ONE WEEK UNTIL M-DAY+130...

I finished the last texturing of all 5 terrain boards tonight -- gluing down sand, dirt & pebbles over just about everything in sight. Last night my 13 year-old son made a huge difference, making it possible for us to completely cover one entire board, from the very first grain of sand 'til the very last, in only 2 hours. This morning my wife, my son and his 2 sisters all helped out before I left for work, then much later tonight, after they were all asleep, I finished up.

Next job: base-coating 4 boards in chocolate brown. I'm hoping that will go pretty fast.

Here's a few pics of the boards as they look now...

First is a pic of all the empty glue bottles I've gone through:

Next is a pic of the ROTATED boards, with the plain flat Northern board shifted to the South end of the table to make room for the walled gardens below the village of Khig. The plan is to shift the board towards the end of the battle, if the game follows the general plot of the original, with the British retreating across Mundabad ravine, then through the villages of Khig and Mundabad...

Above is the view from the North of the table laid out for the start of the battle...

...and below is the view of the same layout from the South: