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Giant Commission -- More British Infantry - It's just a small update today. These four bases of skirmishers finish up the foot guards, and these two bases of the 44th Foot finish up the line infantr...
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A Basing Solution? - Prussian fusilier regiment Prinz Heinrich - IR35 using the proposed new basing method. Recall that a couple of weeks ago I was pondering some solutions to...
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tomorrow is readers day! - *Tomorrow* *is all about * *our readers * *and their toys * *and collectables!*1 hour ago
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20th August, Newark - *THE OTHER PARTIZAN* The day after Bosworth (well, Bosworth is a weekend event so, really, 'taking the Sunday off from Bosworth') saw us in Nottinghamshire...
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Bilbo Baggins - It's Bilbo Baggins' birthday! September 22nd is the date the hobbit celebrates his birthday, and as mentioned in yesterday's post he is 80 years old - in p...
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Flak Suppression Runs - *Flak Suppression Runs* Aircraft may make flak suppression runs against anti-aircraft artillery weapons or their fire direction equipment. T...4 hours ago
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“Is this thing on?” Friday Grab Bag #3 - With the recent arrival or “Developing the Portable Wargame” I’ve been pondering exactly how to approach the rules. The game is fairly scale agnostic. I ...4 hours ago
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Murmillo (third model) [Gladiators] - *Esta sencilla conversión es mi tercer modelo de murmillo.* -------------------------------- *This simple conversion is my third murmillo model.* *Y un...
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Trolls - Trolls, trolls, trolls.... no fantasy gaming without trolls. The big trolls are from the Blood rage game and the small trolls are converted gobbos from ...
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Russian Napoleonics - 3 Opolchenie Battalions with Perry figures - These are wonderful figures from the Perry brothers - full of character and with a languid touch as they are clearly being held in reserve. The 'pike' ...
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Cemeteries and Mausoleum - New scenery bits of the week, quite Gothic...All available trhough Ebay or directly if you want discount. https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/drwillettsworkshop/m.h...
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Modern Amazons - Foot (Mild Nudity) - Modern Amazons as opposed to ancient or classical ones. More from the *Alliance* range of Fantasy bods and Monsters. 10 Bodettes in the set, a wee bit of a ...
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Smurf Primaris Repulsor Tank - This thing is a brute! It's a sort of flying Land Raider - only with more weapons. It has a Gatling cannon and HMG in the turret, twin anti-tank lascanno...
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Of all the Kickstarters in all the world… - Sally 4th have just launched a new Kickstarter to launch a range of 28mm Pulp miniatures based on a classic movie from the 1940’s The initial project is to...
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Female Magic-user and yet another Goblin - Got the female magic-user I was talking about in the last post finished this week along with a test goblin. I wanted to see if I could make a less "stocky...7 hours ago
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WIP: Spectre Miniatures MRZR-2... - ...two US Rangers who will be joining the first 'Razor' in a small vignette.
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Guild Ball: Farmer’s Guild ‘Bushel’ - After a little Battle Report yesterday, it is time to continue on with the Farmer’s Guild. Up today we have ‘Bushel’, a Striker for the Farmer’s Guild. ‘B...7 hours ago
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SJG Ogre Miniatures Wargame - This piece is going to be a criticism of the Ogre Miniatures wargaming rules by Steve Jackson Games. If you've followed my blog for any length of time...
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Battlegroup Rules: How to Win with Chits - The Battlegroup wargame system is currently on the top of my stack as I investigate new WWII gaming systems to try out. In this piece, I'll begin a series...
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Some SAGA Action - Myself and Adam got in another game of SAGA yesterday. It was the first for both of us in about 6 weeks. Adam and his wife Arianna had a beautiful baby gi...
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Swiss - castings for sale. - As previously posted, I have had some Swiss figures in full harness sculpted by Oliver of Steel Fist Miniatures for my own use. I now have some spare cast...
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Battle Report – Infinity – Imperial Service vs. Military Orders - Owen from Gaming with the Cooler and I take an episode to examine this year’s Direct Action Interplanetary Tournament winner’s lists for Military Orders ...8 hours ago
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Radio Dishdash Publishing: Skirmish Sangin Modern Warfare - Skirmish Afrika Supplement - Radio Dishdash Publishing: Afrika is an imagery continent set in the modern world. The book contains the detailed background of 14 new and original countri...
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Peking - British Legation Gatehouse - Just a quick post tonight (as much because I've just knocked myself half sense-less on a cupboard door as anything!). I've finished the build on the gateho...
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Cheap 52mm filters - Someone on eBay UK is selling sets of 52mm UV filter, polarizer, and lens cap - for 99p! I always need 52mm skylights/UVs and caps for the lenses I sell so...10 hours ago
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Captain Sir Thomas Edgar Halsey, Bt, DSO, DL, JP - Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey's nephew, who became the third Baronet, also joined the Royal Navy. His life was almost as interesting as that of his uncle, but ...
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OBE is for Other Bugger's Efforts! - As opposed to MBE : My Bloody Efforts Even briefer than yesterday's post, but worth a punt I hope you'll agree, I took this shot years ago, I mean about te...
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TYW Swedish Army - Having completed the rebasing i thought I would lay out the whole Swedish/Allied army for inspection
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Dracula's America Twilight Faction - Last month I mentioned that I had received a whole bunch of figures and rulebook for a Weird Wild West skirmish wargame called *Dracula's America: Shadows ...
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The next set for my Turkish napoleonic army - Yesterday was the day of mails. After the painted Bavarians I got a mail from Ingo who sculpted the next sets of Ottomans for me. This time it is the Delhi...
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"I Waited For You." - *"Bill? Bill, talk to me. What have they done to you?"* This 42mm tall metal Cyberman miniature is made by “Warlord Games” and can be found within their "N...
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The Berlin Project - Infantry and Urban Bases - Part 1 - So things are starting to get a little more serious with my Berlin project as most of the elements are now coming together. I have all the East German fig...16 hours ago
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New Review, and International Paperbacks! - The paperback copies of my new book, Code Of Armor:Vengeance are winging their way across the globe. Here is Olaf's copy, in Deutschland... Here's my bro...
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More Inspirations - While viewing the Tin soldier history I came across some great "in action" footage from the 2015 Waterloo re-enactment. I already have a new idea for paint...
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Encirclement or Breakout - To conclude - for the time being - this series of articles on the Byzantine and Bulgars, I thought I would try a proper battle, but with a certain extra s...
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Man Interupted - Strike while the Tin is hot! Isn't that what they say? Well, same thing but different as the idiom would have it. Anyway I have begun, and begun by resur...
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A few more ACW… - I’ve been struggling to get back into painting etc. since the break imposed by the school holidays. Border Reiver, although am enjoyable day, didn’t provid...22 hours ago
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Doncaster 2017 - The Wings of Glory Aerodrome annual gathering took place at the Doncaster Air Museum this last weekend. I wasn't able to make the whole thing but I did get...
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AvP: Unleashed "Dutch" work in progress - Painting has continued. Still not entirely finished of course. A few more highlights here and there and a base to be added. 😎 Muzzle Flash by Anvil Indust...
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Bag the Hun Card Deck - I've been thinking about the cards that I'll need for the club game next week and have decided to use some old ones that I already have, adding the extra...
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Chorąży siewców zarazy | Plaguebearer standard bearer - Chorąży siewców zarazy, choć w zasadzie nosi nie chorągiew, a znak swojego boga. Swoją drogą, pamiętam jak sceptycznie podchodziłem do pomysłu grup dowodz...
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A plus for Internet shopping. - Well I'm back from my latest jolly which should hopefully give me a clear run up until Christmas. I'm not complaining, far from it, but as the dark night...
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What's all this then? - All looked fine enough. Nothing to see here, we thought. Push on through. Crack on. Hills, valley, river, woods. Camp on this rise tonight were the orders....
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Kings of War: Monstrous Tactics - With the new Kings of War monster kits headed your way soon and even more existing ones, we thought that it would be great to go over them in a bit more...1 day ago
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Strengthening the Legions - Last weekend's trip to visit my Mum in Wirral also gave me a chance to pop into the War Game Store in Brimstage. I picked up these guys: Another 60 L...
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Roman commander (from Gladiator) finished - Hi all! Thought I would finally share my finished Roman commander for my son's collection! It is the "Unleash Hell!" figure from Warlord Games, along wi...
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Heresy Era Sons of Horus - Project planning, and first models! - As I have alluded to recently, the next Horus Heresy project in the hopper is a Sons of Horus force. I place the blame for this squarely on the shoulders o...
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Even more Russians - I managed to photograph some of the latest Russians in the open air. They are HAT figures with Tehnolog command. The gunners were made by cutting about ...
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Cold Climes Planetary Militia platoon and packs released at The Ion Age - *The 37th Planetary Defence Regiment lost thirty percent of its strength in the first moments of the Khanate invasion of Faercycle II. In the years since ...
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Wood Working for Wargmaers: What is it - a Lumber Cart, Post 10 - Ok, it's not the most exciting of projects but it's really useful and fulfills my pledge to the Mrs. that the garage could be used to house her car. It's...
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Frostgrave: Necromancien - Post à l'honneur de* Frostgrave* avec la constitution d'une petite bande chargée d'arpenter la cité du froid. Les figs plastiques sont celles du kit offic...
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Vandals in North Africa - This beautiful collection of Footsore Miniatures Goths (Vandals) are part of John Maguire's collection. Originally based for WAB I have now given them a ...
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Von Mohnblume Line - part seven - I've chosen a white uniform with red facings, similar to my earlier Flintloque Dogsoldiers. The white was built-up in layers over Stonewall Grey and high...
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Zombicide Black Plague: STILL not done - A game such as Zombicide is great because the zombies paint up fast (at least for me when I paint them monochromatically), and you only need a few charact...
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The Battalions Sillery and Medoc arrive for duty - Two more French units, the Sillery and Medoc battalions, arrive and are ready for duty. Enjoy the few photos of them. Painting the flags is getting ea...
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Nikephorian Byzantine Skutatoi - Here are some Nikephorian Byzantine Skutatoi or Kontarioi with rear ranks of archers (toxotai). The figures are by Gripping Beast with LBM shield...1 day ago
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Finally, Some More Jet bikes! - With ToonCon less than two weeks away I figured it was time to ramp up the Jet Bike production. I finished two of the other day - which makes my total eigh...
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News - New cavalry set is announced - Strelets reveal a new set of 20th century cavalry is on the way.1 day ago
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The Cretan Runner by George Psychoundakis - I've been reading a really excellent book about the Cretan Resistance against German Occupation during WWII. I bought this book while on Holiday in Crete ...
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Scatter Terrain by Mel the Terrain Tutor - Another great tutorial from Mel the Terrain Tutor. How to make basic scatter terrain. I'd also use these techniques for smaller tree clumps to put in lar...
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Hearts of Stone 26: Zombie Spiders - 6th June 216, Marblehall. Soreth, X7-09, Kowalski. Inside the living dungeon now known to be the Stone Thief, a much reduced party is searching for answers...2 days ago
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The Lost City of Exactamundo Pt 5: Eternity Stair - Stadium pop rock meets high fantasy in the form of EXACTAMUNDO’s second set of… STAIRS… THAT… GO… NOWHERE! The “Magical Fulcrums” from the Warhammer Storm ...2 days ago
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Storage Project = Pain - Oh, I really should get around to that. Is what I'd said for months regarding the storing of my Conan miniatures; you see the game comes with some 170 mod...
