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15mm Painted Franonian (IDF) Centurion Tanks... - ...formerly Israeli but I got them cheap from a guy called Avi and a bit of paint job later....... 15mm Peter Pig IDF Centurions from their AK47 range and ...
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More of the 20mm 1956 project - I have just picked these up on ebay. Both are resin models by Cromwell Models, a company that has been very very difficult to obtain models from in the pas...24 minutes ago
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Old Stuff Day – Themes and low point games - A while a go I did some posts about PP tier lists and low point games and how far into them you could go with very limited resources. Having come across th...25 minutes ago
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Well it's been 5 months - Well 6 months if you concider only 28mm, but I'm back to painting Napoleonics. I got myself some warlord plastic russians. The box is rather od, while some...
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Considering the etiquette of a three-way.. - Often i find myself in three-ways. I’m sure a lot of us do. Okay, my partner is looking at me funny now.. I’m talking of course about those 40k games where ...
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Gingerbread Mania - Back in December 2011 Craig Andrews - he of *Orcs in the Webbe*, ran yet another Advent Calendar. A series of daily posts which featured gaming articles, s...
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Not At All Politically Correct... - Brace yourself for the zinger at the end of this 1938 news clip that slips in a joke about domestic violence! *Oh, those were wacky times!*
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Film - 'White Tiger' - This looks totally awesome ! Have no idea when its going to be released though.--
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Mikazukin on Earth for EARTH MOVEMENT SHOW..!! - [image: Earth Mikazukin for Earth Movement Show] The first toybot studios all family collaboration with Mia and Mason..!! Papercraft and vinyl. Mikazukin t...1 hour ago
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Far East troop convoy - Fletcher Pratt game report - The inbound Japanese air attack. Each strip of thin card has six aircraft printed on it - as casualties are suffered these are simply scored off! Let's s...
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Blood Bowl Humans vs Nurgle - This is a short summary of a Blood Bowl game played last weekend against Patrik's Nurgle team. The teams looked like this: Nurgle: 4 Pestigors, 4 Chaos Wa...
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The Game of Love – DORK TOWER 12.03.02 - [image: Super Happy Clueless Muskrat II Fun Hour]1 hour ago
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Kempkensberg 1672, 1700, 2012 - De bovenste afbeelding is een uitsnede van het schilderij van Folkert Bock over de belegering van Groningen. Het laat waarschijnlijk Munsterse offici...
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SAGA Iliad: Progress - We finally got to give my SAGA Iliad mod a run at the Cavs last night. Poochie ran Achilles (using Ivo the Norman from the Official lists) and I ran Odyss...
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Leninade - A Taste to Stand in Line for - [image: Photobucket] Today I needed caffeine and went to buy a diet soda. I made my purchase and then saw the bottle above. How cool is this! Next time my...3 hours ago
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[Bushido] Lion Céleste - Cette figurine de Foo Dog de Reaper Miniatures trainait dans mes tiroirs depuis longtemps. Je me suis dis qu'elle pourrait faire un objectif sympathiqu...
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Necrons... It Came from the Swamp... - Got some Necrons in trade for some commission work, knocked out a test one here. Going for a newly unearthed/ run-down look... A lot of folks have be...
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Fritz 40K - Refining the Necron Scarab Farm - Last week we talked about Spyders and their relation to scarabs, so this week let’s take a look at running such a build. Fritz here- For a while there thi...
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Hot and Fresh- New Terminator + Command Squad Bits - Check out the newest bits we have to offer, Space Marines Command Squad, and Terminator Bits. I just posted up over Thirty new bits from these kits, that a...4 hours ago
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Shagrat, Captain of Cirith Ungol - Miracle of miracles there is a LOTR:SBG tournament this weekend and it is not being run by Tim and is not part of the GiTD! This will be the first chance ...
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Bits and Bobs Part 2 - What the play testing revealed - On the whole, I am really happy with how Hearts of Tin is now. The play testing did show 3 minor issues, none of which cropped up in my ACW games. One invo...5 hours ago
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The Lost Platoon (part 2) - Yesterday I blogged about my *WH40K *army I converted for *Hordes of the Things*. As I stated in that post, I had plenty of additional figures, which I u...
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Need WWII Soviet artillerymen? - Plastic Soldier Review has just reported that there is now a box of figures available to help you! Go have a look at their review of Orion’s Soviet Artille...7 hours ago
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Flames of War Cromwell ARV - Having given the model a basecoat the next stage was painting the fixtures and other details on the Cromwell ARV. Both the wooden equipment… and the tracks...7 hours ago
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Wagram Project French and Saxon cavalry 15mm - All AB 15s Saxon heavy cavalry French chasseaurs
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Superhero Saturday - Silver Fox - One of the most untalked about superhero yet she was involved with Wolverine and WWII. She's Native American but her tribe lived in Canada so I made her ...
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HOTE Battle: Mafeking Zulus vs. 7th Foot, British Army - Traveled down to Fort Smith today to visit my son James and his bride to be Jessica. We met up for lunch and then headed over to Hawgshead Comics on Greenw...
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End of February review - This post is a summary about what painting, building and gaming I completed in Feb. I probably get more done than I think I do. Sometimes I look at my prog...
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Transfer sets for Claymore Castings. - Iain from Flags of War is developing a set of transfers to fit our shields. Here is a WIP image of what he has been working on. Each of our OT1, Command p...
