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Bronze Boars: Orc Tribal Heritage Team of the Badlands - Blood Bowl is a game played in every far-flung corner of the world, not just the crowded urban centers of Altdorf & Middenheim. But even from the rain-soa...
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Privateer Press: Weekly Roundup 3-11-2012 - StormWall (Cygnar) Something big is headed your way from Privateer Press. Watch out - the first of the Colossals is formally unveiled! Artificer General N...
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I have been to....Skirmish at Sidcup Grammar School - Today has been a really good day. To begin with, the weather has been absolutely glorious; I have been to Skirmish in Sidcup and I spent a very pleasant af...
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Chevau-légers lanciers de Berg 1. - Perry "Red Lancers" with a different paint scheme. I really do love painting Perry's figures but you often find that you have to hold your breath and clenc...
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American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1945) by Ira Wolfert - "This is the story of Lt. Iliff David Richardson, USNR. The story explains, for one thing, the role of the people in the guerrilla operations and what the...
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Sunday and a few decal woes... - Another Sunday and after a fitful 'post curry' night, I set about painting the seated pilot for the Grymn walker. Once he was finished I gloss varnished th...
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A Japanese afternoon - Watching England virtually guarantee Wales the 6 Nations Championship by beating France, then sticking a bazillion samurai, ashiguru and warrior monks to l...
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New Vistula Legion, Sci-Fi Mid-Tech Army in 1/600, Part I - A year without a post! I beg the forgiveness of those of you who follow this blog. LAst year was my run up to tenure and from about March to December, I ha...1 hour ago
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Gale Force 9′s Rural Farm Buildings: a review - We have a look at the Battle Field in a Box range of 15mm Rural Farming Buildings:1 hour ago
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WMMMS 2012 - As I was not at the raceway today I was able to attend the above show again this year with Dave, had a splendid time. Did not spend much really, some bases...
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Songs of Splintered Lands - The Druid's Children III - Here are the final figures for the Splintered Lands army I ordered up. Now I need to get them into battle and see how they fare. First up are the Badger Co...
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I have been to ... Skirmish in Sidcup - Going to the 'Skirmish' Toy Soldier Show in Sidcup has become part of my wargaming routine. This local twice-yearly show is held at Chislehurst and Sidcup ...
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Shield Transfer Samples - Here is a sample image of our new shield transfers to fit the Claymore Castings, Scots range.
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Here come the lobsters! - Hoi, A short while ago I indulged in the testshot sprues of 3 HäT sets, to whit the Peninsular British Command set, The British Colonial Command set and t...
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Rolling on... - After quite a bit of distraction from this project, I am ready to give it another go. Perhaps I just needed to set it aside to let my thoughts come together...2 hours ago
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LPL Season 6, Round 2!! - Round 2 has begun over at the LAF for Lead Painters League Season 6 My round 2 entry ("The hunt for Rex Eleven") will be fam...
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Necron Wraiths round 3 (with bonus Triarch Stalker!) - After seeing OST's new wraiths I was inspired to go back and fix mine. Though I was happy with how the old ones turned out but the grass is always green...
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Christmas Buildings - This is some of the ground cover I used. It is fake flowers. Splash on the green tempura paint. A bead of white glue along the base for the ground ...
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FOW Italian Firepower. - These where a real pain to put together ! . They are 102mm Naval guns mounted on 6 ton Fiat trucks. The building and well are ready painted from 'Battle...
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FoW 3rd Edition - First Blood - Ray and I got together on Saturday and had our first play with the new 3rd Edition Flames of War rules. Although we have played a couple of games with 2nd...
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Sasha..... - ...past the halfway point (better pics later when I have a little more time)
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Medieval Women - Another great set of medieval civilians from *Erik Traune*r of *Nikolai*.. As Female bods are in short supply in 1/72nd in any era, a specialist set like ...
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More Hood's Texans - So I thought I was done with this unit, but I've decided to expand it to a 24 figure unit instead of 18. So again this is really Iron brigade figures, just...
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Warhammer 40k IMPERIAL GUARD Project - I purchased these models a while back off Ebay as a 2nd hand army. They are part of a 100+ force which includes characters, special weapons and of course veh...
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Guise 1914 revisited - This game was played at the Sheffield club on 7 March using Op-14 rules, with Steve T as the man in the spiky helmet and Martin as the garlic muncher. I h...
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Immortals, Gods Vs Titans - This fight scene is pretty amazing. The special effects are outstanding. It's from the movie Immortals.3 hours ago
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Crossrail portal mystery structure - This is the superstructure that has been built over the crossrail portal - I've taken a couple of pictures then stitched them using the free Hugin program,...4 hours ago
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Mantis Pattern Morphed Hive Tyrant! - So I was searching for more Tyranid conversions to get the juices flowing to convert up the new Tervigon, and Hive Tyrant kits, and stumbled once again ove...
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The Reader Survey Has Closed! - *The phone lines are now closed and the results are being tallied. If you call now, your vote will not be counted and you may still be charged.* As they ...
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SKYTREX Sdkfz. 250/1 and 250/9 (Neu) - Model Review: SKYTREX Sdkfz. 250/1 and 250/9 (Late Model) In this review I'll go over the building and painting of SKYTREX's Sdkfz. 250/1 and 250/9. Syn...
