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Clearing a Road Block - The scenario chosen for this game was Triple Line from One Hour Wargames. Since I was still on the fence a bit about the exact plans for these figures, I ...
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WENCO'S WILD WEST, HARRY, SUSIE AND THE STAR MAIDENS - I bought this bunch of action man style stuff in Germany. I had assumed that they were all either Action Man or Action Team. The blue life vest particular...
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HaT French in Greatcoats reviewed - New review of the HaT set of 'Napoleonic French in Greatcoats'.1 hour ago
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Pwork: New Dust Town - Fantasy Gaming Mat! - Pwork: Dust Town! Fantasy Gaming Mat from Pwork Wargames!
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Eteryczny Rycerz Morgulu | Ethereal Morgul Knight - Ten rycerz Morgulu, robi u mnie za konnego umarłego z Dunharrow. Po długiej przerwie, na fali uniesienia pojawieniem się nowego pudła z grą do LOTRa (jest...
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Lobotomy - Big Mama and Little girls - Adding a painted "Big Mama", the cannibalistic hag that is used for several scenarios as a mini-boss along with the "Little girls" that are inspired by the...3 hours ago
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Death of a Baneblade - 40k 8th Edition Battle Report - Imperial Baneblade 6813 contemplates its final moments amid 40k action ...Do you have any figures that you must actually dust off before you use them on t...
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"That Which Was Known Was Forgotten..." - *"...And anarchy threatened all the children of the then Free Companies."* These two 15mm miniatures come from the "The Ion Age" code IAF022 Muster First P...
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1/144th Scale Lethal Skies? - I have been pondering the possibilities of larger scale modern aerial wargaming using *Lethal Skies,* the new air to air combat rules that I downloaded y...
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2 units of French Cavalry completed - So I've finally finished up some French Cavalry for my War of Spanish Succession project. I've been a little burnt out on painting troops for this project...
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Last of the camels - Arab revolt - The final batch of camels are at long last completed. Again a splendid set of figures from Strelets with lots of character. I'll mix them in with my old Ai...
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A Bridge Too Far Arnhem Operational battle report - Part 3 - We left the last part with the Panzer Division crossing the Rhine Bridge. We'd worked out the general British plan. The Airborne were holding the shoulder...
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Arkham Investigator Game - Arkham Investigator is a free tabletop game of Mythos mystery. From the Board Game Geek description: Welcome to H.P. Lovecraft’s Arkham, the 1920s. There w...7 hours ago
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Guild Ball: Unboxing 'The Faithful: New Beginnings' - I know, I am a little late to the party. 'The Faithful: New Beginnings" was released this past August, roughly a little over 2 months ago, but I am now f...
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News, Views Etc . . . Forthcoming Events - Seems to be easing off on the dates front after the late-summer/early-autumn's flurry, as we head into the cooler, damper days of late autumn, let's face i...
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The 10 commandments of Fantasy army clichés - 1. It shalt be a 'Medieval' world, full of western imagery, weapons and Armour, likewise tactics shall not have evolved beyond "Charge!". 2. Ther...9 hours ago
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Sodusi - plugging the gap ... - A jager patrol returns to the rocky outcrop area as some of the engineer corps prepare to start work making the outcrop into a fortified strongpoint.. As ...
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American Strength Returns 1777 Campaign Part 2 - Here are some more primary source strength returns for the Americans in the 1777 Northern Campaign. Artillery at Fort Schuyler, July 1, 1777: American Forc...9 hours ago
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Mantic Terrain Crate Sets - Friday's Scenery Update...Mostly painted kits which a re now available for sale. I did 2 Mantic terrain Crate sets which is I believe are the first models...
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Lizards - The levithan's fight! Dimetron wins! As two monstrosities devour one another a new plague arises! Locusts, the same plague that hit just outside C...
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Ravenna 1512: Scenario And OOB - *Introduction* Here are the scenario notes for the Ilkley Lads demonstration game at Fiasco, Royal Armouries, Leeds, 28th October 2018. We will not be givin...11 hours ago
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How do I keep focused? - I had a message on Twitter today from a good mate Frank How do you manage so many projects at once? I get the magpie thing, but you do game a helluva lot, ...11 hours ago
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Battle Report – Infinity N3 – Steel Phalanx vs. USARF – Supremacy Season 10 - Owen and I check out of the other re-tooled missions for ITS Season 10 – ‘Supremacy’. A Classic going all the way back to the beginning of N3, this missi...12 hours ago
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MY WARBAND, MY STORY – MARTIN’S NORTHERN ALLIANCE WARBAND Part 2 - [Ed’s note – Reader discretion advised for Martin’s gruesome story… particularly if you’re a Ratkin player] This was a fun game. What would later become ...12 hours ago
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DAK Observer and Sniper Teams - In between troops for the squads I've slopped a bit of paint on to these chaps -- a Forward Observer team and a Sniper team. Need to find where I put the...
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Dice Tray - A lot of the games we are playing at moment require rolling lots of dice and I have got fed up of dice bouncing off hte table ,knocking figures over and en...
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Another Year, Another Crisis - As November looms large on the horizon, thoughts on Lard Island turn once again to our annual pilgrimage to Crisis in Antwerp; the best wargaming show on t...16 hours ago
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Pure self-indulgence - Some time ago, when I was experiencing problems with Blogger, I became concerned that all my blogs would become 'lost' if Blogger every disappeared. I do h...
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Dungeon Delves: Umber Hulk - Umber Hulk's gotta Umb! This fantastic resin cast Umber Hulk is from Westfalia Miniatures Kickstarter I backed. I actually have backed all of their kicksta...
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Orc War Pigs! - I recently painted these up for my mate Slowpainter John, to thank him for some figures that he donated to Reilly's Dwarf army. Old school Inquisition minis...
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Yours Truly.... - Thought I would post some pictures of my granddaughter and I at the #ozarkcornmaze this year. Some of you frequently show yourselves in pictures at the clu...
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28mm Helicopter Assault Trooper - Some more 28mm 1980s Pulp troops added, this time a Helicopter Assault Trooper. Inspection on the airfield Fueled up and ready to go -but what is he doi...22 hours ago
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658 - New Bolt Action Scenario: Hasty Attack - Part 1 - Hullo, All, The Heer advance...cautiously! I've been a busy beaver recently: not only have I got a bunch of modelling and painting done (details soon) but I...
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From the painting desk #60 – All the single ladies - Black Scorpion pirate and a Bad Squiddo vampire.1 day ago
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Some Recent Painting - Just a few quick snaps to show some of what I have been working on these last few weeks. I am almost "done" with my Flames of War Afrika Korps forces fo...
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Another Chaeronea Game! - This past Saturday, the fellows joined me for another game of "To the Strongest!" Once again, we tackled the battle of Chaeronea. In the first game, Jon'...
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Testing the Dervish Again - The Camel Corps in close quarters melee with the Dervish army. CLICK ON ALL PICTURES TO ENLARGE Wednesday evening we played the first of three games in o...
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Prince of Eckmuhl - We’re planning to refight Eckmuhl on Saturday and Tony asked me this week if I had Marshal Davout amongst my personality figures. Well I do, so I’ve volun...
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Busy Busy Busy - Busy summer, busy but a lot of fun. The Mrs OA and I took the Mini-Mes off to the linked villages of Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis in the Austrian Alps. For a bit of...
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Welcome to Your Bureau-Approved B.A.N.E. Kit - Here's a little prop I whipped up for a game of *Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic* a few years ago. Our game group were never fans of being governme...
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Second Battle of Kosovo 1448 - On this day in 1448, Hungarian and allied forces yet again faced the Ottoman Empire on the Kosovo Polje. This battle was probably not as significant as the...
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Fanfic - Harry Potter and the Half-God Prince VI - Continuing my Harry Potter / DC crossover, previous parts on any of these archives: On Fanfiction.net On Archive of Our Own On Twisting the Hellmouth *H...1 day ago
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An Unexpected Source of Zulu War Figures - My order from Spencer Smith Miniatures has arrived. The figures in this batch are all that I need to complete the ACW project based on the Kurz and Allison...
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Portsea Island Beer Festival - 2018 - It's that time again.. hurrah! Our (8th!) yearly amble to the Groundlings Theatre (venue for the beer festival) coincided with a bout of fine weather i...
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Medieval Russian Hand Gunners - Recently, I was lucky enough to pick up a pack of Roundway's 15 mm Russian Hand Gunners (RURU5) via eBay. Here's the finished results: I wanted to add some...
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Trojan War, part 1 - Let's take a closer look at some of the new Trojan War Greeks from Eureka: This first pic is a comparison between some of the 28mm Greek figures out there....
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Mainz Infantry Regiment Lamberg - The prince-elector of Mainz Archbishop J.F.K. von Ostein supplied this regiment to the Austrians upon the outbreak of the SYW and it served with the...
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Libyans - I’ve got quite a few figures started, but got a few elements finished over the weekend; one of them is some Libyan cavalry for the Later Carthaginians. The...
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How (not) to run a modelling club - *Background* Earlier this year I was invited to visit a local model making club, for the purposes of this post, I will keep some of the details hidden no...
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Models for Three Covers - These are the model reference pictures I sent to the artist who drew my covers. Above is the model that he used for *Bad Dog*. Above is the picture I...
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Scenario - March 10-11, the Portuguese at Chaves - *Historical Background * Convinced that La Romana would pose no further obstacle to his invasion plans, Soult marched his forces south across the frontier ...1 day ago
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Noble Knight Games Store Grand Opening! - Weekly Update Hello! Loads of in-print and out-of-print products are being received in advance of the holiday season! From Artis Opus’ recent Kicks...
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X-Wing Report - A Question of Pilot Skill - Hello it has been almost a decade since my last post but its like riding a bike right? The other day I was playing at my weekly casual gathering and durin...
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25% Off Sale - Last of the Year - *Coming soon! The Card & Dice Fantasy Gladiator Game.* Use the coupon code *25off* and get 25% off of your entire order! Last sale of the year! Order h...
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Test of Honour: Sword and Mind United! - *Warbanner* have been posting some interesting looking photos on *Facebook* for their forthcoming *Mortal Gods: Test of Courage* game and I must say it loo...
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Sword Worlds - A quick placeholder to flesh out a project idea later for Traveller/Striker/Tomorrow's War. Sword Worlds Platoon - Combat Environment Suits, 9mm ACRs or 4m...2 days ago
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SUDAN 54mm Three Battle Campaign Game #1 - Date: 16 October 1898/2018 Location: Sudan Seacoast, Bebara River, Mafrica Situation: Imperial Naval Landing Opposed By Dervishes Rules: Batailles de le An...
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My Own Version of Battle Part 2 - In part 1, I laid out the basics of tank combat. Part 2 will deal with infantry combat. Infantry should be a bit easier to define. There is no armor to w...2 days ago
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No More an Unknown Soldier - Some months ago, I purchased a batch of Franco-Prussian War figures that included 24 painted Prussian infantry mounted four to a stand. I had never seen t...
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Hungarian hussars 1734 - L'armée, l'Autriche, la cavalerie, les hussards hongrois de l'armée du Rhin, 1734, Franz Philipp von Gudenus Thanks Andrey
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Am I back?!! - I'm not sure yet, but I wanted to share this one, *Saylian Trollblood from Lucid Eye Publications*.
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BA- Free French vs Fallschrimjager - I popped around to Kent's last night for an enjoyable game of Bolt action, enjoyable for me, not so much for Kent thank to some pretty terrible dice rollin...
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Thirrrd. - This is my third car and very similar to the previous one. I used Crimson Fists decals on the car and White Scars on the yellow one as I'm recycling my ol...
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Nothing to see here.... yet - ...but I have been buying painted Napoleonic Miniatures again, and have some units in production. :-) PS Still waiting for plastic Russians in long greatco...2 days ago
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Phew! A full wargaming day. - What a busy Tuesday, but can't complain as I spent most of it playing wargames. I started off by driving up to see Gary in Leicestershire for what I thoug...
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WIP 1:72 Uruk-hai Pikemen - Painting up the Fighting Uruk-hai armed with pikes and fighting in phalanx formation. 1:72 Dark Alliance half-orcs.
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Ravenna 1512 - A scenario for Fiasco 2018 - Introduction Here are the scenario notes for the Ilkley Lads demonstration game at Fiasco, Royal Armouries, Leeds, 28th October 2018. We will not be giving...
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Dreadtober 2018 - House Vyronii Armigers complete! - More Dreadtober goodness this morning! It's been kind of nice having two projects going at the same time - When I get tired of the red and black of the Wor...
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Speeder - I love this model so so much and has been a great project to paint up. Tied up nicely with the rest of the Hoth force and as always very very beat up.. Adv...2 days ago
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Ral Partha Lakota Sioux - The Sioux are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations peoples in North America. The term can refer to any group within the Great Sioux Nation or...
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Climbing the family tree - I've been fiddling about with my family tree and DNA mapping recently. It's one of those engrossing things I dragged my feet on for a long time before I ...
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Kommandos #1 - There is something about orks that makes them well suited to “pasted on” themes. Give a space marine a sombrero and he will look like he has unresolved emo...
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Three quarters of a million visits... - Some time on Sunday this blog passed 750,000 visits and so I apologise to all of you whose time has been wasted by reading my drivel. It really was sup...
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Life is Short - I had one of those defining-and-not-in-a-good-way life events occur a couple of months ago. I have an American friend who I used to work with over here. A ...3 days ago
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More Prussians 1864-1871 - Here the next set made by Massimo for our 1848-78 range. These guys are very useful for charging the Austrians at Königgrätz in 1866 or any French position...
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Zomtober Week 3: Zombicide base set 1/2 - I cranked out half of the Zombicide base set this week. I broke the set into two groups in order to mix up the painting colours such that the final horde h...
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Trafalgar Game at the Club - I recently joined a local war gaming club, Army Group York. Yes, I was just as surprised as you there is a club with standards low enough for me to quali...
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Future Worlds Landscape - Modular Wargames Terrain - As I slowly get back into my model making and wargaming hobby I have been looking for new and interesting projects to sink my teeth into. I was contacted b...
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Battle of Tenitsa Pass - Over the weekend Postie unveiled his newly completed Turkish forces for the Crimean War. The Ottoman army was generally considered poor quality (from what...
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October 2018 #Kickstarter & Preorder Update - Total Games On Order = 22 (Wargames 17 / Boardgames 4 / RPG 1) Trying to keep track of my preorders and Kickstarters in an effort to control my spending. ...
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New Cthulhu inspired dice bags from Saddle-Goose Designs - Featuring exclusive artwork by Martin Whitmore, these are now in the webstore. https://www.saddle-goose-designs.co.uk/gaming-bags-and-trays?t=cthulhu S...
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I Know I Said..... - No more posts this year, but yes but no but. Today Dave came over to OHQ for our inaugural game using Black Powder 2nd Edition, we both agreed that we coul...
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The Baron on Tour - Taking a break from wargaming to do more wargaming. This time, across the Atlantic to someplace called London, to game with the fine fellows at Lead Advent...4 days ago
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October 2018 Northern Conspiracy Game Day - Operation Avalanche - Allied Invasion of Italy at Salerno - Saturday, the Northern Conspiracy gathered for a game day centered around Operation Avalanche - the Allied invasion of Italy at Salerno. To the left, club ...
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Zombtober 2018: Week 2 - Sorry again for the tardiness. This time I was waiting for it to stop raining so I could get a good photo. It hasn't stopped yet, hence the some what crapp...
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Napoleonic Naval: 1/1200 Scale French v British (RN) - To me there is nothing quite as enchanting as 1/1200 scale Napoleonic warships in the thick of fight. Here a battle squadron of five British (three ships o...
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40mm Japanese civilians - I've been away from painting the minis for the past several weeks while working with a new deadline at the newspaper, but I managed to finish a few these...
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All Quiet on the Martian Front: The Battle of Piccadilly Gulch, Texas. - All Quiet on the Martian Front: The Battle of Piccadilly Gulch, Texas.: A Headless Body Production Location: Regency at Providence Community Center, ...
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ToonCon 2018 - This past weekend I attended ToonCon with the kids (Amanda would have been there but she was busy dodging hurricanes and alligators in Florida and learning...
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Op Battleaxe - Game 7: Second British Attack on Fort Capuzzo - Turn 3, or the morning phase of June 16th, 1941, saw several attacks launched by the British in their (so far pretty unsuccessful) attempts to breach the A...
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Figure Conversions . WW2 Elderly Berlin Policemen with Shakos - A couple of the scenarios in the Berlin campaign that our wargame group gamed some time ago needed some squads of "elderly policemen", many of whom had to ...
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Fury of the North 22 - Today is the 952nd anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. The picture below by Angus McBride shows the moment when William, Duke of Normandy raises his hel...
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Back once again... - *...with the Renegade Master. * Looking at my blogging of late, it has been far far too long. Weirdly, I have a couple of entries in the drafts folder, ...
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Romano-British martyrs - My noble martyrs Romano-British took to the table again this week for another gripping game of *Dux Bellorum*. This time, taking on a very similar force o...
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Zomtober 2018 Week 2 - Necrotic Exponential - After last week's pair of biters, this week I raise the stakes with an offering of four: Again, Mantic Walking Dead Walkers re-based onto 30mm DS lipped ...
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War & Empire Sassanid cataphracts - As well as picking up some Numidians at Britcon from West Wind's war & Empire range I also added a set of 12 of their Sassanid cataphracts to my collection...
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Battleground Fantasy Warfare reprint on Kickstarter - On a recent Musings from the Bunker podcast, I was talking about the fact that you didn’t necessarily require miniatures to play miniature wargames, and qu...
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Polish Winged Hussar Unit - WIP - After some casting, prep and assembly the first unit of winged hussars is nearly ready to go into the paint queue. I've opted for a mix of single and two w...
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The start of an interesting journey... - Hello. Welcome. Let's get the show on the road... This week has been a week of all sorts of things... First of all, my son (and his girlfriend) was visit...
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The hills are alive... - Many apologies to Julie Andrews. As with my bridges, you can never have too much terrain and I noticed that in recent years I have had a great deal of use ...
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Gerry Embleton Crimean War - Thanks to Andrey Efremov for finding these images from an old 70s work for Almark books.
