An ACW Ironclad
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Quite a few years ago I painted up a series of stands to play American
Civil War in 15mm using the Volley and Bayonet rules. I plan to add a few
more sta...
HAWK EYE
-
This is an interesting clip by Monta-Man TV showing the Bullycan
Portaaviones or Aircraft Carrier toy.
Keep your eye out for the green SpaceX Hawk clone...
Finally!
-
It took about 5 months longer than I planned on, but the first set of 6
2'x2' terrain boards for my Faux Fulda project are finally done. In hind
sight ...
Archer Retinue for Lord Hastings
-
Hopefully I can paint this standard for another unit. I have one more
archer and bill unit to go, before Hastings' Battle is complete.
Lord Hastings rec...
Yeah but it’s a dry heat, 1/56 air conditioners
-
I’ve finished some small details for Modern Gaming, 28mm air conditioners.
The air conditioners are from SASM miniatures
The building is from Patrick’s ...
Aeroclub Bristol Scout Finished
-
That's a wrap for the old Aeroclub Bristol Scout kit, which I have to say
I'm glad to have finished as it's not been an easy job and has dragged on a ...
More Simbas
-
I've finally got around to completing some more Simbas for my 1960s Congo
armies. These are mostly from Eureka's African wars range with a couple of RPG ...
Tikimobile
-
I like the little fish tail.
I am not sure I will keep the wheels red.
It is a very interesting vehicle, I think.
The undercarriage is a good color.
I got ...
Back to the Painting Table!!!
-
Today (Saturday) is the day. My return to the painting table after too many
months to count away from hobby activities. Almost all of the outdoor
wint...
Agravain!
-
My daughter pre-ordered a copy of the latest Hail Caesar supplement, Once
and Future King for my birthday. Ordering direct from Warlord you got this
metal ...
L is for The Longest Yarn - Breakout & Aftermath
-
I went round the exhibition alongside a couple, with whom I got talking, as
we danced round each-other, giving space for photographs to be taken or
spendin...
Battle of Tacna 1880 - The Bolivians
-
In the past, I have seen a great little diorama, showing conversions of
plastics. Sadly I can't remember the name of the creator, maybe you can
help me ...
Ghosts!
-
Or maybe some water elements? Hard to say. Chen very kindly swapped me some
28mm minis and the first ones I painted up were these folks.
These were cast...
Pogo, monkey father figure
-
Work continues apace on the Umbrella Academy board game (although ‘apace’
is a very generous descriptor considering how little painting time I’ve
managed...
No more Grot Tanks
-
When I visited Warhammer World in September I did think about buying some
more Grot Tanks. As I toured the exhibition, I decided that I would
probably ge...
Tolkien about Heroic Fantasy
-
*“One game to bring them in….and in the expansion, bind them!” The 1st
edition base game and the Battles of the Third Age expansion*
Some time ago I a...
Warships for my Belle Époque project
-
Back in April 2022 I built a number of warships for my Belle Époque
imagi-nations. They looked like this:
*My scratch-built Burgundian battleships.*
*My...
Pax Brittanica
-
Back in the mid 1980s, Victory Games were an innovative challenger to the
dominance of Avalon Hill and SPI in the boardgames world, and published a
numb...
One hour skirmish Wargame rules
-
I forgot to post this link to a video l found a great introduction to the
rules. Here it is -
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FQndt7Jk9wo
POWDER RIVER, A PETTYGREE WESTERN ACT 2
-
*PREVIOUSLY*
https://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/2024/11/powder-river-pettygree-western-chp-1.html
Nathan Burdette's Gang robbed gold from Peabody's...
The Civil War Begins...
-
The battle lines drawn upon a battle plain
not far from Massilia. Optimates -
Pompeians - in the foreground
The growing hostility between the rival claim...
Kobold Hoomins!
-
Because I'm apparently drawn to the wee beggars, here are another troop of
Warp Miniatures kobolds. These piggyback riders have clearly scavenged some
hum...
Durham and the Prince Bishops
-
I was in Durham today en route to Middlesborough for tomorrow's
Battleground wargames show. I haven't been for many years, and its main
attraction, the ...
Saxe-Jarlsberg .. the artillery...
-
After having painted artillery crew for both Wittenberg and Monrovia... I
was in the groove and went on to do the Saxe-Jarlsberg cannon, limbers and
crew...
Endings
-
Some of you may recall that, back in August, I opined about the coming end
of my House of Worms *Empire of the Petal Throne *campaign. Three months
later...
SAGA Night-Seljuks vs Normans
-
Sponsored by SAGA Montreal
We had our monthly SAGA meet-up last night at the Abyss, I believe there 3
games with 6 players. I played against Michel for...
Painting Guide: The Age of Reason.
-
Coming soon. My latest (and possibly final) contribution to Road Safety.
Final version off to the printers today. Available through CALIVER BOOKS
shortl...
TaktiCon
-
Kansas City has a very large wargaming community spread out across the
metro area, and since the demise of RECRUITs it's been tough to get the
band back...
Auld Lang Syne (pictures added)
-
**Now with more pictures!
Yesterday was most enjoyable day with 5 *old*...long time... friends. Four
of us played with our host's 25mm Minifig ECW figure...
Songs of our Ancestors
-
On Thursday night Mitch set up a small table so we could try out the 'Songs
of our Ancestors' rule for a Quar skirmish. My force was made up of a
standar...
CRESCENT TOYS: MEDIEVALES
-
El 14 de marzo de 2016 veíamos una primera entrada de Crescent Medievales
que, por desgracia, contenía una unidad con faltas. Esta.
Con un poco de pac...
Crossposting To Bluesky
-
Introduction
Last weekend saw a sudden surge in wargamers leaving Twitter for the
Bluesky social network. I wonder why?
Thanks to Henry Hyde creating a...
Railway gun .... working towards a game...
-
Trying out a table setup for the railway tracks before adding anything else
Diesel shunter (Dapol plastic kit) and ammo wagon (old Hornby van wagon)
have...
Battle of Kolin in 15mm
-
Saturday saw the annual Grimsby Wargames Society 15mm SYW game organised,
as always, by Tony with figures from the collection of many members of the
Soc...
Flags of Prussian Garrison Regiment VIII
-
As a Completist I have been frustrated for some time that I have not yet
posted all the flags of the Prussian garrison regiments on the blog. As
long ago...
Roman Quincunx
-
Roman 54mm Project Update
*Three 54mm Roman legions formed up in the Quincunx formation*
I have been busy basing a lot of the 54mm Punic Wars figures tha...
More HaT 1/32 scale Civil War Soldiers.
-
Two boxes of the the #1 set give you 6 marching figures in frock coats and
dress or "Hardee" hats. You'd need 6 boxes to get a respectable unit of
thi...
Charity shop magazine finds
-
Earlier today, Sue and I visited Pershore, Worcestershire and I was lucky
enough to find these magazine bargains. The first image shows six
Continental ...
Wip Wednesday
-
On the build table are a few items first up a 1/72 Heller areospatiale
Alouette III. I am undecided if it will join my French Armee or airforce
elements...
"The Soviet Union Was Able To Pull Ahead..."
-
*"...And claim a major victory by landing on the Lunar surface."*
This 32mm resin Russian Astronaut is produced by "Black Site Studios", and
forms part of...
Midgard
-
In my on going quest for some satisfying Middle Earth rules, I have
purchased *Midgard,* the exciting new "heroic era" wargaming rules by James
Morris...
Sir John Grey's Regiment of Foote
-
Time to put down the Napoleonics for a bit, and finish up my ECW Scots
Covenanter army...
The decision for a temporary change of gears was made easier by...
Steel Lard 2024 - part two the aftermath
-
Steel Lard 2024 ended with the Wee Derek Awards. These were presented in
memory of our friend Derek Hodge, who passed away this year and who was a
stalwa...
Feanorian Hero for Midgard Silmarillion Elf Army
-
Here is the first hero base for my Midgard Silmarillion Elf army. The army
represents the warhost of Caranthir the Dark, son of Feanor.
As it's a Feanori...
Midgard
-
I am a sucker for new rules sets that I am most likely never to play. Over
the last year or so I have been reading the splendid Mogsymakes blog where
he ...
More rule tinkering
-
The temperature turned out to be lower than predicted as it was minus 4C
when we got in the car to take the grandkids to school this morning so it
was de...
CHALK ART - "Postcard #61"
-
I've reached a milestone with today's posting. Decided that it was time to
take a break for a while...like the good slacker that I am.
What A Tanker! - Dashboard & Dice Set
-
I recently purchaed Qty 4 of these Dashboard and Dice Set from Sabotage 3D
for 'What A Tanker!'. These are really excellent and especially useful if
you...
More new units for the Sudan
-
So, continuing with the Beja contingent, I've added two more sword/spear
units (each 33 figures); a unit of camel warriors (11 figures - should be
12 fi...
Farscape - 25 Years On.
-
Not a wargaming post, but so what?
25 years ago the SF series Farscape started its run. Originally on a
satellite channel it came to the BBC2 on the 29...
Gaslands (1)
-
And now for something completely different..."Gaslands Refuelled" is an
Osprey game that I've been playing with the boys. "The game of vehicular
mayhem...
6mm civilian vehicles
-
Having recently returned to *Battletech *via the more streamlined *Alpha
Strike *rules, I find myself in need of some 1/285 scale terrain suitable
for th...
La Garde au feu part 2
-
Well, my painting out put maybe slow, but I have tried to get on with the
3D printing while the warm weather lasted and it seems to have come to an
end. Th...
Warfare 2024 - Show Video
-
A group of the Rejects headed down to Farnborough yesterday for day one of
the Warfare Show. For us, this was primarily a shopping trip, and we came
home...
Market Hall WIP 4
-
Plodding on, not had much mojo lately, but doing little bits often so
getting stuff progressing… just the roof tiles to add then painting…
I wanted some...
Jean Campaign – Day Five
-
*Campaign Map*
Main French depot at Hellin – 36 days supplies
French attack Linares
Guerrilla brigades active
13th French army – attack Linares
14th ...
28mm SYW Hessians: IR7 Leibregiment 2nd BTN 1763
-
This is the last of the Hessian battalions for my army. The figures are
from a Ukrainian designer/manufacturer Vladimir Zhiko which I bought quite
a...
Resin Gun Emplacements
-
Blogger is still giving me fits on uploading images. I'm afraid this is
the best I can do.These resin terrain pieces were a Christmas gift from my
friend ...
The Sun Never Sets - Boers and Burmese
-
I finally got some Boers painted. The problem with painting Boers is that
you have to paint two, twenty man units to make a single unit. I've
finished t...
Website Fixed…ish
-
So, I’ve managed to get rid of the annoying extra widget column that was
being displayed… …not by doing anything particularly creative, but by
simply amend...
Medbury Vendel Era Danes
-
Kickstarter #2 – Vendel Danes from Medbury. These figures are originally
3D sculpts intended for STL distribution, I don’t know why, but Medbury
chose to ...
The Dreamer
-
Hey, hey,
guess who's back :)
I have neglected this blog for a loooong time - usually simply posting
updates of my projects on Facebook - *(4) Facebook*...
Scorpion 28mm
-
had this rerally nice model from badger 3d who have now sadly ceased
trading for a while and finally got it painted and based very nice model .
Defending Fort Stanwix
-
Old Fort Niagara has a free zoom lecture for this on the 21 November.
Check the webpage.
In Defending Fort Stanwix, William L. Kidder tells the dramati...
DIY Rivers for 15mm Miniature Wargaming
-
I ran my first game at Historicon 2024. It was the Battle of Montgomery
waged during the English Civil War. I used 15mm Steel Fist figures for the
cavalr...
Some more Fantasia goodies.
-
I thought I should post the final units of my Never Mind the Billhooks,
Fantasia army. I am nearing the comp-letion of the army which is a shame in
some...
Chechnya - New Xenos Rampant Vehicle Damage rules.
-
Having painted up a number of in fills an excuse to give them a first
outing.
The additional Russian and Chechen support units will come in handy and
wi...
Poker Night
-
I had the opportunity to get Jeff's poker chips out for an actual game of
poker.
my first big win
My youngest son was home from University (!) for the r...
Battle for the Trading Outpost: Part 2
-
A roar of aerial and ironclad artillery signalled the commencement of the
French attack upon the Martian Trading Outpost, and the dying on both sides
beg...
Russian Quad Mechs WIP
-
It has been a moment too long since I last posted any what's on my
workbench. What can I say? I've been distracted by real life. It is what it
is.
So, a...
Roman Cavalry (not quite a choir!)
-
Chris Martin may have sung about Roman Cavalry Choirs singing, but in most
sets of wargaming rules the Roman Cavalry are, well, a bit "*out of tune*"
wi...
DBA 2.2 Siracusans II/9 army.
-
The miniatures are from the range March to Hell from 3D Breed, and I quite
like them because they are biffy, sharp, detailed and easy to paint. I have
pa...
A day for Cromwells
-
Today (before a 2 week hiatus) we had a few games of What a Tanker at the
club. I have recorded 2 of them, as its tedious reading a lot...I know!
The f...
Roman Line Swap - Quincunx - for To the Strongest
-
Hi,
I have recently started using To the Strongest (TtS) for my 2nd Punic War
armies (WoFun) and I didn't care for the line swapping rules that are in
E...
Mexican Adventure: Dancers
-
I was looking for some interesting characters for Mexican Adventure/Old
West games, and I found the Pulp Figures PMH-07 'The Night Caravan.' It's a
lovely ...
The Battle of Prokhorovka
-
We’re re fighting the battle of Prokhorovka at the moment using Memoir ‘44.
This was the giant armour clash between the 11th SS Panzer Korps under
Mans...
Game Design #109: Cinematic Moments
-
I bought the *Titanicus *rules out of interest (though I'll never afford
the minis!) and when experimenting with them I found myself thinking "this
is re...
More Little boats: Poleacre and America's
-
A polacca through it's first stages before basing, priming, and painting.
A little houy.
I finished assembling and rigging a few more ships including a lit...
Sept, October, and early November update....
-
Holy crap!
First off I need to seriously apologize to everyone here for the delay in
posting to this blog for the last TWO freaking months. As Septembe...
Commands and Colors: Ancients mat. The jury is out
-
After the disaster that attended my attempts to get the Commands & Colors
game mat I ordered from Tiny Wargames delivered, I gave up and decided to
make ...
Fire Forge Samurai Minis
-
After watching the new vesions of Shogun I was once again hooked in the
Feudal Japanese history and the later Sengoku period 1540 -1600.
Ofcourse the...
The Mutant Epoch Expansion Rules
-
* Long time followers of this blog will know that I am a big fan of
William McAusland's RPG The Mutant Epoch. He recently released the
long-awaited...
Three Ages of Rome and The Battle of Piranthus
-
There is considerable potential for complication in Ancient wargaming,
resulting from the long time period to be covered, and the resulting
plethora of t...
How to Develop Your Own Wargame Backstory
-
I had a strange moment of hobby rumination lately, revolving around the
question of pre-determined lore. The whole thing began with a little bit of
a deep ...
Tom Meier's Frost Giant Dio in a box!
-
I wanted to tackle Tom Meier's Frost Giant for ages now but never had a
good plan for it. But after creating a few small box dioramas with older
Citadel...
Back to the Brushes 395
-
A little update on the Romano British javelin men.
The front two stands of Psiloi are ready for varnishing and basing and the
larger stands to the rear ...
Blood on the Sands Kickstarter Announced
-
I’m thrilled to announce that we’re gearing up for the Kickstarter launch
of Blood on the Sands! After years of hard work, dedication, and countless
hour...
Happy Orctober
-
The Blood Snortas
:
The Blood Snortas were born for trouble. Ridin' their ill-tempered boars
through mud, dust, and worse, they’d roared their way ou...
A Tale of Four(ish) Gamers
-
On the internet, there is a chap called Dave.
Dave likes beer, bacon and battle. Especially the 4th edition of Warhammer
Fantasy Battle. He likes it so ...
Warhammer -1313 (skirmish thoughts)
-
I previously posted some thoughts for a Warhammer -1313
setting/campaign/project. Years ago. Because I have a habit of coming up
with ideas but never fol...
Iberian skirmishers
-
An assortment of skirmishers from Iberia based individually to be used as
skirmishers markers for *Strength & Honour,* which has a supplement due out
...
Frostgrave season again! Genie against the world
-
We started Frostgrave (one of my top favorite games) season again!
So I will drop photos of final game of previous season we played in June in
anticipat...
Rise of the Khaös Deth Swordwraiths
-
Khaös Deth Swordwraiths - ancient daemonic blades that have enslaved
disembodied cursed, rag shrouded souls to wield them. Izn-Rvn - a curse of
undeath ins...
Trip of a lifetime
-
For several years now my wife and I had been planning to bike the French
Way of the Camino de Santiago across Spain from Roncesvalles in the
Pyrannes to...
Seven Years War at Partizan
-
Sorry for the lack of posts this last few weeks! I have been very busy
getting the, Seven Years War, demonstration game ready for the 2nd Partizan
show ...
Deadzone 3.0 Terrain
-
I prepped and painted some hi-tech/lowlife Deadzone 3rd edition terrain. To
keep things simple, I built the set to pretty closely match the layout on
the b...
Sisters of Battle Priest - oct10_2024
-
All these years later and I finally have a female priest for my Sisters of
Battle, i.e. Adepta Sororitas army! I was using those Mordheim females, the
Si...
28mm Classical Indians for Saga
-
After I had finished painting several armies for the Saga Age of Alexander
book (Macedonian, Successors, Greeks), I thought I was done with that era.
