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Dark Age DBA Kick Off - As per tradition we’ve started our campaign weekend with a big battle to allow people to try out some of the armies we’ll be playing with tomorrow. We WER...
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Reader Poll - Choose my next painting project! - **Squeek** OK, now I need your help with a decision... ...what unit to paint next! Please do me a favour and click on the poll on the screen to help m...
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Overwatch- Chaos Obliterators on Station - Welcome to a new segment here on Spikey Bits called War Torn, where I try to capture a perhaps pivotal moment in a battle, or a frame that shows an ongoing...
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Claymore Castings Sample - I was kindly offered a pre-production sample from the newly established miniature company Claymore Castings that is run by David Imrie/Saxon Dogand Andrew ...1 hour ago
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Old campaign background detail - I found some old notes from the last time I played *Dungeons & Dragons*prior to my return to RPGs in the Hill Cantons. During college some friends and I g...
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FWS Armory: Particle Beam Weapons - One of the mission statements of FWS is to catalog and define the weapons used in science fiction, making this a resource for creators of military sci-fi a...
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A New LTL City - I've finally started on a project that I have been wanting to do for a couple of years now. After acquiring some Mech Warrior type stuff I decided that th...
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Happy Day, Rulebooks are on the way!!! - Next week I should be receiving 60 copies of Brink of Battle! The book turned out much better than I had even thought possible. I'm one happy guy. Yesterda...3 hours ago
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C'est le Congo - Many, many moons ago, I started doing 15mm post-WWII African conflicts. Some of those figures are among the first ones on this blog. Less than ten year...
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Wargames Gallery 2-24-2012 - "Hold on a second - YOU get a cover save?!" Enjoy. If you have an awesome wargames shot you think would make a great BoLS pic of the day, email us. We love...
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REGIMENTAL FIRE AND FURY - MECHANICSVILLE - Played a game of RFF last Weds night at Steve's place. It was the Mechanicsville scenario from the RFF book, which is pretty much just a head butt Reb fron...
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Hammer Time (part 3) - As previously detailed here and here, a project for me this month has been painting some Hammer's Slammers 28mm blowers from Old Crow. When last I left th...
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25 More Zombies - Hi, folks. Been working on more Zombies. These are hybrids made from Wargames Factory Zombie legs with Mantic Zombies heads, arms, and torsos. I think they...
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Flames of War French Hotchkiss H-39 - The Hotchkiss H35 or Char léger modèle 1935 H was a French light tank developed prior to World War II. So far I have two of these blisters and each contain...4 hours ago
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Preview of all ten heavy trooper miniatures - Some of these you have seen, others are new. This is a preview of the complete line of Eisenkern heavy troopers, with some poorly written fluff :) *I would...
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Interwar Pulp Western Back-of-Beyond Excellence: The Good, The Bad, The Weird (2008) - If you like crazy spaghetti Western action. If you like crazy interwar Pulp action. If you like crazy Mad Max action. Then you will love *The Good, The Ba...
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Plastic Conversions & the new Airfix British - Back again with another post; I tend to wait until I have finished something before I post, and that can take me a while.... In this post I have an assor...
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Leading the army - No real proper army can go to war without good generals. So today I'll show them, though they're not finished: I still need to glue the banners. All of the...
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The First of the Albertines - I am very happy to say and introduce the first of the Albertine force, this fellah being a Major in Duke of York's Own Regiment. He is wearing the latest i...
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So Shawn delivered the Zombies today - They're 60 something mm zombies. Woah, I wasn't expecting that. Any thoughts or ideas for painting larger miniatures? I've only ever painted a few such as t...
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Screen and Screen Again - As it was Half Term last week I had a bit of a TV and Film Fest at Moonbase. It kicked off with a modern Viking flick called *Valhalla Rising*starring a mut...5 hours ago
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Jumping with the Poles III [Hypothetical] - Tea-break over and the the battle resumes. The main force of Polish Paratroopers take on the two remaining German platoons in the wood. Note the attacking...
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It Came from Beyond the Still - Print Version Out Soon! - The print version should be out within the month of March. It will contain all current supplements including Weapons Closet and Men in Plaid and those othe...5 hours ago
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BMP 2s from Shaun - *A shot from the top, I think I've put the ATGM in the right spot* A package from Shaun at S&S arrived a few days ago and I finally managed to take time to...
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Iron Fist - Role: Striker. Hulk - Role: Heavy Tank: What the Marvel U. can teach us about 5th Ed. Roles. - I haven't had the chance to get a copy of the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying: Basic Game yet (I'm holding out for the freaking Age of Apocalypse one-and-done b...
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Crossing the Yalu River - 1904. - From Wikipedia: "The Battle of Yalu River, (Japanese: 鴨緑江会戦, Ōryokkō Kaisen) 30 April to 1 May 1904, was the first major lan [...]6 hours ago
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Crusader Mark IV - El Crusader fue una luz en la oscuridad, el único carro británico, que intento realmente compensar un blindaje ligero con la inclinación de las ...
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Trades / Sales - We're nearly done with Turn 3 of The Shadow of Koles Lorr, but whilst we wait for that to complete, I thought I would use your rapt attention to flog my...
