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Orders for Move Two. . . - *Here is another sketch map by General de Latte, indicating new troops positions.* General von Tschatschke and General de Latte have just written and dis...
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My Daughter's Idea.... - ....she is very literate and clever about it. Part One...... More ......... I "helped" her write this. Part II to come....
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Year end - It's that time of year again! Actually, it was that time of year about a month and a half ago, but I've just been too busy to get this done! Anyway, it's...1 hour ago
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BUF Auxiliaries on there Way - Yes I have started my Black and Tans or rather BUF Auxiliaries. I decided that they should have a similar uniform to the Auxiliary Police Units as seen in ...
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Koprivina - August 1991 - Another go at Force on Force was had last week, and with totally different results, rather more one sided. The scenario and forces were exactly the same as...
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February Blues.... - Work is currently pretty dire at the moment and as a result funds are low..... no, let's say funds are 'none-existent' Hence things have come to a bit of ...1 hour ago
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Team America 40k: Change of Leadership - Hello Everyone, Ben Mohlie a.k.a. Spacecurves here. Today I am announcing that I am stepping down as the Captain of Team America 40k, and appointing Greg ...
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Boardgame night was...uh.. thumbs up.. - My friend Jim and W.K and myself sat down to play a couple of boardgames and the experience was thumbs up, in more ways than one. Jim's thumb was suffering...
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Realms of Chaos: Er...mish-mash? - Sometimes, when left lone for long enough, I commit my mind to feats of brilliance. We've had no progress in the Battle of Koles Lorr (and alas, no update ...
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VBCW Game in Herefordshire - Yesterday I went to a 1938: Very British Civil War (VBCW) Big Game in Herefordshire, where we staged the Battle of Ledbury. The battle involved a coalition...
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More Big Game Buildings - Just completed - a couple of apartment buildings for Venlo: They're mostly cardboard and balsa. The front door and steps on the grey-green building are b...
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Santa Cruz Warhammer is moving to Facebook...or not? - Lately I have been contemplating moving Santa Cruz Warhammer to our Facebook page permanently. I have been struggling to keep meaningful content flowing an...2 hours ago
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My Favourite Figures: #4, #3, #2 & #1 - I know, you've been beside yourself waiting for the remainder of the countdown to conclude my two posts from January, here are the top four figures in my ...
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I Can Ride a Bike with No Handle Bars... - Welcome to the segment here on Spikey Bits, where I go over some rules clarifications and "gotchas" for 5th Edition. I realize that there may only be less ...
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Abraham Lincoln, President and Vampire Slayer - You've undoubtedly heard about it. You might have already seen this, if not, now's the time. I think this is going to have all sorts of inspiration for tab...
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Burma Tanks - The QRF M3 Lee tanks turned up in the post over the holiday and very nice they are too. I like the QRF models even though you need to be a little careful...
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So, what next? - As of this morning, I finished the last of the Myrmidons. Now sadly, because the Analogue challenge is still on, you are just going to have to wait until t...
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After the troops. - I have now finished gloss varnishing the troops for the first platoon. All they need is decals and a matt varnish and they will be finished but until I get...
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Jumping with the Poles II [Hypothetical] - *First Contact:* The German Recon Battalion is forming a protective bubble down the road from the Town/Depot. The Germans are up against it as they are bei...
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One Man’s Lead Mountain… - …is another man’s, er, lead mountain. Tony has just put upan interesting and thought provoking post over at Prometheus in Aspic on thetopic of excess lead...
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Italeri Autoblinda AB40 1/72. - Hello all, I have a fetish for all things WW2 Italian, I don't know why but I do. I like Italeri kits and this was good fun to build. Having separate tyre...
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Breaking Into The Comic Book Industry With Brandon Montclare & Grace Randolph - *Want to get into comic book writing? Host Grace Randolph is joined by ex-DC Comics/Vertigo Editor turned freelance writer Brandon Montclare as they disc...
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Update need - I seriously need to update. Half term would of been ideal but I left my camera at work! I update this week. On the work bench 28mm Spartans and Romans. ...3 hours ago
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Book Review#9. - The Lost City of Z - Ignorance, they say, is bliss until of course you have that cold dawning that you're the one that is being ignorant, at which point it's just plain embar...
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Wargaming Bugbears #7 : eBay - Now let me be clear. Ebay is generally fantastic and a wonderous place to pick up a bargain you would never normally come across (as my enormous Russian, ...4 hours ago
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Do trzech razy sztuka / A three-act play - Trójka to magiczna i zarazem mistyczna liczba. Dziś wziąłem udział w *trzecim* Warszawskim Turnieju Ogniem i Mieczem. Po raz kolejny graliśmy *trzy* scena...
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Salute Terrain Build up - Ainsty Downbelow 15mm Terrain Originally uploaded by inrepose Lots of work underway for the April Salute game. I might even be ready before the event. A...4 hours ago
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G is for God Save The Queen - For a number of reasons the three articles I lined-up for Friday still haven't been uploaded, but I aught to put something out so here's a tenuous link to ...
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Customer picture "Planen" for the SdKfz 251 - Hello, here some picture from Bede - New Zealand. On the picture you can see 3 planen from the set. The SdKfz looks excellent. Thanks to Bede Heer46
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Darwin, 1942: Remembering Australia's 'Pearl Harbor' - It's 70 years since Japanese bombers swooped on Darwin, in northern Australia, sinking Allied ships in the harbour and killing hundreds of people. For year...4 hours ago
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Jim Duncan's Navy - Before I left for central London this morning, I received the following email and photographs from Jim Duncan. He has very kindly allowed me to publish the...
