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Tanker's Tuesday: FT 17 - On 31 May 1918, the German army launches a sudden attack near the Forest of Retz near Ploisy in the north-east of France. It is the last year of World War...
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'Carry On up the Nile!: The battle report - The terrain was set up before the players arrived. (Please note that the model boats are only present to indicate the approximate location at which they en...
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Design and Fight A Civil War Ironclad - Pete Pellegrino has written a set of free miniature wargames rules called Damn The Torpedos. In the game, you customize your ironclad, and then take it out...1 hour ago
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Romans at Man of Tin - Mark has a really interesting ( nothing new there) post over at his blog- https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2019/07/16/rosemary-sutcliff-birth-centenary-dec...
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APOLLO 11 BI-CENTENARY - Fifty years ago today the Apollo crew blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre LC-39A on their historic flight to the Moon.
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Further Mistakes Were (NOT!) Made - Gentle Readers (and other people that somehow ended up here...?), I do try to not live down to the very worst stereotypes about gamers... I HAVE been tryin...
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Footsore Miniatures: Mortal Gods - Athenian Marine Hoplites - Footsore Miniatures released these Mortal Gods - Athenian Marine Hoplites
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Another RPG Bundle Offer - Savage Heroes - This is an offer of four game settings for the Savage Worlds RPG: https://bundleofholding.com/presents/SavageHeroes Pinnacle Entertainment has run many su...9 hours ago
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2019 update - (Naseby Battlefield – a poignant reminder on a field of conflict) This is by way of catching up. It has been a busy year both on and off the battlefields....10 hours ago
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The Battle of Moonshine Ridge 1862 - An ACW Batrep - I've been a bit busy with real life getting in the way of my hobby time recently. This should have been written and posted a few weeks ago.....bad boy Ra...
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Bovington show - I travelled down to Bovington to the resurrected show on Saturday. It was not as big as in its previous incarnation, but there were some nice games and tra...
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Weekly Chronicle 2019 #28 - It has been a pretty busy day today with "real" work that I almost forgot about my Weekly Chronicle. Unfortunately the gaming side of the hobby was at lul...
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Regiment d'Inf. Busquets - WSS Busquets' Catalan I.R. Peter Pig, Dixon i Roundway, 15mm Aquestes fotos corresponen al Regiment d'Infanteria organitzat el 1713 en terres de la Catalun...15 hours ago
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Armies of Russia's War in Ukraine - The latest in the Osprey Elite series is Mark Galeotti's study of the armed forces engaged in the conflict in the Eastern Ukraine and the Donbas region in ...
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Sandbox Skirmish Patrol AFV's Painted - I finished off the two vehicles that I was using to trial a painting approach today, with some decals from the spares box and a coat of Army Painter ...
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Landsknechts On Campaign Marion Mcnealy - I very occasionally post 16th century things. This new book has been getting good reports from pike and shot friends so I thought I would post about it. T...
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Viva La Republica! - The forces of the Republic again inflicted another crushing defeat on the Nationalists earlier today here at OHQ. An encounter game using Bolt Action rules ...
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Quebec after the siege - *A. Bennoist, engraver, after Richard Short (fl. 1754-1766), A View of the Church of Notre Dame de la Victoire, built in Commemoration of the raising the ...
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Owl's Head Transportation Museum - This past week my wife and I vacationed in Thomaston, Maine visiting family. While there we visited the Owl's Head Transportation Museum in nearby Owl's He...
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July Painting Challenge: Day #15. . . - *Look closely. The brown and gray undercoats on all shoulder and waist belts are finally done! Fairly easy (???) now to go back, hold my breath, and add...
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Tyco and Mortars - Painting the troops. And painting the mortars and machine guns. These are mounted on sheet styrene for durability. Tractors from Tyco.
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All American-The Battle for Fière 1944 - I started another concurrent campaign on Saturday in Lachine, QC. As detailed in previous posts, I had been contacted by a gamer in Montreal who was quit...
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A Song of Ice and Fire Battle Report – House Stark vs. House Bolton ‘Clash of Kings’ - Clarence brings his Starks to face the Boltons in a 40pt game of Clash of Kings! Advertisements
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Road to Kings of War Third Edition - Unless you’ve been under a rock for the past couple of weeks, by now you should know that Kings of War Third Edition will be launching this October. If y...21 hours ago
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The Weekly Sitrep....36 and 37 - *With apologies to any New Zealand readers....* First of all apologies for the delay in the last Sitrep - I was kind of caught up with the aftermath of C...
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Federal Flocking Fun - It took me long into the night with a cracking headache, but the men pushed on and finally the job was done. Hard work but totally worth it! Everything u...
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Chateau Impney Hill Climb 2019 - part two - Part Two - and cars that were in the car park! Tony
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15mm Peter Pig WOTR Forces..... - *.......for Dragon Rampant also known as the "God Wills It" forces!* *Technically the forces of good for my Dragon Rampant forces ( or god forbid historica...
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"Black Tree Design" Battle Report: Sharaz Jek's Androids Verses The Nimon - *SEVERAL SHARAZ JEK ANDROIDS INVADE A PILLAGED WORLD BELONGING TO THE NIMON* This game was played using some homemade rules (M.I.S.S.) in order to allow us...
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Blog Resurrection - I've decided to bring this blog back to life after laying dormant for three years. Looking back over my old posts here I can see where my hobby has changed...1 day ago
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A final rim shot – or – giving up on Star Wars: Outer Rim (@FFGames, 2019) #boardgame - I TRIED. FOUR TIMES I TRIED. Four times is the number of sessions of Star Wars: Outer Rim (Fantasy Flight Games, 2019) that I played since the game arrived...
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KingCon1 - The King's County Tabletop and Boardgame Society holds a quarterly Tabletop Games day in Kentville NS and have always made our little group of wargamers we...
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A Bit of a Throwback - My buddy Scott, with whom I've been gaming for about 30 years, works his butt off at the Toyota plant with piles of mandatory over time, so he rarely gets ...
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The Battle of Hadley Hall - 22nd May 1778 - It's been over two years since I have played any American War of Independence games in the shed-o-war (the last one was the Battle of Freemans Farm). I re...
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Historicon 2019 AAR - This year is the the 25th anniversary of the HAWKs, and Historicon has moved to a new venue, the Lancaster County Convention Center in downtown Lancaste...
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Astropolis Technical Crew Team - I cannot sing the praises of Lead Adventures enough. They produce minis that are characterful and quirky, and why I got into paining in the first place. C...
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Rifle Brigade at S.S. Great Britain. - The Rifle Brigade reenactment are one of the top groups for the period - they do the Crimean era. See their Facebook page for more information. Photo cour...
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AAR It Isn'T Over : China Burma India The Lost Theatre - One pack that I had to pass on when it came out was the independently published PTO pack by the St. Louis ASL Club. It looked a really good pack but was at...
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Royal Dragoons WIP - I've been very busy painting and basing, recently, too busy to post very much, although I will catch up. But here is a WIP shot of the Royal Dragoons, fo...
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The Trolltooth Wars: A Mixed Bag! - Another unit ready and of all the regiments that make up Zharradan Marr's legions, as detailed in the Trolltooth Wars novel, the mixed regiment of Dwarves,...
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Spare Ribs - I was reminded/embarrassed by Brian Weathersby's blog post about the RIBs I was supposed to do for "Whale Wars" some time ago but which I had completely fo...
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25mm Grenadier - Fantasy Warriors - Witch - I wanted this one really earthy - so entirely browns and tans but with green accents. Is she malevolent? Could go either way. Thinking of games where the ...
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Gentleman Pensioners AGM game - The Sunday following the Phalanx show at St Helens the Gentleman Pensioners gather for a game at Steve's. This year Dave provided an ACW "Fire and Fury" g...
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Seven Days to the Rhine - North Korean Formations.. - Not a bad turn around in 24 Hours I am going to call these done. The Infantry look far more functional on the larger bases and the added flock gives them so...
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Historicon 2019: I had a blast - Historicon 2019 is in the books. In my humble opinion, it was one of the best HMGS events I've ever attended. The new venue in downtown Lancaster was a ...
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Back to the Army. - Hello again. Welcome to Inso's World. This week has been a beautiful, challenging, tiring and rewarding week. Work has been really good. I have worked with...
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Brew Up In Benzheen, Historicon 2019 - I had an excellent time running the 1980s Brew Up In Benzheen game for some friends at Historicon 2019. I have players the option to field their own forces...1 day ago
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WIP Chain of command army Gebirgsjagers - Hi guys A quick preview of my next CoC army, Gebirgsjagers, these are still very much work in progress, I'm going to give most of them anoraks, ropes, mou...
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Kings of War vs Martin and Jeff - I had to pop up to Christchurch for work on Monday and so decided to head up for the weekend and catch up with some mates. I arranged a game of Kings of Wa...
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Salzwedel Campaign – Day 2 - *Campaign Map on 23 September 1813 * 1st Prussian corps retreat towards Schenge Blucher moves forward his reserve corps to support Kuhfelde Napoleon orde...
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The Portable Quatre Bras: 1. Introduction - As foreshadowed, this begins the account of Quatre Bras as fought using Bob Cordery's *The Portable Napoleonic Wargame* (*PNW*). I thought this would form...
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'System Mastery' vs. 'World Settings' - The scene of the action(s) Early last year, an experienced D&D 5e gamer told me I should get out of the campaign that I'd been playing for a while, as I wa...
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IHMN: Last Man Standing, Part 1 (Episode 5.12.1) - China is in turmoil in 1895; Western and Japanese Encroachment, diminished Imperial power, Warlords, ancient evils and bandits have all contributed to th...
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Summer Painting - 30k Iron Hands - Medusan Immortals - Some Medusan Immortals for the 10th Legion - loyalist troops for 30k gaming. The deep summer has arrived in Canada! When July and August roll around, my w...
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Pulp Fantastic ... some recently finished and some pictures finally of the older collection - Some finishing works done in the past few days, now completing some more of the wonderful Pulp miniatures gifted from Jeff and a few that he did before his...
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25% off sale ends Monday! - Use coupon code *25off * and get 25% off of your order. Sale ends Monday! Site2 days ago
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Dicing with death? - Today, we had three games of 'What a Tanker' WW2, and, as ever with dice games, we had some interesting results! Our First game... Rhys wanted to use a Ch...
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AAR: The Scarab Plague of Mars! - As usual, this AAR is short on photos because I was too busy playing to take pictures. However, I did grab a few of the setup. Game was played on 28 JUN...
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Eagles of Empire Prussian Line Infantry - Completed - Here they are based on Litko 50mm rounds. They're very well-detailed, uniform and equipment-wise. They appear a bit slender when compared to the North Star...
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Cold war gone hot - Seven Days to the River Rhine - Seems like a 1980´s Cold War gone Hot using the Seven Daysto the River Rhine from Great Escape Games will be the next gaming hype at the club. At least ...
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Ninja Time! - Whist my 15mm Samurai army is already too extensive to really use in one go, that doesn't stop a steady drip-drip of additional units and, well, cool toys ...
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Contemplation's. - Over this last year I have unfortunately lost one close friend and three school friends that I grew up with and to be honest it does focus ones mind a lit...
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Core Space - Purge Annihilators & Gatherers - I come to the last of the Purge machines - the deadly Annihilators and Gatherers. These were a Kickstarter add on and I only have one set of them. The Annih...
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We're going to Salute 2020! - It might seem a tad early to be considering a visit to one of the biggest independent, one-day wargaming and gaming events in Europe, but Salute is very mu...
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Few commission D&D pieces - A fellow asked me to paint four D&D miniatures for him. I managed to finish two before heading out on holidays. First up is a human fighter with a flaming...
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Legion of the Red Devastation, Pulp 7TV and others painted - Howard of the Tekumel project sent me these , wanted the miniatures for a time, very inspiring even the name. Nice to paint and look great in units. ...
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Turning the Flank at Reval: Turn 6 - The final act of the campaign is upon us. The Freikorps has regained the strategic initiative and must now press its advantage against the beleaguered Esto...
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More Russian High Jinks - In order to allow me some recovery time after COW Richard put on another RCW skirmish game using "Triumph and Tragedy". This was a follow up to the game we...
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Conference of Wargamers 2019 - Another second weekend in July, another Conference of Wargamers. That is the twentieth in a row I've been to now, and it never fails to deliver with pleasa...
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A Small Battle for Dutch Independence 1598 - Last Wednesday night Myself and two other sturdy lads from the club, John Maguire and Brian Buskell, got together and played a short game of Baroque. Our...
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Nine Years of Future War Stories! - It has been nine years since the founding of FWS way back in 2010, and it is only because of your support that we have reached that milestone. Since its f...
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28mm Armorican/Breton warriors - I recently purchased a collection of dark age figures and a number were Footsore miniatures Welsh and Irish, while the remainder were gripping beast plast...
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Behind the Scenes in the CFB Borden Tank Shop - I had a chance this week to get a tour of the tank restoration shop which is part of the Military Museum at Canadian Forces Base Borden. Tucked in a corn...
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Legendary Dragon from Mythic Games - “Smaug lay, with wings folded like an immeasurable bat, turned partly on one side, so that the hobbit could see his underparts and his long pale belly crus...
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Outremer Faith and Blood- First Game. - I finally got the chance to play Outremer Faith and Blood, a campaign based skirmish game set during the Crusades. Our game was a meeting engagement where...
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Goff Ork Boy with Contrast paints - Here's a link to the video I posted of a Goff Ork Boy painted with Contrast paints.
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News, Views Etc . . . Forthcoming Events; Saturday 13th - Friday 19th July 2019 - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/register/lieutenant-colonel-peter-walter-obituary-cs3mc2n53 You have to subscribe to read the whole thing, so I bought a ...
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Fistful of Lead: A Pit Full of Snakes... - ...or a Fistful of Joes, or "Never Buy Ammo from Destro"... I've been painting up 28mm Joes as a surprise game for Jon of Curio Clashes for awhile. I rememb...
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Wacky races from CMON - I was really looking forward to paint these but it turned out to be a massive disappointment. Models are not the worst, just very average board game quali...
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Just a quick trip to NAM - As has happened before, sometimes you just see some figures you have to have. This time it was Vietnam US Marines from Empress. I ordered 12 just as a tes...
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Explosion Markers - A quick post today to show you some explosion markers I’ve made for our World War Two games. I made a couple quite a few years back and kept thinking “nee...
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Wolf Time Campaign Update 3 or something... - Got my bikers finished today. Nowhere near my best work...but hey, I'm trying to match my painting similarly to how I did in 1988! I'm not sure if it's the ...
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40mm Commission -- Flags - The 18 flags will adorn Carl's Union infantry regiments. The flags are from a mix of manufacturers, but most are from GMB. Basing has begun! This commiss...
