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The Custom Of The House - More On 'Pre-School' Gaming - Some graph paper, a little paint; you'd think it was 1974, or something... A slight diversion tonight; I am starting a nice four-day weekend, after a long ...
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17e Regiment d'Infanterie de Ligne - After the slogfest to get through the Russian Guard Cossacks, I thought I would try a good ole French line unit in their brand spanking new 1812 uniforms. ...
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What's New with Mike and Jeff May 26, 2018 - Hey no technical issues this week can't go wrong with that. Have a great week.
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Now those look cool... - Well, I finished up our demo figures, and boxed them up... and I have to say, the photos SO don't do justice to the awesomeness of these little boxed dud...
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Code Name Spy Toy Remembered - I can't believe its already 5 years since one of my fave blogs finished, Code Name Spy Toy. A virtual attache case of gadgets and plastic gizmos. Its ni...
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#BookLook – Wargames Handbook, Third Edition, by James F. Dunnigan, 2000 - When studying the history of the wargame hobby, one inevitably will run into the name James F. Dunnigan. His first published game was Jutland (Avalon Hill,...
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Battle of the three Emperors - AUSTERLITZ - It was a joy to be able to bring to the table and make use of the miniature collection of Kelly Jones in the Austerlitz scenario that Kelly and I had desig...
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Now that that's over - As often happens I am back from my trip with a head full of ideas. This doesn't involve any new periods but it does involve some new moulds, lots of paint...
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Projects - ( Warning: A wall of text follows... ) One of the things that I like about blogging is the ability to use a blog as a concise storage point for data about...7 hours ago
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Free Puppies! - Ha! Made you look. I posted pictures of the Observation Corps Grenadiers, that I painted and based on my blog the other day, and I have to say that I'm a ...
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Just some pictures I just found on my phone - Scenery contruction pictures from the last year. I found them while I was browsing through the backup from my phone. This is our river piece from this pos...
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Cangames Aftermath Report - by Paul K Smith - Intro: Paul asked me to post his report to my blog and it seems like a win-win situation. I get to add some content and Paul writes a post for me. Please ...
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Anyone for a threesome? The Isle of the Three Duchies Campaign - some progress - Some time ago, 2016 at a guess, but I can't find the post, I posted this map. The Isle of the Three Duchies over which I planned to fight an 'Imagi-Nation'...
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Battle of Ackia 1736 - * France Paris July 14 Parade Regiment Karrer Martinique 1730 Meurisse Photo 1929 *Today is the anniversary of this battle between the French Swiss regim...
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Trying the Solo protocol! - Today, we had a couple more games of 'What a Tanker' - to try the first draft of a solo protocol I have done for it. We gave the Solo system a Jagdpanther,...
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What a Tanker! Tiger II and Stug IV - I've been alternately dry brushing and washing the *Pegasus *Tiger II today, in between all the other usual distractions, so it's pretty much ready for...
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Swiss Regiment de Karrer recreated - Caption from here reads *France Paris Fête 14 Juillet Regiment de Karrer Martinique 1730 Ancienne Photo Meurisse 1929* *Vintage Meurisse Studio Photo, text...
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Austrian Uniforms 1448 – 1896 - The New York Public Library's Digital Gallery has a large collection of prints of Austrian uniforms from 1448 - 1896. It's an incredible painting guide. Re...11 hours ago
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Getting into By Fire & Sword: part 1 Overview - First video in a series about getting into the excellent historical wargame By Fire & Sword. It's one of my favorite games, making a video for it was on my...
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Fantasy Hero 13 - These figures were started during last year's Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge and never saw the finish line. A year later and several hour or so's pain...
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ADG - Who can I fight? - Knowing when to stop... nope, haven't read that chapter yet. I recently sat down to dwell over my 6mm ancient and medieval armies to work out which one I ...
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House Hawkshroud Imperial knight - I finished my Imperial Knight a few days ago and finally got around to taking some pics. I'm fairly happy with it, though I won't win points for originalit...
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WHAT A TANKER! - LADDER TOURNAMENT - Having finished a campaign based on the one in the WaT rule book at my club I've suggested to my gaming crowd at the Harrogate Wargames Club (HWC) we try a...
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25% Off Through Moinday - Type in the coupon code *25off* and get 25% off your order. Great time to try the latest games and catch up where you can. Good through the Monday the...
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IHMN: A crew without a ship - *The Albatross* Following the destruction of the Weldon Institutes dirigible *Go-Ahead *by Robur the Conqueror and his airship the *Albatross*, the small ...
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Valance Time Tunnel - This weekend my local museum Valance House is holding a multi period living history event dubbed the Valance Time Tunnel. Its not a big event but the range...
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Land - The Thunderbird gone, the three rocks were fought over by men. Indians versus Spanish. The Spanish did not stay long. But the English did. The ...
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Fogou Models: Old Hammer - Battle at the Farm Scenery Kickstarter Preview - Fogou Models: As always, it would make my day if you could spread this around. A set of finely detailed generic scatter terrain designed to bring the close...
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On the Paint Table – Reaper: Dark Heaven, Infinity Pan Oceania and more! - Check out what I painted this week and take a look at upcoming projects! Advertisements
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Gladiators - Tom made a welcome reappearance at the club recently, having got a new job which left his Wednesday evenings free. He brought along a set of gladitorial co...
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naval ship build - WIP (4) - front deck, portholes etc ... - *continuing with the ship build...* started fixing things to the hull and superstructure; decided the front deck was too low and brought it a bit. Card use...
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GDPR - Since I'm EU based I need to post a GDPR statement for my web site etc: *GDPR* Like all EU web sites I need to comply with the GDPR rules on privacy. Thi...19 hours ago
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ADLG: UK Survey Results (Part 1) - Firstly, I'd like to thank everyone who took the survey both in the UK and elsewhere. My thanks also go to Henry Hyde & Tim Porter for their help in public...
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Empire of the Petal Throne Hlutrgu painted - Howard of the Tekumel project sent me some wonder creation and I actually had time t take some pictures, the Hlutrgu are swamp dwelling race of vicious ...
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Imagi-nation: The Army of Gebrovia - For the time being this is just a photo-dump. There's little more to say at the minute. I finished the Imagi-nation project and it awaits its' first use.
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Updated Publications page - As I have another two books in the last stages of publication (THE MADASAHATTA CAMPAIGN and GRIDDED NAVAL WARGAMES) I decided to update the Publications pa...21 hours ago
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Gobsmasha from years ago - Earlier this week I saw a post on another site showing a 15mm Gobsmasher in the process of being built. This got me thinking..... I had produced a Gobsma...
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Yapton Beer Festival 2018 - Yapton has been and gone again... another year has passed! The sun shone, the beer flowed, Yapton worked it's usual magic and we all got sun burnt and enjo...
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Soviet Infantry 28mm - MMG (Maxim) Team - My Stalingrad Soviets are in dire need of support, so production of Maxim MG Teams has been decreed a priority ... moving over to the painting table and my...
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The Guns of August 2018 - It's official.. I will be running several sessions of *Beneath the Lily Banners/The War of Three Kings* at the Guns of August show... When the PEL becomes ...