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A new Halfling Army Book for Warhammer Fantasy Battle - The Warhammer Halflings PDF army book is ready for download or viewing online - the Hungry Horde are coming for dinner ! [image: WFB Halfings Army Book PDF...
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Special Weapons Dalek scratchbuilt Targetting Drone - all finished - Here she is then all done and hovering away.
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Roman WIP - Hi all This week I have been mostly working on some Caesarian Romans pulled out of the lead pile in the garage. These need the flesh finishing off, some Ma...
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Painting the early 19th Century, three models at a time - Last week I completed my "must do" painting tasks for the big Battle of Salamanca game my friends and I are putting on at Adepticon in two months time (I...
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Malifaux: Death Marshal 3 - My third Death Marshal. I had a big painting slump last year and it impacted on my painting standard quite badly. Although I am again starting to remember...7 hours ago
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One Small Step For Man... - Laser Troopers (left), Deck Officers (right), Hostile Environment Suit (front) Miniatures Painted by Ernie Baker I wanted to take a moment and introduce you...
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Forge World Zone Mortalis Pictures and Alternative Products - Pictures are up for the new Forge World Zone Mortalis Set. The pricing on this set is 90 Pounds per set of four 1′x1′ squares. This means it would run you ...8 hours ago
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Char B.1 bis Company - My latest addition to my French collection Simple paint scheme copied from pictures off the web No washes, ink or dry-brushing Decals are a mixture of ...
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ACP Games, Val-Lyn - Here is a Val-Lyn design coming out for ACP Games. The figure will stand about 48-52mm tall and is one of the big monster types in the Val-Lyn lineup.
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Three more Star Wars aliens - These guys are a bit better known in terms of Jabba's retinue, if anything because one of them falls into the Rancor pit. These are two Gamorrean guards...
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Very Funny - Very True ! - Saw this on http://philbancients.blogspot.com/2012/02/wargamers-shamelessly-nicked-from.html#!/2012/02/wargamers-shamelessly-nicked-from.html may of orig...
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Titanic warfare in the 41st millenium - Hello again! (or hello for the first time if you're a new reader. I hope you stick around :)) So, despite the impressive title of this blog post, I've work...
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Smartened up - No sooner than they had stepped through the door of General Wurst’s house than Frau Wurst was there to greet them. “Welcome Major, I see the problem, now y...8 hours ago
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Fleamarket Friday: Jammie Dodgers Are Cool! - This £59.99 limited edition bust of the 11th Doctor holding a Jammie Dodgerwill only be available at the Official Convention next month and must be pre-ord...
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With basecoat and acrylic wash... - Just an early experiment with some Stadden Zulu Wars British converted with paint to represent French Marines. I'm quite pleased with them the unifors ar...
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20 questions about my D&D game - I normally ignore these but I like Brendan's set of question about what type of game you run. * Ability scores generation method?* 3d6 six time arrange ...8 hours ago
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AWI For Sale Painted/Unpainted - I'm considering heading in a different direction with some projects, including AWI, but only if I can find a buyer for these. I want to sell as a complete ...8 hours ago
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Wargames Illustrated 293 - I grabbed a copy of flames of *Wargames Illustrated* today in WHSmiths and flicked through it while I was waiting to get my hair cut. Much to my surpri...
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Its magic - I got some Army Painter super glue activator and I was initially a bit skeptical but should not have worried. It works a treat and after a few trials I have ...9 hours ago
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EW North Africa Escalation League (7) - Last night was what might be my final game in our soon to be completed early war North Africa Flames of War Escalation League. Before the games some of us...
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Frank Chadwick's Space:1889: Ship Design Worksheet From Savage Troll - Frank Chadwick's Space:1889: Ship Design Worksheet From Savage Troll: The Savage troll has a free download available -- an Excel ship design spreadsheet fo...9 hours ago
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Zone Mortalis: space corridors from Forgeworld - Forgeworld just announced some original space corridors tiles, they can be used either as warhammer 40K terrain or as a gaming board for some special missi...
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Setting Goals - If you read my VSF blog, Victoria's Boys In Red, this may look familiar. But I promise it isn't a mere repost. Even if it seems very similar. Really...9 hours ago
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Mahdist War: 10th Hussars - The next addition to my Sudan collection is some men of the 10th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Royal Hussars. Once again they are from the excellent Perry Mi...
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Tutorial: removing paint from a metal miniature with Acetone - This article will describe the process of stripping paint from a miniature using Acetone. Acetone is cheap (I paid 5 euro for 1 liter) and quite easy to wor...
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New Infinity Plastic Tokens - Following on from yesterdays post >>HERE<<, the new tokens have now been shown officially. Created by Micro Art Studio to use in all of your games of Infi...
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Special Operations Killzone: Explained –TEAM BUILDING - This series of posts, apart from getting the gears engaged as we spin into AdeptiCon and the Killzone events featured therein, is designed to offer insi...
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Corporation: Army Set - The Corporation Army Set is one heck of a box, featuring the Corporation Marine Twin-pack, Ranger and Veteran Sections and even three Heavy Weapon Teams, w...10 hours ago
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Blogger Templates and Peter the Pig (is great). - Hi All, I made the mistake of fiddling with my blogger template and then wrestled for hours (OK 10 minutes) trying to ungirlify it! So sorry about the new ...10 hours ago
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I have been to ... the 'Who Do You Think You Are?' Show ... again - Because my wife is an amateur genealogist, we go to the 'Who Do You Think You Are?' Show at Olympia every year. It is the premier genealogical event in the...