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Rogue Trader : Battle at the Farm - Additionnal OrkTroops part 4 - Hi! I finally got my hand on these Gretchins! They arrived the day after my last post. So, now the question is : "Better to play 10 or 20 Gretchins?", I'm ...
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Kill Team - Heretic Astartes - Half-Dozen Second Cousins of Chaos - I've played a few games of the new Warhammer 40K Kill Team game of late, enough to convince me that it's worth me painting up a team or three. My mate Pete...
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Vampirella, Prize of the Crow King. (7TV2) - I Got the wonderful Children of the corn booklet from Crooked dice , and well I had to have a go!. I pitted the Crow king against one of my 7TV2 favorite...
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What's New with Mike and Jeff October 13, 2018 - We had the microphone was not turned one when we started, Sorry.
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Wars of the Roses - My son Finn and I decided to display our Wars of the Roses game at the Forfar show today. We were delighted to win best demo. I have been making grass ter...
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Chain of Command try out - Today, Lawrence hosted a game of the Too Fat Lardies Chain of Command rules for Phil and me. I have done some pics from the game, and will try to give a su...
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Rivers in Wargames - *Bayreuth Campaign Map* In any campaign, even a fictional one, major rivers are going to play an important part. As in real life they are obvious natur...
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To the Longest! (?) To the strongest modifications for the Renaisaance - Version 2 of To the strongest, not expected until mid 2020, will likely have two volumes, with the second covering warfare up to about 1580. Simon's though...6 days ago
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Monsters Under the Bed - Managed to swing a work trip to coincide with a gallery opening. I'll have a few creepy, gorey things in this show. Clutter Magazine Gallery, tonight (10/1...
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Converted Matchbox Model T Ford. - Well, I think this turned out rather well. I give you a before and after. BEFORE: Matchbox 1:52 Scale 1921 Model T Ford van delivering PG Tips. AFTER: 1917...
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Rebels and Patriots cover by Mark Stacey - Mark Stacey the artist behind the cover to the Pikeman´s Lament has done it again... this time the stunning cover for Dan Mersey and my rules Rebels and ...
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HOTT Winter's Day, Game 4 - Good evening, And onto Game 4. New game, new army (I love that format - five games, I get to play with five different armies), so I pulled out my Hoplite G...
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Dux Brittaniarum - The return of the Irish - After the bloody encounter a few weeks ago, time once again to venture into the world of Dux Brittaniarum this time with the Irish taking to the field an...
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Shadespire: Affrontements - Soirée Shadespire à 4 opposant 4 factions différentes *1ere table*: Fyreslayers contre les Seides de Magore *2ème table*: Pillards de Garrek vs Champions ...
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More Spearhead, notionally in France 1940 - Our experiments in playing Spearhead with 20mm figures and models continues. In Spearhead everything should be based on bases 1.25" square. This creates mo...
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French 2nd Empire Zouaves - Painted & Based for Skirmish - Here's a small unit of Zouaves which are intended to be French 2nd Empire. They are, of course, from the Perry plastic ACW kit, but the uniforms are pretty...
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Western Desert Force: 2 Pounder ATG Portees - Well I believe that's all for the ground forces of my Western Desert Force 'Jock Column' at long last. I have finished of assembling and painting two resi...
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Lost Battles: Trebia - I was left alone for a few hours so I took the opportunity to set up a battle. I set up Trebia using Lost Battles and following the scenario deployment. I...
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October or Orktober?? - Well for the first time I've managed to actually paint a handful of orks in Orktober. I'll be adding these to my growing horde. First up are a couple of pl...
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Steppes II - Steve has been working on his Muscovite army and our recent game provided their first 'outing'; an encounter battle with a Cossack force. The two forces h...
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Hi Ho! Hi Ho! A moving we will go! - Time to take a hiatus from blogging as my beautiful bride of 32 years and myself have bought our dream home and it's time to move - and yes! I will have...
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Hybrid. - Plastic Soldier/ Airfix hybrid SdKfz263 command or comms armoured car.Recently my war game buddy 'Jacko' got himself a pack of German 8-rad armoured cars f...
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Recruits Convention Report 2018 - Welcome to the Penny Whistle kind hobbyist. Sit back and enjoy a visual tour of my gaming hobby at the local Recruits Convention Lee's Summit High School ...
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Black Powder Two. A first review. - I got my copy of Black Powder Two at the weekend and have been slowly reading it to see what has changed and are the changes for the better. What I have...
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Helloween: Lord Of Skulls/ Imperial Knight Kitbash: It's NOT a Kytan damn you! - Look, I already know what you are saying: "TJ shut up, bro, it's a Kytan." and you'd probably be right, which is why I am posting these blue-tac fittings...
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Pair of Orcs - I finished painting my pair of old orcs. When I started them I applied a fairly neutral bland pale green, then added some quite intense green, blue and yel...
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Star Wars Legion Scout Sniper painted! - Hi all! Well, I painted up a Stormtrooper Scout sniper for Star Wars Legion! I did want to get a little ridiculous with this one, and get him all covere...
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Furui Hanmā: A Journey to the East. Part Two: The Men of the Orient - This is the second stage of our Journey into the East - looking at the visual and sculptural elements of the Orient in Warhammer. Inspired to finish this w...
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British SYW Artillery - This is now the start of my earlier expressed intention to arrage a number of scale drawings illustrating British ordnance fielded during the War of Austr...
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Sci-Fi 28mm Outpost Utility - In the month this blog was offline, I’ve been furiously stretching my Autodesk Fusion 360 abilities by designing and printing a set of 28mm scale sci-fi ve...1 week ago
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We're Still Here... - Phil would have approved, I think... *"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deed...
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Gamma World 1st edition P.O.D. - This is the one that started it all for me. I started gaming back in 79, yeah I'm that old. The first game I ran was Gamma World not D&D, sure I played D&...
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Pirates and PBI - Another fun weekend in Weymouth and Poole. A couple of games of PBI at Entoyment in Poole. I used my raw Russian company, first time out of the box since ...
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A Game Too Far? - My son John was visiting me from BC this summer, and expressed a great interest in my board games collection. John is a miniatures gamer, and knows W40...1 week ago
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The Song of the Dodo - Yes, nice to see you too. Where have I been? Nowhere really, but I've been reading and ruminating and the like. Been cautious about what to get involved wi...
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Afrika Korps support, modern Soviets and Harquebusiers - I've been remiss at updating my blog with completed stuff. Here we have some 15mm Flakwagens to help shield my tanks from Hurricane tank-busters: A plato...
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O'er the Hills Early Peninsula War Scenarios Kickstarter - There is a little more then a week to go for the O'er the Hills Early Peninsula War Scenarios Kickstarter. Eleven days and a little less than $300 in pl...
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Viking 878 and the Invasion of Little Queensland Beach - View from the deck of Little Queensland Beach. Sea was rough, and sky overcast most of the visit.I just returned from my annual vacation trip home to Nova...
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A Cavalry Battle at Todd's Tavern May 7th 1864 - ACW - Just a few images of the ACW cavalry battle Myself and Dave Lowe played on Sunday just passed. A great little way to spend a Sunday afternoon. I will wri...
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French versus Russians Napoleonic battle report - The situation: As the French advance into Russia, part of the advance guard finds itself overextended. The Russians decide to give the invaders a bloody no...
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Ramshackle Dwarf Bikes, Jet Bikes, Dwarves, and "Jersey" Barriers - Hello Distinguished Viewer, Here are eleven Ramshackle 28mm dwarf bikers. They are sculpted by Curtis Fell. Mr. Fell is the very best at painting things...
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Some bad news about Google Plus - Google Plus was Google's answer to facebook. It never got widespread adoption but among specific niches of internet it was heavily used compared to facebo...
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US Infantry in Attack 2 - Strelets - The one Thing about painting Union troops...easy but a wee bit tiresome. Easy as it´s not a lot of effort due to the same colours for each bod but tireso...
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Fix Bayonets 2018, Napoleonic Black Powder Game AAR - (Somewhere near the border of Spain's Provincia de Steilacoom) *Introduction:* The first game I played during Fix Bayonets 2018, was a Napoleonic battle r...
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Rapid Fire Germans Speed Painted. - Hi Chaps, Just a quick update on my painting activities which have been severely curtailed by work and other life commitments. Due to such little time to ...
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More 15mm rubble. Prodos Weyland Yutani Commandos and a welcome visitor ........ - *.....bearing gifts!* *Have a few more rubble markers to show, I do think now that the articulated lorry trailer should have been damaged more even if it w...
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A Short Update - The last month has been busier at work and home that I expected, meaning I haven't had much of a chance for gaming and other hobby activities. But last wee...
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Myrmourn Banshees - I have finished my Myrmourn Banshees for my Nighthaunt army. I have used them a couple of times but so far they have not done much. I see many players ar...
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Rabbitman's BIG Kegscon Purchase - For the last few years, every convention, I've been bugging 6Squared Studio for their 15mm haystacks. They've always been sold out. At Broadsword in August...
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Chicago Bound - I apologise for the lack of posts these last few weeks life has been a little hectic. The Crann Tara Saxons have sold extremely well and I have been playin...
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1/72 Walrus - painted ... - I went for the simple pre-WW2 silver dope paint scheme (markings & decals to be added later... sometime ...); also useable for inter-war period (so could b...
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Recent painting - Creepers and Owlbear - Earlier this year at UK Games Expo I picked up a couple of blisters of “creepers” from Crooked Dice, these had languished undercoated since and I had a fan...
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1973 Yom Kippur in 3mm - Not "Fate of a Nation" but a game developed by my friend. We played two games. - An Egyptian battalion assaulting an Israeli tank company in improved...
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JECSAN Y AIRFIX: TRANSFORMADOS - Nuestro amigo Jose Ricardo nos envía estas bonitas transformaciones de Jecsan y de copias de Airfix convertidos en fieros normandos. Una de las facetas ...
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Aeronavale Corsair part 2 - With the kit built and base coated I faced up to,the tricky task of painting the yellow and black ‘invasion stripes’. Some thin masking tape came to the r...
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New recruits - A couple of machine guns and crews for my Interwar project. New gun crew with a Britains gun ( still in good matchstick firing order) l retained from...1 week ago
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Charlies Journal - Long Range Recon: The Briefing (Post-Apoc) - We got briefed on a special mission today, a long range reconnaissance mission. I guess we're gonna head east, further than we ever gone before. HQ figur...1 week ago
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Saga - and the Dark Ages - Just a quick note - we (myself and the members of ODMS local to Hampton Roads, Virginia) have been playing a lot of SAGA lately (2nd edition). One of our ...
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Free Rules! 'Simple Seven Years War' - Just a very short post to point readers who might be interested towards my *Honours of War* website, where I have uploaded some new SYW rules. I have been...
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BFP-42 Bukit Full Of Trouble AAR - Another scenario played out with Rob, this is the seventeenth scenario from Blood & Jungle that I have played with Rob as we work our way through the forty ...
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A Tower Mechanical... - Somewhere along the way I contracted extensive 40k fatigue, but with October coming along I felt the groove of grim darkness returning, and so made a bits ...
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Orktober! - I am not a person normally cheering anything Orky but this Orktober post is my second orky blogpost in a row.. This time differently flavored :P Ironskull ...
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Averaigne royal family - Every kingdom has a royal family. In the case of my campaign setting of Averaigne, it's a fairly young kingdom but they are still on their eleventh king in...
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Brushworks: English Civil War Welsh Horse - Completed three squadrons of horse and four command elements (and another dog!) Again I used the high-speed horse painting methods. This lot was started ...
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Barrage! Recap Video from Little Wars TV - The guys from Little Wars TV ran some games and did a videography of Barrage! 2018. They were nice enough to do a little interview with me and included sh...2 weeks ago
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Little Wars TV Visits BARRAGE - Little Wars TV was special guest at BARRAGE this year, where they ran a pair of great games, and did a lot of filming. They have done up a recap video now...
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The Battle at Jacob's Church 1862 - An ACW batrep - What's this? An ACW Fire'n'Fury game? Its been a long time since we played these and it'll be even longer before we play it again....if ever? The Reject...
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Arboriculture Completed - It's taken a while but I have now finished those sprue-based trees. So to recap: Tree skeleton made from glued and melted lengths of sprue. Stick to base...
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Bundesgrenzschutz grenadiers - Off the painting table some Elheim Bundeswehr, the first batn of my Cold War Bundeswehr, two more battalions to complete my Kampfgruppe. Cheers Mart2 weeks ago
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Sole Survivor. Dogmeat, and Cogsworth - Well that's done. Looking forward to finishing Garvey's lot and the few extra mutants in this order. Then looking forward to NOT painting for a bit as I r...
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Kingdom Death Monster - Olympus Year 23 - [image: Kingdom Death] Knowing they will need more resources to prepare to faced the sinister presence in the lantern horde, the Olympians determine to risk...
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Gaslands: MOAB 2018 - After a late change in plans this years we opted to run Gaslands instead of another Very British Civil War game. It turned out to be an OK decision. We man...
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October Update - Trade Show, Ebay, Painting Schedule, New 6mm Scenics, Photos! - Hi folks, new week so new update... Schedule is looking OK. Wait times for new commissions are around 2-3 weeks at present. This will change into November ...2 weeks ago
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Scenes from the Phantasmal Island Chain - This is a *Ghost Archipelago *game from several months back. There was a small lake with an island in the middle, where the main treasure was. My lizardmen...
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Red Facings and Turnbacks Finally Finished! - *Here's where we stand now with the second squadron of (Germanic) horse grenadiers in cuirasses and bearskins. That's not a warped base in the rear row, ...
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Beevor on Arnhem - Podcast - Guys I've taken to listening the BBC History Extra podcasts whilst I'm out walking my hound on an evening. I found this one very interesting: https://ww...2 weeks ago
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My New (To Me) 1999 Honda Valkyrie - I have been going mad, slowly, for 10 years without a bike. It's mind-clearing, and therapeutic. I rode Yamahas in my youth, had a Kawasaki for a year or t...
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Hot Wheels M12 Warthog - The Hot Wheels Warthog was first produced in 2017 as part of the premium Replica Entertainment Series, along with a version for the more budget conscious...
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Shadow War - Turning it around - Sorry, I'm not getting any better at getting these Shadow War updates out there. I'm still playing the games, but lagging behind on editing the pictures an...
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WWI - Belleau Wood - Marines Attack - 100th Anniversary - I've been trying to get my USMC\US Infantry on the table for a while now. I finally got enough based and flocked to refight the *Battle for Belleau Wood ...
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MIA - Well, Been MIA again, but that doesn't mean I have not been busy. Been enjoying my freedom from having to paint for others and been playing more games. Re...3 weeks ago
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2019 To the Strongest! Worlds at Chalgrove - The date of the 2019 To the Strongest! World Championship will be 23rd February 2019 and it will, again, be held in Chalgrove Village Hall, Oxfordshire (...
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Manxman - Fifteen years ago I bought a large box of battered and broken 1/600 WW2 warships. I was putting together the moderls for the NWS 60th anniversary refight o...
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SAGA, French Grand Melee 2018 - Well things have become a little quiet lately. Last month I finished a bigger batch of vehicles for my WW II project and right on the heels it was painting...
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Dark Age Scots Part 1 - G'day all. Finished these recently for fellow Aussie, first part of a larger Scots Warband project. The figures are all metal Gripping Beast 28mm figures w...
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Kill Team Tiamat - Genestealer Cults have been a fascination of mine since the 90's. I had a small army in the grim darkness of the Rogue Trader days based around the theme t...
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1st Battalion of Grenadiers - For the war against the rebels in the American colonies two battalions of grenadiers were formed. The First Battalion of Grenadiers consisted of ten grenad...
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Desert Update 2 - Thanks to Carl (in another place) pointing out these figures are now up on the Pictart web site and can be ordered on line using the site’s shopping basket...3 weeks ago
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Civil Strife in Arden - My elder son Norman came up for a visit including some gaming last weekend. It was the monthly HAWKs Ghost Archipelago day, so we had that game in the m...
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Napoleon – Tinder profile vs reality - Have you ever happened to pick up a miniature you painted many years ago, but which you’ve hardly taken any notice of since, and examined it afresh? That h...3 weeks ago
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Top 10: The Most Iconic Warships of Sci-Fi - One of the most important elements in most science fiction works that contain a combat warship that will take a starring role is the design/style of that ...
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Postal Strike Pending! - Our Posties have voted over 90% in favour of strike action in light of Management's refusal to pay the rural and urban letter-carriers equally. * I supp...
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The Flat Collection - Well it's been a mad month or so. What with jaunts to and from the north of Iceland and a desk full of work when back in the UK there hasn't been a lot ...
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Still alive... And new painting!! - Hi everyone. I don't even know if any of you are still here, it's been that long since I posted anything. Am having some serious real life issues at the mom...
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September 2nd, Peterborough - *Peterborough Wargames Show: Hereward 2018* We really enjoyed this show last year and were pleased to be invited again. The Peterborough Club have contr...
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Blucher Revisited - Hi Team It's been a few months since I played a game of BLUCHER so Rowan and I decided to have another game. We settled on 250 points each and Rowan command...
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One Hour Skirmish Wargames - In the chaos of combat I have always like the idea of skirmish games because (i) one can experiment with a small unusual army that one has no intention ...
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My Unofficial Battlegroup: Cold War - Polish Naval Landing Brigade Battlegroup List - So today I'm posting up the third of the four Polish Lists that we have planned. This list can be used to create a force from the 7th Luzycka Naval Landin...4 weeks ago
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28mm Land Rover from Crooked Dice - In preparation for running "The Mist From Mars" at Fall In!, I've decided to change the Heroic side from U.N.I.T. and the Doctor to Department X and Hugo S...
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25mm Old Glory, Napoleonic French Center Company, March-Attack in Greatcoats - Finally finished a gameable French force for the 1812 Retreat game. Here are 30 privates, two sergeants, and two lieutenants.The rest of the regiment has ...
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Wargaming the Historical Battles (2018) - In amongst all the heritage events and campaigns, normal service has been maintained and, locally, we have continued to explore the Civil War and the chall...5 weeks ago
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September 2018 Purchases - I have tried to finish this post several times over the last week, and each time another package arrived that I wanted to include. I now have plenty of th...
5 weeks ago -
New Adder Tankettes with pre-order offers now at The Ion Age - Now on at The Ion Age and ending 1st October 2018 we have pre-order offers and bundles for our five different brand new 15mm scale Adder Combat Tankette li...