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Purge Additions + Steel Brethren - So it has been quite a long time since my last post, but I have made up for it with quantity and quality. I've added a few units to the Purge, An entire un...
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Wybrane z tygodnia 41 - Dawno nie było w tej rubryczce czegoś naprawdę walącego po oczach. Skoro tak, to proponuję zajrzeć tutaj. Skala - 15 mm, rozmaite okresy historyczne, dzies...
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Why so quiet on the Central Front? - The answer... a cabin in the woods. I admit that I've neglected my blog for a couple of months and I apologize to all those who have asked questions or...
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Traders updated - The full list of 139 traders has been updated, and they now have their stall numbers. There is also a PDF version available for you to download...5 hours ago
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Unter Canadiensern, Irokesen und Rebellen: Das Tagebuch des Hessen-Hanauer Jägers Philipp Jakob Hildebrandt aus den Jahren 1777-1781 - Thomsomfeld has told me about this diary of a Hesse-Hanau Jaeger that was found.Here and here5 hours ago
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New Plinth - I just added a new plinth for sale. It’s pretty large with a diameter of 95mm to display dioramas or large historical figures. I’ve got a few more of thes...
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Sgt. Bale Extreme (3) - Recently Varagon of the Pulp City Forum has organised a 'mini exchange', whereby participants all paint a mini for another participant. I drew Beermonkey ...
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British Army and Society - The first British Army camp in the Crimea. The British Army existed on the fringes of British society, especially early in the period 1815–1914. Although ...
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ROJAS Y MALARET: LITTLE BIG HORN - Ya hemos hablado aquí del extraordinario intento realizado por la casa Rojas y Malaret de introducir un Wargame con figuras que fuera sencillo y bonito...
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old timber frame cottage part 1 - progress on the lasercut cottage kit... it hasn't actually taken me 10 days to get to this stage, I'm just a very occassional worker at the moment... balsa...
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Episode 5: Death of a Tyrant, Part 3 - This did not go at all as I expected. No change there, then. I had expected that the group would deduce where the Big Bad was in fairly short order, and th...6 hours ago
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Springfield, IL holla!!! - This is for any one who ever needed the proof and wouldn't believe me or DARED doubt, (yes I'm looking at you Booby,) that Abraham Lincoln was the greate...
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Stalingrad Part VIII & IX: The End is Nigh... - After along spell since December in our Stalingrad campaign due to the Christmas Holidays and other personal obligations, over the past two weeks we have...
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Burial Party - This is a vignette that should have some generic usage, a post-battle burial of casualties. Those who died in medieval battles who were of non-noble st...
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Looking For Some Bases - Citadel 'Urban' and 'Hero' - I am looking to buy one of each (more, if the price is right ;) ) of the original 'Urban' resin bases, which were in these 'limited edition' kits (addendum:...
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All the 15mm Modern buildings assembled! - Here they are, all done! Still a lot of work to do:)
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And this has WHAT to do with milk? - View Poll: Given the choice If you were wondering, the ad that inspired this is here http://youtu.be/ggGvYd9-OCU6 hours ago
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Pandemic - Last night, we took a break from the *Red Tide Labyrinth Lord *campaign to play the cooperative boardgame *Pandemic*. This was one of my Christmas gifts f...
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Sunday Starships: More Avarians - Before I got sick, I painted some more Avarian spaceships--a septet of starbombers and a pair of stellar cruisers for *Starfleet Wars *and/or *Galactic Kn...
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Messing Around With Videos - Been playing around at making videos - this is my first attempt - am reliably told Peter Jackson did NOT start out like this ! (click to activate ) No s...7 hours ago
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Starfleet Wars: Terran Ships, Part 2 - This post covers the larger ships and fighters of the Terran Starfleet. Once again these ships were painted by my long time friend, Paul. Originally produc...
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Helicopter - I got a 60mm helicopter from MPC off eBay recently. It's probably 60 years old. All the bits are here too. I laid out the bits and trimmed off the flash. It...
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Foundry Viking Characters (on Ebay this week) - Another clearout of my excessive Vikings. Appearing on eBay this week.
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A weekend of travels. - This week has seen a lot of work on the Grymn new model army and you can see the results HERE. Just to whet your appetite, the link shows a painted platoon...7 hours ago
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Throwdown Progress - Old, printer-killing design The fist change I've made to Throwdown is toning down the cards so they will be less stressful to the home printer. I liked ho...
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This year's first batch of desert stuff - Something of a mixture, I bought a bag of Airfix Matador bits at the Recon show, It contained one complete matador plus bits for most of another, a 5.5" gu...
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LOAD "" SCREEN$ - For no reason other than "because I can", classic Britgaming Art done on the ZX Spectrum. R TAPE LOADING ERROR, 0:1
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Big Qids - I've taken the week-end off from finalising the Incentive Game pack and done some more work on the show participation game. There's a number of reasons for...
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Project Maiwand - Day One - There was thirty dead an' wounded on the ground we wouldn't keep - No, there wasn't more than twenty when the front began to go; But, Christ! along the lin...
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Rebasing a gogogo - Hello again! Well, I managed to get the static grass onto the Saxon horde so here are a couple of shots: ...and to finish for today here are some fairly g...