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Un poco mas Guerrillas - Eagle Figures - Some more unsavory characters to make life miserable for the French - this time by Eagle figures. These figures are notably more slender and a bit slim...
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Robots, Servitors, Arvis Lighter, and other Bits and Bobs - An assortment of odd and sundry items finally made their way off my workbench this week. Most of them have been hovering around the edges for some time. I ...
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Freeman's Farm in 54mm - Taylor dropped by Thursday night for a quick game of C&C Tricorne and I selected the Freeman's Farm scenario based on the troops I had painted up (need to ...
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"At First Glance, Karsus Doesn’t Seem Like Much." - *"He's neither as durable as Garrek nor as deadly as Saek."* This 28mm scale multi-part "push-fit" model of Karsus The Chained is part of the "Warhammer Un...
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Choose your own sci-fi stock art. - I like supporting other OSR projects. The more people we have doing this stuff successfully helps to keep this a thriving hobby with enthusiastic gamers. A...
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Giant Commission -- I See Dead People - Here are 20 casualty markers for Glenn's Anglo-Allied army. There are 12 infantry and eight cavalry casualty bases. Now I just have nine mounted French co...
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Wild West Gallows - Friday's Scenery Update...I've been mostly working on a commission which included lots of different scenery bits but also found the time to add a couple o...
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Death in a Tight Splace Redux - Myself and Adam got together to yesterday to replay Adam's excellent scenario Death in a Tight Space. On our last outing, I played the defender. Yesterday...
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Mycenae - HI visited ancient Mycenae today. Situated in the foothills of Mount Zara near Argos, it was the capital of the mighty Mycenaean civilisation - one of the ...
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Medieval "On the March" 1 - From *Valdemar*. "VA188 ON the March " It says on the link, " 11 marching kniggits". On the pics of the set there´s ten. I got these ten plus another who i...
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Partizan part 2 - I'll begin with a game that I missed from the previous post, Varna 1444, showcasing the Kallistra range of figures and terrain. It was shown at Alumwell e...
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Border Reivers - 28mm - A couple of years ago I bought some 28mm Border Reivers from Alan at Hoka Hey - partly because they were nice figures, and partly because he's simply such ...
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The Dragon Host in Battle - As I feared, after 2 multi-player games and having watched a multi-player Viking vs Saxon Lion Rampant game, the rules weren't as bad as they appeared in ...
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Cornered Wolf - Rule review and 1st outing. - Sunday night and with the smell of varnish hanging heavy in the air saw the first outing for the Cornered Wolf Rules. It's fair to say they are somewhat bl...
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Fighting in a Built Up Area (BUA) - *Move 10* *British move first* Artillery screened by 2 brigade Cavalry charge lancers 1 brigade advance to far edge of farm and attack 30 infantry 2 briga...
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Warmaster Fantasy - Vampire Counts Counter Set Revised - *This set of Vampire Counts counters replaces the set that I did well over a decade ago while I was active on the Warmaster Yahoo email list. Unlike the o...
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Project Genesis - Un progetto che sembrava dimenticato, eppure in questi mesi ho raccolto un pò di materiale ed è arrivato il momento di tirare le somme e realizzare qualcos...2 days ago
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Good people doing cool things… - Just read an email from one of the original DFG Kickstarter backers, James. James helped me out quite a bit in my KS giving feedback, making videos and j...
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Licz | A liche - Przy okazji pokazywania ostatniej zmory wydanej do 4/5 edycji WFB, jakiej brakowało w moich zbiorach, wspomniałem figurkę, która była przyczyną tego stanu...
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19th May, Northamptonshire - After a while in the planning, on the 19th May, we played the Shedquarters Paraitakene game with Basic Impetus. The game was played with Trebian's clas...
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A (brief) Partizan Snapshot! - Went to *Partizan* on Sunday to help on the *Hysterical Games* stand so I didn't really get a chance to have a proper look around and take photos but a few...
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The Boyz Are Back In Town: FB 3rd Edition Regiment Painted - Hello there! Here's the regiment of WHFB 3rd edition painted. These are the minis I started the hobby with, along with plastic Rogue Trader Marines (those ...
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Prussian Generals - After the Egyptian campaign we make a jump 40 years back and come into the SYW. Holger asked for two personalities of this war. The two great heroes of Pr...
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News, Views, Etc . . . Housekeeping! - Gog (Toys From The Past) posted that the latest issue of Figuras en Action (Action Figures) is now available as a free download from the dedicated blog, I ...
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Unboxing: Halfling Shirt from Games Sesh - An unboxing of the Halfing t-shirt I designed for Games Sesh's range of Fantasy RPG Shirts Myserious Green Package (address label removed) It seems standar...
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Historicon 2018 - My Games (Shameless Self Promotion) - Yes this is my annual plug for the games I running at Historicon. Its all very self aggrandizing and such but there you go. You can pre-register for gam...
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Salute 2018 - Photo Report... at last - Finally, the Salute 2018 photo report. The day before Salute, sneaking, like a reece unit! The first visit - Battlegroup Torch demo game table, ready to ro...
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Necromunda Bounty Hunters & Hired Guns 02 - Having showcased my old school *Necromunda *bounty hunters and hired guns last post, this time I want to show some of the figures for the newest version. T...
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The Denmark Strait, 24th May 1941....Game Number 53, Part 2 - *Bismarck sorties with some Bf110s providing air cover.* Today marks the anniversary of the of the Battle of the Denmark Strait in 1941, pitting H.M....
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Gaslands Deathrace Gate - All I’ve been doing since my last post is furiously mangling Hot Wheels cars, and designing and printing terrain for Gaslands. I’m enjoying the game so muc...2 days ago
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Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 248 – 7th Continent - Download Episode 248 Welcome to Episode 248 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast In this episode the Meeples crew get together and catch up with what they h...
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Five large 28mm regiments in eight days - Yes, in just eight days I have produced five full units in my experiment with Peter Dennis’s wonderful paper soldiers. My British army already has three la...2 days ago
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Doctor Mao and the Autons - The Autons are an old monster from Doctor Who. First appearing in 1970s 'Spearhead from Space'. they have shown up as villains several times in both clas...
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It seemed like a good idea at the time... - It looks like the 1/72 Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte from Modelcollect has hit the shelves and started making its way into the hands of modelers across the w...
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Age of Sigmar: Mort-Vivants contre Hommes Lézards - Deux parties d'AoS opposant mes mort-vivants aux Hommes Lézards de Julien. Nous avons joué avec les listes de Path to Glory avec 4 unités de chaque coté. ...
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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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At Partizan with Soggy Bottom! - I had a fantastic weekend at Partizan in Newark with chums Andrew Brentnall, Tim Thompson and Ian Notter! Here are some photos of the game that Ian took...
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BIMP1 Marian Rome vs Gaul - We 've had a change of tack & returned to Ancients. We've also had a change of rules. A few people mentioned how well Basic Impetus flows, so..... A Mar...
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May hobby progress - I've not got much gaming in since my last post, events have conspired against me, we did get to play Conquest of the Empire, we were all surprised when I w...
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Kitbashing Model Spaceships with Snap Ships - One of our favorite discoveries from this year's Maker Faire was Snap Ships, a construction kit for designing and building your own miniature space s...