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Huzzah! Huzzah! (Just practicing) - *Despite appearances these are the NOT the armies of Faraway and Oberhilse but those of New Brunswick & Great Britain vs Maine & The United States of Amer...
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Campaign Casualties - Lost another player without reason or excuse. This was another one of those who simply fail to reply to emails. This is the third in 18 months, so I sup...
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Imperial Chimeras on the cheap complete - *Here are the shots! Remember these are $3.00 toy tanks!* * *
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Statblock Size - At first I thought Savage Worlds characters would have much more compact statblocks than those in other games, but as my players start to level up their ch...5 hours ago
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Heroes Return - Great advert from the National Lottery and a good reminder that it isn't just about winning enough cash to buy a yacht!
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Sgt. Bale Extreme (5) - The latest update. the deadline is next Friday, 16th March. This week I have been feeling under the weather so have not achieved as much as I would like, b...
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Patton Jnr - Another blast from the Lad's gaming past: here is the boy playing with my new (at the time) copy of Memoir 44, which would make him about 4 when this was s...
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Space 1889 Audio Dramas - I'm doing a lot of driving during the week at the moment, and have rediscovered these stories set in the Space 1889 universe by Noise Monster Productions...
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Daredevils and pilots - Wonderful new models form Crooked dice Dardevils and a set of new heads for pilots; also the hasslefree ladies i could not resisit
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Avenger Class Fleet Carrier – Review - Welcome to my latest miniature review for Dystopian Wars, today I shall be looking at the KoB fleet carrier. What do we get in the blister then? Well as yo...6 hours ago
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Back to the Brushes 16 - Have managed to a bit more work on the Mycenaeans and another stand of archers is near completion. The heavy foot are slowly moving on, but are doubtful fo...
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Jacklex Mexican 1917 range - If you talke a look at my linklist, I have posted some lesser known manufactors or sellers there. For example Spencer Smith is now th owner of th good old J...
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Battle of Britain Warriors - This Bf 109 came down in Kent during the Battle of Britain when its engine failed. It now tours the Home Counties raising money for Service Charities. ...
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Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? by Max Brallier - *Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse?* by Max Brallier is a throwback to the old fighting fantasy books that were popular in the 1980's, where you chose...
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More oil! - This is the second entry about painting – there are more on the blog, so I suppose I should say “for today”. In between domestic stuff, electrics and being...
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More oil! - This is the second entry about painting – there are more on the blog, so I suppose I should say “for today”. In between domestic stuff, electrics and being...
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The National Maritime Museum - I paid a trip to the National Maritime Museum in london yesterday, it's not somewhere I've been before and I've been looking forward to it for a while. Th...
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Tutorial: Making FoW painting much, much easier - Greetings all, as some of you may know I have been recently corrupted to the painting of teeny tiny world war 2 soldiers in the form of Flames of War: Th...
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SCHLEICH: ROBOT ESPACIAL - Este bonito robot espacial, perfecto enemigo de los astronautas de Creaciones Plásticas Madrileñas llegó acompañando otras figuras en un lote y ha pasado...
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On the Workbench - end of the motorway pt2 - So, with two layers of card in place I decided to try out some building layouts. The trees are made in bottle-brush style. The trunks are soft iron wir...
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The Persian Expedition - I recently finished reading this; I find I manage one or two classic histories every year. The book is of course, as you must all know, Xenophon's person...7 hours ago
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Iron Painter 2012 Lund - The FoW gang in southern Sweden held their own "Iron Painter" 24 hour painting marathon contest this weekend. Basically all the guys who had been playing t...
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Free Time Black Hole, Episode 91 - Wheeeee! Response to the Make Something Amazing contest has been pretty encouraging so far– I’ve already got three plan submissions, and a half dozen inqui...8 hours ago
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Into the Dwimmermount - This Friday I was able to join the Dwimmermount campaign run by James Maliszewski of Grognardia. I was originally exposed to the dungeons several years ago...8 hours ago
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Skipton Castle to Appletreewick - 1644 - The Royalist commander, Sir Francis Twistleton, had been dispatched by the Marquess of Newcastle to harass the advancing Scots. Moving from the Royalist s...
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Gluttony Heroic Version Sci-Fi - I painted it for the company Ranging Heroes. I used Model Color, Game Color, Wash and inks Vallejo if you have questions about colors you can ask here ;)
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Ramillies 1706 - Year of Miracles - Having read and enjoyed James Falkner's book on Blenheim, I decided to pick up the companion volume on Marlborough's next major victory - the Battle of Ra...
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Sunday Cricket - Last year flickr photographer Puuikibeach kindly gave me permission to post his cool flickr image of his Supply Force Mercury toy. Puuiki has taken some...9 hours ago
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PUSHEAD x USUGROW x SECRET BASE "Lost Hour" GID Blue Marbled Rebel Captain - [image: PUSHEAD x USUGROW x SECRET BASE GID Blue Marbled Rebel Captain] Somewhere in the folds of space and time comes the PUSHEAD x USUGROW x SECRET BASE ...9 hours ago
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A Mysterious Cleric - Got the third member of my adventuring party done--a Reaper cleric I found on the shelves at my FLGS (Phantom of the Attic, in Pittsburgh). And here is...