I ...
Autobús de línia
-
Countryside omnibus Minairons, escala 1/72 (=20mm) Això d'avui és el
prototip d'un model de vehicle civil que ben aviat treuré al mercat sota la
meva marca...
OPERATION MARKET GARDEN +80 Full AAR, PART I
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*Market Garden After Action Report*
Pic showing 9 of the 11 players & GMs who started the game, clockwise from
Left to Right: Chris (82nd Airborne), Alex...
#Herohammer
-
1500 points local one day team event tomorrow. Army guidelines probably
should have just been ‘no dragons’.
https://www.facebook.com/share/yT3UJgEeonoY...
Oh eBay, thou temptress
-
*Oh, the shame*I regret nothing. Nothing!
Some cutting in, a few details, maybe some back-lining, and they'll slot
right in with the Littler Britons.
LEGO® Winter Village Collection
-
Below is the new lego Winter Village (Santa's Post Office) for 2024
*Frequently Asked Questions*
*What is the LEGO® Winter Village Collection?...
Dark Future Games Has Moved
-
Dear Blogging Brethren and readers. DFG has been reborn and relocated to
another platform. DFG has its own domain and platform now. I started this
blo...
Aliens! This time it's.....September
-
At the last club meeting I played a game of Aliens. The rules were a close
offspring of the original Leading Edge Aliens board game and it was lots of
f...
SP207 Resiste Et Mords AAR
-
One of three scenarios I am playing from S'Punckt 18, a pack I have owned
for years but not got round to playing!! SP207 Resiste Et Mords.
This scenario ...
Worst Rabbit Hole: Rapid Dice
-
I hereby declare that I may be on the verge of madness and about to start
something which may well get away from me if I'm not very careful. After a
fa...
It Lives!
-
Well it certainly has been a while since I posted on here. Life actually
does happen to us and interrupts our plans but at last I find myself with
enoug...
Crocodiles in the Congo!
-
I had hoped to post a full and detailed account of Dr. Jones' adventure in
the Congo, but with the end of the long summer holiday and the start of the
ac...
More Sci-Fi City Estate
-
I've been making a a push to get my Sci-Fi City towards a place of
"completion", as in finish the buildings and scenics I already have (which
is more...
Summer 2024
-
It has been some time since I posted on the blog. Some games have been
taking place, but I just haven't got around to reporting them. Being
summer othe...
"Lust for Glory" at Colours
-
Here are a few shots of the first test game of the "horse and musket" rules
I've been working on, tentatively named "Lust for Glory."
This was the fir...
Chwalipost
-
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Kilka dni temu dotarła do mnie przesyłka z Anglii od mojego przyjaciela
Wojtka z bardzo cenną zawartością- Wojtek systematycznie obdarowuje mnie
wyn...
Dronningens Livregiment
-
Another unit for my growing Danish army... Warfare Miniatures, of course!
The mounted officer is from one of the Cuirassier Officer packs (tricorns &
fro...
Blog problem
-
* So, I'm cleaning up the sidebars of the Chronicles. Removing defunct
links, creating new ones...somebody has to do it.*
Here's the problem: there are a...
FWS Ships of the Line: Explorer and Science Ships
-
Often one of the set pieces for high space adventure and tragedy is those
spacecraft that go where no one has gone before and may never go again if
the ou...
Back to War
-
So after seven months away from the game table, last night I went
downstairs and refreshed my memory about the battle and units set up on my
table since ...
Some D&D 50th Anniversary Miniatures
-
For the 50th Anniversary of D&D, WizKids has released a set of Icons of the
Realms figures representing creatures from 1st ed. AD&D and the current 5th
ed....
If You Go Down To The Woods Today.......
-
It was already afternoon when the column came into view of the border
tower. The eerie quiet put the old soldiers on their guard.
Suddenly the Queen's c...
And now, a little later than scheduled
-
I thought I has posted a month or so back about Time Lash, but I had only
managed to get half the post put together before something obviously
happened. ...
Phantom Creeps Robot by Mike Tongue
-
As many of you who know me I love the old pulp series and the weird the
better. The Robot from the Phantom Creeps serial has always struck me as
one cool...
Concerning the Future of Traveller
-
I have been a fan of Traveller for a long time and have bought various
books over the years from just about every Traveller licensee, as well as
from Ma...
Undead - Vampire Knight
-
Today we have a miniature I've been slowly ticking over in between other
projects. It's taken months of five minutes here and ten minutes there to
comple...
Again with the delays...
-
Welp, still here although hard to tell that recently!Seems to be one
problem after another and sometimes compounded - work getting worse with
personnel sh...
More ACW Figures
-
These new stands of figures are ready for maneuvers. Figures are 28mm
Steve Barber models. Not sure how I like them; the figs have separate
torsos, he...
Back in the system.
-
Hello again and welcome to Inso's World.
I have a bit of an announcement... after about two-and-a-half years away
from paid work, I am finally employed...
So long and thanks
-
Exploring the blogosphere recently I came across someone who had us listed
under "Blogs I Follow". Given that we haven't posted anything since 2013
this ...
Trouble At Egershavn
-
*While the King is away on one of his adventures, the Queen and her son are
on their way to Egershavn by ship. The Queen has a small escort including a
c...
Cave trolls
-
Deep in the darkest, dankest caverns and caves, they live. Their eyes are
almost useless after decades of darkness, their skin has almost calcified
in the ...
Realm of Chaos Campaign : Battle reports
-
Hi, two weeks ago with Slaanesh_Child and I, we played the four last
battles of the campaign started in February this year. A great campaign
finish with ...
Tabletop Terraformation
-
Only God, the poet writes, can make a tree. But you can make or buy all
manner of miniature facsimiles that will enhance your wargame table and
make your...
Updated Bloodybacks! rules for the AWI
-
I have revised and updated these rules and changed these on the "pages"
section of the blog.
So, we are now up to version 9.
There are some key additi...
Friday Quick Tip: Gundam Nippers
-
As some of you may have noticed, I've been slowly working my way back into
the hobby pretty heavily. From consuming as much about the lore as I can,
t...
ACW Command Stands
-
Finally got around to adding some command stands for my ACW armies although
to be honest I've had these done for a few weeks already. Although I
haven...
Fantasy wargaming campaign system
-
The campaign map in all its glory...
I had a request to go over my fantasy campaign system that I mention in my
fantasy battle reports, so here is the o...
The Dead Rise in Warhammer Quest 95!
-
Welcome back Adventurers,
Its been a while since I last posted, but had an interesting few months
with lots of stuff going on around the home. But earlie...
MCP: Daredevil (Matt Murdock) (2)
-
As I mentioned in my last post about 'Ancient One', I have been undecided
on which Affiliation to play next, but have been leaning towards trying out
Defe...
Derek’s Wee Decals
-
I have been designing and laser printing waterslide decals for my own use
for a number of years and now that I’ve retired from full-time employment
I’ve de...
Memorial Day Sunday Flowers
-
Provided these flowers at my church on Sunday in memory of our departed
church comrades on this Memorial Day weekend.
And also in memory of my father, L...
Andreivian Armenian Air Support
-
I've recently added this Hawker Hunter FB Mk6 to the Andreivian air fleet.
It's based on the Mistercraft kit, which is a complete dog. I strongly
recomme...
Littoral Commander - First Impressions
-
Littoral Commander is a modern to *futuristic* (more on this later) era
wargame, focused on a potential conflict between US Marine (USMC) and
Chinese Peo...
Old Guard & a Note of Caution
-
Hi Everyone!
Here are some pictures of recently completed French Old Guard from North
Star Military Figures Retreat From Moscow range.
Plus, just a hea...
Back Down the Rabbit Hole?
-
Not quite... ...Mini-Me-Minor's friend likes the toy soldiers, the two of
them use them to play wargames and RPGs. He does, however, keep asking me
if ...
Rictus Bay Grinners
-
Did I not tell you about my obsession with the Citadel Miniatures golden
era skeletons of the 80s. It never really went away.
These two recent Ebay wins ...
All change!.
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Due to vast amounts of unwanted attention I am taking this blog down
permanently. But fear not, I have copied most of the posts onto a new blog My
"Old ...
Legionary 2024 trader update
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Some more traders booked in over the last couple of days... now we expect
to see
Blotz
Charlie Foxtrot
Cornish Mikey
Disain Studios
Ironclad Miniatures...
Napoleonic British 3rd Battalion of Detachments
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OK, anyone who knows their Napoleonic history will immediately be scoffing
at me, saying there was never was a British 3rd Battalion of Detachments.
And th...
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*A Visual History of Flatting from the Pages of Modern *
*Scientific Comix*
By Brian S. Roe
In the history of modern comic book production there are m...
Leipzig Refight in 28mm for Easter
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Several of the local Napoleonic’s Gamers are doing a large refight of
Leipzig over Easter 2024 with 28mm armies at a 1/100 ratio (so essentially
Regiments/...
Leipzig Refight in 28mm for Easter
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Several of the local Napoleonic’s Gamers are doing a large refight of
Leipzig over Easter 2024 with 28mm armies at a 1/100 ratio (so essentially
Regiments/...
Oath of Moment
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Chaos Lord with the Mark of Slaanesh
It's been a long while since I've posted anything on here and it will
likely be a long time before I do so again. ...
Cold Barrage was Fantastic
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My son and I had a great time at the one day event.
I played "Save the Montcalm" a re-skinning of another game "Save the
Wellington".
Save the Montca...
Fragile 60 year old Airfix Chicken Legs
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The idea originally was to paint up just a couple of farm animals as
scenery for some projects.
Enthusiasm got the better of me as I started to dig throu...
Legions Imperialis: the Alpha Legion strikes!
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Wes now has 1,000 points of Alpha Legion marines painted, so we met up for
a game. I brought the same combined Blood Angels and Dusk Raiders force as
in...
A Bevy of Beyond the Supernatural Sheets
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I don't know if anyone out there is still playing *Beyond the Supernatural*
("BtS"), Palladium's fun* little game of proto-super heroes hunting the
para...
More boring Martian buildings Jan2024
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WIPs and one finished Canal Priest Apothecary for general use on random
tables.
A couple of shops in the high class Legation district. Once fin...
Never saw that one coming (2)
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Well I should have posted on here last week about the Solo Jacobite
campaign I’m running but I’ve been sent a real curved ball.
So last Sunday morning w...
A Reflection on 2023
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Welcome back to Chris' Miniature Woes! It's been quite a journey, and I
appreciate your patience as I navigate through the challenges that 2023
brought i...
Legion Imperials First Battle and Thoughts
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I have found that when it comes to understanding a new game system, you
can read the rules all you want but until you play it, it is hard to see
how th...
Happy New Year
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Hi everyone, normally I would be posting my "review of the year" today and
my plan for 2024 tomorrow.
But as some of you may know I'm poorly in hospital...
Dungeon Saga Origins Solo Guide
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Mantic has released the Beta versions of the Digital Adventure Books for
Dungeon Saga Origins so I will use that to provide an overview of the
Dungeon Sag...
Mounted Longbowmen (I)
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Just managed a quick post, before the Festive break.
This is quick update on the Burgundian longbowmen, who are a work in
progress. I decided that these...
Merry Christmas 2023 and Always
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This painting arrived as a Christmas card a few days ago. It is the most
beautiful depiction of love and adoration of Jesus by heavenly angels and
his...
Field fortifications
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In September of this year, one dozen scenarios were designed and tested for
a mid-17th century map-less campaign. Scenarios are randomly selected with
ob...
Things Photographed: PERRY UNION INFANTRY
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I'm getting some quite abysmal quality photo's of my work, I hope these do
a better job of representing the colours used.
Unfortunately it wont improve ...
NECRONS - A 40k Journey begin
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Necrons - A 40k Journey
Introduction
Bon Décembre arrive et j'ai réservé ce mois aux Morts vivants. Je compte
donc rattraper mon retard en terme de Bac...
100 Hours War Scenario
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Having picked up a Helion title on this conflict, I have come up with my
own Check Your 6! scenario, entitled "Soto Gets Three." It has not been
playtested...
Very Sad News
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I'm very sorry to be making this post but I've just learned that Dale past
away from a heart attack on November 5th.
Most of my relationship with Dale wa...
WELCOME BACK
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After a long break I have decided to try and restart the Blog. Hopefully,
it will attract some attention. Below are some of my Burgundians. These are
Fro...
Remote Game of Age of Penda
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Revisiting My *Age of Penda* Review
I used to review rules with giving a playtest, simply analyzing the rules
on paper. That was a big mistake when I rate...
Kings of War Kingdoms of Men Army
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This weekend, I went to a Kings of War tournament called Refugees of the
Olde Worlde in Rexburg, Idaho. It was a great time, but I realized that the
army...
Flipped coins not fair?
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It should not be a complete surprise that flipped coins do not exactly meet
the ideal of fair 50/50 outcomes. After all the stamp on each side must
shift t...
Situs Slot Pembasmi Kuman
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Situs Slot Online Pembasmi Kuman telah menjadi salah satu hiburan favorit
bagi banyak orang, terutama selama masa pandemi ini. Artikel…
Artikel Situs Slo...
New Fantasy sets from Alliance
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I know, I havent been active for..???..a long time but I keep looking at
what´s going on in the world of bods..and today I found
these.....Apparently the...
Flames of War Projects for August
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August was a great month for me and the hobby. I painted lots of stuff
and managed to get in a few games as well. August saw a return to Flames
of War...
Out of Storage Part 4: A Mixed Bag
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Pulling out drawers and giving some of these minis the light of day.
AT43
US Army Infrantry and Jeeps
US Army Infrantry, Jeeps and Tanks
Ditto
Star Wars and...
Logs
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Another quick post. Good chum Colin gifted these lovely resin pieces to me
(thanks mate!). These were beautifully cast and very straightforward to
paint us...
15mm Terminator: Junkyard Dogs
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I’ve started work on sourcing and painting up some scenic elements and
terrain for the 15mm Terminator project, and am kicking things off with
some wr...
The Way of the Future?
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The way of the future? Anycubic's Photon Mono X
I started a new adventure into 3D printing and I've had a couple of
Anycubic printers now. I love it, a...
Auction Of The Late Peter Cushing’s Toys
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I came across this notice:
https://www.thecanterburyauctiongalleries.com/home
At the bottom right it mentions “toys”.
Mr. Cushing was an avid toy sol...
Painting 3mm
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Painting 3mm miniatures
Painting 3mm miniatures is not exceptionally difficult but it requires
methodology.
Here is what I do:
I first prime everything ...
Cannich Scots
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Also known as part two of the *Shadows of Yog-Sothoth* segment in our *Call
of Cthulhu *campaign. Arriving in Scotland, our three intrepid
investigators ...
Limited Edition Gamesday 2004 Archaon
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The 2004 Gamesday Archaon miniature is one of my favorite limited edition
miniatures GW made. I figured I would paint him up for my Chaos Army.
I ch...
The sloop "Dog"
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The Infamous pirate "Black Dog" before sailing with Captain Flint and John
Silver made quite a name on the high seas in the unimaginatively christened
...
Bunker Hill (1775) Scenario for Volley & Bayonet
-
The link below is to my Volley & Bayonet scenario for Bunker Hill (1775).
The scenario is a wing scale scenario. I have also included a second copy
of the ...
AWI: current state of affairs
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As I've just recently stepped over the 50% mark on my AWI project for
Sharp Practice, a couple of roll-call pics are appropriate.
Week26 Updates
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A bit more progress over the last few weeks, although I still am not
getting out the brushes as often as I would like / need to. The
legionaries are fin...
Time for another post!
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As I haven't posted since August last year I feel it's probably high time
I posted again (maybe now a sort of bi-annual thing?) No sooner recovered
fro...
MY PATREON ! Come join me on Patreon !
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(Trouvez la version française en dessous ;) )Hello Everyone !A bit of time
since my "1K on Instagram" and Social Medias post ! :)As I wrote in this
last po...
Paimon Miniatures Chaos Dwarves
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It's official. I am now a miniatures company. After long years of plotting,
planning and general mucking about, my first commercially available figures
are...
This is Minuteman: Two-Three
-
Since my wargaming hobby has taken a back(far back) seat to my simming
hobby, I've gone from reading books about the Napoleonic wars etc. To
listening t...
Two new Civil War titles from Osprey!
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Osprey Publishing has released two new titles related to the American Civil
War. Timothy J. Orr and Steve Noon again have collaborated to produce the
secon...
GW Contrast Paints on 15mm Horses
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My first purchase of the GW Contrast paints was with painting horses in
mind. There are times when I quite like painting them but when you have a
hundre...
Hurricon 2022 Photo Report: A Bit Late...
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It has been several months since my last post, which was photos from
HMGS-South's Recon 2022 convention. I thought I had deleted the photos in
this post,...
An Update!
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Wow - it has been a long time since I updated my blog! I don't know how
that happened, other than, well, one gets busy and time goes by before you
kno...
A slightly disappointing vist to Salute...
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I was very excited to go to Salute again today as the last one I attended
was, thanks to the Chinese, four years ago. I hadn't even been on the
London ...
Forgotten Figures!
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So I finished these a month ago and completely forgot to post them up.
First up is a pair of Ashigaru with yari bases for my lifetime Samurai
project. Thes...
March Madness
-
To some extent, I am feeling like we are in middle of the long decline of
the personal blog, but that might be just because I am having trouble
getting ...
Tallarn
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Tallarn troops for the Imperium!! these are 3d scans of the original metal
miniatures I got from a friendly guy on facebook. scaled down to 20mm scale.