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Italian Army Elite Units 1940-43 - [image: Italian Army Elite Units and Special Forces 1940-43] The Italian Army of WW2 gets a generally bad press. This is largely based on the early war pe...
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Arnhem Update: Some Buildings - This is just a quick update on Arnhem! I was lucky enough (annoying enough?) to convince our buddy Eric Lauterbach of the i95 gaming group to make me some ...
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Saga : décompte avant la pause... - Comme, à partir de demain, je ne peindrais plus avant 15 jours, voilà un petit décompte pour Saga. *1- Les Vikings : total de 4 points.* - Chef et 8 Gardes...
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Here Come the British Grenadiers! - Fife & Drum converged battalion of British Grenadiers. Here are a couple of quick pictures that I took of my first Fife & Drum British grenadier battalion...
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Joe Morschauser, Wargames Pioneer - Wargames purchases are going to be rare for me in the foreseeable future - money is tight and the hobby is on the back burner. However, I did have a book t...
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Mahdist War: Naval Brigade - And now some of the Naval Brigade: Once again these are 28mm Perry Miniatures.
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USMC Infantry and Artillery - It seemed reasonable to follow up the post on my 'Desert Storm' USMC tank battalion with some photos of the other elements of the brigade. All models in t...
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HAWKs Have Club Cold Wars Playtest Day - Yesterday, the HAWKs had a club games day to help those members running games at the upcoming HMGS East Cold Wars convention have an opportunity to playtes...
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The Higher Ground Revisted. - I'm starting to warm to Steve Eardley's column in Miniature Wargames, I dont know whether he does it intentionally or not,but he certainly gets you thinkin...
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French Knights with assault ladders (Miniart) - All in all, not a bad set..it has it´s faults and they can be read about at PSR I haven´t painted all the bods in the set, only the brave (or slightly insa...
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Copplestone Castings HRT Troopers - My last figure review featured a group of Foundry SWAT Troopers painted up as a Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), the SWAT branch of the FBI. Sticking with the HR...
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Viking Camp .. - For some time I have been considering adding some tents to form part of a camp. I recently purchased 'Construye Este Poblado Vikingo' (picture of booklet s...
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Engineers / pontooneers / bargemen - Here are some more figures I painted quite a while ago (they have featured in more than one game since) but only got round to photographing now: a number...11 hours ago
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Vrooom! Aragoto Incoming!! - *Aragoto Senkebutai! My very own bôsôzuku!!* Really happy to be back painting my Infinity miniatures! I actually started on the Aragoto Senkenbutai in Sep...
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Charmed Trio and a Big Floating Relic - Made from a Reaper Witch Coven (#02904). Older biddies, unfortunately, but still just as potent. For years, I was looking for a reason to get these mini’s ...11 hours ago
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Hawk, Eyed - During the archive inspection, Commander Woods commented that one of the Tarheel Nova Rocket series had been spotted from another maker. Apparently, Tarh...
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A Ginger for the Brat Pack - If you haven't seen it before, Tristan from the blog GW Pertinent (and who kindly got tme the swag and figs from Chaos Cup last year) is putting together a...
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Moray and March 2 - Here is another WIP image of the Moray and March unit that I'm building up. The finished unit will be 24 man strong. Dave Huntly and Charlie Wesencraft ...
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When do you want to see posts? - So I have been toying with the idea of changing when I post. Initially I posted at 0630 GMT this then moved to 0730 but as I have had the content recently ...11 hours ago
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Defence of Darwin Experience - Sunday, 19th of February, 2012, marks 70 years since the first devastating air raid on the town in which I live Darwin, Australia. Today we had a few event...
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Eldar Dark Reaper Squad - The latest addition my my eldar army for warhammer 40,000 today, a squad of Dark Reaper Aspect Warriors. They're the current versions, although in metal a...
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Warlord Games Crimean War 17th Lancers II - Here are some close ups,Warlord Games Crimean War 17th Lancers There is another painted miniature in Lost in Carcosa, day 4.
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Free Time Black Hole, Episode 88 - I’m away from home this weekend and have relatively limited computer access. So, quick article. But on the other hand: very pretty article. Project 1: Legi...12 hours ago
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Space Sharks RT Camo tester - So the Purifier unit in this army is going to be painted in the RT-era Space Sharks camo, this is the tester. I think a full ten will be pretty impressive....
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40mm WAS/SYW Austrian IR Marshall von Biberstein - Sometimes I think 'Procrastinator' is my middle name. But then again, perhaps not. The story of my 40mm SYW armies is a case in point. I had buil...
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Sorcerer of Nurgle - And so it begins... The first model of my Nurgle Warriors of Chaos army and it's magic... Well, a sorcerer at any rate.This charming (if a little drippy) ...
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Dystopian Wars: Ragnorak (P) - Since the furious battle between the Empire of the Blazing Sun, The Kingdom of Britannia, The Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Federated States of America ...
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I am not the only one who works on Pyrrhus - Just found a nice blog with some good paintings for a Pyrrhic army. Beside this yesterday I had the time to read the latest issue of the Ancient warfare mag...13 hours ago
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Great Source of Cheap Bases - I was wandering through Staples yesterday and I came across a package of 101 toy U.S. coins for $1.00! The first thing I thought was: cheap bases! After pr...
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Flames of War v.3 Paperback mini review - I picked up my version 3 paperback this Friday and am still a bit baffled by the fact that you get this one for free if you own the version 2 hardback. Qua...
