A Saturday Afternoon at Southern Front 2018.

   This is a posting showcasing the recent convention of Southern Front held in Raleigh, NC. It was the first one that Kalissa and I have gone to despite being asked about it or invited to it. After all, it makes sense for us to go to this show, since is a hour and a half from us! However interruptions seems to be the main problem during when it is held. Most of the Southern Fronts have been held in September. The first five were hi-jacked by school volunteer functions. I tend to do various volunteer work with my wife's school. Other times have been interrupted by hurricanes. Hurricane Matthew did a number to the state of North Carolina with lots of flooding. The same reason could apply to the year after that, but it was more of a hurricane rescheduling my father's funeral. This year's Southern Front almost did not happen with the coming of Hurricane Florence. It turns out that we were able to go only because one of the main roads to get to the show opened up the day before.
    It has been a long time coming, but we finally got to visit this convention. It is not a very large convention. In fact, it is tiny. I think there was a total of 16 official PEL games and around 150 people. There might have been more, but we only attended for the afternoon. For a small convention, I can see why it is liked. It is an intimate affair with this convention. It was more of a gathering of old friends. In some ways, it felt like a rather large tournament  with some nice looking games. I did not play anything, but Kalissa was sucked into a board game. However, we both agree that it was a nice little convention where we could meet up with some gaming friends we do not see as often. Below are just some of the Saturday games. We were there from 11am to 6pm. Still I wished I got into the bloody Medieval game. Anyway, enjoy!

Chain of Command: Battle of Tarawa 1944.

A rather large Zombicide game.

This table was a modified Muskets and Tomahawks game that took place during the Austrian occupation of Bosnia.

This was a rather large castle siege game.

This was a 3-D Submarine game.

Battle of Gains Mill in ACW 40mm 

Hurricane Florence Project: Battlegroup 15mm Board.

      There was a point where I was waiting on some questions to be answered for a few commission projects that I had some time on my hands. Mainly, I had a few hours. It was about 12 hours before Hurricane Florence was going to make landfall in North Carolina planning on running over our house. There was a discussion between my wife, Kalissa and I whether we where okay with being homeless and jobless by the weekend, since the hurricane was not down graded from a Category 4. Needless to say, it was going to be down graded to a Category 1 storm, which would mean a possibly without power. Lucky, we only lost power for a day.
     So I had some spare fur left over from another project. I could have saved it for another commission, but I tend to order more and more fur as life goes on. Besides, I have to admit that I have been slacking on fixing up my 15mm terrain. Sure, I have a few terrain boards and stuff from Battlefront, but I am still using terrain I made eight years ago before I have upped my game. There needs to be some improvement. Plus, I have some Battlegroup books we have not really used. With all of the Flames of War armies Kalissa and I have, it only seems natural to make a board for this. These pictures are just a board upgrade. I plan on remodelling trees, woods, and hedgerows in the future to match up. Either way, it is a start!