A Shortcut to the Back of Beyond
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The Back of Beyond game was such fun the other day that I've found myself
once again mulling over the options for another army. I realised that I
actu...
Kings German Legion Infantry - rebased
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The first batch of my Napoleonic British infantry to be replaced was my
Kings German Legion Infantry Brigade. In addition to rebasing I also added
in the m...
Detroik Dyin's
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Well, it's been a while. I wonder if anyone still looks at the blog? I've
not picked a brush up for about 8 years. The long and short of it is
bringing ...
Autobot Slammer
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After creating Blitzwing I started to look up Autobot tanks. I came across
Slammer, a bot I'd never heard of before. I liked his blocky design so
decided...
Joseon Army - Perry Figures
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Here's the Joseon army to date - the only figure not from Perry is the guy
in red with one of the hwacha. Also, the multi-barreled gun is from another
ma...
Achilles Rampant! Farewell to the Lad
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Reilly is leaving home very shortly and moving to the Australian State of
Queensland (thats 2000kms away) so the club fellahs got together for a big
bash...
Freikorps Command Post.
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The second vignette for the "Fiume 192?"demonstration game for Partizan in
May. A command post for the German Freikorps. Figures from Great War
Miniatur...
BattleGroup
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Last Thursday a bunch of us got together our Club Games Night to play an
alternate WWII game. Luis and his friend Jean-Philipe put on the game which
fe...
Bataljon Jagers No. 27
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I have been cracking on with a larger unit of Dutch-Belgian infantry for
the Hundred Days collection.
The 27th Light Battalion was part of van Bylandt's...
God Save the Queen!
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Done! It took longer than I liked, but I finally finished the small starter
army for the British in my Crimean War project. I'm hoping to get these
lads ...
28mm Classical Greeks: Hoplites
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I had already painted enough Crusader Miniatures hoplites to field most of
a Greek army for Commands and Colors. All I lacked was three heavy infantry
base...
West Midlands Military Show 2024
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The *West Midlands Military Show* was held yesterday and I spent most of
the morning and lunchtime browsing the exhibits and trade stands. Here are
some...
NWF - Last Stand at Gandamak
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This week is another visit to the North West frontier. I have had the Last
Stand at Gandamak set from Iron Duke in the lead pile since it was
released ...
Ulrik Ulrikson
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Another Heroic Fighter joins the fray - the vaguely Norse themed Ulrik
Ulrikson.
He still needs a shield, but I don’t seem to have any of the old plast...
All the New Horse
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I've recently, with the big Salute game in mind, added just over 100 new
28mm cavalry to my ECW armies. Around half the minis are from eBay
purchases, r...
Russian 3pdr bn gun
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One of the things I really wanted for my Seven Years war Russian collection
was a 3pdr BN gun.
I managed to get Richard Dickens to make one for Claymo...
Tutorials on TAP (The Army Painter that is)
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*Taps microphone* Is this thing on? Wow, it's been quite a while since the
last time I posted on here, but I'm back! Where have I been I hear you
asking...
Five Bananas From Home
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When I first played Sellswords & Spellslingers I went through some big
misunderstandings of the rules through the early campaign, but I really
liked the ...
1st Regiment of Life Guards
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Just about scraping in to 2023! Here, finally, are a troop of the 1st Life
Guards to round off the year. I've been very busy doing yet another
regiment ...
Mounted Longbowmen (I)
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Just managed a quick post, before the Festive break.
This is quick update on the Burgundian longbowmen, who are a work in
progress. I decided that these...
Merry Christmas 2023 and Always
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This painting arrived as a Christmas card a few days ago. It is the most
beautiful depiction of love and adoration of Jesus by heavenly angels and
his...
Senjutsu: Battle for Japan
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I haven't actually played it yet, but I've seen the videos, read the rules,
and it looks fun. Not only that, but I already have a sizeable collection
...
WIP Emperor's Children (30K)
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Out of Storage Part 4: A Mixed Bag
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Pulling out drawers and giving some of these minis the light of day.
AT43
US Army Infrantry and Jeeps
US Army Infrantry, Jeeps and Tanks
Ditto
Star Wars and...
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...
Back to Neverwhere
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I was delighted to come home from vacation the other day to find an Amazon
delivery waiting for me. I'd pre-ordered *Den Volume I: Neverwhere* months
a...
Cannich Scots
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Also known as part two of the *Shadows of Yog-Sothoth* segment in our *Call
of Cthulhu *campaign. Arriving in Scotland, our three intrepid
investigators ...