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Zone Mortalis - Zone Mortalis could be the best Warhammer game expansion yet, basically by bringing plenty of line-of-sight blocking terrain to the game as well as a numbe...
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C is for Cultural Combatants - Sometimes the heading is the hard part!...More Toy Soldiers seeping into the veins of wider society! Skater Boys, Radical Man! Hornets Nest...Don't poke i...11 hours ago
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Book Review: Space Hulk - Every once in a while I troll the Black Library site looking for ebooks they have published that may have not got as much press as some of the flashier ...
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Practical Interior Boards - 28mm interiors. Image from Gamecraft Miniatures website. Mark over at Dropship Horizon has been posting about the great new starship interiors from Gamecr...
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The Sky Warriors of Fenris - Wolf Guard - Hi all Here is my Space Wolf Wolf Guard. It's old model and banner also "sticker" from 1990s Spellscape Miniatures blog
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The Black Wolf - So as the new edition of the Dystopian Wars rulebook comes out very soon with all the updates that we have seen over the last few months. Spartan Games dec...12 hours ago
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Confirmed Chaos Space Marines Rumors (Legions) - So this week’s round of rumors is about chaos space marines and the upcoming chaos legions book… I’ll fully believe it when we get the leaked copy of the...
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Image of pack OT3. - Andrew has painted up the figures from pack OT3, Scots Spear. Andrew and I have been amazed at the response to this range of figures. If you are really k...
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Forge World - Zone Mortalis Set - Now this is interesting. With whispers of a new 40k expansion concerning combat inside buildings, now we see this from Forge World. I like the look of it...12 hours ago
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Bikes - I have been painting my WWII Japanese and WWII German bike troops by HaT in 1/72nd scale. I have been using Model Master paints for the Germans. This is a b...
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Ship Design Worksheet From Savage Troll - The Savage troll has a free download available -- an Excel ship design spreadsheet for Space: 1889 cloudships, gunboats, and aether ships for the Savage Worl...
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Stalingrad was one such place. Part I - Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE ...
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VFM Medical Zombies Special : Ends Sunday - I have 12 Medical Zombies made that will be part of the VFM Zombie Horde Set II: First Responders. There are 6 originals and 6 converted from the originals...13 hours ago
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Resurrection! - I’m back after months away, blame work and the kids not laziness,never laziness. And I have a simple conversion for you. OK so these Vamps are pret...
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SCWH Honor Roll #52 - Welcome to the SCWH Honor Roll now brought to you with love and care direct from Lantz from over at TLA and MWC! *Legion Of Plastic* - Counts-As Coteaz *C...
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The Rise of the Eldar - My new eldar project continues to make progress and after this weekend I have now finished the final conversion project, my warlocks. These guys were built...14 hours ago
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Wargamers (shamelessly nicked from another blog!) - I liked this so much I thought I'd share (just in case you've missed it). I think it came from Two Fat Lardies originally.
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Open Friday: 'Zines - One of the many, many positive results of the old school renaissance over the last few years has been the rediscovery -- and re-invigoration -- of old form...14 hours ago
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Space Wolves Lists revisted - Well, now that there's a new batch of Space Wolves coming out I'm going to start revisiting the list I have painted up. I've ordered a set of thunderwolves...
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London break - Over the half term we visited London and as usual I managed to fit in a few military history linked visits. The principal one was the Imperial War Museum. ...
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The many angles of a wargamer - I borrow this from Grog News blog, I found it particularly funny Talking about which, are you rally open with your friends, relatives and work colleagues ...
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15mm Sci-Fi Platoon nears completion - I have finished converting up twenty more 15mm Sci-Fi "Tesla" particle beam rifle armed troops. This gives me 40 "Tesla" rifle armed troops, divided into e...
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Here I Stand AAR - February Game - Once again our group played Here I Stand from GMT over the last three weeks. We had a truly spectacular time, with England winning on the final New World e...
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Managing Inflection Could Be Petition In Color! - Managing Inflection Could Be Petition In Color! Lifespan with accent and sprightliness without stress- they are poles obscure! Both types of express are f...15 hours ago
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Fire and Fury Thursday - That pretty much says it all. Initial set-up Union Line advances Rebs charge right up the middle. The fight for one of the towns begins. A view of the ri...
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Thursday Fire and Fury - That pretty much says it all. Initial set-up Union Line advances Rebs charge right up the middle. The fight for one of the towns begins. A view of the ri...
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Aaaarrrrggghhh! - Well, not quite that bad, but I have been in a hole of late. I need a good holiday or something...16 hours ago
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Extra 28mm Roman Skirmishers - I finished off a couple of Old Glory skirmishers I got in trade a few months back. These fellows will be for my Roman armies, where I find myself always sh...
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Easy, Effective and Cheap: Necron Destroyer Lord Conversion! - Old School here with a conversion I made from spare parts to become my Destroyer Lord. The destroyer body was a bit I grabbed out of a friend's bits box ...