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British on Parade - Whilst tidying the gaming cabin up I thought it was about time to deploy the British army that are currently painted. With the exception of some dismounted ...
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Rhino APC for 30k Alpha Legion - Head-hunters from the XX Legion on maneuvers with their new APC Another little bit of 30k painting - this is a Deimos pattern Rhino APC. Capable of carryin...
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Election 2016 - Bruce dropped by last week and brought with him a favourite game (1960: The Making of a President) with a new skin allowing us to refight the 2016 US elec...
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40mm - Trial casts from new mould.. - Finally got the next 18C mould done, the contents were -weapons (sabre, straight sword, pistol, 17C musket and 18C musket) -march attack musketeer -alternat...
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Slowly, the Minoan camp comes together - This is just a quick work-in-progress shot of the elements of my Minoan camp that I have so far. I am still waiting on my Rapier order (not the first time...
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Indian Takeaway - *A little diversion* Something completely out of the blue I know but I could not resist it! I have an occasional interest in the 18th century - mainly d...
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Dollar Store Zombies. - You can't go wrong for a "buck." Five out of the bag make decent cannon fodder and are close to 54mm scale with two Puritan looking grave stones. I bought...
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Malakai Roughshod - Unexpected Deadite - Recently I discovered a cache of undead Bob Olley goodness was available from Essex Miniatures. If you are an Olley fan do yourself a favour and take a l...
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More photos of past painting :) - And... here are some more. Pacific USN early war and late war.
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BG FOTR AAR - StuG Life - AARs, apparently like buses: none, then two come along. This time would again see the mission *Strongpoint Assault* played, with two forces chosen from the...
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15mm East German Volksarmee supports for Team Yankee - Additions to the East German forces for my Team Yankee army. 4 x SAM 'Gophers' - these are 3d printed models. Very sturdy, if basic models. I think they do ...
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The Raid on Los Banos - A Chain of Command Scenario. - Sometimes you have to be that little bit creative if you are to get all the toys on the table. My opponent had invested in a shiny new platoon of US Para's ...
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10th legere – updated - The *10th legere* have now been expanded into a full 24-figure unit and quite splendid they look in their ‘Noddy’ style uniforms even if I do say so myself...
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Shadow War Campaign - Dark Eldar and Blood Angels - It's been too long since my last update, but I have been working on my Shadow War project, it's just that a series of busy weekends, and a short break in W...
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Seminole (1953) - People were talking about this movie the other day so I thought I'd post it - imdb
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Grrrrrrr. . . - *A rather nice rendering of a Lauzun's Legion hussar, ca. 1781, from Uniformology.* Well, I sat down to stick my regiment of Minden Prussian hussars (pain...
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"Zulus, Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em!" : A Quick Review of Zulus on the Ramparts by Victory Point Games - *“Men of Harlech, stand you … AAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!” * *Don’t let this happen to you.* If I’m a little bleary eyed this morning, it’s because I was u...3 days ago
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Death Guard – Terminators - Everyone needs some heavy lifting and until I fo another Forge World order then these chaps will be doing it for me. Banged up but still rocking the Death ...3 days ago
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Danish-Prussian war of 1864 - *Hi Guys! I am with a Danish reenactment group doing the Danish-Prussian war of 1864, which was the start of the three wars being fought from 64-71. We are...
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Broken Legions - Skirmish Wargame Review - I found a few rulebooks when cleaning my shed; generally I don't review anything I haven't playtested thoroughly but there's nothing about these two sets t...
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Tanker's Tuesday : ARR There Be Pirates! - Iron Grip Pirate Scout Iron Grip Pirate Tank ...
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Saying hello to Carl Packham - Hi Carl, thanks for looking in - and that's a great profile picture, by the way. Paul3 days ago
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30K: The Unbroken Chain - +++5.715.005.M31 +++Subsector Christus Ecclessia +++Ark Filius +++Bellum omnium contra omnes I am Alpharius. The unbroken chain has arrived to reinforce th...3 days ago
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It’s the Navy! - As I start to reflect on possible forces for Operation Sea Lion games I have been looking around to see what is available, there have been some useful arti...3 days ago
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The calm after the storm: Some painting - I mentioned in my previous post that it has been a hectic time at work. We finally ran the week-long exercise I'd been preparing last week, so I reached ...
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Give-Aways, Working Days, and Blog Delays... - Well, my freind Jon over at the Palouse Wargaming Journal is at it again... giving away free stuff, that is. That he's painting up a storm of great lo...
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Rebellious #GameNight with #1775Rebellion (@Academy_Games) - The RockyMountainNavy family weekend game night this week featured another new acquisition, 1775 – Rebellion (Academy Games, 2013). 1775 – Rebellion is the...3 days ago
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Losing that Gaming Mojo 4 - Recently, on the gaming front an introductory game of SAGA: Crescent and the Cross was played. First thoughts are the Moors won't stand up against the Cr...
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New Project - As I hinted in a previous post, I've started work on a new project. Though I'm still working on my Poles in the background. It all came about after a visit...
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Gaming somewhere between Wargames and Boardgames - More and more games seem to be blurring the lines between tabletop war-games and traditional boardgames. A couple of case in points were the games we play...
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Quinta Macedonica. - Finished these *Footsore Miniatures* late Romans for my Romano - Brits, I know that the legion were never stationed in Britain, but I like the shield desig...
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War and Conquest Weekend (with some Bolt Action too) - The recent weekend saw a number of us gather at the Bristol Big'uns club venue in Iron Acton for a weekend of War & Conquest gaming organised by Scarab sup...
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Skirmish Wargames Show Sept 17 - Posties not been a well chap recently, so I didn't know if we were gonna make Skirmish last Sunday. But obviously we did, Postie put on a brave face and d...
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Painting the Expanse - Of course with a rush of enthusiasm I have pushed aside some commission work and started bashing on with my *Firefly in the Expanse* project. My friend at ...
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Waywatcher Lord (GW) for GURPS - Hi there! Just a quick, one miniature posting... Got this done for a mate, to be used in their ongoing GURPS-campaign. It's a some kind of assassin I think...
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Fall-In Playtest Game: Doctor Who and the Pirates of the Cyberiad Main - A few of us got together yesterday to playtest a couple of our games for the upcoming Fall-In convention in Lancaster PA. I ran a Doctor Who scenari...
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Very productive weekend - Very productive weekend hobby wise, six Plague Marines completed and a Blight Drone. I love how the rust effect came out!
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Indian Mutiny - Had these for a while as we have a big weekend game of SP2 soon. With the dates organised I thought I better get them painted. They have been undercoated a...
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The Battle of Sourpuss Plain: ECW battle with Baroque - My Royalist left Brigade deploys under the command of Sir Percival Utterly-Barkinge Over the weekend gaming club buddy Aled walked me through my first ga...
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Bring them back alive! - Here you have some pictures I took during a Blood Eagle game we had in August. We played the scenario bring them back alive with four players at the local ...
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Workbench Update - A welcome relief to actually see some progress on units that have been waiting a long time to be called finished. The two battalions of La Marck were amongs...
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Have you painted that 'Intimidating Figure yet'? - The Intimidating Miniture Figure? We all have one or many. *You know*, that miniature that you really want to paint but keep putting off because you don't...
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AB 20mm Germans - AB 20mm Germans from Eureka Miniatures, I still have two packs of SS to finish for this project: Cheers, John.
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The Weekly Update - Sunday, September 18th, 2017 - D 20 Adventure: "The Redwood Scar" - Some quick bits of personal news, then on to gaming stuff: I am on my new work schedule starting tomorrow; I am moving back to an afternoon/evening shif...
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World War One: 15mm British Army - I sat down tonight to take inventory of my lead pile and part way through ended up rebasing these soldiers for the Portable Wargame. The bases are all 1" s...
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Battle of the Bulge - Keep Moving - Since the last post, things have kept on moving - not as fast as I would have liked, but at a fair pace. The HaT M4A3 76mm tanks after having been base-pai...
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Boar Cleavers - First Two - Trial painting on first two minis for the Boar Cleavers unit.
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September 2017-Still Alive - Sept.2017-Still Alive. Well it's been a while but work has been a killer this Summer. Found by mine mining piece for Mars. Sarissa Precision got my pennie...
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10mm early war Germans - I dug into the unpainted lead pile and did a bunch of 10mm Pendraken early war German vehicles. I bought Sam Mustafa's new Rommel rules which look very int...
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Game day at Fort Steilacoom - Yesterday was our annual game day at historic Fort Steilacoom. This event was begun by Lawrence Bateman, who has been involved with the Historic Fort Ste...
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Suggestions for a Roman era skirmish set of rules? - I am trying to find a set of skirmish (1 figure = 1 man) wargame rules that would work for the Ancient era, specifically we are going to use them to play R...5 days ago
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The War of the Spanish Succession: The Battle of Oudenarde July 11th 1708 (Part 4) The Ground was Soaked in Blood - As fire and fury erupted in the infantry conflict for the village a more stately procession of squadron after squadron of horse arrayed themselves to the n...
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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 ...5 days ago
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The Second Battle of Gaza, April 1917: The Assault on Ali el-Muntar. Colours 2017, Newbury, 16th September. - Yesterday, at Colours 2017, Newbury, we played the game. Almost a year in the planning, the huge sixteen feet long table attracted a lot of interest and ki...
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Mutineer Force for Sharp Practice 2 - I’ve not blogged since January, but that doesn’t mean I’ve not been busy doing stuff. I’ve done almost as much painting as I did in the whole of last year...5 days ago
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19e régiment de dragons - Another unit done! 2 squadrons from the 19th dragoons. At Austerlitz, this regiment with 3 squadrons only numbered 160 men, so basically just a single squad...
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603 - Desert Rats Sikh Reinforcements - I was tempted to pun more with that title, but suffice it to say, I've painted up a few more toys for my Sikhs: - A Vickers MMG and three crew, - A ...
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Campaign Maps – France and Italy - *Previous map of Europe* My 1813 campaign is situated in Germany and Spain. I created this outline map of Europe which included major cities. It cove...
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Euro Miniature Expo 2017 - I always find that when very busy at work it is important to get out and do things at the weekend, if for no other reason than to prove to others that you...
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Grove and Benoy Highlanders - Something of a surprise - I recently spotted four lots of unidentified Highlanders on ebay. as sole bidder on all four lots I was glad when they arri...
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Hallo, Hal-Con! - Hi, gang! While I’m recovering from Insane Bike Ride 2017 (Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow.), I should probably let you know I’ll be at Hal-Con, in Halifax, Nova Scotia...5 days ago
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Fix Bayonets! Game Day - Spent the day at historic Fort Steilacoom near Puget Sound at the annual game day. Although games and attendance were a bit lighter than previous years a g...
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Another Terrain Diversion...Houses! Part IV - Hi all, In today's post I will finally get to the long awaited discussion on how I painted my ever growing village of buildings for my fantasy table... .....
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Shopping at Colours... - *This used to be the grass car park* Honestly, you get no posts for months and then two in a day! I was up early this morning to walk to the station (the...
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Dungeons Fantasy RPG for GURPS has arrived at the Attic! - As long time readers of this blog know I been a fan of GURPS for thirty years. Believe it or not there was a time when GURPS was the fourth or fifth most ...
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Tau of War Commissions: The Dark Angels - A classic Dark Angels army with Primaris Space Marines as the foundation. Next few weeks will add a Ravenwing Detachment, and expanded Deathwing. ...
