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Old Stuff Day 2012, a sentimental look back
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Image from the Old Stuff Day Project I've been waiting all year for Old
Stuff Day to finally arrive. Not that I had any idea what I was going to
include in...
Newbie First Game
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Back in November I managed to enjoy a game night with my beloved. We
planned a date night to introduce her to All Things Zombie. She had seen
my blog and...
15mm Painted Franonian (IDF) Centurion Tanks...
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...formerly Israeli but I got them cheap from a guy called Avi and a bit of
paint job later.......
15mm Peter Pig IDF Centurions from their AK47 range and ...
More of the 20mm 1956 project
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I have just picked these up on ebay. Both are resin models by Cromwell
Models, a company that has been very very difficult to obtain models from
in the pas...
Button switched ...
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posted by roman, jarhead, kong
As told in the big Painting Crusade Report I have to switch buttons again -
working mixed with the hobby that you love c...
The Massive Wahankh
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[image: The Massive Wahankh]
Lord Wahankh returns, showing us another type of Squat to have on the
battlefield. If you’re a new reader, you ma not rememb...
Considering the etiquette of a three-way..
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Often i find myself in three-ways. I’m sure a lot of us do. Okay, my partner is looking at me funny now.. I’m talking of course about those 40k games where ...
Gingerbread Mania
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Back in December 2011 Craig Andrews - he of *Orcs in the Webbe*, ran yet
another Advent Calendar. A series of daily posts which featured gaming
articles, s...
Far East troop convoy - Fletcher Pratt game report
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The inbound Japanese air attack. Each strip of thin card has six aircraft
printed on it - as casualties are suffered these are simply scored off!
Let's s...
Blood Bowl Humans vs Nurgle
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This is a short summary of a Blood Bowl game played last weekend against
Patrik's Nurgle team.
The teams looked like this:
Nurgle: 4 Pestigors, 4 Chaos Wa...
SAGA Iliad: Progress
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We finally got to give my SAGA Iliad mod a run at the Cavs last night.
Poochie ran Achilles (using Ivo the Norman from the Official lists) and I
ran Odyss...
Necrons... It Came from the Swamp...
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Got some Necrons in trade for some commission work, knocked out a test one
here. Going for a newly unearthed/ run-down look...
A lot of folks have be...
Fritz 40K - Refining the Necron Scarab Farm
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Last week we talked about Spyders and their relation to scarabs, so this
week let’s take a look at running such a build. Fritz here- For a while
there thi...
Hot and Fresh- New Terminator + Command Squad Bits
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Check out the newest bits we have to offer, Space Marines Command Squad,
and Terminator Bits. I just posted up over Thirty new bits from these kits,
that a...
Shagrat, Captain of Cirith Ungol
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Miracle of miracles there is a LOTR:SBG tournament this weekend and it is
not being run by Tim and is not part of the GiTD! This will be the first
chance ...
The Lost Platoon (part 2)
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Yesterday I blogged about my *WH40K *army I converted for *Hordes of the
Things*. As I stated in that post, I had plenty of additional figures,
which I u...
One month to go!
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One month to release date!
Well, kinda.
My attitude is 'it is done when it is done', but having a mooted release
date puts a fire under my bottom. If p...
Quick break then back to the grind
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Hola out there in inter web land. Everyone tends to enjoy this hobby in a
slightly different fashion. I think that I am a player more than a hobby
person, ...
Need WWII Soviet artillerymen?
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Plastic Soldier Review has just reported that there is now a box of figures
available to help you! Go have a look at their review of Orion’s Soviet
Artille...
Transfer sets for Claymore Castings.
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Iain from Flags of War is developing a set of transfers to fit our shields.
Here is a WIP image of what he has been working on. Each of our OT1,
Command p...
A quick dab of paint later....
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Sorry fellows, not that much to show you today, simply because I was at the
club yesterday evening, doing a Art de la guerre demo. A bat rep should
follow ...
1/300 Panzer IV Battalion's painting cont ...
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The Panzer IV F2 battalion gets the Tamiya XF-60 Dark Yellow effect (base
coat), a little too much of the Afrika Korp look about them in the first
instance...