Time for another post!
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As I haven't posted since August last year I feel it's probably high time
I posted again (maybe now a sort of bi-annual thing?) No sooner recovered
fro...
New Napoleonic Rules
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As mentioned I have put up a page on the blog with the new version of my
napoleonic rules (Napoleonic Squares v2), which I tested out at Partizan
last we...
Navarre Infantry - 1st battalion
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This is the third unit of Carlist infantry I painted towards the end of
2020 (I was determined to erase my Carlist War lead-pile). I assigned it
to Nav...
Reiksguard Unit Complete!!
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For my January submission to the Call of the Crown painting challenge I
have produced a unit of 15 Reiksguard knights to act as the elite heavily
armore...
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...
Hello world!
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Welcome to Astra Starter Templates. This is your first post. Edit or delete
it, then start blogging!
The post Hello world! first appeared on mythicast.com.
French Knights for Patay (IV)
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So I made some progress over the earlier summer months, to add more bases
of French knights for a future Patay game.
Here are some pics. They are pret...
SAGA L'Age d'Alexandre : Session 5 FIN
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Une session 5 honteuse, vous pouvez lancer les tomates !!
Je n'ai pas atteint mes objectifs, 2 figs de peintes seulement et un pont !!
Les éléphants s...
Getting on Even Footing
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* by: farmpunk*
I got busy, and didn't write about something I'm beyond excited about! Some
friends and I started a Game Company. Primarily Role Playing...
Witchhunter and knight models find new home
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In a surprise turn of events, the witch hunter, footknight and mounted
knight models have rejoined their dwarven, halfling and zombie brethren
under the...
Ancient / Medieval village church
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The finished small village church/chapel, made from poly board with the
outer covering of card mostly removed and the exposed foam scribed with
lines to ...
Grimy Green Ghostly Skeleton Revenants
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Kevin Dallimore wrote this fine article on a variant of painting undead
Revanants for Oathmark, and I wanted to try it out on my Triumph of Death
skel...
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.
Part 3: Tzeentch's Eternal Conflagration
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*Kairos Fateweaver, Oracle of Tzeentch*
Now that you guys have been following my posts about my recent *army
commission*, let me take you through how I pla...
Prussian Horse Artillery WIP1
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Just started the last of my Prussian artillery, this time AB horse
artillery loading crew.
These are some of my favourite Prussian figures, I'm guessing...
Battle of the Falklands - a Full Thrust scenario
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Battle of the Falklands
A Full Thrust Scenario by Phil Broeders
*Authors notes*
This scenario is based on the The Battle of the Falkland Islands, ...
2020 Good year, bad year
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I thought I'd put together a few photos from the past year, some of it has
already appeared here, most not, its mainly just pictures of figures I've
pai...
NEW Appendix N Video Review Series
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Daniel, over at The Dungeon Dive, is starting up a Youtube review series
of various Appendix N authors, I highly recommend you follow along with his
inves...
Terrain & Tokens
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A small parcel of OO scatter terrain purchased on eBay arrived this
morning from Pete at *Model Railway Scenes*. The casting/printing is
impressive. ver...
Blogging about Space Hulk
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Written by Ron Saikowski, October 10, 2020I've decided to start blogging
and sharing my Space Hulk material. Space Hulk: Boarding Mission Space Hulk
has al...
Adeptus Titanicus AT18 Narrative Campaign System
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I have recently produced a narrative campaign system for Games Workshop's
Adeptus Titanicus (AT18). You can find it here:
*ADEPTUS TITANICUS NARRATIVE...
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...
Martian whimsy
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I fancied making something a little more whimsical for Mars... Why not a
bandstand and some gardens.
For the bandstand the roof was printed and most of t...
Time to get back to work ..updates
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I've neglected to post new stuff the past few years (?). A friend of mine
commented that I should finish the artillery section and then the cavalry
sect...
Working on a new game!
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After many, many yeats I'm working on a hex-based, introductory wargame
that will cover different historical periods. I'm very excited by this new
projec...
Wargaming Montrose's Campaign (1644-45)
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Montrose’s 1644-45 campaign offers plenty of scope for the war-gamer. The
numbers in the forces involved are fairly small, the battles varied in
scope and ...
GENERAL D'ARMEE on CYL TV
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Hi Team
Here are the videos I've created thus for covering some General D'Armee
games:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8VX1GJ37NUyDgdO1lmE6rAzo87zT...
