Dux Bellorum 7 Irish skirmishing slingers and some additions to the board

Here are 16 slingers for my Irish army for Dux Bellorum.  Four units of four, I need to come up with a sabot base for them that is 120mm wide but I think that might get delayed, anyway they're done now,six unknown metal figures from the big dark age Ebay splurge (all used up by Dux Bellorum bar one!) and ten plastic Hat  figures which are nominaly 28mm but are very slight and the detail is pretty soft,however I'm happy enough using them here and have some more that will be skirmishers in some other Dux Bellorum armies while some might be press ganged into a shieldwall!They do have the benefit of being really cheap, which I like!

Not much to say, various earth colours and they won't last long on the table in this game system, skirmishers in Dux Bellorum are particularly weak which some have called into question, Dan Mersey does say that this is deliberate as in this particular period and area skirmishers were the weak, young and old, so he didn't want them to be used as a skirmish screen, just hang around the edge and kick the enemy when it was down, survival being a  really good achievement!
In other news I've been working on gaming boards in my shed  and not really painting figures.

I now  have 2 6' x 4' boards, which I decided I didn't like just being green,although I did base out the new board in the same green masonry paint that I based the first one with. I wanted an arid finish, more like the basing on my Italian wars figures and actually quite a lot like the meads currently look,which is a bit of common ground near me where the New Model Army used to camp, so good for ECW too!
I went over both boards with the paint I use on my figure bases in a squigly pattern, then I  mixed up a wash and  stuck on some blended turf, I usually use woodland scenic but I added some Jarvis stuff that I had knocking around, I figure it's close enough for a base board, I've got to touch up the grid on the original board and add one to the new one.
What I also did was build 4 new trestles which now are a little higher to match my workbench which means my boards can but up against the bench and I  can incorporate it as a further 2' wide playing area,  it's also a better height for my aging back.
 In the picture is an old flush door ( painted grey) that I have kept to use as a workbench in the garden, which if used on top of my original trestles gives me a further 6' x  2' of space and happen to be the right height!
I can cover the bench or the other board with an OD blanket that my dad brought back from the Normandy beaches in 1944 and now lives in my shed,which I'm sure I've mentioned before.
I could do with getting another bit of material, although that would mean I would have           6' x  12' of playing area, I guess I'd better get back to painting figures to fill it up!
Oh and there is a  small Italian wars French force trying out the board, I think it works alright as arid land?

All the best Iain