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Drazhoath The Ashen - Finally got it done this week end. A terrific mini with an insane amount of details, it was a real pleasure to paint this one. I’m still working on my pho...
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First swap n’ sell for 2012 - Today was Eastern Suburbs Scale Modelling Club’s swap n’ sell. It was on a beautiful Autumn morning…cool and clear, yet very warm and sunny by the time I l...10 hours ago
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Re the Family - Pop over to- http://tradgardland.blogspot.com/ for some toy soldier plans etc10 hours ago
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Introducing the Family - I have risen after a rather late night yesterday. The family & I were entertained splendidly by my sister in law and her husband to celebrate Jan's 50th. ...
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Stryking at Iran - Took on a couple Strykers this week to give my grunts some wheels. Sadly the 1/72nd Stryker doesnt appear to have a bar armor or TROPHY add on kit, so I ha...
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Roman Teddy Bear Chess Set - The Roman Civil Wars with Teddy BearsEureka has a line of fantastic Roman Teddy Bears - name "I Cuddlius". Sculpted by the talented Mike Broadbent, this li...
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Echec à Pau - Ils sont venus, ils ont vu, ils sont repartus les Gaulus... J'ai voulu tester les Gaulois en tournois. Et le tournoi de Pau, en 100 points, était l'occasi...
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100th Post - Mega Trade Part 2 – my previous post – was actually a bit of a mile-stone article in the life of this blog. It was the Big ‘C Note’, the ‘One Tonner’, the ...
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Kittens! - Maisie had her kittens last night. One "maisie look-alike", two dark torties and a black and white. Laura is convinced the b&w is a boy, the other three ar...
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Greybeards, Old Salts, and Shipmates - I got married after I left active duty in the Navy. I was an airdale, and saw what those deployments and long hours and mission scheduling did to relations...11 hours ago
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WW2 Vehicles Work In Progress - Good evening, Over the last wee while I've been pottering away with these... My recent purchase, alluded to last time, is a Bren Gun Carrier. I'm wantin...
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Flintloque Elven Voltigeurs - A couple of Elven Voltigeurs from Simon’s collection. Really nice painting.13 hours ago
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The Horror, the Horror - well it was bad enough when the big Lizard popped up but then the Giant Scorpion thingy appeared, but the four fat blokes was IT!
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Cold Wars 15mm Second Manassas Railroad Cut Game - Veteran gamemaster and author Jim Kopchak of the Northern Ohio Wargaming Society presented a 15mm game of Second Manassas at the annual Cold Wars gaming co...15 hours ago
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Irregular State of the Nation - I am not prone to writing virtual diary entries (blogs I believe they are called... crazy...), but I thought it was time for a combined arms account of my ...
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Built a Miniature Painting News Aggregator - Although I clearly should be studying or doing something else more productive, I spent a lot of the last week building a miniature painting news aggregator...15 hours ago
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The Press Gang: THIS IS HOW WE DO - We had the Adepticon Team Primer at the Dice Dojo today. I'll have more to say about the actual event tomorrow. However, for now, you must answer the follow...16 hours ago
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Hillbillies vs Aliens at Borderlands - We played a game demo of Aliens vs Hillbillies today at Borderlands. My wife and I ran the demo and there were a few people who swung over and checked it o...
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DA - PUDs - I had another game of DA today. Rules flowed ok but still little things coming up that slowed down game. It was regarding the targeting priority rule and usi...16 hours ago
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March...where does the time go? - How exactly is it March already? Where does the time go? Ugh... Ok, so I haven't posted anything yet this year until now...because I haven't completed ...
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Pikes and periwigs - I finally completed my first battalion for my 1672 project. As I posted earlier, it's regiment Vivarais (with azure coats because that's what my Susane p...
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A couple more Survivors - Hi, friends. Just finished a couple of Survivors. Both from Reaper Miniatures Chronoscope Modern line. Sly Withers, Street Boss and Mike Noe, Biker Boss. I...
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Labelling the kit? - A perverse post perhaps but I am betwixt and between experimentation. You see I left a deliberate space at the back of each stand in the Heroics & Ross "Ge...
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Rising Costs of the Hobby, and First Look at ACTA: Noble Armada - It's that time again. Time where I look back and go "Sheesh, guess that New Year's resolution fell flat..." So much for me posting more this year. Oh well...
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Audet Ambushed. A Platoon Forward Game, Part One - Readers of this blog from a while back will remember my WW2 character, Lt. Denis Audet, who came to light using Joe Legan's campaign and scenario generat...18 hours ago
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Well, how are the dice making projects coming along? - Well, how *are *the dice making projects coming along? Better than my blogging frequency, I hope :) Once again it is well overdue for me to post. Excitin...
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Krators have been Sighted! Use Extreme Caution! - * * [image: SHM24 Krator] *SHM24 Krator (one miniature 16mm tall) 1.10GBP* * * [image: SHM25 Little Krators] *SHM25 Little Krators (three miniatures per pac...19 hours ago
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More Old School Adventurers - Here's a few more old Citadel Adventurers I painted for the Lead Painters League. Rookbrow the Ranger I went for autumnal colours for Rookbrow, rather th...
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SCULPTURE - "King Hog VS Bullzilla" pt. 1 - Time for some *KAIJU CHAOS!* For the uninitiated..."kaiju" is Japanese for "strange beast" or more typically "giant monster". I've had a couple of requests...