A Variety Pack of 15mm
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I recently painted up some 15mm figures, from Alternative Armies. A long
time ago I received a sample pack of sci-fi and fantasy figures. I finally
dec...
Spinward Marches Solutions, LLIC.
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*Art by Ian Stead, by commission.*
*Spinward Marches SolutionsRhylanor/2716 Spinward Marches*
*UCP: Im◄2444●23►LLPAR●Sec◄0466●56►*
Established at the en...
Reiksguard Unit Complete!!
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For my January submission to the Call of the Crown painting challenge I
have produced a unit of 15 Reiksguard knights to act as the elite heavily
armore...
Hilltop Hovel - 15mm
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In truth, this is more than a hovel. I picked up this resin kit on sale
years ago, and finally painted it about 2017. I am in a state of having to
downs...
Tenoch/Slann forced labour party
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Tenoch Enhanced Warriors, or slaves for my Slann. Unfortunate
neighbours or prisoners of war, they do the dirty work for their overlords.
Austrian SYW Artillery
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With this article, I will present the Seven Years’ War periods most
celebrated artillery. The new fine ordnance fielded by the troops of her
majesty, the...
Tournement Diorama and new stuff
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There is the third diorama and with the New stuff of The Nords i will creat
a fourth one now. Please feel FREE to Comment my work. Tanks a lot a...
Why does Alcovia use non-Russian Vehicles?
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The real answer is model availability. Most miniatures ranges have yet to
catch up to even the 90s. So I filled in blanks with hardware from other
n...
The Year 2022 in Review!
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Hoi,
Another year has gone and passed and so it's on to the numbers of painted
figures from 2022. Before I will go into that I would like to wish all of...
8 Rads - Gotta love ‘em #1
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So, one of the most popular builds I’ve done, in all scales, is by far the
Sdkfz 234/2 ( commonly, but disputed, aka Puma), so with another queued up,
I...
Late Imperial Roman East DBA Book II/78
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Well about 15 years later I finally finished this army up. Next up:
Sassanids and Armenians for a mini campaign I’ll play at home (since 15mm
small scale a...
Forgotten Futures 4 Updates
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As some of you will know I've been revising my RPG setting based on
Carnacki the Ghost Finder and converting it to PDFs. I've reached a point
with this n...
November Update
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I've been slow to update my blog for the past few months. I was able to do
some hobby stuff in late October, but a recent setback in my cancer
treatment ...
Etsy Store - Grognard Terrain (15mm Cyberpunk)
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Recently I launched an Etsy store (Grognard Terrain) which seems like
something that was bound to happen.
I've been a big fan of Lazy Forger's sculpting...
Geschiedenis 24 over 1672
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Quite I while ago I posted a link to an old TV programma, amd after
overcoming some technical problems I can repost the video here.
Tercio of Barón de Gramont, 1642-43
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Tercio de Barón de Gramont; el ejército español de Flandes 1642-48
Recruited from Burgundians (Franc-comtois). Fought alongside the veteran
Spanish *ter...
French Knights for Patay (IV)
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So I made some progress over the earlier summer months, to add more bases
of French knights for a future Patay game.
Here are some pics. They are pret...
Painting Sudan
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With a new vigour for painting and some motivation to get things done, I
ordered a Dervish army from Peter Pig a couple of weeks ago and painted
them up...
Aztecs
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The book
Eagle Knight
warriors
Conquistadors
All painted by DJ
These figures are a cross over from the Malta collection.
Still a fair bit of this to see.
Relocated Kingdom
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This Blog has been a bit quiet recently. That's mainly due to the fact I'm
concentrating on posting to the Facebook page I set up.
https://www.facebook.com...
Car Insurance Sioux Falls
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*Car Insurance Sioux Falls*. The best price for comprehensive car insurance
in sioux falls for most drivers is from state farm at an average annual
premi...
A Return of Sorts
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It's been a pretty horrible couple of years, hasn't it?
We've lost loved ones, been beset by fires and floods, and found ourselves
in the middle of a pand...
Ogre Redux!
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So I love painting ogres - so sue me. I really do enjoy them, especially
the great Reaper Bones sculpts that you can get for cheap. That and the
fact tha...
A Wellsian interlude
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Taking the chance to get the guns and matchsticks out on a sunny Sunday
afternoon…
Bought at some point in a job lot ( I think) these were lying unused i...
Blackstone Fortress - 2nd Expedition
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Rogue Trader Janus Draik, Imperial Navigator Espern Locarno, Eldar ranger
Amallyn Shadowguide, and Kroot tracker Dahyak Grekh unite to once again
enter the...
Scenes from the Barrowmaze
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My daughter and I started playing thru Barrowmaze , (which if you are not
familiar is a classic mega dungeon campaign for old school style RPG play) ...
Terrain Workshop Sorted (at least for now)
-
Well I've managed to clean out the Terrain Workshop. Sadly, the bulk of
the "debris" consisted of various shipping boxes that were retained for
storag...
It's been a decade, now...
-
This is a tough time of year for me. So, with your indulgence, here's this
link to a post I did a decade ago... EDIT: I have no idea why it didn't
take. S...
Five Parsecs from Home
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https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1iR21seWKkH3AvpdIzdClfhrhmT3o1BSP]
Hello Mik's Minis viewers!
And if you're from the 'before times' a ...
Hiasi Dengan Permadani Dinding Gantung
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tv jernih cukup banyak pilihan antena untuk daerah yang susah sinyal, baik
itu dari dalam dan luar negeri. Untuk merk lokal Anda bisa membelinya di
toko el...
Bataille de Lützen, 16 novembre 1632
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Il y a plus de 11 ans, j'écrivais sur ce blog :
"Lützen, Bataille emblématique de la guerre de 30 ans, aux côtés de La
Montagne Blanche, Breitenfeld, Nö...
Getting on Even Footing
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* by: farmpunk*
I got busy, and didn't write about something I'm beyond excited about! Some
friends and I started a Game Company. Primarily Role Playing...
VBCW Game 2022- Attacking Shrewsbury
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I have just got back from having a great game of VBCW in Shrewsbury. The
two day battle features various factions manoeuvring close to the Free City
of S...
Wargaming the interwar period
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*CROSSPOSTED FROM WARGAMING MISCELLANY*
This year’s VCOW (Virtual Conference of Wargamers) took place over the
weekend, and I was able to take part in se...
I remembered the Alamo
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For those of you who have been reading my blog the last couple months, you
will have realized that I am participating in the 12th Annual Analogue
Hobbies P...
Risk
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I have played a traditional game for the first time in it seems forever
(since before the pandemic was pronounced, anyway). As you can guess from
the t...
The Constantinov Regiment
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Whilst I have, for the most part, 'moth-balled' my Classic Wargaming
collection over the past few years, occasionally I get the urge to dip back
into it....
Ancient / Medieval village church
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The finished small village church/chapel, made from poly board with the
outer covering of card mostly removed and the exposed foam scribed with
lines to ...
23rd October, Hampshire
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Alton DBA and the 2021 UK DBA League
After nearly 2 years (since Tarrington 2019), with a trip down to Alton,
we were able to wind up the DBA League's...
The Great War Martian War
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The Great Martian War is a documentary about the Martian Invasion of the
world, and the ensuing war to stop them, during the period of 1913 to
1917. I...
X-Men United Wolverine tutorial and photos
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Here's a video showing how I painted up Wolverine from Marvel United
X-Men. He's a larger scale then I'm used to, so I tried using a zenithal
base and m...
Grimy Green Ghostly Skeleton Revenants
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Kevin Dallimore wrote this fine article on a variant of painting undead
Revanants for Oathmark, and I wanted to try it out on my Triumph of Death
skel...
I am leaving but no one fucking cares
-
This blog is done.
No one interacts and i'm tired of begging the world for connection.
If you have a blog that people connect to, comment on (like I did...
Lost Tomb of the Bitchin Chimera Characters
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It has been a LONG time since I posted here...
I backed the Lost Tomb of the Bitchin Chimera kickstarter last year. I
don’t back a LOT of kickstarters ...
Campaign Battle of Freezing Hill
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Another of the War in the West country campaign battle has been run by
Murdock and Cod.
a largely cavalry on cavalry match
Read Codsticker's account h...
Extra Turrets – Released for LAV and Tank Kits
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The Extra Turrets kit for the LAV and Tank kits is now available on the
usual resellers. This kit is an expansion, so you will also need the LAV or
Tank ...
Review: Oathmark Goblin Wolf Riders
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The Goblin Wolf Riders are the first Oathmark models I have bought and I
purchased them specifically to add hobgoblin light cavalry to my Chaos
Dwarf a...
Hessian Jagers
-
I keep finding little bits of American War of Independence projects hidden
in interesting places. these guys were on bases, primed or partially
painted, in...
GM's side of "Checkpoint Chester"...
-
So it's been a while since I have done anything "Bongolesia wise", and as
explained in the 2020 update, there's just been so much going on lately in
my ...
Megalania and Komodo Dragons
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Megalania (Varanus priscus) is an extinct species of giant monitor
lizard,[1] part of the megafaunal assemblage that inhabited Australia
during the Pleisto...
And Don't Bring Hordes to a Knight Fight!
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Ahiahi marie ano, Good afternoon again,
Game two. Goblins vs. Orcses. Hordes vs. Warband.
For the second game we both brought out our Greenskins. My Rae...
The "Hitari" Brothers, Masters of Death
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Pues tenemos enemigos para el Lobo, perdon Perro solitario y su cachorro,
los famosos hermanos Hidari, maestros de la muerte de Bac Ninh Miniatures.
Grand Opening May 22nd, 2021
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My new game store, Third Coast Games, will have our grand opening
celebration on Saturday, May 22nd. I've been envisioning a game store like
"CHEERS"...
A Lovely Stroll
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Today’s game is not one that should need much introduction with praise from
reviewers all over the internet and a solid rating on BGG. It’s PARKS. The
game...
Carthaginian army part 1: Numidian Cavalry.
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At last a new post.
First I like to tell that the chemotherapy has done it's work. I'm cancer
free. No operation needed.
Although I still suffer from some s...
A few more Prussians to be going on with.
-
Well, as anyone reading this will have probably noticed, I'm behind
schedule again. Lots of real world things going on to cause distractions
like hav...
15mm Hundred Years War English Archers
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My first batch of English Archers for my Hundred Years War English Army
that I am building specifically to recreate the English Army of Agincourt.
The...
-
*ANNOUNCEMENT FROM STRATEGIC ELITE*
Hi friends, Bob Faust here. I wanted to make a general announcement
regarding my hiatus from the development of...
Richard Ansell. Very sad News
-
It is with tremendous sadness that I must report the passing of the hugely
talented sculptor and great friend of not just me but all of the Lard
Island cre...
Prussian Horse Artillery WIP1
-
Just started the last of my Prussian artillery, this time AB horse
artillery loading crew.
These are some of my favourite Prussian figures, I'm guessing...
Battle of the Falklands - a Full Thrust scenario
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Battle of the Falklands
A Full Thrust Scenario by Phil Broeders
*Authors notes*
This scenario is based on the The Battle of the Falkland Islands, ...
2020 Good year, bad year
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I thought I'd put together a few photos from the past year, some of it has
already appeared here, most not, its mainly just pictures of figures I've
pai...
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Another solo game, Combat Patrol. I used the layout earlier in the week to
play another game but thought rather than pack it up I would give Comba...
NEW BLOG ALERT
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So I'm not sure anyone will be reading this, but I have returned to the
world of blogging, this time on a different platform and with a gaming
focus muc...
33 Ford Coupe
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I finished up the video on the 33 Ford Coupe. This is a much cleaner
build than the Mustang I posted last week. I was trying a new paint, Turbo
Dork M...
Sisters of Battle - Order of the Bloody Rose
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Long time since I posted anything new here, but with the ongoing Covid-19
and lockdown situations, I've had time to hobby more this year. So much so,
I'v...
Work In Progress!
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I am currently trying out a re-design of this site, starting today (16th
October 2020), so it may be a bit wonky over the next few days. Please bear
with m...
Blogging about Space Hulk
-
Written by Ron Saikowski, October 10, 2020I've decided to start blogging
and sharing my Space Hulk material. Space Hulk: Boarding Mission Space Hulk
has al...
It’s a long way to Sardis
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While getting ready to play Marathon, I have started to ponder the lack of
Persian cavalry. Herodotus says that the Persians chose Marathon bay as a
landi...
The Cult Expands
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Got some more work on the Cult done - finished the Neophytes squad and
added a pack of Aberrants.
Next on the docket for them are some Genestealers, an...
NEW IMAGI-NATIONS ATOMIC AGE BLOG
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I've created a new blog to record my miniature craftwork in my imaginary
cold war gone hot campaign setting. I will remove those posts from this
blog ...
FOW Solo Play US Airborne vs German Grenadier
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I've had these two companies painted for a long time and now with my son on
the west coast, I am giving it a go by myself. Be advised I am not a strict
a...
326 BC The Battle of Hydaspes
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Just posting a few images from the game we played yesterday afternoon, The
Battle of Hydaspes, where Alexanders veteran army fought the Indian King
Porus...
Alan Cook
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I wanted to register my sadness at hearing of the passing of Alan Cook of
the ABC Wargamers' blog, after a long illness.
Alan amongst other things was a gr...
This Blog Will Close in December 2020
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This blog will close in early December and it will be taken down
altogether. This is part of my retirement plan.
The original content is still availabl...
Sky Galleons of Mars now possible
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Years ago my friend Kurt and I picked up Sky Galleons of Mars at The
gamestore in Atlanta at the time, Sword of the Phoenix.
Of course I was excited becaus...
Time to get back to work ..updates
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I've neglected to post new stuff the past few years (?). A friend of mine
commented that I should finish the artillery section and then the cavalry
sect...
Return of the Menagerie
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(With Apologies to George Lucas and Lucasfilms)
Well, it's been a while, but in the words of Sam Gamgee - "I'm back"
So where have I been I hear you a...
Indian Mutiny Sharpes Practice
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This was a 70 point game using the first scenario in the Sharpes Practice
rule book.
Both the forces of Major Charles Wutherington Inbred-Smyth of the 19...
Working on a new game!
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After many, many yeats I'm working on a hex-based, introductory wargame
that will cover different historical periods. I'm very excited by this new
projec...
Oosterbeek 1944
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The other day the lads got together for a small Chain of Command game. We
took the scenario from Wargames Soldiers and Strategy 107.
An SS German force was...
Blundering Through the Borderland- Turns 2-4.
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This is a continuation of my experiment to combine the Five Leagues from
the Borderland (5L) campaign rules with the Thud and Blunder (TB) skirmish
rules f...
JUNE 2020 UPDATE
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Its time for monthly progress report and update.
As a reminder I have 6 projects I am running with:
1. Tier 1 15mm Napoleonics
2. Tier 1 20mm Moderns
3. T...
After a long hiatus, I'm finally back to Space 1889
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Been many years but I finally got the colonial bug again and going to play
it out on Mars.
So over the past month I've started rebasing my old RAFM 1889 fig...
GENERAL D'ARMEE on CYL TV
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Hi Team
Here are the videos I've created thus for covering some General D'Armee
games:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8VX1GJ37NUyDgdO1lmE6rAzo87zT...
British Light Infantry
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The light company of the 49th Regiment of Foot was part of the 2nd Light
Battalion formed in North America by General Howe's order of 14th May 1776.
The ot...
Kebugaran Mengubah Wajah Tur PGA
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Lalu apakah Glumory akan menghasilkan Ketergantungan & menimbulkan efek
samping glumory beauty drink ? sama sekali Tidak, dikarenakan Glumory
terbuat hanya...
George Cross for NHS
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I've noticed over the net that various folks have been suggesting that the
NHS as an organization be awarded a George Cross.
The people certainly qualify f...
Standby for future content...
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I have decided to take up my tools and add to this project. 11 years ago I
sold the collection and still had one or two bits lined up to make. The
2020 cov...
Arapaho Indian 75mm from Pegaso models with Horse
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A quick turnaround this time as I did say I have been needing to post
several of my works.
So here we have a 75mm Arapaho Indian with his trusty steed, bot...
MotorChamp Racing Formula 1
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I am solo running a season of F1 using MotorChamp by AZA-Spiele e.K..
The game is printed in German and I have a translation into English from
Boardgamegee...
Secret Battles
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I caught his elusive little gamer to be making use of all the terrain.
Normally I just find Peppa Pig's friends and family in all the buildings.
The end
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This will unfortunately be my last blog post. I am critically ill in a
hospice and I do not know how much time I have left to live. I have
thooughly enjoye...
Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Tips for Designing Games
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Ok, ok, ok... I know Kurt Vonnegut never designed games (to the best of my
knowledge, anyway). But he was an exceptional author who knew how to craft
an en...
The Ents are Marching to War
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Gathered the Treemen into a moot to discuss the despoliation of their woods
by Saruman's orcs and henchmen...
The figures are from a variety of manufacture...
Roger's emergency car fund
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My car is old and rusted and finally it won't pass inspection. This leaves
us without a car. We don't have an extended family or a rich uncle to bail
us ou...
A last minute update
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I've been very slack updating the blog this year, though I've actually been
more productive than ever with my hobby projects. Once again I find myself
post...
Zvezda 1:100 Sd.Kfz. 222
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A closer look at Zvezdas 1:100 Sd.Kfz.222 for their "Art Of Tactic"
wargame. As I mentioned in earlier posts, the use for this model is not
limited to th...