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Colours 2017 - We shot down to Newbury for a few hours yesterday, I'd only a few things on my shopping list but the absence of the Foundry Napoleonic racks meant no Briti...
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Getting my Russians out for an airing! - As we continue play testing the new version of my 7 year war rules -Lawrence and I had a game by ourselves, our other players (rightly) being absent doing ...
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An Unexpected Journey – The Uruk-Hai Take To The Battlefield - you won’t belive it but I’ve actually finished an army, and not only that but in just over a month. I know thats a record right 🙂 yes indeed I have finish...6 days ago
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COMANSI/REAMSA. FIGURAS DAÑADAS - Han pasado muchos años, en algunos casos mas de 50, muchas manos, muchos juegos y sobre todo muchos niños. Y eso tiene el precio de que muchas piezas ...
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Summer of Gaming and Exploring Gathox! - Greetings all! I haven't posted in quite awhile. I've actually been doing a good bit of gaming. I finished grad school and this allowed my school enforced...
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American war of Independence 40mm Front Rank British officers and Continental infantry & command - Just a small batch here this is my second to last batch of figures for this commission , Last to go are British light infantry and 2 cav plus some fences...
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The Greenboyz mega catchup post #1 (52 minis weeks ???) - Hi blog. Hi couple of you that read this from time to time. Long time no see. Hope things are going well for you in life. Things are going very well for me...
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28mm Doctors Who? & Companions - The return of Doctor Who to television in 2005 after a long absence gave an impetus to wargames set in the Doctor Who universe. Harlequin made one called ...
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"Massive Darkness" dungeon (part 2) - Just finished printing the various components for the first scenario of the Massive Dungeon rulebook, I also wired a bunch of LEDs that I took for some che...
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Crossing Point - 12:00 Gordon Calls a Council of War; Opinions Appreciated - This post follows Crossing Point, Brute Force - 11:15 and precedes (placeholder) What would you advise? General Gordon (the NPC GOC) is convening a counc...
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WAB Corner Collection #3: French and Indian War Figures - (Image from the National Park Service lesson plan: Who were the people involved?) I grew up in Upstate New York, and part of our K-12 education was learni...
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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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NUTS 4th Edition and Compendium Now On Sale! - Any Fight...Anywhere... Any Time The NUTS Compendium - the perfect compliment to NUTS. With NUTS and NUTS Compendium you can play any battle in WWII from...
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Perry Miniature British Colonial Cavalry - For your viewing pleasure are the 19th Hussars from Perry Miniatures Sudan Range painted as generic British Colonial cavalry for Victoria's Wars.
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Boardgame Battlestations game 01 - Starter Mission 1 - Rebellion - *Introduction* Back in February 2016, I backed the Battlestations 2ndedition boardgame Kickstarter. It arrived last month (August 2017). Battlestationsi...
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Basing in process - Last night I got to use my new flock box that arrived yesterday, after a tip off from a good friend. My quick base flocks were put down but when It came ...
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Enslaved Guardians - The latest unit addition to the Mantic Armies of Dust army is this 'regiment' of Enslaved Guardians. The figures are traditional 54mm size. The colour sche...
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Batman - Tonights game was a rematch of Batman v the league of Shadows and Batman got his ass kicked in a royal fashion . a pregame auto show -my collection of batmo...
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The red dwarf and the blue dwarf had a race - I've long been an ardent admirer of how Blue in VT paints, in particular the smoothness he gets on his multi-coloured chaos dwarfs. Now, that smoothness ...
1 week ago -
Konflikt 47 Figures - If you are wondering what some of the conflikt 47 figures look like, here ya go. [image: picture] [image: picture] [image: picture] [image: picture] [imag...
1 week ago -
Prep for MilleniumCon, Chapter 2 - I think I have decided upon the minions of Otto Maton to be the fourth faction in my convention game, just because I like these guys so much. I will pro...
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Millennium Con XX Prep, Part 2: Quadcycle Stats - I think I have decided upon the minions of Otto Maton to be the fourth faction in my convention game, just because I like these guys so much. I will pro...
1 week ago -
Work in Progress Wednesday – Update on What’s on My Desk - The last few weeks have seen a bunch of sporadic hobby projects for me, but for some reason, little writing here. So, here is a look at my workbench and ...1 week ago
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The Goldilocks Cataphracts - I have set October 31st as the target date for completion of my Trimsos Project - that is, all the units and terrain needed for a re-fight of Donald Feathe...
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The Road to Stalingrad: Leutnant Mueller’s Iron Cross - As readers of Lard Island News will know, there is nothing I like more than a game with narrative; apart, that is, from a game with really good tactics AND...1 week ago
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Annual BIG Colonial Game - Date: September 9, 1885/2017 Situation: Annual BIG Colonial Game Location: El Teb, Sudan Rules: House Version of Peter Gilder's Original Sudan Rules ******...
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Galleys and Galleons - One of my aims this year was to finally get a game of "Galleys and Galleons" (published by Ganesha Games) played with my flotilla of Wizkids "Pirates..."...
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Battle of Gospic (Bilaj), May 1809. - Games in September are going to be few and far between because of family commitments, but Steve and I did manage to get together for this Napoleonic scenar...
1 week ago -
Militia cavalry - These are the Perry militia cavalry, sold in the American AWI range but I can't see any reason why they shouldn't be used for un-uniformed Loyalists. Loo...1 week ago
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At Alt-Wittendorf .... - *Hofler, Scharfe and Fischer had missed the army muster but been enrolled as part of the town guard for Alt-Wittendorf, their job to patrol the streets and...
1 week ago -
THANATOS AAC (10) - Hi all, thank you for your feedback. Well, this week was a bit slower, but still lots of painting. My wife and I just bought a house, so lots to organize. ...
1 week ago -
Dungeon Meshi & Walktapodes - I don't remember food (or lack thereof) ever being a particular issue when playing tabletop RPGs, but it was often a mechanic used in computer RPGs (e.g., ...
1 week ago -
Lost Battle: Dertosa round 2 - I wanted to get a game of Lost Battles in while I had the chance. I wanted to replay the Dertosa scenario but mix up the Carthaginian deployment from the l...
1 week ago -
Painting Instructions - EWH 2 Trooper, Roundhead Cavalry (Ironsides) - I've just acquired my first significant number of ECW Hinton Hunt figures and along with them was an original painting guide for EWH 2. As I've never seen ...1 week ago
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Proof of life!? - Hoi, Very much like Lord Awdry over at 28mm Victorian Warfare, I am finding myself incredibly busy with the start of the new school-year. While I have bee...
1 week ago -
Rommel bases - I have finished a few bases. I have used two different packing tape to be able to write on the labels. On the right it is transparent one and the left is t...
1 week ago -
Summer Solo Campaign Wrap-Up - With summer drawing to a close, I finally finished up my Summer Solo *Tokyo Express* campaign. Just to recap, I used the *Tokyo Express* campaign from The ...
1 week ago -
Sardine Wars - The Furness Wargamers are on the verge of starting another Campaign game. The game is based in Crusader times and on the Island of Sardinia with the waning...
1 week ago -
Peaks and troughs - Hello and welcome to Inso's World again. This week has been a bit of a strange one due to lots of personal/family stuff going on. As a result, I haven't ha...1 week ago
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Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe - Is Russia seeking to extend its influence into the Balkans and undermine efforts by the EU and USA to promote stability and democracy in the region? Dimita...
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Patras 2018 !!!! - Just heard some brilliant news - the Greek wargaming community have now taken up L'Art de la Guerre, and are planning on bringing back the near-legendary P...1 week ago
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The Over-the-Mountain-Men and the Battle of King’s Mountain, October 7, 1780 - The 26 figures I used for my Over-Mountain-Men are by Conquest Miniatures, a mixture of their “American Colonial Rangers A – D” and “Frontiersmen A & B”....
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15mm Clone Wars, Showdown on Genosha - Had a chance to play a 15mm Clone Wars game using Age of Saints from Iron Ivan Games. Generals Kenobi and Kit Fisto are tasked with rescuing emissaries of ...
1 week ago -
Heinkell HE III H-20 Airfix: Pt 1 - Bought long ago, I've gotten around to expanding my 1940 German Blitzkrieg air-support for *Rapid Fire* wargaming. I'm enjoying this immensely as it's bee...
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Trash Bash 2017 Contest Rules - *Trash Bash 2017 Contest Rules:* *What is This?* In the spirit of Rick Priestley’s classic grav-attack build, this contest challenges converters, hobbyist...
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Pictures from an Ogre game - Last month I brought my Monopolis setup to the game store and put on an *Ogre *scenario of three cybertanks (Mark III, Mark III-B, and a kitbashed Ground ...
1 week ago -
Future War Stories From the East: FANG of the SUN DOUGRAM (1981-1983) - In the early days of anime being imported to the west from the Land of the Rising Sun, some titles made it to America in forms besides their primary work,...
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Civilian Figures for Pirate Games - *In this post I collect civilians and other miniatures that are great additions for wargames in a 17th/18th century pirate setting.* When I first started p...
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Crusades collection - Hi Gents, Got some of the crusade collection out today lighting wasn't great so tried a lamp half way through. Most of the mounted figures are on the table...
1 week ago -
DAD Hokún - in Frosted Extreme Detail, from Shapeways - *DAD Hokún* The Shapeways printed Hokún from David Allan Designs arrived today. See pictures above. They have a slight yellowish colouration, like old ...
1 week ago -
ImagiNations: Kronprinzs östlichen Kavallerieband - The newest addition to the forces of His Highness, KronPrinz Friedrich Wilhelm trots onto the field. Recruited in the Eastern Reaches, these wild character...
1 week ago -
Tinkering....D-Day wading Sherman MK 1 ARV WIP #2 - Some more fettling, added the two wading stacks and started the basic stowage load out. Am happy enough with the angle son these, my reference sources ...2 weeks ago
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Battletech: New Mountain Company and More - Howdie. I have a continuing interest in Battletech, the game itself as a nostalgic journey into the past, but also in the mechs, and background history. S...
2 weeks ago -
DBN23 Genappe 1815 - More Napoleonic action from the 100 Days Campaign. The Anglo-British Army is retreating from Quatre Bras to Waterloo. The village of Genappe rests upon...
2 weeks ago -
Book Review: Battles of the Dark Ages by Peter Marren - In an attempt to inspire myself to finish off my Saxon warband for our planned Bloodeagle campaign I have been reading Battles of the Dark Ages by Peter Ma...
2 weeks ago -
making the best of a battered JU52 - WIP - I picked up a very cheap JU52 of EBAY, in a sorry state with no propeller blades and with some loose bits . So after sticking the loose bits back on, main...
2 weeks ago -
A 28mm Japanese tower that looks Japanese! - There’s something distinctive about Japanese towers that even the uninitiated can identify them straight away. However, this characteristic look can be qui...2 weeks ago
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A little something from Dave Lycett - I was sent these pictures by friend of the blog, Dave Lycett, recently and very fine they are too. They are from Spencer Smiths Shiny Toy Soldiers line....
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Track of Words – September 2017 (Part One) - September marks the twentieth anniversary of my first ever published story, Birth of a Legend. You can read my reflections on the last twenty years in this...2 weeks ago
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ETA for the EVA confirmed - With the EVA all freshly painted and ready to go, as predicted this Monday's game was a return to China, and my "Taiping Era" rules, which last had an outi...
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A Decade of Drivel! - *I've* just realized that this blog is now just over 10 years old; my first post was dated August 4, 2007. *Delusions of grandeur are not limited to verti...