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Pavis journal 3 - Construction des bâtiments : Une structure en carton fort recouverte de dépron... Reste à sculpter tout ça et à rajouter des toits... et de la texture......
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SAGA Warlords - Busy week at work and sick kids, so not much to show for myself. But I did get four figures finished. First up is my new Welsh warlord for Saga. I just lov...
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Day of Days- forces involved - Still awaiting the last couple of forces but some interesting choices in force selection so far. Jamie will be happy to see a number of mech and armoured f...14 hours ago
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Clearing the Nile of Mahdi - Sudan 1885 - You can never have enough sand in your pants.......Long time between drinks have up load a few images from the Sudan game Leroy and I had this afternoon. I...
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BattleCry 2012 - My ForceWell, got back from the big day! I was unable to play on Saturday, so a friend played the first three games and I played the last three games. It w...
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James’ Resins bocage, minefields and barbed wire entanglements: a video review - Aaron James, the chap behind relative newcomer to the world of 15mm scenery, James' Resins, kindly sent us some review samples from his range of resin boca...15 hours ago
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Predator done, plus more - I really buckled down and got that Predator finished off. I’m really pleased with it, particularly the way I can use it as a Rhino, Razorback or Predator w...15 hours ago
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Product Review: Space Empires - And now for a look at another space combat game... Space Empires, published last year by GMT Games, is the latest in the "4X" genre of space games, that ...
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Chapter X: Toward The Unknown - ---------- *EXPEDITION TO ALEXANDRAPOUR* ---------- Date: 9-10 August 1900 Location: Legation City of Dongolo Situation: Lawford's Last Days In Dongolo See ...
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Machining Friday, Part 4 - Another fascinating day in the machine shop. I spent some more time on three machines, namely the Integrex 200 Machining Center, the VTC-16 Mill, and the ...
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Sword and Dragon: After the Dust UP - Today a follow up on our local Battletech sessions. We had been playing through the Sword and Dragon Starterbook scenarios, and this past Wednesday we fin...
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Elhiem Iranians? Elhiem Iranians. - Since no one produces actual modern Iranians I thought I would give it a shot using a bunch of Elhiem's CW German and NATO infantry. I'm sure the rivet cou...
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Hail Caesar: Damascus Division - Hail Caesar builds armies in sections called divisions with a full army being made up of 3 or more divisions. The Damascus Division represents local Syria...20 hours ago
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40K Seems So... Weird Now - *by SandWyrm* I headed over to Games 2 Die 4 this afternoon, hoping to get in a game of Flames, but it was not to be. I hadn't known that John was going t...
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AAR Operation Munchausen Endgame - Continuing on the left flank my SU85 moved up as the fascists ran like the true dogs they are. German artillery pounded into the position but Al's poor d...
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What to Do with the Vessel of Judgment? - I love this piece.I love it so much, it pains me not to play with it. The Vessel seems to be an obvious support piece for Menoth. It has a 12" boostable mag...21 hours ago
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Dark Age Apocalypse - Club day - I popped up to the local gaming club (OMTS) for a game of DAA. I used my Brood (Hybrid) and played Forsaken St Luke and the other game was Forsaken St Mary ...21 hours ago
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Time to make some better hills 3 & 4 - Now it’s time to seal the hills. If these were troops or vehicles, I’d be sealing them (to protect the paintwork) with Testors Dullcote. I seal hills with ...21 hours ago
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Imperial Fortress - On display at GamesDay 2005. Huge Imperial Fortress wall set, features Tarantula turrets mounted on the Flying Buttresses, 2 large Autocannon turrets, armo...21 hours ago
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Australian Infantry - I made a bit of a promise to myself in the New Year to try and reduce my growing stash of half-finished stuff (well, half-started stuff might probably be a b...
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A campaign of positions - OK, here we are, for Jeff (or any one else) a Horse and Musket campaign using Programmed Wargame Scenarios. The basic idea is that the armies will jockey ...22 hours ago
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2 ° Reggimento Fanteria - Fusiliers, Command & Voltiguer WIP - Here's the latest off the workbench from my Italian project;. A couple of fusiliers, the command figures and the remaining voltiguer. The command figures a...
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Simian Saturday: Mountain Gorilla Warrior - Here's a cool bit of art I found here. Artist is Jason Borne
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Ball's Cross Roads: An ACW Skirmish Report - is Had some friends over last night to try a smallish American Civil War game using the Terrible Sharp Sword (an ACW variant of their Sharp Practice black...23 hours ago
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WAB AoA Gaming - 2/18/12 - Several WAB gamers made it to the The Game Matrix today; including Old Bob all the way up from Oregon. At first I was going to play Bob, but then switched ...
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How to Build a DBA Battle Board - While I was at Don Ray's place in Calgary we played DBA on a battle board that had been made by Paul Hannah. It was the first time I had used a battle boar...
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Magnetized Carnifex - Awhile back I'd picked up some Tyranid models in a trade - reinforcements for Hive Fleet Nostromo, my "Alien"-themed Warhammer 40K army. The gamer I purc...
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GorkaMorka - Try as I might, I can not get those dam Orks out of my blood. It is a total shame that GW pushed the Orks in the direction they are going today. The RT, 2e...
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FWS Topics: the Broken Elements of Military Sci-Fi - The term Military Science Fiction can be a madding one, and we here at FWS are attempting to give this important subsection of science-fiction its due, but...
