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February 2012 Long Rifle Games
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Yesterday Mark and I were able to get together for another game. We usually
don’t play in December due to the holiday break and my having to grade
piles of...
BMP 2 - Work in Progress
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*BMP 2 - first spraying*
Spent a splendidly lazy day with Mrs Kinch today, our first full day
together since her mother got ill. It was wonderful. I di...
Battle of Sarmizegetusa
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View of the table with the Dacian walls on the left
The Romans attack the walls while Dacians counterattack from the right and
left flanks
Romans on the ...
6mm Russians WW2
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And here are some more by Tanner. GHQ figures.
I feel sorry for the Germans that I have - positively outgunned by the
Soviets, but then that is the way...
Flanking Metz
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Flanking MetzPatton never one to let fuel shortages get in the way had
bounced the Mosselle to the south of Metz in a bid to encircle the city.
The 5th US ...
Almost done
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Painting in an "industrial" way can be interesting, especially if the minis
are easy to paint. Which is the case from those. I just finished the last
highl...
More Demonworld Releases!
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Hi!
RAL PARTHA EUROPE have just released even more of the Demonworld range,
this time completing the Orc range and adding some new units to the Dwarves!
...
10mm Roads
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I’ve had several people ask me what I was using for roads ever since I
started to share my Civil War game photos. I will use this post to answer
that quest...
MANNIKIN STUDIOS, Twa Corbies
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Mannikin Studios released their first model for 2012 earlier this year, Twa
Corbies. From their website: Twa Corbies is based on artwork from Arthur
Rackh...
Swapping Tanks- British Armor Soviet Courage
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I recently trade Steve from WWPD some terrain for a batch of Game ModelsMatilda IIs and Valentine VIIIs.
At first I thought about starting a British desert...
The Glasgow Uprising
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Yesterday I ran a Dark Age DBA campaign… one would think I’d get on that
report first… but this afternoon I ran a game of Ever Contemptible
Victorious Litt...
APACHE Quick Review (Waterloo 1815)
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*I received this week a box of "APACHE" - WATERLOO 1815. *
*(see **here), so I propose to you a quick review of the set.*
*I'll not loose my time (and yours!...
Stony Creek Surprise
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*HOW'D YA LIKE THEM EGGS FOR BREAKFAST, BILLY BLUE?*
Uncle Billy and his Blues may have thought that their plan to launch a new
invasion of the Origawn T...
A weekend in Swansea
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Sue and I had a weekend down in Swansea, visiting family and attending my
cousins engagement party. On Sunday morning I popped along to a small Toy &
Train...
Cavalier 2012 The Rejects on tour....
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Only 4 Reject's made it to Cavalier on Sunday, Fran and Postie managed to
squeeze into my little car and we met BigLee there! We also bumped into
Stefan...
Hamburger Tactica 2012
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This Saturday I've had a great time at this year's Tactica wargaming
convention in Hamburg. As always it was a great event with amazing gaming
boards and p...
Back to the Brushes 13
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A new start has been made this evening with the first figure of a Viking
Hirdmen unit for SAGA being nearly completed.
Some more progress has been made on ...
Bag the MiG [3]
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I've had the ubiquitous family weekend, involving a lot of offspring
related crisis management and damage limitiation, so wargaming pursuits
have taken...
Jumping with the Poles IV [Hypothetical] End-Game
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*The Right Flank: *
The new German threat needs to be quickly dealt with before they can get to
and reinforce the town. The enemy battalion is just two move...
28mm Elizabethan Swashbucklers & Sea Dogs
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Reading the Pike Shot & Zombie Rules led me to dust off a couple of Blister
packs of Foundry Elizabethan's. The rules are set in the Thirty Years War,
but ...
Red 'N Yellow- Lamentors Dreadnought!
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Welcome to Army of One, where I display a great looking painted model from
stuff I've done or amazing figures I've seen around. If you click on the
Army of...
Dystopian Wars: An Overview
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Kraggi again from the Varcan Cluster with a review of the Dystopian Wars.
The Dystopian Wars are set in the 1870's, although it is not the 1870 we
know. Th...
Free Trees 2
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Steady progress on the sedum trees, the top picture shows the first three
stages, the bare twig on the left, with added masking tape on the central
one. ...
28mm WWII: German Reinforcements
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Last year I picked up several packages of Crusader WWII Germans in 28mm.
It is a good thing that I did, as the Crusader line is no longer carried in
the U...
Chinese on Chinese Action
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Promoting pages which are not even on this blog, here's a report of a gamein our current club competition featuring my army comprised of 650 points
of Han C...
Terrain for superheroes
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I was so taken with Andy's terrain at the club this week that I decided to
look into railway buildings again. I used to have a small collection for
WW2 gam...
Gladiators-Secutor and Scissor
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*Secutor: * The secutor was commonly paired up in combat with the
retiarius. The secutor was equipped with a helmet, a large rectangular
shield, a grieve ...
