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Grot Super 'Copter- Army of One - Welcome to a very special *Army of One, *where I display great looking painted models from reader submissions! Interested in showing off your work on Spike...
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Talisman Returns...as a Mobile Game - The classic miniature game Talisman has been released in electronic form for mobile devices by Games Workshop. Talisman Prologue indicates Games Workshop...
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Why The Universe Loves Ralph Wiggum! - Thanks to *Calvin's Canadian Cave Of Cool* for this majestic Ralph-ism to round off today's Geek Day celebrations!
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INTRODUCING THE SPACEX AIRCRAFT CARRIER! - During an epic trawl of Spanish cyberspace whilst staying at my Daughters the other week, I came across a thing of rare beauty. Not only that I was able to...
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Robotech® RPG Tactics™ - Je fais parti de la horde de gens marqués à vie par Robotech après avoir vu la diffusion de la série sur La Cinq en 87. Les puristes peuvent bouder l'aspe...
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Warlord Games: Plastic Siberian Veterans - *Warlord Games:* First seen at Salute in London earlier this year, our Siberian Veterans have been eagerly awaited ever since. The armies of the Third R...
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Big Thanks to 6Sided! - Yesterday, this blog passed the 50,000 hits mark. As a result of the achievement, I wanted to take a minute to thank the staff at 6Side for offering such a...1 hour ago
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New Blood Pact models & desk - I was pretty excited a couple months back and posted that Blight Wheel minis would be making a model that was perfect for use as Loxatl. Well the model wi...
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A Gentleman's Aeronautical Conveyance.... - *I am really looking forward to repainting these (I have four of them) from their RAF plumage and interestingly enough, the Turks refitted the Mk1 with t...
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"The Longhorn" The Stanley Steam Tank from Black Army Productions - Black Army Productions have recently released this resin model of *The Stanley Steam Tank* that served for a short time with the U.S. Army Corps of Engi...
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The Original Hairy Mob - Crusader Pictish Armoured Spearmen - Finally, some heavy troops for the Picts! I had got enough archers, crossbowmen, javelin-armed skirmishers and light cavalry to run all over the table, but...
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Back to playing Witcher 1 - I've been listening to Polish audiobook versions of the Witcher saga while painting lately, courtesy of MiSiO from the By Fire & Sword forum. Of course the...
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Han Chinese by Stephan Berry - Stephan already posted some of this photos in Benno's forum, but I think they deserve more audience and I want to show them here again. The figures are mos...
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2013 Charity Army - Redemption of the Fallen - Redemption of the Fallen is a charity army build to raise money for Doctors Without Borders. In partnership with the NOVA Open Charitable Foundation, The ...3 hours ago
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Something of a record - Back again: three times in 24 hours! See below a couple of shots of the casualty marker I completed yesterday. Warbases make three sizes/styles, but this...
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MAYDAY 2013: Death in the Dust. - *DEATH IN THE DUST: * *GASLIGHT AT MAYDAY 2013* Highlanders clash with Beja. *Battle reports and thrilling pictures for the discerning wargamer.* I was...
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Dead in Deadzone - The zombies are coming. As if Deadzone wasn’t a dangerous enough place already, it looks like there’s a zombie infestation too. That’s really going to drop...3 hours ago
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Battle of Dresden, Day 2 (August 22, 1813); Scenario Development - The Battle of Dresden was probably Napoleon's last large scale success, although the words of his old friend, Marshal Marmont proved to be all too prop...
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Deadzone – Zombie Infestation! - The zombies are coming. As if Deadzone wasn’t a dangerous enough place already, it looks like there’s a zombie infestation too. That’s really going to drop...4 hours ago
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Excellent Model Shop in Ely, Cambridgeshire and Duxford Visit - A long weekend of penury was in the offing last weekend when Hazels Morris Dancing side, Dead Horse Morris were making a weekend of it at Ely in cahoots w...
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There Be Trophies ! - Just finished off the trophies for this weekends Southern League FoG:R competition - using some spare figures and trees, and one of the Empress Miniatures ...
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Battlefront Miniatures’ Rural Plastic Bases: a preview - We preview Battlefront Miniatures’ forthcoming plastic rural bases:5 hours ago
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Ten Rounds Rapid - Triples 2013 was the first public outing of 'Ten Rounds Rapid', our participation game for this year and run by the Wargames Developments Display Team (nor...
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Magneto vs Batman - Playmates Battle Dice figures made over 60 figures in mostly about 1/72nd scale. This guy is Magneto. I wanted more variety and so I am doing some con...
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A Damn Close Run Thing... - One of the benefits of working in Paris last week was that I could not keep checking the funding situation on the *Spy or Die Trying* *Kickstarter*. Just ...
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Simian Saturday: Lego Ape Mecha - Found this on the interwebs and thought it was cool! Have a great Simian Saturday!
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Bumper Flecktarn update and... Its our birthday! - Greetings one and all! Well, my goodness me. This time of the year rocked around quickly! It is our 3rd birthday, hooray! After the chaos that surrounded...
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Bannockburn (pt5) Sheltron 3rd battle - Edward de Bruce. - The start of another Sheltron, this one will be under command of Edward de Bruce. Finding bods to fill the ranks from my collection without buying the Stre...
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Lets get the flock out of here! - I have just put the finishing touches to the last (for now) of the 15mm Germans for I Ain't Been Shot Mum. The figures are from the Skytrex Command Decisio...