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What can High Executioner Reznik do? - loonger on dakka dakka asked a question about Reznik. I think it's easy to be dismissive about him, so I responded as follows: Who? Reznik? He's an odd...9 hours ago
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New Gallery: The Battle of Pea Ridge (First Day, March 7th, 1862) - Just in time for the 150th anniversary here are the photos from the Battle Pea Ridge game that I ran back in January. Below are some of my favorite photos ...9 hours ago
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A quick dab of paint later.... - Sorry fellows, not that much to show you today, simply because I was at the club yesterday evening, doing a Art de la guerre demo. A bat rep should follow ...
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I don’t care; it’s still YOUR fault! - Here are the finals for the heavy weapons squad, created with feedback by…. Wait for it… YOU. Changes from the originals: Widened stance on one of the leg...
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Tanks A Lot - I recently clocked this Missile Tank pictured above on fleabay. It immediately struck me as the same toy as the unlicensed UFO Missile Tank seen below. Ju...
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New sculpt on the way - Rex, the Dwarven Rogue - Hi everyone, I've been occupied with this charming fellow: And together with his mate: They are just under 25mm from the top of the head. Any referen...
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1/300 Panzer IV Battalion's painting cont ... - The Panzer IV F2 battalion gets the Tamiya XF-60 Dark Yellow effect (base coat), a little too much of the Afrika Korp look about them in the first instance...
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GM's Day Sale at DriveThruRPG - What I'm Getting - I'm as big a fan of made-up holidays as the next guy, especially when they give me a day off from work. While GM's Day doesn't *quite* carry the magnitude ...
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Introducing the Duke of York - Yes the next one in the Albertine series for Simon at Solway it the Duke of York himself, Prince Albert. I have illustrated him in a Naval Uniform armed wi...
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Shooting Paint - Well, my compressor has arrived and I’ve started playing with my new airbrush, much to the annoyance of my better half. In two evenings I’ve learnt a lot, ...10 hours ago
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Possible Future Pulp City Heros and Villains - I have recently taken over a thread on the Pulp City Forums about possible future Supremes. A detailed list of characters mentioned in the fluff, suggeste...
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Stormtrooper Elf - Finished a Warmachine Retribution character recently. I was impressed with the sculpt and the detail. The client wanted white armor with black, for a 'stor...
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SAGA Trojan War- Teaching Odysseus a lesson for calling me "emo" - Achilles and Odysseus squared off last night in our first crack at SAGA- Trojan War. We played a 6 point game, I was using.. Achilles (the best of the Gree...
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On the North West Frontier....Part 3 - It has been a grim week so far. Not in a health way - everybody is hale and hearty in that respect - but on the job front. My contract is up tomorrow and t...
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Black Crusade - Hand of Corruption - I was stoked to finally get my copy of Hand of Corruption, a supplement for Black Crusade by Fantasy Flight Games. FFG seem to be following their usu...
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A 54mm Aside. - You know what its like when you are waiting for a bus - nothing- and then 3 come along at once !. Same with nurses - been looking out on EBay for a medic...
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More Romans - The Caesarian Romans are coming along nicely. I finished the flesh this evening. Tomorrow I'll finish the bases and attach the shields. Hopefully I can als...
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On the painting tray: March 2012 - This month I shall mostly be: - Painting the last eight of a unit of 36 hoplites then basing the whole lot - Doing the base on Anne Boleyn, who i...12 hours ago
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Prussian Grenadiers - Continuing my New Years resolution I've got some more Spencer Smith 30mm figures painted . These are the Grenadier Battalion Jung-Billerbeck , it compri...
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This just in... - ...even having one of the best "netlists" ever built won't save you from bad decisions and dice that just won't go your way. Ladies and gentlemen, I prese...
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Battelfront and PSC T-34/85 side by side photos... - I'm gearing up for my first Flames of War tournament on the 10th, and am planning to bring a Guards (Red Army) Tankovy Battalion into the fight. That bein...
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Welcome to Thor's Day! - Thor's Day Heroes is the newest feature here at Mik's Minis, gently replacing LEGO Thursdays. I had to stick with Thursday of course, and how serendipitou...
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Back of Beyond Campaign Big Game - Campaign One Big Game Campaign Two Big GameCampaign Three Big Game? At the end of each *Back of Beyond* campaign I've always organised a big multiplayer fin...
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Venusian Amazon Archers Complete - This week I completed the archer unit for my Venusian Amazon force. The infantry unit, cavalry unit, and archer unit are the total units I plan for this fo...
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I may be some time... - [image: DSCF0305] I am presently engaged in making shutters, doors, and gates. I'm using Evergreen's 'planked' plasticard, for the 'woodwork' and am ...13 hours ago
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The Bulge in 28mm: WW2 Battle Report - Last week's game was a 28mm "Battle of the Bulge" scenario featuring some of the first WW2 models I ever painted (Battlehonours Waffen-SS) against some of...
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Orc's Drift: the Table - Here are a few shots of the table laid out for the Orc's Drift campaign. As a reminder the campaign, written by Ian Page, Gary Chalk, and Joe Dever back in...
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Drazhoath The Ashen WIP - I was taking pictures of some other stuff so I thought I might as well take these ones as I started a WIP thread. I made some good progress on it today. I...
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d’Erlons I Corps/ 1st Division at Waterloo - 1st Brigade Colonel Claude Charlet (acting Commander) 1er and 2e Bataillons, 54e Régiment de Ligne and 1er and 2e Bataillons, 55e Régiment de Ligne (Colon...