Bitwa pod Mingolsheim/ Battle of Mingolsheim
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Mieliśmy dziś okazję zagrać w kilka osób w FOG:Renaissance. Paweł Kur poza przygotowaniem znakomitych figurek (własnej produkcji - QR Miniatures) opracował s...
Night Goblin Spear Chukka´s WIP
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Spear Chukkas are done. Still some work to do with the bases... and the
crew is still under construction. But here´s some pics :)
Pics aren´t too good....
Secret Weapon Miniatures to attend Adepticon
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[image: Secret Weapon Miniatures to attend Adepticon]
Secret Weapon Miniatures will be at Adepticon and will be handing out
goodies! Be there or be square! ...
Big Box of Goodies
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I managed to get over to Steve (The Baggage Train) Oates’s house on
Saturday evening to collect the Arnhem Bridge model that Steve has kindly
donated to t...
Aliwal and Massimo
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This time it was a real pleasure to get photos from Massimo. He started on
working on my favourite colonial war - The Sikh wars:-)
So here is a photo from...
Resin Diorama Base: The Trenches No.1
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Hello again! For a while now I've been working on some small diorama bases
with the purpose to produce a whole series. The great news is that the
first one...
Slow progress
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I've been a bit distracted, and if you examine the current contents of my
workbench you can see why.
- front right- Paras - not bad progress, just need ...
Men of Daring: Prince Aage
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One of the most famous Foreign Legionnaires was the Dane known as Prince
Aage or more formally Count Aage of Rosenborg. (He has a short bio on
Wikipedia) ...
Erskine and Swinton
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Two WIP images of my first unit of Scots. I decided to go for the standards
of Erskine and Swinton.
The bases are 40mm by 45mm deep. 3 together like this ...
He's big, he's bad and he's hungry
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Another quick paint job. This is a mutant bear I'm figuring I'll use it as
a random hazard in games. This is a resin model from Ramshackle games. It'...
Not Shiny, but definitely Unfashionable
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Predictably the Perry range gets all the press these days, but for me the
most exciting Sudan range remains Gilder's (for Connoisseur). These chaps
were ...
Sunny Sunday Building the Ghost Town
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It is the last weekend of February, we should be under several feet of snow
in the UK but instead this Sunday offered brilliant sunshine, so much so I
was ...
Dwarf Kings Hold Adventurers - Orcs & Elves
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With the recent release of Dwarf Kings Hold: Ancient Grudge and all the new
troop types that can be feilded I dug out my Mantic Crazy Christmas bag and
ass...
DFG Spotlight: An Interview with Thomas AKA Goatboy
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Old School here with a new series called "DFG Spotlight" and the first
interview of that series. The purpose of Spotlight is to interview a member
of the...
HAIL CAESAR DACIAN WARS GAME
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Here are some photos from today's Hail Caesar game. This game is the last
game in a campaign that has brought the Roman army to the walls of the
Dacian cap...
28mm foundry figures completed
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You'll notice that some of these guys aren't completed to my normal basing
standard
that's because a friend of mine, Richard has bought them and wants to b...
Supply Depot
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I've been meaning to build some sort of supply depot for a while. It can
act as an objective for a small game, or just as part of the general
scenery duri...
Cavalier 2012 - Photo's
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I got back a little earlier than expected from Cavalier so I had tome to
work through my pictures in double quick time to get them posted here. Its
was a g...
Playing with Wings
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I would like to welcome new reader Palsgrave to the blog. I hope this gives
you some ideas of your own.
Sometimes I buy some of the wooden shapes from the ...
Alchemy Of The Salamander
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*Recent back and forth email on Salamanders and their current place at the
end of 5th edition- still "good" or better passed over for a more auto-win
typ...
Expanding the fleet
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This morning my wife and I went to the local shopping centre, and whilst I
was there I was able to pop into the local branch of ModelZone. I visit the
bran...
Gorilla
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Black fur is tricky to paint … I used Vallejo Black 169 as a base for this,
then highlighted with Vallejo Black Grey 168 and finally gave a second
highligh...
"Tidy your Man-Cave"
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Do you ever get that feeling that you need a clearout?
After a massive amount of recent hobby time spread across several different
projects at once the mes...
The Rent is too D@#n High
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Hello all. I haven’t posted in awhile, but we saw something while playing
in a local tournament that really caught my eye. Now this isn’t the usual
game st...
The tower of Signa-Dûr
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Finished…and entenred for the Wamped II contest! I was looking back at the
WIP posts; the first one was on the 25 of September 11. It took bloody
ages. It...
my first mould
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made my first mould! needed some more howda's for my undead elephants. and
just buying a couple of boxes just for the howda's seems a little bit too
much. ...
The Sky Warriors of Fenris - Wolf Guard (4th one)
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Hi all
Here is my newest Wolf Guard. And for now last one, I still trying to build
1000 pts army so I won't need more before I'll get more tactical packs ...
