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"Firing into the Brown" #100 - spies, double revolvers and stuff - *"So Carnehan weeds out the pick of his men, and sets the two of the Army to show them drill and at the end of two weeks the men can manoeuvre about as ...
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Russian Horse Guard - or is it? - Well, no this is actually a Prussian Garde du Corps trooper with a small modification and paint job conversion. The modification is that I have removed t...
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The Royal Mail can sometimes get things very wrong! - I recently ordered some painted figures from an eBay seller, and they sent them to me once I had returned from our recent cruise. The seller made sure th...4 hours ago
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Night time raid or using the scenario part. - Having played a few games to get used to the “Red Hand, Hot Trod rules” yesterday we tried the scenario generator part. To cut a long story short this t...
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All Present and (Almost) Correct. . . - Friday evening. And while the Grand Duchess whips up some of her Massaman Curry upstairs, I couldn't resist sharing a photograph of the entire Anhalt-...
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Ahhh, Spring! - The time when my soldiers go into Spring quarters while I spend too much time on cleaning up Winter's debris and preparing for Summer. In the meantime,...1 day ago
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Lingvo Tera - Lingvo Tera by James Maliszewski Thoughts on Language in Thousand Suns Read on Substack2 days ago
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SYW Prussian Pioneers - Quite an unusual unit for my Seven Years War Prussian army, the short lived Pioneer regiment. It became the 49th fusilier regiment in 1758 see Kronoskaf fo...
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General Pettygree's Goes to Emmaus - *General Pettygree Goes to Emmaus* "Padre O'Hara, I am sincerely grateful for the beautiful and hopeful Easter Service over which you presided today. W...
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Waterloo Campaign 2.0 - Beginnings - This was my introduction to my first attempt at a one-table 'Hundred Days' campaign, about 3 years ago: I called it the 'Hundred Minutes Campaign': A mis...
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Vietnam: Squad Leader Style? - *That really is the box art - taking minimalism to the extreme methinks - and yes, that is a M18 Claymore command detonated mine. * During this minor bou...
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A Nice Map of the Battle of Trenton - *Map of the Battle of Trenton* I want to thank Ed D. for sending me a copy of this map showing the American attack on the Hessian garrison at Trenton on ...6 days ago
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Siege Notes: (4) Leaguer - Continuing to Set Up the Game - We can now go back to my list of things you need to do to set up a siege game. *8. Calculate the powder requirements (and reality) for the Garrison ...
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Make Items Like This - "Here, in an alcove in the wall of the arch, had once hung the notorious Gabelline Oracle, sought out and yet dreaded by all who entered or left the city...1 week ago
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A VISUAL DIARY OF ILLUSTRATORS - I've previously written about my admiration for Alice and Martin Provensen, the husband and wife team responsible for some of the best illustrated childr...1 week ago
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15mm Terrain - I bought some terrain I thought might work for the 15mm Clone wars project. These were bought off eBay. These are smaller than I was expecting but seem...
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Peruvian Gatlings - At Tacna the Peruvians operated eight Gatling guns, modell 1874. So I asked my friend Peter (compagnie d'Elite) to paint me one. Afterwards I asked Piao...
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WW2 ‘German’ Don Cossacks - I've had these in stock for a while now and as I may have work for them in a forthcoming game it was clearly time to paint them! They're certainly a co...5 weeks ago
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Reading, Painting, Sikhs, Turtles & Salute. - One of the things that I noticed last year is that I barely read anymore. Between work and children, I rarely get time to just sit down and appreciat...1 month ago
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Vapnartak 2026 - A bit late with this report, though there were extenuating circumstances, of which more, later. Surprisingly, given the lousy weather we have been havi...
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A little Bit of Painting. - I didn't get nearly as much painting done over the Crimbo holiday as I had hoped. This was mostly my own fault-December was much busier than usual and ...
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Taiping Rebellion - A River Defense - Welcome the Taiping Rebellion in China in the 1850s and 60s! *Background* It has been *years *since I have put this collection on the table. I'm going to...2 months ago
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Mooching aboot. - I've spent a nice afternoon looking through this old blog, the best bit, though, was looking through some of my old blogging mates' blogs. I had a good ...
