I have been gaming since school, moving from historical figures gaming through role playing and back again. I decided to Blog after being persuaded by some friends that it's time I joined the digital age properly. The plan is to showcase various goings-on in my gaming life and keep it updated as much as I possibly can, barring work and real life.
I'm a Winner
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Yesterday I found out that I had won a Book from fellow Blogger Ian via his
excellent site The Blog with No Name. If you haven't visited Ian's site yet
th...
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 ...
Well it's been 5 months
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Well 6 months if you concider only 28mm, but I'm back to painting
Napoleonics.
I got myself some warlord plastic russians.
The box is rather od, while some...
Designing scenarios part 2 - the rôle of the umpire
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Following on from part one, this section (perhaps inevitably) merits more
thought than I expected when I started laying out the plans for this series
(wo...
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...
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...
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...
Husares de Concordia Ready to Rock.
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After what seems an age I've finally completed the Husares de Concordia for
my Liberators! Royalist forces. These will be brigaded with the previously
comp...
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...
Hold the Front Page
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It is the first of March so an appropriate day for me to dip a brush into a
paint pot and apply colour to a figure for the first time this year! I did
say...
REVIEW: The Whisperer in Darkness
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Even with all of its divergences from its source text -- some forgivable,
some not -- *The Whisperer in Darkness* is still one of the best movies
directly...
Huscarls, Wastelanders and 15mm Hover cars
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Still have a whole batch of vehicles to work on, but the eight D.A.K
Panzers now have a proper base coat and should be finished by tomorrow.
Saturday at th...
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...
Operation "Bagration" 1944: The Rout (Part Four)
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Amazingly, but somehow true to form, the German fighting retreat, as this
has become, continues to survive. The Rapid Fire rules set is holding up
well in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
British Heavy Dragoons
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A few pics of the British Heavy Dragoons I paint over Christmas for the
fine chaps at Victrix.
A real joy to paint and its great to see them based up so...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Davids Artillery 1
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My brother David has been speeding through his French 15mm figures with the
latest on the painting table being these OG French foot artillery.
David like...
Movie Vignette "The Longest Day"
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In my previous post I did a little conversion. Now I did a bigger one. And
this for the first time in my life. Untill now I did some headswaps, or
just cut...
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 ...
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...
More Spanish Gunners.
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Hi gent's,
Painted up more of the Spanish gunners over the weekend here is the result!
Finished another 12 of the gunners today.Still a few to do but really...
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...
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...
Front Rank Pavlovsk Grenadiers - Completed
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Well I broke down and used a hair dryer to speed up the Minwax drying time
- it seems to have worked as the Testors Dullcote is pretty flat. Added
some hig...
More Bushido
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Here are my next two Bushido figures. Aiko and Kenko.
Now ive been playing around with some new camera settings and im getting
much clearer closer pictures...
18th - 19th Feb, Burton on Trent
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Badcon 2012 - Burton Doubles
The second of the year's big doubles events comes round quickly after Uskat Burton
on Trent, the home of the brewing industry....
A Cattle Raid
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Last Tuesday my freshly painted Viking army got their first outing on the
table and it was a really fun, tense game. George had intended to bring his
Saxon...
Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler
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I know books are not good for me. Good historical fiction is really bad for
me.
I enjoyed Andy Johnson's book Seelowe Nord so much that I just had to
warg...
Pavis journal 4
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Vous en aviez déjà vu certaines, mais j'ai rajouté un peu de flocage entre
temps...
*You've already seen a few but I flocked them and took better picture...
40mm de Ligne 1st Battalion
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This fine Walloon regiment (ie raised in the Austrian Netherlands) has made
many, but not all, of the official uniform changes ordered between the WAS
an...
AWI For Sale Painted/Unpainted
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I'm considering heading in a different direction with some projects,
including AWI, but only if I can find a buyer for these. I want to sell as
a complete ...
The many angles of a wargamer
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I borrow this from Grog News blog, I found it particularly funny
Talking about which, are you rally open with your friends, relatives and
work colleagues ...
Club meeting Feb 2012
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The Valiant Stormer's first club meet of the year was quite well attended
with three games running, the two Chris's and two Dave's played Might and
Reason...
Serendipities and felicitations
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O frabjous day! I quite unexpectedly came across a treasure trove of
Piedmontese-Savoyard regimental flags that I thought I would never find. I
was mindi...
Recent Gaming (15th February 2012)
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I meant to post this last week, but got distracted with editing podcast
episodes… I’ve been playing miniature games for several weeks at Scimitar
Wargames ...
Ancients For Sale
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*(Edit: Ancients, Medievals, etc. for sale.) *
A list of what I've dug up so far. Only interested in lots, not single
figures. Prices don't include postage...
AWI/ACW Models
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A North American style barn based on one used as a makeshift hospital from
the ACW battle of Gettysburg. Its quite a character filled model with lots
of do...
Riders of Rohan: Horses Primed
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After assembling the horses, I primed them all with a primer grey. Then I
divided them into 3 groups. One set was spray painted with red brown. These
would...
Advancing Pike Batch Three and Counting...
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Put the final touches to batch number three of my advancing pike. One more
to go...
Can't quite see the trumpeter, so took another shot. Nice, simple
mod...