Painting Allmoge Soldiers
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I thought it would be perfect to show how I paint my Allmoge Soldiers using
the per-production sample I got from Claymore Castings.
I paint on a basecoat o...
Quiet Weekend
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Not much to report.
- Scotland seem to have held their own in the first half against France;
let's see how things finish.
- Next 12 Caesarian Rom...
Mutie Kul
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*Mi bolt slug becriepeth yer brainpanne mid ease. Drie groet met yer deth
bodde en **blionesse**, yer brainne painteh waelles greie ond roed. Hi' is
yer...
More BEF
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Here's another 14 BEF, including 2 command stands for my Company Command
groups and 2 Highlanders.
If my calculations are correct this should mean that I n...
Vorwärts!
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Hoi,
My 7YW Austrian army is coming along nicely. A while back I've based all
models for the Austrians I had lying about and am now by and by basing,
coat...
Thoughts on a New Kind of Campaign
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I thought I would have a bit of a ruminate if you'll bear with me.
My 40k campaign has stalled almost completely while my Fantasy campaign
over on Last ...
Things that make me go grrrr!
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Some time last year Steve the Wargamer started a series on things that got
him annoyed about wargaming. I remember his well argued rant about people
who p...
What I'm Reading Right Now
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My buddy Mike likes to prowl through charity shops and sale bins always
looking for hidden treasures. One of his recent finds at our local Goodwill
Shop w...
Soviet Medium Tank Battalions 1944
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I had another two GHQ WW2 tank battalions to paint. These were a very quick
job in the late fall before the temperature starting reaching below 10C
during ...
Ste. Justine-du-Mont
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Progress to-date on Ste. Justine-du-Mont These 15mm resin buildings are
pretty much done. I’ve got to work on fading the the lettering on the
cafe. I did...
Judean Slingers.
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These figures are a mixture of Foundry and Warlord Games (Roman/Greek
Slingers).
I bought the Warlord Games ones from eBay a while ago, they had qui...
First game of the year!….sort of…
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Today I had my first game of the year, though it wasn’t quite what I had
planned! My lad Zach has been pestering me for a while about how I play MY
games a...
M is for Morris by Matchbox
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Further to the Matador below, this is a similar exercise in 'slight
enhancement'...I'm no great modeller, but it's always nice to give your kit
a little bi...
Smelly Hovels and American Armour
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Last week I picked up a couple of the Gripping Beast resin buildings, they
are nice solid and reasonably priced. These will be great for SAGA and the
early...
Another GW Snakeman
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Finished another in time for last night's game, but I never got around to
needing them! The role-play suff was so good we burned a lot of time on
what I in...
Campaign Move 12
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1600-2100 10 August 1813
Battle of Torrente at nightfall
16th Italian corps have fought a hard battle, but must withdraw during the
night
They have suffer...
Burgundian Ducal Guard - test figures.
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I've started a couple of figures that are planned to form a contingent
representing Charles the Bold's household bodyguard...
15mm Desert buildings (set 1) - review
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This is something my friends Patrik and Thomas have been working on this
year. They made a bunch of desert buildings from scratch and made silicone
moulds ...
A company of followers!
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Thanks to Benjamin of Wight I now command a Company of Followers, or more
accurately, my blog has the honour of being followed by *100 *people who
find m...
Sudanese Archers
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Here are some 15mm Sudanese archers for my Ayyubid Muslim Arab army. The
figures are from the fantastic Legio Heroica Muslim Crusade range . The
gentlema...
Day of Days 2012
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The weekend was a succcess, I really enjoyed all the games vs great
opponents. Perhaps we had slightly too large forces and 1000pt would have
been better (...
Quiet here isn't it?
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I'm very sorry for the long delay in getting new posts onto the blog. I can
only cite a prolonged period of being ill as my excuse (fortunately it
appears ...
Seaplanes!
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My last set of Shapeways models included some seaplanes. I've already
posted pics of the Sopwith Baby, but at the time I'd not snapped the
others, so here ...
Pictures from Games Night at Deeside Defenders
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A selection of pics from our ancients campaign (including the great ACW
debate), some of Russ' 10mm Ancient Briton chariots from TB and his H&R
Dutch army,...
Zone Mortalis or bringing Space Hulk into 40k
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With Forge World releasing their new "Zone Mortalis" rules, I cannot tell
you how excited I am. I've played games before using makeshift rules to
best repr...
Dominant Species
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Tonight a couple friends and I finally got to play Dominant Species from
GMT Games. The goal of the game is to protect your species from being wiped
out by...
Airfix StuG IIIG Final
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Back from a long training weekend so no joy on the progress front, however
I am able to post the last of my Assault Gun Battery StuG's.
This is my Comman...
Army Hospital Corps - Sudan Perry Miniatures
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The next stand I commissioned Leroy to paint is the Army Hospital Corps
(code SU9) from Perry Miniatures. Leroy was not sure how to paint the
little patche...