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Building 6mm Terrain in under 72 hours, part three - Success! In the end, everything turned out well. The boards took a little beating on the trip up, but a little emergency flock fixed them up. Rules used ...
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Completed Stug III. - It took me about 12 hours to complete the assembly of this tank. 7 HOURS LATER I completed the details and decals on the tank. After the wea...
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Storm at Stonne - 15 de Mayo de 1940, Stonne, Francia El regimiento Grossdeutschland defiende este punto estratégico de los ataques franceses dirigidos por DeGaulle. P...
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25mm Battlefield 3 Miniatures - Metro and Seine- finished! - Hey all! Okay, I FINALLY got a few minutes away from the baby to finish my two Battlefield 3 projects! Now, I play BF3 pretty religiously... like, at le...
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The Papal legate arrives! - Hi gents' When reading about the fall of Constantinople I was interested in the schism between the Orthodox and Catholic Church's this caused one Orthodox ...
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Dug's Stalingrad - My mate Dug has been sending me shots of the stunning Stalingrad game that he and mates ran at the recent Milton Keynes show. All the models are 1/35th sc...
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Wooot! I Am The Weiner! - Big props to Tamsin over at Wargaming Girl for, this week, running a prize draw in honour of 100,000 views on her blog. And thanks to that prize draw, I'...7 hours ago
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Pouchot reenacted - Here are a set a photos of the reenactment of the arrival of Pouchot at Niagara in 2005.
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Work Life Balance - fixing it - Work, Life Balance, or what I've not got much of these days... ...hence a wargame, the first in a while. * **"Get To Tha Dropship!"* An Imperial deep space...
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Miniature Wargames with Battlegames Issue 362 - Today I received my first subscription issue of the re-launched MINIATURE WARGAMES WITH BATTLEGAMES magazine. The articles included in this issue are: ...
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Holy! - It might be a good summer. If any thing might bring me out of my 40k malaise, this will. My Ulthwe will finally come off that very back burner! Dammit G...
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Blogger's for Charity - Several prominent UK gaming bloggers (Loki, James and Kev) has come up with a capital idea of doing a game for charity and trying involve as many of us as...
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Ma.K Tank - barrel - Common decency has made me hold off posting anything about this part till now, as the first part of putting the blue piece on a bit of plumbing pipe made i...
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Bloggers for Charity Blog! - "Wargames Bloggers joining forces to put on a Charity Demo game at Triples 2014" Andrew asked me to help highlight this excellent idea that he, James ,Kev...
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RAFM Planetary Militia - RAFM's venerable 15mm sci-fi line never ceases to impress me. I have painted several of the minis from this pack over the years, and here's two more I jus...
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Alia Juliet Rose, a Swords and Wizardry NPC. - Kelly Anne, my wife, drew this for the Saturday get together. Swords & Wizardry/Majestic Wilderlands *AC* 1[18]; 8th level Burglar; *HP* 17; *HTB* +2; *At...
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EOTD thugs, more Sinbad crew & Sinbad Bad guys - Got these last week from the Triples convention, lovley miniatures fromWestwind, joy to paint and add to my collection More crew for Sinbad, my good fri...
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Painting and Gaming Update - It has been a long time since I have posted any of my painting efforts. Everyday life has become more hectic as the kids grow up and want to do their own t...12 hours ago
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Sea Cruises - *Xanti Schawinsky* *A poster for Cosulich **Società Triestina di Navigazione,* *a part of Flotte Riunite (Italia Line)* *1934* via Oldimages @ Flickr A fe...12 hours ago
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dwarven bear cavalry - dwarven bear (heavy) cavalry. the first unit for the dwarf army based for warmaster. Yes I know, there are no dwarven cavalry in the warmaster rules, but t...
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WOTR: Misty Mountains/Dol Guldur vs Rhovanion/Noldor - This is really late in the piece but here is a rundown of a four player (I think it was 700 or 750 pts each) bash of WOTR. Three of us were using the tota...
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New Stuff.. - I started painting my Battlestandartbearer for my 28mm High Elves army. Also the hero is nearly done just missing his shield arm. The hero... The BSB ...
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ACTA Conversions - I spent the good part of today judging at the South Island Brass Bands competition. I am not musically inclined myself, but I do know quite a bit about t...
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Flames of War British Humber Armoured Cars - Flames of War British Humber Armoured Cars from Simon’s collection.15 hours ago
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Becoming Ancient Louis Vuitton Online Shop Often Website Nicely Qianxiu Words - I look forward to fulfill a person with my very best many. longchamp That is our type of years? Fourteen inches, Second thererrrs 55, and also 17-year-old....15 hours ago
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Handsome Hans And The Nasty Nazis - Christmas last Madame Padre gave me a bunch of two-fisted figures from Bob Murch's Pulp Figures range for my Weird War Two project. I liked the somewhat ...
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Adeptus Mechanicus - Prometheus Forge Knight (more or less) painted! - The temperatures have started to soar here in sunny Colorado and my painting loft has started heating up significantly - I've been getting a little bit of ...
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Review- Ziterdes Trench Works - Review- Ziterdes Trench Works http://www.ziterdes.de/ziterdes/de/ Although I’m fully capable of making my own terrain, I’ve grown fond of buying pr...20 hours ago
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Machinas: First sneak peek! - Ed sent me the first sample images of the cards to be used in Machinas. There will be multiple decks available (depending on how far the crowdfunding goe...