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First Contact - Battlefield: Hill Land Weather: Strong Wind Scenario: Burn 'em Out Defender: Johan's Beast Herd Forces: See initial forces post Setup: The beastmen had a ...
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The Thunderer–Savaged - I wanted to see how a Legends-style cult would work in Savage Worlds, so I decided to have a crack at converting the Cult of the Thunderer from the core ru...17 hours ago
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Warlord Games Sarmatian Cataphracts - Warlord Games Sarmatian Cataphracts. Again I should take more pictures but I didn´t. It would be nice to have a couple of them of the command but you can s...
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The Scene goodies - So Useful! The postman brought me a delivery from The Scene this chilly morning. I ordered some wasteland bikers and zombie body bags.. But I also got this ...
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WW2 battle report - East Front 1941 Belyi (Take Cover) 6mm - *Introduction* This is game two in the Vzyama or Bust mini-campaign I am attempting to play to the end. I started just playing the first scenario to test ou...
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SS Wiking Panzergrenadiers vs Soviet Guards Strelkovy (Firestorm Game 5) - This was game 5 of our Firestorm Campaign- I was attacking into Lepel to connect with my cut off bretheren! The Germans caught wind of the attack and imme...17 hours ago
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Magnets! – by Tilaurin - Greetings ladies and gentlelost from the land that gave you Gdaybloke himself, Australia! Down here the scene is exploding faster than a Scrap Thrall on a...17 hours ago
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"A Game of Thrones" - a review.. - .... ookkaaaayyyyyyyy... this is the strangest book - for one thing it's almost 900 pages long and when I looked back after 3 weeks of reading I wasn't...17 hours ago
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New Ray Amish - I got the tip from this gent.... http://fortapachesupersized.blogspot.com/ *The Toy Soldier Depot* in Maryland has the figure set. The set has potential f...
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Raven Guard banner for sale! - Hey folks, it turns out that due to a miscom, this banner is now available for sale! I have a video coming up in a few, but it is the same quality and siz...
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My first ever terrain piece and some Guard Chasseurs a pied - We've got a big game coming up end of April - so called Borodino light - or an excuse to get the toys out! To this end we needed a big hill on which to p...
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Year of the Apocalypse - The last 12 months have been a tremendously challenging time for me on many levels. Truly a year of apocalyptic change and upheaval. Divorce...job loss.....18 hours ago
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One Year & Counting: Laughing Ferret Lab is 1 - One year ago I started this hobby blog. Time doesn't march forward, it punches the hyperdrive. So happy birthday to part of me: *The time went fast, but ...
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Classic GW Snakeman - I've had a handful of these classic Games Workshop Snakemen in my collection for years, a gift from my friend Lou some time ago. I decided to paint them up...
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Welcome to Friday Rucht Hour - Hello all! You'll notice that this is not your regularly scheduled blog post. But do not worry. We are in control and all of that. This is Rucht Lilavi...
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Slow Grow Painting Progress - My tactical prowess in the league may indeed be growing too slowly for my liking, but the painted model count is anthing but. I’m really pleased with the f...19 hours ago
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Cavalier 2012 Show and Generation Kill Book. - The Rejects will be at Cavalier 2012 this Sunday and hope to see some fellow gamers and bloggers there, it's the first show we attend every year and it's a...
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Polish Winged Hussar company painted up - After much delay due to school work, an exam, a FoW tournament and actually spending something like 3 times the amount of time painting these guys compared...
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Models already attached to base elements - Image from Forge World Forge World's new Basilisk model is gorgeous. I don't play Fantasy, but I love this model. This thing is so cool looking. I don't kn...
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A Great Snake! - Well there's shameless, attention grabbing title that I couldn't have envisaged writing a couple of weeks ago! The *'28mm Tales of Adventure'*distraction c...
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Locomotives & War (Vietnam) - by Carlos Briz - (Class GP 20 locomotive - U.S. Army Transportation Corps) Good morning Vietnam! CB brings us another outstanding king-size dio, this time related to the ...
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Vouture nouvelle pour Le General - Now that I have pretty much completed the Forbodian Army, I clearly need another *Funny Little Wars* army. When I get round to building it, this will be t...
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Spring doesn’t carry only good things… - or “don’t park near building in Kiev when it starts to defrost!”20 hours ago
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Broadway, Shanghai - Broadway Mansions Hotel Designed by B. Flazer of Palmer & Turner company, the Broadway Mansions were built in 1930-1934 for Sir Victor Sassoon, it was the ...20 hours ago
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TRASH BASH 2012 - part four - This morning I e-mailed my entry to the Trash Bash 2012 modelling competition, see; this link for full details.The competition rules state that work-in-p...
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Wargames Illustrated 293 - The March Issue of Wargames Illustrated arrived on my doorstep last week and I'd almost forgotten to write about it because I have been so absorbed with t...
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Polish Naps - Hi guys Here are some Napoleonic Polish Vistula Lancers (Front Rank) and Vistula Infantry (Foundry French painted as Poles) [image: Photobucket] [image: ...20 hours ago
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Space Wolves Display Board - Yeah, I went there. Why? well, I don’t do tournaments, and we don't really use display boards in the UK anyway, so why did I build this? Partly because ...
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Interior Planning - I'm in Gantt hell and need a reprieve...... Remember on *Monday* I blogged Gamecraft's excellent new *Starship Interior system*? Of course you do! One of ...