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Local wargaming club - active and moving forward - The Old Dominion Military Society has reformed and has been gaming weekly with great success for several months. We recently held our summer convention (Gu...
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3rd Kefcon - This past weekend I attended the 3rd annual Kefon boardgame convention. This was the first Kefcon I've attended. It was held at the Queen Mary Park Communi...
2 weeks ago -
LW BOTB German 10.5 cm lefh 18/40 Howitzer Battery - Eureka! After over 6 months of work (well, mostly waiting for a LONG overdue back order to be filled), the Late War Battle of the Bulge (LW BOTB) German ...
2 weeks ago -
Hinton Hunt and Der Kriegspieler Figure Hunt - In looking for command figures for some of my Hinton Hunt and Der Kriegspielers units I have tried a couple of existing figure lines to find compatible ...
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The last month in pictures - Hi Chaps, It would seem that despite grabbing 30 minutes painting time before work (6AM ish) units can still be painted even if in a bleary eyed way! Grabb...
2 weeks ago -
A Dark Shadow Gathers - Hereward Wargame Show - Andy Mac and I took our Dragon Rampant participation game to the Hereward wargame show today. We played it through twice, with the good (Elves of the Woodl...
2 weeks ago -
I have been to.. Roundway Down (Part 2 - the visit bit) - What a day for a visit, glorious sunshine and a light breeze to take the edge of the heat while walking. but I would recommend not trusting you satnav thou...
2 weeks ago -
AAR Back To School Deluxe A3 - James came over Friday night for another game and this time we went all the way back to ASL Annual '89 for some Deluxe action. This one was quite a bit sm...
2 weeks ago -
Ghoul pack painted up and pictures of undead horde - Last undead models to be painted up (at least for now) are 20 plastic ghouls from Mantic Games. I trimmed away all the spikes from legs, torsos and arms an...
2 weeks ago -
From ACW to FPW - Although I haven't made any posts lately, I have been painting away on my Franco-German War (as I call it) figures as well as mounting some ACW pictures pa...
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Painting Tutorial - 28mm Viking Warriors - Hi folks, The good news is - Vikings are easy to paint! In fact, most 'Dark Age' models are. Its down largely to the simple tunics of the age, which for th...
3 weeks ago -
Period flags - From the Boxel Manual. also a short description of Regiment Flags, like the one of the (Scottish) Colonel Kirckpatrick: Yellow and Blue, divided in f...
3 weeks ago -
"A Canal Too Far" for Operation Market Garden @ MINIWARS 2017 - Time flies when you're having fun. Hard to believe but it's been more than 2-1/2 years since I built a 6' long x 1' wide Rhine River for use in the Arnhem ...
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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 ...
3 weeks ago -
Lard on the Volga - Birthday Bash 2017 - It seems strange how something always seems to crop up on the evening my local wargames club meets. School plays, my daughter’s swimming training, my son...
3 weeks ago -
Reaper Bones 4, and some new painted Reaper figures - If your reading this I am sure you are aware of the Reapers current 4th "Bones" Kickstarter which is winding down as it approaches the 2 million mark, con...
3 weeks ago -
Modern Austrians - As I am always looking for something strange, obscure, different, I have been, for months, looking at those gorgeous Eureka 15mm modern Australians, and wh...
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Leven Miniatures 6mm ACW Buildings - I recently finished painting up a few 6mm resin American Civil War buildings produced by Leven Miniatures. I bought mine from The Wargaming Company booth ...
3 weeks ago -
15mm Macedonians and Italian states - Hi guys Some War and Empire 15mm Ancients finished on commission, mostly Macedonian types with some Italian infantry, always nice figs to paint, shield lef...
3 weeks ago -
SPACE 1889: Night Raider Flyer - This flyer is the Large Martian Flyer from RedVectors in the UK. It’s the same kit as in my post ‘Barsoom: Large Flyer’.’ (So if you want more of a review,...
3 weeks ago -
Tribal Primeaval campaign: scenario 2 - The first game in this campaign was a thrashing for the humans, we were down 12 honour points. So, we sent the elders to the mountain, and they beseeched A...
3 weeks ago -
FIST FULL OF BLOOD (Dracula's America game) - Got the new Osprey Dracula's america gamer book, and was eager to give it a good go. I had tried the combat system and was delight with the contents of...
3 weeks ago -
Skall - Le maléfique - Un petit sorcier... petit mais mauvais... A small wizard... small but bad...
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Another Jungle Resin - In the process of finding a new digs, better posting should resume in a couple of weeks...? Another very versatile building for jungle type scenarios by ...
3 weeks ago -
Skaven Doomwheelin' onto your PC soon... - *DoooooM....WHEEEEEEEEEEL*! As much as I love Warhammer 40K, this blog was originally devoted to my Skaven army for Warhammer Fantasy Battle (mainly as ...
3 weeks ago -
28th Massachusetts - Almost a full month since my last post. I've had a good bit of bother this past couple of months with life not going 100% to plan for myself and people I c...
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Daimler Dingo Scout Car - This is the Warlord Games Daimler Dingo Scout car model. It is a resin and white metal kit. The exterior detail is excellent but it is sadly lacking inte...
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Leuctra at Partizan - Hi all, I'm still playing catch up after Partizan but here are a couple of photos of the game, taken by chum Ian Notter. Above is the Spartan deployment- ...
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An Oldhammer Recounting of the Dwarves - It is time for the Dwarfs to get the name-generator treatment. Scouring the full ranges of Citadel Miniature Dwarfs from 1982-1986 to compile a random name...
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Anet A8 3D Printer and Creating Terrain - Kim from Kreative Scenery recently picked up an Anet A8 3D printer from GearBest.com and was getting very good results from it while printing 15mm terrain....4 weeks ago
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Donnybrook... Why You Should Have These Rules! - Wargames Illustrated has a fairly new series that runs in the mag these days, called 'Why You Should Have These Rules'. Apparently it's a shout out for pe...
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CHARITY - There are just 10 days left for you to purchase your raffle tickets! - That's right. It has been a hectic summer, so much going on that it has been tough to keep track of everything (and I have completely failed to write any...
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Harlequin 1500pt Tournament List - Have a one-day 40k event next weekend which is using some of special scenarios from the back of the rule e.g. City Scapes etc. Had to decide between Death...
4 weeks ago -
selling off a big load of painted/unpainted World Eaters gear for 30k - Hi there readers I've burnt out painting white and need to move onto new projects so am gonna dump my fairly substantial World Eaters project stuff here. T...
4 weeks ago -
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 ...
4 weeks ago -
Crecy at The Other Partizan. - So the game was played last Sunday. It was awarded Best Game, which was really pleasing for all of us who'd contributed to the game; Dave Andrews' English...
4 weeks 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...
4 weeks ago -
The Only Good Bug is a Dead Bug... WH40K 2nd ed at BOYL 2017 - Another day, another planet, another futile struggle against the overwhelming hordes of the Hive Mind! Told you there was a bit of a theme for me this yea...
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Cheap and Easy Pantile Roof Tutorial - I have had a few requests for details on how I did the roof of the Spanish warehouse. What follows is a short tutorial on the materials and method used. If...
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The Soviet View of the Uwanda-Mugabia War - In the hours following Uwanda's initial advance, word of the results were conveyed to Soviet and Cuban leadership through their advisors and various other ...4 weeks ago
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And now, a brief diversion for something different - We have had a fairly big celebration at this end recently, a pretty darned reasonable amount of Champagne has been imbibed. I've held off blogging this as...
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Back to basics - Well, that should be back to basing because that (among other things) is what I've been doing. It's a thankless task as far as I'm concerned, but it's even...
5 weeks ago -
Question for you bloggers out there..... - More and more I've been seeing blog entries from others, saying they're discontinuing their blogs in favor of other mediums, such as Instagram, Twitter, or...5 weeks ago
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Tie Defender of the First Order - Lately most of my gaming was X-wing miniatures game. Great little game that I actually liked to play in tournaments (and I was keeping distance from such w...
5 weeks ago -
The French Imperial Guard Cavalry - Hi Team Like most wargamers interested in the Napoleonic era I eventually found myself drawn to attempting to recreate at least some part of Napoleon's 'Gu...
5 weeks ago -
St Nectan's cross - *Sven Erisksen has heard that the hermit at St Nectan's cross in West Wales (Cornwall) knew valuable information about the Whorled Cup and its treasure. Th...
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Triumph of Death: painted stretch goal minis - As soon as I got the first review casts of the last stretch goal minis, I primed them and put paint to them! Zweihander attacking. The Abbot Both...
5 weeks ago -
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...5 weeks ago
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Lancers, Saxons, and Saxons - Hello, Today I've managed to finish 60 models. First are a twelve pack of the Perry Dutch Red Lancers. Their lances are plastic broom bristles, with the ...
5 weeks ago -
Today's Acquisitions... - In an effort to keep up with this blog, I got this out this evening...(while finishing off a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label). One of the things with ...
5 weeks ago -
Berlin to the Baltic Part 1. The Cold War. - We recently went on holiday to Germany and cycled from Berlin to the Baltic via Poland, with some interesting historical encounters along the way. The Ber...
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Using Powerpoint to draw a map - In response to requests, here is a quick and basic tutorial for creating wargames table maps using MS-Powerpoint 2010. I hope this helps someone out there:...
5 weeks ago -
Playing with the Castle - Been playing around with my DwarvenForge Castle stuff. As you can see, it is for sale on the Dwarvenforge website. This is the Count's Castle with the Watch...
5 weeks ago -
WWI Dioramas - by Carlos Briz - *Minerva Armored Car* Vehicles and Figures - Van Dyck Models Figurines House - Timecast *Front Scene 10mm* Figures, Vehicles and horses - Pendraken Tr...
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A Wargamer's Guide to the Anglo-Zulu War by Daniel Mersey: A brief review - Dan Mersey is well known as the writer of the successful Lion Rampant, The Pikeman's Lament and The Men who Would be Kings rules, among others. He has ...
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Talomir Tales: A tale of a successful campaign - This blog has been neglected for a long time because of my peripatetic work life which led to a lack of face-to-face gaming. My Talomir Tales blog continue...
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Hussite War Wagons - War wagons are one of those things I've often wanted but had shied away from for many years. I think I bought the first of these at a show where there wa...
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Dungeon Scum, The Boss Battle. - Rose Glenguard and her party of Adventurers follow their treasure map to a narrow chamber that echoed with the sound of rushing water. In the deepest rece...
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Nippon army project (Part one) - Hello! Time for me to build a new project, this year I planned to realize a “Hobby phantasm” of mine, collect and paint a Nippon Army for WHB. For once no ...
1 month ago -
Delvers Lost in the Dungeons of Doom III Kickstarter - Hi folks, I have the pleasure of informing you that Scotia Grendel will provide support for *“Delvers Lost in the Dungeons of Doom III”* Kickstarter by S...
1 month ago -
What Happened At The Battle of Madras - *THE BATTLE OF MADRAS* Date: 5-6 August, 1757 (2017) Location: Southeast India, The Carnatic, Inland From The Port of Madras Situation: The Battle Rules: B...
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In the Jungle, the mighty Jungle.... - Hello again, Okay so this small Bush Wars project has got a little out of hand.... The idea was simple enough. Buy some cheap 20mm (1/72) soft plastic moder...
1 month 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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Two more rifle-dreads - I finally managed to take pictures of the other two dreadnoughts. They are also venerable and armed with twin autocannons. This makes three in total which ...