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1960-80s British Infantry - My order has finally arrived! A while ago when me and my friends Dave and Paul were looking to get into some Cold War gaming I went searching for suitable...
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Win More Games Without Changing your Plan - *How to win more games without changing your plan, buying more models or changing your list* * * Here is a guest post from a local player. I'm a big fan o...
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Funny Little Wars - No, I'm not interested in this period . . . heck, I already have far too many periods that I'm invested in. But while visiting The Virtual Armchair General...
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Memorial Day Weekend - Hey guys, I know my posts have been far and few between. I'm not gone, and I'm still thinking of ya. It's Memorial Day weekend here in the states, but wher...
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On The Road Again - a Force on Force AAR - This week's game at the club was a return to Murdistan and the Royal Marines pushing further into Murdistan. The scenario was the Marines had to try and es...
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That Difficult Second Elephant - *The product of some filing and gluing * There has been precious little time of late to do much. However, there is something extremely soothing about ge...
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Lead Painters' League continues - Apologies for the prolonged hiatus, it's been a busy few weeks at work and at home (including an outbreak of Chicken Pox!). Season 7 of the Lead Painter...
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Anvilic - The Shattered Rubric ~ True scale Pre-Heresy Marines Anvil Industry Unboxing ~ Part Three Anvil Industry Unboxing ~ Part Two Anvil Industry Unboxing ~ Part...1 day ago
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Ork Boar Riders WIP - *Here is a project I started probably about 6-8 years ago. No big surprise--Typical around here!! These are counts-as Orc Boar Riders. While my first foray...
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Two small vignettes - I always love adding some vignettes to enhance an army and usually I'll end up spending far too long on them. However these two have been done relatively s...
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Surely someone has invented... - ...a 3G or 4G modem that plugs into a laptop's network socket, rather than a USB port, and pretends to be a network connection? My experiences with USB ada...1 day ago
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Norse Dwarf Blood Bowl: toying with team building - In an ongoing tradition of not leaving well-enough alone, I present the third in a series of new Blood Bowl team rosters. The first team I made was Hobgob...
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Audi R8 V10 - This is a class advert (turn the volume up loud). I might be lusting after this vehicle just a tiny tiny bit... :) - -
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FWS Topics: The Background Information of AFTER EARTH (2013) - As a sci-fi writers, I've always been interested in the backstory and/or history of the fictional worlds that are created. Recently, I've become intereste...
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A visitor - Captain Sir William Widdrington of Her Majesty's Observer Corps has ridden far through the forest. He has seen the elk and boar and heard the eagles cr...
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Free Traders Setup Part 9: Trim the fat - You’ve now seen the thought and prep work that went into creating the setting; in all, probably about 20 hours’ effort, which is more than usual for me. ...1 day ago
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Necron Deathmarks Revisited - So I recently wrote a small quick start guide to 40K to kick start my mailing list *HERE*- shameless plug out of the way, and one of the important thin...
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Ready for battle - *T*he *terrain and troops for Raguhn are redy*. Below you can see the three sections of the battle field, as well as the troops, waiting for the deployment...
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Plastic Fantastic - Dimestore Spaceships Trial Painting - Just finished putting together some trial paint jobs on a selection of the plastic Dimestore Spaceships - mostly just a bit of fun, with a couple of deta...
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The Peninsular Armies(finally) - It's been a busy 2 months.... After hotlead was finished, school reared it's ugly head. we had all kinds of issues with professors so i really needed to b...
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WW2 US Marines and First Special Service Force - A few odd items rolling off the workbench this week… (Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version): Assorted WW2 US Marines from The Assault Gr...
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Jem & the Harlequins - Harlequins Exhibit A. The Harlequins are highly accomplished warriors and each Trouper, as their warriors are called, can be considered almost a one-man ar...
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P is for Petulant Pepperpot Peters-out Protesting Punishment - Well, it's sort of finished, and I've definitely put it to bed for now, these are both screen-captchas from my laptop, which while managing to handle the f...
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Building Hills - 2 - Time to turn those black piles into something more lively. I use some fine turf from Woodland Scenics (Green Grass and Earth). It came out OK but it wil...
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We are Legion... - I've finished off the updates on my old servitor horde. They all have their new sickly, pallid flesh, brassy bits with patina, and awesome Dragon Forge T...
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New free history books for Kindle - Hello, More free history books for Kindle released today. This is for Amazon (US) and they will go back to normal price some time on Sunday. So get them...
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Vietnam AAR: Here comes the Cavalry! - Our good buddy Brian Fuller was visiting Richmond recently and swung by for a game. He was curious to give Vietnam a shot, so I whipped up 2 lists that fe...
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Crowdfunding Spotlight: Modular Wargaming Terrain MAKI Games Kickstarter - Reblogged from The Grinning Skull: If only I was still doing Necromunda, or any other scifi gaming in 28mm, cos' these look very promising indeed! Ok, the ...1 day ago
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Daft dice - My Triples purchases conclude with these ridiculous dice. Other than not having bought any silly dice for ages I can't explain why I bought any of them......
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8 Skaven Battlefield Tips for Beginners... - ...learned the hard way! *Squeek* As it may take me some time to finish up my most recent battle report, I thought I would cut to the chase here! ...