Sculpting Octopus Like Tentacles
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For one of my current projects I needed a few Octopus Like tentacles. I had
previously sculpted tentacles for one of my Dark Eldar conversions using
floral...
No Peace Without Spain further investigated
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Played a few more turns of this intriguing and enjoyable game. Bourbons
holding fast in Flanders against a strong force lead by Marlborough (who
just cant...
Stormtrooper Elf
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Finished a Warmachine Retribution character recently.
I was impressed with the sculpt and the detail. The client wanted white
armor with black, for a 'stor...
Privateer Press previews the Road Hog
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[image: Privateer Press previews the Road Hog]
Privateer Press shows off the new Road Hog on their website. From their
preview: The mighty road hogs hurl th...
Resin Diorama Base: The Trenches No.1 part 2
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Hello everyone, Here's the final part of The Trenches No.1. Well now... You
may have expected me to give you a painting tutorial, but I have decided
agains...
Black Crusade - Hand of Corruption
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I was stoked to finally get my copy of Hand of Corruption, a supplement for
Black Crusade by Fantasy Flight Games. FFG seem to be following their
usu...
A 54mm Aside.
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You know what its like when you are waiting for a bus - nothing- and then 3
come along at once !. Same with nurses - been looking out on EBay for a
medic...
More Romans
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The Caesarian Romans are coming along nicely. I finished the flesh this
evening. Tomorrow I'll finish the bases and attach the shields. Hopefully I
can als...
On the painting tray: March 2012
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This month I shall mostly be:
- Painting the last eight of a unit of 36 hoplites then basing the whole
lot
- Doing the base on Anne Boleyn, who i...
Prussian Grenadiers
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Continuing my New Years resolution I've got some more Spencer Smith 30mm
figures painted .
These are the Grenadier Battalion Jung-Billerbeck , it compri...
Welcome to Thor's Day!
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Thor's Day Heroes is the newest feature here at Mik's Minis, gently
replacing LEGO Thursdays. I had to stick with Thursday of course, and how
serendipitou...
Back of Beyond Campaign Big Game
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Campaign One Big Game
Campaign Two Big GameCampaign Three Big Game?
At the end of each *Back of Beyond* campaign I've always organised a big
multiplayer fin...
Venusian Amazon Archers Complete
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This week I completed the archer unit for my Venusian Amazon force. The
infantry unit, cavalry unit, and archer unit are the total units I plan for
this fo...
The Bulge in 28mm: WW2 Battle Report
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Last week's game was a 28mm "Battle of the Bulge" scenario featuring some
of the first WW2 models I ever painted (Battlehonours Waffen-SS) against
some of...
Orc's Drift: the Table
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Here are a few shots of the table laid out for the Orc's Drift campaign.
As a reminder the campaign, written by Ian Page, Gary Chalk, and Joe Dever
back in...
Drazhoath The Ashen WIP
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I was taking pictures of some other stuff so I thought I might as well take
these ones as I started a WIP thread. I made some good progress on it
today. I...
Another Take On The Hag Stone
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Hello everyone! I am very excited about all the awesome Frightmares terrain
pieces we have coming out soon. I couldn't wait to get my hands on the Hag
Ston...
Claymore Castings - sample figures
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Dave Imrie very kindly sent me a couple of samples of the Claymore Castings
figures, covering the Anglo-Scottish wars at the end of the fourteenth
cent...
I've got an idea....
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...that maybe I could do the linked series of scenario's/Teasers that I did
for Jeff in this post [click here] as a skirmish campaign... set in WWII to
be ...
Æthelglyth
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I painted it for the company Maelstrom Games
I used Model Color , Game Color and inks
if you have questions about colors you can ask here ;)
New France's defenders in capotes
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These great images are from here - an article on the equipment and clothing
of the French marines from the late 17th to mid 18thc. It's in Czech and I
am...
Completed Apocalypse Fortress Walls
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The walls are finished! This beast is for the apocalypse game coming up
and it is based on the forge world resin set. Not only did I go for a
cheaper setu...