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Another Take On The Hag Stone - Hello everyone! I am very excited about all the awesome Frightmares terrain pieces we have coming out soon. I couldn't wait to get my hands on the Hag Ston...
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Old School Squats and Space Marines - After reading some of these posts about Warhammer's 25th Anniversary and old school Citadel miniatures over at Bleaseworld, I could not help but want to pl...
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Musée de la Grande Guerre - * * *Visite aujourd'hui au musée de la première guerre mondiale à Meaux ! * * * *Les photos ont été prises avec un Iphone, so, la qualité n'est pas top, m...
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Time changes everything... - Yesterday, I thought I'd add powered armour to the urban army but have decided to change my mind today. I have looked at my new purchases and as awesome as...15 hours ago
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Press Molding Necron Scarabs with Milliput and Green Stuff (Interesting Findings) - Old School here to talk about Press Molding Necron Scarabs. This article will cover the basics of press molding and then will also cover my finding and d...
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Claymore Castings - sample figures - Dave Imrie very kindly sent me a couple of samples of the Claymore Castings figures, covering the Anglo-Scottish wars at the end of the fourteenth cent...
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Review: Undead - More reviews today at Beasts of War tackle the Undead – namely the gorgeous Vampire Lord on Pegasus model and everyone’s favourite, the Undead Skeleton Reg...15 hours ago
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30 WTF... I mean WGF Zombies painted, and a WIP shot of the Horde - Hi, folks. Sorry about the slip in the title. :) I think WTF is what I thought when I was unboxing and examining these critters. Wow, there's some very sof...
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An Admech... iPod Charger? - *by SandWyrm* This concept for a breath-powered iPod/iPhone charger has to be seen to be believed! * "The AIRE mask is a concept that hails from the min...
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I've got an idea.... - ...that maybe I could do the linked series of scenario's/Teasers that I did for Jeff in this post [click here] as a skirmish campaign... set in WWII to be ...16 hours ago
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Æthelglyth - I painted it for the company Maelstrom Games I used Model Color , Game Color and inks if you have questions about colors you can ask here ;)
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New France's defenders in capotes - These great images are from here - an article on the equipment and clothing of the French marines from the late 17th to mid 18thc. It's in Czech and I am...
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6mm Sci Fi Dark Realm Miniatures - Yes! You read that right. 6mm. I don't usually paint 6mm but these were so gorgeous I couldn't resist. Available from Dark Realm Miniatures http://www.da...17 hours ago
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Completed Apocalypse Fortress Walls - The walls are finished! This beast is for the apocalypse game coming up and it is based on the forge world resin set. Not only did I go for a cheaper setu...17 hours ago
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An Unnatural Death - To finish off for the day, we thought we'd take a trip to the world of Warhammer to see what's been going on there. One of our favourite recent submissions...17 hours ago
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For Morgan is an Honourable Man… - “Friends, Verulamians, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Boicicus, not to praise him; The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft in...17 hours ago
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Taffys Celebrating Today - I hope you like leeks, as a good number of them will be served across the Empire today. Naturally, this is in honor of the Feast of Saint David, patron...
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CDC: Saint David's Day - A National Holiday - St. Daffyd's Cross *Caernarfon* -- Today is March 1, the Feast of Saint Daffyd. Interim President Lewis, with the approval of the Welsh National Congress ...
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19 Legion Raven Guard Chapter Banner! - So the guys over at 19th Legion ended up buying this Raven Guard chapter banner. It was a perfect fit for them! At their request, I added a couple of extr...
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A hidden little gem - Micropanzer Remote Gun Drones - *Micropanzer Wargames Studio* is a relative newcomer to the 15mm scene. Jason has been doing a really good job at keeping the public updated on his larger...
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Too much of a good thing? - *Squeek* I thought that I would do a review of some Warhammer scenery...and you know what? I started to put together some thoughts, but the more I thought...
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Games Workshop - I took a trip to my local Games Workshop the weekend just past and noticed quite a few changes there. They no longer sell metal miniatures for any of their...18 hours ago
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REVIEW: The Whisperer in Darkness - Even with all of its divergences from its source text -- some forgivable, some not -- *The Whisperer in Darkness* is still one of the best movies directly...
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Rebel Girl - Rebel girl with machine pistol. She could be anything from Free French to one of Blake's people.
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BLLive! 2012 - On Saturday, the hordes of Black Library fandom and authorage (and artists and editors and salesfolk and everyone else) will be descending upon Warhammer W...19 hours ago
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Epic Models for 15mm Sci-Fi, possibilites? - After talking to Chris over at Sippin on Paint Water about possibly using Games Workshop Epic scale models for some 15mm Sci-Fi gaming. So I broke out some...
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1870 Volley and Bayonet ... with a twist ... - *"Zulus Sir, thousands of them" ... "Pardon me Sgt?" ..."er sorry Sir, I meant Jerrys Sir, thousands of them" ... "Well Sgt lucky we got the Martini-Henry ...
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Zimna nóżka - Po sobotniej wstępnej rozgrywce w WFB wieczorem nie mogłem się oprzeć popracowaniu nad parą dawno rozpoczętych, starych ghuli Citadeli. Machnąłem im wtedy...
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6mm Dwarfs - amazing sculpts - Hello all, Still working on the battle report, alas time is limited. Anyways, I saw these wonderful new minis today: These are 6mm (!) models and have more...
