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Mecha in 15mm
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2012 is being touted as "the year of 15mm mecha battles", so my entry to
the fray comes in the form of these Robotech Destroids released as part of
the Exo...
Warlord New Model Army box set now available
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[image: Warlord New Model Army box set now available]
Warlord Games has new army models for their New Model Army. From the
announcement: Our eagerly awaited...
Foundry Russian Cuirassiers - Completed
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Actually need a pack of three more troopers to make this a 12-man unit.
I added some height to the horses by gluing some plastic card beneath their
bases.
A...
Styr-Björn´s SAGA
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My frieds and fellow SAGA gamer Björn have put together this lovely AAR of
he´s last SAGA game...From now on he will be our main narrator:)
Getting all my Orks in order
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The gaming room is largely set up and I am now starting the process of
assembling all of the various Epic Orks minis I purchased and start
painting them. I...
Preparing to start a campaign
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At our last game my group and I had our normal after game discussion and
the suggestion came up to run a campaign. One of the guys in my group
likes havin...
Fast Attack Rebels
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Sometimes a new project just pops onto your plate by accident, as did this
one. I'm sure I will tie it into the Starport series in some fashion, so
let's ...
Wolf Lord of Awesome! -Army of One
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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...
Orc's Drift: The outlying settlements are overrun
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All across the table, orc numbers were finally telling.
One by one the brave dwarves on the bridge at Ashak Rise fell.
In twos and threes the Linden Way ...
The Legion
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Just finished my latest Simon Scarrow novel 'The Legion'. This is in his
Roman Empire series following the adventures of Macro and Cato, now both
Centurion...
Christmas Buildings
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I the last few days I have been upgrading my Christmas buildings.
I use the glue to hold various ground cover. The dark green paint is to
touch up some...
Eureka Saxon Cuirassiers preview
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Now Saxons are nothing that fits my immediate Napoleonic plans. As you know
my Völkerschlacht game for next year only involves Prussians and French and
I s...
Things That Go BOOM In The Night
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You've got the Allied Naval Task Force sitting on your doorstep. The fire
from the mighty guns of the fleet is making life a little bit uncomfortable
in...
More Spanish
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Here is my next batch of Spanish, which are about ready to be given a Klear
coat, a spray of matt varnish, and then a good old-fashioned basing.
These g...
Les grenouilles bleu! Part III
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Hoi,
While we speak the total Company of French Marines for the Crush the Kaiser
project have marched of and arrived in England safely but I just had to
s...
Intrépide: Part 1
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By Blaine Lee Pardoe Heavy Cruiser Intrépide North Sea 8 September 1900
1425 hours Sous-Lieutenant aérien François Moreau stared out of the armored
glass w...
Bf-109E
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Last out of the recent F-toys box was this trio of Bf-109E. I'm not
exactly short of Luftwaffe '109s but I was unable to resist adding these
two to my co...
German Pre-Dreadnought Battleship
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I finally finished my 'cartoon' model of a German pre-dreadnought
battleship. It is supposed to represent the *Schleswig-Holstein*, one of
the pre-dreadnou...
Saurian Safari Scenery
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I went to Eastleigh today with the boys to get them some new school shoes,
so popped into the 99p store, as you do. I found some packs of plastic
aquarium...
Battle of Toulouse - Move 7
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Table at the start of move 7
Bottom – Hill has a bottleneck on the bridge due to broken brigades fleeing
Toulouse
Left – Picton’s infantry are struggling ...
Work on the first battleship ends!
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I finally finished painting my 'cartoon' model of a German pre-dreadnought
battleship.
I have stuck to a very simple colour scheme (light grey all ...
Old Superior Models order form
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In a comment on my post showing the original packaging for the *Starfleet
Wars *line of miniatures, Black Vulmea recalled that some ships were sold
three t...
Konkursowi janczarzy
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Rzadko wrzucam takie zdjęcia - kilka elementów, w tym sporo nie
pokazywanych wcześniej. Ale okazja nadarza się równie rzadko, a akurat jest
- skończyłem ko...
Little work in progress...
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*Posted by Raffa, Picster, Capuchin,...*
Hey everyone,
I just wanted to share two wip photos of a base I'm building... I wanted
to take a photo before ...
40k anniversary Model Done
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Here's the video(s) and pictures I shot while painting the Rogue Trader
cover tribute model. I captured some steps to show how I painted it, and
shot photo...
Happy Birthday [...belated]
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Once upon a time, I prided myself on punctuality.
yes. well. I am almost always late these days – I am speaking not only of
meetings and other worthwhi...
Reinforcments for Army 'Red'
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Having started this unit 8 months ago I have finally completed it - The
Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers (5th Battalion Cameronians). Here seen on
manoeuvres...
Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik
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Foi um avião da Força Aérea Soviética criada para o ataque ao solo,
fortemente blindado e que contava com 2 canhões de 23 mm. Foi um dos aviões
de maior pr...
My New Store!
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I've always dreamed of having my own hobby/wargaming/book store. Mrs.