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Latest FOW/Ogre acquisitions and Ogre inspiration - My FOW Fallschirmjager now have all the units they need after the arrival and assembly of the following units: FJ AA Platoon w. 2 x Flak 38 2cm AA Platoon ...
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A Serious 'Little War' - Campaign Day 3 - Der Tag! - After the extended pause in play, 'Der Tag' finally arrived with the Spring like weather. Here are some snaps from dawn on Saturday morning, as Army Blac...
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2nd Bedford 15 Cwt MW - Another day, another Bedford from the 39-42 period. Maybe its a Cromwell kit, maybe not. The figure again is from a Airfix kit, I had to cut him down a t...
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The nearly battle! - Today we tried another Wars of the Roses skirmish. The game was .... rather short! The Nevilles deployed with a band of men at arms on their right, dominat...
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Tutorial: Rust and Dust - Hello fellow painters and hobbyists! This week I've finished off three Cryx Slayer Helljacks for Warmachine. I'm taking this opportunity to post a tutorial...
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Meet the Family...... - Finally got the mutant boss for my mutant tribe (Guy in the bottom pictures) Finished. So I thought I'd take some pictures of the whole tri...
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R.I.P. Moebius - What a rotten week. Another SF visionary leaves us and, again, one who's left an indelible print on fantasy filmwork. Aside from the aborted "Dune" project...
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Cold Wars! - The calm before the storm The crowds descend on the booth! Cold Wars is in full swing and day one of the show was a blast. We were packed with eager hobby...
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Duża bitwa / The big battle - Dziś wziąłem udział w dużej bitwie w Ogniem i Mieczem. Siły Rzeczypospolitej starły się z wojskami sojuszu zaporosko-tatarskiego. Aż dziewięciu dowódców s...
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Persian Command - These are my test figures for the colour scheme I want to use for my unit of Immortals for Plataea: I've gone for really bold colours to make them stand ou...
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First Schleswig War 1848-1851 - This is a new departure for us. We used 15mm figures and adapted a set of AWI rules with which we were familiar. This rules set is particularly appropriate...
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43-45 Panzergrenadiers - A few pictures of my more or less completed regiment. The camouflage pattern is basically the same for all, though every other stand had either green, blac...
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Showcase: Toxic Spring - "Toxic Spring" Painting Crusade IX exclusive figure (only available to participants of the painting contest). Vote on CMON.
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M1 Abrams Tank - Stuck In the Mud - Came across this great little video of a US M1 tank stuck in the mud. The M1s gas-turbine engine certainly has a distinctive whine to it. --23 hours ago
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Something for my Daughters - Painted these two Darksword miniatures for my daughters. Fun little figs to paint up.
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BKC Aegean Italians [11] - I started on the coastal defence battalion this evening, which uses Pendraken WW1 Italian figures as the core of the units, with most of the bases comple...
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Odds and Ends = French Artillery Gun - I have had no luck trying to find just a single WW1 French Artillery gun and crew I could buy or trade for to complete my WW1 French Army for play on the ...
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28mm ECW infantry - Here's my last batch of foot for my ecw army. I've just completed the guns and that will be the end of that I am now working on a 15mm Mycenaean army by ...
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Coming back! - *A*fter a very busy period of time with too many academic and home duties, I can resume the wargaming activities. This is the moment to play the last desig...
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Foundry Russian Cuirassiers - Completed - Actually need a pack of three more troopers to make this a 12-man unit. I added some height to the horses by gluing some plastic card beneath their bases. A...
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Styr-Björn´s SAGA - My friend and fellow SAGA gamer Björn have put together this lovely AAR of he´s last SAGA game...From now on he will be our main narrator:)
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Preparing to start a campaign - At our last game my group and I had our normal after game discussion and the suggestion came up to run a campaign. One of the guys in my group likes havin...
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Fast Attack Rebels - Sometimes a new project just pops onto your plate by accident, as did this one. I'm sure I will tie it into the Starport series in some fashion, so let's ...1 day ago
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[Freebooter's Fate] Détournement - Maintenant c'est sur, je ne jouerai pas à Freebooter's Fate (enfin sauf si un malandrin me le propose). Cela dit si j'avais acheté ce Starter (injouable ...
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Field forge & a few odds and sods! - Perry field forge newly arrived. This piece painted by the war office. Another slight conversion by me perry carlist figure given a new hat. War office also ...
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Orc's Drift: The outlying settlements are overrun - All across the table, orc numbers were finally telling. One by one the brave dwarves on the bridge at Ashak Rise fell. In twos and threes the Linden Way ...
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The Legion - Just finished my latest Simon Scarrow novel 'The Legion'. This is in his Roman Empire series following the adventures of Macro and Cato, now both Centurion...1 day ago
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Eureka Saxon Cuirassiers preview - Now Saxons are nothing that fits my immediate Napoleonic plans. As you know my Völkerschlacht game for next year only involves Prussians and French and I s...
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Things That Go BOOM In The Night - You've got the Allied Naval Task Force sitting on your doorstep. The fire from the mighty guns of the fleet is making life a little bit uncomfortable in...1 day ago
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Full Thrust - Imperial Japanese Navy vs. Pirates - supply depot raid. Fuel depot and tanker ships, the ships are in a slumbering state and will take a random amount of ...