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CMON Lovelies - Mastauroc Stonehorn Space Wolf Silverfang amon chakai Bacaniere Wight King painted by Daith Tyranid Space Hulk Broodlord Ogre Kingdoms Stonehorn20 hours ago
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Spacejacker tattoo - I don't normally blog about life stuff here, but I'm so pleased with my latest tattoo that I thought it deserved a mention. The artist is the tremendousl...
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The Battle of Ariminum - The Carthaginians draw 9 *Army Characterisation Deck* cards. They draw 75 morale chips, a 'deft cavalry, command' card and a 'stratagem' card for which a...
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Review: Plastic Soldier Company Panther Box Set - - by Dirty Jon Steven got me a box of Plastic Soldier Company(PSC) Panthers (WW2V15012) to review. I have had some PSC Halftracks to review, but never any...21 hours ago
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Taking Painting Commissions Now (and extending FREE service) - I am now taking paid commissions on painting, prices as follows -15mm - £1.5028mm - £2.506mm – please enquireI aim to get 40 models per week painted, so turn...21 hours ago
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Target: Feb 2012 results, Mar 2012 challenge - I’m writing this on a day that will not exist for another four years… The Lost Day, February 29th… which of you guys out there were proposed to by your lad...21 hours ago
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FOW: Nebs and a Jag - Finally some finished mini's!!! As reported earlier, with the new release of FOW ver 3.0 a return to 15mm WWII was in order. The first project will be t...
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Size Comparison – Rangers & Delta Force - In a comment on one of my previous posts someone asked how the Peter Pig Marines that I’m using for Rangers matched scale wise with the Flashpoint Delta F...22 hours ago
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Civil War Legend - I've read this tale a dozen times and seen it portrayed in the old miniseries The Blue and The Gray. I wonder if it's true? I wonder if MY version is true?...
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Creator Owned Day - Blackfriars - So today is Creator Owned Day! Brainchild of the super talented Stephen Downey to promote creator owned comics/characters. Click the link to see how you...
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Ugly Men With Sticks - In reading the wonderful Freeport sourcebook from Green Ronin, I realized that the various city watchmen amount to little more than men with lousy disposit...
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Dragon's Domain derelict ship - I think i detailed this waaaaaay back in the early days of this Blog and seem to remember it was hard to show things clearly as it was just too darn big to...
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Fimir - Independant Army Book - I noticed on The warhammer armies project this morning that he's released his Fimir army book based largely on the Warpstone 25 background, the same backg...
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Waterloo 1815 Dervish Infantry - Some new recruits to the Khandibarian army, Waterloo 1815´s dervish infantry. This lot I got as part of a swop scheme with my mate *Peter* from Peter´s cav...
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Panzer-Grenadier Pioneer Battalion Company 1 - Coming out of the suckfest that is this week (my apologies for the lack of comments on other blogs but I am snowed under), I have made little progress on...
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This is Sparta! - My first unit of Spartans for Basic Impetus is completed. I went for the 8cm frontage and 10 figures per base for the phalanx part of the army. All the fig...
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Roundwood's Wordle 2012 - Here's a harmless (and some may say utterly pointless) bit of fun, and an echo from last year. I put the URL of my blog from the last few weeks into Wordle ...
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Vikings for SAGA point 6: Archers - Not overexcited with the idea of having to paint the archers I got the job done. While I have collected hundreds of Vikings over the years I had a hard...
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Come and join our merry band... - Hello all! Just a quickee today to invite you all to our new look facebook page. I've decided to expand how I use the FB page for Pirate Viking Painting...
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More Vikings for SAGA - I have painted some more Vikings for SAGA using my leftover Viking and Saxon plastic Gripping Beast minis. This time I used heroci bases, because it look...
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All Our Yesterdays - When I was growing Granada TV used to screen a programme entitled 'All Our Yesterdays'. It was introduced by notable journalists of the time (James Cameron...
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New Avengers Trailer - Oh, man, I want to see this bad. Don't look, Slados! Newest Avengers Trailer. This is the UK version (first I found on YouTube.) Start working on your 1...1 day ago
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Starfleet Wars: Carnivoran Ships Part 1 - The next fleet in my collection from the Starfleet Wars/Galactic Knightsrange is the Space Navy of the Carnivoran Republic. The original Starfleet Wars back...
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Two Hour Arrival - I have been jumping for joy the last couple of days as the first batch of games that I'm interested in trying out this year arrived at the beginning of thi...
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Making Dust Clouds - Here's a simple How-To article on making Dust Clouds. Granted, its not much off the great tutorial in the back of Hellfire and Back!, but it might be helpf...
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Eden - The nicest models - I initially got into Eden from Taban because of the models and then after having some games realized that is was a gem of a game. Its right up there along si...1 day ago
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Russian 76 - The first of a couple of the famous ZiS-3, sent to me by Tim http://megablitzandmore.blogspot.co.nz/ via Paul - excellent as I didn't have any Simple k...
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FWS News Feed: Railguns and Weyland-Yutani! - *The US Navy tests an EM Railgun* On Tuesday, the US Navy test-fired their32 MJ prototype railgun constructed by BAE Systems. This most recent test of the ...1 day ago
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Plastic soldier Panthers - Yesterday I went over to the model shop hoping they had some of the new PSC Panthers or half tracks in stock. I scored a box of the Panthers to make a deco...
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Allied Intelligence Reports More Germans Moving Up - Pics on newly completed German trucks, self-propelled 15cm, and JgPz 38t. 15mm Quality Castings.
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The Stollenian Line Opens Fire. . . - *Above, General von Tschatschke's battery opens up on the enemy hussars and infantry.* "Looks like we have some artillery fire and musketry to resolve th...