Tutoriel table de jeu : La Porte Noire du Mordor
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Voici comment j’ai créé la Porte Noire du Mordor. Une vision assez
personnelle... Beaucoup de choses seraient à refaire. Mais dans l’ensemble,
ça peu donne...
CANCON GOODIES
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Hi all, took a bit of a break from it all, between the hot weather and my
laziness not a lot could get done, so I'm just going to show off some of my
Ca...
15mm Not-Invid Invasion - Concept To Battlefield
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I've made some progress on my 15mm Sci Fi interpretation of the *Invid
Invasion* storyline. Most of it is planning and shopping lists, but I do
have a few...
WW2: Pacfic - Japanese Rifleman
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Hi Folks,
As seen over on Adams Blog there are some USMC and some WIP Diggers are to
be found on Poochies Blog.
This is for a World War II: Pacific 28mm ...
27th (Inniskilling) Regt. - AWI
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27th Regt. of Foot - Fife & Drum figures with GMB flags.
I completed the my first British regiment of foot using the new Fife & Drum
Miniatures for the ce...
Captains Log...
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It was just a matter of time. I finally got my grubby little hands on some
Star Trek minis and of course I decided the way to break them in was for
the En...
Adepticon 2012
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Just a quick note to let folks know that I will be teaching two hobby
seminars on weathering with pigments at Adepticon this year!
Saturday night from 10 P...
Adepticon 2012
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Secret Weapon is very happy to announce that this year we will be one of
the on-site sponsors for Adepticon. The first 1,500 people through the
doors will ...
10mm display case
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I found a new case on eBay for storing and displaying 10mm armies - an
acrylic jewellery display box.
It has 5 draws 31 x 21 x 3cm in size and is 20.5cm hi...
Front Rank Pavlovsk Grenadiers - Completed
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Well I broke down and used a hair dryer to speed up the Minwax drying time
- it seems to have worked as the Testors Dullcote is pretty flat. Added
some hig...
Goal Update
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After the whinge-fest I indulged myself with on Friday, I thought I
would Do Something About It today. The results were favorable, for a first
day of g...
Back in the Saddle Again!
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I'm baaaack, in the saddle again! (Those of you who like Aerosmith can hum
the tune in your heads.....)
My last posting was January 28, and a combination ...
Rasputina
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The Rasputina re-sculpt tempted me for months; the past weekend saw her and
her crew painted.
The Malifaux models are a pleasure to paint. The ability to ...
AdMech Factory Ruins (First Batch in!)
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Quick Update while at SVDM,
First Batch of the Adeptus Mechanicus bases are in.. Time to paint them up
and pre-sales should be up in the next couple days.
...
TA-DAAA! Introducing: Fawcett Schwag
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Members of our group attend lots of local and not-so-local gaming events -
from the Winnipeg 40 Kegger to PrairieCon to Partizan in the UK.
When we do, i...
Airbrush, and the next generation continued...
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Well I finally managed to get my halftracks completed yesterday, adding all
the decals and varnishing them on. Just waiting for the this evening to go
dark...
Dark Age Apocalypse - Brood vs Forsaken
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I had a 750 point game today. I think 750 may be too much until we learn rules but only had one game so hard to tell. The brood had to "converge" on the obje...
FOW 3rd edition!
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I found out recently that The Warstore was giving away a free copy of the
new 3rd edition rules with any Flames of War purchase. Well, rather then
waiting...
Z półki Mormega: Blood of Aenarion
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Omawiana dziś książka musiała na moim bracie zrobić *naprawdę *duże
wrażenie, skoro jej recenzję przysłał sam z siebie, bez zwyczajowego,
tradycyjnego już ...
It's The Rozzers!
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Painting in *Bleaseworld* has been quite productive of late with inroads
made into Lead Mountain including a platoon of 1987 era Imperial Guard and
support...
Move Three Orders. . .
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*Here is another sketch map of the battlefield, showing the new situation
at the start of Turn Three, drawn by General de Latte between puffing on
his Cub...
Aliens on Acheron The Assault on Hadley's Hope
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The United Americas Allied Command has selected the brave and stalwart
marines of the Secondhand Lions wargame club to participate in the
play-test of an A...
Beer Review - Dark Horse Perkulator.
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Had intended spending today at the Michigan Winter Beerfest (even had
tickets to the sold out event and transportation to and back in a bus) but
instead I ...
A Serious 'Little War' - 'All Quiet'
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The 'pause' in play continues... due to the inclement weather and the
pressures of work. The good news is that orders are in, and the next phases
should ...
Please Advise
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An American contractor has been captured and is being used as an unwilling
technical advisor on use of The Package. A small group of elite operators
is sen...
Damsels and Indians!
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Well! - at least I remembered my camera this week!
We did a French and Indian war skimish this week, the scenario being a
rescue of 2 ladies being held by ...
