After a short delay I am back to working on my Flames of War WWI Germans. This project is moving rapidly towards completion. This installment is the Infantry Machine-gun Platoon. Probably the most iconic unit of the war.
Warhammer 40,000 Orks v Black Templars
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The Gaming Heir returned for what he claimed was a "reading week" but felt
more like a "sleeping, eating all my food and using all my electricity
week" f...
Battleground 2024
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Yesterday we braved the elements to attend the Battleground show which is
even closer to home in its new venue than in previous years. Heavy snow
elsewhe...
Scenario for Rio Gevora, February 19, 1811
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A week from today we'll be playing the Battle of Rio Gevora (or Battle
of the Gebora), which took place in February 1811. With Massena's army
mired i...
Agravain!
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My daughter pre-ordered a copy of the latest Hail Caesar supplement, Once
and Future King for my birthday. Ordering direct from Warlord you got this
metal ...
Painting Guide: The Age of Reason.
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Coming soon. My latest (and possibly final) contribution to Road Safety.
Final version off to the printers today. Available through CALIVER BOOKS
shortl...
TaktiCon
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Kansas City has a very large wargaming community spread out across the
metro area, and since the demise of RECRUITs it's been tough to get the
band back...
Valour & Fortitude: Bergen Op Zoom 1814
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It says a lot about Valour & Fortitude rules that the Wollongong Wargamers
were happy to play them for a fifth straight week! (We'd had several
practice...
BLACK FRIDAY BOOK DEAL!
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For the 72 hours between 28th November and 30th November, the *WARFARE
MINIATURES BLACK FRIDAY BOOK DEAL* will allow you to get any or all of our
hardbac...
More new units for the Sudan
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So, continuing with the Beja contingent, I've added two more sword/spear
units (each 33 figures); a unit of camel warriors (11 figures - should be
12 fi...
Resin Gun Emplacements
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Blogger is still giving me fits on uploading images. I'm afraid this is
the best I can do.These resin terrain pieces were a Christmas gift from my
friend ...
Trench Crusade Observer
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Hey all, It seems like painting one model at the time, although very unlike
me, is proving to be quite efficient for me ! With some of the mercenaries
fr...
Early War French Colour Guide
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I've been away from Blogger for more or less two and a half years now.
Admittedly sometimes I've felt the urge to share some of my work again, but
than rea...
Park Signs you wish you saw
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Here is a little humor to brighten up your day. I will be taking a but
if time off my blog. Fact us the election has caused a major depression in...
More Little boats: Poleacre and America's
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A polacca through it's first stages before basing, priming, and painting.
A little houy.
I finished assembling and rigging a few more ships including a lit...
Fire Forge Samurai Minis
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After watching the new vesions of Shogun I was once again hooked in the
Feudal Japanese history and the later Sengoku period 1540 -1600.
Ofcourse the...
The Ravaged Coast, part 1
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*The Ravaged Coast* is a new narrative Warcry campaign, set in Aqshy,
published in White Dwarf #504 (September 2024). The full text has also been
publishe...
Prussian reinforcements (1)
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Fresh from the inspiration of last weeks game I've been working on some
more Prussians for the 6mm Napoleonic collection. All the miniatures are
from ...
Seven Years War at Partizan
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Sorry for the lack of posts this last few weeks! I have been very busy
getting the, Seven Years War, demonstration game ready for the 2nd Partizan
show ...
Forge Fathers Reinforcements
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I've been slowly making my way through some more old school Forge Father
minis, this time the full metal minis which came out after the metal
upgrade kit f...
Spanish First Rate one of los Meregildos
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The ship has been on my hobby desk for way too long. I was trying a new
aproach to rigging that didn't work out and I had to touch it up and start
over.....
"Lust for Glory" at Colours
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Here are a few shots of the first test game of the "horse and musket" rules
I've been working on, tentatively named "Lust for Glory."
This was the fir...
Dronningens Livregiment
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Another unit for my growing Danish army... Warfare Miniatures, of course!
The mounted officer is from one of the Cuirassier Officer packs (tricorns &
fro...
French Ordonnance vs Maximilian Imperials
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I've been lucky to get four or five games in over the last few months and
this might be the last one for a while- so it was gonna be a good
one.Ross's ear...
ACW Command Stands
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Finally got around to adding some command stands for my ACW armies although
to be honest I've had these done for a few weeks already. Although I
haven...
The Dead Rise in Warhammer Quest 95!
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Welcome back Adventurers,
Its been a while since I last posted, but had an interesting few months
with lots of stuff going on around the home. But earlie...
Napoleonic Naval - 1st June 1794
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Wtih models and rules provided by local naval enthusiast Andrew Taylor, a
group of us got together on the 230th anniversary of The Glorious First of
June 1...
Memorial Day
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Here in the States, today is Memorial day. For most people it is a Monday
off work. There will be lots of grilling, parties with families and
friends an...