Rabbitman and I figured we'd have 'her' side (mysteries and cook books
mostly) and th...
The Chronicles of Kaptain Putin – Part 1
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Sunday saw the first of a number of linked scenarios’s usingthe excellent
scenario generator Platoon Forward by the Two Fat Lardies. Overat the
Evesham War...
I love it when a plan comes together...
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At last the majority of my four Garde Chasseur a Pied battalions are
substantially painted and on their bases. There are almost a company's
worth of the...
Prone figures - love 'em or hate 'em?
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What's more important on the tabletop - believability or appearance?
Obviously this is a loaded question. As sci-fi gamers, we strive for a
good blend of ...
Trying to get back into it
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So nearly two years after my last update, here's what's going on.
I've actually started working on some backend stuff for the website, and
will hopefully g...
Battle at Hokksund
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Sven Erikson had completed the journey home across the north sea; on his
arrival he learned his territories were under attack by the warlord Agnar
Torfuson...
On the Workbench - end of the motorway
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One of the main terrain features for Crisis Point is the A73 motorway which
runs along the western-most table to the town of Venlo.
We already have a terri...
BLMA Prize Draw - We have a Winner!
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Thanks to everyone that took part in BLMA's first ever Prize Draw announced
on Monday. The response has been excellent and its now time to pick a
winner fr...
Tiger 1
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My latest work is a repaint of a DeAgostini diecast. These were on sale
about two years ago for £2, so I picked up four.
The tank is painted in a generic ...
Armie's Army Rusk Trooper
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It's been really cool watching this range develop from a picture of some
greens on the interwebs to a metal mini in my hands in just a few short
weeks. I...
Ripping Yarns
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As a child of the 50s, I have a nostalgic fondness for Ripping Yarn type
stories such as filled my schoolboy comics.
The very nice chaps at Warm Acre se...
More figures for sale !
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Happy Saturday all !
I have been streamlining my collection somewhat as I concentrate on my
Tudor army and these are the last to have that treatment.
A...
JC of Mars
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The girls went out to the Taylor Swift concert tonight, so naturally the
boys sneaked out to see John Carter of Mars after they left. Its had a
bunch of m...
JC of Mars
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The girls went out to the Taylor Swift concert tonight, so naturally the
boys sneaked out to see John Carter of Mars after they left. Its had a
bunch of m...
Sudan & Ancient Models for Sale
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First the Adobe mud bricked houses which are suitable for most of
Africa and even rural ancient periods. I'm selling these in batches of 12
houses with...
Plastic Soldier Company PzIII F G H box (review)
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This is far from first review of Plastic Soldier Company 15mm tanks on the
internet, but this is my first box of 15mm miniatures from that
manufacturer so ...
Immortals? More like Immobiles!
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My second outing with the Persians using "Hail Ceaser" on Monday saw the
arrival of the new Immortal Miniatures (now Warlord) Heavy Cavalry. These
are pain...
Weathering with Artist Pencil
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On the last few models I have airbrushed and then weathered I have used
some artist silver pencil. I did try normal HB but it is a little dull and
not as ...
British Para Heavy Weapons
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OK, back to work, and first off the table are the heavy weapons for my
British Paras. The MMG and mortar on the left are my originals (Britannia I
think) j...
US build - something special and a few guns
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Wanted a bit of variety from the armour so being so easily tempted by
anything big or shiny I pulled out a rare Cromwell kit that I picked up on
ebay a few...
Our Customer Service Officer
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We have now posted out the Claymore Casting pre-orders to everyone that has
paid.
Our Customer Service Officer is ready to help with any feedback. (Be
c...
Noncoms and rocketmen
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Got a bit more work done this week, I must say, painting 20mm is slow going
compared to 15mm. Managed to get the remainder of the US troops ill be
using fr...
When it comes to WW2, I am an Eastern Front snob....
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We hired this consultant at work to write an important report. Anyway, she
mentioned her husband was a book editor, and edited a book on D-Day. I told
her ...
Spanish Light Infantry
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*Edit: It would appear posting from my phone is not as easy as I thought. *
#
*Hat Valencian Light Infantry*
There's a wargaming stereotype that all Napo...
Flames of War: My first V3 game
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Chris has already done a 'serious report' so I am going to run this in my
usual style.
The Mission.... Was the crazy new two ambush 'Hold the Line'. The S...
40K - A Matter of Scale
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Background
I have been reading a lot lately about other people's experience of 40K, one
post comparing its scale and size of engagement to Flames of War, a...
Battle for Piscina IV: Dark Angel Army Lists
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After hours of pouring through The Purging of Kadillus and cross
referencing the novel with the original Storm of Vengeance campaign pack I
have const...
Necron Canoptek Spyder Conversion!
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Old School here with my version of the Canoptek Spyder. I decided to
incorporate a touch of the codex art with some classic Sci-Fi robot action,
60's-sty...
Ahoy my arties... bad joke
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ok, ok, I shouldn't have done it but I couldn't resist. I just started 6
bases of Roman artillery, from Eureka. It may not look like much, with only
the br...