British Light Infantry
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The light company of the 49th Regiment of Foot was part of the 2nd Light
Battalion formed in North America by General Howe's order of 14th May 1776.
The ot...
Arapaho Indian 75mm from Pegaso models with Horse
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A quick turnaround this time as I did say I have been needing to post
several of my works.
So here we have a 75mm Arapaho Indian with his trusty steed, bot...
15mm Battered Markers for Dragon Rampant......
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*........and some ladders!*
*The gravestones are leftovers and MDF from Blotz, these are used to
signify a unit in distress marker for the rules, rather t...
Clearing Out My 40K Cabinet
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As you might've guessed from the conclusion of the battle report earlier in
the week, I've decided to sell off a good chunk of my 40K collection. This
post...
Astropolis Enginarium Crew
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Another group of Astropolis crew members, this time the the crew of the
mighty ship's Enginarium. No starndard GW techpriest here, although I'm
looking aro...
We've Moved
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Hey all, just to update you guys The Duke has officially moved to be part
of my other site Unboxed the Board Game Blog. You can continue to follow me
over ...
Joan of Arc Time of Legends - First Scenario
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Fun game! Remember you activate areas NOT units . This means units can move
rather quickly across the battlefield! Just played the first scenario and I
pla...
40K Terrain Bits and Pieces
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While I have not posted much so far this year, there have been plenty of
projects underway on the hobby table. The biggest driver has been our
group's 40K...
Big Jim's Middle Earth Birthday Bash
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So we got together yesterday to celebrate my birthday and play some Middle
Earth SBG. We had 6 players broke up into two teams of 3 one playing the
forces ...
292: One Force all, and all Force One
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Here is my generic marines force, purposefully designed to be as "generic"
as possible, allowing maximum flexibility to field a force from any of the
codic...
Eraclea 280 a.C. - Scenario per DBA
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*"Nel 280 a.C. Pirro, Re dell’Epiro, attraversò il mare Adriatico per
avventurarsi in una complessa campagna militare contro Roma per il
controllo dell...
Battle Ravens Preview - PSC games
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Battle Ravens is a brand new boardgame created by Dan Mersey and produced
by the Plastic Soldier Company (http://www.pscgames.co.uk/). Apologies to
both as...
WIP: Der erste Thug ist mal bemalt
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Der erste Thug ist buntMeine Frostgrave-Bande geht weiter voran. Nun hat
der erste Thug Farbe bekommen. Das Base fehlt noch. Wie schon die beiden
Thiefs, ...
Averaigne royal family
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Every kingdom has a royal family. In the case of my campaign setting of
Averaigne, it's a fairly young kingdom but they are still on their eleventh
king in...
Marine invasion
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Another great game of Team Yankee in 20mm tonight with Mark Piper. US
Marines come ashore in Denmark 1985 to counter a Soviet offensive but are
pushed ba...
Mighty Empires Hexagons
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Hi everyone,
Just finished up painting the Mighty Empires plastic hexagons and I put on
them on Ebay for sale. These pieces come with detail on both sides...
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...
French Line Infantry
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Here are two battalions of 1812 to 1815 French Line Infantry. The figures
are all Perry Miniatures, a mix of plastic and metal and most of them...
Tau of War Masterpiece Commissions: Cypher
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Cypher is a hunted man. The Dark Angel Interrogator Chaplains are
relentless in their pursuit, following every lead no matter how bizarre.
Cypher cannot fa...
October already?
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The annual update was meant as a joke initially, but has become a sad
reality.
This year blogging has taken a severe hit by Photobucket's policy change.
M...
Conan: Bêlit, Queen of the Black Coast
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Bêlit is the eponymous character from Queen of the Black Coast, and is
Conan's first real love (of only two). She's a pirate queen, terrorizing
the South...
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It's half term. Which means this is happening: It also means that I'll be
trying to do something geeky. I still cant even begin to contemplate
anything 40k...
BEHIND AMMO
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Hi dear friends. 1 month ago we made this video to celebrate 3 years of
AMMO life. It is the history of our young company, and I hope you like it.
Also, I ...
Campaign dressed Poles
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We've been working on developing Poles in campaign uniforms that can be
used for Retreat from Moscow, Germany in 1813 and the Peninsular.
The idea was to ...
Leman Russ Competition: Vote
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Cast your vote and help us to choose the winner of our Leman Russ
Competition.
12 battle reports were submitted, 8 were deemed worthy to be published on
t...