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Bayonet and Ideology - One of the guys at the club suggested a game of the Peter Pig *Bayonet and Ideology* rules for the Spanish Civil War the other day. I have the rules, th...
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18th Century House project - I'm working on several 1/32 scale houses to go with Rev-War and Civil War figures. The "Georgian Colonial" is one of the best local examples of a "standard...
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Building Wargame Terrain by Tony Harwood - The release of the "Building Wargame Terrain" book by Tony Harwood of Dampf's Modelling Page is coming closer. In his book the creator of beautiful Grand M...1 day ago
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Back to Napoleonics - Today myself and a good friend, Jeff Smith, got together and played a small game of Napoleonics. We have not played this period since the start of the ye...
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Necromunda Delaque conversions - This all started a while ago when I picked up some cultists off Ebay just to see what they were like, how they were made and to generally be nosey. They've ...
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Field of Glory V2 - Recent Comments - Whilst reading the most recent post on Phil Steele's "Ancients on the Move" blog I came across a slightly worrying comment: "Our first 8 Doubles games [o...1 day ago
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New Mercenary Mech For Critical Mass Games, Part 7 - Alright, this one is in the bag. This is part 7 in a work-in-progress series of blog posts about a new Mercenary Mech I sculpted up for Critical Mass Game...
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WILD WEST BUILDING #1 - And so begins the process of Building my Wild West Town in 15/18mm, I don't know what this building does to contribute to this town but if you forced me ...
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Mythologie: Persée consulte les sorcières - Suite du projet sur la mythologie avec Labors of the Gods. Cette fois ci, j'ai commandé le blister chez Foundry représentant Persée contre les sorcières....
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Deadzone Beta rules released - Mantic have just released the Beta rules of Deadzone for play & comment. The main change to the game is the turn sequence. Rather than I-Go-U-Go, there is ...1 day ago
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15mm DKoK Rough Riders finished - Hi guys The first 6 Rough Riders are done, maybe a little too pink with the facings, but I think pink facings fit the slight Napoleonic feel, I think I wi...
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28mm Vikings for sale - I have decided to sell of some of my 28mm Vikings. 41 minis bases on 30mm base, 39 metal and 2 plastic minis from different manufacturers. The minis will g...1 day ago
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Army listing - Been a while, huh? * * Figured now was as good a time as any to sort out my list of projects, and since you have been without my soothing words, Id share wi...1 day ago
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Matilda Scorpion Flail Tanks - The revolving drum and chains on a Matilda ScorpionThe mine-clearing flailconcept was first devised by a South African officer, Captain (later Major) A. S. ...
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20mm figure comparison - 20mm figure comparison Since I have ordered from quite a number of manufacturers, it seems inevitable to do a mini survey and share my thoughts on the 20mm...
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Testing GW Online Customer Service - So I along with many people have not been happy with GW's method of canceling specialist games. No warning left many things unavailable by the time the rumo...1 day ago
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18th and 19th May, Sheffield - *TRIPLES 2013* I seemed to be busy the whole time at *Triples* this year. We had played both days last year, and had supporting manpower this year as we...
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M132 Zippos for Tour of Duty - Battlefront plastic. Very easy to build. Quick to paint. I couldn't decide which photos to use so I used all of them. The ones in focus that is. The weatheri...
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Beer Review - Greenbush Brother Benjamin - *Greenbush Brewing Company - Brother Benjamin* *Beer Type:* American Double/Imperial IPA - 10.10% ABV * Appearance:* An interesting looking label on a 1...
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The World Turned Upside Down - Well, there I was contemplating table size and room layout again and being particularly unhappy that something in the current layout was making it hard to ...
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The Legion of the Sapphire Kirtle, 12th Imperial Light Infantry - *Sculpted by John Winter* This legion of javelin-armed skirmisher girls has 12 cohorts, giving a total strength 4,800 women. They are armed with j...
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Proud Daddy moment! - While this post has nothing to do with gaming, I wanted to share something with all of you. My little girl was asked to do a video for the American Cancer...1 day ago
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F*** You GW! (fs/ft part 1) - *the straw that broke the camel's back* Well, that's it. I have stood loyally by Games Workshop through price hike after price hike (whether really requir...
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Thoughts on 1st game with new High Elves - Well that didnt go at all well. Up against Calebs Warriors of Chaos last night lead by a Daemon Prince and with 2 blocks of Knights and 2 of Juggernauts I...1 day ago
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MAX1 Battle of Puebla 1862 - The French attack at the Battle of Puebla 1862 Our take on the Battle of Puebla 1862. We used the DBA 15-19K rules, just as in history the French having th...
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Two Hour Wargames - Arab Revolt - We have all been there, you have a great idea for a project, you get the first batch of figures in the post, you start painting, you know you need at leas...
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All Quiet on the Martian Front - UK & EU Shipping - Shiny. Well, rusty, but you know what I mean. You may have noticed that there's quite a Martian theme to the Mumblings of late. Well, seeing as I'm so busy ...2 days ago
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40mm: Sorting out my wagons... - I had a quick check of the wagons I use for 40mm gaming; these have to be generic enough to use in 17C and 18C; I have 1 water barrel cart, 2 four wheel wa...
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This is the End, the Bromance is over! - Well that's it....... Its Fran and my last shift at work tonight....... They've finally pulled the plug and closed us down for good........ So, as of tom...