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SCULPTURE: Pirate Puppet - Ahoy, Maties! Once again I return to my love of pirates to create my most recent project...a puppet! I have always loved marionettes. And while this pupp...
5 weeks ago -
Nintendo Switch – Quali Accessori? - La Nintendo Switch è sicuramente una console fantastica per la sua portabilità ma anche per la sua versatilità: Console handheld, Console domestica e Conso...5 weeks ago
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ChillCon Derby and Me - Hey Guys, I am demoing Very British Civil War at Chillcon Derby on 22nd September, at Allestree Woodlands School, Allestree, Derby and this is the plot f...
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Heading to harbour ... - The lookout shouted "the inlet is up ahead".. Harald Orsted moved back from the centre of the boat and told the steers man to take her in slowly.. It had b...
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Scenery Forge Gothic plaster and resin build - I decided to try using the Scenery Forge Gotic mold again, but this time using regular Plaster of Paris for the casts, then infusing it with resin. It is...
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Marine invasion - Another great game of Team Yankee in 20mm tonight with Mark Piper. US Marines come ashore in Denmark 1985 to counter a Soviet offensive but are pushed ba...5 weeks ago
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Fallschirmjäger Kickstarter is online - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1873378485/28mm-german-fallschirmjager-in-italy-1943-45?lang=de
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HERMES MkII Air Assault (4) - Hi all, some of you may remember the armed version of my HERMES air transport. I started this project in July 2016(!) after I completed the ATHENA. But I...
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If I could impose on a moment of your time? - As you all know DreamForge is embarking on a new path, new releases in a new format. Although the Kickstarter platform has a lot of advantages, it only mak...
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15mm Gladiators - This post is literally Years in the making. I started this project in 2010 and have finally got round to completing it to some degree this weekend. Like ma...
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Livregimentet - So I've expanded this unit by six, I did it mostly to get a new blog post as it was so silent for well over a month, I cracked this out in two days, one da...
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Boarding Parties - A couple of stands to represent RN boarding parties or sailors with small-arms put ashore For CD3 the count as 'other' so of limited use, expecting speci...
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Man O'War - Khorne Bloodship - *A Khorne Bloodship is a fearsome vessel to behold. It is a vast, towering war machine that grinds across the surface of the waves, its armoured prow sn...
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French 7th bis Hussars two ways - In the abysmal language of TV cooking shows, here are the French 7th bis Hussars done two ways - first with S Range figures, then with Lamming one piece...
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Age of Sigmar Tale of Gamers - Month 4 - The 4th month of the Tale of Gamers campaign sees us return to our usual budget. This month I will have £30 to spend. At the end of month 3 we had to hav...
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Lamming additions - An update on recent new Lamming Roman and Britons acquisitions. As mentioned in a previous post I had been looking for some British chariots. Once I had...
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HOTT Army Lists Completed! - I’ve just finished uploading over a hundred HOTT army lists to the blog. Click here to access the lists, which are given in alphabetical order. This was go...1 month ago
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Indians, Genestealers & King Charles - So it's been a while since I've posted. I haven't died, just busy doing other things. But I have got a few things finished recently. So a number of months ...
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Transportable Terrain - Scratch-built these multi level corner ruins designed so that six of them can break down and fit inside a 4 Litre Really Useful Box. Made from Foamboard, a...1 month ago
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4ª tongada de vaixells (encàrrec) - Age of Sail ships (commission) Peter Pig, escala 1/450 (=4mm) Amb aquesta tongada dono per finalitzat l'encàrrec de pintura en curs; al capdavall, no foren...1 month ago
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3rd edition Warhammer Norse army update - Way back in pre-history (1986), a 13 year old version of me started a Warhammer Norse army. I bought it one blister at a time, using the money I earned fr...
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New “diograph” of Hazlett’s battery on Little Round Top! - Over the years, I have frequently mentioned my friend Dennis Morris, a talented dioramist and miniaturist from upstate New York. He created a wonderful dio...1 month ago
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DBN29 -The Frogs & the Lobsters - A return to DBN now, the place Quiberon in France, the year is 1795. A British/French Royalist attempt to invade Revolutionary France, which did not go ve...
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I’m Back!!! - Hi to anyone who still follows my blog. It’s been aboiut 3 or 4 years since my last post. Any pictures in between those times were posted to show miniatu...1 month ago
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With a Little Help from Your Friends. - Just the briefest of posts today to publicly thank Curtis Campbell Esq. for this rather splendid Witchfinder that has travelled all the way from the snowy...
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Moving To www. - For the last month or so I've been working on moving my blog and web presence over to www.iowagrognard.com . Blogger has been kind to me as have all ...1 month ago
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The Siege of Portsmouth, 1642 - The Other Partizan, 2018 - You might remember that a while back I staged a couple of refights of the battle of Lützen in the Thirty Years War, using 2mm scale figures. Although m...
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Stylised map of the roads of the Roman Empire - I haven't posted on here for quite a while. Real life is incredibly busy, especially at work, so I haven't been doing much in the way of historical figure ...
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Adeptus Titanicus is here - Today saw the release of Adeptus Titanicus from Games Workshop. Though I did not play the original Adeptus Titanicus fgame back in 1988, I did buy some of ...2 months ago
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Deathwatch Figures for Kill Team - All right. Time to get some Kill Team on the game table. My first set of models for KT is this group of Deathwatch figures. To get the black armor, I spra...
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Congress on 1672 - On September the 22nd in the Royal Dutch Library, The Hague, a congress is held on the year 1672, organised by the Studygroup "The Friends of de Witt"...
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Militia Skirmishers #1 - Looking to build some forces for AWI Sharp Practice 2. I already have plenty of units based up in formations, but didn't have any single based figures fo...
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BOYL 2018 - The Shrine of Rigg - So here it is! It's been a long time coming but finally the Shrine of Rigg exists! And has paint on it! And we played a game with it! Read more »
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Injun Country - More ingenius conversions by a young Mr Mason (again these must be 30+ years old). I have a war party of 18 of these, all are different, and all conve...
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Bargain basement, unpainted miniatures! GHQ, Pico Armor, AB, Hallmark 1/6000 - I've had several unsuccessful attempts at painting this past year, and it seems likely that I'll never paint at the level I once did. With that, I'm clear...
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Italian Condotta 25mm Venetian Reinforcements by Ral Partha - I added another few elements to my Venetian army for DBR using 25mm Ral Partha sculpts by Tom Meier. These are fantastic old school miniatures from back i...
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Night Watchmen - *After I have been gathering a number of highwaymen and other 17th-18th century scoundrel over the last years it is time to bring some appropriate opponent...
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Blood Bowl - Speed Painting da Humans - It's been a while since I've posted. Having a job cuts into one's free time. But, I haven't been completely idle. Here is proof: [image: Blood Bowl Humans L...
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SPACE 1889: City-State Archers - This unit is made up of ex-Grenadier High Elven Archers, from Forlorn Hope Games. I made several units from the High Elves in order to get more variety in ...
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Gencon 2018 Photo Dump: Costumes - *by SandWyrm* I said "Thank You!", he said "You're WELCOME!" to thunderous applause. Here are all of the costumes that I got pictures of as I ran back and f...
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Ravenloft XIII - *The Death of Lord Frak? (1st August 2018)* *The Manticore (Day 14 – early afternoon)* As we began to gather our wits we heard the thumping sound of a gre...
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African adventure - Love this illustration, this inspiration powered me through my unit of red coated regulars. I know it's not quite right but I couldn't wait to see what ...
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Iklan Golf - Mengatasinya - Baca juga artikel saya yang lain tentang *siap api bidik *untuk menambah wawasan anda dalam membaca semua ada disana lengkap. Disajikan secara menarik sehi...2 months ago
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Martian Manor House and ruined city boards July 2018 WIP - July 2018 WIP Managed to get some free days to play and this is what I've got done so far on some of those very long term ( and late ) projects. ...
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Update - Hi Gents, Been to busy of late to post due to house renovation. We bought the new place last year and had expected to be in by now but ground conditions...
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SELLING UP! - *SELLING UP!* Circumstances dictate that I sell my collection of wargaming figures. *VERY *large collection of *Nick Lund Grenadier Dwarfs, Orcs and Gob...
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2018 - Hobby Reset (Continued...) - It's almost the end of July already...where has the time gone? Well, no pictures to share at this time, but I did want to get an update out on what the ye...2 months ago
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Poking About... - Here we all are again. It has been a while since I last posted here - not too much to say, I suppose! So, what's up with you? I've been plugging away at m...2 months ago
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Win a WARLORD TITAN - I have so much to show you guys... I've been working so hard! More soon about my own stuff... But for today I wanted to talk about the Nova Open Charitabl...
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Turkemen, part 1 - The first post regarding some of my Half-Continent hobby work in a long time can be found here < link3 months ago
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Lundella's Lane, 1814 - *Marching to the sound of indecision**Unusually*, my friend Giovanni and I both had the day off last Friday. That gave us a rare opportunity to get in a ...
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The Joy of Selection - One of the great pleasures of Wargaming is the initial planning stage. At this point you and your friends have decided to take the plunge into a new peri...
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Pre-dreadnoughts - A bit too much time away from here, don't you think? I have not had much desire to work on naval stuff lately, despite having several projects deserving a...
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Big Brain (Kitbash Games sneak peak) - The first batch of *Supers Unlimited* characters have now been sent off to the caster for mastering, and *Big Brain* is among them. More characters are be...
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Vanguard Miniatures 3mm Gothic Science Fiction Line: Introduction - Although today I am scornful of Games Workshop and even more so of the company’s fanbois, the plain truth is that GW is responsable for making me a serious...
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New YouTube Channel "Little Wars TV" - First off I haven't died. I've had a bunch of life changes but I'm committed to bringing Daddy's Little Men back to life starting by sharing what I've been...
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Long time no see, - All aboard? The PLA are moving out, on their way to establishing a new homebase somewhere better suited for rapid deployment to your gamingtables. The rang...3 months ago
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A question of storage - It's not a question I have ever thought about. In fact apart from 1 storage case I either use some old A4 paper boxes or I use the really useful plastic on...
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Arnhem Battlefield Tour, and a family coincidence. - Arnhem Battlefield tour. The Oosterbeek Perimeter 1944 Bit of a coincidence. Walked into the Airborne museum at Hotel Hartenstein and came upon an exhib...
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New Beginnings - *New Beginnings* I have been silent for some time as I have been busy changing my life for the last three years. For many years I have been thinking and pla...
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Caverns - Summer is well here as its a sweltering 98 degrees as I type this. I dont usually get alot of hobbytime in the Summer, but my goal is to get these Caver...
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Like Hungry Wolves - Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 - Last weekend I had the opportunity to playtest my Historicon game with the club. The period is the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. Miniatures are Old Glory 1...
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Long time gone - time to Go - Ice Hockey stole my life for a few years which really put a dent into my time budget. Sadly, gaming suffered most out of the 'other things' in life (eg. f...3 months ago
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Necromunda: The Spiral 69s - The Spiral 69s, a Van Saar gang Vanzandt Van Saar, Leader of the Spiral 69s Autto "Come Correct" Van Saar Helmut “Van Fingerbang” Champion and Enforcer ...
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Stonne 1940 Big CoC weekend Part 1 - This has been in the pipeline for a few months now, the first public Big CoC public weekend at the WHC. In this first post I'll give some idea of the tho...
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Sharp Practice 2: other recent additions - I realized I had completed a couple of new units without posting pictures. First up is a a unit for the War of 1812 collection, the 7th New York Dragoons. ...
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Faces of war (4) - Some more pictures my grandfather made while he was taking part in the African campain during ww2. I even did not went too school, when my he died, so I ...
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Visit to Waterloo - I was incredibly lucky to have had the chance to travel to 1 of our Napoleonic bucket list battlefields this month. With 3 other Napoleonic daft chaps we m...
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Greek Light Cavalry - Some Greek Light Cavalry; from the Victrix set of the same name. I did add in a few heads from the spares box.
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A Change is as Good as a Rest: pt2 - Part 2 has been long time coming. Pretty much a good indicator on how little hobby time I've had over the past couple of months. Finally finished my other...4 months ago
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Fire burn and cauldron bubble. - Bet you weren't expecting this to appear on Gathering of Hosts: A few years ago this vignette was one of several RAFM sets that I couldn't resist as long...
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The problems with Geek culture - how big are they? - So, blogging, it would seem, is something I find hard to keep up with!!! I think that's an understatement. I find it far easier to post to forums and to cr...4 months ago
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Canadian Infantry vs US Tanks in Hasty Attack - Sherry Atkinson roars "Open Fire!" As Canadian AT guns shred US tanks crested on a nearby hill Game 1 of the Lords of War de-escalation tournament was 90 ...
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East Kent Scale Modellers June Meeting - Photo's from tonights June meeting of the East Kent Scale Modellers club which meets every second Tuesday of the month at Manston Aviation Museum. Superb...
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French vs. Prussians, 1813 FoB3 - We played 2 games of Field of Battle 3, with 1813 French vs. Prussians. Here's the battlefield: Prussians deployed to the left side of the table, French...
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Dragon Rampant- Order of the Stick vs Xykon - My son and I recently played our first full game of Dragon Rampant. We had played out several turns previously using my Dwarf and Orc armies in order to g...
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Savage Orcs 1987: First Rank Painted - Hello! Here's the first rank of the old Savages painted. It's a pleasure to give these old classics a new coat of paint... These are gonna work as "Skulks...
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Warmaster Fantasy - Dogs of War Counter Set (New!) - *"Unlike other Warmaster armies, the Dogs of War do not come from a particular place, nor do they comprise a particular race, although men do feature very...
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Black Library and the navy in novels - http://www.blacklibrary.com/Downloads/Product/PDF//s/shadowpoint.pdf http://saturnfive.us/ships/battlefleet-gothic.d/RULES-PDFs.d/ https://www.blacklibra...
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European Knight in helmet bust by Fin - Here we have another bust sculpted by my brother and painted by myself. Any questions or comments are most welcome. Thanks for looking Michael.
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Reposted: Rossbach Prussian Flags Project - Flags of Prussian Infantry Regiment 23 von Forcade - First raised 1713. Stationed in Konigsvörstadt and Spandau, suburbs of Berlin, between 1716 and 1806. Regarded as something of an elite regiment. "Major-Ge...
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Building a Cthulhu Shrine - I've been trying to finish up some of those projects that seem to have been started years ago but never completed. With that goal in mind, I've finally f...
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Oriskany 1777 (3) - By turn 8 the fight is well and truly on. Herkimer’s force had pushed a bridgehead over the creek to tackle the Provincials and Rangers, while the rest of...4 months ago
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The figures are nice but not the most interesting thing... - These were a reasonably recent eBay purchase. Good original figures nicely painted in a style which matches well with mine. Though I must have at least a...
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Skirmish 2018: Vietnam Search and Rescue - So I've managed to get behind on my posts again but better late than never eh? Back in March I put together a 28mm Vietnam game for my club. The game bac...
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AvP: Unleashed - USCM Minigun Support Squad - I have completed another squad. Enjoy. For more details about the Minigunners check the previous post.
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Failures and Successes with the 3D Printer - I've been trying to 3D print various things for the last couple of weeks, mainly miniatures in different scales, to test the ability of my Sparkmaker to co...
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Dark Sun Dwarf - What seems like many moons ago, I sculpted a Dwarf that represented what I felt one from the D&D Dark Sun world would look like. It took awhile, but I thin...
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Return to Chaos Renegades...2nd Squad Complete - Hi all, I'm finally emerging from the post Old World Army Challenge painting slump and managed to finish a couple of Chaos Renegades. Finishing these two ...
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Shadows over Camelot finally complete - and on eBay - may16_2018 - I have been working on painting this game since March 2008. I gave up on them on March 24th, 2008 and said that hopefully I'd return to them later. About...5 months ago
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New url for the forum - The new url for the Impetus forum is http://impetus.darkbb.com/5 months ago
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Fortis Integrated Command and Control - Meliputi setiap sensor dan titik kontrol - Fortis adalah Sistem Pengendalian Keamanan yang terintegrasi penuh yang mendukung pengambilan keputusan dan perintah dan kontrol area luas secara real tim...
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Fireforge Byzantines Part 1 - This, my Byzantine blog, was my second blog and first appeared (a few days after my Spartan one) back in November 2005. At the time, with the purchase ...
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Imperial Guard get their first run - Took what will eventually be my Cadian 317th Regiment "The Lost and Forlorn" out for their first game last night. Went up against a fun Genestealer cult l...
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A few figure comparison pics - With the recent release of Artizan's first mounted Bengal Cavalry for their Second Afghan War range, Jeff Baumal AKA: Sgt. Guiness asked me how the figure...
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Saga of Painting WTJ Ships - Part 2 - Well it has been a while since I published Part 1 of this tale. I finally completed the three British battleships and mounted them on the "sea" bases that...
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Funcken - [image: Armies-and-uniforms-of-the-first-empire-volume-one] Was there ever a book more suited to a place in the war gamers bathroom than this one? Lilian...5 months ago
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L'Art De La Guerre (ADLG) - I bought these rules recently and read through them once. I have two standing armies (Vikings and Anglo-Saxons). Each army is 25mm and over 100 figures eac...
5 months ago -
Rewrite of Fighting in Built Up Area Rules - For the past month or so we have tried to update the existing rules for combat in a built up area. The problem we have experienced is that the rules aff...
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Can the Sellswords make it to the castle? - Apart from Kings of War (where I run a human army anyway) I have never been into fantasy games. Recently, I have warmed to the idea. Even more recently Gan...
5 months ago -
bonecron converted-redemptor-dreadnought - This is not my work. It belongs to Bocete and I post it here as a reference for my own conversion. Brilliant choice of colour and posing. Take a look at...
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Cult of Slaanesh - Dark Elf Sorceress - I did this conversion quite some time ago and have looked forward to painting it ever since - but never gotten around to it until now. I know dark elves ar...
5 months ago -
"The Back Alley Boys!" - NEW FROM "MIRACLE PICTURES!!!" *"If it's a good picture, then IT'S A MIRACLE!!!"* *"THE BACK ALLEY BOYS!"* "The Back Alley Boys!" - The newest boys advent...