Miniatures: Police Vehicles
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On a trip down to *Tesco*'s to pick up a lorry (more of which soon) I
discovered a couple of packs of emergency vehicles which will be great for
games incl...
The Demise of the Jaeger
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Newsflash, Zichenau Central:
Caught in the open, a company of ineptly led Stollen Jaeger was caught by
our brave hussars and slaughtered almost to a man an...
40k: Fateweaver Is Here!
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Well it seems I won the campaign league/sector! I played my final game
against the kid who was drawing points wise. His army was basically the
contents of ...
Even more Chasseurs
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There must now be over 125, now, and 42 more, imminently expected in the
post from Shaun Duncan. A couple still need finishing touches, and they'll
all...
At last, something to do with wargaming
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The advice from some people has been to give myself permission to relax and
take some time out. Easier said than done, but probably good advice.
I never th...
Spanish Scutarii Finished!
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At long last I've managed to find the energy to paint the bulk of the
remaining Spanish. Initially I was planning on having 14 scutarii units,
each on 4 s...
German Bikes
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My paint was a bit old, so I had to use a lot of thinner on it.
This is my brush cleaner of choise for enamels.
The Germans getting painted a little bit at ...
Austrian Napoleonic Dragoons and Chevaulegers
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* The Austrian Cavalry was reorganized in 1798. After the reorganization,
there were 12 regiments of Cuirassiers, 15 units of Light Dragoons (merging
the ...
OGRE 6th edition in 2012?
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Image from Steve Jackson GamesSteve Jackson Games recently released its annual
Stakeholders Report on the company's performance in the previous year and
go...
This Quar's (Tomorrows) War
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Once again, taking a short break from Ancients, I've painted up some of the
wonderful 15mm Quar figures produced by Zombiesmith Miniatures. These guys
are ...
A Cattle Raid
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Last Tuesday my freshly painted Viking army got their first outing on the
table and it was a really fun, tense game. George had intended to bring his
Saxon...
John Carter - Step by Step - Swordplay
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Swordplay, the Final Version will be released next week. This free rules
set does for ancient, medieval and fantasy combat what Chain Reaction does
for m...
Canis Wolfborn painting video
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I decided to pull this out of the archives and put together a commentary
video since the new plastic thunderwolves are coming out. I've got mine on
preord...
Transporting The El-Gin Marbles (2)
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The positions of the Fetaland opposing forces where diced for randomly and
it seems by their dispositions that the Treborians had stolen a march on
them ...
AK47 Peter Pig Mercenaries and Militia
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Hi,
I crept into the garden to take these pics of my last few painting session
endevours. I am seriously enjoying painting 15mm, so much so that I may
even...
Barter Bucket: 2/25/12
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The year, 2012. From out of space, come runaway bits, hurtling between the
Earth and the moon, unleashing unlimited modeling opportunities. Two
thousand y...
299 After the War - Regimental Mascot
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Well then, the next post is the big 300, but having finally based him after
*only* three years, I proudly present to you...
*'AFTER THE WAR'*
- Regimenta...
148th MVA Ordnance - WWII -
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Historic home made film of the 148th Ordnance Motor Vehicle Assembly
Company that was a part of in WWII. They assembled GMC trucks for the
Redball Express.--
Medieval Children (at Play)
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Possibly my Favourite set in 1/72nd...Alex has really brought the
expression of happiness and joy of children at play!!!!
The whole set together including o...
The Barabolya Horde
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Infrequently, Ogres have made an appearance in my Dogs of War army; one of
the reasons they didn't appear more often has been that, I only had a unit
of fo...
Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler
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I know books are not good for me. Good historical fiction is really bad for
me.
I enjoyed Andy Johnson's book Seelowe Nord so much that I just had to
warg...
News!
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Hi All,
I would like to write a few words since after many months I finally got
around to understand a very useful function of the Blog that Robert added a ...
Pavis journal 4
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Vous en aviez déjà vu certaines, mais j'ai rajouté un peu de flocage entre
temps...
*You've already seen a few but I flocked them and took better picture...
Flames of War Ironman Progress
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Despite missing out on 'Day of Days 2012' and generally not actually
playing Flames of War at all last year, I've been plugging away at a new
army. My cont...
Duchy of Fenwick - Wittenberg Legion complete
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Two more battalions for the Duchy of Fenwick; these complete the Wittenberg
legion, troops supplied by Fenwick as allies of Wittenberg..
A closer in short o...
Games for 29/02
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Space is a little less green today.
Games for 29/02 are Smugglers Shiv with Brett, Robin, Bookmark, Trainset,
Roddy, Andy and James; Volley and Bayonet 187...
A Saxon force ...
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*Saga*
the force
leader 1 and his hearthguard
the second leader and his hearth guard
hearth guard
Ceorl group 1*
*
Ceol group 2*
*
slingers*
*
Reich Duchy of Beerstein welcomes 20,000th visitor
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Reich Duke Wilhelm was just informed by the Minister of Tourism that the
20,000th visitor to the realm arrived sometime after midnight. A twenty one
gun sa...