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Scary Space Spider Strike - game 2 - This time the spider was more aggressive - perhaps incensed by the outcome of the earlier game. It swiftly 'webbed' a Jeep and then looked about for anot...
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Planning the base... - Okeydoke... thatch is done and in various states of touch up, base coat shenanigans. Base is sand done with patches where I want to blend in the Vallejo te...
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Cruel Seas -USA v Italy - Played our third game of Cruel Seas using our house rules ,to try most of the rules , John used all his yanks and I put out all my Italians , lots of fun t...
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The Wagons are all pack arrived at Lancaster! - The drive to Lancaster took about an hour longer than anticipated due to a couple of construction areas along the route; about 5 hours. Figuring out wh...
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Just for Lee and Tamsin (and anyone else interested) - Ok some more printing projects - Tamsin enquired about printing the 1/100 scale Bergman files off thingiverse at 28mm scale Airborne radio jeep, I got the ...
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Painting Interlude - As things stand any opportunity I get to do the hobby I try to paint. Usually half hour to an hour if I am lucky. This is not a bad thing as it is my fav...
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A little bit of Martian Gold - A meager offering for this month. Some terrain scatter. Lions for the British administration, a small fountain and Martian hero. A simple Martian pedes...
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Roman Auxilia infantry - For our diorama project I needed some more poses of Auxilia defending against the British onslaught. Darek helped me with some new poses. This figures I al...
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I Didn't Go To Historicon Sale! - "Rogues, would you want to go to Historicon every year?" It's kind of a drag if you were unable to go to Historicon this year. Maybe you waited too long ...
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Skeletons - This unit popped up from nowhere, almost. I have had the skeletons assembled for a good while, but no real desire to paint them. But then I suddenly found ...
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Space Hulk : Genestealer Chaos Cult - To enrich the Hybrids lists of the Nexus Campaign (missions here), I developed a Genestealer Chaos Cult list, Slaanesh Worship. I used the Advanced Space H...
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Conference of Wargamers (CoW) 2019 was Brilliant - But don't just take my word for it .. read it in these blogs! *David Crook:* http://awargamingodyssey.blogspot.com/2019/07/home-thoughts-from-cow.html http:...6 days ago
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Düngen - generating random dungeons with Planström - Randomly generated dungeons are a great way to quickly build an improvised dungeon delving session or solo gaming activity for any Table Top Roleplaying Ga...
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Points of Light Borderlands and the Scourge of the Demon Wolf - Recently I was asked this question about combine two things I written, the Borderland setting from Points of Light and Scourge of the Demon Wolf. Hey Rober...
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Muskets and Marshals - Russian Revenge! - Last weekend I spent a lonely Saturday at home trying to teach myself Muskets and Marshals. Beer was consumed, little toy soldiers were deployed, and ma...
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Blog Changes in the Works - So three years ago I combined all of my blogs into this one. I now think that was a partial mistake. So I'm looking at creating two new ones, hard SyFy and...1 week ago
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Nova Aetas - Quest 0.3 - A Book for a Genius - In order to make some additional money to prepare for their final confrontation with the Doge, the mercenary companions have taken on the seemingly simple ...
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Mainstream - According to this news article, Role Playing Games have become socially acceptable behaviour, no longer the sole preserve (soul preservative?) of 'geeks' a...1 week ago
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Heavy Fighting on the inter-German border: Game #1 - What better way to celebrate the 4th of July weekend than to play Team Yankee? I got in three games this weekend, winning two and losing one on a te...
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Mortal Gods - First Blood (πρώτο αίμα) - I played my first game of *Mortal Gods* on Saturday. I watched/kibitzed one game and then played in a second. The figures used were Bill Stewart's Gorgon ...
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Ship Photos and Summer Plans - I was getting ready to make a summer plans post, when I realized I hadn't put up any photos of the ships I mentioned in my April Work In Progress post. So ...
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2nd Regiment Obchenyi Militia - ... I am getting far behind on updates for the blog, this can often happen, but lets catch up a little on a project I completed a month or so ago. I had a...
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Blood Bowl Team: Ork - Tout est dans le titre. Peinture d'une team Ork pour BBowl. Les plaques d'armures ont été faites à l'Aérographe, permettant de jouer sur les dégradés ...
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Painting - new units and an old project revisited - I have not been idle in the long time between posts. Currently on the paint desk there are two projects being progressed. There are some 40mm native Amer...
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More RoSD extras - After my first game of these rules I decided to add a few more figures. Mainly just to provide some of the extras I'll need for future scenarios. First up ...
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28mm Shadows from Sherwood (part 1) - As rule writing gets into full swing for my forthcoming game of stealth and derring-do, the collection of medieval outlaws has likewise begun. The core gam...
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Israeli P'lugah Tan'kim continued - A few years ago I built an Israeli tank company for Fate of a Nation when it first came out. This original project was centered on M50 and M51 Shermans wi...
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German Grenadiers vs Brit Tanks in Encounter - A target rich environment! Game 3 of the Lords or War MW 109 pt tournament was against Craig and his Brits. As always the painting level for Craig's army ...
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Updated My Book Sale Page - I've updated my "books for sale " page, removing a couple, dropping some prices, and adding a bunch of titles. The list currently includes mostly histor...
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Summer is Here - And it is hot. Well, yesterday was, but today will be cooler. Still not doing much model-making because I've been out shooting arrows at straw butts....
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4th Prussian Brigade Completed! - Finally I've completed all of the units for the 4th Prussian Brigade, III Korps (August 1813) commanded by Generalleutnant von Bulow. This "brigade" is a...
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Kings of War Historical - It seems like it has been a while since I have posted, so I thought I would write up some thoughts on a game I played recently. (One of the few played with...
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Testing the 'Warpath' rules - The Epic Armageddon armies languish in the drawer .. GW Space Marines of old, rarely used in the decade or more that I have owned them. When Mantic's Firef...
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El-Mellah - The sail training Ship El-Mellah (meaning sailor in Arabic) owned by the Algerian Navy was in Portsmouth the other evening just as I happened to be going o...
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Gunship Vector: Close Quarters Space Combat - I've slowly drifted away from big ship fleet space combat; my large *Full Thrust *and *Firestorm Armada* fleets have laid dormant for years. However, my EM...
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OWAC June Entry - My final entry in the Old World Army Challenge, more sea elf spear, and the old Elven Attack Chariot. More words and photos at the OWAC page: https://...
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Some quick painting ... - Inspired by the delivery of the Crooked Dice kickstarter I thought I'd slap some paint on the "muguffins" as they would make excellent pieces of RPG dungeo...
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Post of Honour - Napoleonic - I have a project that I've been spending quite a lot of time on recently - developing a set of rules for the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (179...
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Happy Independence Day! - [image: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-abY2rH893sc/TgXfirkf6pI/AAAAAAAAhfQ/j-QkPFcdzq8/s1600/marvel+calender+19760015.jpg]
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Rebels and Patriots: 1st Maryland Continentals - Apologies for the lack of updates, gaming has been going on that I haven't had time to sit down and properly report back on, with the last month seeing us ...
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Evade the patrols ..... - *after an attack on a military target - resistance fighters head for safety, but German patrols are out searching for them ....* ---oXo--- german patrols ...
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Strontium Dog - Middenface McNulty - Something random from The Mumblings today. Those of you who are fans of the venerable 2000AD might recognise this fellow as the Strontium Dog Middenface ...
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First game of Lasalle - first thoughts - Last night Peter J. and I played our first game using Lasalle rules by Sam Mustafa. The scenario set up can be found here: The Bridges at Taco Reir The f...
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684 - D-Day Campaign Phase 2 (Beach Landings) - Well, the pics in this post really speak for themselves: we played a beach invasion game, and it was fun. A Tiffie lines up for the attack runDavid and Ch...
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Out with the Old in with the New - Hoi, It cannot be denied that it has been a long while since I have posted here. Now you will have noticed the update of the look of the blog, that was one...
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Torched - Today I received two orders for planes for yet another project, the background setting being Operation Torch. I love doing odd periods, or odd pieces of c...
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Back to the Brushes 230 - Moving onwards and upwards wirh the Caesarian Romans from Gripping Beast. The next stand to follow shortly along with something old Cheers for now
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Painting Tally – June 2019 - Thanks to a bout of illness and some concentrated podcast editing effort, my painting time was somewhat restricted during June – although I must admit that...
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TSATF on the NWF: Battle of The Bridge - On Sunday, May 19th, myself, my son Skylar, and our new gaming friend Jonathan, played a game from *TSATF SCENARIO PORTFOLIO 2000: #16 THE BRIDGE.* THE SC...
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A Brief Pause in Production - You may have noticed that my gaming output, and therefore my blogging, has dropped off a little over the last couple of weeks. There are a few reasons for ...1 week ago
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Strike Forces, Character Changes, and Collecting - My name is Adeptgamer, and I have a model buying problem. Miniature wargaming is a hobby that is so hot right now everyone's credit cards, bank cards, wall...
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Soviets for Bolt Action - As part of a commission for a chum I painted a crapton of Soviet infantry - naval brigade and regulars - shown here. The figures are mostly from Warlord wi...
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Big Game Skirmish Activation - Background: I continue low-level planning for a future 18th century Woebetides skirmish game weekend. I'm considering either *Muskets and Tomahawks* or *...
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Trash Bash 2019 Contest Rules - *Trash Bash 2019 Contest Rules:* *What is This?* In the spirit of Rick Priestley’s classic grav-attack build, this contest challenges converters, hobbyis...
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The Horror at Hedge House - The Secret Cellar of Hedge House - shut for 70 years This past weekend, a group of friends met to finish a a Call of Cthulhu game that I had started some f...
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8th June, Bakewell - *Society of Ancients UK DBA League 2019 - The Midland Open* So off to sunny Derbyshire for Round 8 of the *SoA *sponsored *UK DBA League*,* the Midland O...
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SA-10B Grumble (S-300) Transport-Erector-Launchers (TELs) - Jeepers!! I've just realised it was way back in December 2015 that I first started this particular little project. So it's only taken almost 4 years to f...2 weeks ago
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CHIEF and BACKER: My Dieppe Part 2 - Well it's been a time since I was at the workbench so to speak. A conference in Brisbane and a spell of recreation leave in Brisbane/Sydney/Canberra is d...
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Franco-Prussian War Prussian 4pdr gun? - In my town in France there are two war memorials, one WW1 combined with WW2, Algeria etc and the older one, which is pictured here, and ,which is, I s...
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Polish: the army forms up .... - Three more units have been finished for the polish army. A unit of light cavalry and some more Pancerni and Haiduks These along with the previously comple...
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On parade! Troops of the American Civil War - I’ve been wargaming since the 1990s, and during that time have amassed many miniatures across a range of periods. However, I’ve never really catalogued the...2 weeks ago
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Homemade Roads - So it's been a while since I've posted anything. I'm still very, very slowly grinding away at the figs I had started back at the end of April. In the mean ...
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Generic Light Infantry Skirmisher Girls - *From the collection of Tony Yates* New arrivals to the *Palace of Ever-Glorious War* in the form of generic light infantry skirmisher girls. Khmer Amaz...
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Aquino at the Ontario Regiment Museum 2019 - The USMC M60 "Gumpy" from the Gulf War I had the opportunity to attend Aquino weekend 2019 at the Ontario Regiment in Oshawa. It was a fantastic time and ...
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More shades of grey - Do continuing my quest to build a large German army for the 1939 – 1941 period I tackled some more armour. Usually I am no big fan of using cell photo pict...
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Putting Together A Castellan Imperial Knight Kit. - So, I decided to build an Imperial Knights army for 8th Edition of Warhammer 40K. I started in Adeptus Titanicus and Epic Space Marine back in the early 9...
2 weeks ago -
Sarfala.. the battle ... - The Begovian horse archers set off to worry the Wittenberg infantry, giving their artillery a good line of sight to start firing on the Wittenberg battery...
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4Ground: from good to better - So, I was thinking of putting together a new building for Captain Dan's *American War of Inconsideration* project as perhaps a birthday present. In a recent...
2 weeks ago -
Review: Titan Terrain Warehouse - I commented at the end of the Vendorum review that Titan Terrain’s Factorum also looked quite tempting. I splurged and bought their larger Warehouse buildi...2 weeks ago
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New game of Escape - We played some *Escape the Dark Castle *recently. This game has become a great substitute when our miniature wargaming plans fall through. While the game'...
2 weeks ago -
Book Review: Painting Wargaming Figures - WWII In The Desert by Andy Singleton - My last book review was quite critical, so I am pleased to say that I am a lot happier with this one. WWII in the Desert by Andy Singleton appears to be t...
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“O Group” We talk to Dave Brown and head to Normandy for a Test Drive - Lard Island News was very happy to greet wargaming legend Dave Brown to our games room this week. It’s always a pleasure to see his beaming smile as he ar...2 weeks ago
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Necromunda - When is a Goliath truck not a Goliath truck? - ...When It only occurred to me after the fact that it would have been a better visual pun to have used a Goliath for my Goliaths! So, I went with one of th...
3 weeks ago -
Still coming up for air! Perry Miniatures AZW Gatling Gun Limber Team. - Good grief.... I am still painting during "stupid June". This was a delight to paint. The gun is separate so that it can be removed when the gun is deploye...
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A Norman Warband.... - Painted up a Norman warband recently, all 28mm metal Footsore Miniatures, sculpted by Paul Hicks. It was a foot force, no cavalry apart from the mounted war...
3 weeks ago -
Finally back and so is Blucher! - Been quite a while since my last post but life is what it is. So this year we've slowly managed to get together a group of Blucher players. Todays battl...
3 weeks ago -
Demogorgon - The original Demogorgon of D&D is described as having two baboon-like heads connected to a reptilian body by serpentine necks, and tentacled arms. I'm pr...
3 weeks ago -
A BUNCH of painted Baccus 6mm Vikings, including casualty bases! - Hey all! Well, although I haven't posted in a short bit, I HAVE been doing a little bit of painting, in between chores and taking care of kids and the re...
3 weeks ago -
CHAUVE:MILICIA VOLUNTARIA DE CEUTA 1913 - D. Vicente Juliá realizó, durante sus muchos años de oficio desde la tienda "Chauve" en Madrid, una de las aportaciones mas sólidas y brillantes al mundo...
3 weeks ago -
Selling lots of miniantures! - Hi guys, I'm clearing out some of my cabinets as I realized I have quite a few collections that have been gathering dust and not being used for several ye...
3 weeks ago -
Zanzibari Game - MWWBK - Figures/Terrain by Chris (apart from my porters) with paper buildings
3 weeks ago -
2nd Siege of Olmutz Playtest - We started a new siege with some slight scenario and rule changes and this time we played for two weeks in order to get to the Prussian ASSAULT! Jan and Mi...
3 weeks ago -
A Tale of Two Battles - Part the Second - After the battle recorded in the previous post, I felt I had unfinished business with Paul and his Russians, so I challenged him to a game the following...