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My painting desk - I finally tidied up my work area. I posted the result over on my other blog for those interested is seeing a before and after photo: Shelldrake's work area1 day ago
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Craftee Test Game - Here are some photos of the test game we played over the weekend. Matt setup the venue at Games and Stuff in Glenn Burnie this past Sunday (Feb 26th). I d...1 day ago
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Philip Sabin's "Simulating War". - Phil Sabin's new book *Simulating War *arrived yesterday. I've been browsing through it and thought I'd share some initial thoughts. My first impression...
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German Grenadier 1/35 from Verlinden - From time to time I like to add some of my other than wargame figures. This is a Verlinden German Grenadier. I used an old Tiger I had done years ago tha...
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300 Drax's Whole Army - Hullo! ...On the remains of this fine Leap Year Day, and *THANK YOU SO MUCH*for helping me get to my 300th Post! As promised, please find below a handful of ...
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The last ride of the Pope. - It was a warm summer day with a gentle breeze rushing over the fields. The Pope and his army readied themselves to meet the Holy Roman Emperor in battle. ...
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February (Leap) Wrap Up - First off... Merry Leap Day!!! *Mini and Board Games* - Had a laid back board game night over at Anders' house at the beginning of the month. Mic...
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March Objective - 15mm WW2 and SciFi - My primary objective for March is to paint my late war British troops for a forthcoming game or three of USEME WW2 from 15mm.co.uk. I only have a couple of...
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Best Month Ever - Thank You! - I've just looked at the Blogger Stats for *Bleaseworld** and it appears that February 2012 has the highest number of page views in one month (9,405) beatin...
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Orion's 'Soviet Artillery Crew' set reviewed. - New review of Orion's 'Soviet Artillery Crew' set.1 day ago
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Prometheus - I try to avoid hyping (apart from some zombie flicks) but I believe I speak for a whole lot of Alien franchise fanboys, when I say Prometheus by Ridley Sco...1 day ago
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Warhammer 25th Anniversary model - Here's an unboxing and assembly video of the Rogue Trader tribute model GW released for the 25th Anniversary of Warhammer 40,000. I first started 40k in t...1 day ago
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This week on CBT CPT 2/29/12 - Wow sorry viewers about the long delay in posting but that's life. This past month saw the Trucker give his girlfriend a rather strange Valentines Day pr...
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'The West Kingdom' PbB RPG - Used with Bard's permission My latest adventure is participating in my first ever RPG. I was invited to participate by Bard who runs a couple of great blog...1 day ago
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The old mercenary - This is one of my favorite (maybe THE favorite) Reaper sculpts. I only now got around to purchasing it (along with my last order.) I had waited to buy it b...
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Skinners horse and Mysore cavalry - Tonight when I came home a parcel from Ingo surprised me. He has now casted the figures I ordered and of which I have shown the masters before. Well late ...
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Formigny: 15 April 1450 - Our latest Hail Caesar battle was to be a late medieval re-fight to allow Richard to field his new acquisitions for a fledgling War of the Roses army. To ...
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Back to the Brushes 14 - Another Dwarf for Songs of Blades and Heroes was completed this morning before venturing out to an in-service training day. There are thankfully no picture...
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Tale of Painters: Mad Hatting (Ladies Night) - . This is Ladies night and the feelin’s right, oh this is ladies night, oh whatta night! ohhhhhhh whatta night! . . Ladies night was pretty awesome…. e...1 day ago
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Source books for Samurai information - I've had a quick scan of Amazon to see what would be a good selection of books to better understand samurai warfare - especially in the Golden Age. Here's ...1 day ago
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Bases for the BEF - As I mentioned in the last post, I wanted to do something slightly different for the bases of my latest batch of BEF. For bases I usually do something like...
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Reinforcements arrive from England - 898 10mm figures in Perry boxesThe latest troops are just off the boat from England ready for battle. A bit disorganised they need to assemble into units a...
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Rebel Cavalry in Progress - I mentioned The Guild webforum's build projects in my last post. Their 2012 Project competition helped me focus on expanding my 25/28mm American Civil Wa...1 day ago
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New Osprey: The Fall of English France 1449-53 - Ever wonder how the English managed to lose the Hundred Years War? I mean there's all those wretched French defeats at Crecy, Poitiers, and Agincourt. Fr...
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Heavy Metal - Finally happy with the green on the US armour, started doing the tracks now. I think I am still on target to get these finished before the WMMS show on t...1 day ago
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MP4 to AVI? - Can anyone recommend a simple (and preferably free) program that will convert MP4 files to AVI? MP4 seems to be becoming quite popular, but the media playe...1 day ago
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February Wrap-Up and Looking Ahead - Another successful month at the Bunker! My stated goal for the year has been "one combat unit painted every week." I exceeded the goal in January, and ha...
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B is for Bell - And so to a mates house with two other friends for a chin-wag and an all-day breakfast in the local cafe, one of our number bringing a few items from his p...
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Progress Report 2/29/12 - Thank goodness for the leap year. - Managed to finish up the details on my crocodudes in time to complete my February painting pledge! Yeah! Now I need to work on finishing the bases with som...
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GnomeCon, Recon and the status of the games - Hello everyone in gamer internet world. I have been really busy since coming back from Megacon and have been remiss in posting. Please accept my apologizes...1 day ago
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Linden Way the "Mass Battle" - One of my design goals with Warrior Heroes Armies and Adventures (hereafter WHAA) was to allow players to easily handle games with just handful of figures...