40mm de Ligne 1st Battalion
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This fine Walloon regiment (ie raised in the Austrian Netherlands) has made
many, but not all, of the official uniform changes ordered between the WAS
an...
Soviet 152mm Howitzer
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Recently added to lower the tone of my 20mm Soviet forces were this 152mm
howitzer and it's tractor. The gun is a Matchbox toy with some minor
modificatio...
More elli and the camp
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The Elli is complete except the tower crew and his base is green now:
and the next camp WIP pics:
Hope you like it. Comments, hints and critics are...
The Ironmen's Strike - Spring 382 (RRtK)
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*Starting of the campaign in the **Annürien Marches...*
*
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*YEAR 382, Spring, Border Kingdoms (Drenlock Duchy / province "D")*
Mirholme's roll is a Go to Wa...
Happy Day, Rulebooks are on the way!!!
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Next week I should be receiving 60 copies of Brink of Battle! The book
turned out much better than I had even thought possible. I'm one happy guy.
Yesterda...
C'est le Congo
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Many, many moons ago, I started doing 15mm post-WWII African conflicts.
Some of those figures are among the first ones on this blog. Less than ten
year...
25 More Zombies
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Hi, folks. Been working on more Zombies. These are hybrids made from
Wargames Factory Zombie legs with Mantic Zombies heads, arms, and torsos. I
think they...
WIP Mangler Squigs and Ugly Pump Wagons
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Soooo... As I horde bitz for the chaos dwarf project to continue I thought
I would do something novel and try and finish an army. Conquest in coming
up E...
Plastic Conversions & the new Airfix British
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Back again with another post; I tend to wait until I have finished
something before I post, and that can take me a while....
In this post I have an assor...
Crossing the Yalu River - 1904.
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From Wikipedia: "The Battle of Yalu River, (Japanese: 鴨緑江会戦, Ōryokkō
Kaisen) 30 April to 1 May 1904, was the first major lan [...]
Utimately 20 Questions
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Brendan, author of the blog Untimately, has created this questionnaire in a
effort to create a list of rules which might change from campaign to
campaign. ...
Trades / Sales
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We're nearly done with Turn 3 of The Shadow of Koles Lorr, but whilst we
wait for that to complete, I thought I would use your rapt attention to
flog my...
One Small Step For Man...
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Laser Troopers (left), Deck Officers (right), Hostile Environment Suit
(front)
Miniatures Painted by Ernie Baker
I wanted to take a moment and introduce you...
Wordle of my Blog
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Nothing too earth shattering, but I did find it interesting to see the
frequency of words on my blog. I also found it interesting that the word
"fantasy" ...
Char B.1 bis Company
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My latest addition to my French collection
Simple paint scheme copied from pictures off the web
No washes, ink or dry-brushing
Decals are a mixture of ...
Three more Star Wars aliens
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These guys are a bit better known in terms of Jabba's retinue, if anything
because one of them falls into the Rancor pit. These are two Gamorrean
guards...
Very Funny - Very True !
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Saw this on
http://philbancients.blogspot.com/2012/02/wargamers-shamelessly-nicked-from.html#!/2012/02/wargamers-shamelessly-nicked-from.html may
of orig...
EW North Africa Escalation League (7)
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Last night was what might be my final game in our soon to be completed
early war North Africa Flames of War Escalation League. Before the games
some of us...
Mahdist War: 10th Hussars
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The next addition to my Sudan collection is some men of the 10th (The
Prince of Wales's Own) Royal Hussars. Once again they are from the
excellent Perry Mi...
Zone Mortalis
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Zone Mortalis could be the best Warhammer game expansion yet, basically by
bringing plenty of line-of-sight blocking terrain to the game as well as a
numbe...
Book Review: Space Hulk
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Every once in a while I troll the Black Library site looking for ebooks
they have published that may have not got as much press as some of the
flashier ...
Forge World - Zone Mortalis Set
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Now this is interesting. With whispers of a new 40k expansion concerning
combat inside buildings, now we see this from Forge World. I like the look
of it...
The many angles of a wargamer
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I borrow this from Grog News blog, I found it particularly funny
Talking about which, are you rally open with your friends, relatives and
work colleagues ...
Here I Stand AAR - February Game
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Once again our group played Here I Stand from GMT over the last three
weeks. We had a truly spectacular time, with England winning on the final
New World e...
Wulfen Conversion Tutorial
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With the hopefully soon to be released Bran Redmaw model(s) from
Forgeworld, I wanted a Wulfen model for the scout rule Grey Hunter s pack.
I wanted som...
Managing Inflection Could Be Petition In Color!
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Managing Inflection Could Be Petition In Color!
Lifespan with accent and sprightliness without stress- they are poles
obscure!
Both types of express are f...
Fire and Fury Thursday
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That pretty much says it all.
