Rudyard Kipling
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Lewis

Hon Mentions
Puckoon - Spike Milligan
A Close Run Thing - Alan Mallinson
Cotton comes to Harlem - Chester Himes

I’m Conrad. I play and GM as many historical wargames as time will allow. I write a monthly column for Miniature Wargames magazine. I play Napoleonics, Second World War and Colonials (Sikh, Afghanistan, Zulu war, Sudan and Abyssinia) in 20mm.

I play also Playmobil games with the Kinchlets.