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Terrain Foam Blocks terrain - Первый результат от одного из наших читателей, который получил в свое распоряжение наборчик для быстрого террейностроения "Terrain Foam Blocks". Получил...
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Tooltime - part 1 (Modelling) - Welcome to Tooltime! It occurred to me recently that I toss around a lot of technical jargon and the names of a lot of tools that people new to the hobby...
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Cavalier 2012, well are you? - Just a short post for today, anyone else going to Cavalier at Tonbridge on Sunday??? Myself, Fran, Big Lee, Rich and Postie from the Rejects will be ther...
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New Sculpt... Greywolf the Dwarf - Hello all, Well, I've been at it again. Here is my latest green: a dwarf for all seasons, really. Is he a woodsman, or farmer, even adventurer? Well, the ...
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Crossrail news - Spotted by [image: [info]]*vicarage* A tour of the crossrail portal under construction at Royal Oak. This was in September - they've since erected a compli...21 hours ago
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Step to Step ( Dune Raider Decurion) - Hi guys I am makeing a step to step with this miniature you can see the progress here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Urban-War/354426834569501?sk=wall
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3A x KOJIMA MGS REX Onsale March 2nd...!!! - [image: mgs1] I'm really digging the camo pattern on REX. Might change my tune on this guy. Goes on sale at Bambaland on March 1st, 6pm PST for $490...!!21 hours ago
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2nd Airfix StuG IIIG - The second of my StuG's to go through the revamping process. This particular kit had taken a nose dive and both front sprocket wheels had broken. I repla...
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Stumpy retraction!!! Finecast is fine - Apologies for the rant yesterday. Getting my first Finecast model was a bit of a shock as I wasn't expecting it and had various horror stories running aro...22 hours ago
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Hipstamatic – DORK TOWER, Friday, February 24, 2012 - A NOTE TO NEW READERS ABOUT THE CURRENT DORKTOWER.COM ARCHIVES: I hate those click-thru full-page ads more than you can possibly know. Read all about it he...22 hours ago
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Chain Reaction 3 - AAR Operation Palliser Sierra Leone 2000 - With Ed at Two Hour Wargames releasing Chain Reaction 3 for Free, I thought it was high time my Modern Brits got an airing. *Operation Palliser May 2000 Sie...
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The Saga of Ceallach ui Móráin - I got a little time to jet up to Your Hobby Place recently and was able to get in a Saga game against the store owner Dave at the head of his Normans. I a...1 day ago
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A bit of a break? - Been a bit since I've made a post, so I figured I'd post up what I'm working on. I'm slowly working on some terrain for my 15mm sci-fi (emphasis on slowly)...1 day ago
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Warhammer English Civil War - Alford 1645 Battle Report - Went over to my buddy's, Dave's place, to try out some WECW. After perusing the battle board, I settled down to play the Covenanters. Dave asked me if I wa...
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More Miscellaneia: Grenadier, White Wolf, and Others - That's a Ral Partha Giant (Storm maybe) and a White Wolf figure. I didn't initially have the Trinity figure from White Wolf set up, but one of our regular...1 day ago
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ECW Parliament green regiment of foot - Over the last week I completed my third regiment of foot for my Parliament army. I need this unit and one more for my MayDay game. I decided to do these g...
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MURGHASTE WAR CREW WIP - It's all about The MURG this month! I am going to have 10 Murghaste in this War Crew, so I need to miracle up two more. I may use another *Byron* and jus...
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New Mexican 40mm Cavalry Miniatures from Gringo 40's - The most stunningly attired and numerous part of the Mexican Army were the cavalry. Consummate riders they were justly admired for their grace and skill as...
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D&D ochres, oozes and slimes - No D&D game would be complete without an ochre jelly, gray ooze and green slime. These were easy to make. I used a bit of Sculpey to bulk out the "body" o...
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Maybe Lost, most definitely Damned and other WIPs in 28mm - This time with 28mms again Lets start with two Dark Eldar. Old Incubi ( I fear quality of gorgeous new Incubi set in finecast ;( so i decided to repaint ...
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Hand on the Mend - When the tendons in my right hand inflated to twice their normal volume (or more) a few weeks back, I had no idea that I would be sidelined for this long....1 day ago
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Colour scheme ideas needed for my merc mechs - Hi guys, here are the mechs ready for painting, I need some advice on the paint scheme for my Japanese Merc Battalion, please vote for either of these idea...
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15mm Sudan Campaign - Here's the latest off the painting bench; lot number 2 in a fairly large and ambitious 15mm Sudan Campaign project I'm working on for a client. I showed yo...
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FoG 2nd Annual US Open - I wanted to put up a post here announcing that this year, the 2nd Annual Field of Glory US Open is being held in my neck of the woods - well, at least wit...
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Eye candy for all the boys and girls! - Hi everybody here's a link to my Battlecry 2012 Photobucket (in the title)200 odd photo's please look and enjoy. There's 40k, 1/300 Moderns, Flames of War,...
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Black Brunswickers! - At the February club meet Boyd and myself decided to have a game of Napoleonics instead of ACW as planned. Boyd has recently finished his Black Brunswick 1...