Initial set-up
Union Line advances
Rebs charge right up the middle.
The fight for one of the towns begins.
A view of the ri...
Monday is long gone ...
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posted by roman, jarhead, kong
We did ask for your favourite tutorial oin the article section and are very
grateful of your oppinions. 20 people took t...
First Contact
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Battlefield: Hill Land
Weather: Strong Wind
Scenario: Burn 'em Out
Defender: Johan's Beast Herd
Forces: See initial forces post
Setup:
The beastmen had a ...
Warlord Games Sarmatian Cataphracts
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Warlord Games Sarmatian Cataphracts. Again I should take more pictures but
I didn´t. It would be nice to have a couple of them of the command but you
can s...
The Scene goodies
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So Useful!
The postman brought me a delivery from The Scene this chilly morning. I
ordered some wasteland bikers and zombie body bags.. But I also got this ...
"A Game of Thrones" - a review..
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.... ookkaaaayyyyyyyy... this is the strangest book - for one thing it's
almost 900 pages long and when I looked back after 3 weeks of reading I
wasn't...
Year of the Apocalypse
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The last 12 months have been a tremendously challenging time for me on many
levels. Truly a year of apocalyptic change and upheaval. Divorce...job
loss.....
Welcome to Friday Rucht Hour
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Hello all!
You'll notice that this is not your regularly scheduled blog post. But do
not worry. We are in control and all of that.
This is Rucht Lilavi...
Cavalier 2012 Show and Generation Kill Book.
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The Rejects will be at Cavalier 2012 this Sunday and hope to see some
fellow gamers and bloggers there, it's the first show we attend every year
and it's a...
Locomotives & War (Vietnam) - by Carlos Briz
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(Class GP 20 locomotive - U.S. Army Transportation Corps)
Good morning Vietnam!
CB brings us another outstanding king-size dio, this time related to the
...
Malcontent on hiatus
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Yes, I've made the decision to take a break from the bases for a couple of
months.
The reaction to the bases – Bamboo series especially – has been great ...
Space Wolves Display Board
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Yeah, I went there. Why? well, I don’t do tournaments, and we don't really use display boards in the UK anyway, so why did I build this? Partly because ...
Step to Step ( Dune Raider Decurion)
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Hi guys
I am makeing a step to step with this miniature
you can see the progress here:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Urban-War/354426834569501?sk=wall
Feudal French WIP +3
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After a long time, my feudal French amry is growing again, cause the first
two bases Defensive Spear are ready now.
Hope You'll like them, if so, write me a...
Lead Market Report - January 2012
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I've been dragging my feet - well, at least my right foot (still in a cast
for another 11 days). As February winds down, it's time to recap January's
lead ...
The Saga of Ceallach ui Móráin
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I got a little time to jet up to Your Hobby Place recently and was able to
get in a Saga game against the store owner Dave at the head of his
Normans. I a...
More Miscellaneia: Grenadier, White Wolf, and Others
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That's a Ral Partha Giant (Storm maybe) and a White Wolf figure. I didn't
initially have the Trinity figure from White Wolf set up, but one of our
regular...
ECW Parliament green regiment of foot
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Over the last week I completed my third regiment of foot for my Parliament
army. I need this unit and one more for my MayDay game. I decided to do
these g...
Martian Civil War
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My flyer was pulled out of the box for only the second time. It was fun to
run, and was a constant pain to the bad guys. After our last gathering,
plans w...
D&D ochres, oozes and slimes
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No D&D game would be complete without an ochre jelly, gray ooze and green
slime. These were easy to make. I used a bit of Sculpey to bulk out the
"body" o...
Colour scheme ideas needed for my merc mechs
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Hi guys, here are the mechs ready for painting, I need some advice on the
paint scheme for my Japanese Merc Battalion, please vote for either of
these idea...
Black Brunswickers!
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At the February club meet Boyd and myself decided to have a game of
Napoleonics instead of ACW as planned.
Boyd has recently finished his Black Brunswick 1...
Action at Schlauterhausen
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The second battle of the 1813 Campaign to be fought at the club, occurring
near Calbe, which had already seen action previously, but now at a location
that...
The Knight and the Three 'Bears'
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The Knight and his three 'Bears'
Just a bit of fun, having just finished off these generally skirmish types,
I thought I'd post them up on the Warblog.
Whi...
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A few years ago a was commissioned to make a Khador board. Here it is with
the owners impressive army! You can see more pictures on the Privateer
Press ...
Dip/Single Highlight Welsh cavalry
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Here, in response to Matt, are some pics of my dipped models. The method
is white undercoat, then bright flat basecoat colours (except
armour/helmets, whi...
A bit quiet
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It has been a bit quiet on the zombie wargame front at "Shelldrake HQ"
since the PBB ended.
I haven't forgotten about the zombies, and I hope to play test...
