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Midwinter in the Duchy - Set out the permanent table this evening and am pleased with the look.
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Three Dimensions - I mentioned in yesterday's post about my favorite science fiction roleplaying game map that *Traveller*'s star maps are two-dimensional and that that's l...
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Lt James Calhoun - Painting Company L of the 7th Cavalry. What did Lt Calhoun look like on the day of the battle? Well I thought the information boards dotted around the...
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2024 Merry Christmas - Baby Jesus! The reason for the Christmas Season and the rest of our lives. He quietly grew.... Into a carpenter to build a planetary way of life and.....
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"Firing into the Brown" #70 - Navarre reflagged, Dickens 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 ...21 hours ago
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Polish Bofors 37mm AT gun - To accompany my lashed up Polish infantry battalion - and in anticipation of a game - I dug out this 1/35 kit and set about it. It was every bit as ho...
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‘Twas the (Four) Night(s) before Christmas….. - *Definitely looks better at night!* A little earlier than usual but I have a busy few days coming up before ‘Der Tag’! I will post a review of the year l...
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A Naval Excursus - - Hex grid as pencilled. The white lines is just the overhead light reflecting off 2B pencil Interrupting the Roman Civil War narrative is this little i...
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Meanwhile, Back In the West Indies.... - *"Major! Move those riflemen forward, further away from the convoy! There's a plantation ahead, just over that pathetic excuse for a bridge and this ar...
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Never Fight Uphill me Boys - Part 2 - I was very fortunate recently to receive from Don W in the US, some *Hinton Compatriots* Austrian generals. This range of figures was commissioned a few ...
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Last Posting This Year. - *OKAY. Thats it for 2024 the last post is in the bag for me to take to my Post Office.* * That is the lot.* * Carole and I are haveing a fortnight off....1 day ago
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Hungarian Uprising (or 1st war of independence) in 15mm - I know Krisztian for nearly 20 years now. He helped in 2006 when we created the Hastings diorama at the DUZI in the old times and together we worked on a...
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A December 14th Cuirassier Update. . . - *The now familiar place-holder for a later photographic update. But in the meantime, I kinda like this well-used artist's palette. * Spent another 90 ...
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RECON Show 2024 at Pudsey - Fortunately, the weather was not as severe as anticipated for the trip over the Pennines to Pudsey for our final wargames show of 2024. Our game was po...
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Recon 2024 - last show of the year - Quite an exciting journey across the pennines and back to Pudsey, Leeds for the Recon show due to Storm Darragh. It's quite a friendly low key show with a ...
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Fife and Drum Web Store is back on line - *General von **Zeiten hands his Christmas list to one of his aides.* The Fife and Drum Miniatures web site has been repaired and works again. Previousl...
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Mark's Game Room reviews Blood on the Sands - The excellent YouTube wargaming channel, Mark's Game Room, has done a review and a quick explanation of Blood on the Sands. Please show them some suppor...
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The Battle of Prokhorovka - We’re re fighting the battle of Prokhorovka at the moment using Memoir ‘44. This was the giant armour clash between the 11th SS Panzer Korps under Mans...
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All change!. - Due to vast amounts of unwanted attention I am taking this blog down permanently. But fear not, I have copied most of the posts onto a new blog My "Old ...
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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...1 year 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...2 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...4 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...4 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 ...5 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...8 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 . . ....8 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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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...9 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...10 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...13 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...14 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...18 years ago
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