The Other Partisan

So this Sunday 20/8/17 I was with the club demonstrating Lion Rampant with a crusader game.

This is us setting up the table for the participation game of lion rampant

After a quick look at the table The Sapper decides to shoot off and grab some more terrain from other company.

Are table after The Sapper went and got some new bits.

Here is the lads demoing a game sadly the crusaders got it handed to them in all 3 games they played due to having a hard army to use.

What else was on at the show 

this one stands out for me as its a 40mm game

curse of dead mans hand by great escape games.

there was some beautiful stuff to see 

Wargames shows and tournments preperation to do and not to do

We all do it, get excited and happy to go to the next show and spend some money on some new "must have" army bits or get ready for the tournament next month.

Things I have well and truly learned the hard way.

Do make sure your army is ready and that you do not leave it in the house.
I have to turn back hath way in to a hour and hath drive.
I am guilty twice of this.

Don't super glue your phone to your hand,while repairing models the night before or for that matter of fact don't do this scenario again a month latter and glue your hand to your manhood.
 A&E couldn't keep a straight face for this one (lesson learned no superglue after 1am)

Do sort out a pack up lunch and drink.
You will find the local rat burger stand robs you about 7,50 a burger.... yeah had that one happen.

Make sure you got every thing you need for the show/tournament.

This organiser cost me £8 form BnQ, In there I have loads of D6, my bolt action dice some other dice scatter d3 to d20.

 Pin markers, some tokens, MDF objective makers and other bits oh and two tape mesers cos some one all ways needs one 

Am currently getting ready for a war games show in newer the other partisan.

were we will be demonstrating a crusdes game of lion rampent. 

The Demon and The mountain

One of the biggest issues I have as a wargamer is that I suffer With depression which I call my Demon just like Churchill called his his black dog.

So this gets me down when I have bad months which are due to start as my little version of depression is called seasonal affliction disorder (SAD) yeah I laughter at the acronym to one of the things that stopped me killing my self at the time as I was that low and I get that low every winter.

I am on anti-depressants the Americans call them Zoloft Sertraline over in the UK.

So how does this stop me with my war games stuff, well around this time of year I lose interested in my hobby's so I lose interested in painting in war gaming and take losses a lot harder then I should.
Now a days I know its the depression, so I throw it in my book, on pen and paper and I deal with it,ignore it or move on.

For the record dealing with it and moving on two different things for me.

So things that get me down are like; having a massive mount of unfinished models that I have no interest in finishing so for example my DAK which I got off a friend of mine a while ago, there are still on the shelf just needing touch ups so guns finishing and bits on the webbing. Its a two day paint job and the army will be finished paint wise and then all I have  to do is base it.

Also with this time is when I finish a project I still get an endorphin release when I finally finish a project, how ever its not potent as it would be say the middle of spring.

Today I have finished some tokens from warbases that are a deck of cards cos its easier then having playing cards on the table.

I started these in July

Its only now in august that they are finished.

Now maybe I am being to hard on myself about how long its taken me to do these and I do have decks of cards at home as well, but its just one of those things that I have realised gets me down and picks me up.

Mental health, what a balls ache but here we are talking about it I have some 28mm gangster to finish on my desk I have three models left to finish. and it wasn't till tonight that I realised that either. trouble with depression is you become very narrow sighted and once you open your eyes you start to help your self. 

So unfinished projects on the go I have a few, 

but my next one to finish is my 15mm undead, and then I am going to patch up my 10mm crusaders.