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40mm zen garden and WIP - My latest terrain piece for my 40mm samurai collection: The bamboo wall is made from a strip of place mat, the path and zen rock garden are sculpted from ...
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Slingers of the Mediterranean part 2 - An expansion to my previous bases of Greek and Balearic Slingers from Newline Designs 20mm Ancients range. This expansion came about because I realised ...
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Great Lakes, part 1 - With my recent order to Waterloo Minis, I added a sampling of the Langton War of 1812 ships: Here we have a pair of schooners that could be used for either...
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Grundstok Gunhauler - The baby balloon is done Made sense that the smallest of the airships was also the home of the daredevils of the force and determined to fly to the MAX!! ...3 days ago
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Kreisinfanterieregiment Furstenberg - Here is a two battalion regiment with two grenadier companies from the Swabian Circle. Kronoskaf says “1st battalion: 4 companies from the Princedom...
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646 - 'What A Tanker!' - Alright, Dudes? A couple of weeks ago, I got to try out the new game by Too Fat Lardies, 'What A Tanker!' at the club in Torbay, With Guy, Sam and C. Led by...
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Reviews of Bad Dog - Please excuse the fact that I'm posting the latest review of *Bad Dog* from a 20 year Navy veteran. I felt honoured to have had this man take the time...
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Who shot first? - Greedo, a Rodian Bounty Hunter, was one of the second wave of action figures that young Master Awdry readily exchanged for his pocket money. Like many ot...
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Japanese Project - Another regiment towards my goal of a division Most manufacturers represented I had enough Hong Kong 'knock offs' to include companies in travel march ...
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Camden 1780 at Partizan 2018 - This Sunday just gone I staged my recreation of Camden at the Partizan wargame show in Newark, Nottinghamshire. A few pictures of the game are shown below....4 days ago
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Redoubt Minis - Three Musketeer Characters - Apologies one and all, I've been neglecting my and your blogs for nearly a month. The real world has unfortunately taken its toll on my hobby time!!! The...
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Monday Knights - A triple D B A Game featuring Seleucids versus Ptolemaic. A great forest of pike gathered Monday at M. Sanderson's house for a triple DBA fielding of the...
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belated buildings for Market Garden. - These buildings from Timecast turned up too late for the game, and I wasn't sure about the size. They have now been painted and I'm still not convinced. Th...
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Model Aircraft Scales For Wargaming - From left to right - Scotia-Grendel, Warlord Games, Revell, Airfix. Warlord Games introduction of their innovative Blood Red Sky has kickstarted WWII...
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La Gorgue Airfield Demonstration Game. Partizan 2018. - Adrian was kind enough to send me images of the game last Sunday showing the recent set of vignettes on the table in context. Thanks, Adrian. The game won ...
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Victrix Vikings - News has been trickling out over the past few weeks that Victrix Miniatures are moving into a new era - the dark ages. It seems that the first range will b...
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Landsknecht Half Giant - Hi !! New mercenary creature for my growing Landsknecht Dwarves army. Here is an Half Giant, this nice chap is the result of an uncommun union of a female ...
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Triumph of Death: Horse Archer Sneak Peek - Another sneak peek at my upcoming Triumph of Death II Kickstarter,behold the mounted horse archer! Concept work My original aim with this one was to mak...
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25mm Cave Lurker - I printed this model on my new printer. I like how it came out. I haven't decided whether to add it to an army, a warband or make it a creep.
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The Return of Satrap Miniatures - Cyrus, previously of Satrap Miniatures fame (now sadly defunct due to photo storage issues), has returned with a new blog, Bucellarii. It's great to see hi...
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Stalingrad in 6mm - some useful videos - Found these on You Tube. 2D6 Wargaming who specialises in 6mm and has loads of good wargaming stuff on his You Tube channel. Some of the challenges in warg...5 days ago
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28mm Panzer II L Luchs - Now done. This is the first 28mm scale vehicle I've done, so still quite a bit to learn but it turned out decently. The Warlord model is a little simplifie...
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AT-AT, Shield generator and some gaming - Have been much Star Wars Legion lately... both I and my son David really like the game and he have been asking for a AT-AT... so for his 9-year birthday ...
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Partizan - I've mentioned before that I've been attending the Newark show since it started!!! and was held in a sports hall. I've been doing demo games there for almo...
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28mm WWII German Support Teams (2) - These will be the last WWII German support teams for quite a while, possibly forever. These two teams are the last support teams in my German WWII army 'd...
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Heresy Era Questoris Knights - House Vyronii Knight Lancer Built - Quick hit this morning, I spent some time yesterday afternoon rummaging around in the Closet of Doom for something to build - I've been doing a ton of pain...
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Van Saars ready for action! - Well, I spent this weekend getting paint on too my new Van Saar gang for Necromunda. This is my gang and I had said when they come back out, I was getting...
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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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Pledge Update - I'm winning! - It's hard to believe it, but I am actually ahead on my figure count. Not on my vehicles, but I will start really working on that soon, with my OGRE mini...
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Less than a week to Enfilade! - There is less than a week to go until Enfilade and I’m finishing up the paperwork needed for my games and getting everything ready to pack into the car for...
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Review German infantry winter plastic boxset - Let me share briefly my comments on the new plastic box set from Warlord: To start with, this box is in my opinion, very much oriented toward late war ger...
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First To Fight 'Polish Artillery' reviewed - New review of the First To Fight WWII set 'Polish Artillery'.6 days ago
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Partizan 2018 - Back from yet another splendid show, just when you think it can't get better it does. Lots of wonderful games on display or to participate in yet again thi...
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King Richard III Retinue 28mm Wars of the Roses - Today myself, Chris and Dave went to the Partizan Wargames show near Newark. It's a very good show, and the venue is the same as the Hammerhead one which...
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Partizan - mojo restored - Another terrific day at a superb show. I had a few things I wanted to do and top of that list was to take Barry Hilton up on his offer to play a few moves...
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Ground Cover Experiments - Before I get too far into my ECW project I want to decide how I'll do the basing. Undoubtedly this is a period I'll dabble in over many years and I want ...
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The Antagonists! - I got all the "villains" done for the game at NTRPG Con that Thom over at Throwigames is going to be running. I believe the game is on Saturday. Anyway, ...
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Taurox Prime and some Flames of War - Over the past two weeks I completed this silly looking but very satisfying Taurox Prime model for my Cadian 40k army. I'm seeing this as Eisenhorn's taxi e...
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16th century Tradgardland - I have realised that I have enough S range Minifigs to start gaming some renaissance battles I have a few more figures but if anyone has any unwanted S rang...6 days ago
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COMGE MELILLA 2017 - Recientemente hemos tenido la oportunidad de visitar a un buen amigo nuestro que destinado en Melilla ocupa el puesto de Comandante General de dicha ...
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Somewhere in the Known World - Tom and Rob came over yesterday and we had a game of To The Strongest using my newly completed collection of 28mm troops for the Punic Wars. Actually this ...
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Tanks and more Tanks - After our first game of What a Tanker on Thursday I decided to crack on and paint up a few more tanks. They are all plastic kits from Zvezda. I've been pic...