Sturmtiger - Sturmmörserwagen 606/4 mit 38 cm RW 61
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House clearance German style! This is Warlords 1/56th Monster, no mod's as
it comes. I've gone for a subtle late war three-tone with lots of brick
dust, a...
GHQ 1/285 Panzer IV H Company - First Look
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This little baby is a the size of a large postage stamp sitting in the palm
of your hand (based on a 30mm x 30mm stand):
The "group" photo of five toget...
Empire Greatswords Painting (Doubles)
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First 5 Empire Greatswords in Nuln colours done! Not the banner and bases
though, of course.. Took most of the evening, but now I know the scheme it
should...
More Skyclaws!
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Bored of these guys yet? :) Yeah I built a few more. having picked up a box of assault marines, combined with some scavengable parts I’ve managed to make en...
A new Fimir Army Book PDF released
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[image: Warhammer Fantasy Fimir Army book cover photo]
From the mists they come... another version of the Fimir Warhammer Fantasy
Battle army, this time fro...
Bringing out the Dead - More Casualty Markers
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Here are a couple casualty markers I finished up that didn’t seem like
they’d fit in the post about the Hoplites… not that Ancient Egyptians and
Brtitish ...
Next up... Byzantines
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Well, I am excited about finally getting in another game of Impetus next
week, my Armenians vs Kent's Crusaders. Dave will be joining us so we will
opera...
John Carter of Mars for Swordplay
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Here are some quick and easy rules to adapt *Swordplay* to the John Carter
of Mars world.
These are not the definitive rules but instead a free entrylevel ...
Bedford Cwt 15 MW
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As promised the first of my newly arrived Bedford MW's. I managed to break
my cardinal rule for this year and have been making some purchases. Oh I
have ...
Fratricide: “This irrepressible battery ...”
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The
4th New York Battery of Gen. Joseph (“Fighting Joe”) Hooker’s
Division, III Corps, had fought well enough at the Battle of Williamsburg (May
5, 1862) und...
Two New Blogs
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I just want to take a moment to point out links to the blogs of two of my
good friends who have finally taken they’re historical, wargaming, and
painting t...
3rd Century Romans
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Bought these superb figures by A&A Miniatures has a retirement project, but
of course I could not resist painting a couple to see how they looked and
ended...
Games for 14/3
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Next weeks delights are LOTR with JDE, Bradley and Roddy, and maybe Andy G
and Knuckles; AWI Black Powder with Brett, Dave, Beef, Bookmark, and Rob H;
and ...
A is for Allemands
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Right - That's enough ships, back to Starlux for a quick look at what was -
in my opinion - one of the best sets they did, lots of poses, different arm
var...
Cold Wars Sneak Peak Part 1
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This weekend the Architects of War team is hard at work at Cold Wars 2012
in Lancaster PA. At the event we are showing off a number of upcoming
releases fo...
Warlord Games Zulus
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Aside from my own display game, the Leeds Nightowls are doing at least a
couple of other shows this year, and Andy is organising a Zulu War display
for at ...
Jeszcze więcej landsknechtów/ Even more landsknechts
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Ósmy już stand landsknechtów gotowy.Eighth stand of landsknechts is readyJedną z charakterystycznych cech landsknechtów jest ich kolorowy ubiór. Według niekt...
Assault on Kinch's Drift (Pt 3) The 1st Wave
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*The Brown Shields move rapidly to surround the post while the Black
Shields move up the middle from their position in reserve. Most of the
White Shields ...
Jacobites are coming!
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No pictures for this update but I am to say the least excited, as you know
my imaginations have an area populated by the highland clans, I have been
in tal...
Book Review: Dread Fleet
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Waaaaaaaaay back when Dread Fleet came out I went down to the FLGS and
noticed all of the boxes and along with them was a little book by Andy
Hoare that we...
The Future Of Eldar Jetbikes?
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*Hi Fritz, *
*
*
*Just starting 40k and wanted to pick your brain about something: do you
have any sense if some of the existing models (i.e. guardian jet...
Sabotage!
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Its been a while since I posted last. If you're like me, perhaps by this
point you'd be thinking, "well, its been a little while now. Either he's
dead, or ...
Can Reaper do plastic better than GW? Bones!
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Now, once you get done watching that:
http://www.reapermini.com/miniatures/bones
3$?!! For a brand new mini that ready to paint, thats pretty damn aweso...
Revell Fokker Dr 1 (Nr 2)
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It´s been a while since I got stuck into one of these but another pause
from bod painting was called for.
This one is Revell´s 1984 tooling of the little F...
A Malifaux Campaign…ideas
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* Initial thoughts…*
Aside from the models (and the welcome absence of dice), it was the
"character-driven" aspect of Malifaux that peaked my interest. I...
SCWH Honor Roll #54
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*Welcome to the SCWH Honor Roll now brought to you with extra spine
tingling fun, direct from the MWC Crew, from over at MWC (duh!) ! **Hello,
fellow Rea...
