Perils and Princesses: the Rat King of Fairyland.

 Saturday Evie, Connie, Nicole (Connie's mom) met for another game of Perils and Princesses. We had been asked to clear out the "Rat King" and some cursed bees. Bees are key to the Fairy village's economy so we tried to keep casualties to a minimum.  My character Beleg has an enchanting voice and can sometimes sing enemies to sleep so we used that to our advantage... unfortunately we had to kill the queen (hopefully they have a royal larva).

Eventually we made our way below the storage areas (and the hive that had taken it over) and made our way into the lair of the Rat King (it turns out that Rat Kings are real things check this out if you aren't eating anything) Beleg used his musical ability to inspire her troops.  

I also tried to get the Rat king to case me... but it went after the girls who managed to doge it's attack and after multiple attacks with spear, sword and staff we took it down.  This gave us one of the artifacts (the Rat King's tail, ewe)  we need to break the Candy Curse. 

Winter Painting

In the tradition of the Analog Hobbies painting challenge I present my winter painting.  I didn't participate in the challenge this year but I was painting 

Hartwell Tavern made by Things From the Basement.

Two Colonial house also made by Things From the Basement.

Two North Hampton Class Cruisers Printed from a Ghekek File 

Five Trible Class Destroyers 

Two Isa class battleships 

A pair of Hipper class Heavy Cruisers 

The French Magadore class Destroyers 

The French Light Cruiser Emile Bertin 

The French Heavy Cruiser Algerie 

The Heavy Cruisers Wichita 

Four USN Bagley Class Destroyers 

 and a set of ships for my nephews. 

Ship for Export

These are some Panzerschiffe miniatures that were a belated Christmas Gift to my nephews who have always been interested in my collection.  There are two Kangaro class destroyers and Mogami class cruiser for a Japanese task force.  To oppose them are two Fletcher class Destroyers and USS Helena and improved Brookline class cruiser.  
 

Ghukek's miniatures Bagley-class Destroyers

Some more ships Bagley  class Destroyers.  These will allow me to add some additional American Destroyers.  These are one of the last Prewar classes  so they are perfect for early war scenarios

They can also sub in of Gridley and Benham class destroys which were broadly similar.  All three are built for fleet action with 4 5"/38 guns and 16 torpedoes... American Torpedoes but still that's a lot of Fish. 
 

Ghekek's USS Wichita

 Thanks once more to Arofan's Shipyard (3d Printer) I have added the USS Wichita to my US fleet

The Wichita (which is really hard to spell) was a one off Cruiser and last US Heavy Cruiser of the treaty era and was consider a good balanced ship. 

From my untutored eye one of her significant improvements is the Aircraft facilities are in the rear not the middle of the ship.   I had to rebuild a crane from some wire after the resin one broke.