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It Came From the Forums: Carchadons! Tribal Space Sharks! - Today I want to share something that blew my mind the first time I saw it; a Carchadon army by French artist, Malcharion. He has dubbed the original foru...
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F&IW Native Americans - Finally finished my Blue Moon 18mm woodland Indians for SP2. I think they turned out OK. Of course I painted a lot more than I needed.
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1/9th Colonel Munro from Last of the Mohicans Mitches Military Models - Here we go with the 2nd Bust from The Last of the Mohicans trio of Busts from Mitches Military Models. Holidays and lack of motivation have held this up, bu...
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10 More Primaris Marines - Continuing to work on my Dark Angels Primaris Marine infantry. This week finished off 10 new squad members. First, a squad of Hellblasters, armed with Pla...
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Cold War Czechoslovakia's own armour designs - [image: Image result for TVP 51 Czech world of tanks] *Rendering of the Czech TVP T51 design courtesy World of Tanks* Readers of this blog will know we q...1 month ago
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Is There Still a Crisis in Alcovia? - Since the declaration of a cease fire in 2012, the kingdom of Alcovia has remained in a tenuous state of peace which has been called an "Civil Cold War" by...
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Skirmish on the Border - On that July morning when war came again to the Federation of the Freefolk, it came like a thunderstorm with the flash of polished steel and the thunder of...
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20 Leagues Under My Belt - Living Statue - [image: Image may contain: 1 person] While technically not an entire league, I wanted to post this latex adversary paint-up. This is a plastic stone or cla...1 month ago
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More ACW gaming fun from “down under” - Brad Smith writes: “Our Brisbane [Australia] gaming group commemorated the current anniversary with a 40mm game (on July 1 of course) of Pettigrew/Brockenb...1 month ago
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Brushing away the cobwebs. - Forgive me father, for it has been over two and a half year's since my last Grymn related post... ... but that is about to change. Sadly, there hasn't bee...
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Zorndorf 1758 - A Black Powder Game - Whenever I think of Seven Years War battles, the first on my list is Zorndorf. I'm not sure if it is because it involves the Russians (never has the expres...
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The Garigliano 1503 - Battle Report II - James writes: this week we finished off the Battle of Garigliano. Peter swapped sides and took over from Don as Gonsalvo de Coroba. Graham took sole comman...2 months ago
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Rorke’s Drift Update - Well it’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything directly to do with my own wargaming, and an even longer time since I posted about my 28mm Anglo-Zulu...2 months ago
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Rorke’s Drift Update - Well it’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything directly to do with my own wargaming, and an even longer time since I posted about my 28mm Anglo-Zulu...2 months ago
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Journées Bolt Action à Balma (suite) - Et voici de nouvelles photos de nos deux journées Bolt Action...
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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. ...
2 months ago -
Joy of 6 - Joy of 6 is an annual show put on by Pete of Baccus Miniatures. Held at Sheffield Hallam University each July, it attracts more and more 6mm / microarmour...
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Agincourt? - *Jean V, Sieur de Poix - killed at Agingourt* I bought the Perry "French Infantry" box set from their "Agincourt to Orleans" range last week. What a magni...
2 months ago -
H G Wells style breakfast biscuit house... - Follow the link and vote for your favourite H G Wells Little Wars type house- https://tradgardland.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/breakfast-biscuits-little-wars-hou...2 months ago
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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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Sticky Stickmen Stoically Standing - Good afternoon, Well, it must be holidays, because I applied some paint to some figures. Actually, two of these elements I painted over this last week, two...
2 months ago -
Dover Patrol - When we think of the Great War and naval engagements we often think of the great naval battles such as Jutland or German submariners in the Atlantic. Yet...
2 months ago -
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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Still Alive! - I am still around, but mostly I am hanging out on Facebook now. I still not doing much in the area of gaming, so you are not missing anything anyways. I ...2 months ago
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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!2 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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Nemo's War 2nd Ed Arrives! - A year without a post here at the blog? Goodness me, what was I thinking? Entombed in a submersible vehicle with a mysterious Captain of unknown origin I w...
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Neapolitan Reinforcements - The next battalion off the workbench is the 1st battalion of the 7th Line Regiment of the Neapolitan Army. This was the famous black regiment recruited f...
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In the Emperor's name get back here so that I can show you the business end of this Eviscerator heretic! - So, there's a bit of a long-winded explanation for why this guy got painted. And why it took... 8 years maybe? One of the guys at work has recently discove...
2 months ago -
War of the Roses Archers Finished - Here is a quick shot of my Perry Miniatures War of the Roses Archers. More images to come when I get them properly photographed.
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Lead Adventure League Season 11 finished! - jul08_2017 - The Lead Painter's League finally finished and I managed to squeek out a third-place spot! It was a great time and I might even take part again next year...2 months ago
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SYW - Combat at Reichenberg - Historicon Playtest - G'Day wargamers! It is one week away from when I'm going to run my *Combat at Reichenberg *15mm SWY game at Historicon (Friday, July 14th @1pm). I sculpted...
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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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SKETCHBOOK: "Sides of Buildings" - Had to get some work done on my car that took a couple of hours. So I wandered around and did these two sketches this morning. The salmon colored building...
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TYW Saxon Infantry - These are early Thirty Years War (TYW) Protestant infantry. My plan is to morph my TYW Danes by painting fresh command stands with different flags. Until...
2 months ago -
15 mm TYW Flags - Vexillia - A little something different today: figures from my personal collection. These are intended to represent early Thirty Years War (TYW) Protestant infantry ...2 months ago
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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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Another Excellent NJ-Con Has Come and Gone... - This year's NJ Con excelled itself for attendance, organisation and general coolness. While I was only able to attend the Friday session, I still had a ro...
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The return of an old favorite, with a twist - Along with the Anglo-Dutch ships, I purchased a few miniatures for an era that I once played extensively - ACW naval: These ships are part of a new series ...
2 months ago -
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...
2 months ago -
How to Make 28mm African Huts - I've been putting together some terrain for my Death in the Dark Continent project. A quick internet search for Matabele/Zulu type huts came up with quit...
2 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...2 months ago
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Hi ! Long time ? Yes !... So, some pictures for you to wait a bit more... ;) - Hello ! Yes, I know. It's been a very (too) long time since I posted anything. :) I have been very focused on different projects, and they are coming to an...
3 months ago -
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 ...3 months ago
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Maidstone Wargames Society Open Day 2017 - My local club, the Maidstone Wargames Society, will be having its annual open day this Saturday. There will a number of games being played - so come al...
3 months ago -
Indian/Sudanese (Mardan/Suakin) Diorama - The last few days were very sunny so I had the opportunity to start with my diorama project. The plan I made myself was a market scene at a palace or city ...
3 months ago -
Quantity has a quality all of its own... - No disrespect for the figures or painting at all (in fact maximum respect) - but here is Alan M's representation of Eugene's IV Corps using S Range figures...
3 months ago -
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...
3 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 ...
3 months ago -
TMWWBK Zulu game - Our last game was our first group game of TMWWBK rules from Osprey. Zulus attacking the British in a defencive position much like Rorke's Drift. The Britis...
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June 2017 Update - Wow...June 11th already...where has the first half of 2017 gone? Part of me feels like I haven't accomplished much this year, but then I look at the numbe...
3 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...3 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 ...
3 months ago -
Artúricos para SAGA IV - Aquí están las cuatro figuras restantes, con ellas completo el punto de Pedyts (guerreros). Ahora si, por fin tengo cuatro puntos pintados! Para no variar l...
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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...
3 months ago -
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...
3 months ago -
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...
3 months ago -
Eleventh of Fifteen: MonkeyCon Blitz Visit - On my way home from a holiday abroad I was able to do a quick whirlwind stop at MonkeyCon, the first games show hosted by our friends The Wargaming Monkeys...
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Back? Well, I never actually went away. - [image: Free Web Site Counter] Free Counter Blimey, been a long time since I looked at this, lots has happened, both in life and in wargaming. Anyway, I w...
3 months ago -
McNulie,a Frother for SLA Industries - Here is my entry for the Daruma Productions paint a Tartan clad Frother competition. He is the character Frother, McNultie is his PP10 "Hard" Armour striki...
3 months ago -
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..... ...
3 months ago -
Anderson : The Deep End - *Rebellion's Dredd movie comics* In 2012 the second Dredd movie was released. This was released despite the box office failure by the Stallone version in 1...
3 months ago -
USMC Tanks vs British Tanks in Encounter - The OC moves from cover to keep the street clean! The final game of the Lords of War 80 point Team Yankee tournament was against Jay and his British tanks...
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Time for War! - So, Last weekend I got to Demo CAV: Strike Operations to my buddy Tom, it was also a quick chance to see if I was able to break down the rules for Talon G...
3 months ago -
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...3 months ago
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Partizan 2017 - The Naseby project was invited to exhibit as part of the history zone at Partizan, Newark Showground, at the weekend. We took along the familar tableau of...3 months 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...4 months 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...4 months 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 ...
4 months ago -
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...
4 months ago -
The Battle of Mockern (Oct. 1813) - My most recent battle was another super-sized Commands & Colors Napoleonic affair, with Blucher attacking Marmont at Mockern, near Leipzig. For a general i...
4 months ago -
28mm Napoleonic Bavarian Cheveauleger and Dragoons - These lads are from Front Rank. Bavarian 1st Dragoons Bavarian Konig Cheveauleger
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Max on YouTube - In case you missed the live session and wanted to watch me paint a Drowned Earth miniature, you can catch the two hour recording over on the Drowned Earth ...4 months ago
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Mayday 2017 - On Saturday, I went to this year's Mayday convention held here in the Edmonton area. Jonathan, the organizer, found an excellent community center in St. Al...
4 months ago -
Second Game Day of 2017 - 1809 Campaign - Finally had a weekend free (house projects are nearing an end) to get in some gaming! We started an 1809 campaign as additional playtesting/development of...
4 months ago -
Regiment d'Inf. Sant Narcís - St. Narcissus Inf. Reg. 1713-1714 Dixon, Roundway i Essex, 15mm Ja tinc reformat un altre regiment d'infanteria català de la Guerra de Successió: en aquest...
4 months ago -
Some Bolt Action US Para vs Fallschirmjager - Battlefield overview About two weeks ago Nick and Franz joined me for a game of Bolt Action2 at my house to give the new version another run through and ...
4 months ago -
Update & House Cleaning - Easter week holidays and some domestic priorities among my gaming buddies has brought a temporary break in our Vietnam games. However I have not been ...
4 months ago -
CONGO - First game - I clearly remember when Foundry announced its Darkest Africa range about 20 years ago. Beautiful Mark Copplestone sculpts, on what was at the time a uniqu...
4 months ago -
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...
4 months ago -
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...4 months 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...
4 months ago -
8th Army Anti-Tank Guns - Airfix straight from the box 6 pdr guns painted for desert theatre. The second carrier went into the spares box. Thought about replacing the crews but de...
4 months ago -
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...
5 months ago -
Snapdragon Studio 6mm SF Scenery - We're having a bit of a move round in Bleaseworld which has led to the discovery of certain "lost" items in the loft including some of the display boards f...
5 months ago -
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...
5 months ago -
15mm ECW Hedge Row Tutorial (Updated 4/19/17) - I documented my attempts at making hedgerows primarily so I could remember how to make more if my technique worked. Having seen many tutorials online alre...
5 months ago -
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...