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SO:KZ team Armored Might Wolves - The keen and studious might have seen these fine and nefarious fellows slip into the last post, in which I described the thinking behind themes like Ar...
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Warhammer 40K 6th Edition Shooty Tyranid List - So here is a Tyranid list that I have been evolving for a while, have gotten in some play testing, and was thinking about for 40K 6th edition, but now ha...
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Mystery Truck - This Tootsietoy truck was painted in Army green when I got it. They called it an Army troop carrier. Something about it did not seem quite right ...
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2012 Projects - Well, January and February have flown by. I spent most of January preparing the Doctor Who scenario that I ran at Siege of Augusta. I'll have some pictur...1 day ago
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Authority Standards And Your Power Computer Supervise - Authority Standards And Your Powerputer Supervise In the 21st century state, ergonomics has get a rattling eventful gas of ornament of structure. Writer an...1 day ago
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Fireforge Games: Teutonic Knights Cavalry - Hi, today I'm privileged to review the wonderful Teutonic Knights Cavalry set made by *Fireforge Games*! This box caught my attention at Crisis 2011 when ...
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Check out our Facebook Bulletin board! - To create more dialog and allow more readers to post their own stuff without having their own blog, John and I have started up a facebook group, called San...1 day ago
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I'll just leave this here.... - From the factory floor of M3 Aircraft Works, where our intrepid engineers are diligently working on a improvements to a rather poorly designed aircraft. Whet...
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Message for Guido - You asked: "Hello, I wanted to ask if you have designs of all the uniforms of officers of the Royal Navy 1740. thanks" Yes, 1748 designs for all officer ra...1 day ago
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Buy one, get three - Sigo vivo... sin pintar nada, pero vivo. ------------ Still alive... not painting, but alive. De vez en cuando saco algo de tiempo para montar miniaturas,...
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DeepWars - Force overview for the Dark Mariner starter set - The Dark Mariners are descendents from the original kingdoms of the Ancients of Atalán, but have become corrupted and degraded by generations of genetic ex...1 day ago
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Campaign reboot - and then there were 3 - The "First Contact" battle that was posted was meant to be the first battle in a new Dwarves vs Beastmen Songs Of Blades and Heroes campaign. But a mutual ...1 day ago
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Review: An Echo Resounding - I see Kevin Crawford has written a book for domain-level play in Labyrinth Lord, and given that I’ve liked everything else he has released, it was a no-bra...1 day ago
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The T-Shirt... - http://www.wargamingshirts.com/I-See-Lead-People/_p_6843097 How cool is that? You getting royalties, Eli?1 day ago
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More Maurice - Bruce put on a game of Maurice last night, using the updated card deck in the light rules. I believe the battle was Fontenoy (?) which was one of the Wars ...
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Comments Come Lately: Video vs Traditional Gaming - This thread pretty much sums up what would be my response to the overwhelming consensus on yesterday's Terrible Tuesday article on Video vs Traditional Gam...
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British Heavy Dragoons - A few pics of the British Heavy Dragoons I paint over Christmas for the fine chaps at Victrix. A real joy to paint and its great to see them based up so...
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The inevitable has struck… - Mixed blessings really. Firstly and happily, the Lad has discovered his own gaming buddies at his new school. I felt a bit left out actually, when he advi...
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The Soul Patrol: Hammer - John Hammer is a freelance spy from Harlem, New York, and head of the infamous 'Soul Patrol'. Brought up on the tough city streets, he is known as the sort...
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An Apology and an Opportunity - Yesterday I realised that my Blogroll wasn't working properly and that some of the Blog's I thought I was following weren't appearing in my reading list. I...
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It's still alive.. - Been a while, but I will be updating soon with: FoW LW Germans Tyranids FOG Marian Romans Soon.. promise.1 day ago
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Paint at last - Finally finished adding the tiles to the roof. That didn’t half take long. But I am happy with how it turned out. I also added a small triangle of balsa to...1 day ago
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Cavalier Swag!!! - Several followers asked what I spent my hard earned dosh on at the Cavalier Wargame Show last Sunday, so here goes!!!! 1. 27 packs of Essex 15mm NYW fi...
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Done with the Troops. - I've only got Astorath, Lemartes, and 2 more Stormravens to go before I call it done with the army. Though I might want to do a few variations to the army an...
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The Barrow. - With thewaters of the Fern only just beginning to swelling with the cold runoff of thethaw Lord Bi Lloddie had led his Sylvan forces back to the Vale of F...1 day ago
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Vampifan's Views 20 My Monthly Musings 7 - A sultry Vampirella by Joe Jusko No question about the big news this month - I have finished making my World Works Games 28mm scale Mayhem City Police Stati...
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It's Leap Day - Did you know that it takes the earth 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes and 16 seconds to revolve around the sun? Neither did I. But you probably did know that...
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Tyranid Spore Mine, my first sculpted model - I'm not sure how I ended up choosing a Tyranid Spore Mine to be the first model I sculpted from scratch using nothing other than greenstuff. Maybe because ...
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Mapping Napoleonic Europe - My campaign maps have undergone pretty major changes since the first hand drawn one I used when the campaign started in November 2009. I had searched for...
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The French in America - This next batch of SYF03 French fusiliers are destined for the Americas. As each pack is sufficient for 12 elements, so these will represent the 6 battalio...
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Pub ! - Le nouveau VV est paru. Et Rava est de retour en couverture ! En dehors des critiques habituels de nouveaux jeux et livres, les deux articles "Art de la ...