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Club meeting Feb 2012 - The Valiant Stormer's first club meet of the year was quite well attended with three games running, the two Chris's and two Dave's played Might and Reason...
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MI40k is back in business - It seems the server who was hosting MI40k was the target of a hack that replaced every single index file on the server with a link to their facebook page. ...1 day ago
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The Loss of the Hood - Phil of The Wargaming Site has put up a post about wargaming bugbears. In this particular post he talks about that nightmare for all wargamers - the dropp...1 day ago
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Dowództwo janczarów - Pokazuję te figurki z nieukrywaną przyjemnością. Raz, uważam że są to naprawdę porządnie zrobione miniaturki - i pod względem historycznym (z pewnymi niew...
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The Shop is Back! - In a development welcomed by literally some people, the Madaxeman.com merchandise shop is back! Yes,your chance to buy t-shirts and mugs with FoG and other...
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Dip/Single Highlight Welsh cavalry - Here, in response to Matt, are some pics of my dipped models. The method is white undercoat, then bright flat basecoat colours (except armour/helmets, whi...
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A bit quiet - It has been a bit quiet on the zombie wargame front at "Shelldrake HQ" since the PBB ended. I haven't forgotten about the zombies, and I hope to play test...1 day ago
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Albion Forever - In the last of these three entries we have the latest updates to the Forces of Albion, for our ongoing Sci-Fi campaign. As Albion pushes into space, the rol...
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Battle Report: Sandwyrm's Panzers vs. TheNeverThere's T-34's - *by SandWyrm* So how did I do vs. TheNeverThere's horde of 21 T-34 tanks? Read on and see! *SandWyrm's Afrika Panzerkompanie List* *Headquarters* 145 ...
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Version 3 and me: Command - *Warning*: getimagesize() [function.getimagesize]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in * /homepages/44/d342669007/htdocs/Life-at-the...1 day ago
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Serendipities and felicitations - O frabjous day! I quite unexpectedly came across a treasure trove of Piedmontese-Savoyard regimental flags that I thought I would never find. I was mindi...
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Witchcraft! Well, actually only a wet palette. - As part of an effort to improve my painting skills, I decided to try an make a wet palette. In case you're unfamiliar with the term, a wet palette keeps a...
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A Thanks.....with some Mead! - hi guys it's Right Stuff Thanks to Comrade James for giving me this board for my birthday- just in time for my Odinn's Champions match against the wood e...
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Eureka French as Spanish - Hi gent's Not been feeling great the last couple of days a bit of a winter bug methinks! but as needs must I still had to make a couple of meetings that we...
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Huscarls! - Here's the new hard core of my Anglo-Saxon / Anglo-Danish army - the Huscarls! *In a line* * * These twelve murderous looking professionals are all Crusade...
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Cruiser Warfare - WW1 German Style - *"I love the smell of new books in the morning....they smell of....new books!"* For a variety of reasons it has been a fairly busy couple of weeks - main...
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Adepticon 1850 List, Necrons - With less than two months to go, Adepticon is the next big event on my tournament horizon. Currently, I'm not planning on playing in the Championship rou...
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Laser Squad Nemesis Marines WIP. - Laser Squad Nemesis was a fantastic computer turn-based tactical game developed by the creators of UFO-XCom, now sadly defunct although still played by s...
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A bit of re-evaluation. - I have been thinking a lot about how much information needs to be displayed on a trooper's uniform and it has led to a re-evaluation of ideas. I have been ...1 day ago
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Ancients Campaign Rules: Economy. - Way back in 2007 I cobbled together a set of rules intended to link the strategic level game Pax Romana with Commands and Colors: Ancients in a grand campa...1 day ago
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Journey to the Moon! - Finished up my 2x2 moon board for FUBAR battles. I placed some different scale minis in a crater for size comparison. Craters are from GW. Rocks and crap a...1 day ago
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DeepWars - Force overview for Fortune Hunter starter set - The Kickstarter project for Deepwars is funded! Thanks to all the supporters who have pledged their hard-earned money - we will strive to produce the be...1 day ago
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2012 Gathering in the Desert Armies - For this installment of my GiTD coverage I want to chat about the armies. The Gathering is an event that prides itself on great looking games. We have alre...
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15mm Modern US Infantry - finished! - Ah ha! My 15mm Modern US infantry are done! They were based on very small buttons, which were then built up with plaster and sanded (although in retrospe...
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And Now for Something Completely Different - Changing it up for the unforeseeable future. I’m working on a commission Vampire Counts army led by none other than the big man himself, Vlad Von Carnstein...1 day ago
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A Warbases Review - Our sojourn into the Dark Ages has proved to be enlightening in many ways. I know my local history better than I did before and the joys of archeology have...1 day ago
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Flames of War: Test Figure - Here is the first one out! I have to say that it is much better than I was expecting. There is definite improvement over what I did two years ago (scroll d...
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Maneuvering around Disorder - Thank you to all for the input. Looking closely at the various causes, I realized that only 1 still meant what I used to mean by disorder: troops defeated ...1 day ago
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Medieval Litter (Sedan-chair) - A one seater, two horse power, top of the range method of getting around in the middleages....fluffy dice optional. The second half of this set. A couple...
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Sardinians in the Crimea - Image from here where there is much on the Sardinians. So PSR have identified that the Sardinians wore there greatcoats in the Crimea unlike the figures S...