5 months ago -
A long overdue update - August 2015 was the last time I posted here.... almost 3 years ago! I finally got the shed to the point (after 4 years!) where everything could be moved int...
6 months ago -
Nazis and Dinosaurs in the Lost World - *The fascination with dinosaurs continues....* After Operation High Jump in 1947 finally discovered and captured the main Nazi cave entrances to the Hollow...
6 months ago -
Weekly updates - #13-16 (Dog Bowl VI) - Hi. Nothing to see here. Haven't spent any time playing games or painting/assembling/converting minis. Take a look at this sad scene from my dusty work sp...
6 months ago -
CRISIS POINT 2018 - Richard P's AAR's - Links to the four parts of my Crisis Point 2018 AAR http://atomicrenegade.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/crisis-point-2018-part-one.html http://atomicrenegade.bl...
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The Danish invasion of 1898... - Scouts have found the invaders... The Major General rallies the troops in defence. A local photographer catches the Danish Lifeguard. Corporal Jones see the...
6 months ago -
The Bongolesian Air Force (TO&E) - Introduction: The Bongolesian Air Force (BAF), is the primary (and only) military air arm of Bongolesia. While the Army uses helicopters in some of their g...
6 months ago -
A Long Time Ago.... - I've been a Star Wars fan ever since my 11 year old imagination got carried away by that Star Destroyer looming onto the screen firing at Princess Leia's c...
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Blackmoore's Dragoons for Tomorrow's War - Blackmoore's Dragoons (Platoon) Troop Quality.....................................................D8-D10 Morale.................................................6 months ago
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Chintoys 54mm plastic Mounted Confederate Leaders - I picked up this set before the Union set as they are expensive and the subjects are better riding horses than the Union set. Lee and Jackson look more com...
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Wings of 100 Years - To celebrate 100 years of the RAF, founded on April Fools Day 1918, I organised a couple of games of Wings of War. 4 a side, with one plane each. Getting t...
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Watch the Mac Fam stream D&D Live on Twitch Tuesdays and Sundays! - If you want to hear the Steve and Sean O get real nerdy with Dungeons and Dragons, the team is now streaming games live! Check us out on our Twitch page at...6 months ago
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VIII Painting Challenge is over :-( - Time flies and three months later Curt's Annual Painting Challenge is (sadly) over. This is my third year participating and probably the one I've enjoyed...
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HELSREACH: The Movie - Vol. 1 - So I’ve had a bunch of requests for this and I figured with 10 episodes in the can, now would be a good time to do it.
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Three Cyclop giants. Monster March. - These three lads are from Puppets War, made of resin and, they have a ton of character. Well done to the sculptor for these excellent designs. I have had t...
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Things are rumbling along! - So, the launch of the Kickstarter for my book ARMIES & LEGIONS & HORDES went off with a bang! It funded in three hours, and has continued to go great gun...
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The Forces Assemble . . . The Americans - While my painted up Soviet force is mostly compliant with the Red Thunder lists, the Americans are less so. This is mostly because the force came from my...
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Give ma a tousend of tousend....ideas - The biggest Problem is, to work on so much projects. Last time i sort my workbench. There are some pics about. Next step, i have to sort the Projects.....
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The Sword and the Stars boardgame mini-game. - *Introduction* The Sword and the Stars is a science fiction boardgame with similar concepts to Empire of the Middle Ages (my favourite multiplayer boardgame...
7 months ago -
Against The Giants, Part II - As promised, I'm back. The image hosting issues have been thankfully resolved, so here is part deux of Against The Giants (on the cheap). After the Steadin...
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Red Barricades Once More - Advanced Squad Leader - Mal and I have returned to Stalingrad after I inconveniently moved to Ireland for a year. We decided to restart Red Barricades Campaign Game III, and have ...
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Saga – Comparing the Anglo-Danish Between Versions - My favorite faction in the the first version of *Saga* were the Anglo-Danes. The ability to have those Danish axes were what made it for me. (Of course, th...7 months ago
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The age of the Condottieri - The Age of the Condottieri supplement now available. Free download at THIS LINK
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SAGA 2nd Edition - SAGA 2nd Edition is here. Joseph and I met up at Mages' Sanctum to give it a try. We went with a classic match-up, Vikings versus Anglo-Danes, and tried ...7 months ago
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Testing miniature photography with my good old GUO... - I made several test shots of my Great Unclean One miniature using light tent, tripod and "daylight" bulbs... This particular photo has been quickly edited ...
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Czechoslovakian 1938 Fast Division in 1988 - the Reconnaisance battalion - To recap - in 1938, the Fast Division was structured with 2 Tank Battalions and 2 Motorised Infantry Battalions, plus a Recconnaissance battalions and var...7 months ago
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Long Time No See - Oh hello, fancy seeing you here. It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything (almost a year in fact and well over a year since I’ve posted any new mod...
7 months ago -
Armée Maya - Et voici ma nouvelle armée pour ADG. Des Mayas, peints par Siaba. Du très beau boulot ! Ya plus qu'à les jouer !
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TMWWBK - Sudan Battle Report - The British advancing on the village A battle report of a recent TMWWBK game can be found at Robafetts site
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Small men, big month - It has been forever since I've had motivation to paint, which is unfortunate. But what is fortunate, is that I got over myself a little regarding that, and...
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Figurine Hobby Shop - SAGA ÂGE DES VIKINGS. - Merci à l'équipe d'Hobby Shop pour cette belle fig, qui sera mon seigneur Russe Payen. ;-)
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Touching base..January update - Well we are now into February already and it’s time to check in on the past month to fill in the gaps not covered by the past few posts. The Painting an...
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Artúricos para SAGA V - Pues un punto mas para mi banda de Britanos y ya son cinco, esta vez son Commanipulares (guardias). La idea es poner a dos ellos como compañeros del Warlord...
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Exploring worlds - off the gaming table... - I'm too embarrassed to look at the date of my last blog post - it must have been months ago! To be honest, I haven't given the blog much thought for severa...8 months ago
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The Elves !!!! - Hello Everyone ! Long time since coming back in Here ! You may have seen on Facebook or Twitter that I worked with Lumberjacks Studio on a very special pro...
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Giant Gorillas and Tattoos - The Drowned Earth have just shared another couple of paintjobs I did for them so I guess it’s only right that I pop them up here on the blog, with some bon...
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Victrix War Elephant part 2 - I filled the very small gaps in the elephant body halves and filed them. These were not gaping holes by any means and I only needed a bit of Games Work...
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Damnation - Got to the club the other night and tripped on a carpet runner. Result one box of plastic miniatures dropped. Broken shields, heads, javelins, swords and ho...
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Tinkering with... M7 Priest “kangaroo” conversion - Following on from the Company B Priests recently finished (see my flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/troop-of-shewe/albums) , I decided to have a go at ...
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D&D: Lair of the Necromancer - Howdie. My oldest daughter has been interested in playing Dungeons and Dragons. Because it was what I gamed as a kid, and somehow I still remembered most...
8 months ago -
10mm Pendraken 19th Century figures: A small review – Part 1 - I got a few figures from Pendraken recently to have a look-see after buying the Bloody Big Battles rules for the mid 19th Century. Having chatted to Leon o...8 months ago
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Flemish town buildings (I) - So we're back! A long enforced hiatus between postings, as I've been focussing my time on transferring the Steel Fist Miniatures business from Oliver - who...
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Perry Miniatures plastic Zulus: Part 1 - I have a lot of unpainted Zulus but none of them are really satisfactory. Empress' British metals are marvellous but their Zulus are small, anatomicall...
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A Little Catch-up - Hi there, Aside from huge cases of life, we SC Warhammerers have been quite busy on the gaming front. SC John has been busy painting various things and sc...
8 months ago -
Ain't It The Way.... - After a long haitus I dug out my camera and boxes of painted toys only to find my camera doesn't work anymore..... So I made an attempt with my android, and...
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The Final Battle Report - Don't panic, Mr. Mainwaring! Don't panic! It's just the final battle report for 2017! Well, this was supposed to have been posted before the end of las...
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Back home... - ...and rather surprised to see all my Photobucket-hosted photos still on the blog. Who knows what's going on - did I somehow renew my account automatica...9 months ago
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VSF One Man Dirigible - This screw powered one man dirigible is a VSF delight to battle foes in the Back of Beyond, over the Red Planet or as some sort of diesel punk version of ...
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Probsthain for Lasalle. The Scenario - *O*ne of my best wishes for this year 2018 is to return to wargaming after almost two years of absence, in which work and family obligations have left me w...
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Review of 2017 - Well, it's that time of year again. For those of you still following, if you haven't noticed a distinct downward trend over the past year or two, I'm su...9 months ago
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This is the Night - “I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I ha...9 months ago
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2017 Games Played Overview [draft] - see https://boardgamegeek.com/plays/bygame/user/zorcon/subtype/All/start/2017-01-01/end/2017-12-31 maybe do a 2016 post retroactive or later in january?9 months ago
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Message to my customers - Hello customers Seasons greetins, I will be moving addresses next week, please contact me via dan.dunbar@hotmail.com before sending anthing in the mail, pa...9 months ago
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War of the Ring Batrep: The Red Fortress Ministry of Truth - It’s been a while. But when Arnulf (famed war-correspondent from the Red Fortress Ministry off Truth) got in touch about hosting a Batrep, I quickly agree...9 months ago
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Sharing the hobby - It's been years now, I've started to inch back into the hobby... albeit somewhat slowly and extremely limited. I suppose we never really leave the hobby on...9 months ago
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Epilogue - udate2017/I've noticed this blog is now rendered useless because of new photobucket image sharing rules. I hope to recover images sometime in the future. ...10 months ago
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Belgian Force Publique Uniforms - Here are a couple of shots I took of Belgian Force Publique uniforms in the Musée Royal de l’Armée et d’Histoire Militaire in Brussels. They appear to...
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New Releases - December 2017 - Hi Folks!Time for some new releases! This time we got some two packs of new Undead Orcs, four 1/300 aircrafts, MDF bases and something new - Elton's perso...
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It has been a bit - Well, in the interim, I have been prepping for a career change, and this blog has been lying fallow, as most of my game energy has been devoted to learnin...10 months ago
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Basmati's Hill Fort and Plain of Sorrows Battles - *THE NAWAB BASMATI'S LAST STAND?* Date: 2 December, 1757 (2017) Location: Southeast India, The Carnatic, Near Arcot Situation: The Battle for Basmati's Hil...
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NEW RANGE: Romanians for WW2 - Already leaked in a couple of forums and finally ready for release is a complete new range! Subject is the *Romanian Army of World War Two*. The miniatu...
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French Line Infantry - Here are two battalions of 1812 to 1815 French Line Infantry. The figures are all Perry Miniatures, a mix of plastic and metal and most of them...
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Schwarzwdorf Recovered? - A mean and bloody battle.Vorlund hung on while Vandenburg cracked on turn 8. Played with M&R rules.
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Black Scorpion Pirates Showcase - Just had to show these bad boys off... Well, not quite these bad boys... The Pirate line from Black Scorpion Beautifully sculpted makes painting them easy ...
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Frostgrave warband - Some pics of my first Frostgrave warband. This group is from a variety of sources, and heavily customized. Here's some of the raw material for conversion: ...11 months ago
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Gonzo Sci-Fantasy - What is it? - Hello all, It's been a bit since I blogged on gaming in general. Life has taken over and I am pretty sure that blogs have been relegated to a bit of an o...11 months ago
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Tau of War Masterpiece Commissions: Cypher - Cypher is a hunted man. The Dark Angel Interrogator Chaplains are relentless in their pursuit, following every lead no matter how bizarre. Cypher cannot fa...
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END OF YEAR SALE : up to 40% off. - END OF THE YEAR SALE. up to 40% off plus free models. HI everyone, we are starting our end of the year sale a little early this year to make sure we get al...
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Rorke’s Drift Ready To Go - It’s been a long process, working on my Anglo-Zulu War Armies, and although the figures are all painted (and have been for nearly 10 years) they still awai...11 months ago
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Rorke’s Drift Ready To Go - It’s been a long process, working on my Anglo-Zulu War Armies, and although the figures are all painted (and have been for nearly 10 years) they still awai...11 months ago
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Ctrl-Alt-Del: the Day after Crisis - What better time to restart this blog than what is to me the watershed moment of the gaming year: the Crisis show by the Tin Soldiers of Antwerp. Right now...11 months ago
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It's One Hundred and One Years Since The Pennine Fusiliers Disappeared - Today sees the one hundred and first anniversary of the disappearance of the 13th Battalion of the Pennine Fusiliers from the Somme. Popular myth has it...
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Completed Deff Dread for Dreadtober 2017 - Despite this being one of the busiest months I’ve had in a long while, I have managed to finish the Deff Dread for Dreadtober 2017. Adding another stompi...11 months ago
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October already? - The annual update was meant as a joke initially, but has become a sad reality. This year blogging has taken a severe hit by Photobucket's policy change. M...11 months ago
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The Teasers - *Word Document* *JPG's of the original article (be warned - they're quite big!)* *Teaser Title* *Teaser Description* *February '78 (Battle)* *Page 1 (1.8Mb...11 months ago
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12th legion Angry Boiz - While working on the noble lads of the azure 13th, I was also expanding the footprint of their temperamental cousins in the 12th. At this point this is my ...
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Painting Fall 2016 - Fall saw me switching gears pretty radically from power armor to organic. I wanted to make Tyranids work in 7th edition. They where dog meat and not at al...
1 year ago -
Pipping the Ride - So while waiting on the new paint brushes and paints I started looking at what kind of tanks I want to use with my Tank Rider Platoon, and the Soviets offe...
1 year ago -
Steel Fist Miniatures - As some of you will know by now, I'm the new owner of the Steel Fist Miniatures business. I've known Oliver, the business founder and sculptor, for a few ...
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Taking stock - Now that TFM has a new manager, Nick, and the Kickstarter is finally starting to move forward once more, it’s time to start sorting out the store. Not all ...1 year ago
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3D printed Dropzone Commander buildings - A couple of early prototypes of the 3D printed buildings I'm designing for Dropzone Commander:
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Blasthof 50th Anniversary - The immortal words: *"You must destroy the bridge at Blasthof. Failing that, you must prevent it's capture by the Imperial Army until nightfall on 26th Sept...
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Things and Sculpting: Footguards and Stuff - Things? Things are slow, so slow I haven't been bothered to post about them till now. Bit sick of painting.... it was actually boring, tedious even! Didn'...
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WSS - Livgarden til Fods - I am just about to start painting the Livgarde til Fods for my reboot of my WSS project but I have a couple of questions that need answering, so I am makin...
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Battlegroup: Sniper and Recon Platoon Command (German). - My first painted miniatures for 2017 and they aren't even this best painted. Better said these are the worst painted ever. Oke I never was I great painter ...
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Lord Carver, BMMD - And, what better model to finish up this stretch of photobox fun, than the Lord Carver himself? I actually painted him a few months before I did that mass ...
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Spiked Shoe Cup - result = fake news trophy winner (2/14) - This past Saturday I traveled out to Kitchener/Waterloo region again to support my buddy Grant who took over running the Blingtoof/Foul Frenzy tournament...
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15mm / 20mm MDF urban terrain kickstarter - I have backed my first kickstarter, and one that is in Australia. It is a modular MDF urban terrain system that can be purchased in either 15mm or 20mm sc...1 year ago
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Hussite War Wagons - War wagons are one of those things I've often wanted but had shied away from for many years. I think I bought the first of these at a show where there wa...
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Is There Still a Crisis in Alcovia? - Since the declaration of a cease fire in 2012, the kingdom of Alcovia has remained in a tenuous state of peace which has been called an "Civil Cold War" by...
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Brushing away the cobwebs. - Forgive me father, for it has been over two and a half year's since my last Grymn related post... ... but that is about to change. Sadly, there hasn't bee...
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Rough Riders On Mars! Chapter 31 – Plotting Our Course - *Chapter 31 –* *Plotting Our Course* “Well, it has been an eventful few weeks here.” I began, “There have been many changes and I think we need to evalua...
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Trying 8th Edition - So after a two edition hiatus the new 40k and its positive internet reception has lured me back in. The calls went out to the old group that hadn'...
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Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!1 year ago
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Armageddon x 7 - Played a massive 7 person game of Shadow war Armageddon. A fun game with a great group of people, some great figures and great terrain.
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Summer 1001 - Apocalypse Now - "My Emperor," the messenger announced, "I have news of the war with the Mangu hordes." The Emperor paused briefly as he swallowed the soft flesh of the nec...
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Happy 4th of July - Wow, it's been almost a year since the last post, pretty unacceptable. For my American readers (if I have any left) I have a quick quiz, how many of you kn...
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First Hard Sci-Fi Building Project - I went to Sarissa Precision for my first hard Sci-Fi buildings. I wanted a "anywhere use" module look so they came at the top of the list online that would...
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Wild Beast Shipping Crates - So … I bought these Wild Beast Shipping Crates from 4Ground and I’m very impressed. They come flat packed in laser cut card form and could be pushed free...1 year ago
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Zulu attack - Recently we had a game of TMWWBK using our Zulu wars figures. This was just a trial game for the Southern Strategists game that was played just a few days ...
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TMWWBK Zulu game - Our last game was our first group game of TMWWBK rules from Osprey. Zulus attacking the British in a defencive position much like Rorke's Drift. The Britis...
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Konwent gier bitewnych GLADIUS (16-18.06.2017) - Serdecznie zapraszamy na zbliżający się konwent. Poniżej plan wydarzenia: PIĄTEK 16.06.2017 17.00 - 20.00 Systemy: - Cold War Commander - Infinity Wydarz...1 year ago
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79. Adventurers, Ready and Waiting... - ...and waiting. And waiting. It's been a long time between updates, yet again. Here are some Lost World style adventurers I recently painted. They are ...
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Manfaat Olive Oil yang wajib kamu ketahui - Minyak oliva memiliki angkutan zat makanan E yang teramat berlimpah gizi E tunggal amat berperan penting yang merupakan zat makanan kulit, sehingga kita bi...
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Orc Riding Beast - It has been a few years... Since the first time I saw the riding beasts from Fraser Gray and Michael Immig in White Dwarf all these years ago I wanted to p...