Completed Apocalypse Fortress Walls
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The walls are finished! This beast is for the apocalypse game coming up
and it is based on the forge world resin set. Not only did I go for a
cheaper setu...
CDC: Saint David's Day - A National Holiday
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St. Daffyd's Cross
*Caernarfon* -- Today is March 1, the Feast of Saint Daffyd. Interim
President Lewis, with the approval of the Welsh National Congress ...
A hidden little gem - Micropanzer Remote Gun Drones
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*Micropanzer Wargames Studio* is a relative newcomer to the 15mm scene.
Jason has been doing a really good job at keeping the public updated on
his larger...
BLLive! 2012
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On Saturday, the hordes of Black Library fandom and authorage (and artists
and editors and salesfolk and everyone else) will be descending upon
Warhammer W...
1870 Volley and Bayonet ... with a twist ...
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*"Zulus Sir, thousands of them" ... "Pardon me Sgt?" ..."er sorry Sir, I
meant Jerrys Sir, thousands of them" ... "Well Sgt lucky we got the
Martini-Henry ...
Space Wolves Thunderwolf Cavalry Raffle!
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$1 ticket buys you a chance to win a Games Workshop, new on sprue, Space
Wolves Thunderwolf Cavalry. Please note: this is a brand new, unpainted,
unasse...
Zimna nóżka
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Po sobotniej wstępnej rozgrywce w WFB wieczorem nie mogłem się oprzeć
popracowaniu nad parą dawno rozpoczętych, starych ghuli Citadeli. Machnąłem
im wtedy...
6mm Dwarfs - amazing sculpts
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Hello all,
Still working on the battle report, alas time is limited.
Anyways, I saw these wonderful new minis today:
These are 6mm (!) models and have more...
CMON Lovelies
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Mastauroc Stonehorn
Space Wolf Silverfang
amon chakai
Bacaniere
Wight King painted by Daith
Tyranid Space Hulk Broodlord
Ogre Kingdoms Stonehorn
Spacejacker tattoo
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I don't normally blog about life stuff here, but I'm so pleased with my
latest tattoo that I thought it deserved a mention.
The artist is the tremendousl...
Charity Army Build - The 57th Mordian (Part 1)
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Following the recent passing of my grandfather I decided I wanted to try to
raise some money for the charitable organisations which provided so much
suppor...
The Battle of Ariminum
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The Carthaginians draw 9 *Army Characterisation Deck* cards. They draw 75
morale chips, a 'deft cavalry, command' card and a 'stratagem' card for
which a...
New Desperate Mercenary
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I've been proxying the Desperate Merc for my Sonnia and Kirai lists for a
while now. I didn't see the point in buying the model since he was not on
the t...
FOW: Nebs and a Jag
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Finally some finished mini's!!!
As reported earlier, with the new release of FOW ver 3.0 a return to 15mm
WWII was in order. The first project will be t...
Ugly Men With Sticks
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In reading the wonderful Freeport sourcebook from Green Ronin, I realized
that the various city watchmen amount to little more than men with lousy
disposit...
Fimir - Independant Army Book
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I noticed on The warhammer armies project this morning that he's released
his Fimir army book based largely on the Warpstone 25 background, the same
backg...
Waterloo 1815 Dervish Infantry
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Some new recruits to the Khandibarian army, Waterloo 1815´s dervish infantry.
This lot I got as part of a swop scheme with my mate *Peter* from Peter´s
cav...
Panzer-Grenadier Pioneer Battalion Company 1
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Coming out of the suckfest that is this week (my apologies for the lack of
comments on other blogs but I am snowed under), I have made little progress
on...
This is Sparta!
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My first unit of Spartans for Basic Impetus is completed. I went for the
8cm frontage and 10 figures per base for the phalanx part of the army. All
the fig...
Kreoss for the Masters
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I already have a Kreoss model painted but as I am missing his staff
somewhere I decided to use that as an excuse to paint up the variant pose I
had picked ...
Roundwood's Wordle 2012
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Here's a harmless (and some may say utterly pointless) bit of fun, and an
echo from last year. I put the URL of my blog from the last few weeks into Wordle ...