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[Maurice] The Battle of Standenfeuer - After half a dozen failed attempts, I finally got around to playing Alex at the club for our Maurice campaign. There’s an in character write up of the batt...2 days ago
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Pulp City New Releases: V.H. and Blacksmith - V.H. Up to now I have pretty much kept to posting pics of my own minis, but I have decided it may be useful to add updates about new *Pulp City *releases a...
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Ive said it before but....its been a while. - Hello fellow Bloggers its nearly the end of May and I've only posted twice this year! so thank you for not removing me from your blog reading list, I am st...
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6th Regiment of Foot 1702 (or thereabouts) - I've just finished these from Ebor Miniatures. Great figures based for Beneath the Lily Banners. They carry the colours of Rivers' 6th Regiment of Foot but...
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The 98: Delaying Action South of Barney - The Situation Around Barney. * * *When Ferach troops were spied approaching Barney the brave commander of the 88th Connartist "Ramblers" faced a difficult d...
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Battlegroup Overlord. - Finally a new post. Sorry for being away such a long time. The problem is that work is very time-consuming at the moment (short of manpower). Also I lost a...
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More Gauls... - Another lot of Gauls done, and we're now just over a third of the way through the infantry. These are a mix of Tin Soldier and Xyston, with a pack of Corv...
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I Called It! - Remember this post? Probably not, doesn't matter. In it I mentioned the whole making food from nothing that happens on Star Trek... well LOOKIT! So I guess...
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28mm Ancient Gaul Cavalry - This is a battle group of 28mm Gaul cavalry for my Carthiginian army for our upcoming first Punic War campaign. They are based for Field of Glory rules. T...
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Final Enfilade Preperations - The Enfilade gaming convention is this weekend and I’ve just been finishing up the final items I need for my games. I haven’t talked much about the other g...
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New 15mm Science Fiction From CP Models - *By Eli* Attention dropship passengers. New life detected... CP Models has just announced a new cluster of 15mm science fiction miniatures. Not normally k...2 days ago
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Reasons to love Heresy (Miniatures) - Digging through a shoebox full of miniatures intended for 7tv and Strange Aeons (and Fallout, and random miniatures I bought because I liked the look of th...
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The Secret Six - Made up of Her Majesty's finest. Left to right: Lt. Barnibus Smythe, late of the Queen's Horse. Armed with Electro-Galvanic Pepperbox. Professor Bunson Hone...
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Yapton Beer Festival (2013) - I've been attending beer festivals and pubs to try different beers for more years than I care to remember, so I thought it might be time to start writing t...
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Clay warriors for pulp games - Just a quick post regards these chaps which have been lurking about 99% completed - half a dozen clay golems for pulp games... In reality they are a coupl...
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Joseph Napoleon Regiment - WIP - More work in preparation for Borodino. This time another exotic regiment to add to the IV Corps: The Spanish Joseph Napoleon Regiment. These poor saps pro...
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Seleucid asiatic skirmishers with bow - Las figuras son arqueros persas de Minifigs. ¿Alguien sabe si esta empesa sigue existiendo? Tengo unas cuantas referencias y son muy buenas, aunque un poco...
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New Blog - Hey, This Blog has been dead for many months now indeed if not longer, but I've decided to start Blogging once again.. Huurrrah? Anyway my new Blog is htt...2 days ago
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Na grobową nutę | Return to the graveyard - Nie wytrzymałem malowania samych Persów i wczoraj machnąłem na szybko, w ciągu godziny, kolejnego trupożercę do moich ożywieńców. Malowanie jest ciut nies...
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Raid on Port Corinth (4) - Thanks guys, your continued support is very important to me. To keep the project moving I started painting the heat tiles with Boltgun Metal last night. ...
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SF Bokhandeln - Sweden! - Coming to a Sweden near you this weekend (and I'm very excited about it!).... *me*! Now, I don't speak Swedish, so I can't be sure, but I THINK these links...2 days ago
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Tau News and Odds and Ends! - Firstly I want to thank all the new contributors to Warhammer Tau. You guys have certainly stirred up some interesting discussions, and turned the blog int...2 days ago
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Rangers in action. - Some very hasty pictures from a recent game of Muskets & Tomahawks ,my Rangers and Indian allies trying to regroup and get into cover after falling foul ...
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The Tunnels of Tonivar: Chapter 2 The Bromosian Gambit - *Characters:* John – Akira Valdez, Ex - Merchant Chris – Nimrod ‘Nim’ Higgins, Ex- Marine Commando Jonathan – John Hawkwood , ex Marine Akira Valdez and Nim...
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It's all looking a bit Spartan! - Part of one of those little bundles of joy the ‘Provost Marshal’ happily deposits on his visits to ‘Awdry Towers’, these Spartan Hoplites from ‘Wargames...
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Some more Austrians (not running away!) - After the hassles with images on the last post I didn't post the photos I'd taken of my recently completed Austrian Landwehr. I think I've narrowed the pr...
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Needles Old Battery - I'm currently taking an enforced rest from painting as I crushed my thumb in the car door - idiot!. So here's some pictures of the Needles Old Batteryfrom m...
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Raptors! - Some raptors I painted up a few years ago and unearthed recently. Figures by Eurkea Miniatures
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Prussian Cavalry - new project - On my painting desk currently are some Prussian Cavalry. Once again I share an inspirational image By Lilliane and Fred Funcken, recently I was informed th...