1K Lives- 1066 and all that
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A local Muswellian friend of mine, John Squire-Melmoth, has been writing
and reading a series aseries of short stories, each of which uses exactly
1,000 ...
28mm OG foot Samurai
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I finished these a bit ago but just finished basing them. I found a box of
washers in my toolbox that happen to be 20mm outside diameter so they were
used...
Basic Ambush
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*Victorious charge of the Greek cavalry.*
My newly organized, refurbished and rebased Greco-Bactrians took the field
today. A routine convoy near the bord...
Celt-Iberian Infantry
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Glenn's army will have one unit of Celt-Iberians. These excellent figures are from Crusader.I tried to use a mix of the Celtic and Spanish colors from the p...
Temporary Offline
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Unfortunately I'll be offline for the foreseeable future (could be weeks or
possibly months). I've had to move out of my flat due to the roof
(literally) f...
Russian Pandour and Hussars part four
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*Uniform of the Hussars and Padours 1741-1763 By Vladimar "Gromboy'
Velikanov*
(*my notes are in black bold italic, line drawings are from a Russian site
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What have I done!!
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Oops, seemed to have gone a bit overboard..................and made a small
purchase from a nice chap on E-bay. I havent really been into warhammer
40k an...
Shén, part 2
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I have the four Shén miniatures mounted up, and am now about to prime them. But, I am considering a slightly different way, at least for the Diplomat.
O...
Flo Green: World's Last WWI Veteran Dies.
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Florence Green, the world's last surviving WWI veteran, died in her sleep
at a care home in Norfolk just two weeks before her 111th birthday. She was
th...
Scale modeling update
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I've actually done it, posted an update within a timely manner. Here's the
1/72 Jake I've finally finished.
And the Junkers D.1 The decals silvered badly ...
Still alive here.
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My apologies for not posting over the past month. With the new year came
with it a new job so my primary focus has been to get settled down with
that. Un...
Enemy at the Gates
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Inicio da Vinheta para o concurso da Modelstep. Inimigo às Portas.
Beginning of the model for the Modelstep competition. Enemy at the gates.
Talisman Boardgame
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Recently, "Fantasy Flight" company re-published old classic - "Talisman"
boardgame. I was aware of the game but never played it before. Few months
ago I pl...
Progress on the 'Immortal miniatures' hoplites
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This is the progress so far. There are 15 'classical' hoplites on the
left (blue shields) from the 'classical hoplites' set set to represent
Athenian...
2012 - end of the world
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Among finishing off various projects this year I've decided to launch into
something new for 2012......namely some post apocalyptic gaming which seems
fitt...
Happy New Year, and some more Brit Armour
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Happy new year everyone, and thanks for all your support over the years.
I'm really astonished that i've got so many followers and page views, so
thanks, a...
Han Dynasty and Warring States Chinese
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The impetus for building this army came from a purchase of a fantasy
Chinese army which I realized could serve as the core of a historical force
as well. S...
They think it's all over.....
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It is now.....
So with painting points at an all time low..
And the winter being spent reboxing and sorting out what figures I actually
have, I have invis...
Fright Night 2011!!!
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Image created by Ted Henkle.
This weekend, a small spooky affair took place at Historic Fort Steilacoom,
WA. The grounds surrounding the fort's old location...
An Illustrated History of Family Planning in Korea
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In the aftermath of the Korean War, the young South Korean Republic faced
an influx of over two million refugees from North Korea and a post-war baby
boom...
Site News
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Sorry to say that I'm going to take this site down at the end of this week.
I know I've mentioned this before, but just don't have the time to do it
justic...
more stuff
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The next items likely to be released by ODGW are new *GQIII* Deluxe ship
logs, they are not quite ready, but will be available at some point.
Huns
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Here we have some dastardly Hun allies for my Gothic led raiding party.
Here are the armies I have lined up for next Tuesdays game.
Goths
no Name ...
roman dba camp
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Hi folk,
as I saw this little nice miniature colosseum at a souvenir shop in Rome
for just 1€ I bought it instanly.
I painted up the guys in the front- th...
Shogun 2 release date 15th March 2011
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Apart from the real Mcoy wargames I also am a massive fan of the Total War
games from Creative Assembly.
The original Shogun was groundbreaking with superb...
3mm ACW
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I'm currently working on a small selection of 3mm ACW buildings to add to
the current 3mm range. The first to be completed...well almost, is this 3mm
piece...
28mm terrain for AE Bounty
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hello,
just a progress shot of some modular terrain boards Im working on for AE
BOUNTY.
these are 2 out of 4 boards im working on. each is 24 b...
Update
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There are many of you good fellows out there for whom painting 28mm figures
is a dawdle, and you will have your figure painting techniques honed to
perfec...
MY SECOND ATTACK AT THE ROMANS
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The wounds received at the battle of Zama on Saturday have now healed and
once again I am about to attack those pesky Romans, this time with a paint
brush,...
Stars*n*Bars available once again
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If you like American Civil War Gaming, Stars*n*Bars is once again
available, and in pdf format.
Truly one of the finest representations ever for simulating...
Byzantine Army - Part Two
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Well, I will start this blog episode with a hearty thanks to Jim aka
ColCampbell from TMP! Thanks to his advice on how blog the pictures and the
descripti...
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