Vikings for SAGA point 6: Archers
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Not overexcited with the idea of having to paint the archers I got the job
done. While I have collected hundreds of Vikings over the years I had a
hard...
More Vikings for SAGA
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I have painted some more Vikings for SAGA using my leftover Viking and
Saxon plastic Gripping Beast minis.
This time I used heroci bases, because it look...
All Our Yesterdays
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When I was growing Granada TV used to screen a programme entitled 'All Our
Yesterdays'. It was introduced by notable journalists of the time (James
Cameron...
You Tube Contest
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I know this is a gaming blog, but sometime I gotz to get off track. A buddy
of mine is trying to win a contest to open for Tyrone Wells, he is
currently ...
40k: Daemon Campaign List (3)
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Again, on the day of the campaign I am suddenly changing my list! I do this
a lot.. I thought I’d try some new things out, new tactics and units :)
1000 Pt...
Reaper's Mushroom Men - 2679
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I'll update more tomorrow with additional views and painting instructions -
just running out of time tonight - so here's the front side view of the
mush...
Starfleet Wars: Carnivoran Ships Part 1
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The next fleet in my collection from the Starfleet Wars/Galactic Knightsrange is the Space Navy of the Carnivoran Republic. The original Starfleet
Wars back...
Eden - The nicest models
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I initially got into Eden from Taban because of the models and then after having some games realized that is was a gem of a game. Its right up there along si...
Russian 76
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The first of a couple of the famous ZiS-3, sent to me by Tim
http://megablitzandmore.blogspot.co.nz/ via Paul - excellent as I didn't
have any
Simple k...
The Stollenian Line Opens Fire. . .
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*Above, General von Tschatschke's battery opens up on the enemy hussars
and infantry.*
"Looks like we have some artillery fire and musketry to resolve th...
My painting desk
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I finally tidied up my work area.
I posted the result over on my other blog for those interested is seeing a
before and after photo:
Shelldrake's work area
February WIP
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Since I've been pretty busy over the last month and have managed to get
some bit's and pieces done (yes, it's even surprised me!) I have managed to
post a ...
Philip Sabin's "Simulating War".
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Phil Sabin's new book *Simulating War *arrived yesterday. I've been
browsing through it and thought I'd share some initial thoughts.
My first impression...
German Grenadier 1/35 from Verlinden
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From time to time I like to add some of my other than wargame figures. This
is a Verlinden German Grenadier. I used an old Tiger I had done years ago
tha...
300 Drax's Whole Army
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Hullo! ...On the remains of this fine Leap Year Day, and *THANK YOU SO MUCH*for helping me get to my 300th Post!
As promised, please find below a handful of ...
The last ride of the Pope.
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It was a warm summer day with a gentle breeze rushing over the fields. The
Pope and his army readied themselves to meet the Holy Roman Emperor in
battle. ...
March Objective - 15mm WW2 and SciFi
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My primary objective for March is to paint my late war British troops for a
forthcoming game or three of USEME WW2 from 15mm.co.uk. I only have a
couple of...
Best Month Ever - Thank You!
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I've just looked at the Blogger Stats for *Bleaseworld** and it appears
that February 2012 has the highest number of page views in one month
(9,405) beatin...
Warhammer 25th Anniversary model
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Here's an unboxing and assembly video of the Rogue Trader tribute model GW
released for the 25th Anniversary of Warhammer 40,000. I first started 40k
in t...
'The West Kingdom' PbB RPG
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Used with Bard's permission
My latest adventure is participating in my first ever RPG. I was invited
to participate by Bard who runs a couple of great blog...
The old mercenary
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This is one of my favorite (maybe THE favorite) Reaper sculpts. I only now
got around to purchasing it (along with my last order.) I had waited to buy
it b...
Skinners horse and Mysore cavalry
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Tonight when I came home a parcel from Ingo surprised me. He has now casted
the figures I ordered and of which I have shown the masters before. Well
late ...
Formigny: 15 April 1450
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Our latest Hail Caesar battle was to be a late medieval re-fight to allow
Richard to field his new acquisitions for a fledgling War of the Roses
army. To ...