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Pulp Alley: The Leagues - Doctor Borgstrom's Laboratory - Been quiet on the blog recently but in the meantime I have managed to paint up another Pulp Alley League. I present Doctor C.Y. Borgstrom and minions..... ...
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Games for Historicon 2017 - The countdown to Historicon continues and I’m still painting 3mm guys at every opportunity. Stay tuned for more photos of the latest progress. In the mean...1 year ago
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19 part 2.... As I missed 18 out - Hobby News ... No games this week, 4 sleeps til LARPCommission Painting .... Started 27 Norman knights for Simon Millerown Painting... Base painted some gl...1 year ago
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Next Up: Republic Romans - This summer I will be returning to a favored project which I was satisfied with: The Roman Republic. This linchpin of the period fights with or against a...1 year ago
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Bolt Action & Battle of Kursk at Adepticon - I wanted to take a sec to share some recent Bolt Action activities that I’ve been involved in! Rich at Chicago Terrain Factory and I ran our 2nd year of ...
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Reactivating in 3, 2, 1.... - So It's been quite a while since I posted anything on my blogs. after moving out here i found it hard to game. I worked evening(2:30pm -11:00pm) and all t...
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28mm Napoleonic Bavarian Cheveauleger and Dragoons - These lads are from Front Rank. Bavarian 1st Dragoons Bavarian Konig Cheveauleger
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I'll Bet You Forgot About Me - ...and I don't blame you, really. It's only been *several years* since I updated this thing. But hey, 8th Edition is about to drop, and if you remember way...
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Modelling magazines'...front covers for inspiration...Military Modelling, Wargames Illustrated and Practical Wargamer... - Greetings all... I for one am someone who thinks now and again...as often as you can...should say thank you... Also we should regularly salute our pears -...
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Frontline Games: Cobblestone Roads & Sections – How to paint. - Painting My Cobblestone Road Sections I recently acquired some Frontline Games Cobblestone Roads & Square sections. They are made of a flexible & soft PV...1 year ago
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Battlegroup Tobruk Goes Strong into the Desert - Pavlov's dogs, famously, were conditioned to salivate when hearing a bell which they associated with food. I have been similarly conditioned to associate...
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Gringo 40's Will Be at Salute 2017 Tomorrow! - Well tomorrow is the Big Day…Salute 2017…and we will be there! Be sure to come and meet El Jefe himself and to check out our exciting range of wargame figu...
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Chaos Knight 1 : On va commencer par lui mettre un genoux à terre ! - C'est encore long, mais c'est deux fois plus court que le live FB. Les phases accélérées le sont en x8. Elles pourraient l'être en x20, voire même être su...
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GENERAL D'ARMEE - *General d'Armee* Napoleonic rules will be on display at Salute 22nd April 2017. We'll be presenting part of the *Battle of Dresden 1813* with 15mm figure...
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The haunted book - Around 1990 I worked at an antiquarian bookshop. I didn't get much money out of it, but I bought a lot of books. Some books contained ghost stories, some w...1 year ago
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Photos from Adepticon 2017/Starship Troopers - Will and I ran two games of Starship Troopers at Adepticon this March. The Mobile Infantry had to venture out of their fortifications to recover a downed s...1 year ago
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Giraffey paints something shocker... - SW Starship Miniature Battles A-Wings repainted (on account of the FFG ones being the wrong scale) - 3 for Green Squadron and 1 for the Prototype. By a h...
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Keyword - Keyword belajar bahasa inggris online bahasa inggris online cara belajar bahasa inggris online belajar online bahasa inggris belajar bahasa inggris online ce...1 year ago
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Roads Reflocked - I bought a tonne of roads and rivers from an eBay seller called Fat Frank. They are great but I didn't realise they would come already painted and flocked ...
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All Spider-man Miniature Game rules - As Knight have removed all of the Marvel content from their website, I am trying to gather it all together so people still have access to it. Today is th...
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21 Rahasia untuk Sukses Bisnis Waralaba - 1) mengevaluasi Anda toleransi risiko Membuka bisnis baru adalah prospek yang menakutkan. Ada banyak risiko pribadi, profesional dan keuangan untuk mempe...
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MISSING: ONE CLIENT - Are you M. Taylor of Cardiff? If so, we have lost touch and need urgently to regain such. I have your models you see, the work is done and all that is nee...1 year ago
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Blood Eagle - First Warband. - Pointed up the first warband for Blood Eagle. A pretty simple process but each individual needs to be thought about and the figure looked at. Meet the s...
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Fun in the AWI, a 50th Birthday Bash! - Down't club a few weeks ago having a most excellent AWI game (re-fighting Germanstown) with all of Doug's magnificent AWI collection for his 50th. We did t...
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MDF Buildings, first crack. - It's been a long time since I posted to my blog so I have lots to cover. First off I'd like to discuss MDF buildings. These are 3mm flat MDF boards that ar...
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X-Wing JumpMaster5000 - Hi all Here is my repainted from stock version JumpMaster5000. Spellscape Miniatures blog
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Grasping the nettle. - *Well, it has been a while (understatement of the day so far...) Below is my first faltering steps into what I hope/intend will be Europe's "back story" (u...1 year ago
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Mythic Battles v2.9 - Latest file below: mbp-beta-rule-book-v2-9-download As always, please comment on this in the official forums.1 year ago
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Stalingrad Pt5: Combined Ops - After a seemingly refreshing break from the bloggasphere, Stalingrad is back! While the previous games had been some classic infantry attacks, we noted t...
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first 3d prints - I bought a 3d printer, the Cetus3D, and here are the first results, going to use it mainly for producing terrain pieces. more to follow
1 year ago -
Honours of War - Today I played a scenario from One Hour Wargames using Keith Flints SYW rules Honours of War published by Osprey. The Eisenburgers in white had to hold b...
1 year ago -
Brickman Recon Marine 1970 Vietnam - Ich habe ein neues Hobby gefunden ........ich missbrauche unschuldige Lego Figuren aus meiner Kindheit und mache daraus Figuren des Todes ! :-) Mein erstes...
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Chivalry - Medieval Warfare PS4 - I am very conscious of my continued sporadic posts of late and that my much heralded return has fallen somewhat flat. However, here I am and I thought I'd s...
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A Painter's Disease - In our childhood we used enamel paints and our bedrooms often reeked with the smell of paint and thinners. Its not so bad these days: most painting is do...1 year ago
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Blood Bowl: Miniature Size Comparisons Orcs - Now for Part II of the size comparison between the models in Blood Bowl 2016 and previous releases. From left to right I have aligned the 2nd Edition Plast...
1 year ago -
Martian Handling Machine - colours - HG Wells has the Martian craft as metallic. Problem there is that could be a bit dull, especially as the bridge girder work will be the same. So how to jaz...
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Silver Tower Ogroid Thaumaturge and familiars finished - I finally finished the Ogroid and familiars... I decided to do 4, since the info I could find online suggested that's all you need in the game. Anyway, it...
1 year ago -
Dark Heresy RPG group miniatures built - I finished building the characters my friends played in our last Dark Heresy campaign. Pyrokine Thug Gemma and Deathwatch Veteran Triakis Rogue Trader A...
1 year ago -
The harder they fall. A Supers battle report. - Today I have for you a little game enjoyed at Casa Erny some time ago. Turning it into a comic report felt like I good idea but it sure did take long. Neve...
1 year ago -
Sketches ON SALE - ON SALE http://www.ebay.es/itm/252634365959?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
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UPDATED: Competitive Tau Tournament List (1850) - It has been quite some time since I played Warhammer 40k. I've been very busy with RL. But next weekend my group is having another tournament. I took out ...
1 year ago -
Death Guard Progress - So in an effort to keep my blog alive, filling it with imagery and witty pose (don't laugh...wait maybe you should i'm supposed to be witty) I thought it w...
1 year ago -
Campaign dressed Poles - We've been working on developing Poles in campaign uniforms that can be used for Retreat from Moscow, Germany in 1813 and the Peninsular. The idea was to ...
1 year ago -
Zombicide: Black Plague - Hi guys, After a very long hiatus, I am back swinging a brush. I love miniature painting and catching up with mates to play a game. Not as much of that ...
1 year ago -
Spooky Robots - OK, this blog post will be posted after Halloween, but Halloween was close enough for our club for hold a Halloween themed Warmachine tournament on the 30t...
1 year ago -
20 bahaya radiasi HP kamu harus tau - Bahaya radiasi Hp bagi kesehatan tubuh merupakan dampak buruk dari penggunaan ponsel yang tidak benar dan tidak mengenal batas waktu. Hp memiliki gelomban...
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Dreadtober painting and playing with oil - I didn't progress as well as I had hoped for in the Dreadtober challenge. I was supposed to be ready with the painting and the base this week but I have be...
1 year ago -
5 months on - and back to some gaming (part 2) - *A blast from the past*Picking up where I left off last weekend, I thought I would start with a quick trip back to one of the old gaming weekends we held a...
1 year ago -
Farewell, strike the tent - A final entry here for Saxe-Bearstein. On October 2, 2016 the originator of this blog, Bluebear Jeff Hudelson, started on his journey to the Summerlands....
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Paintus Interruptus - I will be moving within the next few months. Hobby stuff is back on hold while I pack all my crap and sell my place.2 years ago
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The Great Blue Bear now on his way to the summerlands. - Emperor vs Elector readers, one of the originators of this group blog, Jeff aka Blue Bear of Saxe-Bearstein has passed away. Jeff had been in hospital sinc...
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Horizon Wars - 2nd Game - I'm surprised Google hasn't deleted this blog yet. Anyway, I have been kicking around a lot of different rulesets lately, trying to find something I like....
2 years ago -
Another chance to catch Karl for FREE - This weekend there will be another chance to download the first book of Karl's adventures for *FREE* on Amazon Kindle. The Kindle edition will be free to d...
2 years ago -
Halo Ground Command: 15mm Covenant forces - … The post Halo Ground Command: 15mm Covenant forces appeared first on Model Dads' blog.2 years ago
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Wunderlist For Windows 3.18.0 - Wunderlist - is one of the most well known cross-platform task manager and to-do list application. It is also available for Mac and instantly sync your ...
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August 2016 Pub Con - Recently we've had a lot of great content on our Facebook page. Please check it out of you are interested (facebook) 最近フェイスブックでのコンテンツの方が多いので、是非ご覧ください。(face...
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Macro shots of the Undead Pirates and a Zombie? Creepy! - It was amazing to see the detail through the lens.... Captain Richar...
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15mm Great Swamp Lizard - We are very pleased to release our latest 15mm fantasy model -- the Great Swamp Lizard. This towering beast can eat his way straight through entire enemy ...2 years ago
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Blog Merger - I just finished importing this blog into my main wargames blog. This leaves me with only one blog to update on a regular basis. I hope you will continue to...2 years ago
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Blog Merger - I just finished importing this blog into my main wargames blog. This leaves me with only one blog to update on a regular basis. I hope you will continue to...2 years ago
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Royalist Re-Organize - Hello readers, this is Murdock writing from Jeff's desktop. The Royalist commander has encountered more than the usual Gout and had complications from the ...
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中华人民共和国特种设备安全法（主席令第四号） - 有与充装和管理相适应的充装设备、检测手段、场地厂房、器具、安全设施；，必要时，负责特种设备安全监督管理的部门可以越级上报事故情况。2 years ago
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B- 17 Queen of the Skies - Mission 159 - Target: Aschersleben Aircraft Factory - I'm part of a 'Play by Forum' group at BoardGameGeek who play the solitaire board game *B-17: Queen of the Skies* together. The group is run by BGG user '...
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Reverse Engineering: Line 6 FBV2 - The Line 6 FBV2 is a control pedal for use with older Line 6 amplifiers and effects processors. I bought it to use with our Line 6 Amplifi 75 guitar amplif...
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Castles of Cornwall - I had a week in Cornwall this year in early June, and it's a fantastic place, we were gifted with good weather as well which allowed us to get out and abo...
2 years ago -
Vauban Forts KickStarter. - Finally someone is making the Vauban Forts of the 17th and 18th century accessible to the public. Matthew Green of Laser Dream Works is Kickstarting the dig...2 years ago
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Prelude to Dessau. A 'Song of Drums and Shakos' Scenario - A small mixed squad sent by the Souham French IV Corps is scouting towards Polnitz and has found a small hamlet occupied by Prussian forces from the Dobsch...2 years ago
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TnT: K1LL-80T Communist Securitron - Hi Folks, In my first game I got lucky and Head Scribe Kaine managed to find and activate a military Securiton (Freelancer Depend-o-Bot) After equippin...
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Tournament: Alamo GT 2016 - Another great year come and gone at the Alamo GT in San Antonio. I did pretty poorly this year but still had a decent time pushing my boys in blue around...
2 years ago -
Arthus vs. Mordred - I painted this wonderfull Vignette up for a fellow LAF member as a gift! Tomorrow it will be in the post...travelling back to the USA. I have now starte...
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The Sunken Road at Antietam - Looking east inside the Sunken Road. The tower on the distance marks the point in which the road turn to the right heading south. It also marks the extrem...
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Arènes du Graoully V - Ce week-end avait lieu la cinquième édition des Arènes du Graoully à Metz. Au programme, trois tournois - Blood Bowl, Warmachine et SAGA - et plusieurs tab...
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A new adventure… Frostgrave - Wow, it’s been a long time since I updated this blog. I’d love to say that I’m going to be better with future posts but I don’t suppose my track record wo...2 years ago
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Sky Pirates of Venus - Teaser - Sky Pirates have been the scourge of the Worm Empire of Venus for years, and the Great Worm has had enough! He sends a team of four crack worm commandos to...
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The past in a nutshell - *So, getting back into it. A number of “dead” links have been removed. T thought some of you might be wondering what I’ve been up to last couple of eons…*...2 years ago
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Updated Aeronef - Waiting on the new rules Imperial Skies. I am updating my Aeronef fleet. These are some of my Germans that I'm updating the paint scheme. Going with whi...
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The Sealed Knot in Mayfair 1970 - Here from the October 1970 issue of *Mayfair *magazine is an article on the, then, relatively new English Civil War re-enactment society The Sealed Knot. ...
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Law Enforcement - Hi! I've managed to paint up a few law enforcement officers for Jim to avoid! Outland Judge Patrol I ended up going for the classic Judge Dredd paint sch...
2 years ago -
A Review of Shieldwolf Miniatures’ 28mm Scale Boars - I love alternative models, after all that’s what my current dwarf army are based on. After playing a few games with them, I got to learn the hard way just ...2 years ago
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A Visit to Ojo Marron - ( Editor's note: after many years of distraction in other games I'm returning to the game I started grand-detail construction many years ago. The Idea is ...
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PTO Terrain: Shrine - *with Mike* *(Cross-posted from Behind Enemy Lines...)* I've been on the hunt for a small Buddha statute to make into a jungle statue for my Vietnam terra...
2 years ago -
Sources For The Interwar Gamer - I have been meaning to add some content here for a long time, apparently three years of a long time in fact, how time flies. So with this post I hope to ki...2 years ago
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Serce gracza / A player's heart - Czwarte mistrzostwa *"Ogniem i Mieczem"* mamy za sobą. Skończyła się także akcja, mająca na celu wsparcie leczenia mojego syna, poprzez kupno specjalnej f...
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"...There is Only War." - On a personal note, I recently moved from the lovely state of Virginia to the wonderful state of Ohio. Things are different here. I miss my gaming partners...
2 years ago -
Blood Eagle - I don't quite know how I managed to miss the development of Blood Eagle, from the team that bought us In Her Majesty's Name. But I have only just found...
2 years ago -
Army Builder: WFB3 - v2.5 - Version 2.5 of the WFB3 army builder data files have been published. They can be downloaded through a licensed Army Builder or at the link below. Just open...2 years ago
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So we thought it was going to be a small game. - Ever had one of those game events were you thought it was just going to be a small 6 player gamer but turned into an 10 player event? Well that was out Sat...
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WWPD Painting Article - In case you missed it, I did write a painting article for my friends at WWPD. Check it out and leave feedback here if you wish. http://www.wwpd.net/2016/0...2 years ago
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Hunting the Bantha - Hunting Banthas Well, the Bantha Rider has arrived for Imperial Assault and we are now experiencing just how rough something like this fast-moving lump of ...2 years ago
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Tigers on the Hunt released - And the game is released. http://www.matrixgames.com/products/578/details/TigersontheHunt2 years ago
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Pig Iron Stock update - Hi all, just a quick one to let you know we have received a box of show stock back from The Bunker yesterday - this has all been added back onto the site. ...
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Rules: Living on the Frontline - Well, there's life in the old dog yet! It's been a while since I last posted anything here but the creative juices are starting to stir, least of all beca...
2 years ago -
How to make: Saxon Huts - Hi Chaps, Hope you are all well. These past few days, I've been working on some new projects, for a new game, that I think you already know, it is called ...
2 years ago -
Hydro C Obat Kanker Terbaik Mempublikasikan : ENZIM AWET MUDA by DR Hiromi Shinya, MD - HydroC Obat Kanker Terbaik Mempublikasikan : ENZIM AWET MUDA, by DR Hiromi Shinya, MD Terdapat berbagai jenis enzim awet muda dalam sel. Salah satu yang ...
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El Cid - Reconquista pt 8 - I have just finished up four bases of Skirmish bow. I have been busy with school - still - so I have not had too much time for painting. I am at least on t...
2 years ago -
Martian Patrol Airship - A big Martian 25mm game is planned sometime this year. So I pulled out a Parroom racing airship and did just a small big of converting. Had to add a heavy ...
2 years ago -
Clearhorizon Omega Squad - Mr. Harold sent me these a while ago, and I finally got around to painting them. The delay was mainly that the neck length bothered me, so it took a while ...
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Infinity Starting Nomads - Part I - A New Force - Ever since Operation Icestorm and N3 hit in late 2014, I wanted to write an article that would break down how to start collecting a Nomads force. Every ...
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Modern Russian painting guide. - I have been having fun painting some of our Empress modern Russians. The research was based on what I could find on Google and not too surprisingly many o...2 years ago
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28mm Russians in Central Asia Game - Turcomen attack the Cossacks On New Year's Day we played a Two Hour Wargames Colonial Adventures Central Asian game, with Russians, Bokharans, Pathans, Tu...
