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Painting a Dwarf - I found a dwarf who I thought would make a good member of Balin's company. Funny enough, he was bought, based and ready for painting with the previous ar...
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Austrian Artillery Review - Here is the promised parade of the full Austrian artillery contingent. All the guns, limbers, horses and over half the gunners are original Hinton Hunt fi...
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The Imperial Japanese Navy … in 1/1200th-scale: Some new additions - I recently acquiring three more 1/1200th-scale models of Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers. They are IJNS *Fubuki* (a Type I *Fubuki*-class destroyer), ....
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"Firing into the Brown" #92 - bot madness relief, the Immortal Memory 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 ...1 day ago
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Bear necessities - A rather frightening encounter today on the Penedredfel Light Railway… Eventually the bear got fed up and went off in search of other food.
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A T Party.....(T Junction that is...) - When Brigadier Ross, the British General in Pisiquid, heard that the Duc d'Anville's armada had arrived in Chebucto Bay (*now known as Halifax harbour*),...
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Quick minefields - I needed a couple of unmarked minefields for the Foy-Notre-Dame game recently. Luckily I remembered I had a few of the 15mm Peter Pig minefield castings...
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Patrick's Hadrians Wall diorama - My Partner Patrick sent me some photos of his latest project. All the figures 3D printed from our own range. I hope to get more soon - also from ...
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Green Devil Face - As an avowed enjoyer of the face of the Great Green Devil, I *had *to pick up this magnet a vendor was offering for sale at Gamehole Con. It now graces m...
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Gearing up to be Bigger and Shinier ! - The end of November will- all being well- see the Tantobie Warfare and Tactical Society attend the Battleground wargames show at the Middlesbrough Spo...
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ON TOP OF THE ENCHANTED MESA - Fans of Krazy Kat will be familiar with the "Enchanted Mesa," the mystical cliff in the remote desert. No human ever sees the top, but it is a place wh...
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GWSH2 - Battle of Mons - the Left Flank - Good evening wargamers! Today we fought the British left flank at the Battle of Mons August 1914. *Rules:* Great War Spearhead 2 (GWSH2) *Scenario: *Mon...4 days ago
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Hooptedoodle #491 - Fowl Play Suspected - Invaded again. A couple of chickens from the other side of the farm steading were here today checking out our new squirrel-proof bird feeder, which may ...
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Operation Archduke - The Landing - The Plan.For years before the opening of hostilities between Azuria and Ruberia, the latter's High Command had been planning - and rehearing far from ...
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I'm Seeing Red. . . - A few sessions in the painting chair to complete the red facings and turnbacks on (roughly) the first third of my Anhalt-Zerbst regiment. After a few ev...
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Memoir ‘44 Refresh….Kind of…. - *A newish version of an old favourite - so what is different then? Read on….* I have played many enjoyable games of Memoir ‘44 over the years but for a ...
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Break The Goblin Siege! - ...an adventure. Your assignment: break the goblin's siege and rescue the town. Thee Fortyfied Towne 1. Goblins attack the front gate from a siege tow...1 week ago
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A River Runs Through It - Making River Terrain - *The Coa River and the Santiago Monastery, built by me.* I finished making river sections for the main table of my game at this year's Fall In convent...1 week ago
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Normandy - Day 4 - We decided to head further east but we ended up getting lost on the Caen peripherique before finally finding our way to Merville battery. Then onto Pegasus...
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GEN. PETTYGREE'S CRASH LANDING BATTLE STORY - *LAE AIRFIELD, NEW GUINEA - 1943 * Click on images to enlarge them Nothing here is AI generated. "General Mac Arthur and I are at the Lae, New Guinea Am...
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Playmobil with Bear - The convoy sets out. The Kinchlets and I were gifted a rather magnificent 18th century Playmobil set by my friend Stefan. We've been playing games w...
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Bunker Hill: Gentlemen Pensioners Sunday Game - Traditionally, Steve hosts a game for the Gentlemen Pensioners on the Sunday following the Phalanx Show. This year it featured Bunker (or Breed's) Hill...
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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...3 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...5 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...5 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...9 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 . . ....9 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...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...11 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...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...19 years ago
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