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Field of Glory Round Robin Games (3) - We got together Friday night for the third of our Field of Glory ancients games. This completed our 'tournament' with each of us playing each other once. W...
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More Spanish - Here is my next batch of Spanish, which are about ready to be given a Klear coat, a spray of matt varnish, and then a good old-fashioned basing. These g...
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Intrépide: Part 1 - By Blaine Lee Pardoe Heavy Cruiser Intrépide North Sea 8 September 1900 1425 hours Sous-Lieutenant aérien François Moreau stared out of the armored glass w...1 day ago
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Dwimmermount After Action Report - Last night was my second foray into the world of gaming via Google+ and it went very well indeed. My players this week consisted of Jason Azze, Ryan Browni...
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German Pre-Dreadnought Battleship - I finally finished my 'cartoon' model of a German pre-dreadnought battleship. It is supposed to represent the *Schleswig-Holstein*, one of the pre-dreadnou...
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Battle of Toulouse - Move 7 - Table at the start of move 7 Bottom – Hill has a bottleneck on the bridge due to broken brigades fleeing Toulouse Left – Picton’s infantry are struggling ...
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Old Superior Models order form - In a comment on my post showing the original packaging for the *Starfleet Wars *line of miniatures, Black Vulmea recalled that some ships were sold three t...
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Konkursowi janczarzy - Rzadko wrzucam takie zdjęcia - kilka elementów, w tym sporo nie pokazywanych wcześniej. Ale okazja nadarza się równie rzadko, a akurat jest - skończyłem ko...
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40k anniversary Model Done (Video) - Here's the video(s) and pictures I shot while painting the Rogue Trader cover tribute model. I captured some steps to show how I painted it, and shot photo...
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Happy Birthday [...belated] - Once upon a time, I prided myself on punctuality. yes. well. I am almost always late these days – I am speaking not only of meetings and other worthwhi...
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Reinforcments for Army 'Red' - Having started this unit 8 months ago I have finally completed it - The Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers (5th Battalion Cameronians). Here seen on manoeuvres...
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Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik - Foi um avião da Força Aérea Soviética criada para o ataque ao solo, fortemente blindado e que contava com 2 canhões de 23 mm. Foi um dos aviões de maior pr...
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My New Store! - I've always dreamed of having my own hobby/wargaming/book store. Mrs. Rabbitman and I figured we'd have 'her' side (mysteries and cook books mostly) and th...
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The Chronicles of Kaptain Putin – Part 1 - Sunday saw the first of a number of linked scenarios’s usingthe excellent scenario generator Platoon Forward by the Two Fat Lardies. Overat the Evesham War...
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I love it when a plan comes together... - At last the majority of my four Garde Chasseur a Pied battalions are substantially painted and on their bases. There are almost a company's worth of the...
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Blitzkrieg Germans in 10mm - In recent years the focus of my wargaming has been on WWII, notably the Normandy campaign of 1944 for which I’ve got large numbers of 15mm forces. I’ve al...1 day ago
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Trying to get back into it - So nearly two years after my last update, here's what's going on. I've actually started working on some backend stuff for the website, and will hopefully g...1 day ago
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Its a good day to be a Badger - Won, added and comp - I checked my emails this morning to find a couple of very cool ones. First up were some messages from the Cupboard of Nurgle Blog telling me I had won thei...
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Malifaux Battle Report: Colette vs Ophelia - A battle report between Colette and Ophelia, Shared Escape and Survive strategy. Ophelia sets up a vicious gun line, will Colette be able to avoid her wrat...1 day ago
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Battle at Hokksund - Sven Erikson had completed the journey home across the north sea; on his arrival he learned his territories were under attack by the warlord Agnar Torfuson...
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Jane Austen Meets G&S - I've only seen all the movie versions of *Pride and Prejudice.*. My daughter tells me the book is funny. During a "Jane Austin Party" my wife and daughter...
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Armies Army Rusk Trooper - Blogger destroyed my original post about this mini (my own fault for dabbling in the terrible dynamic view layout) and I can't remember what it said, so ...
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AAR J107 Operation Schwarz - Another Journal 7 scenario, this time featuring Novj Partisans vr's my Croatian 1st Line infantry with armoured support. I seem to be getting a fair few Pa...1 day ago
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Sudan & Ancient Models for Sale - First the Adobe mud bricked houses which are suitable for most of Africa and even rural ancient periods. I'm selling these in batches of 12 houses with...
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Immortals? More like Immobiles! - My second outing with the Persians using "Hail Ceaser" on Monday saw the arrival of the new Immortal Miniatures (now Warlord) Heavy Cavalry. These are pain...
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Chaos Lord painted - I finished painting the chaos lord, the Banelegions Kraan model. It's sheer coincidence that mine looks superficially similar to the official scheme, afte...
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Weathering with Artist Pencil - On the last few models I have airbrushed and then weathered I have used some artist silver pencil. I did try normal HB but it is a little dull and not as ...
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British Para Heavy Weapons - OK, back to work, and first off the table are the heavy weapons for my British Paras. The MMG and mortar on the left are my originals (Britannia I think) j...
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20mm Post Apocalypse and "Dark Days in America" projects - Hello, again! This blog entry will be about some side projects that I am slowly getting miniatures painted for, but have not really done much towards it o...