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Regimental Fire and Fury ACW game - Played an American Civil War game today, finally got my collection out after 4 years sitting in boxes. Great game with Mark Piper based upon a scenario fro...
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Roman Camps for the Gaming Table - Over the last couple of weekends I have been slowly building two Roman Camps for Impetvs. Each camp was put together from a bunch of left over figures I ...
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Wham bam ... - After our recent house shift (to the more rural Lincoln 'township' or village 15 minutes from Christchurch) four weeks ago, I have been craving some games....
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Blackbarrow Chronicles, Episode 3 -The Wayside Drinkers Club - The Return of Green Magic Green Magic is long standing theme in my games , and especially on this particular piece of terrain using ( my Hirst Arts “fie...
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31st Annual Armed Forces Day Celebration - Findlay, Ohio - This morning we trekked over/up to Findlay for the 31st Annual Armed Forces Day Celebration. This is our first visit to this three day event, and I'm happ...
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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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Fanatic Enterprises FE10 An Abandoned Army AAR - A now defunct scenario designer and supplier Fanatic Enterprises produced a truck load of scenario packs over the years. Paul Kenny has the knack of produc...
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More Buildings for Sale... - Here is the results of this weeks terrain making sessions. Following the feed back from the last post I thought I would try making a jungle ruin for Ghost ...
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Something of an anomoly... - ... a Spider-Man villain that isn't animal themed: As mentioned in my previous post, it wasn't just Thor Ragnarok that we had to watch to get caught up, s...
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Paint Table Saturday: Byzantines, tempting figures,models from the past and an art blog - So, it is another Royal Wedding today and, luckily, the Old Bat will be glued to the TV all day, enabling me to get a decent amount of painting done. T...
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FWS Top 10: Forgotten Military SF Video Games (Vol 3) - Here we go again! This is the 3rd installment of the *Top 10: Forgotten Military Science Fiction Video Games *series and at the moment, will be a total of...
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May Work in Progress #1 - I have been putting many hours of work on my corridor set for Necromunda. This is from Death Ray Designs and is made to match the wall siloettes on the ...
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Enfilade ho! (the mad dash to the finish) - Enfilade! is a week away and I'm painting and working on terrain like crazy. I don't think I've ever had the kind of productivity I've had in the last c...
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Mortal Realms of Chaos: Lost and the Damned Narrative Campaigns for the Modern Enthusiast - I am hoping to revisit some of the Realm of Chaos scenarios that inspired me as a kid, but this time with the benefit of cutting edge 2018 playing card tec...
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Ravenloft VI - *Raising the Dead (16th May 2018)* *The Party* Bernard – Human Cleric Grumbold – Dwarf Paladin Malfeseus – Elf Rogue Meegosh – Gnome Wizard Millie – Half-...
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Galactic Heroes - Battle-suit Alpha! - *Poor Hawk, we hardly knew you...* I had someone online ask me if you could use the upcoming Fistful of Lead: Galactic Heroes with anime type giant robots/...
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Sharp practice 2 - Two pictures from a small game of sharp practice. The british were attacking an american farm. Using the stats from the War of 1812 supplement. Canadian...
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The Kings council meets ... - *The King's council is meeting today, discussing the current military situation - including the increasing military build up by Begovians.. * The King outl...
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CROSSOVER!! - I had to borrow Grimlock from my daughter, really it's mine from when I was a kid, but she is a transformers fan so she inherited it. "You sure this thing ...
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What happened - It's not like I didn't do ANYTHING during that time...So, like sixteen, seventeen months with no posts on this blog. What happened? Got separated. Moved...
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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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Yan Koryani Helmet Plumes... - Just counted out 672 Yan Koryani helmet plumes, 52 double helmet plumes, 24 large banner plumes, and 50 medium banner plumes. Received today along with a ...1 week ago
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Ghost Fleets - Last November Ravenstar Studios had a massive 40% off sale. So that made a few decisions for me and I put in a pretty big order. More than I was initially ...
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My Unofficial Battlegroup: Cold War - Revised Soviet Lists and West German AFV Data Cards - It's been a while between drinks and I still haven't quite sorted out the AAR that I was supposed to put up a couple of weeks back... Anyhoo... Part of the...1 week ago
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MK Campaign - 12th/13th May 2018 - And so May rolls around and it is time for Campaign in the shopping centre at Milton Keynes. I love this show. I have written before as to why I think it i...
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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...1 week ago
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Prussian Yorck progress - I'm gonna try and reignite my blog. I met a few people recently who have said they enjoyed seeing my progress on the blog and it's given me a kick to try a...
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Hexxon Templates - Got these finished, probably that's all I'll need for the various scales above 10mm. To the woods: Completed templates for use with the larger scales i.e,....
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Refight of the Battle of Puebla, May 5th 1862 - Some of you may recall I ran this game at Historicon back in *2012* (I can't believe it has been six years!). I finally got this back on the table and hope...
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Beton - My Goliath Gang - I normally struggle with inventing colour schemes. But somehow those hazard stripes went themselves on the test model and then Ive got whole gang painted )...
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Supers Unlimited - Miniatures - Sorry for the silence in the last few months, but I promise it has been with good reason! I have decided to launch a line of supers minis later this year ...
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Disposable Heroes - Latest Game in 1/72 Scale - On Saturday afternoon my mate Alejandro invited us to his house and we got together with another of our gaming buddies, Juan, and managed to get in a good ...
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Circus of Corruption - Jim Carter and Coilin Brown - Finishing my triumvirate of Circus of Corruption sample minis we have two more of the players, Jim Carter and Coilin Brown, a puppeteer and acrobat from ...
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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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Where have all the bloggers gone? - About a year or so ago I posted that there seemed to be less activity in the world of wargames blogs and after taking some advice I linked my blog to Face...
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And the resaults are in. - But not really. When I did the first 6 of these Russian Horse Grenadiers, I asked if I should do 3 figure companies or expand the companies to twice the hi...
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What a week! - Hello and welcome to Inso's world, after what has been a very eventful week. To cut to the chase, Hobby time hasn't really been the main focus of my week b...
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Those four chaps - mounted and armed with muskets - completed the two new sets of musketeer figures, the mounted set ... and on foot armed with muskets
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Heir of Rienne Inherits - I still need to write up a proper battle report, but a game in the Northlands campaign was fought today using the Dragon Rampant rules and the travel mini...
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Battle of the four Generals (conclusion) - There is tension also for Blucher as the Silesian (aka Death-Star) Landwehr take a pasting from Tony's guns. They took similar punishment in the next turn ...
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Classic Warlord – the Designer’s feedback - after publishing my last post on Classic Warlord (it’s here if you haven’t seen it) Mike Hayes who wrote the game dropped me a mail with some comments on o...2 weeks ago
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Rogue Trader 2018 - Wow! No one saw this one coming. A new board game called Rogue Trader was showcased very very briefly on YouTube's Warhammer community TV yesterday. Featur...
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Mantic Metal May Madness – Part 2 - As you may have read, this week we’re opening up the Mantic Archive to bring back some great metal miniatures for you guys. This blog will cover miniatur...2 weeks ago
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British Unrated Cutter from Games of War - *The British Unrated Cutter "Fly" 1763 from Games of War is the latest addition to my shipyard. In this blog post I describe the painting and building proc...