5 months ago -
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...5 months ago
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Crisis Point VI - AAR (Richard P) - The first two parts are up on my blog. http://atomicrenegade.blogspot.co.uk/ Cheers Richard P
5 months ago -
Let's try again - After quite some time, I have found myself a copy of this:This is the fourth (or maybe fifth) book set in the Monster Blood Tattoo setting. Not easily ava...
5 months ago -
Wargames Illustrated - WI354 April 2017 - Anyone who dislikes ‘personal trumpet blowing’ and /or shameless self-promotion may wish to skip this post. Wargames Illustrated - WI354 April 2017 I was r...
5 months ago -
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...5 months 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 ...5 months ago
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Dragon - Part Two - Very limited progress this month. I have cleaned up the base dragon but have not yet started pinning. In respect to the base I added some green stuff to gi...
5 months ago -
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...
5 months ago -
Keyword - Keyword belajar bahasa inggris online bahasa inggris online cara belajar bahasa inggris online belajar online bahasa inggris belajar bahasa inggris online ce...6 months 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 ...
6 months ago -
Warrior Miniatures Army O' The Month - This is the second 100 piece army I purchased this year from John Holt of Warrior Miniatures. http://www.warrioronline.demon.co.uk/ Here's the whole...
6 months ago -
Funniest production ever from the Emperor's Beard webcomics. - Some time ago, my favorite hobby-related webcomic was Larry Leadhead. You can still find one of the best strip at the bottom of my blog. But time is going ...
6 months ago -
The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge 7th Edition - I like the ring of the 7th edition. It became my favorite version of the WRG ancients rules. This is the first year I took part in the Challenge and I aime...
6 months ago -
The unbearable shortness of being - In preparation for Salute 2017, I have been painting a warband of dwarves from Hasslefree Miniatures. The majority of the force is complete with hand weap...6 months ago
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Dark Age Normans and two Anglo-Saxons - Dark Age warriors on horse and on foot. Cavalry from Conquest Games Normans and foot sloggers are Gripping beast. One of the foot soldiers has arms from a ...
6 months ago -
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...
6 months ago -
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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HC: Celteberians vs Carthaginians - *The Battle for Gallaecia * Having successfully routed the Celteberians in the previous two battles the Carthaginans marched into the Celteberians stronghol...
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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...6 months 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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Third Time's the Charm - Twice I started to write a post and twice I threw them away because they did not feel right. If you are reading this then the third time's the charm. Guilf...
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The War Host of Karond Kar - Here is the finished board. I was hoping to get some more pics but the light is playing funny tricks with the photos at the moment.
6 months ago -
Space Slann Warleader - Finished this Space Slann War leader today - you might have guessed I'm a huge fan of this lost, enigmatic species!
6 months ago -
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...
6 months ago -
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...
6 months ago -
X-Wing JumpMaster5000 - Hi all Here is my repainted from stock version JumpMaster5000. Spellscape Miniatures blog
6 months ago -
15mm Caravan,possible Meth Lab or just a home with outdoor plumbing....... - *........from Gamecraft Miniatures!* *A nice piece of resin scenery plus a plastic outhouse with a SUV for quick getaways? A couple of 15mm miniatures to s...
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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...7 months 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.7 months 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...
7 months ago -
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...
7 months ago -
Dragoon Class Photo - And here's a photo of all the new dragoons. Ready for battle in the Peninsula. 72 horses but only 71 riders . . . one rider ran off to parts unknown.
7 months ago -
New Stream on Twitch and Nova - Hey guys! So I continue to try to dig myself back in and I wanted to share my progress! First thing I want to say is that divorce is awful. Actually it is...
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"I'm short a cheek bone and an ear, but can lick all hell yet!' - Allatoona, GA - 5 October 1864 - Here are some pics of our club game at Fall-In 2016. The scenario was developed by Kaleb using the Regimental Fire and Fury rules. I had a chance to play...
7 months 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...
7 months ago -
Feartigo - *Feartigo* is my second *Pulp City* mini of the year, making for a better start than 2016 (although I had a very good February). I got inspired to do him ...
7 months ago -
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...
7 months ago -
Rockport Invitational 2016 look back - Put together a video teaser from photos of my last hosted tournament. Did this to help promote the new one I'll be hosting this April. Enjoy!
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ECW Pikemen - Ye shotte have been awaiting the arrival of their pikemen for some time.... that time has arrived. I mistakenly said in the last post "picking up from wher...
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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...8 months ago
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Thery are coming (Thargoids in Elite: Dangerous) - *F*irst contact with the *Thargoids* in Elite: Dangerous They are back. Run for your life!!!
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Happy New Year - Happy New Year Which is a good time to start this up again. I have not been idle far from it but sometimes other things are more important. So what do I ...8 months 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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The 2016 recap - I managed over the Christmas vacation among the various movie marathons I had with my kids, to get this little fellow painted up. A plague rat from my gia...
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Merry Ditfurth - What could say 'Christmas' more than a battalion of Hessians...? The von Ditfurth fusilier regiment c. 1776 - standard Hinchliffe castings, originally ...
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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...
9 months ago -
Dark Heresy RPG group miniatures built - I finished building the characters my friends played in our last Dark Heresy campaign. Pyrokine Thug Gemma and Deathwatch Veteran Triakis Rogue Trader A...
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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...9 months 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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Basic Impetus 2 - Basic Impetus 2 is now available, both printed and digital. The printed version will be available through our shop after Christmas holidays but in the mean...
9 months ago -
Sketches ON SALE - ON SALE http://www.ebay.es/itm/252634365959?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
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Lamming Roman Empire RE4 Eastern Archer - By the miracle of the internet and the generosity of Dave in the States these RE4 Lamming Roman archers arrived shortly after my last post. Not the best ...
10 months ago -
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 ...
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Weird War One: Electric Weaponry - During the First World War, technology advanced at a great pace with machines and devices rapidly becoming obsolete as they were superseded by events or ...
10 months ago -
Conquest, part 3, Sunday, BBDBA - The Sunday was three BBDBA games. Points were given for breaking commands and for winning. Game 1: Mark B (Palmyrans) With my high aggression I was unsurpr...
10 months 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...
10 months 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 ...
10 months 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 ...
10 months 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...
10 months ago -
Zombtober 2016: Final Halloween Round Up - Happy Halloween fellow Zombtober followers and other readers. I apologise for not posting yesterday but I have been swamped at work and so on, but I have f...
10 months ago -
20 bahaya radiasi HP kamu harus tau - Bahaya radiasi Hp bagi kesehatan tubuh merupakan dampak buruk dari penggunaan ponsel yang tidak benar dan tidak mengenal batas waktu. Hp memiliki gelomban...
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Dreadtober painting and playing with oil - I didn't progress as well as I had hoped for in the Dreadtober challenge. I was supposed to be ready with the painting and the base this week but I have be...
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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...
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Didn't see that coming: Thousand Sons (W30k) - Good God, about time for my annual blog update! :D While time for hobby activities is and will remain sparse, I've kept painting (at glacial speed) for a fe...11 months ago
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Farewell, strike the tent - A final entry here for Saxe-Bearstein. On October 2, 2016 the originator of this blog, Bluebear Jeff Hudelson, started on his journey to the Summerlands....
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Paintus Interruptus - I will be moving to Florida within the next few months. Hobby stuff is back on hold while I pack all my crap and sell my place.11 months ago
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Considering some future projects - I’ve been thinking of future projects lately, which makes perfect sense since the projects I’m currently working on have been put aside lately due to real ...11 months ago
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The Great Blue Bear now on his way to the summerlands. - Emperor vs Elector readers, one of the originators of this group blog, Jeff aka Blue Bear of Saxe-Bearstein has passed away. Jeff had been in hospital sinc...
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Horizon Wars - 2nd Game - I'm surprised Google hasn't deleted this blog yet. Anyway, I have been kicking around a lot of different rulesets lately, trying to find something I like....
11 months ago -
GZG Moongrunts 15mm SCI-FI - A chat with Jon of GZG in regard to some new Moongrunts releases presented at the SELWG wargames show 2016.
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Arab Israeli Wars 1967: Fate of Nations/Team Yankee - Played a fantastic Arab Israeli game Thursday with Mark Piper using the BF Fate of Nations lists but with the Team Yankee rules. Mark had created some fant...
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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...
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Halo Ground Command: 15mm Covenant forces - … The post Halo Ground Command: 15mm Covenant forces appeared first on Model Dads' blog.11 months ago
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I Made a Cup of Tea for the Warhammer Author Dan Abnett Today - Today at the Academy where I am employed as the careers and guidance Tutor we had a visit organised by the English department from Dan Abnett who is prob...
11 months ago -
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...
11 months ago -
KS – AAH – Swarm Level Survey has gone out - Hello everyone, We’ve put out the Swarm Level survey for our Alien Assimilation Host Kickstarter – update #270. If you are a backer, at Swarm Level, please...11 months ago
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"Virgil, quick, come see... - *"Virgil Caine is the nameAnd I served on the Danville train'Till Stoneman's cavalry cameAnd tore up the tracks again* *In the winter of '65We ...
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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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Congo cancelled! - *"I say, you chaps, any sign of breakfast yet?"* Well, for me anyway. I was due to go to Eric the Shed's for my first game of *Congo*, as organised by A...
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Wunderlist For Windows 3.18.0 - Wunderlist - is one of the most well known cross-platform task manager and to-do list application. It is also available for Mac and instantly sync your ...
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August 2016 Pub Con - Recently we've had a lot of great content on our Facebook page. Please check it out of you are interested (facebook) 最近フェイスブックでのコンテンツの方が多いので、是非ご覧ください。(face...
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Macro shots of the Undead Pirates and a Zombie? Creepy! - It was amazing to see the detail through the lens.... Captain Richar...
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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...
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15mm Great Swamp Lizard - We are very pleased to release our latest 15mm fantasy model -- the Great Swamp Lizard. This towering beast can eat his way straight through entire enemy ...1 year ago
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Black Cross / Blue Sky Lost Squadrons Squadron Cards - The plane cards below are for the Lost Squadrons expansion to the Black Cross / Blue Sky WWII aerial wargame. You can find the base game's set at my previ...
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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 ...
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Early War French - having been bitten by the battlegroup rules bug, I decided to go for early war French. Using the Pegasus French and German infantry as a basis for my two a...
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中华人民共和国特种设备安全法（主席令第四号） - 有与充装和管理相适应的充装设备、检测手段、场地厂房、器具、安全设施；，必要时，负责特种设备安全监督管理的部门可以越级上报事故情况。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...
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Castles of Cornwall - I had a week in Cornwall this year in early June, and it's a fantastic place, we were gifted with good weather as well which allowed us to get out and abo...
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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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Rewrite of Rules - This is the first major update of the rules since they were written in 2011. The rules have been used on our wargames table on most days since they were...
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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 -
Jutland with a Vengeance - Yesterday (Memorial Day) some of the Jackson Gamers gathered to play a WW1 naval game in memory of the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland. I title...
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...
1 year ago -
TWO NEW RELEASES & A CRAZY GOOD MEMORIAL DAY SALE! - *I am pleased to announce two new releases.* *The limited edition 54mm (1:28 scale) Valkir Assault Trooper display model.* If you are a painter or a coll...
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The Sunken Road at Antietam - Looking east inside the Sunken Road. The tower on the distance marks the point in which the road turn to the right heading south. It also marks the extrem...