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Encounter at Alghaz -- June, 1876 - Rob and Murdock came over to fight an Afristan campaign encounter. For reasons which I will shortly explain, I do not have much memory of the game. First,...
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Re-Kill (2015) - Play Full Re-Kill in High QualityNow you can download full Re-Kill in best video format with duration 87 Min and has been aired on 2015-10-16 and MPAA rat...2 years ago
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A lot on the painting front - Hello everyone. Today's post might be a bit brief, but who knows. Up until a few days ago, I was engaged in a French bloggers painting competition, an equi...
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Scenery First - Well it's been a busy few weeks, just for a change, and since my last post I have received the Liche Lord goodies I bought on Nickstarter, even more into t...
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Is this thing on? - I've not been particularly assiduous this year. Life happens, and it's gotten in the way. I have been modelling, and been working within the INQ28 commun...
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Painting Progress 28mm Perry Early Crusaders - 15mm has been rough on my eyes lately, so I switched gears over to my long belabored 28mm Perry Crusader figs. This era has always appealed to me in a larg...
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Blog re-launched (elsewhere) - Hi all, I haven't gone completely offline – I simply moved my blog elsewhere (as I mentioned much earlier). Now you can catch me at our Chest of Colors web...2 years ago
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The Last Post - The South London Warlord blog has moved to Wordpress on the main SLW site, address is over here or, in cut n' paste format http://www.salute.co.uk/blog/2 years ago
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Tribes Universe games, including Earthseige, are now available free - I remember downloading and playing the demo for Earthseige, long ago. It seemed like a cool game, and the demo left me wanting more. One apocalypse later,...
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Zedvember - The Last Zeds - I managed to finish off the last of my modern zombie figures over Sunday and Monday just gone - here are the results: A bit of a scenic shot of the complete...
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Dust Tactics: Pegasus Models 1/48th V2 Rocket - Ever since I started playing Dust Tactics I had an idea about having a V2 rocket on the table. For me, rockets exemplify the Weird War II style and I wan...
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Age of Sigmar: the first battle - After coming to terms with the death of the Warhammer Fantasy I've known since my start in wargaming, I decided to purchase and paint the starter box for A...
2 years ago -
Daftar Lowongan Kerja Di Jakarta November 2015 Terbaru - *Lowongan Kerja Di Jakarta November 2015* - Lowongan Kerja Terbaru memberikan informasi terbaru mengenai *info lowongan pekerjaan 2015* yang sedang anda ca...
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FlamesCon 2015 - *Slight Disclaimer in a moment of crazy after tourney brain I posted this to my clubs blog page you should visit it anyway for awesome after club reports...
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The 5th Outrim War: 297th Imperial Fleet - Gamelea Redux - *Once I realized I had messed up the set-up budget for my campaign, I had to sit down and recrunch the numbers. While I was about it, I expanded the Fleet ...
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New CoC Campaign - Operation Martlet - Hi All, Just a quick update this time. Rich has been madly researching away and has released the latest in his series of ridiculously low-priced 'Pint Size...
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The new website is here: corvusminiatures.com - Today I am very happy and proud to announce my new website: corvusminiatures.com! *Important: this will mark the end of my activities on Blogspot. Please ...
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Grace of Monaco (2014) Se Fuld Film - Spille film *Grace of Monaco* i high definition kvalitet. Download film *Grace of Monaco* i high definition-format. Fuld streaming *Grace of Monaco* i HD...3 years ago
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elegant wedding shoes in 2015 - [image: awesome satin wedding shoes by shoekandi] you are now visiting* awesome satin wedding shoes by shoekandi* , And in this page we have more than 5 be...3 years ago
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ThreeZero Getter 1 and Getter Zero Black...!!! - [image: ThreeZero Getter Black] I have to admit, this is one of the few toys that i'm pretty excited about. threezero making a 16" of Getter 1 and Getter Z...3 years ago
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Catching Up - Wow, I have been slack here. No new posts since February. But I have done a ton of painting and completed several projects, not least of which is my Tallar...3 years ago
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Happy Hobbit Day or A Year Has Come And Gone - I knew it had been a long time. The days turned into weeks and the weeks into months without me fully comprehending the significance of the gap. Then one...
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Grimlocks in 15mm - Here are 12 grimlocks for dnd 5th ed.....15mm Picts from copplestone. Back from a long break in gaming....looking forward to a little dungeons and dragons s...
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A visit on board the Russian Frigate Shtandart - The other weekend we were down in Cowes for a long weekend to watch the Cowes Torquay Cowes powerboat race. We were all having dinner on Friday night in...
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Kings of War First Impressions - As I mentioned in the August update, I have been playing a bit of Kings of war lately. With Games Workshop pulling the plug on their fantasy community, th...3 years ago
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New Blog for Age of Sigmar - Hi Everyone, I've decided to create a separate blog for my latest hobby interest: Age of Sigmar. While many voices bemoan the *downfall *of Warhammer Fanta...3 years ago
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Hordes and Heroes on Hexes - Alliteration FTW!! Wow! Doesn't time fly? It's hard to believe it's been nearly a year since I posted anything here, but there's been a fairly good reason ...
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My New Home - Decided to move everything over to - www.johnnyshoots.com.au Miniatures and photography!
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Song of Blades: Hammer and Forge on Kickstarter - Ganesha Games launches Song of Blades: Hammer and Forge Kickstarter. The kickstarter has begun with enormous success, being already over basic funding, but...
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Dukes Soldiers - Hi These are the first of the Dukes troops for his flying column, they are Newline figures from their late colonial range, again all 20mm, I need some supp...
3 years ago -
The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) Hoge kwaliteit - Best The Stanford Prison Experiment in HD Format. Now you can watch full The Stanford Prison Experiment in HD quality with duration 120 Min and has been l...3 years ago
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I am alive part 2 - And as I promised, here is the big update that I have been talking about: My Prussians are based on the *Großgörschen* OoB from the General de Brigade sce...
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Scott Johnson, aka Col. Kilgore, has passed away - On Thursday Scott lost his fight against cancer. He was 45 years old and leaves behind his wife Ashley and 12 year old son Nicholas. Scott was a good na...3 years ago
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Gencon Follow-up: My First Time in the Iron Arena! - If you were following a bit of my run up to Gencon posts, you might have noticed that within the last year I've really gotten back into Warmachine with my...
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20mm WW2 - US M3A1 halftracks - Well, these took me a while to finish. They were 90% done in Januari and I've been staring at them on my workbench since. Until last month... I finally ha...
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New! Confederate Cavalry Flag Sets. 28mm - The all new ACW Confederate Cavalry flag sets are now available. These carefully designed flags are the perfect accompaniment to our established infantry...
3 years ago -
Modular Lego Dungeon in the Works - I'm working on a modular Lego dungeon set for my kids and I to game with. I had several castle sets as a kid, so I have lots of grey pieces to work with. I...
3 years ago -
Get a 4th off on the 4th - Get 25% off orders over $50 now until July 5th with coupon code! Use the code 4thoff in the Coupon Code Box at checkout and get 25% off your order. Hurry c...3 years ago
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New 15mm SciFi Minis - Some newer scifi minis comparison shots (I need to paint more...):
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Affordable Wedding Halls - Creating a beneficial property inner surface or maybe exterior layout will be the imagine every single persons. Naturally, while using numerous patterns th...3 years ago
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Waterloo (1970) the souvenir programme - Everyone else on the wargaming blogosphere seems to be celebrating the 200th anniversary of Waterloo today with quite a few posts featuring the poster f...
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A quick update. - Just a quick update as I've not posted in a while. Work on the 15mm Feudal English army for DBA continues (photos to follow) and should should be complet...3 years ago
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Plastic Soldier Company Ltd T-34 1/72nd scale - A long, long time ago the postman delivered to Kingsleypark Manor Actually he delivered 3 of these boxes as they were the Russian Tank Brigade Deal that ...
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Saruman - I can't host an, albeit intermittent, Lord of the Rings blog and not note the passing of Christopher Lee who, of course, was the only LotR cast member w...
3 years ago -
Last call, all aboard. - If you're still a subscriber to 'Drop-Pod' this is pretty much the final call to hop across to the shinier and much more frequently updated Studio Dropsh...
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Space Marine Command Tank Rules - I’m back from vacation! Sorry for the dearth of articles recently. The Space Marine’s Command Tanks rules have been leaked. Check out the two images below ...3 years ago
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Maelstrom's Edge - Over the last couple of years, hobby time has been at a premium, and what time I've had has been dedicated to a project that I can say I'm very excited t...
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Well, well, well... - A Flintloque Battle Report - It has been a long time since my last update, mostly for health reasons. Without giving to much detail, you can imagine things are pretty awful when you ca...
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First time painting in a long time, I need new paints... - Worked on some of the DV Chaos Marines I had sitting around... man am I rusty.3 years ago
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Eastern shacks by Battlefield Accessories are complete! - It’s only taken two years and ten months, but the Eastern shacks I bought from Mike Parker of Battlefield Accessories are complete! They turned out very ni...3 years ago
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Goodbye Old World! - Unless you’ve been living under a rock of late, you probably have heard that Games Workshop is gutting the Old World setting for Warhammer Fantasy Battle...
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Moving On - It's been a long while since I've posted here. Since I've started this blog four years ago, you guys and gals have given me a tremendous amount of inspirat...3 years ago
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Quotes About Friendship Tumblr - For Kate, Stephanie sends New Yorker covers or Toni Morrison quotes; for Stephanie to be present and playing an active role in each other's lives." The Tum...
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Recent Work - Just a quick update tonight to show a model I recently completed for a reboot of the painting competition on the Steve Dean Forum. I started this for one ...
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Salute Loot - So I picked up a few things at Salute this year (it seemed rude not to): 1. The new Perry Light Cavalry for the WotR / 1450-1500 - three boxes (I m...3 years ago
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Still Shambiling around - I am still shambling around. Due to some real life situations I was without reliable internet access for a while there. Hopefully everything will work out ...3 years ago
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Checking In... - Friends I have lost my focus. Since my last post my Mother became ill and passed away. I guess I am the proof that regardless of how old you are, losing a p...3 years ago
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Caftan Marocain Rouge : Collection 2015 Vente en Ligne - A toutes nos clientes qui nous demandent les dernières tendances du takchita et caftan marocain 2015 en couleur Rouge , coupes et tissues à la mode de cett...
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C21 Air War Vietnam Defense - Finished the AA hexes representing 37mm and greater. With a few more 1/300 planes to order I will be complete with this range. The larger bases are 1.5" Li...
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No Mean City Session 1.1 "National Express" - Session 1.1 THE NATIONAL EXPRESS * Take the National Express when your life's in a mess It'll make you smile All human life is here...
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Warriors of Chaos Khorne Lord - End Times (Part 4) - [image: Warhammer - The End Times Khorne Banner] A short post this one. Really just to prove that I have been continuing to work on this project and even (...
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Waterloo, Braine l'Alleud - Was lucky enough to visit the Waterloo battlefield in Belgium last week, it has been on my bucket list for a long time. I wasn’t disappointed, 200 years h...
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15mm War & Conquest figure - One of West Wind's new War and Conquest figures. Almost spot on 15mm foot to eye. To small for me to paint anyway. I've put them on eBay!
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Pardon My Dust - If you visit here with any regularity, you'll have noticed a lack of actual, you know, website or anything. Sorry about that. The website is getting a face...3 years ago
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Jacdaw 30mm WAS Austrians by Leftbank Workshops - A bit of painting I did quite a few months ago for Leftbank Workshops who have now acquired the molds for these figures. Nice Old School feel to these figu...3 years ago
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CONAN , the board game - Some friends who bought into the Conan board game kickstarter printed out the starter gameboard, cards an other items, made a dice conversion sheet and we ...
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Word to the wise! - "Don't start a new job and a new miniature project at the same time" -The Doc But boy are these fun to paint! I've finally decided to go full Warlord fo...3 years ago
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AD&D 2E – Sri Vaasa Campaign #1 - We started playing Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition and this here highlights the beginning of the campaign.3 years ago
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Some reinforcements for SoBaH - Hey Guys, I have painted some miniatures as reinforcements for my Song of Blades & Heroes warbands. The whole group together. On the left two Norse or...
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An old project returns... - The monstrosity from the front.Way back in 2011 I posted my plans for an improvised tank killer on an old 38(t) chassis. Following a move of house it was...
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D&D PLAYER CHARACTERS - Made a start on my D&D project, these are the start of my player characters, this group is the Magic User/ Thief and Assassin set, Thief on the left then...
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Ambush - In this small scenario US marines have been warned that the insurgents are sending a column to attack the small force that has landed. A squad in the vangu...
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X-Wing: Here Comes IG-88! - Get ready for everyone's 2nd favorite bounty hunter. The IG-2000 is hitting a tabletop near you soon. Read more »
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Anker® Astro E1 5200mAh Ultra External Battery Review - Maybe you had your cellular phone, tablet, and many others., battery die but not be capable of charge it? It's a really frustrating experience. This is whe...
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Fenris Games Goatkin - Ernie and Vic - Beastmen 5 - Hello all, last two of the Fenris Goatkin - the Goatkin Warrior Ernie and the Goatkin Scout Vic. [image: Goatkin, Fenris, beastmen, painted, Scout, Vic, E...
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Pirates at the Shed! - *A view down the board* Eric the Shed kindly invited me over to his splendid shed for my first game of 2015. This was doubly exciting as not only was it...
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Looking Ahead to 2015 - Time for my obligatory attempt to state what I'm going to work on this year. I think it's pretty safe to say I'm probably going to get involved with some...3 years ago
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A Very Merry Christmas! - A Very Merry Christmas to One and All, from the Grand Duchy of Hetzenberg.
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Ogre Project - I may already have the Ogre leaning on the two handed sword bought, waiting on ebay to finish the bidding on it. Green = have it, Red = Don't have it ye...
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French Dragoon, Retreat from Moscow - A dismounted French dragoon during the retreat from Moscow, Winter 1812-13 This is for sale on eBay- http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pro-Painted-Perry-Miniatures-D...
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Julian's Order Part 3. 18mm AB Figs - Prussians & French Please not these Pictures are for the customer ... We do not at this point straighten Swords ect for risk of Breaking them. ...
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Official end of the blog - Yep, this blog is no longer in use. But... I have created a new one, please visit! Of Eagles and Frogs3 years ago
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A Christmas Fantasy Campaign - Next month, I'll be heading back to the UK for the 1st time in nearly 2 years. Me and my brother Matt have been talking about arranging some games of W...
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New(ish) man cave. - Hello all, A few months back the wife wanted my son to have a larger room so I was kicked out of the guest room into a smaller room. The bribe was it would...
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I Luvz Free And Excellent !!! - Wargame Bloggers Quarterly Free Magazine V1-02 V1-01 Outstanding !!! The Colonel.
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Ship Crew & Ship Quirk Cards - Been a good while since we’ve had an update for Leviathans. Things are still moving behind the scenes. For example we’ve been making progress with smaller,...3 years ago
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Happy Halloween - Happy Halloween from A Gentleman's Ones and from Anvil Eight Games. Let's hear it for High Fructose Corn Syrup! complements of Chris "one take" Tavonatti
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Noble Knight games comes through again!!! - I have just concluded several transactions with Noble Knight games, the first being some ASL stuff mainly and then some miscellaneous hex and counter games...3 years ago
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Machiavelli summer 1457 - This turn saw a massive swing in fortunes. I had realised that my aggressive assault on Florence was going to make me a threat to my neighbours but I had...
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Nova Cara Novo Nome Novo Sitio / New Look New Name New Place - Esta ja a funcionar o novo Blog com a nova imagem e novo Nome It is already running the new Blog with new look an name ...
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Unit of Beardlings - These are Alternative Armies Young Dwafs with a champion from Heartbreaker mins. Alternative Armies recently re released these. Great little mins to paint...
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Royal Yugoslav Air Force Hawker Fury II - Here's my latest effort: a Hawker Fury II in the markings of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force. The Fury was, of course, an iconic fighter of the 1930's RAF, b...4 years ago
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Warhammer Fantasy Battle Database Update - Current edition army books only filter, 5,000 searchable battles archive, double batrep notes and more exclusive member accolades. Hi folks, I've been twea...
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Back to School Sale - Save 50%! Sale ends soon! Back to School Time! Start Learning to Sculpt NOW! We are happy to announce we have released the second course in our three part F...4 years ago
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Dornier Skyservant - Hace más de treinta años que hice mi primer Skyservant. Logicamente no ha sobrevivido tanto tiempo, pero encontré una maqueta original de Matchbox de aquel...
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%## Watch The Right Stuff Movie Streaming - [image: Watch The Right Stuff Movie Streaming] %## Free Watch The Right Stuff Streaming Online Runtime 193 minutes and Released on 1983-10-21 MPAA Rating is...4 years ago
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Bolt Action WW1 from Osprey - The recent slew of WW1 tanks gave it away but Osprey have just officially announced a publication date for Bolt Action WW1 rules of a year from now. Th...
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away - So... A long time has passed and much have changed. Last time I wrote a post on this blog of mine, we were barely into the 6th edition of Warhammer 40k. No...
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Played Some 40K - After over three years away from the gaming table, I’ve now played 5 games of 7th edition Warhammer 40,000, including one large in-store Apocalypse game. T...
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Bolt Action Apocalypse - 6000 points of models and 60 order dice! - What happens when you take three guys, a bunch of free time, an empty gaming store and a big load of models? ....Bolt Action Apocalypse! :-) Having the c...
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Deadbeat Advertiser?!?!?!? - I just noticed that I have been listed as a deadbeat advertiser at The Miniatures Page. I asked Mr Armintrout over 12 months ago to cease the advertising d...4 years ago
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1910: The Battle of Purleigh (part two) - The British reaction to the surprise German invasion in September 1910 was criticised by the press as being tardy and it took almost a week for the first m...
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DBA Early Crusaders vs Ayyubid Egyptian - Greetings!!! It's been far to long, but we've managed to have a game of DBA. To be fair the horrors are growing up & doing what teenagers do. Gaming ha...
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Sungem Run Review by UndeadViking - G’day guys, You may have seen a bit of information filtered through the blog of our next game ‘Sungem Run!’ Well, we are getting very close to launching ou...4 years ago
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Legends of the Old West: Playing with New Objective Cards - Some of you might be familiar with the Secret Objective card system I developed for *Chaos in Carpathia*. I decided to try a similar (yet completely differ...