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What I Have Painted Recently - I've finally got around to photographing my latest unit. It's a group of late medieval or early renaissance mounted hand-gunners: I apologise in advance f...
3 weeks ago -
Work in Progress - Rorke's Drift Hospital and Supply Depot - My wargaming buddy Carlos recently bought the Italeri Battle of Rorke's Drift set which comes with a very nice MDF version of the hospital and supply depot...
3 weeks ago -
Quatre Bras – C&CN - We played the C&CN Quatre Bras scenario on Tuesday and an excellent game it turned out to be. Goya, as host, was umpire while Tony commanded the French and...
3 weeks ago -
Scroll-Playing – DORK TOWER 20.06.19 - Dork Tower is updated Tuesdays and Thursdays. For as little as $1 a month, you can join the Army of Dorkness – and help bring more Dork Tower to the world!...3 weeks ago
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Arachno-Troll - *He hecho esta conversión para un amigo. La idea es usarla como Troggoth Hag en su ejército de Trolls* *---------------------------------* *I´ve made this c...
3 weeks ago -
Dutch Blue Guard 1701 - German historian Klaus Roider was kind enough to share a find he made in the Neurenberg Archives (!) on the dutch Blue Guards. Their uniforms are r...
3 weeks ago -
A Napoleonic Affair - Last weekend I was lucky enough to be invited out to attend a 28mm Napoleonic wargame put on by local wargamer Roundie and his mate Keith, using the Genera...
3 weeks ago -
Three more Spanish Cavalry units are done - I finished up 3 more Spanish Cavalry units for the War of Spanish Succession. Tonight the Reina, Armendariz and Sevilla will take their place next to their...
4 weeks ago -
28mm US Marine Corps Vietnam Miniatures: Part II - Part II of the all new range of 28mm Vietnam 1968 Wargame range have arrived. Ten new sculpts adding yet more drama and excitement in the form of US Marine...
4 weeks ago -
Storming the void! - *The last few months have been tempestuous (pun intended) for Imperial Navy and drop troops fans.* Well, you heard and saw it here first... the leak about...
4 weeks ago -
Speed Painting Blood Bowl Skaven - Part 2 - In part one of this project I detailed my work choosing a uniform for these rats and included an image of the miniatures with their base colors applied. [i...
4 weeks ago -
AMX-30 / AMX AUF1 Tank Expansion For TANKS The Modern Age & Team Yankee AMX 30 Tank Platoon - A closer look at the AMX-30/AMX AUF1 tanks expansion for "TANKS The Modern Age" by Galeforce 9. This game is a remake of ww2 "TANKS" with extended rules, ...
4 weeks ago -
Team Yankee Russians - Painted myself a small Russian force for Team Yankee. Models were fun to paint, assemble well. Battlefront Models These guys are supposed to be stronger t...
4 weeks ago -
Another Solo Piquet American Revolution Game - About a month ago I tried a couple of Piquet American Revolution games solo to see how the rules would work with a small number of units, and to retry the ...4 weeks ago
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Shadow War Campaign Final Mission Part Three - When we last left the Shadow War Campaign Final Mission, the Sisters of Battle had taken the lead having captured their primary objective and carried it of...
4 weeks ago -
I agree. - ‘Wargames are played, for the most part, without the supervision of an umpire. The game relies on the integrity of the individual players to show consider...4 weeks ago
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More Battlegroup, 40mm Bofors AA. - Bought two secondhand (15mm Battlefront) Bofors AA only to notice when they arrived that the gunshields, the sight groups and tailpieces were missing. That ...
4 weeks ago -
Vintage Historicon Programs from '84 & '86 - I was doing some cleaning and came across these old programs from the '84 and '86 Historicon conventions. I decided I didn't need to keep them an...
4 weeks ago -
Ape Rules - Imgur user AKouzmanoff posted card images for the Empire of the Apes. I have no thoughts on any of this except that King Kodo says screw you flying things...
5 weeks ago -
27-28 MARCH 1945: HAMMELBURG - Historical Dates: 27-28 March 1945 Game Dates: 4, 6 and 7 June 2019 Location: Hammelburg, Germany Situation: Task Force Baum to OFLAG XIII POW Camp and Back...
5 weeks ago -
7TV Post Apocalyptic Survivors, Randos, Tech Gangers, Fallout Mutant Hounds, Graves, and a Corrugated Junk Pile - Hello Distinguisher Viewer, Today there are fifteen small things for you to look at. First are three minis from Crooked Dice's 7TV Apocalypse game. Reve...
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Pencil Palisades - Recently, in a effort to create a wooden Palisade fort and after a couple of ideas that didn´t really work, I came up with this method. Simply cut old penc...
5 weeks ago -
Polar Fox Boar boyz for Warmaster. - This is my last unit of Boar boyz for Warmaster and as the title says they are from Polar Fox. As you can see below, they are wider than they should be a...
5 weeks ago -
Kublacon Report: Robotech! - Strike Team: Zentraedi Hunting! Max Sterling had hunted in the asteriod belt before. The Zentraedi liked to attack with a mob of battle pods led by on...
5 weeks ago -
Five Second Flick Theater: Somewhere in French Indochina - My friend Tim has a collection of figures and vehicles based on the French Indochina War and hosted a couple of games at last year's Fall In! and Cold ...
5 weeks ago -
Zeppelin Raider - A few years ago I came across a U-Boat board game series which I loved : *The Hunters.* Indeed, it captured my imagination so much that I had long email ex...
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Doc’s broken row house 1 - I think there is a spectrum when it comes to wargaming terrain, with one end being “playability” and the other end “detail.” Overly detailed buildings look...5 weeks ago
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In the Jungle - Another game of Bolt Action in the Jungle. As a force of Australians tries to hang on to a small village and the nearby ridgeline as the Japanese advance u...
5 weeks ago -
Tyranid Army For Sale - I'm having a bit of a clean out and my Tyranid army is listed on e-Bay.. they've been in a box for well over two years and I decided to set them free (I ex...
5 weeks ago -
Partnership Announcement - *Pulp Monsters* and *Kitbash Games* are incredibly excited to announce their partnership to deliver a bold next era of *Pulp City* gaming! This partnershi...
1 month ago -
RIP Avon - Paul Darrow 1941~2019 - Sad to hear that the incomparable, inimitable Paul Darrow has joined Gareth Thomas, Jacqueline Pearce, David Jackson and Peter Tuddenham in the pantheon ...
1 month ago -
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Ikwen Uprising Kickstarter is Live! - Apologies to the community here, I thought this post had already been made. Our new 15mm Ikwen Uprising Kickstarter is live https://www.kickstarter.com/p...
1 month ago -
SCULPTURE: "Steampunk Baby Dragon" - I just finished a little project that I've been working on for the last few weeks: a "Steampunk Baby Dragon!" It's a hodge-podge sculpture made from "Bond...
1 month ago -
BRAAAAIIIINNNSS!!! - George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead has been adapted and brought to the stage. Playing live! or should that be un-alive? This is zombie territory...
1 month ago -
Teaching an old dog new tricks - This year was a biggie for me, I hit one of those milestone birthdays. To celebrate I did something I've been a bit nervous of doing, I entered a bike rac...
1 month ago -
Tanks, Modern Age - So, about 4 or 5 months ago I picked the Tanks Modern age game up from my local shop, loving the original Tanks game, I knew I would love this one. Also ...
1 month ago -
Fort Hardknox Part 2 - Fort Hardknox gets an upgrade. Hobby time is extra rare at the moment, but what little I had available in May was spent happily expanding my post apocalypt...
1 month ago -
Saying hello: Jean-Pascal Tran - Hi, and thanks for following. This blog isn't very active at the moment, because my figure gaming life is pretty much moribund. When I moved to this part o...1 month ago
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What the hell's a Piraqua anyway? - Ever since the episode of *Black Sails *where the Character Jack Rackham mentioned the word Piragua, I've been searching for a way to make one of these for...
1 month ago -
Churchill Tank for Chain of Command - The latest addition to the armoury is this British Churchill heavy tank. Read more »
1 month ago -
Afternoon 23 May 1899: El Harper's Bazaar - Date: Afternoon 23 May 1899/2019 Location: El Harper's Bazaar, Mafrica Situation: The Business of War At The Bazaar Orders: Join the American Volunteer Forc...
1 month ago -
40K Terrain Bits and Pieces - While I have not posted much so far this year, there have been plenty of projects underway on the hobby table. The biggest driver has been our group's 40K ...
1 month ago -
Cangames 2019 Sunday May 19th - Western Up Front - This is the 2nd game run by David Redpath during the Cangames weekend. The 2nd Battalion of the 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade attack the outskirts of Fresn...
1 month ago -
DBN 31 'Jerome in Russia' Podskoi Valley P1 - The third installment of Jerome Bonaparte's ‘Epic Adventures in Russia’. We played this one a while back, but I’ve took my time editing the pictures. Sp...
1 month ago -
More Fantasy Painting Updates - I actually finished my dwarf army for the Kings of War tournament at Mayday. However, I didn't fully finish basing the second half of the army. So I recent...
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Still Alive! Working on some Sci-Fi and Ancient stuff... - Greetings all, Quick update to say that I am still alive! I'm even doing a little hobby stuff! A few weeks ago I received an email from Dan (TMWWBK, The '...1 month ago
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28mm Late War British - A British Vickers MMG team, 3" Mortar team and command group; Warlord 28mm. CdlT
1 month ago -
15mm fantasy battle: Human factions battle it out (again) - Following the last battle, Gen. Mako of Coastaldia pulled a "Stone Wall Jackson in the Vally Campaign" by managing to march far enough to meet up with the ...
1 month ago -
A couple of Partizan games - Just a few photos of games that caught my eye at the show. There were many games of really high quality, so this really is a very thin slice of what was on...1 month ago
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Ranger of Shadow Deep, Mission : Burning Light. Scenario B: The Ruined Chapel - *PROLOGUE* *Blackwulf’s report- no clues in the courtyard as to the Decanters location, just many undead. The fountain statues hand that seemed to poin...
1 month ago -
Eli Wallach as Calvera from The Magnificent Seven Film Bust sculpted by Offo. Moson Show 2019 - Again its been a long time since I have posted, but here we go again. This is a bust sculpted by Offo of Eli Wallach as Calvera from the film The Magnifi...
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Bauge replay at Partizan - grave undertakings - We're going to replay the demo game of Bauge 1421 at the Partizan show in Newark on 19 May. Going to make some slight adjustments to the layout. This is t...
2 months ago -
Surprise Box - I mentioned a couple of post ago that I’m currently in the process of reorganizing both the painting area and the troop storage area(s). Right now I have ...
2 months ago -
Spectre 2nd Edition and a few figures... - Being in a state of permanent Dickensian style poverty has made me extremely thrifty but for the first time in years I followed my little army lists and no...
2 months ago -
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May the Fourth, Revenge of the Absent blogger - So, it's been quite a while since my last post - with the impending birth of second child, I've not had much time for painting little men, but didn't want ...
2 months ago -
Regiment de Provence: Laarden, 1688 - *From the letters and diaries of the Marquis de Montchevreuil, * *Grand Écuyer to His Highness The King of France, French Flanders, 1688* The Comte de Gri...
2 months ago -
Women’s Battalion of Death - During the Great War the Russians formed fifteen all-female units for service on the German Front. It was felt that they would revitalize the Russian force...
2 months ago -
28mm Apocalypse Surviviors III - Following on from parts I and II in January, I have finished some more miniatures for my post-apocalypse games. Listed as Smith and Colt Cartwright on the ...
2 months ago -
Oathsworn Miniatures: Wind in the Willows Band - Wind in the Willows Band - Ready To Free Toad Hall Oathsworn Miniatures were new to me but my wife spotted their stand at Salute and was charmed by their ...
2 months ago -
Rampant Days Event 27th April Wargames Illustrated - Wargames Illustrated magazine held their Rampant Ages event in Nottingham last weekend. The idea was to combine the Osprey blue book rulesets into a shor...
2 months ago -
Destroyers: Weapons of Mass Production - One of the more difficult things about my Jutland project was knowing that the "Destroyer Problem" was lurking just under the surface like a tethered min...
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Great nmm tutorial - A perfectly good to read and easy to follow explanation of how to draw NMM. http://merlinsmagicworkshop.blogspot.com/2019/03/hi-everyone-welcome-for-anothe...
2 months ago -
Tau Manta - A finished and painted Tau Manta at Warhammer World. The Manta measures 630mm/25 inches long and has a wingspan of 860mm/34 inches! Weighing in at 12.5 kil...2 months ago
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Ingin Dapatkan Lebih Banyak Sensasi Untuk Uang Anda? Temukan Lebih Lanjut Tentang Tawaran Terbaik Untuk Game Xbox Murah. - Untuk yang sedang mencari scrapbooking mengatur kamar khusus yang unik dan menarik untuk kamar Anda, silahkan Anda bisa melihat artikel ini Menemukan gim X...
2 months ago -
Austrian Grenadiers - Halfway through painting and basing Austrian Grenadiers. Six "companies" of four stands completed, six more to go. Scott B. should be able to make a lot ...
2 months ago -
Paint Table Sunday and a Martian - It's Paint Table Easter Sunday and, thankfully, the family have gone down to Hampshire for the usual family Easter Egg Hunt, leaving me in peace. I coul...
2 months ago -
1815 The Hundred Days - The 1815 Hundred Days supplement is now available. It contains six scenarios following Napoleon's famous 1815 Waterloo campaign: Gilly, Quatre Bras, St Am...
2 months ago -
RELAUNCH of the Grav StuG Kickstarter. Up to 50.9% discount! - TAKE ME TO THE KICKSTARTER! *Why relaunch, what has changed?* By allowing plastic tooling to do what it does best; making perfect copies in large vol...
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Mind Bullets - *Being a psychic demands skill, talent and an interest in amateur dramatics* I've been neglecting proper toy soldiers of late and doing nothing with my St...2 months ago
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Deal Wargames Society - Rapid Fire Game Last Night - Well for only the third time ever I have attended a Wargames club meeting ! This was my second visit to the ever accommodating Deal Society who are a ver...
2 months ago -
Mortal Gods - First Playthrough - So my mate, Alan, has been waiting with fevered anticipation for this to arrive and so when the postie delivered Mortal Gods (originally by a company cal...
3 months ago -
Saga kilku warlordów - Ironjawz, wpis trzeci i finalny - Udało się. Najpierw myślałem, że będzie to bułka z masłem. W końcu szybko maluje figurki, więc co mogłoby pójść nie tak? Potem dopiero, po pierwszym miesi...
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Salute 2019 - Having failed to post about Salute 2018, here's a summary of this year's show. It was the second time I'd taken Hugo - one's experience and view of a sho...3 months ago
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What's New with Mike and Jeff April 6, 2019 - This was our last episode in the current format because Jeff is moving back home to Maryland. Moving forward we will be making changes to the format to th...