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Arènes du Graoully V - Ce week-end avait lieu la cinquième édition des Arènes du Graoully à Metz. Au programme, trois tournois - Blood Bowl, Warmachine et SAGA - et plusieurs tab...
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A new adventure… Frostgrave - Wow, it’s been a long time since I updated this blog. I’d love to say that I’m going to be better with future posts but I don’t suppose my track record wo...1 year 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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Irish chariots 28mm - Some metal drivers and nobles, and dogs but mostly plastic Wargames Factory Celtic Chariot boxed set, crewed and supported by kit bashed Wargames Factory p...
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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…*...1 year ago
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Incursion Plastics, Part 1 - Catching up on some painting... MI-13 (Rear Left to Right): Nigel, Commando, Ack Pack x2 (Flamer), Grenadier (Foreground Center): Gut Gunner SWD (Left to R...
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Here there be dragons! - Back again. My absence was not force upon me by lack of painted lead, but rather because I did not have the time to sit and write anything. Finally, after ...
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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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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. ...
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Law Enforcement - Hi! I've managed to paint up a few law enforcement officers for Jim to avoid! Outland Judge Patrol I ended up going for the classic Judge Dredd paint sch...
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Update: An extremely long delay and explanation.... - Dear Readers and Followers of "The Bongolesia Blog": I send this note to you as an apology for the lengthy delay in updating this site. As you are aware of...1 year ago
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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 ...1 year ago
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A Visit to Ojo Marron - ( Editor's note: after many years of distraction in other games I'm returning to the game I started grand-detail construction many years ago. The Idea is ...
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PTO Terrain: Shrine - *with Mike* *(Cross-posted from Behind Enemy Lines...)* I've been on the hunt for a small Buddha statute to make into a jungle statue for my Vietnam terra...
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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...1 year ago
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Serce gracza / A player's heart - Czwarte mistrzostwa *"Ogniem i Mieczem"* mamy za sobą. Skończyła się także akcja, mająca na celu wsparcie leczenia mojego syna, poprzez kupno specjalnej f...
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"...There is Only War." - On a personal note, I recently moved from the lovely state of Virginia to the wonderful state of Ohio. Things are different here. I miss my gaming partners...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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 ...1 year ago
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Tigers on the Hunt released - And the game is released. http://www.matrixgames.com/products/578/details/TigersontheHunt1 year ago
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Pig Iron Stock update - Hi all, just a quick one to let you know we have received a box of show stock back from The Bunker yesterday - this has all been added back onto the site. ...
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Rules: Living on the Frontline - Well, there's life in the old dog yet! It's been a while since I last posted anything here but the creative juices are starting to stir, least of all beca...
1 year 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 ...
1 year ago -
Tips Dekorasi Rumah Dan Taman Sederhana - Tips Dekorasi Rumah Dan Taman | Rumah dan kebun enhancing adalah masalah yang menarik. Hal ini jelas dalam program TV. Setiap acara jaringan kedua diidenti...
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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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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 ...
1 year ago -
400pt Bolt Action - Getting ready for a Bot Action escalation league. First army of a massive 400pts.
1 year 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...1 year 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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A new Space Hulk blog underway - I want to thank everyone who continues to support FTW by visiting every day. It has been tremendous to watch the site continue to help hobbyists out there ...
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Encounter at Alghaz -- June, 1876 - Rob and Murdock came over to fight an Afristan campaign encounter. For reasons which I will shortly explain, I do not have much memory of the game. First,...
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Re-Kill (2015) - Play Full Re-Kill in High QualityNow you can download full Re-Kill in best video format with duration 87 Min and has been aired on 2015-10-16 and MPAA rat...1 year ago
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StuG IV puzzle models - I ordered a Panther and a StuG IV model from eBay recently. There are 1:71 scale 4D puzzle models that just clip together. Unfortunately I received two StuG'...
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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...
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A lot on the painting front - Hello everyone. Today's post might be a bit brief, but who knows. Up until a few days ago, I was engaged in a French bloggers painting competition, an equi...
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Scenery First - Well it's been a busy few weeks, just for a change, and since my last post I have received the Liche Lord goodies I bought on Nickstarter, even more into t...
1 year ago -
Battle: Captain Gunnbjorn vs. Forgemaster Sybtherion, 50 pointz - Played the game 3 BYE of the tournament against Phil Koziol. It's not like we don't play against each other enough as it is, but this was a fun game. I...
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Is this thing on? - I've not been particularly assiduous this year. Life happens, and it's gotten in the way. I have been modelling, and been working within the INQ28 commun...
1 year 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...
1 year ago -
Richard Borg’s ‘The Great War’ - I’m a big fan of Richard Borg’s Commands & Colors game system, especially for solo play. This year has seen Richard port his system into a whole new era of...1 year ago
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Blog re-launched (elsewhere) - Hi all, I haven't gone completely offline – I simply moved my blog elsewhere (as I mentioned much earlier). Now you can catch me at our Chest of Colors web...1 year 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/1 year ago
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Tribes Universe games, including Earthseige, are now available free - I remember downloading and playing the demo for Earthseige, long ago. It seemed like a cool game, and the demo left me wanting more. One apocalypse later,...
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Zedvember - The Last Zeds - I managed to finish off the last of my modern zombie figures over Sunday and Monday just gone - here are the results: A bit of a scenic shot of the complete...
1 year 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...
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Age of Sigmar: the first battle - After coming to terms with the death of the Warhammer Fantasy I've known since my start in wargaming, I decided to purchase and paint the starter box for A...
1 year ago -
Daftar Lowongan Kerja Di Jakarta November 2015 Terbaru - *Lowongan Kerja Di Jakarta November 2015* - Lowongan Kerja Terbaru memberikan informasi terbaru mengenai *info lowongan pekerjaan 2015* yang sedang anda ca...
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FlamesCon 2015 - *Slight Disclaimer in a moment of crazy after tourney brain I posted this to my clubs blog page you should visit it anyway for awesome after club reports...
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The 5th Outrim War: 297th Imperial Fleet - Gamelea Redux - *Once I realized I had messed up the set-up budget for my campaign, I had to sit down and recrunch the numbers. While I was about it, I expanded the Fleet ...
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New CoC Campaign - Operation Martlet - Hi All, Just a quick update this time. Rich has been madly researching away and has released the latest in his series of ridiculously low-priced 'Pint Size...
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The new website is here: corvusminiatures.com - Today I am very happy and proud to announce my new website: corvusminiatures.com! *Important: this will mark the end of my activities on Blogspot. Please ...
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Grace of Monaco (2014) Se Fuld Film - Spille film *Grace of Monaco* i high definition kvalitet. Download film *Grace of Monaco* i high definition-format. Fuld streaming *Grace of Monaco* i HD...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year ago
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Happy Hobbit Day or A Year Has Come And Gone - I knew it had been a long time. The days turned into weeks and the weeks into months without me fully comprehending the significance of the gap. Then one...
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Grimlocks in 15mm - Here are 12 grimlocks for dnd 5th ed.....15mm Picts from copplestone. Back from a long break in gaming....looking forward to a little dungeons and dragons s...
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A visit on board the Russian Frigate Shtandart - The other weekend we were down in Cowes for a long weekend to watch the Cowes Torquay Cowes powerboat race. We were all having dinner on Friday night in...
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Kings of War First Impressions - As I mentioned in the August update, I have been playing a bit of Kings of war lately. With Games Workshop pulling the plug on their fantasy community, th...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...
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Dukes Soldiers - Hi These are the first of the Dukes troops for his flying column, they are Newline figures from their late colonial range, again all 20mm, I need some supp...
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 ...
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Saruman - I can't host an, albeit intermittent, Lord of the Rings blog and not note the passing of Christopher Lee who, of course, was the only LotR cast member w...
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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...
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First time painting in a long time, I need new paints... - Worked on some of the DV Chaos Marines I had sitting around... man am I rusty.2 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...2 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...2 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...2 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 ...2 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...2 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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Hinton Hunt - Russian - 8 Lancers (RN42) for sale - 8 RN42 Lancers (Unpainted) - *US$25.00* plus shipping at cost First come first served
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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...
2 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...
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Warriors of Chaos Khorne Lord - End Times (Part 4) - [image: Warhammer - The End Times Khorne Banner] A short post this one. Really just to prove that I have been continuing to work on this project and even (...
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Waterloo, Braine l'Alleud - Was lucky enough to visit the Waterloo battlefield in Belgium last week, it has been on my bucket list for a long time. I wasn’t disappointed, 200 years h...
2 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!
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Pardon My Dust - If you visit here with any regularity, you'll have noticed a lack of actual, you know, website or anything. Sorry about that. The website is getting a face...2 years ago
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Tumissa Nights pt 2 - As I was saying: The event was a palanquin race/scavenger hunt in the market of Tumissa. Each player was to prove their worth as a noble by managing their ...
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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...2 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...2 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.2 years ago
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Some reinforcements for SoBaH - Hey Guys, I have painted some miniatures as reinforcements for my Song of Blades & Heroes warbands. The whole group together. On the left two Norse or...
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An old project returns... - The monstrosity from the front.Way back in 2011 I posted my plans for an improvised tank killer on an old 38(t) chassis. Following a move of house it was...
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D&D PLAYER CHARACTERS - Made a start on my D&D project, these are the start of my player characters, this group is the Magic User/ Thief and Assassin set, Thief on the left then...
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Ambush - In this small scenario US marines have been warned that the insurgents are sending a column to attack the small force that has landed. A squad in the vangu...
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X-Wing: Here Comes IG-88! - Get ready for everyone's 2nd favorite bounty hunter. The IG-2000 is hitting a tabletop near you soon. Read more »
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Anker® Astro E1 5200mAh Ultra External Battery Review - Maybe you had your cellular phone, tablet, and many others., battery die but not be capable of charge it? It's a really frustrating experience. This is whe...
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Fenris Games Goatkin - Ernie and Vic - Beastmen 5 - Hello all, last two of the Fenris Goatkin - the Goatkin Warrior Ernie and the Goatkin Scout Vic. [image: Goatkin, Fenris, beastmen, painted, Scout, Vic, E...
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Pirates at the Shed! - *A view down the board* Eric the Shed kindly invited me over to his splendid shed for my first game of 2015. This was doubly exciting as not only was it...
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Looking Ahead to 2015 - Time for my obligatory attempt to state what I'm going to work on this year. I think it's pretty safe to say I'm probably going to get involved with some...2 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...
2 years ago -
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 Frogs2 years ago
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A Christmas Fantasy Campaign - Next month, I'll be heading back to the UK for the 1st time in nearly 2 years. Me and my brother Matt have been talking about arranging some games of W...
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New(ish) man cave. - Hello all, A few months back the wife wanted my son to have a larger room so I was kicked out of the guest room into a smaller room. The bribe was it would...
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I Luvz Free And Excellent !!! - Wargame Bloggers Quarterly Free Magazine V1-02 V1-01 Outstanding !!! The Colonel.
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Ship Crew & Ship Quirk Cards - Been a good while since we’ve had an update for Leviathans. Things are still moving behind the scenes. For example we’ve been making progress with smaller,...2 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...2 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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($) Watch The Inbetweeners 2 Full Movie Streaming Online - ($) Watch The Inbetweeners 2 Full Movie Streaming Online [image: Watch The Inbetweeners 2 Full Movie Streaming Online] ($) Free Watch The Inbetweeners 2 Stre...2 years ago
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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...2 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...2 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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UNIT - So here are some 'modern' British from the assault group. This shows my method of getting something like DPM camo, well it's really my adaption of this met...