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The One Ring March Painting Challenge: Command Group Reconsidered - I’ve been having some issues with my hands due to my MS, so I’ve decided to rethink my plan of doing the Rohan Captain and Hornblower in favor of the Orc C...1 day ago
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When it comes to WW2, I am an Eastern Front snob.... - We hired this consultant at work to write an important report. Anyway, she mentioned her husband was a book editor, and edited a book on D-Day. I told her ...1 day ago
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Spanish Light Infantry - *Edit: It would appear posting from my phone is not as easy as I thought. * # *Hat Valencian Light Infantry* There's a wargaming stereotype that all Napo...
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Flames of War: My first V3 game - Chris has already done a 'serious report' so I am going to run this in my usual style. The Mission.... Was the crazy new two ambush 'Hold the Line'. The S...
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40K - A Matter of Scale - Background I have been reading a lot lately about other people's experiences of 40K, one post comparing its scale and size of engagement to Flames of War, ...1 day ago
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V3 Hardback in my hands! - The Last Square in Madison just received their hardback edition V3 books this afternoon. Wohoo!!1 day ago
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Ahoy my arties... bad joke - ok, ok, I shouldn't have done it but I couldn't resist. I just started 6 bases of Roman artillery, from Eureka. It may not look like much, with only the br...
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Best Skaven figure... - *Squeek* OK, you might have been thinking that it might be the Stormvermin unit champion, the Plague Priest, Queek Headtaker or one of the other bigger ...
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Sturmtiger - Sturmmörserwagen 606/4 mit 38 cm RW 61 - House clearance German style! This is Warlords 1/56th Monster, no mod's as it comes. I've gone for a subtle late war three-tone with lots of brick dust, a...
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Some finished Middle Eastern scenery for the 15mm Moderns - Hello, blog readers! You know, I am glad so many people do check the blog. I am sorry that I have wandered from the primary interest areas of Napoleonic...
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Partizan May 27th, Trouble brewing - After the visit of thE King in September to RAF Wittering, Belvoir Castle, and the surrounding area, the Duke of Rutland and his Blackshirted friends with ...1 day ago
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Austrian Infantry division, 1809, Lasalle - Now then, Following on from my last post, i have now finished painting all the core troops i need for an Austrian infantry division in the Empire period. S...1 day ago
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More Skyclaws! - Bored of these guys yet? :) Yeah I built a few more. having picked up a box of assault marines, combined with some scavengable parts I’ve managed to make en...
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Alien Hovels, Interstellar Spaceships and Major Kusanagi - *Yepp... candy!* Last month I ordered some 15mm stuff from GZG, some 15mm and spaceships from RavenstarStudios and last week I ordered Tomoko and Isseki f...
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A new Fimir Army Book PDF released - [image: Warhammer Fantasy Fimir Army book cover photo] From the mists they come... another version of the Fimir Warhammer Fantasy Battle army, this time fro...
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Bringing out the Dead - More Casualty Markers - Here are a couple casualty markers I finished up that didn’t seem like they’d fit in the post about the Hoplites… not that Ancient Egyptians and Brtitish ...
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Thousand Sons in different scales! - Unfortunately I made the classic mistake this week of starting multiple projects, and finishing next to none of them :P I've been working on some more of m...
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Next up... Byzantines - Well, I am excited about finally getting in another game of Impetus next week, my Armenians vs Kent's Crusaders. Dave will be joining us so we will opera...
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John Carter of Mars for Swordplay - Here are some quick and easy rules to adapt *Swordplay* to the John Carter of Mars world. These are not the definitive rules but instead a free entrylevel ...
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Two New Blogs - I just want to take a moment to point out links to the blogs of two of my good friends who have finally taken they’re historical, wargaming, and painting t...1 day ago
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Wargaming Battle Notebook - Over the years, I’ve played many many wargames. Of some of these games, pictures were taken. Others are only remembered. Probably many are just forgotten...1 day ago
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Games for 14/3 - Next weeks delights are LOTR with JDE, Bradley and Roddy, and maybe Andy G and Knuckles; AWI Black Powder with Brett, Dave, Beef, Bookmark, and Rob H; and ...1 day ago
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Saxon Slingers - One thing that Anglo-Saxon armies are generally pretty poorly off for is missile troops. I've read various statements that purport to confirm that this was...
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A is for Allemands - Right - That's enough ships, back to Starlux for a quick look at what was - in my opinion - one of the best sets they did, lots of poses, different arm var...
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Buffalo MPCV - Latest from Matchbox the Buffalo MPCV, fits in quite nicely with my ROCO stuff!
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Jacobites are coming! - No pictures for this update but I am to say the least excited, as you know my imaginations have an area populated by the highland clans, I have been in tal...2 days ago
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Book Review: Dread Fleet - Waaaaaaaaay back when Dread Fleet came out I went down to the FLGS and noticed all of the boxes and along with them was a little book by Andy Hoare that we...
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Citizen, the Corporation are arriving! - It’s Friday and we’ve got a blog from Ronnie to cap the week off! Next week we start shipping the Corporation range, and I cannot tell you how excited I am...2 days ago
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Sony affected into laptops with the VAIO firewood in 1997 - Sony affected into laptops with the VAIO firewood in 1997 Sony was started in the oue of Grouping War II, during the fast age of Japan that gave birthing t...2 days ago
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The Future Of Eldar Jetbikes? - *Hi Fritz, * * * *Just starting 40k and wanted to pick your brain about something: do you have any sense if some of the existing models (i.e. guardian jet...