3 months ago -
Ev's Challenge - The One That Got Away - Greetings, paint fans! Here's what I was working on when time ran out and the 9th Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge came to an end. Reaper Bones again ...
3 months ago -
Wild West Exodus Build #1 Doctor's Office - So, after a long, long time, I'm back at blogging. I have put together several of the Wild West Exodus buildings by Warcradle and I'm having a blast with ...
3 months ago -
Some random ACW photos from Cold Wars 2019 - I took two of my grandsons to Cold Wars 2019 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a couple of weeks ago. My 10-year-old grandson Aidan Mingus took a few shots of so...3 months ago
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Warhammer Underworlds - Godsworn (Oathsworn) Hunt - I continue to enjoy playing *Warhammer Underworlds (aka Shadespire or Nightvault).* It is a fun game where the character abilities, cards, and board lay-o...
3 months ago -
Monster Rider (4) - Hi all, finally an update! I was blocked by some health issues and then catching back up with real-life work. But now I finally have some time at hand. unfo...
3 months ago -
Cold Wars 2019 - *Glen Shiel 1719:* On Saturday night I ran the battle of Glen Shiel 1719. The theme for the convention was mountain warfare, so this was one battle that ...
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Titan Terrain NZ - Guys, check out this interesting little company called 'Titan Terrain NZ' that do some great looking mdf terrain ! Link - -3 months ago
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Naked Elven and Goblin Units for BoFA - Soooooo, I learned on Friday that I am going to have to have eye surgery on Monday and have to keep my face parallel to the ground for at least a week, 24 ...
3 months ago -
Russian Napoleonic Officers - About a year ago I traded some miniatures for a large collection of Front Rank Napoleonic Russians and just finally got around to trying them out. I've n...
3 months ago -
Grognards II - The Imrie/Bechara Grenadiers are progressing! Below are the Chasseurs, based some years ago. I've decided to go with smaller battalions, which will make ...
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A new blog started - Written by Ron Saikowski, March 21, 2019 After spending some time on this site, I've decided to start a new blog. Sketchbook Gaming Why the change? The big...3 months ago
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FUBAR in Chechnya - Son was home from college for a couple days and we got into some skirmish games. First up was a game of FUBAR. I had the Russians and he played the Chechen...
3 months ago -
Relief of the Residency - With some interest expressed in a game of Sharp Practice 2 at the club I thought I would get my Indian Mutiny collection out again and stage a Residency s...
3 months ago -
Dick Dale - I'm sad today because one of my personal heroes has passed away today. Dick Dale was 81, and to me that's too young for a man who was such a giant talent...
3 months ago -
HOTT Winter's Day, Game 5 - Good evening, Last game of the day, time to bring out the last army. Alas, my Horde army was up against Mark's My Little Pony Knights. Opps! Still, in for...
4 months ago -
British Khaki #3 (Vallejo Model Color) - Per Mike Starmer 1 part 70.822 1 part 70.888 7 parts 70.9214 months ago
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Miniatures gaming update - I recently got to play in a few miniatures games, which I had been absent from for some months with the busy time at the end of fall semester, over the hol...
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Warlords of Erehwon: the Aftermath - Guest Post: My friend Albert wrote a great little short story recounting the aftermath of our first game of Warlords of Erehwon, which I posted about a cou...4 months ago
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Rashaar - I have finished painting up my Rashaar starter crew/warband. I have had great fun painting these up and yes they are all stood in puddles it helps them mov...4 months ago
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Mongol War Machines - This post is my recently completed heavy fire power for my fantastical Mongol collection. The crew are a combination of bits. Heads from FireForge Mongol p...
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Barbarrossa pictures - A couple of weeks ago I ran a cracking weekend of 3 x 1941 Russian Front games for Big Chain of Command at the Wargames Holiday Centre for Mr Freeth - H...
4 months ago -
Lamp lighter Kaas - Look out hanger on - I finally finished my last year built of Kaas the lamp lighter. protagonist of Necromunda novel Junktion. Grim and down to earth character whose day job wa...
4 months ago -
Back Again!......With Updates - So.....I see it's been a while since my last post. Lots of things happening. Real life and hobby wise - both! Oh yeah, and the Broncos managed to suck...
4 months ago -
Figures for Sale - I have a large Front Rank/Perry collection of WOTR figures including a batch of weapons packs. They are available in one job lot for £130. All prices inclu...
4 months ago -
why have one Arthur and Cei when you can have three? - A series of thee kit bashed models of Arthur and Cei in 28mm plastic.
4 months ago -
Another Carnage and Glory II game - The players with Murdock's Marauders have put in another ECW game using Carnage & Glory II Pike & Shot rules. battle at Parradice Moor Read the full After ...
4 months ago -
A Very Short Film Review: Robin Hood (2018) - I began to watch Robin Hood about half an hour ago. I paused it to take some screen shots for my friends and then ended up switching it off a few minutes l...
4 months ago -
3MM Southern Angola - Love the scale and rules set for this modern conflict. Steve has created a fun and engaging game that gives the feel of command. Thanks for lookin...
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Plans for 2019 - Gaming Same as I say every year At least one gaming session a week Run Deep Fried Lard 2019 I had a few games of CoC and IABSM using my France...5 months ago
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The flying boat ...(at the dockside ...) - The wings finished on the flying boat; plastic palm leaves layered and gaps filled with PVA; painted to somewhat resemble large feathers at the dockside , ...
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Norse Giant - Evening all! My last post was an update on my 3rd edition Warhammer Norse army, and I mentioned in it that I had a Norse Giant on the way - well, here he ...
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King Kreel's Grand Hunt: Idoneth Deepkin - The Grand Hunt at the Warhammer Citadel The Eidolon of Mathlann King Kreel’s Grand Hunt Pah’rah, the Living River, pours across Ghur like a snake, eternal...
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Legends of the High Seas Resources - Legends of the High Seas coverJust a short update: After a recent request I have just uploaded some old resources for *Legends of the High Seas* to the Lot...
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Machiavellian Renaissance HoTT - by Jay Blackwood… Contrary to the bad press he’s received, Nicolo Machiavelli was a nice boy – I mean, just look at that sweet smile! On the other hand, wh...5 months ago
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British SYW Artillery - This is now the start of my earlier expressed intention to arrage a number of scale drawings illustrating British ordnance fielded during the War of Austr...
5 months ago -
Going to Rapier Con Febuary 8-10 - My son and I will be going to Rapier Con in Jacksonville, FL during the weekend of February 8-10. It's the first time I'll have played real miniature games...
5 months ago -
[Review] Baccus 6mm Punic Wars Range - Another review, this time of my latest batch of figures (a present from my wife) which arrived this week. After being impressed by the new Age of Hannibal ...5 months ago
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Troops from the Margravinate of Huhnerland - All figures are 28mm Front Rank. All colours and the guidon by David of NBA
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The Royal Navy Marines, Part 2 - To continue, Redcoats on the Royal Navy Marines always look so intimidating on the table... Crew (can be used as Privateers or even Pirates) Marines and N...
5 months ago -
Finally some new zombies! - These are a mix of zombicide and other zombie minis I had. Mostly an experiment in the use of washes as a painting tool.
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Hospital - eek! - Howdy all, Just a quick post to keep everybody up to date. I had a chest-infection which I thought I could soldier through. Unfortunately that turned out t...5 months ago
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Delays - Activities are at a stand-still here at my hobby table as of late, due to 'Real Life' getting in the way, but it is for the good of all involved. Way back...5 months ago
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D'Anjou - 'May you live in interesting times' is the traditional Chinese curse and my goodness, they just about got it right. I was astonished to turn on the website...
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Holiday Loot (and a little Rantette...) - Happy New Year! Haven't posted for a while, but I am just as much into the hobby as is usual for me. Matt, Giovanni and I are scheduled for a Napoleonics g...
5 months ago -
"Message for you Sir!!!" -Bret Casualty Figures - Hi all, Back with a quick post about two newly painted figures. These are the first two figures from a rather unusual "side quest" that I have undertaken ...
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Battle of White Tunis 310BC using Ancient Battelines Clash - *Introduction* This is game 32 in play testing my ancient rules by replaying historical battles. The latest version of ‘Ancient Battlelines Clash’ is on it...
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Practice games - Yesterday I caught up with Joel for some very enjoyable practice games. In the first two games Mithridates squared off against Sulla. I took the scythed ch...6 months ago
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In the Shadow of the Black Tower - Many months had passed since Sir John of Raven's Wood Tower, Captain of the Pass, better known as the Black Knight, had led his men across the mountains t...
6 months ago -
Blood Bowl Replacements Videos - This blog is pretty much dead right now. If you are reading this... hello! Check out these awesome Blood Bowl animations Superjail style!
6 months ago -
Bengal Horse Artillery - As soon as possible i restart with some conversions and new ideas about the troops around my psydonyms Dudley, Lord Wimsey, Ross, Sanders and Montgomery. I...6 months ago
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Portugal 1808/09 – rear guard at La Trepa - Details of the location, troop strength and historical background can be found at the link below. Briefly, La Romana’s rear guard, commanded by General Ma...
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Not Dead, Not Back Either - I'm still living in China, but I did buy the new Nurgle err Deathguard Codex, I have not bought the new 40k rules and all my miniatures and paints are rott...
6 months ago -
Pemantauan Internet Karyawan yang Efektif - Bagi anda yang mencari jasa rental mobil dengan pelayanan terbaik bagi para pelanggannya, dan mencari pilihan kendaraan yang anda butuhkan. Anda bisa meng...6 months ago
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Ghosts of a Christmas Past - I guess it's about that time for my yearly holiday post - a celebration of my introduction to a hobby that allowed me to let my imagination run free. Havin...
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Plans for 2019 - It's that time when we all start thinking about what the new year will hold for us on the hobby front. I generally am far too much of a hobby butterfly to ...6 months ago
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Hot Reception - Gun and crew by Hinchliffe (SYW range)Christmas is an anxious time if you're Hessian - but this year we're ready for you Mr Washington!
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Novara 6th June 1513: A Scenario - *Introduction* This will not be the first time we have re-fought this battle. Indeed, it's not even the first time will have re-fought it using our house ru...6 months ago
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The Stolen Gold - My son and I recently tested out a scenario for Sellswords and Spellslingers. It is an adaptation of the fantasy scenario from Don Featherstones Skirmish ...6 months ago
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SoBH: Raid for the Blood Stones - All was quiet (for once) in the Barbarian village. Chieftain Ardaric gazed up to the bejewelled skull on top of the sacred mound. Little did he realise th...
7 months ago -
The Devil In Your Head – Part 3 - Well I wasn’t planning on writing anymore on my mental health issues but sometimes things conspire against you and the only way to battle it is to be open,...7 months ago
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Kill team - Merci a Cédric et Sylvain pour cette partie qui fût fort sympathique... Orkaaaaaaaaaaa !!!!!!!!
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80. Back to the Dungeon! - Hello. I vaguely remember writing things on this blog, long, long ago. You know the drill: Real Life. Meh. I've had the following things painted up fo...
7 months ago -
Battle Ravens Preview - PSC games - Battle Ravens is a brand new boardgame created by Dan Mersey and produced by the Plastic Soldier Company (http://www.pscgames.co.uk/). Apologies to both as...
7 months ago -
Car Wars Variant [draft] - Ideas and pics of my CW mod: Hotwheels Scale (CW car-truck bases.cdr) New Turn Key ("turn key.cdr" and "turn key v2.cdr") Modular Arena (cw arena 3.jpg) New...7 months ago
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Stayin' alive - Dear visitors of the blog...... It has been a while since the last update. Various people tried to take care of this blog and for other various reasons one...7 months ago
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Blood & Plunder: Mast, Rigging and Sail Tutorial - Part 1 - In my opinion, one of the more challenging and rewarding aspects of getting a Firelock Games Blood & Plunder ship to the table has to be the rigging. Bein...
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TFM has shut down - Ed posted this; Hello folks. it’s with a heavy heart that I must announce that Troll Forged Miniatures is winding down operations. Our casting services wil...7 months ago
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Tinkering with... Flakpanzer 38(t) (1/56) - Far to frequently I start projects, primarily just for fun, unfortunately not all progress to a finish. This lucky one was resurrected so it can slip i...
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Latest Ready Made Diecast 1/72 Models - The wealth of ready made diecast style models now is simply amazing. Especially in the 1/72 scale range (and I’m including 1/76 and 1/87 in that statement)...8 months ago
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Latest Ready Made Diecast 1/72 Models - The wealth of ready made diecast style models now is simply amazing. Especially in the 1/72 scale range (and I’m including 1/76 and 1/87 in that statement)...8 months ago
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Home Front: Civilians and Secret Agents. - I have recently been rebasing and touching up a few figures for use with my WW2 Operation Sealion collection. Most of these figures I painted for VBCW or P...
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Moving - For the time being, I've moved all my blogging to here: https://strangevistas.wordpress.com/8 months ago
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Frostgrave: The Wishing Well - Happy to have got in a game of Frostgrave yesterday with a good friend. It illustrated all the things that make this game fun: - A low model count. ...
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This not much to post - Well, the title says it all. I am still around and not doing much of anything. I am still reading for the most part, but not as much as before. To date,...8 months ago
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Books - Not much is happening here on the hobby table as far as naval projects go, but hopefully that will end soon enough. I have purchased a few books to help st...
8 months ago -
How to paint Rusty Krieg?? - Long time no see! Among the many projects I have been working on, and yes I do still live... are some Krieg. I was inspired to do some Krieg by my friend ...
8 months ago -
Kings of War Vanguard Model Groupings - Mantic has a tendency to just throw a lot of parts in a box or bag in their stuff which some times makes it hard to tell if you got everything. I have gon...
8 months ago -
Kicking it with the Homies - The feared El Taco Cartel homies are kicking it Southside, plotting and scheming on ways to get product across or under the border. Figures are 28mm Sp...
8 months ago -
WIP 1:72 Uruk-hai Pikemen - Painting up the Fighting Uruk-hai armed with pikes and fighting in phalanx formation. 1:72 Dark Alliance half-orcs.
8 months ago -
40mm Japanese civilians - I've been away from painting the minis for the past several weeks while working with a new deadline at the newspaper, but I managed to finish a few these...
9 months ago -
Helloween: Lord Of Skulls/ Imperial Knight Kitbash: It's NOT a Kytan damn you! - Look, I already know what you are saying: "TJ shut up, bro, it's a Kytan." and you'd probably be right, which is why I am posting these blue-tac fittings...
9 months ago -
The Song of the Dodo - Yes, nice to see you too. Where have I been? Nowhere really, but I've been reading and ruminating and the like. Been cautious about what to get involved wi...
9 months ago -
Age of Sigmar Tale of Gamers - Month 5 - My choices for Month 5 and 6 are going to be more Skeleton Warriors to build up my other two units of skeletons to 20-strong each. This will also allow me ...
