When Crossbolts and Catapults and Mordheim collide!

In a bid to beat the Salute, cold turkey, sweats I wanted to spend Saturday painting but the clouds rolled in and the light was kack for painting so my son and I had a particularly brutal game of Crossbows and Catapults instead!

I have a distinct memory of my poor Mum having to trawl every toy shop in Essex and East London to find me a set for Christmas when it first come out and I still have the bits stored away in my Mum's loft of hidden treasures!

The set we were using was a large set of the more modern re-boot that come out a few years ago and I found at a Bootsale last year for a song.

As the projectiles were flying across the room I kept drifting off, thinking about Salute. Then I picked a spare one of these up. . . . . .

Which comes apart into two pieces. . . . .

and they look about 28mm size!

I wonder . . . . . . ?

After the games (Which Troy won 5 - 3), I retired up stairs with the spare towers and broke out the coffee stirrers and bits.

A couple of hours later I ended up with this. . . . . .

"Open for business as usual"

The two smaller parts of the castle makes up the base.

"What an Estate Agent would call a 'fixer upper'!"

"Business, it's not what it used to be!"

I like my terrain to suggest a story, just like a good miniature, so I included some one squashed under a rock. Was he a victim of the devastation left to rot? Or a zombie victim of an ambush?

"Your Barred. You can't handle your grog!"

 I also included some kind of fountain at the back.

"You throw coins in the fountain, not piss in it! Where do you think this is Altdorf?"

Considering it is just the bits from the  C&C castle with coffee stirrers, cereal packets and bits from the bits box I am really pleased with how it turned out.

I also finished up the base for the card Tavern, included in the original Mordheim set, so should have that finished up for the next game.