Logs
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Another quick post. Good chum Colin gifted these lovely resin pieces to me
(thanks mate!). These were beautifully cast and very straightforward to
paint us...
Two new Civil War titles from Osprey!
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Osprey Publishing has released two new titles related to the American Civil
War. Timothy J. Orr and Steve Noon again have collaborated to produce the
secon...
8 Rads - Gotta love ‘em #1
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So, one of the most popular builds I’ve done, in all scales, is by far the
Sdkfz 234/2 ( commonly, but disputed, aka Puma), so with another queued up,
I...
Empirical Army update #1 plus a little bit extra
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So I have made some progress on my Empire Army repaint; in this case six
Great Swords who were originally part of a larger twelve man unit. My
original p...
Aztecs
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The book
Eagle Knight
warriors
Conquistadors
All painted by DJ
These figures are a cross over from the Malta collection.
Still a fair bit of this to see.
Blood Bowl Sideline Lizards
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Hot off the printer, it’s a few entirely unnecessary but fun extra
miniatures for my Blood Bowl team! My team of dodgy lizard guys has just
completed their...
Scenes from the Barrowmaze
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My daughter and I started playing thru Barrowmaze , (which if you are not
familiar is a classic mega dungeon campaign for old school style RPG play) ...
CarrierCon 2021 - USS Hornet
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NorCal hosted a small skirmish tournament aboard the USS Hornet in the
ward room, and I brought a recon force with Pumas, backed by Hetzers. In
Round On...
MY FIRST HOMEMADE 3D PRINTED ARMY
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I took the plunge to buy into the 3d game, having hovered on the sidelines
watching the mini-hobby develop for a couple of years.
My son and I recently ...
Re-routing - Preparing the Walnut for Assembly!
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Once the various stringers had been laminated together, the next step would
be to rout channels in the wood to add the sheets of maple plywood which
would ...
The Cynical Seven - Desperados Gang
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*"The liquor's all gone boys..."*
Finished up my Desperados gang for Dead Man's Hand. Just a few pics to
share as I didn't get too many to turn out that ...
Review: Oathmark Goblin Wolf Riders
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The Goblin Wolf Riders are the first Oathmark models I have bought and I
purchased them specifically to add hobgoblin light cavalry to my Chaos
Dwarf a...
The "Hitari" Brothers, Masters of Death
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Pues tenemos enemigos para el Lobo, perdon Perro solitario y su cachorro,
los famosos hermanos Hidari, maestros de la muerte de Bac Ninh Miniatures.
Bigboss 2020 Year in Review
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Another year has passed and it is time to wrap it up and move on! Blogging
as a platform is still on a downward curve as seen the last few years but
intera...
33 Ford Coupe
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I finished up the video on the 33 Ford Coupe. This is a much cleaner
build than the Mustang I posted last week. I was trying a new paint, Turbo
Dork M...
MORE MARINES
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Hi again!
The summer wasn't a particularly productive period from a hobby
perspective, but once the cold autumn winds started to blow things have
picked...
New post and some Oathmark Goblins!
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Hello all! I reconnected with my old blog! Looking back it was Kings of
war and the like. Now I will be showing you my progress on Oathmark Battles
of T...
326 BC The Battle of Hydaspes
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Just posting a few images from the game we played yesterday afternoon, The
Battle of Hydaspes, where Alexanders veteran army fought the Indian King
Porus...
Gardens of Hecate Studio
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*D*ear readers,
You are looking at the final post of this blog. It's been going for more
than eight years, and time has come for it to shut down... Because...
This is the end...
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So after 16 years of blogging here on blogger, I have decided to end it.
...and have opened a new site here that I hope to turn into a fully fledged
ho...
Island Natives from Firelock Games
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*Island natives are must when playing adventurous pirate games in the
Caribbean. My buddy Jens got some island natives from Firelock Games to
form a "crew"...
Kings Clash
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This weekend was a spectacular Songapalooza event, where A Song of Ice and
Fire was played almost non stop for 3 days!
The primary goal was to test out...
Warhammer Underworlds - Godsworn (Oathsworn) Hunt
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I continue to enjoy playing *Warhammer Underworlds (aka Shadespire or
Nightvault).* It is a fun game where the character abilities, cards, and
board lay-o...
Mongol War Machines
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This post is my recently completed heavy fire power for my fantastical
Mongol collection. The crew are a combination of bits. Heads from FireForge
Mongol p...
Things are rumbling along!
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So, the launch of the Kickstarter for my book ARMIES & LEGIONS & HORDES
went off with a bang! It funded in three hours, and has continued to go
great gu...
3 comments:
Are those the models I saw with the new basing material? They look nice.
Yeah, that's the new texture gel. With paint it looks almost like the other stuff. Close enough for me.
It does look good, a good alternative.
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