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Ghost Archipelago Campaign '18, Game 5: The Abandoned Watchtowers - This past weekend we got together for the fifth game in our Ghost Archipelago campaign. We had only 5 of our regular 8 players. We continued to work...
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The Guardian (3) - Ouch! Almost a month since the last post :( Well, one reason for the lack of update was the frustration I experienced trying to paint a proper background ...
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New "Command Chair" for the Studio - I know it's been nearly a month since I posted anything. Work has been busy, not mission-wise, but because we're short-handed, and will be for at least...
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More SAGA with a new Romano British Army - Been a busy few weeks with work travel but I have managed to complete the final touches on my Irish Warband for SAGA. I am also about to be deployed for 3...
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Scary Soviets - Elheim Soviet Officers Once a year, some friends and I meet up for birthday con, a day of gaming in March or April which is roughly when our birthdays o...2 weeks ago
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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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Terrain setup for 15mm wargame - Here are some shots of a battlefield I set up in about 30 minutes. It will feature a Russian attack vs. French defense in the Napoleonic era. Everything is...
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WM: Khador Man-O-War Assault/Siege Chariot Pre-Order - Yesterday was the last day to pre-order a Khador Man-O-War Assault/Siege Chariot from Black Anchor Heavy Industries and receive a free Truckers Hat. I tho...2 weeks ago
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Nova Aetas Heroes - I have been painting up the miniatures for the game Nova Aetas, which I pledged for on Kickstarter. I haven't played yet because I want to have everything ...
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The Host of Angband (thus far) plus more Elf conversions - I've been busy with my 'Silmarils Rampant' project, both doing some more Elf conversions and painting some evil models. Here are the latest Elves, this tim...
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New from Saddle-Goose Designs - Dux Britanniarum polo shirt - https://www.saddle-goose-designs.co.uk/toofatlardies-merchandise/dux-britanniarum-black
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RIDING WITH THE COLUMN - *EN-ROUTE TO THE NORTHWEST FRONTIER Commentaries About Our Hobby* *#2* See General Pettygree's, RIDE WITH THE COLUMN, SIR! Where: Preceding this report Ge...
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Project Quebec: Regiment Guyenne - I've really enjoyed building this unit. For those of you who follow my blogs, it should be understood I am enthusiastic about too many periods and armies....
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27th Foot - Airfix 1/32 - Ahh, the old Airfix Polythene 1/32 figures. I am pretty sure I bought a box of these with my pocket money when I was about 12!
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It's Alive! - Elite Miniatures flyer. So it turns out it wasn't dead - merely sleeping. Elite's SYW range wakes up with a new release of Austrian infantry.
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British AEC Mk III - We tend to play games with relatively little armour (most of the time), however I couldn't resist this marvellous armoured car from Blitzkreig miniatures. ...
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15mm Napoleonic 3rd Hussars - For a little while now I've been pottering away finishing half painted units that have been lurking about the workbench. Quite why I am interested in this ...
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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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To Blog or not to Blog... - Hoi, It will not have escaped your attention that this blog has been silent for some time. This is mainly due to the fact that I have both been very busy: ...3 weeks ago
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Brigade Games "Spies and Patriots" Kickstarter - I'm quite looking forward to this. The fellow in the long coat and open shirt would make a great Adam Kismet for 7TV. The agent next to him would make a ...
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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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Pikes, DBA, Campaigns…Does this count as a Grab Bag? - It’s been a while since I’ve said anything about DBA. I own the v3 rules and like them quite well. The one thing that bugs me is how Pikes are handled. ...3 weeks ago
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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...3 weeks ago
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Insurrection - First Battle - Where we left the narrative last time. The lancers are seeking out the Insurrectionist right flank. The first battle of the insurrection in Gatonegro could...
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A few hours free - Hi Chaps, Well things certainly improved this afternoon on the war gaming front. I actually had 2 hours of my own time with no distractions. What a treat. ...
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Warner's Extra-Continental Regiment "Green Mountain Boys" - After seeing Giles Alison's superb version of the green mountain boys here many moons ago I knew that I had to do my own version.When painting for the h...
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Carthage, Monsters and Points - Recently I finished off an eclectic group of figs and pieces. First up is a set of 28mm plastic Carthaginian Citizen Infantry from Victrix. Nice simple fig...
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Modern Austrians - Part V - Eureka, CP Models, Terrain4Games Something I forgot to do, take some comparison pictures of my Eureka proxy Austrians as compared to the CP Models Taliban ...
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My Fantasy Story: Lie Of Omission - I recently submitted a story for a fantasy contest at Baen Books. My story could be described as a mix of Full Metal Jacket and Harry Potter. Want to read ...3 weeks ago
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A trip to Muspelheim - Recently the Heritors exploring the Ghost Archipelago heard of a possible mapstone located on a volcanic island far to the south, called Muspelheim. The m...
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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...
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54mm Italian Knight by Andrea Miniatures - My next large scale figure project is a 54mm Italian Knight by Andrea Miniatures. It's a lovely sculpt and all metal. I primed the figure black and then di...
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Anglo Saxon Cavalry - There is some debate as to whether Anglo-Saxons operated as cavalry in battles, certainly the larger melees which have survived in manuscript accounts have...
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36 Point Too - Good afternoon, Last post before Term 2 begins. On Friday young Richard popped over during his lunch for a couple of quick 36 point games. Cool! I took a...
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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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Richard as Duke - A Yorkist command base for the War of the Roses game at the Falkirk wargames show.
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Jacobite Rebellion kick starter - A fantastic kick starter from Flags of War offering a wonderful range of 28mm figures ,well worth alook if you are looking at this period . https://www.kick...
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Free Patrol Angis scenario and have a great weekend from The Ion Age - As foretold earlier this month with the release of the brand new 15mm scale character packs of Retained Knights it is our delight to present to you a free ...
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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...
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SCULPTURE: Monster Head Pt. 5 - It's been a while since I've played with some Sculpy clay. I got inspired by some of the recent movies with giant monsters in them ("Rampage" and "Pacific...
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Going Solo - Not long now and the Star Wars Story Solo will be on at the cinema. Here is the most recent trailer. Looking good, looking forward to it.4 weeks ago
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Moonbuggy - I'm building Moongrunt forces, hopefully I will get them done in time for next year's ECC GZG Con. While building I had a flash of inspiration, those NAC 6...
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Private Whitworth, Berdan Sharpshooters and wheat fields - Finished rebel marksman. The great thing about painting Confederates is once you have the grey, just add a little light brown to it and you have the co...
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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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Shadow War - The Good, the Bad and the Atrocious - I've gotten a bit behind with my Shadow War updates. I've been playing the games, but not finding the time to post about them. So here are three quick repo...
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More WIP - Today I am doing a Baal Predator. I have been feeling pretty excited about painting lately and have been working my skills with the Airbrush. Of course...
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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...
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Old School Napoleonics (2) - Mr Asquith has been a little under the weather of late, so it was with great pleasure that I attended his house a few days ago to recommence our regular ga...