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Prints Militaire - Hinton Hunt issued a series of plates drawn by Gerry Embleton, together with painting instructions. I am not sure whether these were aimed more at their 54...
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15mm ACW layout at Sprenkle House Ministry Center in York, Pa. - I snapped these photos today with my cell phone (excuse the quality) today at a layout I did during a model railroad open house at the Sprenkle House Mini...1 day ago
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Highwaymen (3) - As the coach neared Tonclot, the Driver turned to Ilse “could you hold the reins Miss, while I sound the coaching horn” “No it’s OK, I can sound it what sh...1 day ago
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Product Review: Biostrip 20 - Metal AND Plastic Paint Stripper - *At last, a water-based paint remover that REALLY works!* *Biostrip is a revolutionary new range of water-based products, specifically designed for all as...
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Battle of Peitsang - Rules: Colonial Adventures Scale: 28mm Figures: Old Glory, Copplestone *Rules Modifications: * Western trained Chinese will react better than Boxer Peasants ...
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Painting Black, and the failure thereof... - Heya I'm waiting on access to a bench saw before progressing on FFZ-32 scenery so until then I'll be pottering away at the painting bench. Sometime back i...
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René North's Military Uniform Charts #1 French Dragoons 1804-15 - Further to previous posts on René North, I am posting part of the series of his Military Uniform Charts. These were additional to his Paint Your Own uniform ...
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Orange goblin skin - I'm just movin' right along today, granted, some of these goblins were already mostly painted. Here's a casual step-by-step showing both the goblins and th...
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2 inch "Toffee Apple" Mortar. Great War Miniatures. - Had this sitting about the workbench for ages. Did little bits here and there as varnish dried on other projects or where there was a little bit of paint t...
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Infinity Tiger Soldier - My latest Infinity model, the Tiger Soldier. He was finished a couple weeks ago in fact, but I haven't had the time to post him here. I've started to use ...
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The issue No. 14 of ALKAID - The issue *No. 14 of ALKAID REVISTA MULTITEMÁTICA* is out from *February 17*. The magazine is one of the activities of ALKAID EDICIONES, an editorial ...
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AAR BFP-84 Kreida Station - Of all the Bounding Fire packs I have bought (and I have everything but Hell on Wheels) Crucible of Steel has had the most play right off the blocks. This ...
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painting desk this week - Well even though it's been a busy week I still managed to get a bit achieved I've almost finished another regiment of infantry, would have finished but d...
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Gretel's Puppy - Berlin, 3 September 1938. It was the twins' 8th birthday. Doctor Hugo van Xanstein had brought the girls into the town so that they could pick something ...1 day ago
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The Canaries come under fire!! - Hi Gents, Once again thank you to all who have taken the time to follow noticed quite a few new faces appeared over the last month.One of the new faces to a...
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No News is Good News, Right? - So, what's been happening lately? Seemingly nothing, but hopefully lots and lots. John should be finishing up the Lady Mrissa figures (though I haven't h...1 day ago
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Regiment d'Inf. de la Diputació General - *"Diputació General" Inf. Reg. 1705-1714 Dixon, Roundway i Warrior, 15mm* Com ja he comentat en alguna ocasió anterior, l'adopció del reglament *Beneath ...
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Transporting the El-Gin Marbles (1) - As some of you may remember H.G. Wells , his travelling companion Polly and H.G.s American cousin Orsen are trying to get the El-Gin Marbles safely out of ...
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Humvees - Just over a month until Ambush Alley Games and Osprey are scheduled to release “Day of the Ranger”, their scenario pack for Mogadishu and I’ve got the Hu...1 day ago
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The future is plastic! - Hi All, its been a steady week painting. Its been so long since I painted 15mm...back in the 90s just a few DBA armies, its so different compared to 28mm....
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Open For Battle! - For the last year and a half I have been working hard to promote and grow the Flames of war community here in Central NY, it has been a long haul. We have...
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Getting the Gaming Room under control - On the latest podcast of the D6 Generation Russ Wakelin mentions that it is easier to get painting done if you can just sit down, paint for twenty minutes,...
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Daemons! 2K Tournament List! Hurrah! - The Master Manipulator (every store needs one) is hosting a 2K tournament today. It's going to be a smallish affair, since it was wasn't really advertise...
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Review - USE ME Post Apocalyptic rules - Here's a detailed look at *UM007 Post Apocalyptic* - the latest volume in the *USE ME* series of rules from *15mm.co.uk*. *PRINT EDITION* *Available for £...1 day ago
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Tales of the Ketty Jay - Hi! Ive recently finished reading Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding and must admit I have found the story and the setting quite brilliant, not to mention...
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Basing 101 - I've recently discovered that there is a fairly active Wargames club in the town I moved to a year ago, held every Sunday in the rooms above a cafe/restaur...
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Celtiberian warband - Heres a nice strong 50 man warband of Celtiberians. No command figures as of yet, still waitng on the delivery. When they arrive and i finsish the re...
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Shilling Service Pack - So late last year I ordered the Shilling Service Pack from Alternative Armies. I had briefly dabbled with Flintloque in the last edition but when the ne...
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SAGA, bit of a change. - As Mr Cornwell said " Every day is ordinary until something changes..." For me you cant beat 6mm and 10mm for Mid to big battle wargaming. So I had a look ...