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Some conversions - "Loose" characters that i hope to get cast someday, going to try to add some more first..
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Wirtz lijkstatie 1676 ~ Wirtz Funeral Service 1676 - Nog een uitsnede uit de prent van Wirtz' begrafenis. In de stoet worden diverse vaandels meegemomen, waarvan we de familiewapens van Wirtz kunnen identi...
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On the Table 2 - More shots of the heavy weapons teams, Magnetizing the whole lot. I'm using the Chaos Missile launcher as a static defense platform. - Cheers!
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20,000 Page Views - Another milestone has been hit on the blog. A year or two back the hit counter was hovering around the 3-4,000 mark and I never really saw it growing that ...1 day ago
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Things are looking up - 2 bits of good news: 1) Tom-tom replaced my out of warrantly satnav free of charge. 2) Got a £25 rebate from the tax man. No one can stop me now.1 day ago
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Recent Gaming (15th February 2012) - I meant to post this last week, but got distracted with editing podcast episodes… I’ve been playing miniature games for several weeks at Scimitar Wargames ...1 day ago
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Macedonians vs Late Achaemenid Persians - View along the Macedonian line Another view of the Macedonians, from the opposite end View of the Persian line On Wednesday night my mate Rick and I had...
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The Battle of Nemausus - Full Report - Scrotivius: "Scipio ordered the attack at once. The legionaries went forward with confidence and fought with great determination. His cavalry, of which he ...
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World War II Veteran talk - I recently had the great experience of hearing an Australian Veteran of WWII give a talk here in Darwin. A veteran who had active service while based here ...
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Painting Tutorial - German in winter uniform - Good day guys! First of all I would like to thank you all, for visiting my blog. I feel very privileged to be in contact with people like you, with who I s...
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Dark Ages Campaign Concludes - Round 8 of our Dark Age Campaign came to an end last week. With a three way on territories going into the last round it w...
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Spreading the 40K Infection - Having just sent the email to cancel our game day due to my little girl getting pink eye I was pretty bummed. Especially since I know my other two kids wil...1 day ago
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QRF load build continues, Iran scores more Russian tanks. - Back on the horse this week, I decided to do a big lot of the QRF armor sitting on my desk to keep Geoff from breaking my legs :). Once again the Iwata air...
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Ancients For Sale - *(Edit: Ancients, Medievals, etc. for sale.) * A list of what I've dug up so far. Only interested in lots, not single figures. Prices don't include postage...2 days ago
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Warlord Phalangites - Warlord released their plastic Macedonian Phalangites kit this week. The box contains figures to make 40 Phalangites, all from a single sprue with 4 bodie...2 days ago
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Entering new waters - With the decision to produce my own line of miniatures comes a lot of new territory and new challenges. The most obious is of course design, getting the d...2 days ago
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6mm Temperate DPM - better pics - Some better pics of the first attempt to do 6mm DPM for my Falklands UK forces. Clicking on the pics should give you a larger image. Here is the half secti...
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WINTER WAR - PART 5 - Saturday evening I played in an ACW Ironclads game (1/1200 ships) using modified Smoke On the Waters rules. It was the basic Plum Point scenario. A lone Un...2 days ago
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A fist full of Plastic: Summer Anti Nod Offensive Pt. 3. - A fist full of Plastic: Summer Anti Nod Offensive Pt. 3.: On the other side of Dun Masud, the HNG advance was going very well. Due to a misunderstandin...
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What’s going on. - You may be wondering why such few updates in the past couple of months. OK, maybe you didn’t even notice if you follow a bazillion gaming blogs like I do. ...2 days ago
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Wisdom from the Wastelands Issue 4 Released! - Wisdom from the Wastelands Issue #4 is Now Available! "This issue of Wisdom from the Wastelands contains seven new “races” for players and GMs to use in t...
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Street fighting AAR - Just played a street fighting battle --and an approrpiate AAR posted at Principality of Galatea weblog. Please read it at what-if-catalonia.blogspot.com/...2 days ago
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20mm Platoon 20 vs 1/72 Emhar, First World War - *The photo above compares three plastic figures from Emhar with a pair of metal soldiers from Platoon 20. Click on the image to see a larger version.* *T...
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Back to the Brushes 12 - Not that much has happened over the last few days as motivation and inspiration for painting has diminished greatly. At times like these dry brushing large...2 days ago
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Eyes On - Intelligence assets in Azerbaijan have identified that Azeri militia units inside the Armenian-controlled enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh have been attempting ...
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Tunnels & Trolls Computer Game - Thanks to DosBoxMom for doing these videos! I've never actually played the T&T computer game from 1990 but it's cool to see it in action here! If you ca...
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Warhammer Vampire Counts Plastic Wight King - Another addition to my Vampire Counts army today, this time the new plastic wight king from games workshop. It's a rather fantastic model actually and the...
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February Releases for Infinity! - Two posts in one day? What is the world coming to?! I usually don't post simply about new releases but I just might start to with Infinity since the models...
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Happy Man and Mecha-Man tutorial - *So many friends and so many opportunities to meet them, and I am stuck at home for the weekend because a "doctor" announced Balrog was sick. (Fortunately ...