9 months ago -
Averaigne royal family - Every kingdom has a royal family. In the case of my campaign setting of Averaigne, it's a fairly young kingdom but they are still on their eleventh king in...
9 months ago -
1st Battalion of Grenadiers - For the war against the rebels in the American colonies two battalions of grenadiers were formed. The First Battalion of Grenadiers consisted of ten grenad...
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Desert Update 2 - Thanks to Carl (in another place) pointing out these figures are now up on the Pictart web site and can be ordered on line using the site’s shopping basket...9 months ago
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Blucher Revisited - Hi Team It's been a few months since I played a game of BLUCHER so Rowan and I decided to have another game. We settled on 250 points each and Rowan command...
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Nintendo Switch – Quali Accessori? - La Nintendo Switch è sicuramente una console fantastica per la sua portabilità ma anche per la sua versatilità: Console handheld, Console domestica e Conso...10 months ago
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ChillCon Derby and Me - Hey Guys, I am demoing Very British Civil War at Chillcon Derby on 22nd September, at Allestree Woodlands School, Allestree, Derby and this is the plot f...
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Marine invasion - Another great game of Team Yankee in 20mm tonight with Mark Piper. US Marines come ashore in Denmark 1985 to counter a Soviet offensive but are pushed ba...10 months ago
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Fallschirmjäger Kickstarter is online - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1873378485/28mm-german-fallschirmjager-in-italy-1943-45?lang=de
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15mm Gladiators - This post is literally Years in the making. I started this project in 2010 and have finally got round to completing it to some degree this weekend. Like ma...
10 months ago -
Boarding Parties - A couple of stands to represent RN boarding parties or sailors with small-arms put ashore For CD3 the count as 'other' so of limited use, expecting speci...
10 months ago -
French 7th bis Hussars two ways - In the abysmal language of TV cooking shows, here are the French 7th bis Hussars done two ways - first with S Range figures, then with Lamming one piece...
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Lamming additions - An update on recent new Lamming Roman and Britons acquisitions. As mentioned in a previous post I had been looking for some British chariots. Once I had...
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Moving To www. - For the last month or so I've been working on moving my blog and web presence over to www.iowagrognard.com . Blogger has been kind to me as have all ...10 months ago
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Bargain basement, unpainted miniatures! GHQ, Pico Armor, AB, Hallmark 1/6000 - I've had several unsuccessful attempts at painting this past year, and it seems likely that I'll never paint at the level I once did. With that, I'm clear...
11 months ago -
Gencon 2018 Photo Dump: Costumes - *by SandWyrm* I said "Thank You!", he said "You're WELCOME!" to thunderous applause. Here are all of the costumes that I got pictures of as I ran back and f...
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SELLING UP! - *SELLING UP!* Circumstances dictate that I sell my collection of wargaming figures. *VERY *large collection of *Nick Lund Grenadier Dwarfs, Orcs and Gob...
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Turkemen, part 1 - The first post regarding some of my Half-Continent hobby work in a long time can be found here < link11 months ago
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Vanguard Miniatures 3mm Gothic Science Fiction Line: Introduction - Although today I am scornful of Games Workshop and even more so of the company’s fanbois, the plain truth is that GW is responsable for making me a serious...
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New YouTube Channel "Little Wars TV" - First off I haven't died. I've had a bunch of life changes but I'm committed to bringing Daddy's Little Men back to life starting by sharing what I've been...
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Long time no see, - All aboard? The PLA are moving out, on their way to establishing a new homebase somewhere better suited for rapid deployment to your gamingtables. The rang...1 year ago
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A question of storage - It's not a question I have ever thought about. In fact apart from 1 storage case I either use some old A4 paper boxes or I use the really useful plastic on...
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Visit to Waterloo - I was incredibly lucky to have had the chance to travel to 1 of our Napoleonic bucket list battlefields this month. With 3 other Napoleonic daft chaps we m...
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Greek Light Cavalry - Some Greek Light Cavalry; from the Victrix set of the same name. I did add in a few heads from the spares box.
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The problems with Geek culture - how big are they? - So, blogging, it would seem, is something I find hard to keep up with!!! I think that's an understatement. I find it far easier to post to forums and to cr...1 year ago
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Savage Orcs 1987: First Rank Painted - Hello! Here's the first rank of the old Savages painted. It's a pleasure to give these old classics a new coat of paint... These are gonna work as "Skulks...
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Reposted: Rossbach Prussian Flags Project - Flags of Prussian Infantry Regiment 23 von Forcade - First raised 1713. Stationed in Konigsvörstadt and Spandau, suburbs of Berlin, between 1716 and 1806. Regarded as something of an elite regiment. "Major-Ge...
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The figures are nice but not the most interesting thing... - These were a reasonably recent eBay purchase. Good original figures nicely painted in a style which matches well with mine. Though I must have at least a...
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Dark Sun Dwarf - What seems like many moons ago, I sculpted a Dwarf that represented what I felt one from the D&D Dark Sun world would look like. It took awhile, but I thin...
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Shadows over Camelot finally complete - and on eBay - may16_2018 - I have been working on painting this game since March 2008. I gave up on them on March 24th, 2008 and said that hopefully I'd return to them later. About...1 year ago
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Fireforge Byzantines Part 1 - This, my Byzantine blog, was my second blog and first appeared (a few days after my Spartan one) back in November 2005. At the time, with the purchase ...
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Imperial Guard get their first run - Took what will eventually be my Cadian 317th Regiment "The Lost and Forlorn" out for their first game last night. Went up against a fun Genestealer cult l...
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Saga of Painting WTJ Ships - Part 2 - Well it has been a while since I published Part 1 of this tale. I finally completed the three British battleships and mounted them on the "sea" bases that...
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Rewrite of Fighting in Built Up Area Rules - For the past month or so we have tried to update the existing rules for combat in a built up area. The problem we have experienced is that the rules aff...
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Can the Sellswords make it to the castle? - Apart from Kings of War (where I run a human army anyway) I have never been into fantasy games. Recently, I have warmed to the idea. Even more recently Gan...
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Cult of Slaanesh - Dark Elf Sorceress - I did this conversion quite some time ago and have looked forward to painting it ever since - but never gotten around to it until now. I know dark elves ar...
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"The Back Alley Boys!" - NEW FROM "MIRACLE PICTURES!!!" *"If it's a good picture, then IT'S A MIRACLE!!!"* *"THE BACK ALLEY BOYS!"* "The Back Alley Boys!" - The newest boys advent...
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A long overdue update - August 2015 was the last time I posted here.... almost 3 years ago! I finally got the shed to the point (after 4 years!) where everything could be moved int...
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CRISIS POINT 2018 - Richard P's AAR's - Links to the four parts of my Crisis Point 2018 AAR http://atomicrenegade.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/crisis-point-2018-part-one.html http://atomicrenegade.bl...
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The Danish invasion of 1898... - Scouts have found the invaders... The Major General rallies the troops in defence. A local photographer catches the Danish Lifeguard. Corporal Jones see the...
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The Bongolesian Air Force (TO&E) - Introduction: The Bongolesian Air Force (BAF), is the primary (and only) military air arm of Bongolesia. While the Army uses helicopters in some of their g...
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A Long Time Ago.... - I've been a Star Wars fan ever since my 11 year old imagination got carried away by that Star Destroyer looming onto the screen firing at Princess Leia's c...
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Blackmoore's Dragoons for Tomorrow's War - Blackmoore's Dragoons (Platoon) Troop Quality.....................................................D8-D10 Morale.................................................1 year ago
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Chintoys 54mm plastic Mounted Confederate Leaders - I picked up this set before the Union set as they are expensive and the subjects are better riding horses than the Union set. Lee and Jackson look more com...
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Watch the Mac Fam stream D&D Live on Twitch Tuesdays and Sundays! - If you want to hear the Steve and Sean O get real nerdy with Dungeons and Dragons, the team is now streaming games live! Check us out on our Twitch page at...1 year ago
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HELSREACH: The Movie - Vol. 1 - So I’ve had a bunch of requests for this and I figured with 10 episodes in the can, now would be a good time to do it.
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Things are rumbling along! - So, the launch of the Kickstarter for my book ARMIES & LEGIONS & HORDES went off with a bang! It funded in three hours, and has continued to go great gun...
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Against The Giants, Part II - As promised, I'm back. The image hosting issues have been thankfully resolved, so here is part deux of Against The Giants (on the cheap). After the Steadin...
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The age of the Condottieri - The Age of the Condottieri supplement now available. Free download at THIS LINK
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Testing miniature photography with my good old GUO... - I made several test shots of my Great Unclean One miniature using light tent, tripod and "daylight" bulbs... This particular photo has been quickly edited ...
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Czechoslovakian 1938 Fast Division in 1988 - the Reconnaisance battalion - To recap - in 1938, the Fast Division was structured with 2 Tank Battalions and 2 Motorised Infantry Battalions, plus a Recconnaissance battalions and var...1 year ago
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Armée Maya - Et voici ma nouvelle armée pour ADG. Des Mayas, peints par Siaba. Du très beau boulot ! Ya plus qu'à les jouer !
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Small men, big month - It has been forever since I've had motivation to paint, which is unfortunate. But what is fortunate, is that I got over myself a little regarding that, and...
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Touching base..January update - Well we are now into February already and it’s time to check in on the past month to fill in the gaps not covered by the past few posts. The Painting an...
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Artúricos para SAGA V - Pues un punto mas para mi banda de Britanos y ya son cinco, esta vez son Commanipulares (guardias). La idea es poner a dos ellos como compañeros del Warlord...
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The Elves !!!! - Hello Everyone ! Long time since coming back in Here ! You may have seen on Facebook or Twitter that I worked with Lumberjacks Studio on a very special pro...
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Giant Gorillas and Tattoos - The Drowned Earth have just shared another couple of paintjobs I did for them so I guess it’s only right that I pop them up here on the blog, with some bon...
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Victrix War Elephant part 2 - I filled the very small gaps in the elephant body halves and filed them. These were not gaping holes by any means and I only needed a bit of Games Work...
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Damnation - Got to the club the other night and tripped on a carpet runner. Result one box of plastic miniatures dropped. Broken shields, heads, javelins, swords and ho...
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D&D: Lair of the Necromancer - Howdie. My oldest daughter has been interested in playing Dungeons and Dragons. Because it was what I gamed as a kid, and somehow I still remembered most...
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Flemish town buildings (I) - So we're back! A long enforced hiatus between postings, as I've been focussing my time on transferring the Steel Fist Miniatures business from Oliver - who...
1 year ago -
Perry Miniatures plastic Zulus: Part 1 - I have a lot of unpainted Zulus but none of them are really satisfactory. Empress' British metals are marvellous but their Zulus are small, anatomicall...
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Ain't It The Way.... - After a long haitus I dug out my camera and boxes of painted toys only to find my camera doesn't work anymore..... So I made an attempt with my android, and...
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Review of 2017 - Well, it's that time of year again. For those of you still following, if you haven't noticed a distinct downward trend over the past year or two, I'm su...1 year ago
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This is the Night - “I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I ha...1 year ago
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War of the Ring Batrep: The Red Fortress Ministry of Truth - It’s been a while. But when Arnulf (famed war-correspondent from the Red Fortress Ministry off Truth) got in touch about hosting a Batrep, I quickly agree...1 year ago
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Epilogue - udate2017/I've noticed this blog is now rendered useless because of new photobucket image sharing rules. I hope to recover images sometime in the future. ...1 year ago
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Belgian Force Publique Uniforms - Here are a couple of shots I took of Belgian Force Publique uniforms in the Musée Royal de l’Armée et d’Histoire Militaire in Brussels. They appear to...
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New Releases - December 2017 - Hi Folks!Time for some new releases! This time we got some two packs of new Undead Orcs, four 1/300 aircrafts, MDF bases and something new - Elton's perso...
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It has been a bit - Well, in the interim, I have been prepping for a career change, and this blog has been lying fallow, as most of my game energy has been devoted to learnin...1 year ago
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NEW RANGE: Romanians for WW2 - Already leaked in a couple of forums and finally ready for release is a complete new range! Subject is the *Romanian Army of World War Two*. The miniatu...
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French Line Infantry - Here are two battalions of 1812 to 1815 French Line Infantry. The figures are all Perry Miniatures, a mix of plastic and metal and most of them...
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Frostgrave warband - Some pics of my first Frostgrave warband. This group is from a variety of sources, and heavily customized. Here's some of the raw material for conversion: ...1 year ago
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Gonzo Sci-Fantasy - What is it? - Hello all, It's been a bit since I blogged on gaming in general. Life has taken over and I am pretty sure that blogs have been relegated to a bit of an o...1 year ago
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Tau of War Masterpiece Commissions: Cypher - Cypher is a hunted man. The Dark Angel Interrogator Chaplains are relentless in their pursuit, following every lead no matter how bizarre. Cypher cannot fa...
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END OF YEAR SALE : up to 40% off. - END OF THE YEAR SALE. up to 40% off plus free models. HI everyone, we are starting our end of the year sale a little early this year to make sure we get al...
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Ctrl-Alt-Del: the Day after Crisis - What better time to restart this blog than what is to me the watershed moment of the gaming year: the Crisis show by the Tin Soldiers of Antwerp. Right now...1 year ago
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It's One Hundred and One Years Since The Pennine Fusiliers Disappeared - Today sees the one hundred and first anniversary of the disappearance of the 13th Battalion of the Pennine Fusiliers from the Somme. Popular myth has it...
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Completed Deff Dread for Dreadtober 2017 - Despite this being one of the busiest months I’ve had in a long while, I have managed to finish the Deff Dread for Dreadtober 2017. Adding another stompi...1 year ago
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October already? - The annual update was meant as a joke initially, but has become a sad reality. This year blogging has taken a severe hit by Photobucket's policy change. M...1 year ago
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The Teasers - *Word Document* *JPG's of the original article (be warned - they're quite big!)* *Teaser Title* *Teaser Description* *February '78 (Battle)* *Page 1 (1.8Mb...1 year ago
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12th legion Angry Boiz - While working on the noble lads of the azure 13th, I was also expanding the footprint of their temperamental cousins in the 12th. At this point this is my ...
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Painting Fall 2016 - Fall saw me switching gears pretty radically from power armor to organic. I wanted to make Tyranids work in 7th edition. They where dog meat and not at al...
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Pipping the Ride - So while waiting on the new paint brushes and paints I started looking at what kind of tanks I want to use with my Tank Rider Platoon, and the Soviets offe...
1 year ago -
3D printed Dropzone Commander buildings - A couple of early prototypes of the 3D printed buildings I'm designing for Dropzone Commander:
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Blasthof 50th Anniversary - The immortal words: *"You must destroy the bridge at Blasthof. Failing that, you must prevent it's capture by the Imperial Army until nightfall on 26th Sept...
