Crossposted from my Man Of TIN Blog Two post
https://manoftinblogtwo.wordpress.com/2023/03/08/snow-ball-fight-at-the-woking-54mm-games-day/
Category: Demilitarised
Packing for Woking 54mm Games Day 2023
Packing my snowball teams of Lemax snowballer 54mm figures (including two mystery teams not made by Lemax) and Christmas village snow terrain ready for the Woking 54mm Games Day this Saturday March 4th 2023.
March 4th is also celebrated by some around the world as Toy Soldier Day … and Marching Band Day!
https://littlewarsrevisited.boards.net/thread/991/woking-54mm-games-saturday-march
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Simplified rules and variations to playtest at Woking:
https://manoftinblogtwo.wordpress.com/2023/02/24/woking-snowball-fight-rules-2023/
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I am looking forward to finally taking part in this unusual event – a 54mm toy soldier Games Day, organised by Mike Lewis.
Blog posted by Mark Man Of TIN, 1st March 2023
B.P.S. Blog Post Script
It’s only taken me three or more years to get to Woking, as you can see from my March 2020 post written on the edge of the Pandemic disruption:
https://tabletopscoutingwidegames.wordpress.com/2020/03/21/my-woking-centrepiece-2020-revealed/
New Gaming Year Ir-Resolutions for 2023?
What will 2023 bring on the tabletop?
Crossposted from my Man Of TIN Blog Two …
https://manoftinblogtwo.wordpress.com/2022/12/27/new-gaming-year-ir-resolutions-2023/
Craft for Crisis Christmas Houses
Crafting Christmas village houses on card whilst supporting a worthwhile charity?
https://manoftinblogtwo.wordpress.com/2022/12/04/crafting-with-crisis-at-christmas/
Crossposted from my Man Of TIN Blog Two, 4 December 2022
Lacrosse stick as a Ranged Weapon? St Trinian’s and Invasion Be Blowed! WW1 Boy Scouts
Crossposted (with apologies for any duplications) from my Man Of TIN Two blog,
being a selection of recent blog posts from my DMZ Demilitarised Scouting Wide Games for the Tabletop Project. https://sidetracked2017blog.wordpress.com
Man of TIN Blog one is now almost 100% full of its free GB amount after six years of photo-heavy blogging about gaming and toy soldiers. I will maintain Man Of TIN Blog one and crosspost as needed from its progression / extension site Man of TIN Blog Two.
Specific posts about Scouting Wide Games, Sidetracked (railway overlaps with gaming) etc. will continue to go out on their own niche WordPress blogs.
Blog links posted by Mark Man of TIN, 8/9 October 2022
St. Trinian’s, St. Trinian’s, our battle cry …
Work in Progress: The next Scouting Wide Games for the Tabletop patrol or group is a little different. They are the 1st St Trinians Girl Guides, no less.
The St Trinians Guides appear in at least one film to retrieve casualties on stretchers on First Aid duty during one of the famous hockey matches (or hockey massacres).
These girls are conversions from the Little Britons STS 42mm Range LBB30 Boy Scout figure, using PVA glue and tissue paper for skirt / pinafore dress and untidy hair, with a file and snips to roughen the hats up.
Dressed in a motley assortment of hats, guide uniform and school uniform from the 1930s and 40s, these gals eschew the traditional scout staff for the more effective duelling or melee weapon of the hockey stick. I found modelling a lacrosse stick a bit tricky; the odd croquet mallet might be possible instead.
More on St Trinians, the original Ronald Searle cartoons and their wartime origins, several YouTube film clips, including their school or battle song (with its astute military strategy) here at:
https://tabletopscoutingwidegames.wordpress.com/2022/09/09/st-trinians-st-trinians-will-never-die/
Crossposted from my Scouting Wide Games for the Tabletop blog.
Blog post by Mark Man Of TIN (1970s British Cub Scout, Bronze Arrow, retired) 11 September 2022
Haworth Will Fall: Stranger Things, Yarkshire Folklore and The Brontes
When Stranger Things meets The Brontes…
When Hawkins, Indiana meets Haworth, Yarkshire …
Crossposted from Man Of TIN Two blog:
Most. Bronte. Ever!
With thanks to the Bronte Babe Blog. (Cross)Posted by Mark Man Of TIN, 20 August 2022
RPG, Escape From Kraznir and Scouting Wide Games
A repost of a December 2019 “clearing the drafts” blogpost about Escape from Kraznir that I reread recently as I try to work out more RPG / narrative and fantasy elements into my Scouting Wide Games Project:
https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/23/man-of-tin-blogvent-calendar-day-23-kraznir-revisited/
August 2022 Update: New Post with the original Kraznir scenario and map which I have crudely denamed, the characters made gender neutral and differently classed or with more generic, updated character types to suit a wider range of periods:
https://tabletopscoutingwidegames.wordpress.com/2022/08/15/kraznir-denamed-and-rebooted-2022/
Blog posted by Mark Man Of TIN December 2019 / August 2022
Morse Code signals, monoplanes, spies and submarines – Canadian Girl Guides 1942 WW2
A remarkable story of Canadian Guides in WW2:
An interesting gaming scenario?
Crossposted from my Scouting Wide Games for the Tabletop blog, 12 /13 August 2022
Recent Boy Scout and Girl Scout uniform research for my Scouting Wide Games Project, quarterstaff fighting and Mutant Snowmen
Recent uniform research to create new patrols of Girl Scouts and Guides, Boy Scouts and other unformed groups for my Scouting Wide Games for the Tabletop Project – a summary of recent blog posts late July / August 2022, crossposted from my other blogs:
Solo gaming: Quarterstaff fighting and Mutant Snowmen …
Blogposted by Mark Man Of TIN, 1970s British Cub Scout (Bronze Arrow, retired) 7 August 2022
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