The Navy's very own game!
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Aeronautica Imperialis is a new Games Workshop game set in the Warhammer
40,000 universe, with models in a scale all of its own. This new game is
all about...
100 Posts!
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Looking for stray comments from yesterday's post, I realized I had just
achieved the bell weather accomplishment of 100 posts! Yea! I have been
posting ...
Colonial River Gunboats
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Things have been quiet on the naval front at Col Campbell's Barracks, but a
post on the Miniatures Page about the construction of a river gunboat
brought ...
15mm Battered Markers for Dragon Rampant......
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*........and some ladders!*
*The gravestones are leftovers and MDF from Blotz, these are used to
signify a unit in distress marker for the rules, rather t...
Levithan
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I just picked up a copy of Scotia Grendel's Leviathan. This is a game I've
been meaning to get for years but thanks to the excellent Leviathan War
blog, ...
Happy 'belated' Birthday Jack!!
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Today I learnt that one of the most inspirational individuals in my 20mm
hobby was 90 on the 22nd August.
Happy belated birthday Jack...here's my little tr...
Путешествие к ставке Германа Геринга Steinbruch
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В Винницкой области есть много памяток практически всех европейских войн и
одна из них, почему то мало известная ставке Германа Геринга "Steinbruch".
Она ...
Island Natives from Firelock Games
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*Island natives are must when playing adventurous pirate games in the
Caribbean. My buddy Jens got some island natives from Firelock Games to
form a "crew"...
Astropolis Enginarium Crew
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Another group of Astropolis crew members, this time the the crew of the
mighty ship's Enginarium. No starndard GW techpriest here, although I'm
looking aro...
US Infantry speed painting
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Sort of painted this platoon by accident. Started it a few weeks ago while
messing around with contrast paints on the light green kit.
The Hottest War & Peace Festival Ever !
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Probably the most impressive and unusual 'kit' at this years War & Peace
extravaganza was this superb Marder 111. This was very interesting to see
close...
Compagnie de Sapeurs-Mineurs
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My Napoleonic project continues, very much in the background, but it does
continue. These lovely Victrix conversions by Lionel Bechara represent the
comp...
3mm Neo-Soviet Army
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I have returned to micro-scale syfy warfare with the 3mm Science Fiction
line from PicoArmor. I want a Neo-Soviet force for a near future Earth
campaign. M...
42 Murray regiment of Foot
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Since I am concentrating on battlefields around our Maison for battlefield
tours and wargaming them I am selling off my English units for the French
Indian...
A Tale of Two Battles - Part the Second
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After the battle recorded in the previous post, I felt I had unfinished
business with Paul and his Russians, so I challenged him to a game the
followin...
28mm US Marine Corps Vietnam Miniatures: Part II
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Part II of the all new range of 28mm Vietnam 1968 Wargame range have
arrived. Ten new sculpts adding yet more drama and excitement in the form
of US Marine...
Ape Rules
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Imgur user AKouzmanoff posted card images for the Empire of the Apes. I
have no thoughts on any of this except that King Kodo says screw you flying
things...
40K Terrain Bits and Pieces
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While I have not posted much so far this year, there have been plenty of
projects underway on the hobby table. The biggest driver has been our
group's 40K...
Great nmm tutorial
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A perfectly good to read and easy to follow explanation of how to draw NMM.
http://merlinsmagicworkshop.blogspot.com/2019/03/hi-everyone-welcome-for-anoth...
Wild West Exodus Build #1 Doctor's Office
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So, after a long, long time, I'm back at blogging. I have put together
several of the Wild West Exodus buildings by Warcradle and I'm having a
blast with ...
Warhammer Underworlds - Godsworn (Oathsworn) Hunt
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I continue to enjoy playing *Warhammer Underworlds (aka Shadespire or
Nightvault).* It is a fun game where the character abilities, cards, and
board lay-o...
Cold Wars 2019
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*Glen Shiel 1719:*
On Saturday night I ran the battle of Glen Shiel 1719. The theme for the
convention was mountain warfare, so this was one battle that ...
Rashaar
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I have finished painting up my Rashaar starter crew/warband. I have had
great fun painting these up and yes they are all stood in puddles it helps
them mov...
Mongol War Machines
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This post is my recently completed heavy fire power for my fantastical
Mongol collection. The crew are a combination of bits. Heads from FireForge
Mongol p...
Norse Giant
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Evening all! My last post was an update on my 3rd edition Warhammer Norse
army, and I mentioned in it that I had a Norse Giant on the way - well,
here he ...
[Review] Baccus 6mm Punic Wars Range
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Another review, this time of my latest batch of figures (a present from my
wife) which arrived this week. After being impressed by the new Age of
Hannibal ...
D'Anjou
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'May you live in interesting times' is the traditional Chinese curse and
my goodness, they just about got it right. I was astonished to turn on the
websit...
Blood Bowl Replacements Videos
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This blog is pretty much dead right now. If you are reading this... hello!
Check out these awesome Blood Bowl animations Superjail style!
Hot Reception
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Gun and crew by Hinchliffe (SYW range)Christmas is an anxious time if
you're Hessian - but this year we're ready for you Mr Washington!
The Devil In Your Head – Part 3
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Well I wasn’t planning on writing anymore on my mental health issues but
sometimes things conspire against you and the only way to battle it is to
be open,...
Battle Ravens Preview - PSC games
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Battle Ravens is a brand new boardgame created by Dan Mersey and produced
by the Plastic Soldier Company (http://www.pscgames.co.uk/). Apologies to
both as...
Stayin' alive
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Dear visitors of the blog......
It has been a while since the last update. Various people tried to take
care of this blog and for other various reasons one...
TFM has shut down
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Ed posted this; Hello folks. it’s with a heavy heart that I must announce
that Troll Forged Miniatures is winding down operations. Our casting
services wil...
How to paint Rusty Krieg??
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Long time no see!
Among the many projects I have been working on, and yes I do still live...
are some Krieg.
I was inspired to do some Krieg by my friend ...
Averaigne royal family
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Every kingdom has a royal family. In the case of my campaign setting of
Averaigne, it's a fairly young kingdom but they are still on their eleventh
king in...
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I'm not sure if anyone comes here anymore but a couple of years I
relaunched this site as Goaterdammerung which you can find at
http://goatmajor.org.uk . I...
Nintendo Switch – Quali Accessori?
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La Nintendo Switch è sicuramente una console fantastica per la sua
portabilità ma anche per la sua versatilità: Console handheld, Console
domestica e Conso...
Marine invasion
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Another great game of Team Yankee in 20mm tonight with Mark Piper. US
Marines come ashore in Denmark 1985 to counter a Soviet offensive but are
pushed ba...
Boarding Parties
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A couple of stands to represent RN boarding parties or sailors with
small-arms put ashore
For CD3 the count as 'other' so of limited use, expecting spec...
Moving To www.
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For the last month or so I've been working on moving my blog and web
presence over to www.iowagrognard.com . Blogger has been kind to me as
have all ...
Long time no see,
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All aboard? The PLA are moving out, on their way to establishing a new
homebase somewhere better suited for rapid deployment to your gamingtables.
The rang...
GASLIGHT at Heroicon
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GEARSON'S RAIDTHE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR BY GASLIGHT At Heroicon this year I
ran the same scenario as I did at Winter War. The Union had to set fire
to most of...
A question of storage
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It's not a question I have ever thought about. In fact apart from 1 storage
case I either use some old A4 paper boxes or I use the really useful
plastic on...
The problems with Geek culture - how big are they?
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So, blogging, it would seem, is something I find hard to keep up with!!! I
think that's an understatement. I find it far easier to post to forums and
to cr...
Savage Orcs 1987: First Rank Painted
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Hello! Here's the first rank of the old Savages painted. It's a pleasure to
give these old classics a new coat of paint...
These are gonna work as "Skulks...
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I thought I would pop in after a long time away and give you a bit of an
update. Recently I have been working on a new range of 28mm figures for
the Winte...
Fireforge Byzantines Part 1
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This, my Byzantine blog, was my second blog and first appeared (a few days
after my Spartan one) back in November 2005. At the time, with the
purchase ...
Imperial Guard get their first run
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Took what will eventually be my Cadian 317th Regiment "The Lost and
Forlorn" out for their first game last night. Went up against a fun
Genestealer cult l...
Rewrite of Fighting in Built Up Area Rules
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For the past month or so we have tried to update the existing rules for
combat in a built up area. The problem we have experienced is that the
rules aff...
Cult of Slaanesh - Dark Elf Sorceress
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I did this conversion quite some time ago and have looked forward to
painting it ever since - but never gotten around to it until now. I know
dark elves ar...
A Long Time Ago....
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I've been a Star Wars fan ever since my 11 year old imagination got carried
away by that Star Destroyer looming onto the screen firing at Princess
Leia's c...
Things are rumbling along!
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So, the launch of the Kickstarter for my book ARMIES & LEGIONS & HORDES
went off with a bang! It funded in three hours, and has continued to go
great gu...
Against The Giants, Part II
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As promised, I'm back. The image hosting issues have been thankfully
resolved, so here is part deux of Against The Giants (on the cheap).
After the Steadi...
Small men, big month
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It has been forever since I've had motivation to paint, which is
unfortunate. But what is fortunate, is that I got over myself a little
regarding that, and...
Touching base..January update
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Well we are now into February already and it’s time to check in on the past
month to fill in the gaps not covered by the past few posts.
The Painting an...
Giant Gorillas and Tattoos
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The Drowned Earth have just shared another couple of paintjobs I did for
them so I guess it’s only right that I pop them up here on the blog, with
some bon...
Victrix War Elephant part 2
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I filled the very small gaps in the elephant body halves and filed them.
These were not gaping holes by any means and I only needed a bit of Games
Work...
Damnation
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Got to the club the other night and tripped on a carpet runner. Result one
box of plastic miniatures dropped.
Broken shields, heads, javelins, swords and ho...
Perry Miniatures plastic Zulus: Part 1
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I have a lot of unpainted Zulus but none of them are really satisfactory.
Empress' British metals are marvellous but their Zulus are small,
anatomicall...
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At a local gaming event I met Jacob Fathbruckner of Iron Wind Metals he
ran a demo game of Chaos Wars a free set of wargames rules from Iron Wind
and Ra...
Review of 2017
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Well, it's that time of year again. For those of you still following, if
you haven't noticed a distinct downward trend over the past year or two,
I'm su...
This is the Night
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“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one
falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to
you. I ha...
Epilogue
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udate2017/I've noticed this blog is now rendered useless because of new
photobucket image sharing rules. I hope to recover images sometime in the
future....
Belgian Force Publique Uniforms
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Here are a couple of shots I took of Belgian Force Publique uniforms in the
Musée Royal de l’Armée et d’Histoire Militaire in Brussels. They appear to...
New Releases - December 2017
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Hi Folks!Time for some new releases! This time we got some two packs of new
Undead Orcs, four 1/300 aircrafts, MDF bases and something new - Elton's
perso...
It has been a bit
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Well, in the interim, I have been prepping for a career change, and this
blog has been lying fallow, as most of my game energy has been devoted to
learnin...
NEW RANGE: Romanians for WW2
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Already leaked in a couple of forums and finally ready for release is a
complete new range!
Subject is the *Romanian Army of World War Two*.
The miniatu...
French Line Infantry
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Here are two battalions of 1812 to 1815 French Line Infantry. The figures
are all Perry Miniatures, a mix of plastic and metal and most of them...
Frostgrave warband
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Some pics of my first Frostgrave warband. This group is from a variety of
sources, and heavily customized.
Here's some of the raw material for conversion:
...
Tau of War Masterpiece Commissions: Cypher
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Cypher is a hunted man. The Dark Angel Interrogator Chaplains are
relentless in their pursuit, following every lead no matter how bizarre.
Cypher cannot f...
END OF YEAR SALE : up to 40% off.
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END OF THE YEAR SALE. up to 40% off plus free models.
HI everyone, we are starting our end of the year sale a little early this
year to make sure we get al...
Ctrl-Alt-Del: the Day after Crisis
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What better time to restart this blog than what is to me the watershed
moment of the gaming year: the Crisis show by the Tin Soldiers of Antwerp.
Right now...
Completed Deff Dread for Dreadtober 2017
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Despite this being one of the busiest months I’ve had in a long while, I
have managed to finish the Deff Dread for Dreadtober 2017. Adding another
stompi...
October already?
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The annual update was meant as a joke initially, but has become a sad
reality.
This year blogging has taken a severe hit by Photobucket's policy change.
M...
12th legion Angry Boiz
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While working on the noble lads of the azure 13th, I was also expanding the
footprint of their temperamental cousins in the 12th. At this point this is
my ...
Pipping the Ride
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So while waiting on the new paint brushes and paints I started looking at
what kind of tanks I want to use with my Tank Rider Platoon, and the
Soviets offe...
WSS - Livgarden til Fods
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I am just about to start painting the Livgarde til Fods for my reboot of
my WSS project but I have a couple of questions that need answering, so I
am maki...
Lord Carver, BMMD
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And, what better model to finish up this stretch of photobox fun, than the
Lord Carver himself? I actually painted him a few months before I did that
mass ...
15mm / 20mm MDF urban terrain kickstarter
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I have backed my first kickstarter, and one that is in Australia.
It is a modular MDF urban terrain system that can be purchased in either
15mm or 20mm sc...
Brushing away the cobwebs.
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Forgive me father, for it has been over two and a half year's since my last
Grymn related post...
... but that is about to change.
Sadly, there hasn't bee...
Armageddon x 7
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Played a massive 7 person game of Shadow war Armageddon. A fun game with a
great group of people, some great figures and great terrain.
Summer 1001 - Apocalypse Now
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"My Emperor," the messenger announced, "I have news of the war with the
Mangu hordes."
The Emperor paused briefly as he swallowed the soft flesh of the nec...
First Hard Sci-Fi Building Project
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I went to Sarissa Precision for my first hard Sci-Fi buildings. I wanted a
"anywhere use" module look so they came at the top of the list online that
would...
Wild Beast Shipping Crates
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So … I bought these Wild Beast Shipping Crates from 4Ground and I’m very
impressed. They come flat packed in laser cut card form and could be
pushed free...
TMWWBK Zulu game
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Our last game was our first group game of TMWWBK rules from Osprey.
Zulus attacking the British in a defencive position much like Rorke's Drift.
The Britis...
Manfaat Olive Oil yang wajib kamu ketahui
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Minyak oliva memiliki angkutan zat makanan E yang teramat berlimpah gizi E
tunggal amat berperan penting yang merupakan zat makanan kulit, sehingga
kita bi...
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It's half term. Which means this is happening: It also means that I'll be
trying to do something geeky. I still cant even begin to contemplate
anything 40k...
Games for Historicon 2017
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The countdown to Historicon continues and I’m still painting 3mm guys at
every opportunity. Stay tuned for more photos of the latest progress. In
the mean...
19 part 2.... As I missed 18 out
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Hobby News ... No games this week, 4 sleeps til LARPCommission Painting
.... Started 27 Norman knights for Simon Millerown Painting... Base painted
some gl...
Bolt Action & Battle of Kursk at Adepticon
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I wanted to take a sec to share some recent Bolt Action activities that
I’ve been involved in! Rich at Chicago Terrain Factory and I ran our 2nd
year of ...
I'll Bet You Forgot About Me
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...and I don't blame you, really. It's only been *several years* since I
updated this thing.
But hey, 8th Edition is about to drop, and if you remember way...
Battlegroup Tobruk Goes Strong into the Desert
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Pavlov's dogs, famously, were conditioned to salivate when hearing a bell
which they associated with food. I have been similarly conditioned to
associate...
The haunted book
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Around 1990 I worked at an antiquarian bookshop. I didn't get much money
out of it, but I bought a lot of books. Some books contained ghost stories,
some w...
Keyword
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belajar bahasa inggris online ce...
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The Capture of Piet Petronius-1880
A Great Solo Game-The Men Who Would Be Kings
The Men Who Would is Kings (abbreviated TMWBK) is a* great*fast play
Colonia...
All Spider-man Miniature Game rules
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As Knight have removed all of the Marvel content from their website, I am
trying to gather it all together so people still have access to it.
Today is t...
21 Rahasia untuk Sukses Bisnis Waralaba
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1) mengevaluasi Anda toleransi risiko
Membuka bisnis baru adalah prospek yang menakutkan. Ada banyak risiko
pribadi, profesional dan
keuangan untuk mempe...
MISSING: ONE CLIENT
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Are you M. Taylor of Cardiff? If so, we have lost touch and need urgently
to regain such. I have your models you see, the work is done and all that
is nee...
Blood Eagle - First Warband.
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Pointed up the first warband for Blood Eagle. A pretty simple process but
each individual needs to be thought about and the figure looked at.
Meet the s...
MDF Buildings, first crack.
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It's been a long time since I posted to my blog so I have lots to cover.
First off I'd like to discuss MDF buildings. These are 3mm flat MDF boards
that ar...
Grasping the nettle.
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*Well, it has been a while (understatement of the day so far...) Below is
my first faltering steps into what I hope/intend will be Europe's "back
story" (...
Stalingrad Pt5: Combined Ops
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After a seemingly refreshing break from the bloggasphere, Stalingrad is
back! While the previous games had been some classic infantry attacks, we
noted ...
Chivalry - Medieval Warfare PS4
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I am very conscious of my continued sporadic posts of late and that my much heralded
return has fallen somewhat flat. However, here I am and I thought I'd s...