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28mm American Civil War - Union Infantry - As promised here are pictures of the 28mm American Civil War Union Infantry Regiments that I've just completed. All figures are by* Sash & Saber* with the...
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10mm Romans - Here we have the first few cohorts of 10mm Romans that I've picked away at over the last couple of weeks. They are very easy to paint and look good en mass...
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Chicago Bears Middle Linebacker Brian Urlacher Retires Today - *Brian Urlacher has announced his retirement today in Chicago after 13 brilliant seasons with the Chicago Bears as the middle linebacker. His birthday is c...
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Games for 29/05/13 - This week saw a return to normalish service with ACW, Gloranthan HotT, Dystopian Wars and VSF Skirmish RPG on a train. Next week is the AGM - agenda items...2 days ago
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Partizan is Coming, Yippee - With Partizan coming up quickly, 2nd June in Newark, Mr Smillie of Dirty Paint Pots and myself have been working hard, okay putting things together, planni...
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The House that Greg built - Please forgive the seemingly complete random approach to wargaming my blog has become lately... It appears that I had a rash of "Oh! Shiney!" moments and ...2 days ago
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Introducing: "Ride To Ruin": First Playtest Game With This 'Lard-Approved' Set of Fantasy Rules! - Hello one and all. I know that you are still awaiting the next installment of the Dux Brit campaign from weeks ago, plus my last WAB Age of Arthur game, bu...
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Strelets' 'Hungarian Army' Review - New review of the Strelets' 'Hungarian Army in Winter Dress (Stalingrad)' set.3 days ago
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Boeken ~ Books - Op de boekentafel: - John Keegan, A History of Warfare - Wargames Illustrated - Meindert Schoor, De Friese Waterlinie - Bruno Mugnai, L'esercito Imperia...
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A sad day. - I am writing this post after watching the news and finding out that a serving soldier was murdered, in broad daylight, by two people who claimed to be Isla...3 days ago
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The Devil Train - The Iron Daemon presented me with a few issues. I picked it up from the Forge World stand at Salute 2012. As with most things Forge World, its essentially ...
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Back to the Brushes 57 - Progress has been slow lately as Project S is being prepared for painting. There is nothing more tedious than removing flash and filing casting lines off m...
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Regiment d'Inf. Nª Sª de la Concepció - "Our Lady of Conception" Inf. Reg. 1713-1714 Dixon, Roundway i Warrior, 15mm Ja en fa tres anys, de quan vaig penjar en aquest blog un article dedicat al re...
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Orkys get a big boom gun! - Hi it's Corben again Today I want to tell you about my tank I have built. My dad gave me a basilisk tank for me to convert into an ork looted vehicle. A pi...
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A look at the Eisenkern APC - *I thought I would pass along some shots of the Eisenkern APC. When last you saw the design it was pretty much a roughed in hull, the final version rece...
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GNW Upplands regiment - After the big FPW game at the weekend I was exhausted, due to the comments from the other players, seems it was a success, so much so that Mick has gone o...
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Oh boy!!! - Mark (Dreamforge) has just updated the images of the APC due later this year (hopefully) and it looks absolutely fantastic!
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The Bug Boy - As I promised previously, and for those of you who do not also follow my VSF blog, Victoria's Boys in Red, here are the photos of the Dragonfly Lancer, a...
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Step by Step "And a Bottle of Rum" Part 3 - Minis by Rebel Minis and painted by David McBride of Splintered Light Miniatures The next day after the robbery attempt Billy goes back to the shipyards a...
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Spanish Civil War Armour - If you fancy some good and rare photographs of armour in the Spanish Civil War, I highly recommend a blog that I've been following for several months now...
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Struck Out with Striker - A couple of days ago, my wife and I went to the Half Price Books store in Tukwila, WA, after having lunch with family and friends. I've been rather lu...
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It's My Birthday This Weekend - So this Saturday is my birthday and I have a weekend of gaming excitement to celebrate my 43rd year on this planet. Lets start with the big stuff, what di...
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EWG Club Night May 21 - We had eight guys out at the club last night, with four games running. There was some Warmachine, a 6mm game of something or other, a 15mm game of Maurice ...
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JIM WEBSTER'S GUIDE ON PARTHIANS - The purpose of this guide is twofold. On one hand, it is to give the interested wargamer a guide to the Parthian armies and those of their enemies and to ...
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Use Cash Advance Payday Loan Service for Your Daily Money Problems Only - Why do these people get irritated with the low limit from cash advance payday loan service? And, anyway, how could they even come into that conclusion th...3 days ago
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pKreoss vs Barnabas - Long time followers of this blog should be asking at this point..."What's with all the battle reports? Where are the painting bits?" Apologies. I'm mid-way...
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1/72 DBA Seleucids - [image: II19a01]II/19a[image: II19b01]II/19b[image: II19c01]II/19c[image: II19d01]II/19d Having had a look through my pile of left over and unused figure...
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DBA Clash of the Titans: Spartacus vs. Early Imperial Romans (EIR) - Dave and I got together for two games on Sunday. I was anxious to keep my perfect record with Spartacus' army. Dave was wanting payback for MayDay. Battle ...3 days ago
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Painting Table - This is the new painting table. The only issue I have is that the large window is south facing and it is nigh on impossible to paint on a sunny day - no...
