It’s that New Year Resolutions time gain of looking back to what I thought I’d do in my hobby time in 2023, what really happened and what I might end up doing in 2024.
https://manoftinblogtwo.wordpress.com/2024/01/01/2024-new-year-gaming-ir-resolutions/
Crossposted from my Man Of TIN Blog Two, 1st / 2nd January 2024
My Woking Little Wars Revisited 54mm snow ball fight game.
That was 2023 … What hobby fun will 2024 bring?
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
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
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
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
The Lost Snow Patrol Defrosted – early Girl Scouts versus Mutant Snowmen c. 1909 / 1910
The frozen North, 1909/1910 somewhere in Britain or Europe.
The mystery of a missing Boy Scout patrol. A Girl Scout patrol caught in a snow blizzard up in the hill forests. Lashings of hot chocolate, quarter staff fighting, fire arrows and some carrots …
Cross posted by Mark Man Of TIN (not Man of Snow) from my Scouting Wide Games for the Tabletop blog https://tabletopscoutingwidegames.wordpress.com/2022/07/30/the-lost-snow-patrol-defrosted-early-girl-scouts-versus-mutant-snowmen/
Beyond quarter staff drill …
Boy Scouts Of America handbook first edition 1911
Crossposted from my Scouting Wide Games for the Tabletop blog
https://tabletopscoutingwidegames.wordpress.com/2022/07/23/further-uses-of-the-scout-staff/
Staff or Stave drill opens up some skirmish and melee possibilities for my Scouting figures with staffs, male and female:
https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2019/09/17/boy-scouts-camping-and-quarter-staves-again/
Up early, dodging the heat, working on another Girl Scout Of America patrol for my Scouting Wide Games for the Tabletop Project.
This charming Khaki Lass says “Be Prepared” – keep safe in the heat.
Postcard image painted by Philip Boileau, c. 1910s.
Crossposted from my Scouting Wide Games – read more about this card and painter here:
Blog posted by Mark Man Of TIN, 1970s British Boy Scout (Bronze Arrow, retired) on 17 July 2022.
The Lost Patrol Of Scouts?
Crossposted from my Scouting Wide Games for the Tabletop blog, some friendly or malevolent snowmen and how I made them from FIMO polymer clay:
https://tabletopscoutingwidegames.wordpress.com/2022/07/02/snow-patrol/
Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN, 2 July 2022
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