A Painter's Disease
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In our childhood we used enamel paints and our bedrooms often reeked with
the smell of paint and thinners. Its not so bad these days: most painting
is do...
Martian Handling Machine - colours
-
HG Wells has the Martian craft as metallic. Problem there is that could be
a bit dull, especially as the bridge girder work will be the same. So how
to jaz...
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Rogue stars, the first test game.
I got some unexpected extra time this christmas so I took the opportunity
to try to learn the basics of rogue stars by ...
Dark Heresy RPG group miniatures built
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I finished building the characters my friends played in our last Dark
Heresy campaign.
Pyrokine Thug Gemma and Deathwatch Veteran Triakis
Rogue Trader...
UPDATED: Competitive Tau Tournament List (1850)
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It has been quite some time since I played Warhammer 40k. I've been very
busy with RL. But next weekend my group is having another tournament. I
took out ...
Campaign dressed Poles
-
We've been working on developing Poles in campaign uniforms that can be
used for Retreat from Moscow, Germany in 1813 and the Peninsular.
The idea was to ...
Zombicide: Black Plague
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Hi guys,
After a very long hiatus, I am back swinging a brush. I love miniature
painting and catching up with mates to play a game. Not as much of that
...
Spooky Robots
-
OK, this blog post will be posted after Halloween, but Halloween was close
enough for our club for hold a Halloween themed Warmachine tournament on
the 30t...
20 bahaya radiasi HP kamu harus tau
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Bahaya radiasi Hp bagi kesehatan tubuh merupakan dampak buruk dari
penggunaan ponsel yang tidak benar dan tidak mengenal batas waktu.
Hp memiliki gelomban...
Dreadtober painting and playing with oil
-
I didn't progress as well as I had hoped for in the Dreadtober challenge. I
was supposed to be ready with the painting and the base this week but I
have be...
5 months on - and back to some gaming (part 2)
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*A blast from the past*Picking up where I left off last weekend, I thought
I would start with a quick trip back to one of the old gaming weekends we
held a...
Farewell, strike the tent
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A final entry here for Saxe-Bearstein.
On October 2, 2016 the originator of this blog, Bluebear Jeff Hudelson,
started on his journey to the Summerlands....
Horizon Wars - 2nd Game
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I'm surprised Google hasn't deleted this blog yet.
Anyway, I have been kicking around a lot of different rulesets lately,
trying to find something I like....
Wunderlist For Windows 3.18.0
-
Wunderlist - is one of the most well known cross-platform task manager and
to-do list application. It is also available for Mac and instantly sync
your ...
15mm Great Swamp Lizard
-
We are very pleased to release our latest 15mm fantasy model -- the Great
Swamp Lizard. This towering beast can eat his way straight through entire
enemy ...
Reverse Engineering: Line 6 FBV2
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The Line 6 FBV2 is a control pedal for use with older Line 6 amplifiers and
effects processors. I bought it to use with our Line 6 Amplifi 75 guitar
amplif...
Castles of Cornwall
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I had a week in Cornwall this year in early June, and it's a fantastic
place, we were gifted with good weather as well which allowed us to get out
and abo...
TnT: K1LL-80T Communist Securitron
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Hi Folks,
In my first game I got lucky and Head Scribe Kaine managed to find and
activate a military Securiton (Freelancer Depend-o-Bot)
After equippin...
Arthus vs. Mordred
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I painted this wonderfull Vignette up for a fellow LAF member as a gift!
Tomorrow it will be in the post...travelling back to the USA.
I have now starte...
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In the middle of a great project.
Alternate Jacobite Rebellion 1745
That's correct, folks. Tartans, sporrans and jocks a'strappin'. Conceived
by Chris Ma...
A new adventure… Frostgrave
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Wow, it’s been a long time since I updated this blog. I’d love to say that
I’m going to be better with future posts but I don’t suppose my track
record wo...
Sky Pirates of Venus - Teaser
-
Sky Pirates have been the scourge of the Worm Empire of Venus for years,
and the Great Worm has had enough! He sends a team of four crack worm
commandos to...
The Sealed Knot in Mayfair 1970
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Here from the October 1970 issue of *Mayfair *magazine is an article on
the, then, relatively new English Civil War re-enactment society The Sealed
Knot. ...
Law Enforcement
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Hi!
I've managed to paint up a few law enforcement officers for Jim to avoid!
Outland Judge Patrol
I ended up going for the classic Judge Dredd paint sch...
A Visit to Ojo Marron
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( Editor's note: after many years of distraction in other games I'm
returning to the game I started grand-detail construction many years ago.
The Idea is ...
Serce gracza / A player's heart
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Czwarte mistrzostwa *"Ogniem i Mieczem"* mamy za sobą. Skończyła się także
akcja, mająca na celu wsparcie leczenia mojego syna, poprzez kupno
specjalnej f...
"...There is Only War."
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On a personal note, I recently moved from the lovely state of Virginia to
the wonderful state of Ohio. Things are different here. I miss my gaming
partners...
Blood Eagle
-
I don't quite know how I managed to miss the development of Blood Eagle,
from the team that bought us In Her Majesty's Name. But I have only just
found...
So we thought it was going to be a small game.
-
Ever had one of those game events were you thought it was just going to be
a small 6 player gamer but turned into an 10 player event? Well that was
out Sat...
WWPD Painting Article
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In case you missed it, I did write a painting article for my friends at
WWPD. Check it out and leave feedback here if you wish.
http://www.wwpd.net/2016/0...
Hunting the Bantha
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Hunting Banthas
Well, the Bantha Rider has arrived for Imperial Assault and we are now
experiencing just how rough something like this fast-moving lump of ...
Pig Iron Stock update
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Hi all, just a quick one to let you know we have received a box of show
stock back from The Bunker yesterday - this has all been added back onto
the site. ...
Rules: Living on the Frontline
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Well, there's life in the old dog yet!
It's been a while since I last posted anything here but the creative juices
are starting to stir, least of all bec...
How to make: Saxon Huts
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Hi Chaps,
Hope you are all well.
These past few days, I've been working on some new projects, for a new
game, that I think you already know, it is called...
El Cid - Reconquista pt 8
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I have just finished up four bases of Skirmish bow. I have been busy with
school - still - so I have not had too much time for painting. I am at
least on t...
Clearhorizon Omega Squad
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Mr. Harold sent me these a while ago, and I finally got around to painting
them. The delay was mainly that the neck length bothered me, so it took a
while ...
Infinity Starting Nomads - Part I - A New Force
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Ever since Operation Icestorm and N3 hit in late 2014, I wanted to write an
article that would break down how to start collecting a Nomads force.
Every ...
Modern Russian painting guide.
-
I have been having fun painting some of our Empress modern Russians. The
research was based on what I could find on Google and not too surprisingly
many ...
28mm Russians in Central Asia Game
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Turcomen attack the Cossacks
On New Year's Day we played a Two Hour Wargames Colonial Adventures Central
Asian game, with Russians, Bokharans, Pathans, Tu...
Encounter at Alghaz -- June, 1876
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Rob and Murdock came over to fight an Afristan campaign encounter. For
reasons which I will shortly explain, I do not have much memory of the game.
First,...
Re-Kill (2015)
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Play Full Re-Kill in High QualityNow you can download full Re-Kill in best
video format with duration 87 Min and has been aired on 2015-10-16 and MPAA
rat...
A lot on the painting front
-
Hello everyone. Today's post might be a bit brief, but who knows. Up until
a few days ago, I was engaged in a French bloggers painting competition, an
equi...
Scenery First
-
Well it's been a busy few weeks, just for a change, and since my last post
I have received the Liche Lord goodies I bought on Nickstarter, even more
into ...
Blog re-launched (elsewhere)
-
Hi all,
I haven't gone completely offline – I simply moved my blog elsewhere (as I
mentioned much earlier). Now you can catch me at our Chest of Colors
web...
The Last Post
-
The South London Warlord blog has moved to Wordpress on the main SLW site,
address is over here
or, in cut n' paste format http://www.salute.co.uk/blog/
Dust Tactics: Pegasus Models 1/48th V2 Rocket
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Ever since I started playing Dust Tactics I had an idea about having a V2
rocket on the table. For me, rockets exemplify the Weird War II style and I
wa...
Age of Sigmar: the first battle
-
After coming to terms with the death of the Warhammer Fantasy I've known
since my start in wargaming, I decided to purchase and paint the starter
box for ...
FlamesCon 2015
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*Slight Disclaimer in a moment of crazy after tourney brain I posted this
to my clubs blog page you should visit it anyway for awesome after club
report...
New CoC Campaign - Operation Martlet
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Hi All,
Just a quick update this time. Rich has been madly researching away and has
released the latest in his series of ridiculously low-priced 'Pint Size...
The new website is here: corvusminiatures.com
-
Today I am very happy and proud to announce my new website:
corvusminiatures.com!
*Important: this will mark the end of my activities on Blogspot. Please
...
-
So we're back!
Did a stock take today to see what I've got, and this was what it looked
like:
The stuff in blue is from a second hand haul I grabbed when...
Grace of Monaco (2014) Se Fuld Film
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Spille film *Grace of Monaco* i high definition kvalitet. Download film *Grace
of Monaco* i high definition-format. Fuld streaming *Grace of Monaco* i
HD...
elegant wedding shoes in 2015
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[image: awesome satin wedding shoes by shoekandi]
you are now visiting* awesome satin wedding shoes by shoekandi* , And in
this page we have more than 5 be...
ThreeZero Getter 1 and Getter Zero Black...!!!
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[image: ThreeZero Getter Black]
I have to admit, this is one of the few toys that i'm pretty excited about.
threezero making a 16" of Getter 1 and Getter Z...
Catching Up
-
Wow, I have been slack here. No new posts since February. But I have done a
ton of painting and completed several projects, not least of which is my
Tallar...
Happy Hobbit Day or A Year Has Come And Gone
-
I knew it had been a long time. The days turned into weeks and the weeks
into months without me fully comprehending the significance of the gap.
Then one...
Grimlocks in 15mm
-
Here are 12 grimlocks for dnd 5th ed.....15mm Picts from copplestone.
Back from a long break in gaming....looking forward to a little dungeons
and dragons s...
A visit on board the Russian Frigate Shtandart
-
The other weekend we were down in Cowes for a long weekend to watch the
Cowes Torquay Cowes powerboat race. We were all having dinner on Friday
night in...
Kings of War First Impressions
-
As I mentioned in the August update, I have been playing a bit of Kings of
war lately. With Games Workshop pulling the plug on their fantasy
community, th...
New Blog for Age of Sigmar
-
Hi Everyone,
I've decided to create a separate blog for my latest hobby interest: Age of
Sigmar. While many voices bemoan the *downfall *of Warhammer Fanta...
Hordes and Heroes on Hexes
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Alliteration FTW!!
Wow! Doesn't time fly? It's hard to believe it's been nearly a year since I
posted anything here, but there's been a fairly good reason ...
Song of Blades: Hammer and Forge on Kickstarter
-
Ganesha Games launches Song of Blades: Hammer and Forge Kickstarter. The
kickstarter has begun with enormous success, being already over basic
funding, but...
Dukes Soldiers
-
Hi
These are the first of the Dukes troops for his flying column, they are
Newline figures from their late colonial range, again all 20mm, I need
some supp...
I am alive part 2
-
And as I promised, here is the big update that I have been talking about:
My Prussians are based on the *Großgörschen* OoB from the General de
Brigade sc...
Scott Johnson, aka Col. Kilgore, has passed away
-
On Thursday Scott lost his fight against cancer. He was 45 years old and
leaves behind his wife Ashley and 12 year old son Nicholas. Scott was a
good na...
20mm WW2 - US M3A1 halftracks
-
Well, these took me a while to finish. They were 90% done in Januari and
I've been staring at them on my workbench since. Until last month... I
finally h...
New! Confederate Cavalry Flag Sets. 28mm
-
The all new ACW Confederate Cavalry flag sets are now available.
These carefully designed flags are the perfect accompaniment to our
established infantry...
Modular Lego Dungeon in the Works
-
I'm working on a modular Lego dungeon set for my kids and I to game with. I
had several castle sets as a kid, so I have lots of grey pieces to work
with. I...
Get a 4th off on the 4th
-
Get 25% off orders over $50 now until July 5th with coupon code! Use the
code 4thoff in the Coupon Code Box at checkout and get 25% off your order.
Hurry c...
Affordable Wedding Halls
-
Creating a beneficial property inner surface or maybe exterior layout will
be the imagine every single persons. Naturally, while using numerous
patterns th...
Waterloo (1970) the souvenir programme
-
Everyone else on the wargaming blogosphere seems to be celebrating the
200th anniversary of Waterloo today with quite a few posts featuring the
poster f...
A quick update.
-
Just a quick update as I've not posted in a while. Work on the 15mm Feudal
English army for DBA continues (photos to follow) and should should be
complet...
A Farewell to Hamster
-
This will be my last post on Mechanical Hamster and that’s the sort of
occasion that gives me the excuse opportunity to look back over the past
years and r...
Last call, all aboard.
-
If you're still a subscriber to 'Drop-Pod' this is pretty much the final
call to hop across to the shinier and much more frequently updated Studio
Dropsh...
Space Marine Command Tank Rules
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I’m back from vacation! Sorry for the dearth of articles recently. The
Space Marine’s Command Tanks rules have been leaked. Check out the two
images below ...
Well, well, well... - A Flintloque Battle Report
-
It has been a long time since my last update, mostly for health reasons.
Without giving to much detail, you can imagine things are pretty awful when
you ca...
Moving On
-
It's been a long while since I've posted here. Since I've started this blog
four years ago, you guys and gals have given me a tremendous amount of
inspirat...
Quotes About Friendship Tumblr
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For Kate, Stephanie sends New Yorker covers or Toni Morrison quotes; for
Stephanie to be present and playing an active role in each other's lives."
The Tum...
Recent Work
-
Just a quick update tonight to show a model I recently completed for a
reboot of the painting competition on the Steve Dean Forum.
I started this for one ...
Salute Loot
-
So I picked up a few things at Salute this year (it seemed rude not to):
1. The new Perry Light Cavalry for the WotR / 1450-1500 - three boxes (I
m...
Still Shambiling around
-
I am still shambling around.
Due to some real life situations I was without reliable internet access for
a while there. Hopefully everything will work out ...
Checking In...
-
Friends I have lost my focus.
Since my last post my Mother became ill and passed away. I guess I am the
proof that regardless of how old you are, losing a p...
C21 Air War Vietnam Defense
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Finished the AA hexes representing 37mm and greater. With a few more 1/300
planes
to order I will be complete with this range.
The larger bases are 1.5" Li...
No Mean City Session 1.1 "National Express"
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Session 1.1 THE NATIONAL EXPRESS
* Take the National Express when your life's in a mess It'll make you smile
All human life is here...
15mm War & Conquest figure
-
One of West Wind's new War and Conquest figures. Almost spot on 15mm foot
to eye. To small for me to paint anyway. I've put them on eBay!
Pardon My Dust
-
If you visit here with any regularity, you'll have noticed a lack of
actual, you know, website or anything. Sorry about that.
The website is getting a face...
Jacdaw 30mm WAS Austrians by Leftbank Workshops
-
A bit of painting I did quite a few months ago for Leftbank Workshops who
have now acquired the molds for these figures. Nice Old School feel to
these figu...
CONAN , the board game
-
Some friends who bought into the Conan board game kickstarter printed out
the starter gameboard, cards an other items, made a dice conversion sheet
and we ...
Word to the wise!
-
"Don't start a new job and a new miniature project at the same time"
-The Doc
But boy are these fun to paint!
I've finally decided to go full Warlord f...
-
If you want to know a secret What are you waiting for? If you want to ask
me somethingI can tell you so much more If you want to cause me
trouble It's not ...
-
Not going to be maintaining the FF blog on Google anymore. Mainly because
of this which seems to be the thin end of the wedge.
http://www.theguardian.co...
Some reinforcements for SoBaH
-
Hey Guys,
I have painted some miniatures as reinforcements for my Song of Blades &
Heroes warbands.
The whole group together. On the left two Norse or...
An old project returns...
-
The monstrosity from the front. Way back in 2011 I posted my plans for an
improvised tank killer on an old 38(t) chassis. Following a move of house
it w...
D&D PLAYER CHARACTERS
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Made a start on my D&D project, these are the start of my player
characters, this group is the Magic User/ Thief and Assassin set, Thief on
the left the...
Fenris Games Goatkin - Ernie and Vic - Beastmen 5
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Hello all,
last two of the Fenris Goatkin - the Goatkin Warrior Ernie and the Goatkin
Scout Vic.
[image: Goatkin, Fenris, beastmen, painted, Scout, Vic, ...
Pirates at the Shed!
-
*A view down the board*
Eric the Shed kindly invited me over to his splendid shed for my first game
of 2015. This was doubly exciting as not only was it...
Looking Ahead to 2015
-
Time for my obligatory attempt to state what I'm going to work on this
year. I think it's pretty safe to say I'm probably going to get involved
with som...
Ogre Project
-
I may already have the Ogre leaning on the two handed sword bought, waiting
on ebay to finish the bidding on it. Green = have it, Red = Don't have it
ye...
French Dragoon, Retreat from Moscow
-
A dismounted French dragoon during the retreat from Moscow, Winter 1812-13
This is for sale on eBay-
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pro-Painted-Perry-Miniatures-D...
Julian's Order Part 3. 18mm AB Figs
-
Prussians & French Please not these Pictures are for the customer ... We
do not at this point straighten Swords ect for risk of Breaking them.
...