TnT: K1LL-80T Communist Securitron
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Hi Folks,
In my first game I got lucky and Head Scribe Kaine managed to find and
activate a military Securiton (Freelancer Depend-o-Bot)
After equippin...
TOMBA DI BALIN 3
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Bene signori, la tomba è finita. Colorazione a pennello su base di primer
dato ad aerografo. Spero vi piaccia. Devo dire che sono molto soddisfatto!
...
How to make: Saxon Huts
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Hi Chaps,
Hope you are all well.
These past few days, I've been working on some new projects, for a new
game, that I think you already know, it is called...
El Cid - Reconquista pt 8
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I have just finished up four bases of Skirmish bow. I have been busy with
school - still - so I have not had too much time for painting. I am at
least on t...
SALE!!!
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STEEL FIST MINIATURES SALE!!!
In the next two days I'm going to start reducing the prices of most of the
packs on the steel fist miniatures website for TWO...
Blog re-launched (elsewhere)
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Hi all,
I haven't gone completely offline – I simply moved my blog elsewhere (as I
mentioned much earlier). Now you can catch me at our Chest of Colors
web...
I am alive part 2
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And as I promised, here is the big update that I have been talking about:
My Prussians are based on the *Großgörschen* OoB from the General de
Brigade sc...
20mm WW2 - US M3A1 halftracks
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Well, these took me a while to finish. They were 90% done in Januari and
I've been staring at them on my workbench since. Until last month... I
finally h...
Waterloo (1970) the souvenir programme
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Everyone else on the wargaming blogosphere seems to be celebrating the
200th anniversary of Waterloo today with quite a few posts featuring the
poster f...
A quick update.
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Just a quick update as I've not posted in a while. Work on the 15mm Feudal
English army for DBA continues (photos to follow) and should should be
complet...
A new deployment
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New Deployment:
By 749.M41 the 291st Death Korps of Krieg had received the bulk of its
draft of replacements from Krieg. The replacements had been integra...
Forward to AdeptiCon 2016. Citadel.
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*It is July 1943. Stalingrad, against all odds, has held.*
*In an attempt to regain the initiative, the Germans plan a major
offensive. Operation Citadel w...
No Mean City Session 1.1 "National Express"
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Session 1.1 THE NATIONAL EXPRESS
* Take the National Express when your life's in a mess It'll make you smile
All human life is here...
CONAN , the board game
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Some friends who bought into the Conan board game kickstarter printed out
the starter gameboard, cards an other items, made a dice conversion sheet
and we ...
Some reinforcements for SoBaH
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Hey Guys,
I have painted some miniatures as reinforcements for my Song of Blades &
Heroes warbands.
The whole group together. On the left two Norse or...
Happy Halloween
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Happy Halloween from A Gentleman's Ones and from Anvil Eight Games. Let's
hear it for High Fructose Corn Syrup!
complements of Chris "one take" Tavonatti
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I have a new website! Complete with a store and educational archive. A lot
of the walk-throughs posted here will end up in the tutorials section of
the sit...
Auctioning my Space Wolves Army!
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My friends, all good things must come to an end, and so I have decided to
part with my dear Space Wolves army with the help of eBay. My army, led by
the...
Painting Table Update
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Hi all,
Wow 2 posts in 2 days, I'm on a roll! Thought I would post up the paint
station every now and then to share what I'm currently working on.
I'v...
Casting Season
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It's casting season here at the Lead Gardens. The weather has "springed
up" and it's perfect for getting
outside and starting on some summer casting proj...
World Cup Group Odds
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World Cup 2014 Outright Winner Betting Odds
This performs the exact same way with men and women You and I might get
infected with worms unintentionally swa...
Mordheim Campaign start is sneaking up on me
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I have slacked a little in posting WIP for my Mordheim preparations but
that doesn't mean I haven't been hard at work, quite the contrary.
I am nearly done...
Tyrolian Rebels 1809
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Here my frist Tyrolian Command unit.
The figure are fro Eureka Miniatures and the flags
do Stuart Wilson from Maverick Flags for me.
Beautilful flags!
Games from the 2013 Congress
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A few pics of some of the games at the Napoleonic Congress this year
the brave frigate cops it form a first rate at close range!
French vs British Penins...
SCW's Latest Fundraising Project
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Please check out our latest effort for the holidays at Santa Cruz Warhammer and
you can help up make this holiday wish come true.
Back from the Warp!
