Late May was a little out of sorts here. First I was blitzed by the annual spring allergy peak. I was down for a couple of days followed by several more at 1/2 speed. Back to almost normal now and getting caught up. This past holiday weekend was split between the shop and the barn. Saturday and Sunday saw many orders achieving completion/shipping status. As a bonus I was finally able to find the workbench! Projects kinda piled up during the last half of May and well, I wasn’t too sure I still had a workbench. Once I got the bench cleared off I was able to catch up on soldering projects. I had a few dozen figures to assemble: 40mm ACW Cavalry (those were for my 40mm ACW Union army) and some miscellaneous 54mm infantry for various orders. Monday was barn work day. First cutting of hay is in and we needed to get the bales stacked in the barn. As it turned out the task went quickly. Liam was unloading the hay wagon, Alison was putting bales up on the deck and I was stacking the bales. We were able to knock out the task in a little over an hour. After we were done with the hay, it was back to the shop for some more casting. Horses in various scales were the order of the day…
I was really hoping to have time to get caught up on photographs last weekend, but Alison was away on Saturday and Sunday and had the camera and by the time I was done with the barn and shop work on Monday there wasn’t much time left for photos. I did however, manage to fit in 10 minutes for some quick workbench (good thing I found the workbench) shots of recently molded 54mm ACW figures.
TT-83 Union Infantry Marching
TT-386 Union Artillery Crew
The next two figures along with the Confederate Artillery crew will be the next 54mm figures to receive new molds.
TT-81 and TT-82 Confederate and Union Infantry At Attention
The next 15mm project on the table is to finish molding the First Italo–Ethiopian War range. This project is getting a little more attention now that I’ve been reading up on the topic. I’m shooting to have this project caught up by the end of June. The other project at the top of my work list is to finish molding the new N-gauge tricorne era figures. I have enough of these to keep me busy for quite a while. The goal is to release a batch at least once a month (I’d like to release a batch every couple of weeks, but we shall see how quickly things progress).
Don’t forget to check out the June Specials, and be sure to check in again for more news (and hopefully more pictures).