A Christmas Fantasy Campaign
-
Next month, I'll be heading back to the UK for the 1st time in nearly 2
years. Me and my brother Matt have been talking about arranging some games
of W...
New(ish) man cave.
-
Hello all,
A few months back the wife wanted my son to have a larger room so I was
kicked out of the guest room into a smaller room. The bribe was it would...
-
Well... having finally moved in and being some-what settled, my new gaming
room is now nearly there. There are still a few pics to be framed and put
up, bu...
Ship Crew & Ship Quirk Cards
-
Been a good while since we’ve had an update for Leviathans. Things are
still moving behind the scenes. For example we’ve been making progress with
smaller,...
Happy Halloween
-
Happy Halloween from A Gentleman's Ones and from Anvil Eight Games. Let's
hear it for High Fructose Corn Syrup!
complements of Chris "one take" Tavonatti
Noble Knight games comes through again!!!
-
I have just concluded several transactions with Noble Knight games, the
first being some ASL stuff mainly and then some miscellaneous hex and
counter games...
Machiavelli summer 1457
-
This turn saw a massive swing in fortunes. I had realised that my
aggressive assault on Florence was going to make me a threat to my
neighbours but I had...
Unit of Beardlings
-
These are Alternative Armies Young Dwafs with a champion from Heartbreaker
mins. Alternative Armies recently re released these. Great little mins to
pain...
Royal Yugoslav Air Force Hawker Fury II
-
Here's my latest effort: a Hawker Fury II in the markings of the Royal
Yugoslav Air Force.
The Fury was, of course, an iconic fighter of the 1930's RAF, ...
Warhammer Fantasy Battle Database Update
-
Current edition army books only filter, 5,000 searchable battles archive,
double batrep notes and more exclusive member accolades.
Hi folks, I've been twe...
Back to School Sale
-
Save 50%! Sale ends soon!
Back to School Time! Start Learning to Sculpt NOW! We are happy to announce
we have released the second course in our three part ...
Dornier Skyservant
-
Hace más de treinta años que hice mi primer Skyservant. Logicamente no ha
sobrevivido tanto tiempo, pero encontré una maqueta original de Matchbox de
aquel...
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%## Free Watch The Right Stuff Streaming Online Runtime 193 minutes and
Released on 1983-10-21 MPAA Rating is...
Bolt Action WW1 from Osprey
-
The recent slew of WW1 tanks gave it away but Osprey have just officially
announced a publication date for Bolt Action WW1 rules of a year from now.
Th...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away
-
So... A long time has passed and much have changed. Last time I wrote a
post on this blog of mine, we were barely into the 6th edition of Warhammer
40k. No...
1910: The Battle of Purleigh (part two)
-
The British reaction to the surprise German invasion in September 1910 was
criticised by the press as being tardy and it took almost a week for the
first m...
DBA Early Crusaders vs Ayyubid Egyptian
-
Greetings!!! It's been far to long, but we've managed to have a game of
DBA. To be fair the horrors are growing up & doing what teenagers do.
Gaming ha...
Sungem Run Review by UndeadViking
-
G’day guys, You may have seen a bit of information filtered through the
blog of our next game ‘Sungem Run!’ Well, we are getting very close to
launching ou...
Kabar Lowongan Kerja Manado Agustus 2014 Terbaru
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*Kabar Lowongan Kerja Manado Agustus 2014 Terbaru - **Lowongan Kerja
Terbaru* kali ini akan memberikan informasi *Lowongan Pekerjaan Terbaru* .
Lowongan K...
D&D Fifth Ed. Starter Box
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Another package waiting for me today when I arrived home from work; the D&D
fifth edition starter box. A bit of an impulse buy when I ordered it, but
a...
Pop's Cafe, the return of the Greasy Spooners
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I'm back.
Yes, it has been 4 years, but I have a good-ish excuse. In those four years
I got promoted (yeah!) which left me little time for lunchtime excurs...
Hail Mary .....of the LIVING DEAD!!!!
-
So I somehow managed to knock out another 60-something zombies before this
baby arrives, nothing fancy here, I didn't even texture the bases. I
figured I ...
Bahasa Jawa di facebook~
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Buat yang pengen ganti bahasa jawa, tapi dalam pengaturan nggak ada =)
maklum lah, wong jowo☺
- Pertama Log in atau masuk ke Facebook kamu bila be...
Tintin au Congo
-
Another entry from the Colonial Painting Expedition on the Lead Adventure
Forum. Can't believe we've had sixty-two entries already. A little
tongue-in-che...
LARRYCON Begins!!
-
A really nice scene I caught on my phone the other night while out for a
stroll. The harvest is upon us!!
Well it has been a wonderful spring and ear...
Lunar Peltasts
-
These are *Black Tree Design* Persian Guards. I've replaced the shields
with peltast-style ones from the spares box.
These guys represent the Silver Shi...
Moving: Now posting at 4+ Tough
-
So, this site has been in an inactive mode for a while, mostly because I've
fallen out of love with 40k and into Warmachine, and also because I just
ca...
Back to the Desert
-
I have recently been reading Patrick Macrory's excellent history of the
First Anglo-Afghan War, titled "The Fierce Pawns." This got the colonial
juices flo...
Schwinn Turismo Swivel Jogging Stroller
-
Pacific Cycle, read the full Schwinn Swivel Double Jogging Stroller Review
The Turismo Double Jogging Stroller from Schwinn, is an amazing stroller
for acti...
-
A brand new addition to the forces of the Frei Stadt, the Graf Georg von
Kumwarden Fusilier regiment. Its service record is yet to be established,
but I ex...
The Dark Knight Full Movie Online
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Watch The Dark Knight Full Movie Streaming Online Duration 152 minutes and
broadcast on 2008-07-18 MPAA rating is 4699.
- *Status :* Released
- *R...
Wallpapers de autos muy bonitos (10 imágenes)
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Algunos les llaman *autos, otros coches, ...
Memories, Tangents and the Power of the Pastoral
-
*Charles Stadden 30mm BEF released fifty(ish) years ago*
It occurs to me that wargaming the Great War is not going to be a straight
forward thing.
L...
Casting Season
-
It's casting season here at the Lead Gardens. The weather has "springed
up" and it's perfect for getting
outside and starting on some summer casting proj...
Zombie! Survivor Sheet Update
-
Still a design made in Google Drawing: version 5 of the Zombie! survivor
sheet has been updated with 4 new attributes, as well as some more flavour:
calls...
IG Wyvern built and ready to paint
-
I've got my Wyvern put together and I've got to say, it's a very nice
little kits. I love the look of it and it was a pleasure to put together.
My only ...
Virginia Provincial Regiment.
-
Months ago Galloping Major Miniatures were doing a deal on their new
FIW range- so I went ahead and bought some of their very nice figures -
'but its ea...
10mm A.W.I. Unit Finished.
-
I've got the 10mm unit finished that I started painting in the previous
posting . I was going to try photographing them outside - but as this photo
was ...
Risorgimento or Garibaldi in Sicily 1860
-
I studied the Italian Unification at school and it was fascinating; This
lead to following Garibaldi's career and especially his amazing campaign in
Sicily...
A long time of no posting.
-
Well, it has been a good year since anything got posted here.
In that time, I have certainly not been idle in my gaming, but rather have
been very distract...
Panzer IV F1
-
I am still around and I am still painting. I may have to 'reboot' this
blog as I know bunch of pictures arent showing up.
Any way here is what I was wo...
Greater Daemon of Slaanesh
-
I painted this guy (gal?) a while back but for some reason I didn't post
about it. I wouldn't say I enjoyed the painting process that much. Painting
a la...
THE BLOG HAS MOVED!
-
Hello to all followers of this blog. I have decided to move the blog to a
new address.
This falls in line with our youtube channel and makes the most sense...
Top Best Pillow For Side Sleepers
-
A terrific day starts having a wonderful night of slumber, and also the
pillow you select influences the real quality of your slumber. The best
pregnancy p...
Germany on Mars in 1889, in The Dream Forge
-
Anders Blixt in Stockholm Sweden writes a thoughtful and entertaining blog
entitled The Dream Forge, covering a wide range of fantasy and science
fiction t...
The Mission, by Larry Hunter
-
* Devin Hester, a great player, is off the Bears for 2014, Sad to see him
go*
Well, it has been another season, and now the Bears besides letting
Urlacher...
Niemiecki park maszyn cz.5
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Elo
Znowu szybka wrzuta. Przykleiłem gąsienice i koła do Hanomagów. Teraz
zajmuję się malowaniem załogantów (do skończenia mam oporządzenie; kamuflaż
już ...
-
Hello??.... Hello!!.... anybody here?? Wow its been ages since anyone was
in here, even the mousses left this place. Time to do a huge spring
cleaning, la...
Second World War comparisons on "World War 20mm"
-
Piers Brand has recently posted a side by side shot of several figures
painted in his inimitable style. They represent a number of different 20mm
metal ma...
The Three Amigos...
-
I picked up these little beauties from Merlyn's in Spokane last weekend,
the IS3 heavy tank platoon by BattleFront. Very good sculpts, and the resin
suspen...
History Is Bunk!
-
It’s been a slow week or so. I have done little in the way of gaming; the
solitaire C&C: Ancients battle of Raphia has not moved since last Sunday.
Mostly...
US Mechanized Infantry 3rd Squad
-
I've now finished the third squad for the US Mechanized Infantry Platoon.
Next job is to get the four Bradley IFV's finished for them so they can
enter th...
More 15mm Orcs painted this weekend.
-
This weekend I worked on finishing another squad of Orcs. Note: These minis
are OOP and are no longer being sold. I Also removed the banners that were
cast...
Fortified Chapel
-
Hi, folks. Here's another bit of terrain for our Kings of War table. It's a
fortified chapel made from a Pegasus Hobby Gothic City Building Large Set.
I ad...
PP Announcement! New Hordes Model!
-
*"If there is one thing we here at Privateer Press pride ourselves on, it's
listening to our audience. You guys and gals have been demanding a fifth
full ...
SUPERS!
-
NORAD reports the crash of an extraterrestrial object deep in the
Appalacian mountains. The Guardians are dispatched to report on and recover
any possible...
15mm Viking Army
-
These are my Vikings, opposition for the Saxon Army from my last post.
There are a few less of these guys but they have a lot more of the heavily
armed and...
Greetings, I have moved the rock I was under
-
Greetings troops,
Happy 2014!
I must apologize that 2013 was a quiet year on the blog. I must thank all
you followers for sticking with me. Just a quick...
Christmas “Domes” for 2013
-
A few years ago, I began making these for the special people in my
life…sometimes they are purely whimsical and sometimes they have a hidden
meaning, speci...
One year in review - or two…
-
The year 2013 is coming to an end, and it seems a good time to pop back on
my DestoFante blog for a quick update. Blogging has clearly taken a
backseat in ...
Deadzone: Enforcer Missile Launcher Conversion
-
OK. Completed the conversion of the Enforcer Missile Launcher. Overall I
think he came out well. I am not an expert on Green Stuff, but I think I
gave an e...
Happy Xmas & all the various holidays
-
Seems to be a new tradition that December runs over me, repeatedly, like a
herd of reindeer on meth.
What a month.
So please excuse the pathetic trickle ...
Games from the 2013 Congress
-
A few pics of some of the games at the Napoleonic Congress this year
the brave frigate cops it form a first rate at close range!
French vs British Penins...
Building the Gundam - 08
-
Despite having jumped the gun a bit and assembled the wings... I can't put
them on the Gundam without the harness, so that took priority.
The Gundam has...
Voyages Diabolique
-
Soon after the release of *Wessex Games*' *Voyages Extraordinaires*,
Victorian Adventure Gaming rules in 2000, I planned to release an
accompanying set for...
WTJ & Panzerschiffe -- Comparison Photos
-
The following photos show a comparison between some 1/2400 scale
Russo-Japanese War Pre-Dreadnought Cruisers.
Panzerschiffe "Diana" above; WTJ "Aurora" bel...
Campaign's End - CampaignHammer fluff
-
Some Dwarf vs Undead fluff over on CampaignHammer.
We decided to end the campaign at the end of year 7.
The Undead faction battles to hold the city and k...
Lady Aiyana and Master Holt – diorama start
-
Since I quite enjoyed the Beastman and Greatsword diorama, I decided to
take a stab at another. While I have a few lying around, I haven’t really
painted t...
Aphid barker - Assembly
-
Here's the assembly guide for Aphid loader Barker, from the wave 2
Kickstarter miniatures.
This is quite a complex miniature to assemble, definitely the mo...
The History of England Podcast
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[image: King John]
King John
I have been fairly busy the last month-- more so than even usual with three
kids all in extracurricular activities-- and one o...
Painting station moved
-
So been a couple of weeks since my last post. Was on vacation last week and
flew out to Santa Cruz, CA. Also spent a couple of days in San Francisco
and ...
Imperial Guard Aegis Defence Line
-
So I've decided to build an Aegis Defence Line for my Imperial Guard a week
back. I also wanted it to be a sort of display for my army and I want to
make i...
The Ballad of Sir Hugo and Gui Le Batard
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*The Bridge on the River Wye*
*The Raid On The Grain Store*
We played the first two scenarios from the first of the Warheads books. Sir
Hugo w...
A New Project
-
I am very conscious that it has been a while, a very long while since I
posted anything. Life seemed to overtake me for a very long time. I have
painted a ...
Sheer Idiocy
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I really don't get it. I just don't get it.
To be clear. I have never...EVER.. said that "I can outsell 'storeX'". If
the owner/owners of 'storeX', want to...
Site archived
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I regret that owing to concerted spam and hacking attacks, I have removed
the content from this site. Those of you interested in following what I’m
up to c...
Unrest and Dissent in the North
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*WHEN THE MOSELEY GOVERNMENT of the British Union of Fascists* was
appointed by King Edward VIII in 1937, was when the country was tipped over
the edge t...
Trying out a kickstarter
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If you frequent TMP much you'll have noticed that Kick-starters have taken
off in a big way the last year or so. Up until now I have quite happily
avoid th...
Counts as Typhus model, and 180 painted zombies
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Im sorry I don't have a lot of time to talk, but this guy is my Typhus and
below are 180 zombies that I had paint commissioned. If I was anywhere
near a...
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Hey guys don't forget tomorrow starts SpikeyCon run by my pal Rob Baer whom
some of you 40k people know as Mad Boy Genius on BOLS and the creator of
the bl...
Dawn – Rise of the Occulites Kickstarter is Live!
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G’day guys, Just wanted to share the link to the Kickstarter to my first
game Dawn – Rise of the Occulites.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2002188924/...
Back Again!
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Real life has a nasty habit of getting in the way sometimes, and the last
six months plus has been busy to say the least, meaning that I haven't been
posti...
Doctor who?
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I have had the police box sitting around for some time; finally got it
painted. The basing is just to try to tie it in to a Victorian date.
"Bonnie Blue Flag" ACW convention Australia 2013
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*Friday Night 19th, Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st July. “Bonnie Blue Flag”
ACW weekendGoulburn Soldiers ClubCnr Market and Sloane stGoulburn
NSWDinne...
Flames of War army purchased!
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Well I hit Brookhurst Hobbies pretty hard on my vacation and picked up some
stuff. There are 4 E8's, 3 Jumbos, and 4 M4A3's of differing styles. This ...
Freshly Painted Pulp Figures
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I just received around 30 pulp figures back from Doc Merkury who did a
great job painting these for me. I am currently going through the finishing
proces...
Скидки в магазине "Studio Ultraterrain"
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Друзья, больше всего в жизни я хочу, чтобы вы делали террейн! Сами, своими
ручками создавали большие и маленькие шедевры, а потом наслаждались ими.
Гла...
A bit of wet work
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A couple of weeks ago Mexican Dave dropped into the conversation "I quite
fancy doing some historical Naval gaming." and as usual I jumped in with
both fee...
Flames of war - open fire Germans
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I was given this as a present for Christmas (after some rather in subtle
hinting from me) Mrs Kipper treated me, like many of a certain age I've
had/ playe...
Steam Navvies
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Managed to spend a few hours on Sunday painting. Here are some figures I
painted some time ago but finished off yesterday with a very quick base job.
These ...
Napoleon: a Kickstarter
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Found this on Kickstarter the other day. While not in the block buster
league of some of the projects (Reaper Bones for example), it seems a good
value fo...
2500 pts O&G Swedish Comp 11-12
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There is a tournament coming up in the middle of April that I shall be
attending. This will mark the first full-scale tournament that features the
Swedish ...
media: nazi zombie army götterdämmerung
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Jonathan Green has written an e-book set in the *Sniper Elite* game
universe entitled, *Nazi Zombie Army: Götterdämmerung.* Seems right up our
street, and ...
Marengo Scenario 7 with Carnage and Glory II.
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Once again Tom Garnett and Keith Rocco hosted a game of Marengo. This was
Tom's 7th scenario of the battle of Marengo *"First Battle of the Consular
Guard"...
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
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... and with strange aeons even death may die.
I'm not dead, just working on something else. That "something else" should
be released before the end of the...
Zen to Done: the Third Step
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In the ZTD system, the third step is to "Plan." By that Babuta suggests
determining the major things that need to be done at the beginning of the
week, an...
Back from AWOL.
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Hi everyone, it has been too long. I got a chance to kick around the house
today for the first time in months and decided I would make it a priority
to po...
Hawkmoon Figures from Eureka Miniatures
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A little bird tells me that Eureka Miniatures have permission from Michael
Moorcock to do a "Hawkmoon" figures range.
I have seen some test shot casts and...