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Wargame Wednesday – Imperium Take Two - In preparation for my Second Interstellar War using GDW’s Imperium, I was doing my customary rules review when I noticed a few rule nuances concerning Main...2 days ago
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Company Spotlight: Warploque Miniatures - I've been meaning to order something from Warploque Miniatures for a good while now - WarplockMonkey has some real skill when it comes to anatomy. I love th...
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1st WHFB Tournament of 2012 this weekend - Heading down to Wellington for my first WHFB tournament of the 2012 season *Runefang V *this weekend, and its going to be a great event. Taking the same Dw...
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Another three mutants - Another three mutants for the tribe. All three are resin miniatures from Ramshackle games. That's pretty much it for mutants for now. I'm painting...
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Australian Jungle Section - Hi all. Many apoligies for the lack of activity this year. I got my painting mojo back and painted up an Australian jungle section. Note the rifleman ...
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Lead Painters League Season 6 - If you're reading my Blog and are not familiar with the Lead Adventure forum. Then I am not doing justice in talking enough about one of the best pl...2 days ago
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Prepping the Next Batch - I have a lot of miniatures. I'm always buying more. Part of it is because I like the appearance of them or get a good sale or gifts. One of the things I've...2 days ago
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Reaper Miniatures, XAIRobots - Reaper Miniatures has some really nice bots called the XAIRobots that could work nicely as large alien bots for 15mm game play. I haven't seen these in pe...
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Mediaeval Cogs... - Every now and then a serendipitous discovery leads one down fascinating and exciting paths. Years ago, looking out for sources of buildings for wargames, ...
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New "Table Top Teaser" Mini-Campaign - Not everyone has access to Charles S. Grant's wonderful "Scenario" books . . . so Conrad Kinch (Joy and Forgetfulness) has crated a "Table Top Teaser" mini...2 days ago
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Warlord Games Phalangites - The boxes of plastic phalangites that I pre-ordered from Warlord Games Hail Caesar line came in a couple of days ago. I've since assembled some of the fig...
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They were soldiers - once - But after a dose of Vergeltungswaffe 4......... They have become the Walking Dead, mindless automotons, whose only purpose is to add the living to the...2 days ago
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Flames of War: Third Edition - Goodness, are we up to third edition already? I picked up one of the last copies of the Third Edition mini rulebook from Modelair in Newmarket this weekend...2 days ago
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++Incoming paint++ ... ++Necrons++ - Here's how my Necron force is shaping up. Going for a quick rusted up look. I initially primed with a red oxide/rust color primer, which also serves as my ...
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Big Exam Two Weeks Away - Just to let you know I am still alive, but studying for a big exam on the 13th March. I admit I have left it far too late to study properly so I am now bus...
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More Connoisseur Sudan - Painted by me this time, but 25 years ago (so be gentle). As part of the most newsworthy north/south transfer since Dalglish moved to Liverpool these ...
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Oyumaru/Instant Mold Casting - While prepping some figures for my ongoing Adeptus Mechanicus project I decided to cast up a replacement head for one of the figures. Way back in the last ...2 days ago
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Sherman M4A1 1/35 - El modelo del M4A1 que apareció por el 44 en el escenario europeo, tuvo buena aceptación gracias al cañón largo de 76mm, y mejoras (nunca ...
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Get on yer chaps n ride! - Here are a few pictures of the Club Participation game we put on at the end of each month, February's game was put on by Lawrence "cow poke" Widdecombe. ...
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The talk of the town? - When Ilse knocked and then entered General Wurst’s study, Major Von Barner was shocked, was this smart young lady his daughter? It was quite a transformati...2 days ago
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White Dwarf 387 & Wargames Illustrated 293 - My monthly look at the two wargaming magazines I subscribe too, lets see what march has to offer..... As always we'll start with white dwarf, this months...
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Memories of times past etc - Hello I'm back-back to work and on the road to feeling better- I hope.Work is very busy and I have had little time or energy of late. I have begun some EC...
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Dark Age Playtest - I have been looking for a good set of Dark Ages rules for some time. Whilst I like Saga it is really a two player game and so doesn't provide a complete a...
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'Neo-Soviet' Systems trooper... - I used one of the very nice Pig Iron Systems Troopers to test a scheme for another range of miniatures. I like the way it works on these minis so may do a ...
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Origin of the name Majestic Wilderlands - When I first started working on Judges Guild project with Bob Bledsaw around 2000 I kept calling the Wilderlands, the Majestic Wilderlands. Bob didn't know...
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Memories of times past... - Hello I'm back-back to work and on the road to feeling better. Since I've been away I've had a conceit to try and do some 1930s civilian militias in 54mm ...
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Leviathans Update - Hey True Believers, Yes, I know, ripping off Stan Lee, how dare I…but at this point, it feels appropriate to label you guys as such…can’t thank you enough ...2 days ago
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Paul's Platoon - Hi there folks! Just a quick update on my progress with Project Platoon. I started at quite a pace before Christmas and was planning to continue straigh...2 days ago
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Dark Age DBA Campaign… Some thoughts… - Lessons learned, etc…. As Christian has mentioned in the comments of one of the other posts I think this was the most successful of the campaigns I’ve run ...
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What should I do with these beautiful figures? - I recently received these Prussian Medic figures from Schrumpfkopf in Germany. He had commissioned these figures and had a limited number cast. I was luck...