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Things and Sculpting: Footguards and Stuff - Things? Things are slow, so slow I haven't been bothered to post about them till now. Bit sick of painting.... it was actually boring, tedious even! Didn'...
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WSS - Livgarden til Fods - I am just about to start painting the Livgarde til Fods for my reboot of my WSS project but I have a couple of questions that need answering, so I am makin...
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Lord Carver, BMMD - And, what better model to finish up this stretch of photobox fun, than the Lord Carver himself? I actually painted him a few months before I did that mass ...
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Spiked Shoe Cup - result = fake news trophy winner (2/14) - This past Saturday I traveled out to Kitchener/Waterloo region again to support my buddy Grant who took over running the Blingtoof/Foul Frenzy tournament...
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15mm / 20mm MDF urban terrain kickstarter - I have backed my first kickstarter, and one that is in Australia. It is a modular MDF urban terrain system that can be purchased in either 15mm or 20mm sc...1 year ago
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Hussite War Wagons - War wagons are one of those things I've often wanted but had shied away from for many years. I think I bought the first of these at a show where there wa...
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Is There Still a Crisis in Alcovia? - Since the declaration of a cease fire in 2012, the kingdom of Alcovia has remained in a tenuous state of peace which has been called an "Civil Cold War" by...
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Brushing away the cobwebs. - Forgive me father, for it has been over two and a half year's since my last Grymn related post... ... but that is about to change. Sadly, there hasn't bee...
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Rough Riders On Mars! Chapter 31 – Plotting Our Course - *Chapter 31 –* *Plotting Our Course* “Well, it has been an eventful few weeks here.” I began, “There have been many changes and I think we need to evalua...
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Trying 8th Edition - So after a two edition hiatus the new 40k and its positive internet reception has lured me back in. The calls went out to the old group that hadn'...
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Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!2 years 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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How To Lose Weight During Perimenopause. Even It Is Possible To Shed Weight With These Great Recommendations - Ways To Lose Weight During Postmenopause! There are plenty of inquiries that ought to be clarified when you find yourself looking for to find the very best...2 years ago
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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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First Hard Sci-Fi Building Project - I went to Sarissa Precision for my first hard Sci-Fi buildings. I wanted a "anywhere use" module look so they came at the top of the list online that would...
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Wild Beast Shipping Crates - So … I bought these Wild Beast Shipping Crates from 4Ground and I’m very impressed. They come flat packed in laser cut card form and could be pushed free...2 years ago
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Zulu attack - Recently we had a game of TMWWBK using our Zulu wars figures. This was just a trial game for the Southern Strategists game that was played just a few days ...
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TMWWBK Zulu game - Our last game was our first group game of TMWWBK rules from Osprey. Zulus attacking the British in a defencive position much like Rorke's Drift. The Britis...
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Konwent gier bitewnych GLADIUS (16-18.06.2017) - Serdecznie zapraszamy na zbliżający się konwent. Poniżej plan wydarzenia: PIĄTEK 16.06.2017 17.00 - 20.00 Systemy: - Cold War Commander - Infinity Wydarz...2 years ago
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Manfaat Olive Oil yang wajib kamu ketahui - Minyak oliva memiliki angkutan zat makanan E yang teramat berlimpah gizi E tunggal amat berperan penting yang merupakan zat makanan kulit, sehingga kita bi...
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Orc Riding Beast - It has been a few years... Since the first time I saw the riding beasts from Fraser Gray and Michael Immig in White Dwarf all these years ago I wanted to p...
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Pulp Alley: The Leagues - Doctor Borgstrom's Laboratory - Been quiet on the blog recently but in the meantime I have managed to paint up another Pulp Alley League. I present Doctor C.Y. Borgstrom and minions..... ...
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Games for Historicon 2017 - The countdown to Historicon continues and I’m still painting 3mm guys at every opportunity. Stay tuned for more photos of the latest progress. In the mean...2 years 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...2 years 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...2 years ago
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Bolt Action & Battle of Kursk at Adepticon - I wanted to take a sec to share some recent Bolt Action activities that I’ve been involved in! Rich at Chicago Terrain Factory and I ran our 2nd year of ...
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Reactivating in 3, 2, 1.... - So It's been quite a while since I posted anything on my blogs. after moving out here i found it hard to game. I worked evening(2:30pm -11:00pm) and all t...
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28mm Napoleonic Bavarian Cheveauleger and Dragoons - These lads are from Front Rank. Bavarian 1st Dragoons Bavarian Konig Cheveauleger
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I'll Bet You Forgot About Me - ...and I don't blame you, really. It's only been *several years* since I updated this thing. But hey, 8th Edition is about to drop, and if you remember way...
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Modelling magazines'...front covers for inspiration...Military Modelling, Wargames Illustrated and Practical Wargamer... - Greetings all... I for one am someone who thinks now and again...as often as you can...should say thank you... Also we should regularly salute our pears -...
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Frontline Games: Cobblestone Roads & Sections – How to paint. - Painting My Cobblestone Road Sections I recently acquired some Frontline Games Cobblestone Roads & Square sections. They are made of a flexible & soft PV...2 years ago
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Battlegroup Tobruk Goes Strong into the Desert - Pavlov's dogs, famously, were conditioned to salivate when hearing a bell which they associated with food. I have been similarly conditioned to associate...
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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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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...2 years ago
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Photos from Adepticon 2017/Starship Troopers - Will and I ran two games of Starship Troopers at Adepticon this March. The Mobile Infantry had to venture out of their fortifications to recover a downed s...2 years ago
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Keyword - Keyword belajar bahasa inggris online bahasa inggris online cara belajar bahasa inggris online belajar online bahasa inggris belajar bahasa inggris online ce...2 years ago
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Roads Reflocked - I bought a tonne of roads and rivers from an eBay seller called Fat Frank. They are great but I didn't realise they would come already painted and flocked ...
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All Spider-man Miniature Game rules - As Knight have removed all of the Marvel content from their website, I am trying to gather it all together so people still have access to it. Today is th...
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21 Rahasia untuk Sukses Bisnis Waralaba - 1) mengevaluasi Anda toleransi risiko Membuka bisnis baru adalah prospek yang menakutkan. Ada banyak risiko pribadi, profesional dan keuangan untuk mempe...
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MISSING: ONE CLIENT - Are you M. Taylor of Cardiff? If so, we have lost touch and need urgently to regain such. I have your models you see, the work is done and all that is nee...2 years ago
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Blood Eagle - First Warband. - Pointed up the first warband for Blood Eagle. A pretty simple process but each individual needs to be thought about and the figure looked at. Meet the s...
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Fun in the AWI, a 50th Birthday Bash! - Down't club a few weeks ago having a most excellent AWI game (re-fighting Germanstown) with all of Doug's magnificent AWI collection for his 50th. We did t...
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MDF Buildings, first crack. - It's been a long time since I posted to my blog so I have lots to cover. First off I'd like to discuss MDF buildings. These are 3mm flat MDF boards that ar...
2 years ago -
X-Wing JumpMaster5000 - Hi all Here is my repainted from stock version JumpMaster5000. Spellscape Miniatures blog
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Grasping the nettle. - *Well, it has been a while (understatement of the day so far...) Below is my first faltering steps into what I hope/intend will be Europe's "back story" (u...2 years 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.2 years 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...
2 years 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...
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Brickman Recon Marine 1970 Vietnam - Ich habe ein neues Hobby gefunden ........ich missbrauche unschuldige Lego Figuren aus meiner Kindheit und mache daraus Figuren des Todes ! :-) Mein erstes...
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Chivalry - Medieval Warfare PS4 - I am very conscious of my continued sporadic posts of late and that my much heralded return has fallen somewhat flat. However, here I am and I thought I'd s...
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A Painter's Disease - In our childhood we used enamel paints and our bedrooms often reeked with the smell of paint and thinners. Its not so bad these days: most painting is do...2 years ago
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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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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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The harder they fall. A Supers battle report. - Today I have for you a little game enjoyed at Casa Erny some time ago. Turning it into a comic report felt like I good idea but it sure did take long. Neve...
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Sketches ON SALE - ON SALE http://www.ebay.es/itm/252634365959?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
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UPDATED: Competitive Tau Tournament List (1850) - It has been quite some time since I played Warhammer 40k. I've been very busy with RL. But next weekend my group is having another tournament. I took out ...
2 years 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 ...
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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 ...
2 years 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...
2 years 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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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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The Great Blue Bear now on his way to the summerlands. - Emperor vs Elector readers, one of the originators of this group blog, Jeff aka Blue Bear of Saxe-Bearstein has passed away. Jeff had been in hospital sinc...
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Horizon Wars - 2nd Game - I'm surprised Google hasn't deleted this blog yet. Anyway, I have been kicking around a lot of different rulesets lately, trying to find something I like....
2 years ago -
Halo Ground Command: 15mm Covenant forces - … The post Halo Ground Command: 15mm Covenant forces appeared first on Model Dads' blog.2 years ago
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Wunderlist For Windows 3.18.0 - Wunderlist - is one of the most well known cross-platform task manager and to-do list application. It is also available for Mac and instantly sync your ...
2 years ago -
Macro shots of the Undead Pirates and a Zombie? Creepy! - It was amazing to see the detail through the lens.... Captain Richar...
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15mm Great Swamp Lizard - We are very pleased to release our latest 15mm fantasy model -- the Great Swamp Lizard. This towering beast can eat his way straight through entire enemy ...2 years ago
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Blog Merger - I just finished importing this blog into my main wargames blog. This leaves me with only one blog to update on a regular basis. I hope you will continue to...2 years ago
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中华人民共和国特种设备安全法（主席令第四号） - 有与充装和管理相适应的充装设备、检测手段、场地厂房、器具、安全设施；，必要时，负责特种设备安全监督管理的部门可以越级上报事故情况。2 years ago
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B- 17 Queen of the Skies - Mission 159 - Target: Aschersleben Aircraft Factory - I'm part of a 'Play by Forum' group at BoardGameGeek who play the solitaire board game *B-17: Queen of the Skies* together. The group is run by BGG user '...
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Reverse Engineering: Line 6 FBV2 - The Line 6 FBV2 is a control pedal for use with older Line 6 amplifiers and effects processors. I bought it to use with our Line 6 Amplifi 75 guitar amplif...
3 years ago -
Castles of Cornwall - I had a week in Cornwall this year in early June, and it's a fantastic place, we were gifted with good weather as well which allowed us to get out and abo...
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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...3 years ago
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TnT: K1LL-80T Communist Securitron - Hi Folks, In my first game I got lucky and Head Scribe Kaine managed to find and activate a military Securiton (Freelancer Depend-o-Bot) After equippin...
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Tournament: Alamo GT 2016 - Another great year come and gone at the Alamo GT in San Antonio. I did pretty poorly this year but still had a decent time pushing my boys in blue around...
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Arthus vs. Mordred - I painted this wonderfull Vignette up for a fellow LAF member as a gift! Tomorrow it will be in the post...travelling back to the USA. I have now starte...
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The Sunken Road at Antietam - Looking east inside the Sunken Road. The tower on the distance marks the point in which the road turn to the right heading south. It also marks the extrem...
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Arènes du Graoully V - Ce week-end avait lieu la cinquième édition des Arènes du Graoully à Metz. Au programme, trois tournois - Blood Bowl, Warmachine et SAGA - et plusieurs tab...
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A new adventure… Frostgrave - Wow, it’s been a long time since I updated this blog. I’d love to say that I’m going to be better with future posts but I don’t suppose my track record wo...3 years ago
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Sky Pirates of Venus - Teaser - Sky Pirates have been the scourge of the Worm Empire of Venus for years, and the Great Worm has had enough! He sends a team of four crack worm commandos to...
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The past in a nutshell - *So, getting back into it. A number of “dead” links have been removed. T thought some of you might be wondering what I’ve been up to last couple of eons…*...3 years ago
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The Sealed Knot in Mayfair 1970 - Here from the October 1970 issue of *Mayfair *magazine is an article on the, then, relatively new English Civil War re-enactment society The Sealed Knot. ...
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Law Enforcement - Hi! I've managed to paint up a few law enforcement officers for Jim to avoid! Outland Judge Patrol I ended up going for the classic Judge Dredd paint sch...
3 years ago -
A Review of Shieldwolf Miniatures’ 28mm Scale Boars - I love alternative models, after all that’s what my current dwarf army are based on. After playing a few games with them, I got to learn the hard way just ...3 years ago
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A Visit to Ojo Marron - ( Editor's note: after many years of distraction in other games I'm returning to the game I started grand-detail construction many years ago. The Idea is ...
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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...3 years ago
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Serce gracza / A player's heart - Czwarte mistrzostwa *"Ogniem i Mieczem"* mamy za sobą. Skończyła się także akcja, mająca na celu wsparcie leczenia mojego syna, poprzez kupno specjalnej f...
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"...There is Only War." - On a personal note, I recently moved from the lovely state of Virginia to the wonderful state of Ohio. Things are different here. I miss my gaming partners...
3 years ago -
Blood Eagle - I don't quite know how I managed to miss the development of Blood Eagle, from the team that bought us In Her Majesty's Name. But I have only just found...
3 years ago -
Army Builder: WFB3 - v2.5 - Version 2.5 of the WFB3 army builder data files have been published. They can be downloaded through a licensed Army Builder or at the link below. Just open...3 years ago
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So we thought it was going to be a small game. - Ever had one of those game events were you thought it was just going to be a small 6 player gamer but turned into an 10 player event? Well that was out Sat...
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WWPD Painting Article - In case you missed it, I did write a painting article for my friends at WWPD. Check it out and leave feedback here if you wish. http://www.wwpd.net/2016/0...3 years ago
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Hunting the Bantha - Hunting Banthas Well, the Bantha Rider has arrived for Imperial Assault and we are now experiencing just how rough something like this fast-moving lump of ...3 years ago
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Tigers on the Hunt released - And the game is released. http://www.matrixgames.com/products/578/details/TigersontheHunt3 years ago
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Pig Iron Stock update - Hi all, just a quick one to let you know we have received a box of show stock back from The Bunker yesterday - this has all been added back onto the site. ...
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Rules: Living on the Frontline - Well, there's life in the old dog yet! It's been a while since I last posted anything here but the creative juices are starting to stir, least of all beca...
3 years ago -
How to make: Saxon Huts - Hi Chaps, Hope you are all well. These past few days, I've been working on some new projects, for a new game, that I think you already know, it is called ...
3 years ago -
Hydro C Obat Kanker Terbaik Mempublikasikan : ENZIM AWET MUDA by DR Hiromi Shinya, MD - HydroC Obat Kanker Terbaik Mempublikasikan : ENZIM AWET MUDA, by DR Hiromi Shinya, MD Terdapat berbagai jenis enzim awet muda dalam sel. Salah satu yang ...