Serendipities and felicitations
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O frabjous day! I quite unexpectedly came across a treasure trove of
Piedmontese-Savoyard regimental flags that I thought I would never find. I
was mindi...
Witchcraft! Well, actually only a wet palette.
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As part of an effort to improve my painting skills, I decided to try an
make a wet palette. In case you're unfamiliar with the term, a wet palette
keeps a...
A Thanks.....with some Mead!
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hi guys it's Right Stuff
Thanks to Comrade James for giving me this board for my birthday-
just in time for my Odinn's Champions match against the wood e...
New Product options MERCS!
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Well things are starting to roll after the holiday season. MERCs Now have
their starter boxes ready for purchase. These are a great deal since you
get the ...
Dreamforge Games... shiney Strumtruppen infantry!
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So way back in September I posted...
secrets-of-third-reich-army-done
now right at the end of the post I whaffled on about a concept that a chap
from drea...
Competition from "le blog dé kouzes"
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Hello !
our friend from "le blog dé kouzes" are launching a painting art
competition. To salute this very good initiative we will offer to the
winner a Man...
Laser Squad Nemesis Marines WIP.
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Laser Squad Nemesis was a fantastic computer turn-based tactical game
developed by the creators of UFO-XCom, now sadly defunct although still
played by s...
Ancients Campaign Rules: Economy.
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Way back in 2007 I cobbled together a set of rules intended to link the
strategic level game Pax Romana with Commands and Colors: Ancients in a
grand campa...
DBMM Minoan versus Hittite
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Played another DBMM game (we seem to be a on a roll with this again) today
at Stephens. Used a nice historical match-up with my 'have not seen the
light o...
2012 Gathering in the Desert Armies
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For this installment of my GiTD coverage I want to chat about the armies.
The Gathering is an event that prides itself on great looking games. We
have alre...
15mm Modern US Infantry - finished!
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Ah ha!
My 15mm Modern US infantry are done!
They were based on very small buttons, which were then built up with
plaster and sanded (although in retrospe...
Flames of War: Test Figure
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Here is the first one out! I have to say that it is much better than I was
expecting. There is definite improvement over what I did two years ago
(scroll d...
Sardinians in the Crimea
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Image from here where there is much on the Sardinians. So PSR have
identified that the Sardinians wore there greatcoats in the Crimea unlike
the figures S...
On the Table 2
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More shots of the heavy weapons teams, Magnetizing the whole lot. I'm
using the Chaos Missile launcher as a static defense platform.
- Cheers!
Recent Gaming (15th February 2012)
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I meant to post this last week, but got distracted with editing podcast
episodes… I’ve been playing miniature games for several weeks at Scimitar
Wargames ...
Nearly there
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After a good old putty session today I am just five shields, one petard and
two sets of legs away from filling the next Dwerg mold, which includes wave
1 o...
Tharn Magic!
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This is actually a WIP as I haven't as yet been brave enough to do the
seeping blood from the heart he is clecnching in his fist. I have used the
now famou...
Dark Ages Campaign Concludes
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Round 8 of our Dark Age Campaign came to an end last week. With a three way
on territories going into the last round it w...
Ancients For Sale
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*(Edit: Ancients, Medievals, etc. for sale.) *
A list of what I've dug up so far. Only interested in lots, not single
figures. Prices don't include postage...
Warlord Phalangites
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Warlord released their plastic Macedonian Phalangites kit this week. The
box contains figures to make 40 Phalangites, all from a single sprue with 4
bodie...
Fort Moultrie, Charleston, S.C. (1860)
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All things Fort Moultrie on the eve of the Civil War. A remarkable site presenting a great deal of information and some truly splendid graphics. Here: http:/...
What’s going on.
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You may be wondering why such few updates in the past couple of months. OK,
maybe you didn’t even notice if you follow a bazillion gaming blogs like I
do. ...
20mm Platoon 20 vs 1/72 Emhar, First World War
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*The photo above compares three plastic figures from Emhar with a pair of
metal soldiers from Platoon 20. Click on the image to see a larger version.*
*T...
ChapterHouse Stuidos Tru-Scale Space Marine Kit
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ChapterHouse Studios just put a new conversion kit – the TRU-Scale Knight
Praetorius Conversion Kit. This looks to be a very promising kit to anyone
who is...
Imaginary Wars: Initial Walk Through!
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….and by “Initial Walk Through” I really mean the very first walk through!
My business partner and I were allowed to get into the store for half an
hour to...
KR Multi-case at Salute 2012
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KR Multicase are pleased to confirm another great reason to attend this
year's Salute.
KR will be giving away 250 of the versatile KR Backpack1 or Backpac...
After Action Thoughts about Tau
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So as you'll have read here I played my first tournament with Tau. Since it
wasn't a complete disaster (yes I lost 4/5 but there was promise) and
because ...
Planning the next campaign
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We have been kept busy wargaming the three campaign battles.
But with the campaign on hold until all three are completed I have found
myself with a lot ...