Back to the Brushes 14
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Another Dwarf for Songs of Blades and Heroes was completed this morning
before venturing out to an in-service training day. There are thankfully no
picture...
Koth-Indola Highway - Cut and Run
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*"Orders are not interpreted, Naaman; they are followed. Remember that." **-Ravenwing
Sergeant Aquila*
(taken from The Purging of Kadillus by Gav Thorpe)
T...
Source books for Samurai information
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I've had a quick scan of Amazon to see what would be a good selection of
books to better understand samurai warfare - especially in the Golden Age.
Here's ...
Bases for the BEF
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As I mentioned in the last post, I wanted to do something slightly
different for the bases of my latest batch of BEF. For bases I usually do
something like...
Reinforcements arrive from England
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898 10mm figures in Perry boxesThe latest troops are just off the boat from
England ready for battle. A bit disorganised they need to assemble into
units a...
Heavy Metal
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Finally happy with the green on the US armour, started doing the tracks now.
I think I am still on target to get these finished before the WMMS show on
t...
The Pledge for Feb & more KGN stuff!
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once more time passes me by at a rapid rate of knots and managed to get the
following bits and bobs done for Kampfgruppe Normandy,
Starting with the mortar...
Long time no Post
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Well February turned into a poor month for me. At the start of the month my
employer entered into redundancy meetings with all the Warehouse
Supervisors of...
B is for Bell
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And so to a mates house with two other friends for a chin-wag and an
all-day breakfast in the local cafe, one of our number bringing a few items
from his p...
GnomeCon, Recon and the status of the games
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Hello everyone in gamer internet world. I have been really busy since
coming back from Megacon and have been remiss in posting. Please accept my
apologizes...
Linden Way the "Mass Battle"
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One of my design goals with Warrior Heroes Armies and Adventures (hereafter
WHAA) was to allow players to easily handle games with just handful of
figures...
SO:KZ team Armored Might Wolves
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The keen and studious might have seen these fine and nefarious fellows slip
into the last post, in which I described the thinking behind themes like
Ar...
Warhammer 40K 6th Edition Shooty Tyranid List
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So here is a Tyranid list that I have been evolving for a while, have
gotten in some play testing, and was thinking about for 40K 6th edition,
but now ha...
Mystery Truck
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This Tootsietoy truck was painted in Army green when I got it.
They called it an Army troop carrier.
Something about it did not seem quite right ...
Hovelly Versatile
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The great compound building spree starts to grind to a halt as all three
near completion, spurred on by me discovering Channel 5′s “Royal Marines:
Mission ...
Fireforge Games: Teutonic Knights Cavalry
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Hi, today I'm privileged to review the wonderful Teutonic Knights Cavalry
set made by *Fireforge Games*! This box caught my attention at Crisis 2011
when ...
Fulliautomatix
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Here you see the smit from the small Gaul village from Asterix and Obelix.
This guy always has a quarrel with the fish seller from the village.
From this...
Check out our Facebook Bulletin board!
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To create more dialog and allow more readers to post their own stuff
without having their own blog, John and I have started up a facebook group,
called San...
I'll just leave this here....
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From the factory floor of M3 Aircraft Works, where our intrepid engineers are diligently working on a improvements to a rather poorly designed aircraft. Whet...
Orc Civil War (2) - Summer 382 (RRtK)
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*YEAR 382, Summer, orc territory*
*During the first strike of the orc civil war, Barad was slain in a
surprise attack. After that, Grishak went quickly to B...
the gates of hell broke loose...
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Task Number 1 from our 2012 Guild Groupbuild is...
Dirlewanger Battlegroup..
time to gather the piccies, here is the Devil himself..
Campaign reboot - and then there were 3
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The "First Contact" battle that was posted was meant to be the first battle
in a new Dwarves vs Beastmen Songs Of Blades and Heroes campaign. But a
mutual ...
More Maurice
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Bruce put on a game of Maurice last night, using the updated card deck in
the light rules. I believe the battle was Fontenoy (?) which was one of the
Wars ...
The inevitable has struck…
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Mixed blessings really. Firstly and happily, the Lad has discovered his own
gaming buddies at his new school. I felt a bit left out actually, when he
advi...