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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...
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Bahasa Jawa di facebook~ - Buat yang pengen ganti bahasa jawa, tapi dalam pengaturan nggak ada =) maklum lah, wong jowo☺ - Pertama Log in atau masuk ke Facebook kamu bila bel...
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Tintin au Congo - Another entry from the Colonial Painting Expedition on the Lead Adventure Forum. Can't believe we've had sixty-two entries already. A little tongue-in-chee...
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LARRYCON Begins!! - A really nice scene I caught on my phone the other night while out for a stroll. The harvest is upon us!! Well it has been a wonderful spring and early...
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Lunar Peltasts - These are *Black Tree Design* Persian Guards. I've replaced the shields with peltast-style ones from the spares box. These guys represent the Silver Shi...
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Moving: Now posting at 4+ Tough - So, this site has been in an inactive mode for a while, mostly because I've fallen out of love with 40k and into Warmachine, and also because I just can...
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Back to the Desert - I have recently been reading Patrick Macrory's excellent history of the First Anglo-Afghan War, titled "The Fierce Pawns." This got the colonial juices flo...
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Old School 40k (Laserburn) miniatures using the USEME rules - Playing a game using some warhammer 40, er.... laserburn miniatures. Trying out the useme rules system two weeks ago with my brother Ed. What you see are 1...
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Schwinn Turismo Swivel Jogging Stroller - Pacific Cycle, read the full Schwinn Swivel Double Jogging Stroller Review The Turismo Double Jogging Stroller from Schwinn, is an amazing stroller for acti...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...3 years ago
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Primer primer - At the risk of repeating myself, a close look at Vallejo surface primer.3 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...3 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...3 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...3 years ago
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Another DSLB Big Battle in Nettuno - Thanks to Renzo, a group of 8 players met in Nettuno (near Rome) for a Big Battle scenario I prepared for them. Pics and batrep (in italian) at this link: ...3 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...3 years ago
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Top Best Pillow For Side Sleepers - A terrific day starts having a wonderful night of slumber, and also the pillow you select influences the real quality of your slumber. The best pregnancy p...
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Germany on Mars in 1889, in The Dream Forge - Anders Blixt in Stockholm Sweden writes a thoughtful and entertaining blog entitled The Dream Forge, covering a wide range of fantasy and science fiction t...
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Fantasy Bits - Reaper Elf Lord Reaper Barbarian and pug" If you want the ball then fetch it yourself!" Reaper Viking
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The Mission, by Larry Hunter - * Devin Hester, a great player, is off the Bears for 2014, Sad to see him go* Well, it has been another season, and now the Bears besides letting Urlacher...
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Niemiecki park maszyn cz.5 - Elo Znowu szybka wrzuta. Przykleiłem gąsienice i koła do Hanomagów. Teraz zajmuję się malowaniem załogantów (do skończenia mam oporządzenie; kamuflaż już ...
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Second World War comparisons on "World War 20mm" - Piers Brand has recently posted a side by side shot of several figures painted in his inimitable style. They represent a number of different 20mm metal ma...3 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...3 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...3 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 ...3 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’.3 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...3 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...3 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...3 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...3 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...3 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...3 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...3 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...4 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...4 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...4 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...4 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...4 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 ...4 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"...4 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...4 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...4 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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I have a dream... - My God, this blog has been around for years now and still nothing to show. I still don't have a decent camera... Just to update, it's the start of a new ye...4 years ago
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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...4 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...4 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...4 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...4 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 ...4 years ago
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Property Management Arlington VA - Property managers are one of the very important person who is taking care of your property ? Property Management Arlington VA is providing you the best ...
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"Farewell Ladies"! - Hi Guys It's been a very long time since I updated my blog, (sorry). A deployment to Afghanistan and some 'Real Life' issues have got in the way. Today I'v...
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Pulp Fantasy Library: Pigeons from Hell - For his creation of Conan the Cimmerian alone -- never mind Kull of Atlantis, Bran Mak Morn, Solomon Kane, and many others -- Robert E. Howard enjoys a pr...
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Blowing one's own horn - I decided to take part of my day off to do a tiddly bitmore on the beast of Gorgoroth. As I find chains the most annoyng thing to paint, I did them firs...
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They came from the north - Out of the chaos wastes of the north - daemons. Some figures I've done recently for our Warhammer RPG gaming - these cover the most commonly encountered da...4 years ago
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[Malifaux] Run and Hyde, it's avatar Seamus.... - Apologies for the bad pun in the title. Here's the new big guy for my gang - turns out Seamus has a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde complex without the Dr Jekyll ...
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More Vikings.... - Finished the next two Vikings. Gripping Beast and Artizan. Pictures still aren't the best, but for the moment that's all there is. The next pair ar...
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So how many figures have you painted again? - I always set a goal in each calendar year to paint a certain number of figures. I'm always hoping to buy far fewer figures than I paint so I can cut into ...
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Dux Brit army nearing completion - After having given the new TFL Dux Brittaniarum rules (see http://toofatlardies.co.uk) a spin during the playtest time I've been working on painting my Gri...
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Star Wars X-Wing unboxed! - Well, it has been quite some time since a posting here.....OK, so Paul from the Man Cave has a lot to answer for! He has caused me, yet again, to succumb t...
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Romanos imperiales y últimos encargos - Tras el verano, entre encargos de pintura y vacaciones, decidí darme un poco el gusto de pintar por deleite, por el mero hecho de pintar, vaya, y me decidí...
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The One Ring September Painting Challenge: Warbands (Completed) - Finally I have all of my orcs done for the Warbands challenge. Between working on these guys, painting my friend’s birthday gift, creating a few Lord of th...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...
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Eldar Warlock WiP. - Okay, it’s almost Friday and I’ve found some time to take a picture of Warlock that I have been painting on for the past week. Just something that’s been ...
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WI298 - EW Russians (Invasion of Poland) - [image: Photobucket] In what is becoming a tradition with this blog, today I present pictures of the EW Soviet army list from Wargames Illustrated #298. I...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)....
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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...
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Model sale off on eBay - Dear readers, it’s been a while from my last post. The reason is that not only I had switch to another, more demanding job back on 2008, but the birth...
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The Complete Flash Gordon Library - *Titan Books* are releasing *The Complete Flash Gordon Library*, collating all the newspaper comic strips in a series of hardback books. A welcome release ...
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Dick Garrison Rapid Launch Released - *Dick Garrison Rapid Launch*, the basic rules from our forthcoming Pulp SF rules *The Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Dick Garrison* are now available...
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[Project News] Back on Track... - Well it's been a few weeks since my last update here, but things have been ticking away in the background at Martians & Machine Guns since the last time I ...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...
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Field of Battle 2nd Ed., la prova con la GNW - Venerdi scorso, abbiamo provato il regolamento *Field of Battle (2nd edition) *con uno scontro nella GNW. Devo premettere che ero piuttosto prevenuto su ...
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Just frigate about it. - ...In which our protagonist shows off the miniscule Dutch 30-gun ship. It's small. Tiny, even. And... bright blue? I'm not particularly thrilled with th...
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Where did I go? - I'm at this site since some time ago: http://www.dragonpainting.net/ More...5 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...5 years ago
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Zvezda WW1 Russian Infantry - Okay, I admit these are great figures. Normally I don't like assembling figures. I say to myself, "If I want a kit, I'll buy a kit." In this case, t...
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Garrisoning the Collina Della Formica - *You* probably thought this project was dead and buried. Well, it's still alive. A pair of *Tiroler Kaiserjage*r manning a *Schwarzlose* MMG on an improv...
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Models for sale and new book! - I mentioned before that I would be selling most of my collection. After much deliberation, I will be keeping some of it (such as my 15mm ECW project which ...5 years ago
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01 - Painting Class with Privateer Press Studio Painter Meg Maples - This weekend I participated in a painting class at Labyrinth Games in Washington, DC. It was run by Meg Maples, one of the studio painters for Privateer P...
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The Cure for Burnout - Funky Old Aliens on Dinosaurs! - Planning ahead just isn't my style. I was on a major roll in January and February. Painted tons and tons of figures, played a couple of really fun solo ga...
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3/21 Pledge - 1820 unpainted 6mm ECW: 1820 * 6mm / 25mm = 437 * 1.5 = 656 11 unpainted 25mm farm animals: 11 * 1.5 = 17 39 + 656 + 17 = 712 2012: +712 + nefs 2011: +215 ...5 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...5 years ago
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Self promotion - OK, sorry for not posting anything earlier. I was really very busy with my IT exams [RHCSA/RHCE/Postgres Plus Associate followed by Professional] at work a...
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peggy - Well work has absorbed what little time I have avaliable of late so here is a very quick update as to what I have managed to achieve over the past 3 weeks....
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28mm Napoleonic command , for sale - all indviduals $30 each, all doubles $60..all forms of payment accepted, however Paypal gets you a surcharge unless you make it a personal payment. PP+P no...
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Painted Cromwells - Here are some painted Hät Armourfast Cromwells that will be brilliant to fight with the Revell British Infantry in the Western Front. Now that they have bee...
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The fun never ends! - I wish to show you my latest works I based all napoleonic polish and russian troops from painting service (Stonewall Figures),now I have thousands of th...
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Basing Tutorial - Greetings one and all! Hope the new year's treating you well so far. Been rather busy working lately, so haven't made any progress on the rest of my Warrior...
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Clearing a nest of Sea Rats! - *Scenario* A group of slave-traders (who were thought to be operating out of Marzibar) set up a temporary base inside an old abandoned coastal fort on the b...
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Plastic Soldier Company 15mm - Sdkfz(s) - part 2 - Hi there, Bonjour à toutes et tous, This week I had a lot of work but could find some spare time to work on my Sdkfzs. I decided to go for the 5 Sdkfz C, s...5 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...5 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...5 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...5 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...
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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...
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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 ...5 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...5 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...5 years ago
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Art of tactic ! German 105-mm Howitzer LeFH 18/18m - Hello friends !!! I finished the second stand of this gun !!!
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40K scrap modelling - I have a boxful of bits of kits including some old GW vehicles. I think the bit in the top photo come off what is called a Rhino? Anyway I never liked t...
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The african terrain is set - As we needed a lot of new terrain for africa we thought we had better see what it looked like before the game. we have used fish tank vegitation, artificial...
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Normal service will resume shortly - Hi all some explanations for my enforced absence may be required. I have not posted anything for the last 6 months or so as i had to pack up all my paintin...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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Sniper vet - A small side project, one Yukoni sniper veteran. I built him initially as a one-off for a competition, but I think he just became the prototype for what my...
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15mm Deckplans - I picked up a copy of AE: Bounty the other day. I want to run a 15mm campaign. I printed out a set of the Star Station Zero 15mm deck plans on card stock...
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So it Begins... - *An Introduction:* I love Warhammer Quest. For many Warhammer players this game may hold great memories. In short for those who haven't heard of it, it is ...
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Epilogue - Hi everybody Here are pics of minis I've painted over the past months. For multiple reasons I am no longer taking commissions or painting models for now,...6 years ago
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Whats happening here..... - This blog is being set up to show a new and developing gaming project, from inception to creation. My gaming has taken a big hit recently, life focussing m...6 years ago
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Barking Irons Online - Replaces this Blog - Hello Everyone, This will be the last posting on this blog as we have moved to a bigger and more shiny home over at www.barkingirons.co.uk and it is there ...6 years ago
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