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Kabar Lowongan Kerja Manado Agustus 2014 Terbaru - *Kabar Lowongan Kerja Manado Agustus 2014 Terbaru - **Lowongan Kerja Terbaru* kali ini akan memberikan informasi *Lowongan Pekerjaan Terbaru* . Lowongan Ke...4 years ago
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D&D Fifth Ed. Starter Box - Another package waiting for me today when I arrived home from work; the D&D fifth edition starter box. A bit of an impulse buy when I ordered it, but as...
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Pop's Cafe, the return of the Greasy Spooners - I'm back. Yes, it has been 4 years, but I have a good-ish excuse. In those four years I got promoted (yeah!) which left me little time for lunchtime excurs...
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Hail Mary .....of the LIVING DEAD!!!! - So I somehow managed to knock out another 60-something zombies before this baby arrives, nothing fancy here, I didn't even texture the bases. I figured I w...
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Bahasa Jawa di facebook~ - Buat yang pengen ganti bahasa jawa, tapi dalam pengaturan nggak ada =) maklum lah, wong jowo☺ - Pertama Log in atau masuk ke Facebook kamu bila bel...
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Tintin au Congo - Another entry from the Colonial Painting Expedition on the Lead Adventure Forum. Can't believe we've had sixty-two entries already. A little tongue-in-chee...
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LARRYCON Begins!! - A really nice scene I caught on my phone the other night while out for a stroll. The harvest is upon us!! Well it has been a wonderful spring and early...
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Lunar Peltasts - These are *Black Tree Design* Persian Guards. I've replaced the shields with peltast-style ones from the spares box. These guys represent the Silver Shi...
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Moving: Now posting at 4+ Tough - So, this site has been in an inactive mode for a while, mostly because I've fallen out of love with 40k and into Warmachine, and also because I just can...
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Back to the Desert - I have recently been reading Patrick Macrory's excellent history of the First Anglo-Afghan War, titled "The Fierce Pawns." This got the colonial juices flo...
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Old School 40k (Laserburn) miniatures using the USEME rules - Playing a game using some warhammer 40, er.... laserburn miniatures. Trying out the useme rules system two weeks ago with my brother Ed. What you see are 1...
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Schwinn Turismo Swivel Jogging Stroller - Pacific Cycle, read the full Schwinn Swivel Double Jogging Stroller Review The Turismo Double Jogging Stroller from Schwinn, is an amazing stroller for acti...4 years ago
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Plancenoit in 28mm - My club this weekend added to its Waterloo in 28mm game the battle of Plancenoit, which wil...
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The Dark Knight Full Movie Online - Watch The Dark Knight Full Movie Streaming Online Duration 152 minutes and broadcast on 2008-07-18 MPAA rating is 4699. - *Status :* Released - *R...4 years ago
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Primer primer - At the risk of repeating myself, a close look at Vallejo surface primer.4 years ago
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Wallpapers de autos muy bonitos (10 imágenes) - AppId is over the quota AppId is over the quota type='html'> [image: Wallpapers de autos muy bonitos (10 imágenes)] Algunos les llaman *autos, otros coches, ...4 years ago
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Memories, Tangents and the Power of the Pastoral - *Charles Stadden 30mm BEF released fifty(ish) years ago* It occurs to me that wargaming the Great War is not going to be a straight forward thing. Le...
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Casting Season - It's casting season here at the Lead Gardens. The weather has "springed up" and it's perfect for getting outside and starting on some summer casting proje...
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Zombie! Survivor Sheet Update - Still a design made in Google Drawing: version 5 of the Zombie! survivor sheet has been updated with 4 new attributes, as well as some more flavour: calls...
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IG Wyvern built and ready to paint - I've got my Wyvern put together and I've got to say, it's a very nice little kits. I love the look of it and it was a pleasure to put together. My only ...
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Virginia Provincial Regiment. - Months ago Galloping Major Miniatures were doing a deal on their new FIW range- so I went ahead and bought some of their very nice figures - 'but its eas...
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10mm A.W.I. Unit Finished. - I've got the 10mm unit finished that I started painting in the previous posting . I was going to try photographing them outside - but as this photo was t...
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Risorgimento or Garibaldi in Sicily 1860 - I studied the Italian Unification at school and it was fascinating; This lead to following Garibaldi's career and especially his amazing campaign in Sicily...
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A long time of no posting. - Well, it has been a good year since anything got posted here. In that time, I have certainly not been idle in my gaming, but rather have been very distract...4 years ago
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Panzer IV F1 - I am still around and I am still painting. I may have to 'reboot' this blog as I know bunch of pictures arent showing up. Any way here is what I was wo...
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Greater Daemon of Slaanesh - I painted this guy (gal?) a while back but for some reason I didn't post about it. I wouldn't say I enjoyed the painting process that much. Painting a lar...4 years ago
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THE BLOG HAS MOVED! - Hello to all followers of this blog. I have decided to move the blog to a new address. This falls in line with our youtube channel and makes the most sense...4 years ago
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Top Best Pillow For Side Sleepers - A terrific day starts having a wonderful night of slumber, and also the pillow you select influences the real quality of your slumber. The best pregnancy p...
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Germany on Mars in 1889, in The Dream Forge - Anders Blixt in Stockholm Sweden writes a thoughtful and entertaining blog entitled The Dream Forge, covering a wide range of fantasy and science fiction t...
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Fantasy Bits - Reaper Elf Lord Reaper Barbarian and pug" If you want the ball then fetch it yourself!" Reaper Viking
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The Mission, by Larry Hunter - * Devin Hester, a great player, is off the Bears for 2014, Sad to see him go* Well, it has been another season, and now the Bears besides letting Urlacher...
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Niemiecki park maszyn cz.5 - Elo Znowu szybka wrzuta. Przykleiłem gąsienice i koła do Hanomagów. Teraz zajmuję się malowaniem załogantów (do skończenia mam oporządzenie; kamuflaż już ...
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Second World War comparisons on "World War 20mm" - Piers Brand has recently posted a side by side shot of several figures painted in his inimitable style. They represent a number of different 20mm metal ma...4 years ago
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The Three Amigos... - I picked up these little beauties from Merlyn's in Spokane last weekend, the IS3 heavy tank platoon by BattleFront. Very good sculpts, and the resin suspen...
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History Is Bunk! - It’s been a slow week or so. I have done little in the way of gaming; the solitaire C&C: Ancients battle of Raphia has not moved since last Sunday. Mostly...4 years ago
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US Mechanized Infantry 3rd Squad - I've now finished the third squad for the US Mechanized Infantry Platoon. Next job is to get the four Bradley IFV's finished for them so they can enter th...
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Fortified Chapel - Hi, folks. Here's another bit of terrain for our Kings of War table. It's a fortified chapel made from a Pegasus Hobby Gothic City Building Large Set. I ad...
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PP Announcement! New Hordes Model! - *"If there is one thing we here at Privateer Press pride ourselves on, it's listening to our audience. You guys and gals have been demanding a fifth full ...
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SUPERS! - NORAD reports the crash of an extraterrestrial object deep in the Appalacian mountains. The Guardians are dispatched to report on and recover any possible...
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15mm Viking Army - These are my Vikings, opposition for the Saxon Army from my last post. There are a few less of these guys but they have a lot more of the heavily armed and...4 years ago
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Blog shut down - new club site - After some efforts, we have now moved beyond a blog site. We may yet have to cut off it's head and stake the heart; but this site is now dead. Ceased to ...4 years ago
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Michael Gove’s history lesson - Michael Gove’s history lesson Article to appear in the next Miniature Wargames perhaps under Gove’s nom de plume of ‘Graham Evans’.4 years ago
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Greetings, I have moved the rock I was under - Greetings troops, Happy 2014! I must apologize that 2013 was a quiet year on the blog. I must thank all you followers for sticking with me. Just a quick...4 years ago
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Christmas “Domes” for 2013 - A few years ago, I began making these for the special people in my life…sometimes they are purely whimsical and sometimes they have a hidden meaning, speci...4 years ago
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One year in review - or two… - The year 2013 is coming to an end, and it seems a good time to pop back on my DestoFante blog for a quick update. Blogging has clearly taken a backseat in ...
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Deadzone: Enforcer Missile Launcher Conversion - OK. Completed the conversion of the Enforcer Missile Launcher. Overall I think he came out well. I am not an expert on Green Stuff, but I think I gave an e...
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Happy Xmas & all the various holidays - Seems to be a new tradition that December runs over me, repeatedly, like a herd of reindeer on meth. What a month. So please excuse the pathetic trickle ...
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Games from the 2013 Congress - A few pics of some of the games at the Napoleonic Congress this year the brave frigate cops it form a first rate at close range! French vs British Penins...4 years ago
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Building the Gundam - 08 - Despite having jumped the gun a bit and assembled the wings... I can't put them on the Gundam without the harness, so that took priority. The Gundam has...
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Voyages Diabolique - Soon after the release of *Wessex Games*' *Voyages Extraordinaires*, Victorian Adventure Gaming rules in 2000, I planned to release an accompanying set for...4 years ago
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The Ambush - No game this week, but last week we played our third game in the new Tour of Darkness Campaign- I just never got around to typing up the report. Rick f...
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WTJ & Panzerschiffe -- Comparison Photos - The following photos show a comparison between some 1/2400 scale Russo-Japanese War Pre-Dreadnought Cruisers. Panzerschiffe "Diana" above; WTJ "Aurora" bel...
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Campaign's End - CampaignHammer fluff - Some Dwarf vs Undead fluff over on CampaignHammer. We decided to end the campaign at the end of year 7. The Undead faction battles to hold the city and ke...
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Lady Aiyana and Master Holt – diorama start - Since I quite enjoyed the Beastman and Greatsword diorama, I decided to take a stab at another. While I have a few lying around, I haven’t really painted t...5 years ago
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Aphid barker - Assembly - Here's the assembly guide for Aphid loader Barker, from the wave 2 Kickstarter miniatures. This is quite a complex miniature to assemble, definitely the mo...
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The History of England Podcast - [image: King John] King John I have been fairly busy the last month-- more so than even usual with three kids all in extracurricular activities-- and one o...5 years ago
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Blue Moon Foreign Legion miniatures. - I have not had a chance to update the Prehistoric Zoo in some time. Life and lack of funds have gotten in the way of idle blogging. Though stretching the t...5 years ago
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I've moved again! - Outflanked has been rebooted! I am now over at Wordpress: http://outflanked.wordpress.com Please do come and visit!5 years ago
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C'est la fin... - ... de ce blog ! Après 208 messages. Mais retrouvez moi sur mon nouvel espace dédié au figurines : http://aleaminiatures.blogspot.fr/5 years ago
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Painting station moved - So been a couple of weeks since my last post. Was on vacation last week and flew out to Santa Cruz, CA. Also spent a couple of days in San Francisco and ...5 years ago
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Imperial Guard Aegis Defence Line - So I've decided to build an Aegis Defence Line for my Imperial Guard a week back. I also wanted it to be a sort of display for my army and I want to make i...
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The Ballad of Sir Hugo and Gui Le Batard - *The Bridge on the River Wye* *The Raid On The Grain Store* We played the first two scenarios from the first of the Warheads books. Sir Hugo w...
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Mighty Armies: Army Lists For The Golden Age of Mars - Rebel Minis has released free army lists for Mighty Armies to game in VSF Mars. If you are not at all familiar with Mighty Armies, it's a great Fantasy...
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Work in progress and review of some Khurasan Miniatures Space Demons - I recently had some time available and decided to add to my 15mm miniatures. I succumbed to severe temptation and purchased some expansions to my “Space D...5 years ago
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A New Project - I am very conscious that it has been a while, a very long while since I posted anything. Life seemed to overtake me for a very long time. I have painted a ...
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Bac Ninh Miniatures and the Boshin War - I received a package today from Bac Ninh Miniatures; a small, minimal-investor company from Madrid, Spain. This business model is becoming more and mo...
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FFG's STAR WARS X-WING...I'm Giving In To The Dark Side! - My friends, you know that I have been working on TOMORROW BLACK for a long time, and it has been a task full of joy and frustration. I am going to take a b...
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Sheer Idiocy - I really don't get it. I just don't get it. To be clear. I have never...EVER.. said that "I can outsell 'storeX'". If the owner/owners of 'storeX', want to...5 years ago
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Site archived - I regret that owing to concerted spam and hacking attacks, I have removed the content from this site. Those of you interested in following what I’m up to c...5 years ago
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Evesham Wargames Club now known as Wyvern Wargamers - Wyvern Wargamers finds a new home on the web....http://wyvernwargamers.org.uk/ After weeks in the planning the Evesham Wargames Club have rebranded and wi...
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Unrest and Dissent in the North - *WHEN THE MOSELEY GOVERNMENT of the British Union of Fascists* was appointed by King Edward VIII in 1937, was when the country was tipped over the edge t...
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Trying out a kickstarter - If you frequent TMP much you'll have noticed that Kick-starters have taken off in a big way the last year or so. Up until now I have quite happily avoid th...5 years ago
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Counts as Typhus model, and 180 painted zombies - Im sorry I don't have a lot of time to talk, but this guy is my Typhus and below are 180 zombies that I had paint commissioned. If I was anywhere near a...
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Rilynstra's Doom - The Kabal of the Murderous Refrain - Been a while since there's been any actual hobby on here! At the moment I'm working on a few 40k armies that go in tandem with one another. They are: A Dar...
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Road to Tebessa - AAR - Played the Road to Tebessa scenario yesterday at Gauntlet. As usual I got so caught up in the game that I didn't take pictures of all the action The game o...
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U-Boat in London! - *German U-155 (f. Deutschland transport submarine) after surrender* *1918* via Nationaal Archief @ Flickr5 years ago
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Dawn – Rise of the Occulites Kickstarter is Live! - G’day guys, Just wanted to share the link to the Kickstarter to my first game Dawn – Rise of the Occulites. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2002188924/...5 years ago
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Back Again! - Real life has a nasty habit of getting in the way sometimes, and the last six months plus has been busy to say the least, meaning that I haven't been posti...5 years ago
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Doctor who? - I have had the police box sitting around for some time; finally got it painted. The basing is just to try to tie it in to a Victorian date.
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"Bonnie Blue Flag" ACW convention Australia 2013 - *Friday Night 19th, Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st July. “Bonnie Blue Flag” ACW weekendGoulburn Soldiers ClubCnr Market and Sloane stGoulburn NSWDinne...5 years ago
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Flames of War army purchased! - Well I hit Brookhurst Hobbies pretty hard on my vacation and picked up some stuff. There are 4 E8's, 3 Jumbos, and 4 M4A3's of differing styles. This ...
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Freshly Painted Pulp Figures - I just received around 30 pulp figures back from Doc Merkury who did a great job painting these for me. I am currently going through the finishing proces...
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Скидки в магазине "Studio Ultraterrain" - Друзья, больше всего в жизни я хочу, чтобы вы делали террейн! Сами, своими ручками создавали большие и маленькие шедевры, а потом наслаждались ими. Гла...
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Hinton Compatible Austrian Hussars Painted By(For) Jack Hixon - Thanks for sending in this picture Jack - very nice!
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A bit of wet work - A couple of weeks ago Mexican Dave dropped into the conversation "I quite fancy doing some historical Naval gaming." and as usual I jumped in with both fee...
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Flames of war - open fire Germans - I was given this as a present for Christmas (after some rather in subtle hinting from me) Mrs Kipper treated me, like many of a certain age I've had/ playe...5 years ago
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Solo Piquet Tutorial Part 7: The Battle of Cross Keys - The battle continues. 12:00 p.m. turn. Confederates have 16 morale chips. Union have 3 morale chips. Initiative Roll (d20) Union 11 / Confederates 7; Unio...
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Book Review: Path of the Warrior by Gav Thorpe (Spoiler free) - *For me (and many others) Gav Thorpe has always been the custodian of Eldar lore. His writing has graced both Eldar Codices and the glossy pages of Whit...
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My new little photostudio.... - Last week I found a post in my favorite Wargaming Forum about a small photo studio. It looked inetersting and so I purchased one for about 25 €. It contain...5 years ago
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Steam Navvies - Managed to spend a few hours on Sunday painting. Here are some figures I painted some time ago but finished off yesterday with a very quick base job. These ...
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Some pics from my Saga wargame today - I had a chance to pit my Vikings against those sneaky Scots in a game of Saga today. Of the two games, I lost the first but won the second. Here’s some p...5 years ago
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The Japanese Advance – Awala and Gorari Ambush Actions - *Campaign Actions Phase 1 July 1942* *The Japanese Advance – Awala and Gorari Ambush Actions* The initial battles for control of the lower part of the Koko...
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Napoleon: a Kickstarter - Found this on Kickstarter the other day. While not in the block buster league of some of the projects (Reaper Bones for example), it seems a good value for...5 years ago
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Mega minis closing up. Lots of zombies - http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/2013/03/21/71489/ Its a shame my friend Johnny has to shutdown but this is an opportunity for zombie mini fans to get som...5 years ago
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2500 pts O&G Swedish Comp 11-12 - There is a tournament coming up in the middle of April that I shall be attending. This will mark the first full-scale tournament that features the Swedish ...5 years ago
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media: nazi zombie army götterdämmerung - Jonathan Green has written an e-book set in the *Sniper Elite* game universe entitled, *Nazi Zombie Army: Götterdämmerung.* Seems right up our street, and ...
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Marengo Scenario 7 with Carnage and Glory II. - Once again Tom Garnett and Keith Rocco hosted a game of Marengo. This was Tom's 7th scenario of the battle of Marengo *"First Battle of the Consular Guard"...5 years ago
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Run - Figures: Rackham 28mm Rules:Tomorrows War GM: Jerry Acord Well its about time I got a game in. After fighting a cold off and on for 4 weeks and missing se...
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That is not dead which can eternal lie ... - ... and with strange aeons even death may die. I'm not dead, just working on something else. That "something else" should be released before the end of the...5 years ago
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Zen to Done: the Third Step - In the ZTD system, the third step is to "Plan." By that Babuta suggests determining the major things that need to be done at the beginning of the week, an...5 years ago
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Back from AWOL. - Hi everyone, it has been too long. I got a chance to kick around the house today for the first time in months and decided I would make it a priority to po...