An Apology and an Opportunity
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Yesterday I realised that my Blogroll wasn't working properly and that some
of the Blog's I thought I was following weren't appearing in my reading
list. I...
Cavalier Swag!!!
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Several followers asked what I spent my hard earned dosh on at the Cavalier
Wargame Show last Sunday, so here goes!!!!
1. 27 packs of Essex 15mm NYW fi...
Revisiting Swiftclaw Bikers
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As you might have read in my battle reports from Jolly Toys, my Tau army
came up against a unit of swiftclaw bikers. They were very effective in
dealing w...
Mapping Napoleonic Europe
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My campaign maps have undergone pretty major changes since the first hand
drawn one I used when the campaign started in November 2009.
I had searched for...
Pub !
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Le nouveau VV est paru. Et Rava est de retour en couverture !
En dehors des critiques habituels de nouveaux jeux et livres, les deux
articles "Art de la ...
Another three mutants
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Another three mutants for the tribe. All three are resin miniatures from
Ramshackle games. That's pretty much it for mutants for now. I'm painting...
Lead Painters League Season 6
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If you're reading my Blog and are not familiar with the Lead Adventure forum.
Then I am not doing justice in talking enough about one of the best pl...
Prepping the Next Batch
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I have a lot of miniatures. I'm always buying more. Part of it is because I
like the appearance of them or get a good sale or gifts. One of the things
I've...
RED BOX GAMES, Belegast the Bloodthirsty
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Red Box Games recently previewed a new sculpt from their forthcoming
Helsvakt Expansion, Belegast the Bloodthirsty. This is by far one of Tre’s
most techni...
Warlord Games Phalangites
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The boxes of plastic phalangites that I pre-ordered from Warlord Games Hail
Caesar line came in a couple of days ago. I've since assembled some of the
fig...
New "Table Top Teaser" Mini-Campaign
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Not everyone has access to Charles S. Grant's wonderful "Scenario" books .
. . so Conrad Kinch (Joy and Forgetfulness) has crated a "Table Top Teaser"
mini...
They were soldiers - once
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But after a dose of Vergeltungswaffe 4.........
They have become the Walking Dead, mindless automotons, whose only purpose
is to add the living to the...
Flames of War: Third Edition
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Goodness, are we up to third edition already? I picked up one of the last
copies of the Third Edition mini rulebook from Modelair in Newmarket this
weekend...
Big Exam Two Weeks Away
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Just to let you know I am still alive, but studying for a big exam on the
13th March.
I admit I have left it far too late to study properly so I am now bus...
More Connoisseur Sudan
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Painted by me this time, but 25 years ago (so be gentle). As part of the
most newsworthy north/south transfer since Dalglish moved to Liverpool
these ...
Get on yer chaps n ride!
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Here are a few pictures of the Club Participation game we put on at the end
of each month, February's game was put on by Lawrence "cow poke" Widdecombe.
...
White Dwarf 387 & Wargames Illustrated 293
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My monthly look at the two wargaming magazines I subscribe too, lets see
what march has to offer.....
As always we'll start with white dwarf, this months...
Dark Age Playtest
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I have been looking for a good set of Dark Ages rules for some time.
Whilst I like Saga it is really a two player game and so doesn't provide a
complete a...
Leviathans Update
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Hey True Believers, Yes, I know, ripping off Stan Lee, how dare I…but at
this point, it feels appropriate to label you guys as such…can’t thank you
enough ...
Dark Age DBA Campaign… Some thoughts…
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Lessons learned, etc….
As Christian has mentioned in the comments of one of the other posts I
think this was the most successful of the campaigns I’ve run ...
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Following what was finally adjudged to be a resounding Russian victory in
our last game we spent most of the evening of the 16th clearing away troops
and p...
What should I do with these beautiful figures?
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I recently received these Prussian Medic figures from Schrumpfkopf in
Germany. He had commissioned these figures and had a limited number cast. I
was luck...
Aventurers
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Hola a tothom,
Un amic em va demanar que pintés una sèrie de miniatures de Caesar per als
seus jocs. Aquestes són les primeres.