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Zambezi Campaign 19: Artillery problems solved (or not)! - *Naval Brigade Gun crew under way* I only need to paint a Naval Brigade gun and crew to finish my British force but have been held up due to problems in ...
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Sales Report, and a Church - *Just to let you know that many of the items for sale from the mid-18th century collection have now been sold, and I've updated that page (see navigation b...
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Leaaaaving, on a jet plaaaaane! - The time has come for the trip to England to attend the Tempus Fugitives Age of the Emperor Event "Hammer of the Gods"! My friend David and I will be boar...
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Sgt. Bale Extreme (4) - Just a little update. The deadline for this is March 16th, but given the stop-start approach I have to painting I have done some small bits and pieces over...
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A Renaissance Diversion - The latest of my troops to be based up for Impetus are these, well, cheveaux legers? I bought them years ago second hand and they've been rebased a couple...
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Thanks for stopping by... - Wow. I guess at some point this ol' blog passed the 50,000 view mark. Thanks everybody who takes a peek now and then.
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Морской игровой стол \ Sea wargame table - Вот это ребята отгрохали столик для морской игры! Внушительный проект! \ Brilliant game-table with a lot of small islands! http://www.hamburger-tacti...
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Tabletop Teaser Campaign - *"Kinch has written a new mini campaign!"* *"The swine!"* I was very taken with Jeffs suggestion that we attempt to cobble campaigns together from the avai...2 days ago
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Helsingborg - Image from here. Fought today in 1710. Wiki here. Go here to see the League of Augsburg's refighting in miniature. Go here to see Marc Grieves painting of...
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2 ° Reggimento Fanteria - Fusiliers WIP - Now the weather's settled down a bit, I've had a chance to finish the last 4 figures of my Italian project for the La Bricole painting comp. Next up, basin...
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Latest FPW figures - Wurttemburg Jaeger - Part of the deal for painting the Turkos was a few battalions of Foundry Wurttemburg infantry. Unfortunately Foundry only made four poses; the officer (wi...
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Model Making: Laser Cut Barbarian King’s Hall – more photos… - I was very pleased with the reception that the photos I posted yesterday received. There were a few requests for photos with a figure in, so as to get an...
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Arquebusiers de Bergerac pass though Saxe-Märchen - *Arquebusiers de Bergerac en route to their new bases * * * The buildup of the French army continues, the Arquebusiers de Bergerac (from St Maurice) mov...
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Beasts Of War reviews Force On Force core rules - Check it out: Beasts Of War have made a review on Force On Force http://www.beastsofwar.com/spotlight/force-force-latest-modern-combat/ In my opinion they ...2 days ago
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an electronic version of "C&C:Ancients" - boardgame from GMT Games - This time I would like to share with you an announcement from a boardgame publisher. GMT Games is IMHO one of the bests, if not the best! (I know, its sub...2 days ago
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AAR FrF58 Order 831 - Simon and I got together to play this one in the hope of starting to play on a regular basis. Long time readers may remember that we met up at Blackpool on...
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Underfire Miniatures - The Helmand 2010 Brits I have been using recently have caused quite a bit of interest so I thought I would do a mini review of the figures. So far I only h...
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Some costumes & props from Gunga Din - There's been a lot of excitement lately in the Colonial miniature wargaming world, thanks to the first pics being posted online of Bob Murch's PULP FIGURES...
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More fluff from the Perry brothers - Saw these this morning. Now since I really love the fluffy stuff that has been announced by the Perrys recently this got my interest, too: And some more re...3 days ago
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Mega Trade - [image: A neat ship I found on two blogs on the Internet, so I have no idea who created it]I started thinking about the J-3 haulers running the Anthorann/G...
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Davids Artillery 1 - My brother David has been speeding through his French 15mm figures with the latest on the painting table being these OG French foot artillery. David like...
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Airfield Building - This is a MGB resin model that came as part of an airfield set with revetted bays, stores, and a base with a Jeep and a towed runway controller's van (the ...
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From Russia with Love - Greetings troops, Just some brief shots of the Soviet troops going to Steve. It's part of a force trade that we are doing. He will be basing the troops t...
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The inevitable bodge up - I spent the past couple of days putting together a second Doooooom Wheel for my Skaven. This thing was on track to look real good. I had a new recipe for w...3 days ago
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Battle in the South China Sea 201X - A Harpoon 4.1 battle in the South China Sea. The scenario was a Jiangkai-II and a Jiangwei-II steaming north back to China at 19 knots after some mischief-m...3 days ago
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Ephemora but funny. - I just had to re post this, from SD Forum...... click for bigness Looks pretty accurate from where I'm sitting, the last photo should be a catalogue .......
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Bits and bobs - Just a few bits and bobs today. As you can see from the picture above, I've taken delivery of some Amera vac-formed terrain. In my case, five straight an...
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Armoured Panzer Grenadiers - Based on experiencesat Day of Days, and using my gepanzerte at the World's last year, I've decided to take a serious look at my armoured panzer grenadiers...3 days ago
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Top Medieval Re-enactorisms - Last weekend was the AGM of the MSS (Medieval Siege Society) and I ran a session about Reenactorisms. This was not a lecture more an open discussion. The f...
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Holiday Sale! - Well, since everyone else is doing it, why not :-) This time around, let's have a sale on the SNAFU expansion. $10 instead of the usual $25. The sale wi...3 months ago
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This blog has moved - For technical reasons, I have moved to a different host with this blog, which can now be found at http://www.henrys-wargaming.co.uk All content has been mo...4 years ago
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