Painting bocage
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A couple of weeks ago we reviewed James’ Resins range of bocage. Well,
Aaron has kindly written a clear and concise tutorial to take you through
the paint...
Dipping with Army Painter WIP
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So far so good, next up some highlights and a little matt varnish, not to
mention a mountain of shields. Once added to my others this lot should make
up t...
TSATF Eygptian- Madhist Game
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Both of us having the day off 'S' and I decided to play a game , the
choice was 'S's and having not played TSATF for a long while it was the
natural ch...
Skeletons.......
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February was a busy month at work, however, I have managed to finish the
first unit of infantry for my son's Tomb King army. This is twenty figures
at the ...
Fantasy by GASLIGHT....
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...or should that be Torchlight. I've been looking for a set of large scale
skirmish Fantasy rules for a long time. I've got a lot of single fantasy
minis...
Battletech Cake
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A nice surprise treat at the Wednesday Battletech night:
A creation of the talented Mrs. *D*. All the guys were really impressed.
If I has known in advance...
Bedford's Battle Stand One
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Hi,
Back again! I know it's been a long time since I updated this blog and some
of you may be wondering what happenned to me(?). For the past six or seven ...
15mm Painted IrishSerb's US Marine AAV-7A1's.
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It's been a cluster feck of a day, the area manager who wasn't scheduled to
come down today came down and we spent the last 4 hours doing verbal and
numer...
Blast from the past!
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This is where it all began! I picked this up on eBay the other day purely
for a blast of nostalgia, and what a blast it was! I remember every facet
of t...
Diplomatic advice needed
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I've just started posting at Defiant Principality's blog the first one of a
projected series of posts, aimed at reporting the development of the
eventua...
ECW
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Have been looking at this for years now with Warlord plastics its an
affordable option.
All that grey, just need a coat of matte to tone them down.
More FOW
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A bit more progress on my Panzer Lehr Panzer Grenadier Company (say that 5
times real fast). Completed with this batch are the Company HQ, along with
Op...
Reaper Fire Mage
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The second member of my adventuring party stands complete! He's a really
cool, non-Gandalf Reaper fire mage named Cadarius.
And here's a comp shot w...
Reaper Goes Plastic - Bones
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Looks like Reaper has taken the plunge in to plastic and has a new material
called 'bones' which they are starting to roll out. The quality looks
great, ...
Tribes of Legend - A Book Review
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I love greek mythology, I always have, I love reading the epics and I love
many of the movies based on it (and am still firmly of the opinion that
clash of...
Game Table
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Years and years ago, when I lived in Montana, I made a set of game boards.
I had a sheet of 1/2 inch plywood that I cut into four 2 foot by 4 foot
pieces....
Scythe Legionnaires
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[image: Scythe Legionnaires]
Photos of the Ninjabread tee-shirts are surfacing on the internet. This
well-attired man is Ed Fortune, who was over in Warh...
From Concept to Reality, 3 FTW member posts
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Cruising the FTW blog rolls these past weeks, I found some interesting
things from members who have used what they found on From the Warp to help
them with...
Dwarf reputation partially restored!!!
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Workload and flat camera battery (the one that powers the clock) have both
meant not much 'gaming and not much photography these past few weeks.
But... we ...
Turkoman Horse Archers
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Continuing on with my Impetus 15mm Ayyubid Muslim army for the Crusades in
the form of Turcoman Horse Archers which are a main stay of the army of the
pe...
West Midlands Military Show 2012 this weekend
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On Sunday March 11th 1012 the Alumwell Wargames Society will be holding the
35th annual WMMS at the Aldersley Leisure Village, Aldersley Road,
Wolverhampto...
Dark Angel Space Marines, Games Workshop
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I realise this is cheating slightly but I will be transferring posts from
my other blog page, Ubique SciFi, on to this blog and then closing the
old one do...
Blogger Blunders Followers: I am Blind.
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I don't go 'off-topic' very often, and when i do, it's usually still
related to gaming in some way, but this time it's just a bit of a rant and
a heads-up ...
Lead Painters' League Opens
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Round 1 of Season 6 of the Lead Painters League is underway over on the
Lead Adventure Forum
f you're not familiar with it get yourself over there to see so...
MINI SIZE COMPARISON PICS - mostly Perry & Empress
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In response to a question about size/scale compatability of Perry and
Empress miniatures that came up over at TMP (The Miniatures Page), I took
some pics a...
Demeskeen vs Ironmen - Fall 382 (RRtK)
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After his crushing victory against the Border Kingdoms, Prince El Osman
forces them to sign a peace (for two years). In fall 382 the Demeskeen are
again at...
A VSF machine built in five minutes flat
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In a fit of jealousy concerning my mate Colonel O’Truth’s steam walker
‘Gargantua’, I decided I needed a Victorian Science Fiction machine as
well. But I d...
Painting progress on my DA and Taban new recruits
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I have been madly painting to try and clear the bench so I can get my ISC and Resistance models painted.