*Hola a todos,...
Sales Report, and a Church
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*Just to let you know that many of the items for sale from the mid-18th
century collection have now been sold, and I've updated that page (see
navigation b...
Leaaaaving, on a jet plaaaaane!
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The time has come for the trip to England to attend the Tempus Fugitives
Age of the Emperor Event "Hammer of the Gods"!
My friend David and I will be boar...
A Renaissance Diversion
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The latest of my troops to be based up for Impetus are these, well,
cheveaux legers? I bought them years ago second hand and they've been
rebased a couple...
Necron Project Complete
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Here's the proof. Now I just need a more detailed photo shoot to go over
the finished conversions.
It's a funny thing; last year I spent six solid months...
Tabletop Teaser Campaign
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*"Kinch has written a new mini campaign!"*
*"The swine!"*
I was very taken with Jeffs suggestion that we attempt to cobble campaigns
together from the avai...
2 ° Reggimento Fanteria - Fusiliers WIP
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Now the weather's settled down a bit, I've had a chance to finish the last
4 figures of my Italian project for the La Bricole painting comp.
Next up, basin...
Latest FPW figures - Wurttemburg Jaeger
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Part of the deal for painting the Turkos was a few battalions of Foundry
Wurttemburg infantry. Unfortunately Foundry only made four poses; the
officer (wi...
Arquebusiers de Bergerac pass though Saxe-Märchen
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*Arquebusiers de Bergerac en route to their new bases *
*
*
The buildup of the French army continues, the Arquebusiers de Bergerac
(from St Maurice) mov...
Beasts Of War reviews Force On Force core rules
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Check it out: Beasts Of War have made a review on Force On Force
http://www.beastsofwar.com/spotlight/force-force-latest-modern-combat/
In my opinion they ...
A Comission Work - Damaged House
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Um trabalho encomendado para um amigo.
Um edifício danificado em construção "scratch" à escala 1/144, para
utilização em jogos da WWII.
A costumized comiss...
Scout Soldier on sale.
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This is the day !
We receive a very little stock of our new miniature : female scout soldier
(only 30 casts)
We wait the rest of our stock in a few weeks (a...
Some costumes & props from Gunga Din
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There's been a lot of excitement lately in the Colonial miniature wargaming
world, thanks to the first pics being posted online of Bob Murch's PULP
FIGURES...
Bitwa pod Koroneją/ Battle of Coronea (1)
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Poniżej kilka fotek z bitwy, którą rozgrywaliśmy jakiś czas temu - bitwy pod Koroneją (394 p.n.e.)Pod Koroneją spotkały się armie Spartan, wspieranych przez ...
More fluff from the Perry brothers
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Saw these this morning. Now since I really love the fluffy stuff that has
been announced by the Perrys recently this got my interest, too: And some
more re...
The inevitable bodge up
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I spent the past couple of days putting together a second Doooooom Wheel
for my Skaven. This thing was on track to look real good. I had a new
recipe for w...
Ephemora but funny.
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I just had to re post this, from SD Forum...... click for bigness
Looks pretty accurate from where I'm sitting, the last photo should be a catalogue .......
Bits and bobs
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Just a few bits and bobs today. As you can see from the picture above,
I've taken delivery of some Amera vac-formed terrain. In my case, five
straight an...
Armoured Panzer Grenadiers
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Based on experiencesat Day of Days, and using my gepanzerte at the World's
last year, I've decided to take a serious look at my armoured panzer
grenadiers...
TPK
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Last Friday we played yet another session of D&D 4E. It began as a bit of
roleplaying, which was a nice change of pace except that my mother called
right ...
Six More Anglo-Danes for Saga
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This represents the final few needed to complete a 4-point warband. I will
be painting more though. I quite enjoy this era. These figures are Old
Glory wit...
Background: You're a WHAT wizard?
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With a force hastily assembled, Sir Ulric set forth to reach Mount
Bloodhorn. He had a lore of life wizard in tow, who promised to use his
ways to draw his...
The Humvees arrive, courtesy of Irishserb!
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Howdy folks!