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Howdy Y'all. Well I've been busy with going back to college but I have been
working on some wargaming stuff. A big project, my Late Romans for Impetus
& Sa...
Ral Partha Orcs
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Here are four Ral Partha orcs I painted late in 2012. I have an bunch of
minis from the old AD&D line, and decided to paint a few up. The
BattleSystem S...
Toodle-oo Dahlings
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It is bye bye time for Blogger as the stupendous Gemigabok blog heads off
to the actual Gemigabok site. So see you all there!
http://www.the-ancients.com/g...
Try This! The Hipster
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Sometimes as women, we feel like we can't get made love to rather than
with. Why? Missionary is so awesome, but there isn't much leverage unless
you chang...
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And time to break my hiatus again! (In deference to the last post - I've
started using FB more too.) Thanks to an agreement with a friend, I've
started pa...
The Last Post
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All things must pass, and so it is to be with NDC Blog. ‘Why?’ I hear you
wail (with murmurings of ‘big deal’ in the background). Well this blog was
origi...
Orks in 2mm scale
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After a rather long pause, here is an update in the blog, about my new 2mm
Fantasy army: the Orks. The Irregular 2mm Fantasy range has some specific
strips...
ACW Union: Part 2
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This weeks painting was completed in time to catch the sunshine for some
alright photos. I will stick some temp flags on them soon. The real flags
will be ...
Alfred the Great - 1969 Film
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Its very disappointing when one gets a chance to relive a cherished
childhood memory, and it doesn't live up to one's recollections. That is
the case for ...
Tiny Tin Men moving to Blogger
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After almost ten years at my own domain (the first post on it was way back
in early 2004), with a Movable Type install I managed myself, I have
decided t...
GW Hobbit Releases Available For Pre-Order
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*Games Workshop* has announced a plethora of pre-releases for its
forthcoming *The Hobbit* games, the main release being a boxed *Escape From
Goblin Town* ...
Where the hell is Rob?
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Hello!
I would like to apologise for sort of letting this blog float off into the
distance so far that I could never reel it back in again. My projects hav...
Moving Locations
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Well, the title says it all. I've decided to revamp my websites and as part
of this "Across the Table" is on the move. To visit my revised site please
vis...
Powrót? Zobaczymy...
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Cześć wszystkim, może jeszcze ktoś czasem tu zagląda :)
Przez 2 lata pochłonęło mnie granie, aczkolwiek na instrumencie a nie stole
z bitewniakami, w sumie ...
Property Management Arlington VA
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Property managers are one of the very important person who is taking care
of your property ? Property Management Arlington VA is providing you the
best ...
"Farewell Ladies"!
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Hi Guys
It's been a very long time since I updated my blog, (sorry).
A deployment to Afghanistan and some 'Real Life' issues have got in the way.
Today I'...
Blowing one's own horn
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I decided to take part of my day off to do a tiddly bitmore on the beast of
Gorgoroth. As I find chains the most annoyng thing to paint, I did them
firs...
They came from the north
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Out of the chaos wastes of the north - daemons. Some figures I've done
recently for our Warhammer RPG gaming - these cover the most commonly
encountered da...
[Malifaux] Run and Hyde, it's avatar Seamus....
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Apologies for the bad pun in the title. Here's the new big guy for my gang
- turns out Seamus has a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde complex without the Dr
Jekyll ...
More Vikings....
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Finished the next two Vikings. Gripping Beast and Artizan.
Pictures still aren't the best, but for the moment that's all there is.
The next pair ar...
So how many figures have you painted again?
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I always set a goal in each calendar year to paint a certain number of
figures. I'm always hoping to buy far fewer figures than I paint so I can
cut into ...
Dux Brit army nearing completion
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After having given the new TFL Dux Brittaniarum rules (see
http://toofatlardies.co.uk) a spin during the playtest time I've been
working on painting my Gri...
Star Wars X-Wing unboxed!
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Well, it has been quite some time since a posting here.....OK, so Paul from
the Man Cave has a lot to answer for! He has caused me, yet again, to
succumb t...
Romanos imperiales y últimos encargos
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Tras el verano, entre encargos de pintura y vacaciones, decidí darme un
poco el gusto de pintar por deleite, por el mero hecho de pintar, vaya, y
me decidí...
Current projects
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After lots of sorting out of the lead pile, and an ongoing ebay sell off
I've settled on a couple of periods that I want to spend real time on. The
first i...
Eden - Horde models painted...
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Well sort of, at least I have tried to base coat and ink something.... I
need to get these up to standard so I can finish my Resistance crew.
Assembled res...
Metal finishes
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Here's the first model painted with the Alcald line of metallic paints.
It's a Korean war era fighter. F-86F
Been pretty busy working on scale models t...
End of an era...
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Well folks, Blood & Blades has come to an end. Things have come full
circle and it is time to move on and start fresh. I have decided to start
a new bl...
Eldar Warlock WiP.
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Okay, it’s almost Friday and I’ve found some time to take a picture of
Warlock that I have been painting on for the past week. Just something
that’s been ...
WI298 - EW Russians (Invasion of Poland)
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[image: Photobucket]
In what is becoming a tradition with this blog, today I present pictures of
the EW Soviet army list from Wargames Illustrated #298. I...
Hail Zlobenia!
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I picture of PFU troops from Zlobenia. The Zlobs have always been more open
in their views about the outside world, and see the current conflict as a
way...
The Last Post
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That's it. All done. I would like to thank Baccus 6mm, Freezywater
Publications and The Lance and Longbow Society for their generous support
with this proj...
A Couple of Short Scraps
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It's been a couple of weeks since my last post but we have still been
playing out the campaign in the meantime. Our battle at Markendorf
finished prematur...
Lancers forward!
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Some Imperial Mexican lancers looking to skewer any poor republicans that
happen in their way. First Corp figures converted from their Rush's Lancers
pa...
Your Money or your Life!
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The Lamentations of the Flame Princess adventure campaigns at Indiegogo are
now live! 19 adventures by really famous RPG blokes, such as Vincent Baker,
Mon...
Arab-Israeli Wars in 3mm
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www.picoarmor.com
The AIW Reader is a blog intented to be a useful database primarily
intented for wargamers although hopefully the entries will also be of ...
India Travel
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If yоu have еvеr thought оf еxperiеnсіng the myѕtic bеаutу оf hіllѕ, exоtіс
bеautу of the bеachеs, саѕcading beauty оf thе rіvеrѕ and thе thrill оf thе
јun...
its been awhile
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I know I haven't posted anything in awhile but life has come along lately
and slowed much of my work down. The b-17 is coming along and I have
completed th...
-
Originally posted on AW1 Tim's Blog:
Scott the Badger reminds us all that today, 4 June, marks the 68th
anniversary of Torpedo 8’s famous attack against th...
Model sale off on eBay
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Dear readers, it’s been a while from my last post. The reason is that not
only I had switch to another, more demanding job back on 2008, but the
birth...
The Complete Flash Gordon Library
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*Titan Books* are releasing *The Complete Flash Gordon Library*, collating
all the newspaper comic strips in a series of hardback books. A welcome
release ...
Dick Garrison Rapid Launch Released
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*Dick Garrison Rapid Launch*, the basic rules from our forthcoming Pulp SF
rules *The Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Dick Garrison* are now
available...
[Project News] Back on Track...
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Well it's been a few weeks since my last update here, but things have been
ticking away in the background at Martians & Machine Guns since the last
time I ...
Battle of Waterloo - Move 11
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Table at the start of move 11
Top left – Clinton moves his corps to left of cross roads
Top right – French firefight with highlanders on ridge
Bottom left ...
Byzarbia at Ayton Game.
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Once again it's been a while, though in my defence I plead that I have been
busy painting figures for our second Ayton Weekend Game, even forgoing two
of o...
Field of Battle 2nd Ed., la prova con la GNW
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Venerdi scorso, abbiamo provato il regolamento *Field of Battle (2nd
edition) *con uno scontro nella GNW. Devo premettere che ero piuttosto
prevenuto su ...
Just frigate about it.
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...In which our protagonist shows off the miniscule Dutch 30-gun ship.
It's small. Tiny, even. And... bright blue?
I'm not particularly thrilled with t...
For sale - Painted 28mm WSS Bavarians
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There comes a point when you need to rationalise what you game and
collect. I never really got into WSS, but I did pick these Bavarians up
somewhere. A wh...
Zvezda WW1 Russian Infantry
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Okay, I admit these are great figures. Normally I don't like assembling
figures. I say to myself, "If I want a kit, I'll buy a kit." In this case,
t...
Garrisoning the Collina Della Formica
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*You* probably thought this project was dead and buried. Well, it's still
alive.
A pair of *Tiroler Kaiserjage*r manning a *Schwarzlose* MMG on an
improv...
Models for sale and new book!
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I mentioned before that I would be selling most of my collection. After
much deliberation, I will be keeping some of it (such as my 15mm ECW
project which ...
Corporate Incomes - Mercenary outfit
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Finally finished my second PA faction this time a Mercenary outfit going by
the company name Corporate Incomes. There are several mercen...
Move Along...Move Along!
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In case anyone hasn't found out, The Drunken Gamers have become 'Dice
Devils' and can be found at
www.dicedevils.com
Thanks for checking us out, see you...
Self promotion
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OK, sorry for not posting anything earlier.
I was really very busy with my IT exams [RHCSA/RHCE/Postgres Plus Associate
followed by Professional] at work ...
peggy
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Well work has absorbed what little time I have avaliable of late so here
is a very quick update as to what I have managed to achieve over the past 3
weeks....
28mm Napoleonic command , for sale
-
all indviduals $30 each, all doubles $60..all forms of payment accepted,
however Paypal gets you a surcharge unless you make it a personal payment.
PP+P no...
Painted Cromwells
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Here are some painted Hät Armourfast Cromwells that will be brilliant to
fight with the Revell British Infantry in the Western Front.
Now that they have bee...
The fun never ends!
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I wish to show you my latest works
I based all napoleonic polish and russian troops from painting service
(Stonewall Figures),now I have thousands of th...
Basing Tutorial
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Greetings one and all! Hope the new year's treating you well so far.
Been rather busy working lately, so haven't made any progress on the rest
of my Warrior...
Clearing a nest of Sea Rats!
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*Scenario*
A group of slave-traders (who were thought to be operating out of Marzibar)
set up a temporary base inside an old abandoned coastal fort on the b...
Selling and getting out
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Hello all! Apologies for the lack of updates but the reality is, I haven't
done anything in the hobby for over a year. I've not really had the time or
spac...
My new Napoleonic blog for 2012.
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As this old blog still gets lots of hits I thought I would place a link to
my new project here for anybody who might care to follow it's development.
It's ...
The End of the Frugal Year(s)
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As you may have noticed I haven't been posting on the blog too much
recently. This is, in part, to it's success; I've been playing too many
games and get...
Spanish Review
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Sr. Troll, from La Cueva del Sr. Troll (Mr. Troll's Cave), have published a
review of Brytenwalda in Spanish. Of course you can use an online
translator to...
Count down to Crossover Part 4: The pitch
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So here we are at the end of Countdown but hopefully the beginning of
something great:
Now whether Crossover comes into being or not is kind of in your ha...
NY3K game report
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For those of you who aren't following the NY3K blog (and should feel
ashamed), here's a link to the first game report.
*Pour ceux qui ne suivent pas le blog...
The Pack Elite - Part 2
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*I haven't had much time to do stuff with a Bachelor's thesis I'm working
on all the time now, so not much painting progress and I just didn't have
what to...
Link to 1813 Tortosa Campaign
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The next phase of the 1813 campaign will be in north east Spain and will
deal with the Spanish attempt to take the city of Tortosa.
I have started a new b...
New Directions
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At the beginning of this month, I wrapped up a series of daily posts on the
battle of White Plains, and the events leading up to it. As much as I
enjoyed ...
Nery 1914 game
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I hosted my first 1914 game the other day at my store. The game was to
represent the action at Nery between British and German Cavalry. The
British had one...
Which To Choose:Immortals or Warriors?
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This has been a topic of debate with myself really and I can imagine with
most of the rest of you.
On the surface I immediately went straight to Immortals ...
More boards
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Hi all Another update on progress. I’ve been gluing two boards together a
day so after a few days I’ve finished 8 boards. You can see the river
section I c...
Force on Force à l'AMJH
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De plus en plus de joueurs se mettent à Force on Force dans mon club de jeu
de l'AMJH. De plus les joueurs peignent des figurines et fabriquent
massivement...
Osprey Issue Harrier Units and Tojo Aces Books
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*Osprey Publishing* have released two new aviation books this month.
First off is *AV-8B Harrier II Units of Operations Desert Shield and Desert
Storm*, *"...
Lip Beating - Severius hammers Thagrosh
-
Where I live the loser of a fight is often described as having "the lips
beat off of them". This happened on Saturday night when Kenoth of Menoth
brought a...
40K scrap modelling
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I have a boxful of bits of kits including some old GW vehicles. I think the
bit in the top photo come off what is called a Rhino? Anyway I never liked
t...
The african terrain is set
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As we needed a lot of new terrain for africa we thought we had better see
what it looked like before the game.
we have used fish tank vegitation, artificial...
Normal service will resume shortly
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Hi all
some explanations for my enforced absence may be required. I have not
posted anything for the last 6 months or so as i had to pack up all my
paintin...
Some more plastic hoplites
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*The three legged symbol is that of the Alcmaeonid clan*
I have just finished four more Immortal Miniatures plastic hoplites which,
as usual, were prett...
Boots on the Ground-- a sort of review
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from Worthington's BotG pageSeveral months ago I received *Boots on the
Ground* which I had pre-ordered from Worthington Games. It is a very
rules-light g...
Apologies
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Sorry for the dismal lack of new goodies on the blog of late, this solely
being due to me starting a new teaching post which is taking just about all
my ti...
Torgau 2011
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Our last major game was a refight of Torgau
This one was fought - as usual using the excellent King of the Battlefield
rules - as a contest over 5 victory ...
Huns
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Here we have some dastardly Hun allies for my Gothic led raiding party.
Here are the armies I have lined up for next Tuesdays game.
Goths
no Name
1 ...
Back on the Horse!
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Wow! It's been a long time since my last post! The path has largely been
cleared for me to share my miniature wargaming exploits, so let's get into
it!
Ou...
Warpath Beta released, and I think I like it ^_^
-
So, for those of us that follow Mantic, we know theyve been doing some good
stuff. Theyre putting out decent miniatures at a great price, and while
they're...
Tournament Report
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Well... no updates for a while, but this tournament got me back into FoW
;). Right now I'm just going to post a report and in a few days time I'll
post som...
2nd Saturday Update
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All I can say is the quality of play went up dramatically. Both sides have
started to understand what the campaign consequences are going to do to
them on...
Two shows down
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First Partizan and then one nearer to home, just completed in two weeks.
Unfortunately either the full time job or space at other shows is
restricting me f...
Blog Harassment
-
I am sorry to say that I have had to select comment moderation as a
permanent feature now. I am sick and tired of being harassed by a follower
of this blog...
15mm Deckplans
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I picked up a copy of AE: Bounty the other day. I want to run a 15mm
campaign.
I printed out a set of the Star Station Zero 15mm deck plans on card stock...
So it Begins...
-
*An Introduction:*
I love Warhammer Quest. For many Warhammer players this game may hold great
memories. In short for those who haven't heard of it, it is ...
Whats happening here.....
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This blog is being set up to show a new and developing gaming project, from
inception to creation. My gaming has taken a big hit recently, life
focussing m...
Barking Irons Online - Replaces this Blog
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Hello Everyone,
This will be the last posting on this blog as we have moved to a bigger and
more shiny home over at www.barkingirons.co.uk and it is there...
Battle of Geuberbach [ Schwabian Times Report ]
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Yesterday our brave troops engaged the invading Harzburg hordes. This
reporter interviewed many of the participants and the available bystanders,
their st...
Time to evolve
-
Though I like the storage capacity of canalblog (5GB), I'm tired of the too
many maintenance problems which block the access to the blog. So I've
decided...
(PM-05) Cretan Archers - Part 1
-
This is a bit of a quickie project. It's part of my experiments with
"dipping." I've posted a bit abour my first experiment at my regular blog.
As a "quic...
Tech Cultist Bust for sale
-
So if anyone is interested my Tech Cultist is for sale... please spread the
news, let people know and make possible I don't run out of putty :)
[image: A...
Well, its been a year...
-
And I haven't posted anything for a very simple reason: I have done damned
near nothing with anything Warhammer-y.
Oh, and whatever I have done is over on ...
A year in review
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Well, its been nearly a year since i last made a post to the blog!
The last year has been so hectic for me that writing the blog was often the
last thing ...
SBH SOLO Vikings VS Hunters of Evil
-
With my new love of Universal Battle, I have run yet another solo game.
This time it was the under dog Vikings VS the Vet Hunters of Evil.
I set the game u...
Amazons and a SpellSinger!
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Hi
Here are some pictures of some AMAZONS my dad painted.
He is going to use them for his TROJAN WAR game, but he said I can use them
for my Fantasy games ...
CRITTER COMMANDOS REVIEW
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Hi!
Folks have been asking for a review of critter commandos so I thought I
would give it a bash!
Critter Commandos!
*Review*
The book is separated into...
Paint, Partying and Prelims
-
Not posted in quite a while, this is due to the fact I have been
incessantly busy. I have been trawling my way through a massive box of 15mm
goodies that t...
Time to say goodbye.