So I quickly based and painted some more DA Brood y...
Naval Wargames Show #2
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Its now official, having confirmed with the museum - the second Naval
Wargames Show will be held at the Explosion! Museum of Naval Firepower in
Gosport, Ha...
Battle of Ebelsberg, May 3, 1809
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Following the defeat of the main Austrian Army under Erzherzog Karl in
the Abensberg/Eggmuhl phase of the 1809 campaign, Hiller's wing of the
Austrian ...
Arkham Horror: First Win!
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Tonight, we finally won our first game of *Arkham Horror* by Fantasy Flight
Games! It took a little over three hours to finish. This is one of our
favorit...
Brigade Games Gnomes
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Hello everyone,Just a quick note that I managed to get some photos taken by
Michael on the latest gnomes I painted.All in all they were fun to paint
and es...
It Came From Beyond the Still - Announcements
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Well it's official everyone. I just sent the cover and interior for the*It Came From Beyond the Still (Aliens versus Hillbillies)
* to the printer. We are m...
Lies, damned lies and statistics
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Very interesting Mr Bond...but what does it mean?
As you can see from the dates, the peaks and troughs are the traffic to my
blog over the past 7 days. ...
WIP Aufklärungs Platoon (2)
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This is another update on my in-progress Aufklärungs Platoon. I've now
finished painting up the cycles and crews and I have them all assembled.
All that I...
Paranormal investigators: Camera Man WIP update
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Well, not bad for 30 minutes work (for me, anyway.) It's not the best, but
it turned out better than I thought it would. There are a couple minor
tweaks to...
Who Dares WIP
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some g/s'ing has been afoot while waiting for Tudor cottage things to
set/dry...
finally found some 80's SAS I can live with:
TAG Modern SWAT with gasmask...
Peter Pig 15mm US Humvee
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I bought this 15mm US Marine Humvee from Salute last year, but such is my
pathetic industry I have only now got round to painting it.
This is intended for...
SAGA extras, baggage train and fatigue markers
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Painted this baggage cart for SAGA's escort scenario which requires three
bases of baggage or anything that deserves to be protected. Enough finished
so i...
The wrong side of the tracks
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Its penguin-fart AM and a file of Argies creep towards Moody Brook using
the Camber Light Railway sidings as cover.
Meanwhile, the Moody Brook Garrison ...
C21 Support
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I reflected on the last game on how to improve. I am going to plan and make
a 2 d6 stand
that will be magnetic (sticks to fender washer base). This will hol...
Claw Tribe Barbarian
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Another piece for Super Dungeon Explore, it was mainly painted while doing
other stuff. It’s a nice mini but some weird details on it, particularly
around...
Article on Skin Tones
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[Repost from Victoria's Boys in Red]
I have always had trouble with sknitones. While searching about on TMP,
I found a reference to this article on the...
RP No 57 - FIW British Limbers and Artillery
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Last week I posted the French Artillery and Limbers, so today we have the
Brits!!! As I said in the previous post these figures were posted on the Annalou...
Stress Relief
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Apparently painting the Persians is a bit too much stress for me these
days. Considering it takes about 90 minutes to finish one figure (and that
this part...
Aliwal painted
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And now the finished photos of Massimos latest project.
I found one fault - the lancers broke a square and lost a lot of their own
people. So Massimo ...
Analogue Hobbies Painting Competition 10
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The last entry for the above competition consisted of two stands of bow
armed skirmishers for the Mycenaean Impetus army that is slowly working its
way to ...
Advancind Japanese Troopers painted
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Hi everybody,
Again, I'm sorry for the lack of updates. I'm still working on my
Bachelor's degree... only one more part to do!
Simon hasn't been sitting...
R.I.P. My Old Friend Greg Novak
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I found out today that my friend Greg Novak died yesterday. He was one of
the best people I had ever played a wargame with, and one of the most
creative an...
Russian Roulette by Georges Surdez
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I found the Russian Roulette story that I mentioned yesterday on the
UNZ.org website. I must have overlooked it when I was there previously.
The story ap...
Assorted Sculpts!
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Hi!
You may have spotted some of my sculpts over on my SPACECOW SMITH blog.
They are part of the first planned release for my own miniatures range and
I t...
EL ARCA NEGRA
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Tras Interrogar a unos de los esclavos, estos os dicen que han sidovendidos por Monarham, un hechicero negro llegado recientemente a Mordheim, porno ser lo s...
Scarlet Thunder - rolling on
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The Captain Scarlet rolling road game came down to the club last week for a
test run.The Mysterons have a new secret weapon. They may gain temporary
contro...
New book: the prehistoric art of Charles R. Knight
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Abrams is releasing a new book collecting the prehistoric illustrations of Charles R. Knight. If you flip through the pages of Charles R. Knight: The Artist ...
Still here
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Progress has been lacking here, but I hope to rectify that shortly. I've been busy with work and distracted by online computer games, but two things should ...
Trabalhos de Verão
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Mais uma participação nos duelos do Benno's Figures. Armas (regras)
escolhidas: máximo de 5 figuras e pré Primeira Guerra Mundial.
