After many months and a lot of glue, plaster, paint and foam, I finished my Shire diorama and entered it into Armies on Parade 2019. This was my third year participating and my goal was taking Best Scenic Board in the Specialist Games category. I did, so this makes it a hattrick. I also unintentionally won the “Best Themed Army” category but to be honest I’m not sure about that one – all the models I used were from a specifically themed Fellowship box set. Anyway with the votes from those two categories combined I ended up as overall #2. So, a good outcome. And I’m glad it’s done because by the end of the build I was pretty darn sick of hobbits.

Next year I’m considering something Bloodbowl themed. Possibly a stadium of some description. And I still can’t get this idea of using NFC chips in model bases to trigger something Raspberry Pi related…