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Viking Raiders - Here's some more figures from the GB casualties & killers range. These are technically Early Saxon vignettes, but they could just as easily be Viking Raide...
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May Club Meeting at GVS - The May meeting was a good mix of Rapid Fire ww2, Maurice 7yw and two Impetus games. I have a few Images to share of the games Rapid Fire Polish s Russian...
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Zombicide Figures Size Comparison - When I was photographing my Zombicide figures I knew that I'd be asked for a size comparison photo. So I took one with the four zombie types from the Zombi...
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Warbase Ruins - I did this a few months ago and now have finally got around to posting it. It's my first Warbase building here and I started with the ruin for some WWII t...
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AWI Painted Artillery Deal - Continental Artillery Battery: French 4-pdr in foreground and Swedish 4-pdr in the background. Click pix to enlarge. British Artillery Battery with 6-pdr ca...
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Commander Culln - Here's the newest addition to my Red Scorpions Space Marine army - Commander Culln! The addition of the Commander places me somewhere around 2600 points fo...
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A couple of flags from both sides - Greetings everyone, Just a couple of flags in my collection 20 x 35 Confederate Flag from 1890 24 x 40 Grand Army of the Republic Banner from 1877
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Desert Canyon Table - Part 5 - Added some lichen to make some shrubs and growth. The next step will be to add some parched grass and other arid vegetation.
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Prince Charming - Don't you ever, don't you ever Stop being dandy, showing me you're handsome Don't you ever, don't you ever Stop being dandy, showing me you're handsome ...
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ACW Units - My enthusiasm for painting has been at a low ebb since before Christmas due to several different reasons. But lately I've been getting a little more paint...
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Mod. 13 British Forces Plan - 28mm - A fine spring afternoon in London, at Horse Guards, a meeting of Important Personages of the Realm. After a fine luncheon, the meeting begins. * "Ahe...3 days ago
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Triples 2013 - We made the journey down to Sheffield over the weekend for two days at the Triples show. My first time at the new venue. Plenty of space in a nice light sp...
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Persians go a Wandering to Triples - There are many wargaming armies that contain mercenaries, but one of my wargaming armies is a true mercenary unit. It was loaned out by its owning warlord ...
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A Field In England trailer - bit disappointed to be honest, looks too arthouse in such clean, well lit black and white - from the poster I was hoping for something a bit closer to 60...
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ACW game pics - Last week we played an ACW game using Guns of Gettysburg. Unfortunately my hobby time is very limited these days (I haven't touched a brush since Salute) s...
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Ymgarls! - So I finally got off my ass and started painting some more Tyranids as they are incredibly close to being 100% finished (just 19 Gargoyles, 12 Termagants a...
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The Goblin King has come! - After a few weeks of painting the Goblin King and his little entourage are complete! I've painted seven goblins plus the king himself and I'm pretty happ...4 days ago
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10mm Evil Twisted Thorny Thicket Wall - One of the Magic Spells in our "Bear Yourselves Valiantly" mass combat fantasy, ancients, & medieval rules (currently under development), allows for m...
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Hey there..... - Hey Chaos Cultist, I’m sorry I’ve not been posting lately but I’ve been really busy with life. Now that the Spring/Summer season is here it’s time for m...4 days ago
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Rules of the Game - Chatting with some wargaming acquaintances at Triples has led me to think about the rules I use. I do seem to be settling on a portfolio of rules that co...
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The first British armour:HaT Cromwells plus some .. - OK, so I bought more stuff from Stan a few weeks ago... there were these HaT Cromwells, and having based all of the Brit infantry for the 1944 British forc...
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Пиратская крепость/ Pirate fortress. - http://vogtemichelsminiaturen.blogspot.ru/2013/03/piratenfestung-update-20032013.html http://vogtemichelsminiaturen.blogspot.ru/2013/04/piratenfestung-u...
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Terrain - Arcane Ruins - Finally, the other main part of my fantasy terrain collection - the Games Workshop "Arcane Ruins" set. I'd seen this set done in a similar style online, al...
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Finally, some more painted minis: armed and dangerous slaves - It has been indeed a while since the last time I showed some painted minis. I'm particularly tired and I don't really feel comfortable painting during the ...
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Stop the cavalry - Back to the minis! Working on a little Texas-something. Almost finished my Texans, but you will have to wait until they are finished. I have started on the...4 days ago
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The HEIC, pre-mutiny period. - In March of this year I posted a short piece with photos of my newly painted Bengal Native Infantry. http://18thcenturysojourn.blogspot.nl/2013/03/bengal-...
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Club night - 21 May 2013 - I forgot my camera last night, so the pictures from my phone will have to do... there was a slightly different mix of games last night. Mercs Set on a nice...
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crimson fist ARmy for Sale - Hey everyone, Im trying to get the word out that my friend is selling is huge crimson fist army. PLEaZE go check out his ebay auction and throw down some ...
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French Carabiniers, 1812 - Another unit for Black Powder that was partially finished, and needed wrapping up. A couple of the figures were done, and I just needed to round out the re...4 days ago
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Studebaker M29C Weasel - The M29C is the amphibious version of the M29, a tracked cargo carrier for transport across snow. The addition of float tanks that were bolted onto the fro...