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"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...
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More WIP table pics - Hi gents, A few more pics the table has moved on slightly since these were takin with antique studding added to the leather so just to add the glass to the...
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Salute 2018 - I was so upset that I was unable to make Salute 2018 this year, especially after spending the last six months preparing for it only to find work commitme...
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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...
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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...
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Jutland in a Day - Yesterday whilst most of the UK wargaming population were at Salute I took part in another refight of the battle of Jutland. This was run at the Berkeley V...
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Forager- Napoleonic Skirmish. Imperial Russian Jagers vs. Polish Voltigeurs - I finally got the chance to play a small scale Napoleonic skirmish game using the *Forager* rules from Stand To Games. I have not had much time for painti...
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Paint Table Saturday - Saturday comes around again. Before you know here it's here. Last week I didn't get a game of Wrath of Kings but I did play Batman the miniatures game. T...
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Recent games - Besides prosecuting the Sharp Practice campaign with Vidal, I recently made the trip to the Trenton Gaming Emporium where Michael and I had an enjoyable we...
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Childhood Living Is Easy To Do... - If you had an indulgent mother who nurtured your interest in military subjects - particularly uniforms and armor. Seeing blogger buddy Jonathan's recent Pa...
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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...
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Wargaming the Barbarian Kingdoms (6th and 7th century) - Part 3, Franks under Merovingian Rule - The Franks, of course, are those Germanic tribes that were in the area previously called Gaul, and soon to become called France. In the period we are look...
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West German Infantry vs Russian Afghansty in No Retreat near Essen and the Ruhr - Tornadoes darken the sky over Russian troops as West Germany moves to free Essen and the Ruhr My third game of the Firestorm: Stripes campaign was against...
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Large Rust Shack - This is the Rust Large Shack and the last piece that I ordered from Impudent Mortal so far. As you can see its pretty big compared to the other pieces...
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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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Plastic Possibilities - Now Stocking plastic mins, with a twist...! - Hi folks,Thanks for taking the time to visit and read about my new dastardly plan... well, not so dastardly as I hope it will help plenty of folks out!I am...
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Easter Holiday Wargames Day - Well I met up with Mark this week even though I was going down with 'C in C Home Commands' cold to see where we were with our Team Yankee project. It has...
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Gran galió espanyol - Spanish Large Galleon Minairons, escala 1/600 (=3mm) Aquest és un model original de la meva marca Minairons, que he volgut afegir a la meva creixent col·le...1 month ago
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What a Tanker Bits to Download - With What a Tanker released, we thought we’d provide a few bits to help run your games. So, without further ceremony, here are the following: WATdashboard1...1 month ago
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A number of battles with Nick - Despite plans to start a regular evening DBA meeting this year, it’s yet to happen, but I have caught up with Nick for a number of enjoyable games. One bac...1 month ago
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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...
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Star Frontiers Adventure Squares. - My love of the 1982 TSR game *Star Frontiers* has made me a bit of an obsessive, at least when it comes to the miniatures. Although I've had to slog throug...
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28mm Village sections - *New Russian Villages:* I've made up a few Russian village sections for WWII (although they'd do fine for Napoleonic too) These are mostly MDF kits from "Th...
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A selection of scenes .... - *finished painting the miscellaneous figures I obtained recently ...* priests in action .... a selection of workers.... supplies to the great hall ... t...
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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...
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Sepulchral Guard (Commision) [Shadespire] - *Otra banda de Shadespire, aunque esta es para un amigo.* ------------------------ *Another warband for Shadespire, but this one will be for a friend.* ...
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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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A Change is as Good as a Rest: pt1 - I've still been struggling to get on with painting for the last whole, so I've decided to do something else for a bit. I'd found some printouts that had ...1 month ago
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Blackmoore's Dragoons for Tomorrow's War - Blackmoore's Dragoons (Platoon) Troop Quality.....................................................D8-D10 Morale.................................................1 month ago
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Franco-Prussian War with Piquet Field of Battle (2nd edition) - It’s been a busy year with work and the rest of life. Fortunately I was saved from another day of work by our local game guru, Ian (of Warflag fame). He in...1 month ago
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2018 Update! - Yep, I am still alive! So, it has been almost nine months since I posted anything. Well, my work has been overruling my personal life and I lost my mojo ...1 month 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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More from the Naseby Project - In January the Naseby Project were invited by Historic Royal Palaces to showcase Phil’s wargame model of the battle at a games event they were hosting at t...1 month ago
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From the painting desk #58 – Long John Silver - Slug Industries' Long John Silver painted up - and a chance to get your own!
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First Bust Painted - A couple of years back, I took a painting class with Banshee (Spanish painter, Alfonso Giraldes). All the students who took the class got one of his resin ...
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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...1 month ago
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RaBBL season 1 - Good afternoon, sports fans, and welcome to round two of the inaugural RaBBL league! Last week saw a fantastic double-header with the Vantius Villains f...
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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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Le comte de Garnier's Alsatian Horse, 1688 - The last of the mounted allied regiments I've planned to paint this winter is a squadron of the Comte de Garnier's horse from the province of Alsace. L...
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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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Why I Haven't Played Call of Cthulhu in Three Years... - ... or,*There's Something Fishy on Gilbert Island*. Seriously - up until just this past Saturday, my players and I haven't played one of my all-time favori...
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New Piquet and Field of Battle Facebook Page - I've finally gone and done it - there is now a Piquet/Field of Battle Facebook page. You can find it at https://www.facebook.com/groups/201897673911387/ ...2 months ago
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Rome rises - I finished the first part of my army, the Roman troops; the second part, allied Numidians, Celtiberians plus some Cretan archers, German cavalry and other ...
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Moat Monsters - Moat Monsters A Sourcebook for OGL RPGs (Labyrinth Lord) I don't do many reviews, but felt compelled to say a few words about this little gem. In all tran...
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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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Bourtange - If you haven't been at the Fortress of Bourtange, you have to do with pictures and movies like this one. And yes, it really looks this was, there are se...2 months ago
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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...
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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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Feb/March Post. Late Feb 2018 blog - I know I said I was getting on with minis but while climbing the lead mountain I found these kits at the foot of the mountain thought about them then gave ...
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Wurst Case Scenario - *As* promised, pictures of our last game, this one was fought on February 25th. *"Hans! Ich muss dringend mal pinkeln" * * Prussians by Old Glory. Pain...
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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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MMA 54mm Italian Light Infantry Officer in Massaua with Cheetah 1885 Africa - Back again to models with legs and this one has six! This is a 54mm resin model from Italian company MMA. Its of an Italian Light Infantry Officer in Massau...
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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...2 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 ...2 months ago
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MWO: Mech Conversions..... - Three conversions to wrap up the MWO stuff before moving on to other things. Many moons ago, during the original Battletech period of the 90's, I modified ...
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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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Ronin Revisited - Having enjoyed playing Ronin before I wanted to get my figures and terrain to the table again, so I arranged for a game up at the club. In the end we spl...
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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...2 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...
2 months ago -
Probos Games Goliath & Imp - So you might ask what the heck is an historical painter doing painting fantasy miniatures well the story goes like this once apon a time there was a friend...