Eu apostei num cena civil...
Team Secret Weapon: Bay Area Open, Day 1
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posted by Sirus
I attended the Bay Area Open in Antioch, CA this weekend. I had a fantastic
time, from hanging out with a horde of other tournament goers at...
A sign of life
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Slightly less than a month without a post.
Quite a shame.
My everyday job is assorbing all my resources, and I simply cannot sit down
and think.
But I see ...
Barfy 28mm renaissance
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I've got two groups of 28mm renaissance figures on the go. I have some pike
and sword fellows underway and they are turning out great. And then I have
thes...
Painting Space Wolves Space Marines Part 1
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Hello Wolf Brothers! I am Anestis from Greece. Most of you may know me from
the Space Wolves Facebook page where I post photos of my army and models. I
...
Big Rich enters the points debate (again!)
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If you are a regular listener/reader, then you will know my lack of
enthusiasm for using points systems for Historical wargaming. Well, Richard
Clarke, he ...
An old period revived
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WW11 has taken hold and I've got some 15mm kit now as well as the 10mm
previously shown.
Again for Battlegroup PanzerGrenadier. There was a large bash last ...
Firehouse
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Hi, folks. A few days ago there was an ad on TMP about a new Stoelzel's
Structure Firehouse. The Stoelzel's Structures are 28mm paper and designed
to be us...
Finished Anne Boleyn
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I'm quite pleased with the finished product. The gold on her gown was very
time consuming. I also decided to spend some extra time on the pedestal
an...
White Star Rising Board Wargame
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Very nice surprise from postman on my day off as he delivered 'Nations At
War : White Star Rising' game which I had forgotten I had on order from a
few we...
Off to Cold Wars! Yay!
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Heading south to Lancaster, PA, for Cold Wars 2012 - returning Sunday.
Hope to pick up some of the cool new fantasy stuff from Bronze Age
Miniatures, and ...
More Welsh Teulu
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It hasn't all been Nazi Dinosaurs this week. Tonight I finished three more
teulu (hearthguard) for my Welsh Saga warband, meaning I now have a
complete 6...
River Trolls
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Continuing with the *WHFB* painting I finished off three old metal *GW*River Trolls that had sat undercoated on the workbench needing a little
love for far ...
Gdaybloke's fault
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So having listened to how good the Idrians are for what seems an age on the Lost
Hemisphere podcast I crumbled and bought some. Gdaybloke sings their
prais...
A Soldier's Song
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Voilà. J'ai fini par attaquer un vieux vieux projet qui me tient à coeur,
en parallèle à mes deux bandes pour Saga. Il date de l'époque DBM. C'est
une armé...
Bigger boys came and stole my pants!
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So the party are heading back home for a rest and hopefully a reward. We've
been marching and (not) resting through a day long storm when we are
approach...
Normal service resumed
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I'm afraid that I've had a serious loss of wargaming "mojo" of late, hence
the silence here since January. I'm sorry about that. In addition to this
blog...
Dacians
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Here are a few photos of my first Dacian warband with figures by Warlord
Games and Foundry. I recently came across an interesting article and
intervie...
Alien Ships
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I've painted a few alien bioships for the planned Mayday game, as opponents
for the other spacecraft I've shown here before. These are kitbashed from
Warh...
28mm Reaper miniatures
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Here's a couple of reaper miniatures lovely ladies ready to blow the brains
out of any unsuspecting young men that get to close. They are real nice
models...
Book Review - Conquer or Die!
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'Conquer or Die!' is the latest book to get the Rosbif review. As the Boys'
Own-style title implies, it's a rip-roaring tale of adventure, danger,
betrayal...
Links. Warmallet 60,000 and the Missing Links.
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Skarsnik just made me realise that I missed off a links section to all the
blogs I follow- you can now find them on my sidebar. Happy browsing, and
send m...
Hostile Realms Gondor Army
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Here are some pictures of the Gondorian (or Gonforian army) I'm painting
for Hostile Realms, Piquet's fantasy rules. One unit of Gondorian archers
and a u...
Thark Big Guns
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Being that every VSF earth army has some sort of armored vehicles of wheel,
track, walker or flyer's I thought it prudent to develop some artillery for
the...
Dark Age Project
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Just a little project I will be working on. I plan on having most of these
painted by March 31st. Most will be bloody for the painting competition.
Paint Pig: aWIP – Calpe 28mm French Nap
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Paint Pig: aWIP – Calpe 28mm French Nap. My Calpe French have arrived and
are sitting on the bench awaiting a gap in my busy schedule (no laughing)
to get ...
10mm American Civil War Project Update (February)
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My main focus for the month of February was painting a batch of 400
advancing Confederate infantrymen from Pendraken. Up to this point I have
painted mostl...
aWIP - Calpe 28mm French Nap - Updated 10th March
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I have these lovely Calpe Miniatures French in the painting queue (for figvfig blog) at the moment I have only opened one pack (F4) to have a look at the cas...
