Fenwick supply column .....

The Monrovia/Fenwick border war had seemed to pause with both sides taking no real action, pondering their next moves...

A Fenwick supply train for one of their forts near the border was en route ...

it had just been joined by a small cavalry escort, when Monrovian cavalry on a raid was seen heading towards them ....

 The Monrovian hussars attacked the escort and began to chase off the cattle herders ...

 while the hussars attack the herders, the cattle move away ....

 some hussars started to round up cattle; a couple of herders had managed to get a few cattle out of the way...

 meanwhile the rest of the Monrovian hussars supported by the dragoons deal with the supply train escort ....

 the hussars round up the cattle and start to drive them back towards the border ....

 with the supply train escort in full flight (some of the wagons spilling their loads in the rush) , the Monrovian hussars move the cattle on ....

A successful raid by the Monrovians .....

Begovian army - building up slowly ...

The 40mm Begovian (Ottoman style) army has been growing slowly, 2 units of infantry now finished to go with the artillery and a few singly based figures.

there are 3 more infantry units to do, then I'll get to work on command stands and the cavalry.

enough cobbling for now ....

printed out some of my cobble sheet paper and got on with sticking it to 4 cork floor tiles. there is some repeat and line areas but not too bad overall, looks odd when bare...

 but add in some buildings and then much better....

I will experiment with trying to remove the darker bands with some carefully applied lighter grey paint and also some light brown to vary the look of the cobbles.

carry on cobbling ....

obsessed with my cobblestone issues, I have been trying to make a A4 cobble 'paper sheet' to print out and stick onto my cork floor tiles.  After culling various images from the old I'net,  I had a bout 5 attempts to no avail (mostly to much repeating of patterns or edge effects when tessellating the image), attempt number 6 looks promising ...

perhaps a little dark, but the best so far - I shall tweak the grey-scale and do some further experiments.