Ruins, Stairs, Peasants and Peasants Standing On Ruins and Stairs

 This week, I headed to the UK Games Expo in Birmingham. Here is a picture of me, soaking up the ambiance and laughing madly at... something. I'm not usually this gormless.

It wasn't the sort of event where you'd go to buy an Ultramarines army (not that I want one), but it did have a lot of small stalls where you could find interesting things. I picked up some bits of terrain.

At one stand, I bought a cheap 3D printed ruined arch from a chap who seemed to be making them in his garage. It's layer-printed, so a little bit crude, but the design is decent. I added a platform to the top, where a model could stand, and stabilised it with one of the many, many barrels that I was bought a while ago (thanks Ruth). 

I also bought some stone and wooden steps made by Dungeons and Lasers. They came on a sprue in a boxed set: Dungeons and Lasers' stuff seems pretty good quality and quite cheap. They're not terribly exciting, but here they are:

Perfectly reasonable stuff, I think, although I slightly prefer the stone ones to the wooden ones. All in all, a pretty good haul. Nothing exceptional, but they're all nice bits of terrain.

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I've also been painting some more of the wretched citizens of Borovia (at least, this is what I imagine them to be). They're West Wind models and are quite simple and cartoony, and they have a vaguely Napoleonic, Eastern European feel. I painted them all fairly quickly, and while they're not my best work, they aren't really the sort of models that I can do anything fancy with (at least, not at my level of skill).

This bloke likes his pies. He has a small musket strapped to his back.

This guy is some kind of half-feral peasant trapper, who probably eats squirrels.

And this bloke is a slightly Cossack-looking swordsman. He's quite small, and I originally intended for him to be a young man. I now think that he's a seasoned duellist. I couldn't tell if that thing on his head was a hat or some kind of beehive hairdo, but I painted it as a hat.

And now, here's the terrain in action!