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El Cid - Reconquista pt 8 - I have just finished up four bases of Skirmish bow. I have been busy with school - still - so I have not had too much time for painting. I am at least on t...
3 years ago -
Martian Patrol Airship - A big Martian 25mm game is planned sometime this year. So I pulled out a Parroom racing airship and did just a small big of converting. Had to add a heavy ...
3 years ago -
Clearhorizon Omega Squad - Mr. Harold sent me these a while ago, and I finally got around to painting them. The delay was mainly that the neck length bothered me, so it took a while ...
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Infinity Starting Nomads - Part I - A New Force - Ever since Operation Icestorm and N3 hit in late 2014, I wanted to write an article that would break down how to start collecting a Nomads force. Every ...
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Modern Russian painting guide. - I have been having fun painting some of our Empress modern Russians. The research was based on what I could find on Google and not too surprisingly many o...3 years ago
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28mm Russians in Central Asia Game - Turcomen attack the Cossacks On New Year's Day we played a Two Hour Wargames Colonial Adventures Central Asian game, with Russians, Bokharans, Pathans, Tu...
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Encounter at Alghaz -- June, 1876 - Rob and Murdock came over to fight an Afristan campaign encounter. For reasons which I will shortly explain, I do not have much memory of the game. First,...
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Re-Kill (2015) - Play Full Re-Kill in High QualityNow you can download full Re-Kill in best video format with duration 87 Min and has been aired on 2015-10-16 and MPAA rat...3 years ago
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A lot on the painting front - Hello everyone. Today's post might be a bit brief, but who knows. Up until a few days ago, I was engaged in a French bloggers painting competition, an equi...
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Scenery First - Well it's been a busy few weeks, just for a change, and since my last post I have received the Liche Lord goodies I bought on Nickstarter, even more into t...
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Is this thing on? - I've not been particularly assiduous this year. Life happens, and it's gotten in the way. I have been modelling, and been working within the INQ28 commun...
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Painting Progress 28mm Perry Early Crusaders - 15mm has been rough on my eyes lately, so I switched gears over to my long belabored 28mm Perry Crusader figs. This era has always appealed to me in a larg...
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Blog re-launched (elsewhere) - Hi all, I haven't gone completely offline – I simply moved my blog elsewhere (as I mentioned much earlier). Now you can catch me at our Chest of Colors web...3 years ago
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The Last Post - The South London Warlord blog has moved to Wordpress on the main SLW site, address is over here or, in cut n' paste format http://www.salute.co.uk/blog/3 years ago
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Tribes Universe games, including Earthseige, are now available free - I remember downloading and playing the demo for Earthseige, long ago. It seemed like a cool game, and the demo left me wanting more. One apocalypse later,...
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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...
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Daftar Lowongan Kerja Di Jakarta November 2015 Terbaru - *Lowongan Kerja Di Jakarta November 2015* - Lowongan Kerja Terbaru memberikan informasi terbaru mengenai *info lowongan pekerjaan 2015* yang sedang anda ca...
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FlamesCon 2015 - *Slight Disclaimer in a moment of crazy after tourney brain I posted this to my clubs blog page you should visit it anyway for awesome after club reports...
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The 5th Outrim War: 297th Imperial Fleet - Gamelea Redux - *Once I realized I had messed up the set-up budget for my campaign, I had to sit down and recrunch the numbers. While I was about it, I expanded the Fleet ...
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New CoC Campaign - Operation Martlet - Hi All, Just a quick update this time. Rich has been madly researching away and has released the latest in his series of ridiculously low-priced 'Pint Size...
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The new website is here: corvusminiatures.com - Today I am very happy and proud to announce my new website: corvusminiatures.com! *Important: this will mark the end of my activities on Blogspot. Please ...
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Grace of Monaco (2014) Se Fuld Film - Spille film *Grace of Monaco* i high definition kvalitet. Download film *Grace of Monaco* i high definition-format. Fuld streaming *Grace of Monaco* i HD...3 years ago
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elegant wedding shoes in 2015 - [image: awesome satin wedding shoes by shoekandi] you are now visiting* awesome satin wedding shoes by shoekandi* , And in this page we have more than 5 be...3 years ago
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ThreeZero Getter 1 and Getter Zero Black...!!! - [image: ThreeZero Getter Black] I have to admit, this is one of the few toys that i'm pretty excited about. threezero making a 16" of Getter 1 and Getter Z...3 years ago
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Catching Up - Wow, I have been slack here. No new posts since February. But I have done a ton of painting and completed several projects, not least of which is my Tallar...3 years ago
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Happy Hobbit Day or A Year Has Come And Gone - I knew it had been a long time. The days turned into weeks and the weeks into months without me fully comprehending the significance of the gap. Then one...
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Grimlocks in 15mm - Here are 12 grimlocks for dnd 5th ed.....15mm Picts from copplestone. Back from a long break in gaming....looking forward to a little dungeons and dragons s...
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A visit on board the Russian Frigate Shtandart - The other weekend we were down in Cowes for a long weekend to watch the Cowes Torquay Cowes powerboat race. We were all having dinner on Friday night in...
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Kings of War First Impressions - As I mentioned in the August update, I have been playing a bit of Kings of war lately. With Games Workshop pulling the plug on their fantasy community, th...3 years ago
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New Blog for Age of Sigmar - Hi Everyone, I've decided to create a separate blog for my latest hobby interest: Age of Sigmar. While many voices bemoan the *downfall *of Warhammer Fanta...3 years ago
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Hordes and Heroes on Hexes - Alliteration FTW!! Wow! Doesn't time fly? It's hard to believe it's been nearly a year since I posted anything here, but there's been a fairly good reason ...
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My New Home - Decided to move everything over to - www.johnnyshoots.com.au Miniatures and photography!
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Song of Blades: Hammer and Forge on Kickstarter - Ganesha Games launches Song of Blades: Hammer and Forge Kickstarter. The kickstarter has begun with enormous success, being already over basic funding, but...
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Dukes Soldiers - Hi These are the first of the Dukes troops for his flying column, they are Newline figures from their late colonial range, again all 20mm, I need some supp...
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The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) Hoge kwaliteit - Best The Stanford Prison Experiment in HD Format. Now you can watch full The Stanford Prison Experiment in HD quality with duration 120 Min and has been l...3 years ago
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I am alive part 2 - And as I promised, here is the big update that I have been talking about: My Prussians are based on the *Großgörschen* OoB from the General de Brigade sce...
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Scott Johnson, aka Col. Kilgore, has passed away - On Thursday Scott lost his fight against cancer. He was 45 years old and leaves behind his wife Ashley and 12 year old son Nicholas. Scott was a good na...3 years ago
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Gencon Follow-up: My First Time in the Iron Arena! - If you were following a bit of my run up to Gencon posts, you might have noticed that within the last year I've really gotten back into Warmachine with my...
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20mm WW2 - US M3A1 halftracks - Well, these took me a while to finish. They were 90% done in Januari and I've been staring at them on my workbench since. Until last month... I finally ha...
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New! Confederate Cavalry Flag Sets. 28mm - The all new ACW Confederate Cavalry flag sets are now available. These carefully designed flags are the perfect accompaniment to our established infantry...
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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...
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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...4 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...4 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...4 years ago
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A Farewell to Hamster - This will be my last post on Mechanical Hamster and that’s the sort of occasion that gives me the excuse opportunity to look back over the past years and r...4 years ago
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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 ...4 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.4 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...4 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...4 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...4 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 ...4 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...4 years ago
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Caftan Marocain Rouge : Collection 2015 Vente en Ligne - A toutes nos clientes qui nous demandent les dernières tendances du takchita et caftan marocain 2015 en couleur Rouge , coupes et tissues à la mode de cett...
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C21 Air War Vietnam Defense - Finished the AA hexes representing 37mm and greater. With a few more 1/300 planes to order I will be complete with this range. The larger bases are 1.5" Li...
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No Mean City Session 1.1 "National Express" - Session 1.1 THE NATIONAL EXPRESS * Take the National Express when your life's in a mess It'll make you smile All human life is here...
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Warriors of Chaos Khorne Lord - End Times (Part 4) - [image: Warhammer - The End Times Khorne Banner] A short post this one. Really just to prove that I have been continuing to work on this project and even (...
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Waterloo, Braine l'Alleud - Was lucky enough to visit the Waterloo battlefield in Belgium last week, it has been on my bucket list for a long time. I wasn’t disappointed, 200 years h...
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15mm War & Conquest figure - One of West Wind's new War and Conquest figures. Almost spot on 15mm foot to eye. To small for me to paint anyway. I've put them on eBay!
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Pardon My Dust - If you visit here with any regularity, you'll have noticed a lack of actual, you know, website or anything. Sorry about that. The website is getting a face...4 years ago
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Jacdaw 30mm WAS Austrians by Leftbank Workshops - A bit of painting I did quite a few months ago for Leftbank Workshops who have now acquired the molds for these figures. Nice Old School feel to these figu...4 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...4 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.4 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...4 years ago
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A Very Merry Christmas! - A Very Merry Christmas to One and All, from the Grand Duchy of Hetzenberg.
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Ogre Project - I may already have the Ogre leaning on the two handed sword bought, waiting on ebay to finish the bidding on it. Green = have it, Red = Don't have it ye...
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French Dragoon, Retreat from Moscow - A dismounted French dragoon during the retreat from Moscow, Winter 1812-13 This is for sale on eBay- http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pro-Painted-Perry-Miniatures-D...
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Julian's Order Part 3. 18mm AB Figs - Prussians & French Please not these Pictures are for the customer ... We do not at this point straighten Swords ect for risk of Breaking them. ...
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Official end of the blog - Yep, this blog is no longer in use. But... I have created a new one, please visit! Of Eagles and Frogs4 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,...4 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...4 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...4 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...4 years ago
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Warhammer Fantasy Battle Database Update - Current edition army books only filter, 5,000 searchable battles archive, double batrep notes and more exclusive member accolades. Hi folks, I've been twea...
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Back to School Sale - Save 50%! Sale ends soon! Back to School Time! Start Learning to Sculpt NOW! We are happy to announce we have released the second course in our three part F...4 years ago
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Dornier Skyservant - Hace más de treinta años que hice mi primer Skyservant. Logicamente no ha sobrevivido tanto tiempo, pero encontré una maqueta original de Matchbox de aquel...
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%## Watch The Right Stuff Movie Streaming - [image: Watch The Right Stuff Movie Streaming] %## Free Watch The Right Stuff Streaming Online Runtime 193 minutes and Released on 1983-10-21 MPAA Rating is...4 years ago
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Bolt Action WW1 from Osprey - The recent slew of WW1 tanks gave it away but Osprey have just officially announced a publication date for Bolt Action WW1 rules of a year from now. Th...
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away - So... A long time has passed and much have changed. Last time I wrote a post on this blog of mine, we were barely into the 6th edition of Warhammer 40k. No...
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Bolt Action Apocalypse - 6000 points of models and 60 order dice! - What happens when you take three guys, a bunch of free time, an empty gaming store and a big load of models? ....Bolt Action Apocalypse! :-) Having the c...
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Deadbeat Advertiser?!?!?!? - I just noticed that I have been listed as a deadbeat advertiser at The Miniatures Page. I asked Mr Armintrout over 12 months ago to cease the advertising d...4 years ago
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1910: The Battle of Purleigh (part two) - The British reaction to the surprise German invasion in September 1910 was criticised by the press as being tardy and it took almost a week for the first m...
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DBA Early Crusaders vs Ayyubid Egyptian - Greetings!!! It's been far to long, but we've managed to have a game of DBA. To be fair the horrors are growing up & doing what teenagers do. Gaming ha...
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Sungem Run Review by UndeadViking - G’day guys, You may have seen a bit of information filtered through the blog of our next game ‘Sungem Run!’ Well, we are getting very close to launching ou...4 years ago
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Legends of the Old West: Playing with New Objective Cards - Some of you might be familiar with the Secret Objective card system I developed for *Chaos in Carpathia*. I decided to try a similar (yet completely differ...
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Kabar Lowongan Kerja Manado Agustus 2014 Terbaru - *Kabar Lowongan Kerja Manado Agustus 2014 Terbaru - **Lowongan Kerja Terbaru* kali ini akan memberikan informasi *Lowongan Pekerjaan Terbaru* . Lowongan Ke...4 years ago
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D&D Fifth Ed. Starter Box - Another package waiting for me today when I arrived home from work; the D&D fifth edition starter box. A bit of an impulse buy when I ordered it, but as...
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Pop's Cafe, the return of the Greasy Spooners - I'm back. Yes, it has been 4 years, but I have a good-ish excuse. In those four years I got promoted (yeah!) which left me little time for lunchtime excurs...
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Hail Mary .....of the LIVING DEAD!!!! - So I somehow managed to knock out another 60-something zombies before this baby arrives, nothing fancy here, I didn't even texture the bases. I figured I w...
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Bahasa Jawa di facebook~ - Buat yang pengen ganti bahasa jawa, tapi dalam pengaturan nggak ada =) maklum lah, wong jowo☺ - Pertama Log in atau masuk ke Facebook kamu bila bel...
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Tintin au Congo - Another entry from the Colonial Painting Expedition on the Lead Adventure Forum. Can't believe we've had sixty-two entries already. A little tongue-in-chee...
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LARRYCON Begins!! - A really nice scene I caught on my phone the other night while out for a stroll. The harvest is upon us!! Well it has been a wonderful spring and early...
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Lunar Peltasts - These are *Black Tree Design* Persian Guards. I've replaced the shields with peltast-style ones from the spares box. These guys represent the Silver Shi...
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Moving: Now posting at 4+ Tough - So, this site has been in an inactive mode for a while, mostly because I've fallen out of love with 40k and into Warmachine, and also because I just can...
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Back to the Desert - I have recently been reading Patrick Macrory's excellent history of the First Anglo-Afghan War, titled "The Fierce Pawns." This got the colonial juices flo...
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Old School 40k (Laserburn) miniatures using the USEME rules - Playing a game using some warhammer 40, er.... laserburn miniatures. Trying out the useme rules system two weeks ago with my brother Ed. What you see are 1...
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Schwinn Turismo Swivel Jogging Stroller - Pacific Cycle, read the full Schwinn Swivel Double Jogging Stroller Review The Turismo Double Jogging Stroller from Schwinn, is an amazing stroller for acti...5 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...5 years ago
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Primer primer - At the risk of repeating myself, a close look at Vallejo surface primer.5 years ago
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Wallpapers de autos muy bonitos (10 imágenes) - AppId is over the quota AppId is over the quota type='html'> [image: Wallpapers de autos muy bonitos (10 imágenes)] Algunos les llaman *autos, otros coches, ...5 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...5 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...5 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...5 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...5 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...5 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...5 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 ...5 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’.5 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...5 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...5 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...5 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...5 years ago
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The Ambush - No game this week, but last week we played our third game in the new Tour of Darkness Campaign- I just never got around to typing up the report. Rick f...