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Drybrushing Tutorial – Which Paint Brand is Best? - One item that I neglected to mention in my previous drybrushing post was the importance in selecting the right paint for the job. Whether you select Reaper...
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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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Gates for Gasland Death Races - I’ve played a couple of games of the new Gaslands from Osprey publishing. It’s been great fun so far and I’ve been spending an awful lot of time converti...3 months ago
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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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GHQ Guardsmen - I have posted this listing from the Walthers catalogue before and I am now indebted to Bob D from the States for sending me the following pictures of th...
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Barsoom: Small Martian Flyer - This is the RedVectors Small Martian Flyer, as seen in my post ‘SPACE 1889: Small Martian Flyer.’ It’s 7″ long, with a bit of crowding, you can fit 12 figu...
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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...3 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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Tarawa - I have been living in South Tarawa for the past 9 days or so. I've had a week long orientation and started my volunteer job this week. I must say I am abso...
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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 ...
3 months ago -
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...
3 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...3 months ago
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Mini Monday: Gotta Paint Terrain - So today's post is going to be pretty short since most of the day was spent on paintng terrain for some upcoming games. First up is the Discover Games, '...
3 months ago -
S Range Colonials - In the second half of last year one of my projects was my British and Empire S Range Colonial Force. My main colonial armies are Jacklex but I was able t...
3 months ago -
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...
3 months ago -
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...
4 months ago -
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...
4 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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FPW Staff - One of the issues with the S Range Franco Prussians is the fact that there is only one General figure per side and this doesn't help with the variety of...
4 months ago -
The Wargaming Compendium - Some wargames books are simply a pleasure to read. Henry Hyde’s Wargaming Compendium falls into that category. I recently invested in a hardback copy of th...4 months ago
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Review of 2017 - toys and projects - Most of my painting output in the past year has been 1/32 scale figures - a trend I expect to continue. Having the Leipzig game in late September provided...
4 months ago -
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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Book Review: China and the West by William Edward Soothill - China and the West by William Edward SoothillSubtitled: A Short History of Their Contact from Ancient Times to the Fall of the Manchu Dynasty I have been ...
4 months ago -
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...4 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 ...
4 months ago -
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...
4 months ago -
A post already and it's only January! - Tried to get a last one in before 2017 ended and the world went to pot again, but I've managed to keep up my batting average and missed it completely. Not...
4 months ago -
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...4 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...4 months ago
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15 mm Mirliton - Dragon PS - The first post of 2018 features some incredible brushwork from an artist at Dragon Painting Service of Hong Kong. It is simply stunning work with hand pain...4 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?4 months ago
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2018 Hobby Reset - 2017 was a different year for me regarding this hobby. I played a lot of different games (21 different systems/rules!), drifting away from some previously...4 months ago
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On the painting table: January 2018 - Germans, surprisingly enough. I reckon that I'll need one more war band like this and that will give me enough of the standard line of warriors for a dece...
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Painted Miniatures and Surplus GHQ for sale on eBay - It's been a tough year for painting and I've done very little (thanks primarily to my wonderful back!). Over the past couple of years my appetite for pain...
4 months ago -
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...4 months ago
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Merry Christmas/ Bah Humbug 2017 and an update! - *A brief update from a muddy field in rural Ireland..........* *Ray"The Orangutan" Rousell" reminded me that some people(maybe just one or two of you.......
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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...5 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...5 months ago
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Waterloo: A refight using BLUCHER rules - Rowan and I played a great game of Blücher today refighting Waterloo. I obtained the scenario from HERE: HONOUR BLUCHER SCENARIO BUCKET Here is some photos ...
5 months ago -
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. ...5 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...
5 months ago -
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...
5 months ago -
Squat heavy weapons team - Hi all - inspired by the fact that the Warhammer World New Year Open Day will soon be upon us, and that for the last few years I've been asked to display...
5 months ago -
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...5 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...
5 months ago -
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...
5 months ago -
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...
5 months ago -
Schwarzwdorf Recovered? - A mean and bloody battle.Vorlund hung on while Vandenburg cracked on turn 8. Played with M&R rules.
5 months ago -
Well well well! - Yes, once again, I have resurrected this blog from the dead. And it has been dead for some time now. My gaming has continued though and I have been frequen...
5 months ago -
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 ...
5 months ago -
Rembrandt and the Dutch golden age - Last weekend we decided to visit the NSW Art Gallery to celebrate Vanessa and my wedding anniversary. A number of the paintings depicted Naval actions from...
6 months ago -
Bloodshed and Plunder at the Sunrise Brewery - The Sunrise Brewery at Centerville The five of us decided to have a skirmish game this time, i.e. one figure represents one man (and not 20 as usual). We t...
6 months ago -
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: ...6 months ago
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Hobby Tricks: Prepping symbols, Sticks and BLOOD! - TJ here to share a couple of basic things I have used/ noticed that have helped me save time or just plain kicked ass. Let's take a look. So the Alpha le...
6 months ago -
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...6 months ago
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A new model army? - * Red Regiment - Charcot's Foot* * Red Regiment - Charcot's Foot* *Blue Regiment - Parliamentarian* *Covenanter musketeers* Well my last post here was bac...
6 months ago -
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...
6 months ago -
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...
6 months ago -
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...6 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...6 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...6 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...
6 months ago -
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...6 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...6 months ago
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Easy ACW Fences . . .Which is more better? - I need more wood fences for 10mm ACW battlefields. I don't want to buy, I want to make. And I want simple . . . not fiddly and fragile fences made from i...
6 months ago -
Visit to the B-17 "Aluminum Overcast" - Last weekend (Oct. 13-15), the B-17G "Aluminum Overcast" paid a visit to the Jackson, MS area. She flew into the John Bell Williams Airfield in nearby Ray...
6 months ago -
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...6 months ago
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Quick Update On Madame Padre - A quick update and word of thanks to those of you on social media who continue to reach out and offer their support and encouragement. As longtime read...
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Orktober: Givin' my Wagon a Fixin' - So the last of the Runts have been fished out of the engine cowling, the Grots have used up the last of the paint squigs and famed Mekaniak, Nazzkar Kabret...
7 months ago -
Cerignola 1503 - Derby Worlds Report - I counted them all out, and I counted them all back. All of the Italian Wars figures and terrain pieces are back in their cabinets and I'm glad to report t...7 months ago
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Saxons, Dwarves, and a Bunch of Terrain Stuff - Hello Tasteful Viewer, It's been awhile since I've posted, so I have a lot of stuff to post. First up are ten Renegade Saxons. Twelve Renegade Saxon arch...
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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 ...
7 months ago -
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...
7 months 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...
7 months 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 ...
7 months ago -
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 ...7 months 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:
7 months ago -
Blood & Plunder: MOAB 2017 - So MOAB is now over and was a great success. I couldn't blog any further progress on the build because I was really pressed for time. In the end I had a wee...
7 months ago -
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...
8 months ago -
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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My very own Spanish interlude - Almost three years gone... and my Spanish Ulcer is still playing up. Although I've not based any more minis, I've recently bought a couple of hundred more ...8 months ago
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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 ...
