Doodling...

 Doodling - my word for doing odd little projects whilst listening to a podcast or maybe watching a sports event on TV.  They don't usually involving drawing something inconsequential, like this ... 

But rather finding something that looks vaguely as though it might be turned into something useful. Such as this piece of plastic surfaced board.

This 45cm x 38cm board was rather too quickly drawn up into hexes using my usual method, but the corner to corner distance going UP the board ought to have had maybe 5mm added.  Never mind: it does the job - a 77-cell board for small games. The paint's coverage being problematic on such a surface, I just drabbled it on.  Looks OK to me!

The figures, by the way, I would like someone to identify if someone can.  I'm told they are the old Minifigs 'S' Range Crimean War, or maybe recastings.  I would like to add a few to these to 'round off' the rather awkward numbers.  

And then there were these that follow:

These were built as light, rustic bridges, capable of carrying small vehicles up to light armour, say.  Being too short convincingly to span my wide river sections, over the last two or three evenings, I placed them on bases with blue cellophane river sections 'flowing' underneath. They seem to have come out well in these pictures. The top one features, without a base, in the recent Zugdidi battle.  

This last one (below) I made a couple of nights ago, starting with an corrugated cardboard piece that became the foundation for the central section. The construction was match stick - the type you buy without match heads for this type of project. It could just about stand for a military bridge, with or without the addition of pontoons.  

I think I'll label all future such side-projects under the label 'Doodles'...