Well, my two humvees arrived in the mail today!
I got them from Irishserb, who makes resin vehicles in 15mm. I had seen a
few of his pieces...
Non Hobby Related, But…
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My Buffalo Sabres acquired today at the NHL trade deadline a player I had
hoped that they would have had the chance to draft back in 2008…Cody
Hodgson! I c...
The Gladiator Project week 1
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I've been looking for an ancients-related project to change things up a
bit, something that can be played quickly before or after a club match.
Then I cam...
Task Force A
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Ah, the joys of V3. Learning new rules, trying to see if your list was
completely gutted (my Crocs will never see the table again) and then
analyzing old ...
Something to make me feel better
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Got laid low by some damn chest infection last Tuesday which is refusing to
budge and has prevented me going to the club and has slowed down the
painting! ...
Spotlight On: Pimp & the Gimp Harem
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Meet Pimp and the Gimp Harem!!!
(Titter)
These are some of the nicest models around - really simple but just kind of
gloriously cool.
I have a mi...
Not So Scary Old SYW Baggage
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While waiting for the glue and gesso to dry on more mobs of Fuzzy-Wuzzy
warriors I got some baggage done for my SYW era armies. Since Hotlead 2012
is comin...
Lapsed Again
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Oh well started off OK. Sorry for lack of posts, a heavy painting schedule,
raising money for Salute by digging out unused items, photographing them
and pu...
Chaos Space Marine Lord: WiP 1
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Well it appears I forgot to do a little write-up when this
post originally went live. I doubt many will come back to read this, but
I'll do it anywho.
...
An Important Announcement
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Warhammer Tau is preparing for the fourth sphere expansion of the Tau
Empire and will be bringing you the very best in conversion guides,
painting tutorial...
Fow Tournament App Moving Along
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I haven't disappeared. I've been diligently working on the FoW Tournament
app over the last 2 months. Working with Joe Krone to get it the way
Battlefron...
Cyclops!
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*Reaper Cyclops squares up to a Foundry Argonaut*
Well, this is an unusual sort of figure for me. It is a Reaper Miniatures
Cyclops which I picked up re...
Auction Find!
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Hi!
Well I was at a local auction last night to drop off a load of tat for my
girlfriends mum and while there I spotted a big box of old White Dwarf
magaz...
Incoming--a Good WW2 Shooter Game
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*Incoming Review*
This is a fun little game for WW2 shooting, that you can play right out of
your browser right now.
*Incoming* just came out this month o...
WINGS OF WAR PROJECT
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By now from my previous posts I'm sure you all know that Wings of War has
become a favorite and it is a game I really want to play again as quickly
as po...
A Cracker Day on the Field
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My lad Reilly captained his Cricket team for this week's U/12s match. A
great game on a hot day, here is the match report, posted by a proud Dad
(BTW Reill...
Dr Grordbort Presents: The Deadliest Game
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Not much to report on the gaming or modelling front - I'm back at school,
so all else is pretty much on the back burner - but I did come across this
that I...
WIP: The Decapitator
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My friend Scott has had this awesome resin cast model of the "decapitator"
by the talented Randy Bowen in the box, in his cube at work... for.. ever.
Abo...
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...
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 ...
Magnetic Terrain
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I saw this idea on someone's blog ages back, so if it was you - thanks.
As we all know, it is annoying playing a game with nice terrain where you
have to k...
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 U...
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!...
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...
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 ...
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...
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....
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) ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Top Medieval Re-enactorisms
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Last weekend was the AGM of the MSS (Medieval Siege Society) and I ran a
session about Reenactorisms. This was not a lecture more an open
discussion. The f...
Holiday Sale!
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Well, since everyone else is doing it, why not :-) This time around, let's
have a sale on the SNAFU expansion. $10 instead of the usual $25. The sale
wi...
Holiday Sale!
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Well, since everyone else is doing it, why not :-) This time around, let's
have a sale on the SNAFU expansion. $10 instead of the usual $25. The sale
wi...
This blog has moved
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For technical reasons, I have moved to a different host with this blog,
which can now be found at http://www.henrys-wargaming.co.uk All content has
been mo...