6mm ACW Buildings by Leven Miniatures from The Wargaming Company

I was browsing The Wargaming Company's website last weekend after reading something on TMP about them.  They have an extensive Napoleonic wargame scenario series that has painting guides and the whole works.  It's great eye candy but a little more than I need.

I looked through their other products and found these awesome ACW 6mm buildings.  They have a whole series of recognizable battlefield features from Shiloh Church to the Trostle Farm.  Their Naploenic range includes Plancenoit Church and all of the standard Waterloo buidlings.

This is the 6mm version of the McPherson Barn at Gettysburg with a stand of Adler 6mm rebs for scale.  These are beautiful and solid resin sculpts.  You can see every brick and board.  I can't wait to paint these. 

Just incredible.

Dunker Church

You can find these at :
The Wargaming Company

Brew Day

The holiday weekend was a great time to get in a all grain brew in a bag batch of beer.  I'm trying a clone batch of Fuller's ESB.  Also trying a one gallon small batch for the first time.  Everything seemed to go well.  We'll see in a bit if I was successful.  This process was so easy and low maintenance I love it.  I'm looking forward to seeing the results of this batch and planning another.

I'll add more details of the recipe later.

It was a little difficult getting the small quantities of hops measured correctly. I will have to explore some other ideas on this before next time.

The bag was really easy to work with.  None of my fears were realized about it burning on the bottom of the brew kettle or being too hot or difficult to move.  It was really slick to use. 

The boil...

Cooling the old fashioned way.

The final product.

Russian armor next on the paint bench

Skipping ahead to WW2.  I'm priming a whole batch of Heroics and Ros micro armor I got on clearance at The Last Square.  I hope to get this done pretty quickly and in the process decide what 3mm Pico project to start next.  

The Russians Are Here ....

Fresh off the pain desk.  I'll add some shots with terrain later.  These had a weird glow.

Infantry with command all formed up. 

Artillery present

Heavy cavalry Division.  Dragoons in the front, Cuirassiers in the rear.

Light cavalry.  Cossacks on the right.  

Army and Brigade commanders.