Further Developments around Neu Sittangbad. . .
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*Here are a few more artist's renderings of the unfolding Battle for Neu
Sittangbad at the start of Turn Four. These should be of some help to our
tirele...
GZG XV
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So another Ground Zero Games Convention is over. This year was number 15.
My Fallout game went fairly well, but I ran it on Saturday night and there
was tw...
'Pig Poke'
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A quick update today. I finally got one of the terrain items painted that
I picked up at 'Fall-In 2011' This is the 'Pig Poke' from Architects of War.
I...
Free trees 3
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Good progress on the sedum trees, I've started to make the 3 CD size bases
the trees will go on. 4-5 of the Sedum trees per base with some smaller
trees ...
APACHES....
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*Finished!!!!!!*
*quick shots of the set: "Apache Warriors" Waterloo 1815....*
*I don't comment the figures: I've done it in previous messages!(see here)*
*I...
Dungeon Masters Guide
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I finally finished reading the Dungeon Masters Guide (DMG), which I
gotthrough the magic of inter-library loans. The copy I read was the
revisededition f...
Suprise! It's Me!
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"Surprise! It's Me" cries William, as he crashes into the Viking Warlord,
horses hooves failing and sword slashing. Nearly lost a game of Saga on
Sunday, m...
Ben the great troll
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Ben the great troll. You should see his brother Jerry!Here's one of the
miniatures I have received from Madknight Casting last week. I have a lot
of stuf...
BEF Battalion for The Great War
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At last ... I have a complete battalion for The Great War!!! It's taken me
far longer than I expected but here it is.
Some closer shots, here's Red Compan...
Pulp City
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I was informed earlier today - that I'm being treated with a "you silly
sod" present because of my Arm Injury!
Sovereign and the Dark Solar Set! These will...
Now Maitland, now's your time!
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"Fire!"Maitland's guard stood up along the ridge late in the afternoon,
fired a volley and send the French Middle Guard Chasseurs back down
in disarray. Th...
Faithfull Protector Of Mankind
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While it seems that everyone's playing with their multipart kits nowadays,
I thought that I too could give them a try for a chanche.
Very simple conversion...
Blog Wars 3 - Scenarios Posted
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I've finally gotten round to finalising the scenarios for Blog Wars 3 and
they can be found here. Those of you who played at BW2 will find very
little has...
Sci-fi TEDDY BEARS..!?
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Over the years I have painted A LOT of miniatures, hundreds of goblinoids, countless Naps, swords and shields through to World War II, and occasionally, ever...
System Trooper review at The overlords
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If you've ever wanted to see the System Trooper range in more detail the
lads at The Overlords have done a great You Tube review that goes through
each pac...
Germans
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Hi
Slowly coming out of my winter depression, (no biking & no painting due to
it being to cold and my painting table is in my garage) I've actually
managed...
Oinking Crossbow
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With the Field of Glory US Open soon to arrive, I realized that I need a
minimum of eight stands of Light Infantry crossbow for the army that I
intend to p...
I'm back (...or how I saw the light)
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What really did me in were those Pz IV. I had absolutely no clue how to
paint them. Not that patterns are missing on the net but I simply did not
find an...
New Campaign Map of Germany
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New map of Germany.
The main detail was taken from my AA Road Atlas of Europe. I drew a grid
on the map, with each square being 15 miles. This produced a...
WWII Japanese
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So this where I started from. A 1000 point Japanese army for BKC.
I first set out terrain features but notice the top right hand corner where
the fern is. ...
Refining Templates for Dawn
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G’day everyone! In between planning and teaching my grade 3s, I’ve been
thinking about some of the feedback I’d gotten in regards to the new card
templates...
WWII Skirmish Campaign - Part the first - Setup..
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OK... we're off...
First, I guess I need a somewhat more 'snappy' name for this campaign than
the title of this post, so we'll call it "Operation Cornicho...
20k Hits and some Schützenärsche
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Hi boys 'n' gals...
It's been a while, I know. I feel a little guilty for being absent for so
long. I guess I have missed quite a lot of your brilliant blog...
Brink of Battle Website & Review!
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Ok, if you follow this blog, it's time to hop over and follow my Brink of
Battle blog in preparation for its official worldwide release March 19th!
You can...
Here Come the Confederates
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.
Okay,
so remember last time when I estimated that my remaining 14 pounds of
pewter would net me 140 soldiers?
Well, after four casting marathons I use...
Endor Bunker
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I needed a stronghold for my Battle of Endor matched pair of armies for
Hordes of the Things, so I made the obvious choice: the bunker that the
rebels assa...
Skirmish
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I'm heading to Cold Wars on Thursday, and will be (hopefully) selling a lot
of my collection at the flea market.
I am still considering a skirmish project....
Impetus Bash - The Berber WIP take on Crusaders
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This weeks game was part of a multi-player Impetus practice event at the
club organised by Dax in which eight or so of us had a game of Impetus with
most o...