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Malifaux - Rasputina Crew - In Work! - Tonight I'm going to take a brief respite from posting about Warhammer or Warhammer 40k and go over one of the projects I'm working on for a different sy...
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Painted Circle Orboros: Tharn Bloodweavers, Shifting Stones UA, Warpborn Skinwalkers - Even though I have figured out recently that circle may not be "my thing," I am determined to continue painting them because I love my scheme.4 days ago
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Games Room Update - The windows went in yesterday and so now the space is really starting to take shape. Still lots to do but it is now weather proof (and considering our rain...
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1st Cuirassiers - 28mm French Napoleonic Heavy Cavalry - French 1st Cuirassiers - 28mm Napoleonic Heavy Cavalry from Perry MiniaturesA little bit of a "surprise" project that I wanted to get done before my friend...
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Tour of Duty! - With the latest release from Battlefront for Flames of War Vietnam I thought it was only right to share this video. Steve at WWPD is doing a great job ...4 days ago
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Ayton 2013 – The Big WD3 Game - The May Day Bank Holiday Weekend saw the gathering in East (and West) Ayton of assorted WD3 members for the ‘Big Game’. This was the third year. The first ...4 days ago
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French Ligne Taking A Pounding Part Deux - About a year ago I posted a picture of an unfinished French Ligne Battalion in a firing line - I'd simply dug into the "big box" and looked through it loo...
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Front Rank Austrian (German) Grenadiers - I have had these figures nearly finished for months now. This weekend, while I was waiting for primed figures to dry, I applied the last few colors, then ba...
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My Workbench: sci-fi bust Contact! Part 2/3 - Please see part 1. I recently painted the face, but I screwed it up and am trying again. Something of the sculpt seems off. Maybe I'm imagining it, bu...
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Bolt Action: Gung Ho in the PTO! - We played our second Bolt Action game set in the Pacific on Saturday at The Panzer Depot in Kirkland, WA. By now our forces have grown a bit more. The Am...
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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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A Few Huns More - courtesy of Oldbob! - Oldbob who hangs out on The Miniatures Page very generously sent me these guys, who were surplus to requirements - enough to make an eight-figure unit plus...
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Registered for GenCon and a Giveaway! - Late lunch today; time for a post before heading back to work. I have my bedge for GenCon, 86 days until the convention. I have registered for three games ...5 days ago
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Bloggers For Charity - New Bloggers for Charity is in the works. Check it out here to check out the outline for the upcoming year.
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The Lippizaner Mournfang: Conversion Craziness! - About a month ago I headed to Adepticon, that mecca of geekery and gaming, and I only had two events in mind: the "It's How You Use It" Warhammer Fantas...
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A Spring Ball in Krankenstadt: The Guest List. . . - *It's finally spring in Krankentadt. A perfect time for the Grand Duke's aunts to host a ball at the Residenz, a.k.a. Krankenstadt Palace.* Aunts Hilrt...
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Salute shopping - I promised to do a breakdown of what I bought at Salute, so here it is – a month after Salute due to all sorts of hassles. I’ve also listed my intentions f...5 days ago
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Cowboys and Hobbits - The AWC Lord of the Rings club couldn't let Adepticon pass without showcasing The Hobbit SBG game by running some demo games. Although the new movie and g...
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ALCA - CAPELL: INDIOS Y VAQUEROS - Este blog adolecía de una carencia importante. Y esta era la ausencia de datos o información sobre una marca pionera que produjo algunas de las primera...
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Tournament Season Arrives - I have been a big slacker this year. By this time last year, I had played in several tournaments and had some solid results. This year? Nothing. Nada. ...5 days ago
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Immortels ! - Non, pas Toulon (j'étais pour Clermont-Ferrand !) mais les 10 000 Perses de l'armée permanente. Et en voilà trois unités pour ADG, lanciers moyens mixtes ...
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Golden Age Supers - A Divine Wind - I love Supersystem, particularly version 2, and particularly Golden Age. We've played for years and battles go one of two ways (much as battles do), nail-...
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Wargaming Girl - Celebrates 100K Page Views! - Hi All, Wargaming Girl: 100K Prize Draw Tamsin describes herself as: A mythical beast - a female wargamer! I got back into wargaming in the summer of 2...5 days ago
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New RPG Character Range: Sneak Peek 3 - For today's sneak peek, I present the Warriors of Shadow. This set of 10 figures features 4 thieves, 3 assassins and 3 bards, including 1 female of each c...
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A Huge Thank You: 400 followers and future plans - I noticed a few days ago that the number of followers of this Blog has ticked around to just over 400. I just wanted to take the time to say a huge thank y...
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VBCW: Servants and Sailors - I haven't painted much for VBCW this year, but I took the opportunity to paint a few figures for the Lead Painters League competition . First up is a landi...
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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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Foundry British Napoleonic Light Dragoons 2 - Have you ever painted a figure that has fought against you every step of the way? Well, this one did. A great sculpt and love the bicorn being worn rathe...
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Civilians (12) - I think this vignette holds the record for the length of time I've taken to complete something. I can't actually remember when I started painting these f...5 days ago
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Sheffield Triples 2013 - A busy weekend ended up with me at the National Institute of Sports in Sheffield which was hosting the Triples wargames show. I have to say that in the ye...
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100.000 page views!!! - During the week end this blog reached the 100.000 page views, a result I would never predict 4 years ago when I started. I want to thank all wargamers and ...
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