9 months ago -
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...9 months 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...
9 months ago -
BUA (Built Up Area) templates. - I had recently refurbished a number of older structures and constructed new ones for ancient and musket era use and as buildings are now individually based...
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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...
9 months ago -
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...
10 months ago -
Rossbach Prussian Flags Project - Flags of Prussian Infantry Regiment 1 Winterfeldt - I'm still not entirely happy with these but as it's now over a year since I posted anything thought it time to show something to keep things ticking over. ...
10 months ago -
Review 3 Peluang Bisnis Sederhana - Akhirnya cara yang jujur untuk menghasilkan uang secara online. Lelah peluang bisnis yang tidak memberikan apa yang mereka janjikan? Kami telah meninjau ...
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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!10 months 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...
11 months ago -
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...11 months ago
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Situation - This blog is being altered somewhat. It is not being deleted, however any new content will be posted to my main blog Pewter Pixel Wars. All of the posts ...11 months ago
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8th Edition Impressions: Core Rules - *by SandWyrm* Since I now have my 8th Edition hardcover in hand, I'm going to start going through it and posting my thoughts on this new version of 40K. W...
11 months ago -
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...
11 months ago -
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...11 months 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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My most recent & earlier paint jobs since Nov 2016 - I wanted to share a couple of pics with my paint jobs done November 2016 through May 2017. I haven't managed to post much during that time, besides our Hoc...
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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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And now for something completely different... 15mm Dwarves - Twenty years ago, I got sucked into the De Bellis Antiquitatus (DBA) and Hordes of the Things (HotT) craze while I was at U.W. Madison, finishing up my und...
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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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Random Workbench - After a catastrophe that saw the disappearance of all photos taken over the last few years, vacations and family photos included, I was looking to see w...
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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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Painting Tartan - I know Inhave been extremely quiet for about 3 months (ouch!). I have not been idle, but frankly except for a hiking trip to Scotland I have been stuck in ...1 year ago
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A Special Sale and Some Previews - I am offering an end of March-first of April sale for those who follow my blog. Just enter slmblog17 under coupon at checkout to receive 25% off your order...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Caesarean Roman Project I - I wrote this article about my Caesarean roman project for Warlord Games a few days ago. It's the second one in a series showing how I'm collecting and pa...1 year ago
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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...
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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...
1 year ago -
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....
1 year ago -
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.1 year 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...
1 year ago -
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....
1 year 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...
1 year ago -
Halo Ground Command: 15mm Covenant forces - … The post Halo Ground Command: 15mm Covenant forces appeared first on Model Dads' blog.1 year ago
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Dorylaeum With L'art de la Guerre - We have been playing L'art de la Guerre for a few months now. Having played a dozen or more 200 point “line em up and bash hell out of each other” games me...
1 year ago -
Update and reflections - Hi all, I haven't forgotten about my blogging, I have sort of just, well, started vlogging a bit as well. There are only so many words that pictures can sa...1 year 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 ...
1 year ago -
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...
1 year ago -
Macro shots of the Undead Pirates and a Zombie? Creepy! - It was amazing to see the detail through the lens.... Captain Richar...
1 year ago -
Saga: Dark Age Fun - At NJCon15 last year, I found a quiet corner outside the main convention hall where a number of people were playing a skirmish game called "Saga". I'd hear...
1 year ago -
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 ...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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 ...
1 year ago -
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。1 year 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...
1 year ago -
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...
1 year ago -
Wow it's been so long. - I haven't updated this in ages because, really haven't had any news. I'm still here tho, and i'm going to try and get those figures i've posted moulded in ...1 year ago
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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...1 year 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...1 year 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...
1 year ago -
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...
1 year 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...
2 years ago -
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...
2 years ago -
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...
2 years ago -
Grymn Flier - XII - All camouflage work done. Most of the details complete or just blocked in black. Still to do : Metal coat on the diamond plate, edge highlighting of all th...
2 years ago -
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. ...
2 years ago -
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 ...
2 years ago -
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...
2 years ago -
"...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. ...
2 years ago -
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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Grundi Ion Carbine Progress - 4th Feb 2016 - Next update on the Ion Carbine. The panels on the body have been amended to what I wanted, and look so much better, and the addition of the grip detail and...
2 years ago -
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 ...
2 years ago -
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 ...
2 years ago -
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,...
2 years ago -
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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Operation Martlet Game One - Made a long overdue visit to see my friend Jon today. We played the first game of the Operation Martlet "Pint Sized" Campaign using the Chain of Command ru...
2 years ago -
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...
2 years ago -
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...
2 years ago -
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...
2 years ago -
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 Big Winner! - The Gamer's Armory, a game store in North Carolina, recently held a gaming marathon to benefit the Turner Syndrome Society of the United States. I live a...
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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,...
2 years ago -
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...
2 years ago -
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...
2 years ago -
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...
2 years ago -
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...
2 years ago -
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...2 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...2 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...2 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...2 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...
2 years ago -
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...2 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...2 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...
2 years ago -
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...
2 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...2 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...2 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...
2 years ago -
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...
2 years ago -
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...
2 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...
2 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...2 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...2 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...2 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 ...
2 years ago -
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...
2 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 ...2 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...
3 years ago -
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...
3 years ago -
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...
3 years ago -
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 (...
3 years ago -
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...
3 years ago -
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!
3 years ago -
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...
3 years ago -
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...
3 years ago -
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...
3 years ago -
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...
3 years ago -
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 »
3 years ago -
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...
3 years ago -
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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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...3 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...3 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...3 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...3 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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Shiny Goodness - As a break from the normal stuff, I've been painting some 42mm toy soldiers. They are from the Little Britons range produced by Spencer Smith Miniatures an...
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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...3 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...3 years ago
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AWI church - First post here for some time, I plan to start painting my British collection soon for AWI, so to help me spur onwards I finished this church from the Rene...
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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...
3 years ago -
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...
3 years ago -
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...
3 years ago -
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...3 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'>Algunos les llaman autos, otros coches, otros vehículos y otros más les dicen carcachas. Sea co...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...
4 years ago -
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...4 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...4 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...4 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!4 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/4 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 ...4 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...4 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...4 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...4 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...4 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 @ Flickr4 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/...4 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...4 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...4 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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Plotting the afternoon away - Played a quick three player game of Condotierre this afternoon. Nancy (dark purple) won at the start of the fifth 'round' of battles, over Paul (red) and ...
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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 ...
5 years ago -
"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...
5 years ago -
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...5 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 ...
5 years ago -
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...
5 years ago -
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 ...
5 years ago -
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...
5 years ago -
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...
5 years ago -
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...
5 years ago -
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...5 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...5 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...5 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...5 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...
5 years ago -
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...5 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...5 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)....
5 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...5 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, Greg5 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 ...5 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...5 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...5 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...5 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...
5 years ago -
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...
5 years ago -
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 ...5 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...
6 years ago -
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...
6 years ago -
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...
6 years ago -
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...
6 years ago -
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...
6 years ago -
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...
6 years ago -
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...
6 years ago -
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...
6 years ago -
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...6 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...
6 years ago -
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...6 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...6 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...6 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...6 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...6 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...6 years ago
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