302 Drax Presents...The Painting Chart
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Dear Readers,
If there's only one thing I'm proud of from the last three years of
blogging, it's the creation of the Painting Chart. I know many other
bl...
DeepWars stretch run on Kickstarter
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We are on the home stretch of the Kickstarter run, with only 6 days left.
We have already met the original goals but there are some new "stretch"
goals to ...
Back and Looking Forward
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Yay, I'm back! It feels like it's been ages since I last painted something
but now there's new stuff coming soon at last. It feels great to be
painting ...
A new venture.
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Every now and then I get the craving to paint and game in 28mm (boo hiss)
and some of the escapades get posted on here so when I decided to put
together a ...
Full Dress Rehearsal
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Following the completion of the Show Qids board as revealed in yesterday's
blog an ex-work colleague of mine dropped round for a full dress rehearsal
(yes,...
Maximilian Project Progress Report
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Hi,
As many of you know I'm going to be running two Maximilian Adventure games
at Historicon in July: Puebla 1862 (Cinco de Mayo) and an ahistorical
battl...
Campaign Move 13
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0800-1200 11 August 1813
The three battles fought yesterday have had a striking effect on all seven
corps involved.
In the north 16th Italian corps has m...
Colonial House
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To complement my “In the Heart of Arfica” figures I’ve been working on
colonial style House made from 5mm foam board and bits of wood. The
finished article...
True North Hurricane MkI 1/144
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I finally finished the first of the True North 1/144 scale Hawker Hurricane
Mk I's that I bought to support my British 8th Army. The lists all call for
Hur...
Conversions
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Hola a tothom,
Seguint amb es figures de fantasia, aquestes són les primeres conversions
que he fet utilitzant el mètode d’en Paul. Gràcies Paul!
Les min...
Thoughts on black powder skirmishing...
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*Battle for North Bridge AWI scenario from Wargames Illustrated January 2012
*
It is fairly obvious to anyone reading these pages that I will never be
a...
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We have now reached turn thirteen of the allotted twenty four and the game
is still very much in the balance. Despite the large disparity in numbers
and t...
Random Encounter 1 - Scratch Built Ork Stompa
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Following a huge amount of support from fellow bloggers I'm going to throw
in a few random encounters These random encounters will include some of
the non-...
Army For The 40K Tournament . Part 5
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Hi all
Here is my current progress on my army. You can see converted TL Plasma/Las
Cannon turret on razorback.
Spellscape Miniatures blog
25mm Clan Wars figures for HotT
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I was fortunate enough recently to get a large lot of Clan Wars figures. I
had never seen these figures before, but once I did, I knew I had to
possess th...
Once You Poppy You Can’t Stoppy
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Due to the poppylarity of my home grown opium here’s a stalk-by-stalk guide
to making them yourself. I did talk about making them in the previous post
but ...
de Ligne 2nd battalion
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This is the second battalion of de Ligne. The officer has followed
regulations by wearing white trousers but, being slightly rebellious and a
follower o...
Mortars
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A few pictures of the 120s I'm working on for the regiment
Mortars and figures are by Pegasus and I've added a few details to some of
them for a little ...
Decapitator
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Here's the finished Decapitator. I added in a bunch of Verdi Gris to give
it that aged and authentic look. The priest reminded me of a plastic
Jeebuss, ...
Game of Hail Caesar
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Today was my second game of *Hail Caesar*, the Ancient and Medieval brother
of the *Black Powder* rules that our group tried a couple of weeks ago. Don
and...
Project Maiwand - Day Two
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I 'eard the knives be'hind me, but I dursn't face my man,
Nor I don't know where I went to, 'cause I didn't 'alt to see,
Till I 'eard a beggar squealin' out ...
Ligne and Leger, and not much Morr
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Above are 15 of the French Ligne (Line infantry) battalion I'm working on.
Only nine models to go.
Below are the first 12 of the French Leger (Light infan...
Khmer Galleys...
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Khmer and Cham Galleys
And Again...
WIP pics of a basic galley, by Tony Harwood
Inspired by the drawings of the Khmer navies in *The Armies of Angko...
The Trenches No.1 Finally for sale!
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Ladies and gentlemen!... I present to you the first resin diorama base, The
Trenches No.1 from Studio Cyberlab. Completely ready and boxed for
shipment. Fo...
Flames of War 15mm Churchills test paint
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So I picked up a box of battlefront Churchill's last month so I could have
a play about sussing how to paint them prior to ordering my late war
British Tan...
Chaos Dwarf Juggernaut!
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OK, so you really have to hand it to the Games Workshop folks. In addition
to all the mainstream armies for Warhammer Fantasy Battles, they decide to
add C...
Step-By-Step Khorne Berzerker (Black Legion)
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Wow, I've been gone for quite a while and haven't really made any progress
in my hobby in the time gone. It's a real bummer, but life(read:work) got
in the...
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Dr Oskar Dirlewanger, flanked by two Rona Officers and his radio
transmitter.
"cleaning" detachment, due to burn the buildings once cleared from any
resi...