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1814 Bavrian Generals - These aren’t in my personal collection I’m painting them for a friends 1814 campaign of which I’m one of the participants, I don’t have any Foundry Nap. fi...1 day ago
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Predator review updated again - Just a short note to let you know that my 28mm Predator review has been updated with two more models from Predastore – the Jungle-Predette and the Chasing-...1 day ago
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Orc Exploring Officer: Mounted and Foot - Was looking for a figure to use as a dismounted version of Alternative Armies fine Orc Explorig Officer. A request sent out on the Notables soon bore f...
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1/144 Scale bombers for BKC anyone ? - I've added a new page which has constantly updated eBay listings from the Altaya range of 1/144 scale planes, which seems to have grown rapidly recently, a...1 day ago
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Robotics Fun and Pressure - As I've mentioned in previous posts, my son competes in several competitive robotics teams and he tolerates me as a coach. One of those competitions is ...
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Young Werther goes to war.... - The speeches are done, farewells have been said, the troops are embarking, The force commander, Duke Werther's troublesome younger brother Leopold, has del...1 day ago
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Dalek Targetting Drone - rusty - Here he is with the black washes on and the first of the rusts. Go to go in next and give some "depth" to the rusty bits then try to replicate what looks l...
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Les grenouilles bleu! Part II - Hoi, Painting of the French Marines has been going on steadily, by now about 40 are finished. Here's the latest batch: And the guys all together sitting ...
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1K Lives- 1066 and all that - A local Muswellian friend of mine, John Squire-Melmoth, has been writing and reading a series aseries of short stories, each of which uses exactly 1,000 ...
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Crooked Claw Miniatures - I´m happy to announce that I recently acquired the production rights as well as moulds for both the Nemesis and Rhoninstorm goblin ranges sculpted by Kev...1 day ago
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General rambling - Still awaiting my PC being fixed, looks like it will be next month at the earliest, one of my mates is going to put it together for me. Just got to get the...1 day ago
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more undead knights and a general - just a little break from painting french napoleonics. (7 infantry units so far!) these undead knights stood, half painted, for a couple of months on my des...
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Medic! and some horses - Hi everyone. Well, I think my week-end will be somewhat busy doing something else: My daughter is sick, so first I've had to postpone my game against Tamsi...
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Sharpe’s Rifles, an unexpected encounter - Hi, it's time for a new battle report! This time I decided to play some of Sharpe's famous adventures and bundled them in some sort of mini campaign based ...
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St Valentine's Day Massacre Update! - Quick update: The start time of the tournament on Saturday 2/18/12 at Titan Games has been pushed back due to a change in store hours. * * *It will now ...1 day ago
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Fleet Action Fun - Having posted about the battle of Cape St Vincent earlier in the week and thinking it would be fun to try a refight using my fleet action rules that eveni...1 day ago
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From Concept to Reality, 3 FTW Member posts - Cruising the FTW blog rolls and internet this week, I found some interesting things from members who have used what they found on From the Warp to help the...
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Battlecry 2012 - What a day! Just got back from Battlecry and I smell like a dead yeti. I spent today playing Malifaux I used the Sonnia Criid and her box set crew to c...
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TRASH BASH 2012 - part two - *The French Imperial Aeronef Le Loius Daguerre* *A short history* Part two; The French inventor Loise Daguerre was instrumental in the discovery and deve...
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Samurai figures in 1/72 scale from Zvezda with CAD technology! - Zvezda started to produce a new serie of miniatures in 1/72 scale dedicated to legendary Japan warriors – samurais. The first set that opens this serie is...1 day ago
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Terrible Sharp Sword - ACW Confederate Forces - Sunday see's the Evesham Wargames Club Big Game I 2012, Over the last few months numerous club members have being amassing forces for the forthcoming ACW e...
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My 3rd Edition Arrived - Just a quick note to say I don't expect to get much painting or gaming done this weekend. My copy of the 3rd Edition Flames of War rules arrived in the po...
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All is Dust - the start of something beautiful... - I'm glad it's the weekened! Pretty much crashed last night after work and just slept, so here's this week's slightly late (oops) blog post. It's been a bus...
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Old Glory Stakes It's Booty! - Old Glory has once again generously provided a prize ship and crew for the presentation of "Sixteen Miniatures on a Lead Man's Chest" to be awarded to t...
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WIP 15mm Mercenary Mech Company - Hi guys, well, after Spaceman spiff of TMP created his 10mm Scifi blog I have had a renewed enthusiasm for 15mm sci fi (thanks Spaceman), in particular for...
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Knight Models New 30mm Emperor’s Royal Guards - A new two pack of 30mm Star Wars miniatures has been released from Knight Models…this time we get treated to the Emperor’s Royal Guards which look fantasti...1 day ago
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WIP - Plague Monk reinforcements - *Squeek* Plague Monk update... They stink, they reek, they spread disease. They're PERFECT for any Skaven army that has a Clan Moulder army, or even your ...
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Dwarf Display Board - The last thing I needed for the GiTD was a display board for my army. I painted the army a few months ago but I total forgot the display board. Naturally I...
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SAGA Illiad: Trojan Royal Guard - Hey Folks, Finally finished these, been stupid busy with work so some progress is better than none! Next up some Lycians Cheers Jason
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Work in Progress - So many projects so little time... This gift from Paul the other night plus the one I picked up during the holidays gives me a finished company of each th...