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WTJ & Panzerschiffe -- Comparison Photos - The following photos show a comparison between some 1/2400 scale Russo-Japanese War Pre-Dreadnought Cruisers. Panzerschiffe "Diana" above; WTJ "Aurora" bel...
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Campaign's End - CampaignHammer fluff - Some Dwarf vs Undead fluff over on CampaignHammer. We decided to end the campaign at the end of year 7. The Undead faction battles to hold the city and ke...
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Lady Aiyana and Master Holt – diorama start - Since I quite enjoyed the Beastman and Greatsword diorama, I decided to take a stab at another. While I have a few lying around, I haven’t really painted t...5 years ago
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Aphid barker - Assembly - Here's the assembly guide for Aphid loader Barker, from the wave 2 Kickstarter miniatures. This is quite a complex miniature to assemble, definitely the mo...
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The History of England Podcast - [image: King John] King John I have been fairly busy the last month-- more so than even usual with three kids all in extracurricular activities-- and one o...5 years ago
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Blue Moon Foreign Legion miniatures. - I have not had a chance to update the Prehistoric Zoo in some time. Life and lack of funds have gotten in the way of idle blogging. Though stretching the t...5 years ago
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I've moved again! - Outflanked has been rebooted! I am now over at Wordpress: http://outflanked.wordpress.com Please do come and visit!5 years ago
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C'est la fin... - ... de ce blog ! Après 208 messages. Mais retrouvez moi sur mon nouvel espace dédié au figurines : http://aleaminiatures.blogspot.fr/5 years ago
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Painting station moved - So been a couple of weeks since my last post. Was on vacation last week and flew out to Santa Cruz, CA. Also spent a couple of days in San Francisco and ...5 years ago
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Imperial Guard Aegis Defence Line - So I've decided to build an Aegis Defence Line for my Imperial Guard a week back. I also wanted it to be a sort of display for my army and I want to make i...
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The Ballad of Sir Hugo and Gui Le Batard - *The Bridge on the River Wye* *The Raid On The Grain Store* We played the first two scenarios from the first of the Warheads books. Sir Hugo w...
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Mighty Armies: Army Lists For The Golden Age of Mars - Rebel Minis has released free army lists for Mighty Armies to game in VSF Mars. If you are not at all familiar with Mighty Armies, it's a great Fantasy...
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Work in progress and review of some Khurasan Miniatures Space Demons - I recently had some time available and decided to add to my 15mm miniatures. I succumbed to severe temptation and purchased some expansions to my “Space D...5 years ago
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A New Project - I am very conscious that it has been a while, a very long while since I posted anything. Life seemed to overtake me for a very long time. I have painted a ...
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Bac Ninh Miniatures and the Boshin War - I received a package today from Bac Ninh Miniatures; a small, minimal-investor company from Madrid, Spain. This business model is becoming more and mo...
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FFG's STAR WARS X-WING...I'm Giving In To The Dark Side! - My friends, you know that I have been working on TOMORROW BLACK for a long time, and it has been a task full of joy and frustration. I am going to take a b...
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Sheer Idiocy - I really don't get it. I just don't get it. To be clear. I have never...EVER.. said that "I can outsell 'storeX'". If the owner/owners of 'storeX', want to...5 years ago
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Site archived - I regret that owing to concerted spam and hacking attacks, I have removed the content from this site. Those of you interested in following what I’m up to c...5 years ago
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Evesham Wargames Club now known as Wyvern Wargamers - Wyvern Wargamers finds a new home on the web....http://wyvernwargamers.org.uk/ After weeks in the planning the Evesham Wargames Club have rebranded and wi...
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Unrest and Dissent in the North - *WHEN THE MOSELEY GOVERNMENT of the British Union of Fascists* was appointed by King Edward VIII in 1937, was when the country was tipped over the edge t...
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Trying out a kickstarter - If you frequent TMP much you'll have noticed that Kick-starters have taken off in a big way the last year or so. Up until now I have quite happily avoid th...5 years ago
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Counts as Typhus model, and 180 painted zombies - Im sorry I don't have a lot of time to talk, but this guy is my Typhus and below are 180 zombies that I had paint commissioned. If I was anywhere near a...
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Rilynstra's Doom - The Kabal of the Murderous Refrain - Been a while since there's been any actual hobby on here! At the moment I'm working on a few 40k armies that go in tandem with one another. They are: A Dar...
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Road to Tebessa - AAR - Played the Road to Tebessa scenario yesterday at Gauntlet. As usual I got so caught up in the game that I didn't take pictures of all the action The game o...
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U-Boat in London! - *German U-155 (f. Deutschland transport submarine) after surrender* *1918* via Nationaal Archief @ Flickr6 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/...6 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...6 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...6 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 ...
6 years ago -
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...6 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...6 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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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...6 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 ...6 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"...6 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...6 years ago
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Weeks after everyone else saw it I actually got out to see *The Hobbit *with the children on Sunday. Although we were all keen to see it there hasn't ...
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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...6 years ago
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Back from AWOL. - Hi everyone, it has been too long. I got a chance to kick around the house today for the first time in months and decided I would make it a priority to po...
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Hawkmoon Figures from Eureka Miniatures - A little bird tells me that Eureka Miniatures have permission from Michael Moorcock to do a "Hawkmoon" figures range. I have seen some test shot casts and...6 years ago
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Ral Partha Orcs - Here are four Ral Partha orcs I painted late in 2012. I have an bunch of minis from the old AD&D line, and decided to paint a few up. The BattleSystem Sk...
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Toodle-oo Dahlings - It is bye bye time for Blogger as the stupendous Gemigabok blog heads off to the actual Gemigabok site. So see you all there! http://www.the-ancients.com/g...
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Try This! The Hipster - Sometimes as women, we feel like we can't get made love to rather than with. Why? Missionary is so awesome, but there isn't much leverage unless you chang...
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The Last Post - All things must pass, and so it is to be with NDC Blog. ‘Why?’ I hear you wail (with murmurings of ‘big deal’ in the background). Well this blog was origi...6 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...6 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...6 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 ...6 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 ...
6 years ago -
"Farewell Ladies"! - Hi Guys It's been a very long time since I updated my blog, (sorry). A deployment to Afghanistan and some 'Real Life' issues have got in the way. Today I'v...
6 years ago -
Pulp Fantasy Library: Pigeons from Hell - For his creation of Conan the Cimmerian alone -- never mind Kull of Atlantis, Bran Mak Morn, Solomon Kane, and many others -- Robert E. Howard enjoys a pr...
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Blowing one's own horn - I decided to take part of my day off to do a tiddly bitmore on the beast of Gorgoroth. As I find chains the most annoyng thing to paint, I did them firs...
6 years ago -
They came from the north - Out of the chaos wastes of the north - daemons. Some figures I've done recently for our Warhammer RPG gaming - these cover the most commonly encountered da...6 years ago
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[Malifaux] Run and Hyde, it's avatar Seamus.... - Apologies for the bad pun in the title. Here's the new big guy for my gang - turns out Seamus has a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde complex without the Dr Jekyll ...
6 years ago -
More Vikings.... - Finished the next two Vikings. Gripping Beast and Artizan. Pictures still aren't the best, but for the moment that's all there is. The next pair ar...
6 years ago -
So how many figures have you painted again? - I always set a goal in each calendar year to paint a certain number of figures. I'm always hoping to buy far fewer figures than I paint so I can cut into ...
6 years ago -
Dux Brit army nearing completion - After having given the new TFL Dux Brittaniarum rules (see http://toofatlardies.co.uk) a spin during the playtest time I've been working on painting my Gri...
6 years ago -
Star Wars X-Wing unboxed! - Well, it has been quite some time since a posting here.....OK, so Paul from the Man Cave has a lot to answer for! He has caused me, yet again, to succumb t...
6 years ago -
Romanos imperiales y últimos encargos - Tras el verano, entre encargos de pintura y vacaciones, decidí darme un poco el gusto de pintar por deleite, por el mero hecho de pintar, vaya, y me decidí...
6 years ago -
The One Ring September Painting Challenge: Warbands (Completed) - Finally I have all of my orcs done for the Warbands challenge. Between working on these guys, painting my friend’s birthday gift, creating a few Lord of th...6 years ago
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Current projects - After lots of sorting out of the lead pile, and an ongoing ebay sell off I've settled on a couple of periods that I want to spend real time on. The first i...
6 years ago -
Eden - Horde models painted... - Well sort of, at least I have tried to base coat and ink something.... I need to get these up to standard so I can finish my Resistance crew. Assembled res...6 years ago
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Metal finishes - Here's the first model painted with the Alcald line of metallic paints. It's a Korean war era fighter. F-86F Been pretty busy working on scale models t...6 years ago
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Getting By far the most Connected with Wall street game Exchanging By means of Automated Research Technique Software - [image: Day trading course Calgary|866.640.3737|learn how to day trade by loisreese5124] Stock trading is the basis for the economy around the world. The...6 years ago
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End of an era... - Well folks, Blood & Blades has come to an end. Things have come full circle and it is time to move on and start fresh. I have decided to start a new blo...
6 years ago -
Eldar Warlock WiP. - Okay, it’s almost Friday and I’ve found some time to take a picture of Warlock that I have been painting on for the past week. Just something that’s been ...
6 years ago -
WI298 - EW Russians (Invasion of Poland) - [image: Photobucket] In what is becoming a tradition with this blog, today I present pictures of the EW Soviet army list from Wargames Illustrated #298. I...6 years ago
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Hail Zlobenia! - I picture of PFU troops from Zlobenia. The Zlobs have always been more open in their views about the outside world, and see the current conflict as a way ...
6 years ago -
The Last Post - That's it. All done. I would like to thank Baccus 6mm, Freezywater Publications and The Lance and Longbow Society for their generous support with this proj...6 years ago
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A Couple of Short Scraps - It's been a couple of weeks since my last post but we have still been playing out the campaign in the meantime. Our battle at Markendorf finished prematur...
6 years ago -
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)....
7 years ago -
Lancers forward! - Some Imperial Mexican lancers looking to skewer any poor republicans that happen in their way. First Corp figures converted from their Rush's Lancers pac...
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Your Money or your Life! - The Lamentations of the Flame Princess adventure campaigns at Indiegogo are now live! 19 adventures by really famous RPG blokes, such as Vincent Baker, Mon...7 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, Greg7 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 ...7 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...7 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...7 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...7 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...
7 years ago -
Model sale off on eBay - Dear readers, it’s been a while from my last post. The reason is that not only I had switch to another, more demanding job back on 2008, but the birth...
7 years ago -
The Complete Flash Gordon Library - *Titan Books* are releasing *The Complete Flash Gordon Library*, collating all the newspaper comic strips in a series of hardback books. A welcome release ...
7 years ago -
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...
7 years ago -
[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 ...7 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 ...
7 years ago -
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...
7 years ago -
Field of Battle 2nd Ed., la prova con la GNW - Venerdi scorso, abbiamo provato il regolamento *Field of Battle (2nd edition) *con uno scontro nella GNW. Devo premettere che ero piuttosto prevenuto su ...
7 years ago -
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...
7 years ago -
Where did I go? - I'm at this site since some time ago: http://www.dragonpainting.net/ More...7 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...7 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...
7 years ago -
Models for sale and new book! - I mentioned before that I would be selling most of my collection. After much deliberation, I will be keeping some of it (such as my 15mm ECW project which ...7 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...
7 years ago -
The Cure for Burnout - Funky Old Aliens on Dinosaurs! - Planning ahead just isn't my style. I was on a major roll in January and February. Painted tons and tons of figures, played a couple of really fun solo ga...
7 years ago -
3/21 Pledge - 1820 unpainted 6mm ECW: 1820 * 6mm / 25mm = 437 * 1.5 = 656 11 unpainted 25mm farm animals: 11 * 1.5 = 17 39 + 656 + 17 = 712 2012: +712 + nefs 2011: +215 ...7 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...7 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...
7 years ago -
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...
7 years ago -
Painted Cromwells - Here are some painted Hät Armourfast Cromwells that will be brilliant to fight with the Revell British Infantry in the Western Front. Now that they have bee...
7 years ago -
The fun never ends! - I wish to show you my latest works I based all napoleonic polish and russian troops from painting service (Stonewall Figures),now I have thousands of th...
7 years ago -
Basing Tutorial - Greetings one and all! Hope the new year's treating you well so far. Been rather busy working lately, so haven't made any progress on the rest of my Warrior...
7 years ago -
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...
7 years ago -
Plastic Soldier Company 15mm - Sdkfz(s) - part 2 - Hi there, Bonjour à toutes et tous, This week I had a lot of work but could find some spare time to work on my Sdkfzs. I decided to go for the 5 Sdkfz C, s...7 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...7 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...7 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...7 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...
7 years ago -
Spanish Review - Sr. Troll, from La Cueva del Sr. Troll (Mr. Troll's Cave), have published a review of Brytenwalda in Spanish. Of course you can use an online translator to...
7 years ago -
40K: My Son's (age 7) Dark Eldar and my Daughter's (age 4) Necrons - My children were always very interested in dad's hobby's. They both started painting miniatures at the age of about 2. On that age they just slammed paint ...
7 years ago -
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...
7 years ago -
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...
7 years ago -
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...
7 years ago -
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 ...
7 years ago -
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 ...7 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...7 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...
7 years ago -
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*, *"...
7 years ago -
Lip Beating - Severius hammers Thagrosh - Where I live the loser of a fight is often described as having "the lips beat off of them". This happened on Saturday night when Kenoth of Menoth brought a...7 years ago
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Art of tactic ! German 105-mm Howitzer LeFH 18/18m - Hello friends !!! I finished the second stand of this gun !!!
7 years ago -
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...
7 years ago -
The african terrain is set - As we needed a lot of new terrain for africa we thought we had better see what it looked like before the game. we have used fish tank vegitation, artificial...
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Normal service will resume shortly - Hi all some explanations for my enforced absence may be required. I have not posted anything for the last 6 months or so as i had to pack up all my paintin...7 years ago
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Some more plastic hoplites - *The three legged symbol is that of the Alcmaeonid clan* I have just finished four more Immortal Miniatures plastic hoplites which, as usual, were prett...
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Boots on the Ground-- a sort of review - from Worthington's BotG pageSeveral months ago I received *Boots on the Ground* which I had pre-ordered from Worthington Games. It is a very rules-light g...7 years ago
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Marine Veterano de la Escuadra de Mando - Aqui presento otro Marine de la Escuadra de Mando. Aunque parezca un Angel Oscuro.....¡es un Deathwatch Veterano! :)
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Apologies - Sorry for the dismal lack of new goodies on the blog of late, this solely being due to me starting a new teaching post which is taking just about all my ti...8 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...8 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...8 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...8 years ago
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