-
You may remember last year, during Icecrown progress, that I spent weeks
and months grinding for an achievement. Specifically, I wanted the title
"Payce th...
US Weapons platoon
-
One of the first platoons I painted up for my US Riflemen was the Weapons
platoon, because I figured every US force needed this kind of thing. Turns
out I ...
Astro Mag Issue 8!
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Hey guys, Astro Mag Issue 8 is out! Go download it, won't you?
Also, apologies for the lack of activity. I have a lot of Dark Eldar
sitting next to my de...
if it ain't broke...
-
Having read through *Iron Cow* again I realised that it didn't need much
tweaking following the feedback Some I took on board so there are subtle
changes t...
97 - Blood Ravens Tactical Squad "Contemptus"
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Here we have the ten marines who make up my first tactical squad, "
Contemptus." The Sergeant is armed with a Power Fist and the two
specialists are equipp...
Super Shader results
-
Super shader Black
Group - blocked colours and then black shader on uniform. Dry - highlight a
touch
super shader dark
For this greatcoat I used montan...
A new project scale
-
For X-mas I got a series of 54mm home casting molds. They are US Army and
Middle Eastern opposition. The gaming potential for these is rather
obvious. But ...
RIP Major Winters
-
This week there is one less member of the 'Band of Brothers'. Major Richard
Winters who lead E company from the the landings in June 1944 through the
end o...
Ramshackle Releases 2
-
Hi!
Heres some more of the releases that Ramshackle have produced over the last
couple of months:
Skeeta
Scrap Tank
Truck
Iron Grumbler
Biker Gang
Al...
Favors equal new bonds ...
-
The Spirit Nicole landed with little flair or commotion. Landing bay
robots swarmed to welcome the newest tenant. Dust and heat combined in
swirls as th...
Happy New Year 2011!
-
Another year is upon us and I've decided it is time to consider my gaming
resolutions for 2011. Without further ado, here they are:
1) Thin my miniatures c...
I’ve been a good boy.
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Santa brought me some stuff for xmas. He thought since I’m starting a new
game this 2011, I might as well start two. Templates set and Khador counter
set f...
Algonquin Scale Creep
-
I hope everyone had a great Christmas, the run up to which saw any real
chance to proceed with this project come to a grinding halt!
I did receive the *Eur...
last post b4 xmas
-
no doubt this will be my last post before Xmas, with some international
brigade figures finished and a republican HMG team.but on the paint table
from toda...
The Ghost of Armies Past
-
While visiting one of my favorite blogs, Zinnsoldatengeneral, I was
admiring some of Andreas Hofer's latest painting masterpieces. He is truly
an arti...
Buying 20mm to small 25mm scales
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Im interested in buying one pose each of any figs you have in 20mm to
classic small 25mm scale. I collect and wargame all periods! Please send a
list of wh...
The "Waynes Junction campaign"..
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I've decided to revive this old campaign diary project blog to record the
unfolding of events in a new campaign that DG and I have just started...
One of ...
More ATZ!
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Game 1:
Again I headed to the LGS today with ATZ, some buildings and zombies. A
friend of mine had a buddy in town and wanted to play some THW games. Since...
Time
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Seems I don't post as often as I should, I really have been doing things
related to gaming including trying one of the largest projects I have ever
tried. ...
An Excuse for my Absence
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Well, last week I flipped my truck. For that I received thirteen staples in
my head along with much of my stuff destroyed, just wonderful. There was
some t...
40k Combat Patrol: Wrapup
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Well the Combat Patrol has come and gone, i wrestled my way to a 3rd place
spot overall and managed to come away with Best appearance trophy which was
a ni...
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hey i haven't posted anything for a while so i thought id show you my zeds
the painted
and the unpainted hoard
i have a few zeds not shown here but...
The Nacht Reitar strikes
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Von Pritzwalk’s decision to besiege Dolfstein invariably slowed the hectic
pace that the campaign had so far taken. This was the result of the
battering t...
Jurassic Reich at Little Wars Melbourne
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Jurassic Reich was wonderful, and here are a few photos courtesy of Paul
at the Man Cave . Check out the rest of his great Jurassic Reich photos –
thanks...
Alright, short term goals for this month
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Well, if I'm hoping if I set up some feasible goals for the next for weeks
or so, I should be able to get myself playing more games, and getting this
blog ...
New 1813 Campaign Blog
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Due to lack of space remaining on this blog, I have moved the main 1813
Campaign to a new blog.
The new blog will be the main diary for the whole 1813 cam...
Battle of Nations 2010 - Part 3
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The Battle of nations enters its second hour with a blanket of light snow
dropping visibility down to 500yds at best. The guns fall silent as men and
horse...
Battle Report: USMC vs Taliban (FoF)
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Well I christened my new double sided grass mat this morning, as well as
the middle eastern building I built over spring break. I realized that my
Taliba...
Scale creep on the workbench!
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I have been very satisfied with my slowly growing armies of Union and
Confederate soldiers in 6mm for ACW Black Powder gaming, but for some
reason, I am no...
Ebay/Goodbye: Final goodbye and Salamanders are up.
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I'm sorry but i forgot to put up that the warriors and silver skulls had
gone up on ebay but here is the link to my green salamanders marines:
Salamanders
...
British Army of Venus 2
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First up is the Brig, commanding his troops from the front. Next up is the
first section of Infantry, still in Greens, they are painted as members of
the R...
Argossean Test Pieces
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Having settled on a uniform for the Aquilonian infantry I decided to have a
crack at the Argosseans. As previously stated they would be my "British"
parabl...
Games Day 2010 Pics
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Well, I hadn't planned to go to Games Day 2010, but I happened to win a
ticket. Many thanks to Shelexie over at Wanna B Painter. At first I was
going to gi...
Black Hat 15 mm Feudals - Vexillia
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Something painted by yours truly for a change. Thanks to some spare time
I've painted and photographed some examples of the 15mm Medieval Peasants &
Gener...
Now I'm feeling zombified!
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*Day One – Location #1 - Whiteface*
*Cast:* Whiteface
*Objective:* Retrieve Car
*Area:* Suburban
*There was a lot of trouble at work, so I decided to pack ...
Second Battle of Song Of Blades and Heros
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For this battle, I used a scenario from Song of Wind and Water. The ratmen
are attempting to summon a demon around an ancient stone circle, while my
trust...
Huginn and Muninn, where are you both?
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And so a sliver of sly Odin's wisdom has helped me enter realm of Blog.
SO what are we doing here and where will this Long Boat of a Blog take us?
Wel...
Moving over to Wordpress
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I am saying goodbye to this blog and moving over to blogging all about my
hobby on Wordpress.
Why? Well my hobby has changed over the past couple of mo...
"It's a fez, i wear a fez now, fezes are cool"
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The crooked Dice minis sculpted by Kev White..... planning on doing the
Steve B Heresy ones too...but the Amy arrived to late for the original
purpose....
...
First unit complete, the 88th foot
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The 24 figures are all Perry, the flags are Victrix. In the end it took me
2 weeks but that's only because life got in the way. As I've said, its
around ...
FLASH GORDON Space ships
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http://www.hangar18fasa.com/
MONGO
Within a pocket of space known as a vortex, another dimension artificially
created long ago by a great empire. Beyo...
www.jcfigures.com is LIVE!
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Check out my new website. It isn't that flashy, in fact it is pretty ghetto
among website standards, but I am doomed to the KISS principle. Please post
sug...
Painting Service Launched
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Hi Everyone,
The blog has finally been re-named and re-designed (well slightly). I am
happy to annouce that I will also now be accepting painting commisio...
28mm terrain for AE Bounty
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hello,
just a progress shot of some modular terrain boards Im working on for AE
BOUNTY.
these are 2 out of 4 boards im working on. each is 24 b...
New Wargame Rule Blogs
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The 1813 campaign has been running for more than a year, and I am running
out of space on the original blog.
Over the past few months I have been making...
Terrain: St. Kevin's Church
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I have always enjoyed building terrain to battle over. In fact it was the
terrain section of the 3rd edition Catachan Codex that first drew me into
the hob...
For Sale: Dwarf Army
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Hello guys! I'm afraid the blog has been rather dead of late, but I am
still out there. I'm currently in the middle of a long stretch of straight
working d...
Malayan Emergency
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Ive posted some photos of the time my dad served in the army with the R.A
in Malayia in around 1957-58.
The ship that took him out to Malayia.
Training ...
Colonists
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In preparation for what will hopefully be this summers campaign I have
painted 4 Ground Zero Games (GZG) miniature colonists. Having found myself
constantl...
Workers Militia
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Here's a shot of a couple of the workers militia for A Very British Civil
War (figures by Musketeer Miniatures) that I varnished this afternoon. I
think th...
Peter Watkin's "Culloden"
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*The* Battle of Culloden offers a somewhat tenuous clue to the identity of
the unfortunate gentlemen referred to in my *previous post*, but is
certainly re...
French Porte-Fanions.... a little help here.
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Next up for my French is another line battalion, I've started with the
figures left over from my first Victrix box and I'm going to add to that
greatcoated...
Zama
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Paul put in a lot of work over the last year to produce the figures for the
Society of Ancients battle Day, Zama.
As with Callinicum last year, we staged o...
MY SECOND ATTACK AT THE ROMANS
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The wounds received at the battle of Zama on Saturday have now healed and
once again I am about to attack those pesky Romans, this time with a paint
brush,...
Moving my blog
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Hi !!! I have decided to move my blog to www.dalauppror.blogspot.com I hope
that you all will continue to follow my blog there. Pleas sign up as a
follower...
First game of the Campaign
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I have been some what slack in writing, only Scott and I have been busy
preparing for the up and coming battle which will take place this coming
Wednesday ...
Colour Scheme Revisions
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I've had a bit more of a think about the color scheme for the Eldar.
I think the original scheme was a step in the right direction, but not
enough. Still to...
Painting: My painting method.
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So, the method I have been using for my models is as follows:
prime black
fenris grey
shadow grey
devlan mud wash
general highlight shadow grey
build up to ...
The Turks Arrive
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Made you think I was working on some Empire archers, did I? Or that French
Aeronef fleet? No. It was the Turks!
On the far right you can see the Sult...
Ironclad updates
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Sorry guys, I do not have as much time today for research. But I was able
to update a few of the Confederate Ironclads. There is a lot of conflicting
data ...
Update!
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Sorry for the lack of news, everyone at TTG has been very busy with school
and life in general... All of us have been working on various aspects of
several...
Greek Command Stand
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This photos shows my first Greek command stand for my Spartan
allies/mercenaries. All figures have been painted, varnished and glued to
the base. I reall...
Seleucid
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True to my chaotic and apparently random painting tradition, I have started
another army! This time its a Seleucid army I have had kicking about for a
year...
Folding back into TPC
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After some discussion, I've decided that Reinforcements will find itself
folded back into The Painting Corps with a bit more detail as an irregular
feature...
End of Campaign
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End of Campaign
The French withdrew over the river Saale and left the Russians in
possession of the right bank. Despite this setback the French still
con...
The cruiser Powerful, revisited
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If you search with Google Image Search, you will find that there are many
photographs of the 1st Class Protected Cruiser Powerful online. Battleships
and C...
Pan from Studio McVey, a review
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Wow, I were really happy to find a little package from the UK in my mailbox
today and to find out that it was from Studio McVey. I was stunned by the
mood ...
Goals for 2010
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I have one goal for 2010: To complete my Daemons of Chaos army in time to
participate in the Ordo Fanaticus Club Challenge. I believe this is in July
or Au...
Progress with the rules
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In the evening hours of the past weeks I have been very busy converting all
the draft rules from the wiki page to a proper book format. I had been
going ba...
Moving
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I'm in the process of moving over to a self hosted wordpress blog.Please
update your bookmarks/feeds/whatever:http://www.flames-of-war.comThanks
Building completion.
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It's been a while since my last post, but i've been enjoying many of the
other bloggs as people snap and type away.
This year i've decided to be a bit more...
Welcome ..... leave your pride at the door
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Marcus fell into the line with the others of 3rd platoon. A whirlwind of
nerves, excitement and wonder filled his body. His family wished for him
to sta...
Hawker Hurricane Mark 1
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What better place to start than with the aircraft that formed the main
strength of Fighter Command up until as late as 1941, the Hawker Hurricane.
By 7 Au...
Zombies!!!
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Inspired by this post on Big Lee's blog, I immediately asked my parents to
get me this game for Christmas so we could all play it as a family! I
received i...
Apologies…
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I must apologise for my lack of new content on this site for sometime now –
the reason being is that i am running a online Warhammer 40,000 campaign on
you...
Fallschirmjaeger Kompanie, the basic platoons
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Here some pictures of my German Fallschirmjaeger Kompanie, on the pics you
can see the Kompanie HQ standing in the back, with their mortar and schreck
team...
Teutonic Knights - Allies
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We'll its been awhile, but I have actually been painting (at my normal
snail's pace). I recently finished a unit of christianized Baltic Tribesmen
for use ...
The Battle of Leon
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Spanish corps approach from the east.
The French are too weak to hold all of Leon. The two nearest town sections
are empty, but one infantry brigade hol...
Man o' Man....
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Ok so here's the skinny. I pretty much put painting on the backburner for
the last month or so as soon as I realized that I needed to spend more time
prepp...
Combat Resolution?
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*Tarot for the Day:Queen of Mandatio (Scrolls) - The Canoness*
The imposition of discipline; the wisdom of authority; an obligation
imposed upon us by duty...
Shops – Hanoi, Vietnam – Thai Duong Fine Art
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While on vacation, I ran across this shop in the Hoan Kiem section of
Hanoi, Vietnam. The girl behind the counter was bored and playing video
games, but s...
Test Miniature
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Finally I am feeling like normal human again after being sick for the past
week. Here we have after a long delay the pictures of the paint scheme I am
goin...
Blood Pact looted Hydra
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Well hi! It's been a while. I managed to finish my Hydra and get it painted
up. It turned out better than I thought, though the barbed wire was a real
pain...
Incursion Progress
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A few free minutes here and there have allowed me to finish one half of my
3D Incursion board basic floor plan. The weird snakelike stain is actually
cemen...
Yarrrrgggghhhhh
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Seems I have been snowed under with illness and the evils of higher
education again! Watch this space very soon ill be posting some nice
pictures.
Marlborough
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I brought Winston Churchill's biography of his most famous ancestor with me
to France in an effort to finally get through it.
I've managed to get most of t...
JC IS BACK!
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On the 194th Anniversary of the Battle of Quatre Bras, I wish to inform all
readers that I am in the process of revamping the site and updating all my
warg...
WIP: Heavy Bolter Teams + Converted Cadians
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Hello again guys. So... Heavy weapon teams. I have to admit, I did try the
diagram I drew on my previous Planning post. It ended up rather fail - then
agai...
Fad A La Mode?
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*In which EG passes time while waiting for the off by being faddy in the
comfort of the Smoking Room at his club.*
*A VERSION OF THE PIECE ORIGINALLY PUB...
Opinion
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So, where do we begin with the Daemonic Codex for Warhammer 40k?
Well, unlike a lot of reviews done via quick posts on forums or a mention
on podcasts, I w...
Magna-Grecia vs. Republican Romans, Basic Impetus
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First photo is the battlelines closing (Greeks to the left).
Second photo is the last turn.
Another game under the belt, and we are starting to get some...
Help for the Ministry of Construction
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I've been looking for some buildings for my 6mm guys to fight over, without
wanting to pay a fortune for them - these look like they may do the trick.
And ...
56 Spaceships Built
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Well, it has been a long time since I last posted to this blog . . . but
I've now finished building and painting some 56 spaceships for Full Thrust.
I've b...
I hear voices
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I am excited. I finally figured out how I could get the student's work and
voice-overs onto the blog together. Apple Imovie, Itunes, and Keynote made
it ha...
Website Now Live
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Hi,
Just a quickie to say that my website, Darrell Hindley Figure Painter, is
now live. There are still a few teething problems mainly down to my almost
t...
Painting 15mm AB - Spanish Napoleonics
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Hello everyone and thank you for visiting. An article I did for the
Wargames Directory( http://wdlovesme.19.forumer.com/index.php ) on painting
15mm Spanis...
The British Ambassador's Residence in Cairo
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* Lord Cromer's Room*
I spent a few days in Cairo the other week running a meeting with the
Egyptian Government in the British Ambassador's Residence. This...
'Blaue' Würzburg IR
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*Inhaber*
1756 Prinz Bischof v. Würzburg
*Unit History*The unit was the sister regiment to the *Rote-Würzburg* which
had red (Rote) facings. The regiment ...
What will you find here?
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(last update on this blog: O5.15."14)
[and probably the very last, since I'm tired of blogger raping my privacy
to 'sell' me to adversiters & spammers]
Apr...
Updates...
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To make updates easier,and to keep content more current, I've moved all the
project data to my main blog page..
Click *here to be taken to the project! [c...
Triarii
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The Elite range has only one Triari pose - and it's a bit limited.
Basically a guy kneeling down. Then I noted that the hastati and principes
figures were...
OV1 Mohawk and B57 Canberra
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Two exiting recent additions to the Green Air Force are the Roden kit of
the OV-1 Mohawk and the Classic Airframes kit of the B57B Caberra. Both of
these ...
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This Blog will form for me an area where I can drop any and all materials I
put together on my Victorian Science Fiction World the Venus Kolonie.
Why "Venu...
Shaun's Wargaming with Miniatures, investigating fast play (less than one hour) small scale (a 2'x2' board) ancient rules. Replaying same scenarios with different rulesets to see how they go, added.