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Tunisian Tussle Game period 1 - The battle for Tunisian is on. Both sides have made some interesting decisions on where to focus their efforts. The Germans have decided that enough is eno...1 day ago
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FOW v3, Dwarfs go tournamenting and Ogres a go-go - Really been enjoying the v3 FOW mini rulebook fantastic looking set of rules with some good changes. First game next week against Andres Fin's. However, ...1 day ago
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DBA 2.2+: Playtest Animations - JM and I have been playing some play-by-email games using the DBA 2.2+ rules modifications found on the WADBAG site. The play by e-mail board is available...
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Brigade Games Painted Gnomes - Hello everyone,Painted up some Brigade Games Gnomes for family and friends. They have so much character and are wonderful to paint.Cheers,Helen[image: Phot...
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Putting Your Characters Through Hell - I am a big fan of suspense in writing and I’ve noticed something about both films and writing – if you know there are boundaries across which the author (or ...1 day ago
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Liquitex ink vs Citadel wash. - Yesterday I picked up a couple dropper bottles of "Transparent Raw Umber" Liquitex ink from a big hobby store chain as it was on clearance for about 50% of...
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The Kriegsmarine have landed! - The Kriegsmarine were created when the Imperial navy took to space. A merging of the Navy, Air force and Fallschirmjager, these are elite troops and medium...
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OPERATION KIMBA - A FORCE ON FORCE GAME - The boys played Operation Kimba last night. We used Force on Force rules with 40mm figures. Here is part of the briefing the lads received prior to the ...
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A new Campaign, Part 1: Preparations - White we still have quite a bit of back history to fill in, Jono and I decided to begin the Campaign of 66941 with a attempt by Raesharn forces to break ...
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Duel over the Pacific - Peridocally a few of us gather for a series of "Wings of War" games, or "Wings of Glory" as they are now called. The minaitures are first class, relatively...
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25mm Carthaginians Part 2 - And these are the second batch of finished Carthaginians. They are Celts (my army will be heavy with allied forces!) and are older 25mm, mono-pose sculpts....
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OSL critique - Firebelly - Here's a link to an article from Ron at From The Warp about OSL featuring my attempt with the Ogre Firebelly I did a couple weeks ago. Some good feedback ...
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Rebel Eight Spring '12 Collection - [image: Rebel Eight Spring Line] Check out the new Spring '12 collection from Rebel 82 days ago
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French Aeronef Le Louis Daguerre: Part 1 - Renowned modeller Tony from Dampf's Modelling Page, has entered the Roebeast trash bash competition. Excitingly, his project is titled: *French Imperial ...2 days ago
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DBA Battle, Sparta vs Persia - Now then, I managed to persuade my youngest son to give me a game of DBA tonight, he wanted Spartans, so i took control of the as yet un gamed with Persian...2 days ago
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Jom's Hearth guard WIP's - After much umming and 'arring, Darren has let me put up another sneak peek of the Joms. The left hand one is a Hearth guard with obvious Rus influencedarmo...
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Valentine's Day - Nothing miniature or Russo Japanese War related, just a quick note of what I got for Valentine's Day. ;-) A bag of MI*TSUBA* rice snack and couple of bottl...
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Khursan Miniatures, Earthdoom 15mm Aranid APC - Here's a render of Khurasan Miniatures Earthdoom 15mm Aranid APC. Looks very crab like. It's a grav vehicle, and has a large door in the back shaped to...
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Move Over Jeff Wayne! - Saul recorded a piece of music last year including a sample from the Orson Welles *War of the Worlds *broadcast. I've now run it through *iMovie* with some...
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Mass Effect 3 - Bioware this week released a demo for the upcoming Mass Effect 3. I was going to avoid it, preferring instead to wait for the full game. However, to quo...
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The most essential WFB Rare Units - Voting has Begun - From some old time favourites like the Steam Tank and Bretonnian Trebuchet through to the new kids on the block like the Ogre Ironblaster and Necrosphinx -...
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Has 40K Lost Its Way? - Do you feel that Warhammer 40K has lost its way lately? First we had the Grey Knights obliterating everything, then 6th edition rumours, then Tau rumours a...
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1st painting point for 2012... - Has come a little late due to everything going on in the past few months, but finally have gotten some hobby motivation back and have finished up the first...
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DBA 15mm Pyrrhic - baggage element in progress - Hey folks, some weeks of painting calmness are lying behind me. That gone now :) I started painting the camp for my Pyrrhic force. The scene shows two sou...
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Elf Preservation – Part One - As I mentioned in my earlier post, I attended a panel at the SFXWeekender entitled ‘Elf Preservation’. The theme of the panel was whether fantasy needs to ...2 days ago
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DeepWars - Kickstarter concept art for Ancients of Atalán force - The Kickstarter project is off to an amazing start in the last few days, and is almost funded already! Thanks to all that have already pledged. Hopefully w...2 days ago
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Book Review: Deliverance Lost - The latest in the Horus Heresy books makes me think fondly of some of the older HH novels. One of the things I really really liked about some of the fir...
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Just Build It - Many times I find myself hesitating on building a project because I am not sure that I can do it. I even go so far as buying the materials only to watch ...
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Warhammer Forge - More Monsters - Warhammer Forge have just released another new monster, this time the basilisk. It's rather a nice model, I must say, though the cursed ettin is still my...2 days ago
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Battle of Port St Hubert (by GASLIGHT) - In a startling move, German troops have landed behind French lines, and captured the seaside village of Port St. Hubert. The village could become of great...
