CANCON 2023

 LARD DOWN UNDER 

I know its been a while since the event but I finally managed to put together some images of  the first LARD ZONE in Australia, at  CANCON 2023, organised by Peter Rossetti. 

Big thanks to Peter for organising the event and all the hosts of the games and especially for the guest visit from Richard Clarke,  all the way from Pommy land.  

Finally meet  Richard in person after years of conversing with him over the internet. 

10mm WHAT A TANKER, I hosted this game for the first 2 morning events and all the players enjoyed the game.

In the afternoon session I hosted the "Brecourt Manor table" using 28mm figures, here Kyle and his Dad  played 2 rounds  swapping sides so that each experienced both the US paras and Germans .

Here is the Jungle table (The battle of Wau) I put together for Len Tracey, just before the players were gathering to play the game, unfortunately I was not able to take any photos of the players gaming as I was hosting the What a tanker game.

However I did mange to take a couple of snap shots of the other gaming table, I made for Len, the battle of Taierzhuang between the Japanese and Chinese.

Big Chain of Command hosted by Steve McGuigan, again the gaming table terrain was supplied by me. 

Third days 2 x Big 'What a Tanker" games with 28mm vehicles, again hosted by Steve McGuigan

Mark Bretherton hosting his Sharp Practice game 

Ben Fiene hosting "bag the Hun"

Peter Rossetti  hosting his Chain of Command Cold War game.

Frank with his team hosting What a Cowboy.

Last minute "fill in" host Chris Hersey for O Group.

Andrew Champion and his team hosting  Battle of Bishenpur (Imphal 1944).

Charlie Egham and Andrew Bishop hosting "Strength and Honor"

Jon- Paul Adam and his team hosting "Chain of Command , Black Powder. 

Richard Clarke and Jason Dickie hosting "Infamy Infamy"

The afternoon, of the third day, trying to pack  my car with 6 tables worth of terrain.

Cheers John 

INFAMY INFAMY FORCE MORALE TRACKER

Happy new year all, I have been in holiday mode for the past couple of months and needed something to get me back on track with my wargaming hobby so I decided to make a Force Moral Tracker for Infamy Infamy.

On  the last day of the Lard Down Under event at Cancon,  Australia, I managed  to sit on and observed a couple of  Infamy Infamy games with Jason Dickie and Richard Clarke as overseers.

I was impressed  and brought the rules, I will be getting into this set of rules in the future once I finish the current projects that are on the go.

Rule book with my two Force Morale Trackers

Force Morale Tracker with the details for modifying the die roll and setting the Force Morale.

I painted a Roman and Barbarian on 16mm blank white dice which will be the indicators on the Tracker

I used 3mm MDF and started cutting out the square inserts for the dice using a handpiece motor equipped with a cut off disc and cut just short of the inner edges.

I deepen the cut with box cutters.

Flipped the MDF over and cut out the square piece of MDF.

Image shows the portion remove but is still a bit rough.

Using a file I even  out sides and checked the fit with a dice.

Finished off cutting out the square inserts for the dice and trimmed the exterior of the Tracker to reduce its overall size.

 I used a biscuit tin lid for the base, used a pencil to outline the tracer  on the tin lid.

Scissor to cut out the shape.

Also nipped off the sharp points on the corner with the scissors. 

Roughened the surface with sandpaper for better paint adhesion.

Primed with black paint 

Initially I was going to leave it grey but changed my mind.

I decided to try and duplicate the overall colours scheme on the rule book using blue, white, light grey and black.

Happy with the colour of the base, I start to paint on the detail again using the rule book for inspiration.

I left the base of the tracker grey and painted the numerals.
I coated the all the surfaces with 2 coats of gloss varnish and finished it with a coat of dull coat spray.

I used liquid nails adhesive to stick the parts of the tracker together.

Close up of the Roman solider I painted and vanished with gloss.

Close up view of the Barbarian.

Completed tracker with the Roman indicator dice.

I also attached mini earth magnets on the base of the dice so that they would adhere to the metal base on the tracker insuring  a good bond, even if the Tracker was bumped.

Cheers John