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Sabotage! - Its been a while since I posted last. If you're like me, perhaps by this point you'd be thinking, "well, its been a little while now. Either he's dead, or ...
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Can Reaper do plastic better than GW? Bones! - Now, once you get done watching that: http://www.reapermini.com/miniatures/bones 3$?!! For a brand new mini that ready to paint, thats pretty damn aweso...
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Pre-Orders available on March 12th! 10% off sale!! - It has been a week of html and CSS joy, as I pull together a new store front and fill it with products. I still have a few products to add and some test...
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Apocalypse Reinforcements – Ork Shadowskull Super Heavy - With our local Warhammer 40k Apocalypse game looming on the horizon I decided it was time to show off one of my Ork Conversions – the Shadowskull. This is ...2 days ago
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The 8th cuirassiers - These for insanity Cope's collection and the up coming Quatre Bra game at the club.Perry plastic. http://www.facebook.com/events/147244122062...
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26th February, Tonbridge - CAVALIER 2012 Parking seemed easier than usual at the Angel Centre/Sainsbury's car park this year (has the recession hit Tonbridge, now?) ... A better than ...
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SCWH Honor Roll #54 - *Welcome to the SCWH Honor Roll now brought to you with extra spine tingling fun, direct from the MWC Crew, from over at MWC (duh!) ! **Hello, fellow Rea...
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I’m SOL on GTS - Something big work-wise has come up, and it looks like I’ll not be going to the GAMA Trade Show after all, I fear. I’ll miss my pals there a ton. But on th...2 days ago
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Second Squad - PSO - There are some Troopers from the Corps of Guide .... On the right, the finished Squad, on the left the second one. New pics, coming soon.
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A Bit of Nothing: D&D Duo - Blah blah blah. Blah blah. Skyrim. Blah blah blah blah blah blah. Blah. Blah blah popcorn blah! Blah blah blah! Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah ...
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Dipping with Army Painter WIP - So far so good, next up some highlights and a little matt varnish, not to mention a mountain of shields. Once added to my others this lot should make up t...
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Skeletons....... - February was a busy month at work, however, I have managed to finish the first unit of infantry for my son's Tomb King army. This is twenty figures at the ...
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Fantasy by GASLIGHT.... - ...or should that be Torchlight. I've been looking for a set of large scale skirmish Fantasy rules for a long time. I've got a lot of single fantasy minis...
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Battletech Cake - A nice surprise treat at the Wednesday Battletech night: A creation of the talented Mrs. *D*. All the guys were really impressed. If I has known in advance...
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Welcome to my Jungle - You know you have serious wargaming problems when jungle slowly spreads across the floor of your study. These are my latest 28mm gaming fashion accessor...
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Frans Vaandelboek ~ A French book with captured colours - De franse website Gallica is weer eens opgewaardeerd en zo vonden wij een prachtig vaandelboek. Hier is de link Blijkbaar zijn de eerste afgebeelde v...
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15mm Painted IrishSerb's US Marine AAV-7A1's. - It's been a cluster feck of a day, the area manager who wasn't scheduled to come down today came down and we spent the last 4 hours doing verbal and numer...
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Blast from the past! - This is where it all began! I picked this up on eBay the other day purely for a blast of nostalgia, and what a blast it was! I remember every facet of t...
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Diplomatic advice needed - I've just started posting at Defiant Principality's blog the first one of a projected series of posts, aimed at reporting the development of the eventua...2 days ago
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ECW - Have been looking at this for years now with Warlord plastics its an affordable option. All that grey, just need a coat of matte to tone them down.
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Battle of Britain Memorial Flight - One of my recent days out involved a day in Lincolnshire and a visit to the BBMF visitors cenre.A highly recommenmded visit it was as well ,Free parking...
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Húsares franceses - Continuando con los encargos de pintura, esta vez estoy preparando una división francesa para NaW, que consta de una unidad de Húsares, infantería ligera i...
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Skill Level 1 (Off Topic #22) - I first made one of these Airfix 25pdr kits when I wastwelve and I remember that it was a right old fiddle. That one was paintedgreen and saw service with...
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More FOW - A bit more progress on my Panzer Lehr Panzer Grenadier Company (say that 5 times real fast). Completed with this batch are the Company HQ, along with Op...
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Plans for the weekend ... The table at long last. - Well I'm off to the local DIY store later today to finally get the materials for my wargames table. I'm still not 100% as to what size I'll be going for y...2 days ago
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Reaper Goes Plastic - Bones - Looks like Reaper has taken the plunge in to plastic and has a new material called 'bones' which they are starting to roll out. The quality looks great, ...2 days ago
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Game Table - Years and years ago, when I lived in Montana, I made a set of game boards. I had a sheet of 1/2 inch plywood that I cut into four 2 foot by 4 foot pieces....
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New beta lists - Two new beta lists are now available: *British and Welsh Kingdoms* and *Later Anglo-Saxons* LINK
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From Concept to Reality, 3 FTW member posts - Cruising the FTW blog rolls these past weeks, I found some interesting things from members who have used what they found on From the Warp to help them with...
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Dwarf reputation partially restored!!! - Workload and flat camera battery (the one that powers the clock) have both meant not much 'gaming and not much photography these past few weeks. But... we ...
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Turkoman Horse Archers - Continuing on with my Impetus 15mm Ayyubid Muslim army for the Crusades in the form of Turcoman Horse Archers which are a main stay of the army of the pe...
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West Midlands Military Show 2012 this weekend - On Sunday March 11th 1012 the Alumwell Wargames Society will be holding the 35th annual WMMS at the Aldersley Leisure Village, Aldersley Road, Wolverhampto...2 days ago
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Dark Angel Space Marines, Games Workshop - I realise this is cheating slightly but I will be transferring posts from my other blog page, Ubique SciFi, on to this blog and then closing the old one do...
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Professor Challenger & Chums - One of the greatest aspects that I have come to enjoy about blogging is the sharing of ideas. This little group came about as a direct result of a wond...
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Lead Painters' League Opens - Round 1 of Season 6 of the Lead Painters League is underway over on the Lead Adventure Forum f you're not familiar with it get yourself over there to see so...
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MINI SIZE COMPARISON PICS - mostly Perry & Empress - In response to a question about size/scale compatability of Perry and Empress miniatures that came up over at TMP (The Miniatures Page), I took some pics a...
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A VSF machine built in five minutes flat - In a fit of jealousy concerning my mate Colonel O’Truth’s steam walker ‘Gargantua’, I decided I needed a Victorian Science Fiction machine as well. But I d...2 days ago
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Despatch from the Colonel: The Generation Game - If you are a faithful reader of this journal, you should already know about the amazing work carried on by Colonel O'Truth. Though an Irishman rather th...2 days ago
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Battle of Ebelsberg, May 3, 1809 - Following the defeat of the main Austrian Army under Erzherzog Karl in the Abensberg/Eggmuhl phase of the 1809 campaign, Hiller's wing of the Austrian ...
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Brigade Games Gnomes - Hello everyone,Just a quick note that I managed to get some photos taken by Michael on the latest gnomes I painted.All in all they were fun to paint and es...
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Paranormal investigators: Camera Man WIP update - Well, not bad for 30 minutes work (for me, anyway.) It's not the best, but it turned out better than I thought it would. There are a couple minor tweaks to...
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Who Dares WIP - some g/s'ing has been afoot while waiting for Tudor cottage things to set/dry... finally found some 80's SAS I can live with: TAG Modern SWAT with gasmask...
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Action at Calbe - Another campaign battle, this time on Day 9. What should of been a big battle at Calbe turned into a bit of a squib and rapid retreat. Martin had positione...
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Peter Pig 15mm US Humvee - I bought this 15mm US Marine Humvee from Salute last year, but such is my pathetic industry I have only now got round to painting it. This is intended for...
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SAGA extras, baggage train and fatigue markers - Painted this baggage cart for SAGA's escort scenario which requires three bases of baggage or anything that deserves to be protected. Enough finished so i...
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C21 Support - I reflected on the last game on how to improve. I am going to plan and make a 2 d6 stand that will be magnetic (sticks to fender washer base). This will hol...2 days ago
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Medal dostałem :) - Mam zasługi dla obronności kraju :). 1 marca, przy okazji Święta Obrony Cywilnej, zostałem wyróżniony tym oto medalem.
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Actual pod-casting with the old gaming crew ... woot ... G.U.B.A.R!! - A few weeks back I took a little trip to Vegas to hang with the old gaming crew and I had a blast. I was able to do some pod-casting with old very good ...
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Article on Skin Tones - [Repost from Victoria's Boys in Red] I have always had trouble with sknitones. While searching about on TMP, I found a reference to this article on the...2 days ago
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Jomsvikings SAGA - Salut, voila ma première unité pour SAGA... Les nouveaux Jomsvikings de Gripping Beast ! Super sympa à peindre... et en exclusivité ici !
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RP No 57 - FIW British Limbers and Artillery - Last week I posted the French Artillery and Limbers, so today we have the Brits!!! As I said in the previous post these figures were posted on the Annalou...
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Stress Relief - Apparently painting the Persians is a bit too much stress for me these days. Considering it takes about 90 minutes to finish one figure (and that this part...
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Indy Open: Renaissance Man (Best Overall) - *by SandWyrm* The award for Best Overall (Renman) player at the First Annual Indy Open went to... *Mike Kephart's Grey Knights!* Mike took Renman with ...
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Advancind Japanese Troopers painted - Hi everybody, Again, I'm sorry for the lack of updates. I'm still working on my Bachelor's degree... only one more part to do! Simon hasn't been sitting...
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Army file update. - Les pointed out to me that the Hell's Highway - US Airborne (3v1.0) Under Review army file contained some errors that needed fixing. Thanks for that Les. ...3 days ago
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R.I.P. My Old Friend Greg Novak - I found out today that my friend Greg Novak died yesterday. He was one of the best people I had ever played a wargame with, and one of the most creative an...3 days ago
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TERRAIN: Beginning to aquire materials for Urban Battleboard project - Picked up a few items for a little terrain project I want to complete in the near future. Since I'm building a couple of mecha armies, I really need some d...
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