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The Battle of Port St. Hubert by GASLIGHT - In a startling move, German troops have landed behind French lines, and captured the seaside village of Port St. Hubert. The village could become of great...
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Three Games, Two Days, One Ruleset - With a couple of days off at half term some games of War & Conquest seemed to be in order. On Wednesday I spent the day as a guest at Scarab Towers, kindly...
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Project Pandora: The Cover - And we couldn’t leave Pandora week behind without the full cover art. So here it is! This piece of artwork was created by Jonas Springborg and really sets ...2 days ago
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Painted - Bavarian generals 1814 - Not much to say other than two done, two to go, actually their nearly finished. So Front rank figures ride around on large dogs and Foundry figures ride arou...
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DBA Special - Egyptian Double Feature - Here's a quick look at the two armies featured in our DBA Participation Game 'Lords of the Nile' ... They constitute the first delivery phase of my refurb...
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An unexpected parade - We just popped into Esher this morning to get Guy a haircut (his CCF officers were starting to complain) and found the whole place somewhat *en * *fête*...
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28mm HOTT Chaos Soul Hunters - Figures are from Citadel/Games Workshop, Reaper and Ral Partha, and are a mixed lot of plastic and metal. [image: Army02] The army arrayed; [image: h01][ima...
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A new incarnation of cult classic Space: 1999 - The cult classic Space: 1999 is making comeback – and a leap forward, via Space: 2099, as it was recently revealed that ITV Studios America and HDFILMS ha...
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“Scourged Forest” Zuzzy Gaming Mat - As a companion piece to the step by step that I posted about my Wounded City Zuzzy mat, I figured that I would put up a few shots of the process that I wen...2 days ago
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Wild West dio - First! Welcome Ray! http://onelover-ray.blogspot.com/ and http://raysmusicemporium.blogspot.com/ This was in a duel against Pascal http://samsminisworld.bl...
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Earl Godwin - I had some minis left over after finishing my two SAGA armys so I painte up a Anglo-Danish Commander, by the name Earl Godwin. He is a real fighter and c...2 days ago
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Mad Blogger Rant & Salute 2012 - Now I'm normally quite a mild mannered sort of chap, just ask Fran!!.........BUT Is anyone else getting pi$$ed off with the new captcha word verification....
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Ambush Alley Afghan game pics - Here's some pics of a recent Ambush Alley game we had. The actual result of the mission has been censored by the MOD. British figs are by Empress (painted b...
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High Elves - The Maiden Guard - I recently picked up these off Trademe for a quite reasonable price (I've seen people asking for over US$100 for the full set of 10)! These are a WIP, but ...2 days ago
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Angry blogger rant, Safia Gaddafi, Salute 2012 bad news, won a competition and boobies.... - Blogger is giving me arseache at the moment, deleted my blogroll due to the fact you couldn't add anybody to it any more, I then did another blogroll (whi...
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Big Finish Day 2 - Once again I’ve fallen behind with my postings, sorry. I didn’t get much model work down last weekend, Saturday I spent all day at *Big Finish Day 2*in Bark...
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LANDWASTER '11. As viewed from BOTH sides of a battlefield - Hi All Last year I played in LANDWASTER, a DBA tournament in Canberra. This was my 2nd tournament for the year and it had been my 2nd tournament in about th...
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Tyranid Termagant Tactics - In the null deployment model I first experimented with dropping large groups of termagants in a spore pod in support of my larger elements and genesteale...
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Skyclaw Squad Painted! - I was going to queue this and have it appear later, but as I recently showed the first member, I thought it opportune to post them in a more timely manner. ...
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Masonry Paint - [image: Texture test2] I think it looks much better with about half the stones painted over with three different heavily 'diluted' stone-coloured pain...2 days ago
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Damaged Artillery Markers - I had some spare Old Glory French Artillery that had been painted before. After stripping the paint off them using Simple Green, I took to them with some s...
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Life and love and happiness... - A rousing video for you all! It has a lot to answer for in terms of sowing the seeds of my interests to this day.Sit back and enjoy !2 days ago
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More Saxons - There's been a bit of talk on TMP recently about the *Gripping Beast* plastic Vikings and Saxons. I bought a box of each way, way back on pre-order, and wh...
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Lord of The Rings SBG- Playing the new books. - Last Saturday afternoon I got the rare chance to get out to the remodeled Chicago Battle Bunker for what can best be called a LotR area ...
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V3 Mini-Book Spiralbound - [image: Photobucket] I took the V3 small rulebook to FedEx/Kinkos this weekend. This was after listening to the WWPD podcast and Luke's V3 mini-book falli...2 days ago
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Action at Sea Revisited....Preparing for Game Number 4 - *For Facebook read blog (or not as the case may be!)....;-)* It has been a fairly busy week one way or another - especially as I am now trying to chase ...
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Sarissa Precision Laser Cut MDF Inn - Continuing on with the Sarissa Precision buildings project, here is the second completed building. I turned this large storefront into a rural French Inn. ...
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"The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time. - Well, Tomorrow Gathering in the Desert 2012 kicks off at 5:00pm with the March to Mount Doom. But for me and the staff, we will be getting a start on movin...
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A Serious 'Little War' - Campaign Day 3 - Orders received - but a pause in play due to very bad weather... but great anticipation all round!
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