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Hawkmoon Figures from Eureka Miniatures - A little bird tells me that Eureka Miniatures have permission from Michael Moorcock to do a "Hawkmoon" figures range. I have seen some test shot casts and...5 years ago
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Ral Partha Orcs - Here are four Ral Partha orcs I painted late in 2012. I have an bunch of minis from the old AD&D line, and decided to paint a few up. The BattleSystem Sk...
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Toodle-oo Dahlings - It is bye bye time for Blogger as the stupendous Gemigabok blog heads off to the actual Gemigabok site. So see you all there! http://www.the-ancients.com/g...
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Try This! The Hipster - Sometimes as women, we feel like we can't get made love to rather than with. Why? Missionary is so awesome, but there isn't much leverage unless you chang...
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The Last Post - All things must pass, and so it is to be with NDC Blog. ‘Why?’ I hear you wail (with murmurings of ‘big deal’ in the background). Well this blog was origi...5 years ago
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ACW Union: Part 2 - This weeks painting was completed in time to catch the sunshine for some alright photos. I will stick some temp flags on them soon. The real flags will be ...
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Alfred the Great - 1969 Film - Its very disappointing when one gets a chance to relive a cherished childhood memory, and it doesn't live up to one's recollections. That is the case for ...
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Tiny Tin Men moving to Blogger - After almost ten years at my own domain (the first post on it was way back in early 2004), with a Movable Type install I managed myself, I have decided t...5 years ago
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GW Hobbit Releases Available For Pre-Order - *Games Workshop* has announced a plethora of pre-releases for its forthcoming *The Hobbit* games, the main release being a boxed *Escape From Goblin Town* ...
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Where the hell is Rob? - Hello! I would like to apologise for sort of letting this blog float off into the distance so far that I could never reel it back in again. My projects hav...5 years ago
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Moving Locations - Well, the title says it all. I've decided to revamp my websites and as part of this "Across the Table" is on the move. To visit my revised site please vis...
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Powrót? Zobaczymy... - Cześć wszystkim, może jeszcze ktoś czasem tu zagląda :) Przez 2 lata pochłonęło mnie granie, aczkolwiek na instrumencie a nie stole z bitewniakami, w sumie ...5 years ago
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Property Management Arlington VA - Property managers are one of the very important person who is taking care of your property ? Property Management Arlington VA is providing you the best ...
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"Farewell Ladies"! - Hi Guys It's been a very long time since I updated my blog, (sorry). A deployment to Afghanistan and some 'Real Life' issues have got in the way. Today I'v...
5 years ago -
Pulp Fantasy Library: Pigeons from Hell - For his creation of Conan the Cimmerian alone -- never mind Kull of Atlantis, Bran Mak Morn, Solomon Kane, and many others -- Robert E. Howard enjoys a pr...
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Blowing one's own horn - I decided to take part of my day off to do a tiddly bitmore on the beast of Gorgoroth. As I find chains the most annoyng thing to paint, I did them firs...
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They came from the north - Out of the chaos wastes of the north - daemons. Some figures I've done recently for our Warhammer RPG gaming - these cover the most commonly encountered da...6 years ago
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[Malifaux] Run and Hyde, it's avatar Seamus.... - Apologies for the bad pun in the title. Here's the new big guy for my gang - turns out Seamus has a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde complex without the Dr Jekyll ...
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More Vikings.... - Finished the next two Vikings. Gripping Beast and Artizan. Pictures still aren't the best, but for the moment that's all there is. The next pair ar...
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So how many figures have you painted again? - I always set a goal in each calendar year to paint a certain number of figures. I'm always hoping to buy far fewer figures than I paint so I can cut into ...
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Dux Brit army nearing completion - After having given the new TFL Dux Brittaniarum rules (see http://toofatlardies.co.uk) a spin during the playtest time I've been working on painting my Gri...
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Star Wars X-Wing unboxed! - Well, it has been quite some time since a posting here.....OK, so Paul from the Man Cave has a lot to answer for! He has caused me, yet again, to succumb t...
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Romanos imperiales y últimos encargos - Tras el verano, entre encargos de pintura y vacaciones, decidí darme un poco el gusto de pintar por deleite, por el mero hecho de pintar, vaya, y me decidí...
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The One Ring September Painting Challenge: Warbands (Completed) - Finally I have all of my orcs done for the Warbands challenge. Between working on these guys, painting my friend’s birthday gift, creating a few Lord of th...6 years ago
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Current projects - After lots of sorting out of the lead pile, and an ongoing ebay sell off I've settled on a couple of periods that I want to spend real time on. The first i...
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Eden - Horde models painted... - Well sort of, at least I have tried to base coat and ink something.... I need to get these up to standard so I can finish my Resistance crew. Assembled res...6 years ago
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Metal finishes - Here's the first model painted with the Alcald line of metallic paints. It's a Korean war era fighter. F-86F Been pretty busy working on scale models t...6 years ago
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Getting By far the most Connected with Wall street game Exchanging By means of Automated Research Technique Software - [image: Day trading course Calgary|866.640.3737|learn how to day trade by loisreese5124] Stock trading is the basis for the economy around the world. The...6 years ago
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End of an era... - Well folks, Blood & Blades has come to an end. Things have come full circle and it is time to move on and start fresh. I have decided to start a new blo...
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Eldar Warlock WiP. - Okay, it’s almost Friday and I’ve found some time to take a picture of Warlock that I have been painting on for the past week. Just something that’s been ...
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WI298 - EW Russians (Invasion of Poland) - [image: Photobucket] In what is becoming a tradition with this blog, today I present pictures of the EW Soviet army list from Wargames Illustrated #298. I...6 years ago
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Hail Zlobenia! - I picture of PFU troops from Zlobenia. The Zlobs have always been more open in their views about the outside world, and see the current conflict as a way ...
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The Last Post - That's it. All done. I would like to thank Baccus 6mm, Freezywater Publications and The Lance and Longbow Society for their generous support with this proj...6 years ago
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A Couple of Short Scraps - It's been a couple of weeks since my last post but we have still been playing out the campaign in the meantime. Our battle at Markendorf finished prematur...
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Nuke the Site from Orbit... - ...It's the only way to be sure! Aliens. One of the seminal, defining sci-fi combat movies. So here are some 15mm figures from Quick Reaction Force (QRF)....
6 years ago -
Lancers forward! - Some Imperial Mexican lancers looking to skewer any poor republicans that happen in their way. First Corp figures converted from their Rush's Lancers pac...
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Your Money or your Life! - The Lamentations of the Flame Princess adventure campaigns at Indiegogo are now live! 19 adventures by really famous RPG blokes, such as Vincent Baker, Mon...6 years ago
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Still here... - Just an update that I am still around, and will try to get an update here some time soon. Regards, Greg6 years ago
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Arab-Israeli Wars in 3mm - www.picoarmor.com The AIW Reader is a blog intented to be a useful database primarily intented for wargamers although hopefully the entries will also be of ...6 years ago
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India Travel - If yоu have еvеr thought оf еxperiеnсіng the myѕtic bеаutу оf hіllѕ, exоtіс bеautу of the bеachеs, саѕcading beauty оf thе rіvеrѕ and thе thrill оf thе јun...6 years ago
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Looking for Free, Cheap, or Do-It-Yourself Baby Shower Invitations? - Are уоu lооkіng for sоme dіfferent, inexpensіve babу shоwеr invitаtіonѕ? If yоu wаnt tо ѕеnd out аn іnvіtatiоn thаt іѕ morе uniquе thаn thе рurchаsеd, ѕtan...6 years ago
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its been awhile - I know I haven't posted anything in awhile but life has come along lately and slowed much of my work down. The b-17 is coming along and I have completed th...6 years ago
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Raid on Blount Landing - Dark Elves vs Horse and Musket - Ok so here are some shots from some Mighty Armies games recently played in GPTs basement. Scroll down for bonus Man O War pics. First 3 shots are the s...
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Mirliton 15mm Swiss - Matt Standen - This is a real treat and a prize winner to boot. Matt’s army was judged the “Best Painted Army” during the recent Field of Glory: A&M tournament at the ...6 years ago
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Model sale off on eBay - Dear readers, it’s been a while from my last post. The reason is that not only I had switch to another, more demanding job back on 2008, but the birth...
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The Complete Flash Gordon Library - *Titan Books* are releasing *The Complete Flash Gordon Library*, collating all the newspaper comic strips in a series of hardback books. A welcome release ...
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Dick Garrison Rapid Launch Released - *Dick Garrison Rapid Launch*, the basic rules from our forthcoming Pulp SF rules *The Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Dick Garrison* are now available...
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[Project News] Back on Track... - Well it's been a few weeks since my last update here, but things have been ticking away in the background at Martians & Machine Guns since the last time I ...6 years ago
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Battle of Waterloo - Move 11 - Table at the start of move 11 Top left – Clinton moves his corps to left of cross roads Top right – French firefight with highlanders on ridge Bottom left ...
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Byzarbia at Ayton Game. - Once again it's been a while, though in my defence I plead that I have been busy painting figures for our second Ayton Weekend Game, even forgoing two of o...
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Field of Battle 2nd Ed., la prova con la GNW - Venerdi scorso, abbiamo provato il regolamento *Field of Battle (2nd edition) *con uno scontro nella GNW. Devo premettere che ero piuttosto prevenuto su ...
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Just frigate about it. - ...In which our protagonist shows off the miniscule Dutch 30-gun ship. It's small. Tiny, even. And... bright blue? I'm not particularly thrilled with th...
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Where did I go? - I'm at this site since some time ago: http://www.dragonpainting.net/ More...6 years ago
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For sale - Painted 28mm WSS Bavarians - There comes a point when you need to rationalise what you game and collect. I never really got into WSS, but I did pick these Bavarians up somewhere. A whi...6 years ago
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Zvezda WW1 Russian Infantry - Okay, I admit these are great figures. Normally I don't like assembling figures. I say to myself, "If I want a kit, I'll buy a kit." In this case, t...
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Garrisoning the Collina Della Formica - *You* probably thought this project was dead and buried. Well, it's still alive. A pair of *Tiroler Kaiserjage*r manning a *Schwarzlose* MMG on an improv...
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Models for sale and new book! - I mentioned before that I would be selling most of my collection. After much deliberation, I will be keeping some of it (such as my 15mm ECW project which ...6 years ago
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01 - Painting Class with Privateer Press Studio Painter Meg Maples - This weekend I participated in a painting class at Labyrinth Games in Washington, DC. It was run by Meg Maples, one of the studio painters for Privateer P...
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The Cure for Burnout - Funky Old Aliens on Dinosaurs! - Planning ahead just isn't my style. I was on a major roll in January and February. Painted tons and tons of figures, played a couple of really fun solo ga...
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3/21 Pledge - 1820 unpainted 6mm ECW: 1820 * 6mm / 25mm = 437 * 1.5 = 656 11 unpainted 25mm farm animals: 11 * 1.5 = 17 39 + 656 + 17 = 712 2012: +712 + nefs 2011: +215 ...6 years ago
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Corporate Incomes - Mercenary outfit - Finally finished my second PA faction this time a Mercenary outfit going by the company name Corporate Incomes. There are several mercen...
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Move Along...Move Along! - In case anyone hasn't found out, The Drunken Gamers have become 'Dice Devils' and can be found at www.dicedevils.com Thanks for checking us out, see you...6 years ago
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Self promotion - OK, sorry for not posting anything earlier. I was really very busy with my IT exams [RHCSA/RHCE/Postgres Plus Associate followed by Professional] at work a...
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peggy - Well work has absorbed what little time I have avaliable of late so here is a very quick update as to what I have managed to achieve over the past 3 weeks....
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28mm Napoleonic command , for sale - all indviduals $30 each, all doubles $60..all forms of payment accepted, however Paypal gets you a surcharge unless you make it a personal payment. PP+P no...
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Painted Cromwells - Here are some painted Hät Armourfast Cromwells that will be brilliant to fight with the Revell British Infantry in the Western Front. Now that they have bee...
6 years ago -
The fun never ends! - I wish to show you my latest works I based all napoleonic polish and russian troops from painting service (Stonewall Figures),now I have thousands of th...
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Basing Tutorial - Greetings one and all! Hope the new year's treating you well so far. Been rather busy working lately, so haven't made any progress on the rest of my Warrior...
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Clearing a nest of Sea Rats! - *Scenario* A group of slave-traders (who were thought to be operating out of Marzibar) set up a temporary base inside an old abandoned coastal fort on the b...
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Plastic Soldier Company 15mm - Sdkfz(s) - part 2 - Hi there, Bonjour à toutes et tous, This week I had a lot of work but could find some spare time to work on my Sdkfzs. I decided to go for the 5 Sdkfz C, s...6 years ago
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Comments closed - Although this blog will stay up for the sake of posterity I am turning of the comments option as I am fed up fending off loads of spam comments. I hope peo...6 years ago
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Selling and getting out - Hello all! Apologies for the lack of updates but the reality is, I haven't done anything in the hobby for over a year. I've not really had the time or spac...6 years ago
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Here we go again - After a year of maintaining a blog on my own domain, I have come to realization that blogger provides a better experience. 1) It's FREE! 2) It is very eas...6 years ago
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My new Napoleonic blog for 2012. - As this old blog still gets lots of hits I thought I would place a link to my new project here for anybody who might care to follow it's development. It's ...
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The End of the Frugal Year(s) - As you may have noticed I haven't been posting on the blog too much recently. This is, in part, to it's success; I've been playing too many games and get...
6 years ago -
Spanish Review - Sr. Troll, from La Cueva del Sr. Troll (Mr. Troll's Cave), have published a review of Brytenwalda in Spanish. Of course you can use an online translator to...
6 years ago -
40K: My Son's (age 7) Dark Eldar and my Daughter's (age 4) Necrons - My children were always very interested in dad's hobby's. They both started painting miniatures at the age of about 2. On that age they just slammed paint ...
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Count down to Crossover Part 4: The pitch - So here we are at the end of Countdown but hopefully the beginning of something great: Now whether Crossover comes into being or not is kind of in your ha...
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NY3K game report - For those of you who aren't following the NY3K blog (and should feel ashamed), here's a link to the first game report. *Pour ceux qui ne suivent pas le blog...
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The Pack Elite - Part 2 - *I haven't had much time to do stuff with a Bachelor's thesis I'm working on all the time now, so not much painting progress and I just didn't have what to...
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Link to 1813 Tortosa Campaign - The next phase of the 1813 campaign will be in north east Spain and will deal with the Spanish attempt to take the city of Tortosa. I have started a new b...
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New Directions - At the beginning of this month, I wrapped up a series of daily posts on the battle of White Plains, and the events leading up to it. As much as I enjoyed ...
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Nery 1914 game - I hosted my first 1914 game the other day at my store. The game was to represent the action at Nery between British and German Cavalry. The British had one...
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Which To Choose:Immortals or Warriors? - This has been a topic of debate with myself really and I can imagine with most of the rest of you. On the surface I immediately went straight to Immortals ...6 years ago
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More boards - Hi all Another update on progress. I’ve been gluing two boards together a day so after a few days I’ve finished 8 boards. You can see the river section I c...6 years ago
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Force on Force à l'AMJH - De plus en plus de joueurs se mettent à Force on Force dans mon club de jeu de l'AMJH. De plus les joueurs peignent des figurines et fabriquent massivement...
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Osprey Issue Harrier Units and Tojo Aces Books - *Osprey Publishing* have released two new aviation books this month. First off is *AV-8B Harrier II Units of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm*, *"...
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Lip Beating - Severius hammers Thagrosh - Where I live the loser of a fight is often described as having "the lips beat off of them". This happened on Saturday night when Kenoth of Menoth brought a...7 years ago
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Art of tactic ! German 105-mm Howitzer LeFH 18/18m - Hello friends !!! I finished the second stand of this gun !!!
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40K scrap modelling - I have a boxful of bits of kits including some old GW vehicles. I think the bit in the top photo come off what is called a Rhino? Anyway I never liked t...
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The african terrain is set - As we needed a lot of new terrain for africa we thought we had better see what it looked like before the game. we have used fish tank vegitation, artificial...
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Normal service will resume shortly - Hi all some explanations for my enforced absence may be required. I have not posted anything for the last 6 months or so as i had to pack up all my paintin...7 years ago
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Some more plastic hoplites - *The three legged symbol is that of the Alcmaeonid clan* I have just finished four more Immortal Miniatures plastic hoplites which, as usual, were prett...
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Boots on the Ground-- a sort of review - from Worthington's BotG pageSeveral months ago I received *Boots on the Ground* which I had pre-ordered from Worthington Games. It is a very rules-light g...7 years ago
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Marine Veterano de la Escuadra de Mando - Aqui presento otro Marine de la Escuadra de Mando. Aunque parezca un Angel Oscuro.....¡es un Deathwatch Veterano! :)
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Apologies - Sorry for the dismal lack of new goodies on the blog of late, this solely being due to me starting a new teaching post which is taking just about all my ti...7 years ago
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Torgau 2011 - Our last major game was a refight of Torgau This one was fought - as usual using the excellent King of the Battlefield rules - as a contest over 5 victory ...
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Back on the Horse! - Wow! It's been a long time since my last post! The path has largely been cleared for me to share my miniature wargaming exploits, so let's get into it! Ou...
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Warpath Beta released, and I think I like it ^_^ - So, for those of us that follow Mantic, we know theyve been doing some good stuff. Theyre putting out decent miniatures at a great price, and while they're...7 years ago
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Tournament Report - Well... no updates for a while, but this tournament got me back into FoW ;). Right now I'm just going to post a report and in a few days time I'll post som...
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2nd Saturday Update - All I can say is the quality of play went up dramatically. Both sides have started to understand what the campaign consequences are going to do to them on...7 years ago
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15mm WWII US Regular Army - Figure mostly from Old Glory, but there is a platoon worth from Battlefront mixed in.
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Two shows down - First Partizan and then one nearer to home, just completed in two weeks. Unfortunately either the full time job or space at other shows is restricting me f...7 years ago
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Sniper vet - A small side project, one Yukoni sniper veteran. I built him initially as a one-off for a competition, but I think he just became the prototype for what my...
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15mm Deckplans - I picked up a copy of AE: Bounty the other day. I want to run a 15mm campaign. I printed out a set of the Star Station Zero 15mm