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Well, it has been a while! I've been up to quite a bit over the last few
months. As you can see from the picture above I managed to get the World
Eater...
Saxe-Coburg Voltigeurs, 4th regiment of the Rhine
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The first two battalions for the 4th Rhinbund regiment included a voltigeur
company comprising of men supplied by the duchies of Saxe- Coburg-Saalfeld.
Thi...
Flames of war - open fire Germans
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I was given this as a present for Christmas (after some rather in subtle
hinting from me) Mrs Kipper treated me, like many of a certain age I've
had/ playe...
IN HER MAJESTY'S NAME NICKSTARTER
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One last plug for the IN HER MAJESTY'S NAME Nickstarter from Osprey and
North Star Miniatures, which runs until 18th April. Spiffing stuff.
Back from AWOL.
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Hi everyone, it has been too long. I got a chance to kick around the house
today for the first time in months and decided I would make it a priority
to po...
Painting a Helldrake x2
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Let me start off by saying I know I am not a great painter. There are tons
of great painters out there and I am thankful for the fact that they
produce gr...
Painting Tutorial
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Hello all together,
just wanted to let you know that I have released a painting tutorial for
Landskenchts on our new website: Click this link to get to the...
More Vikings....
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Finished the next two Vikings. Gripping Beast and Artizan.
Pictures still aren't the best, but for the moment that's all there is.
The next pair ar...
Austrian 1st Uhlans 'Schwarzenberg'
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(Originally posted on the Home Page on Sept. 2nd, 2012)
As I mentioned in an earlier post these fellas have been kicking their
heels on my paint desk for ...
Current projects
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After lots of sorting out of the lead pile, and an ongoing ebay sell off
I've settled on a couple of periods that I want to spend real time on. The
first i...
A Couple of Short Scraps
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It's been a couple of weeks since my last post but we have still been
playing out the campaign in the meantime. Our battle at Markendorf
finished prematur...
Lancers forward!
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Some Imperial Mexican lancers looking to skewer any poor republicans that
happen in their way. First Corp figures converted from their Rush's Lancers
pa...
15mm Urban Bases [URBCOBSET1]
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Some test shots of a new range of nominally 15mm-20mm bases. The range will
consist of both the standard base plus the popular blind holes to accept
figure...
Models for sale and new book!
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I mentioned before that I would be selling most of my collection. After
much deliberation, I will be keeping some of it (such as my 15mm ECW
project which ...
Macbeth is a Pussy
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Sup guys
today I am going to tell you a story about a guy
who sucks so bad you aren't even allowed to say his name in theaters anymore
his name is
MACBETH
...
The end of my Sharks.
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And so I must let you all know that I am stopping my Space Sharks.
After the triumph of my Star Wars themed army, I need to look at all of my
armies and ch...
Fin des émissions pour un avenir prévisible
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End of programme for the foreseeable future.
Comme vous avez pu le constater, depuis un certain temps, les mises à jour
de ce blog se sont faites de plus e...
Hello Kitty WIP complete!...wait..what?!
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No Space Shark update today, got one one of the girliest post you'll ever
see on deck instead.
I have had another project on my table to complete with th...
We're Moving!!
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Well bear cubs, IIWPA... is about to change, hopefully for the better. I
have partnered up with Pariah Stevo and Wiley the Nord to create Da Deff
Komp'ny,...
Crusade Mighty
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Hey guys, Mighty here with the first part of my Black Templar army. I just
purchased the Space Marine battle force, a box of Space Marine Terminators,
an...
(PM-05) Cretan Archers - Part 1
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This is a bit of a quickie project. It's part of my experiments with
"dipping." I've posted a bit abour my first experiment at my regular blog.
As a "quic...
last post b4 xmas
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no doubt this will be my last post before Xmas, with some international
brigade figures finished and a republican HMG team.but on the paint table
from toda...
French Porte-Fanions.... a little help here.
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Next up for my French is another line battalion, I've started with the
figures left over from my first Victrix box and I'm going to add to that
greatcoated...
Celtic and Roman Wheats
-
I wrote a short article about Iron Age and Roman wheat varieties over at my
wife's gluten free cooking blog, *TheSpunkyCoconut.com*. I also made the
above ...
WHIRLWIND HITS IMELDA!
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Whirlwind Milly hit the town of Imelda last night, a quick but deadly
assault which took out the water tower and the backyard of "the spirit of
the times" ...
Beautiful as always; the new owner will be pleased. Dean
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