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The Red Coats Are Coming!.. - You can't beat a good bit of red coat reference. These guys were at Living history day last year. It was nice to see some Light inf...
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SAGA Myrmidons- Completed - In the Illiad, the Myrmidons were the bravest and most skilled warriors of all the Achaeans, led by the best of the Greeks himself, Achilles. The Myrmidons...
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Chepstow castle - The final castle on my South Wales trip and a really impressive castle built on a cliff overlooking the Wye. I last visited Chepstow over 40 years ago and ...
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Defection ?!? - *Comrades !* *"The time has come for a decision. I am defecting to German lines ! Who is with me ?*" I am announcing to my troops of my decision to...2 days ago
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Gnicer? - I’m not really sure because its previous owner had alreadyvery nicely painted this one. However, my OCD compelled me to repaint my figureof Gneisenau (las...
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Monty's War Gaming: Interlude, just for a laugh... - Monty's War Gaming: Interlude, just for a laugh...: Saw this on FB and it gave me a chuckle... That's it for now, Monty Too Good Not To Share!!! Well D...
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FNG: 2nd Tour freebies! - A pair of short freebies for FNG:2nd Tour can now be found and downloaded from the Yahoogroup at http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/twohourwargames/files/...2 days ago
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Sound General Quarters - 1943 - Having gamely taken a thumping at Force on Force, Jez took the reins and organised a Naval encounter using a classic old set of Naval rules; General Quarte...
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Interlude, just for a laugh... - Saw this on FB and it gave me a chuckle... That's it for now, Monty
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KR Multi-case at Salute 2012 - KR Multicase are pleased to confirm another great reason to attend this year's Salute. KR will be giving away 250 of the versatile KR Backpack1 or Backpac...
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Austrian army list, Lasalle. - This is the army list i knocked up, for my Austrian army. I cant for the life of me work out how to post a document to a blog, so i printed it out then sc...2 days ago
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Planning the next campaign - We have been kept busy wargaming the three campaign battles. But with the campaign on hold until all three are completed I have found myself with a lot ...
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AWI/ACW for Sale - An North American style barn based on one used as a makeshift hospital from the ACW battle of Gettysburg. Its quite a character filled model with lots of d...2 days ago
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The March of the Tinys! - *Finished Tinalíya, by Faron Betchly* They stand 12mm from feet to eye. Very nice! :-)
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RAFM SWAT Troopers - I'm still sticking with the theme of SWAT Troopers for my figures reviews and this time I turn the spotlight on RAFM's output from their 28mm scale USX ran...
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BEF: Black Watch Battalion Completed - It's been a while since I managed to post, mainly due to lack of a working camera. They make the damn things waterproof, shockproof, probably bulletproof, ...
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28mm foundry ecw cav update - I've almost finished these guys if i get a chance to paint tonight i'll be able to complete them, I have the last coat on about half the boots and most o...
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Front Rank Pavlovsk Grenadiers - Test Figures - Decided to try using a white undercoat - thinking the Minwax stain would darken the final product appropriately. It looks okay, but I'll go with a darker g...
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Gathering in the Desert 2012 - I attended the 5th annual Gathering in the Desert (GitD) this weekend. This is one of the best gaming tournaments you'll ever attend. It's two days of Lo...3 days ago
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MLRS - Rocket launchers have had a long history, but it wasn't until WWII that they really began to proliferate. The WWII era rocket launchers are adequately repr...
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ANSD Day 1 continued - *Turn 4 * The news crew has moved up to the food stand to see what is going on. The zombies gain the initiative and surprise and they lunge out at the came...
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Jon Snow - Dark Sword Miniatures - I'm a big fan of George R. R. Martin's *A Song of Ice and Fire* series. I love the gritty "fantastic reality" the story portrays and his reluctance to col...
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Review: Alternatives to Games Workshop Paints - I’ll be blunt: this post is about finding alternatives to Games Workshop’s line of hobby paints. I’ve already discussed replacing their primer and varnish ...3 days ago
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February 22, 12:51pm - I've been looking at my post-count. My last post right before the Earthquake was 'The Ill-Omened 100th post' and I am almost at 200 but have been holding o...3 days ago
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Chłopski Informator / Peasant Informer - Pomalowałem kolejną figurkę promocyjną do OiM. To Chłopski Informator, którego zgarnąłem na ostatnim turnieju. Wkrótce jego statystyki powinny pojawić się...
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new camera : Malifaux pics (guild:lady justice crew) - I finally managed to get a new camera. :) so enough of that. on with the pics. Below is my first Malifaux crew, the Lady Justice box set. I used all GW pai...
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Plastic Soldier Company German Infantry - Just a quick post today. Recently I painted a KGN platoons worth of PSC German figures. I'm not a real fan of plastic 20mm (1/72nd scale) figures, but for...3 days ago
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TANKS! - Old Crow make excellent vehicles... Click the Pic! Click the Pic! Just thought I'd share :). See you from the bunker!
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What belt do you have in Armylist-fu? - What I think my List-Fu looks like. One thing that is great about the wargaming hobby is the variety of activities that it includes. I haven't been able to...
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The Awakening of the NDG - I haven't been able to muster the guster for a 40kology post in a long time, but I probably don't have that many readers anyway (not a pity party!). First ...
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