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Very Sad News - I'm very sorry to be making this post but I've just learned that Dale past away from a heart attack on November 5th. Most of my relationship with Dale wa...2 years ago
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Trying Something New - Based on what I said last time, I’m going to try out something new. Check out my posts at Medium – one test you can ignore, one discussion of why I chose t...4 years ago
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Short Rules by Leon Tucker - A bit of an experiment as posts go… This is an overview of one of my favorite, older, short, simple war game rules. Plenty of information to get a feel f...6 years ago
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Warplan 5/5 Campaign System - I'm afraid I couldn't find a way to reproduce the snazzy double headed arrow in 5/5 in the text so will have to do with this instead. Warplan 5/5 came o...
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What Do You Mean “It’s Only A Movie”? - Like many of my friends and fellow students of military history/military affairs, I went recently to see the new movie “Midway”. This community can deli...6 years ago
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Tribute to Stuart Asquith - Whilst it is not news that we have recently lost one of the hobby's best-known figures this past week, I thought it would be appropriate to add my own trib...
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The Fritz Leiber WIKI - [Currently Reading] - ---------- The Fritz Leiber WIKI Welcome to the Scrolls of Lankhmar. It contains information on the writings of and also the RPG Guide to Nehwon, which is ...6 years ago
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A Tale of Two Battles - Part the First - The Italian infantry brigade. The only unit to come out of this with their heads held high. This is the first of two battle reports featuring my French ...
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Supplies to San Lorenzo .... - *San Lorenzo, lies near the border with the British territory of Malize..... The British have allied with some local natives attempt to disrupt one of the ...
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Character Figures and Settlers for the FIW - Conquest Miniatures put out a nice little blister of the main characters from the Last of the Mohicans, also released by Warlord Games. I had fun painti...
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Sources For The Interwar Gamer - I have been meaning to add some content here for a long time, apparently three years of a long time in fact, how time flies. So with this post I hope to k...10 years ago
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Stephen King’s Threshold - “There is probably no dedicated fantasy fan in America who doesn’t have at least one of those distinctive black-bound volumes upon his or her shelf . . ....10 years ago
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The Return of the Iron Duke - On Saturday, Nov. 21, six of us gathered at Jay's to fight a Napoleonic battle using a highly modified version of Command and Colors Napoleonics we laughin...
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iniDewa.net Agen Poker Domino QQ Ceme Blackjack Online Indonesia - *iniDewa.net Agen Poker Domino QQ Ceme Blackjack Online Indonesia* - iniDewa.net merupakan sebuah situs layanan judi online yang akan saya review pada ar...
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High time... - It is high time I posted here again. The project has stalled. Last night I decided to have a read of book 2 after many years away from it. It begins so wel...10 years ago
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Top (TV) Duels - To go with my posts on top one-on-one fights (in films) here's a quick selection from television. *#5* Agents of SHIELD (May vs. Ward) This was a fascinat...
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La Passeggiata - Artist: ItalianTitle: La *Passeggiata* ★Thank you for Visiting!★ ~ Return to Website ~ Return to Blog Thank you for subscribing to the Orientalist Gallery!
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Memories, Tangents and the Power of the Pastoral - *Charles Stadden 30mm BEF released fifty(ish) years ago* It occurs to me that wargaming the Great War is not going to be a straight forward thing. L...
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Second World War comparisons on "World War 20mm" - Piers Brand has recently posted a side by side shot of several figures painted in his inimitable style. They represent a number of different 20mm metal ma...12 years ago
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Fauna - After a recent expedition "down under" a couple of new animals have been added to the national zoological gardens. *If I recall correctly these are from a R...
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Byzarbia at Ayton Game. - Once again it's been a while, though in my defence I plead that I have been busy painting figures for our second Ayton Weekend Game, even forgoing two of o...
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Blog Harassment - I am sorry to say that I have had to select comment moderation as a permanent feature now. I am sick and tired of being harassed by a follower of this blog...14 years ago
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Buy my e-book and save the police (again!) - *Wasting Police Time** is now available on Kindle. You don't need a Kindle itself to read it - you can download an 'app' onto your iPad/laptop/whatever. U...15 years ago
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10 of the most beautiful things I've ever seen - 1. The sun setting over a still sea, woven to silk, and the swimmers, silhouttetted wading back to the shore like merman returning to land. 2. My br...
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Why the WAR OF 1812? - I just received two of the more recent Osprey Men-at Arms books on the War of 1812 in the mail the other day (not really that recent - 1998 and 2000...but...
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