The Wargame Shed: Happy New Year

Blogs I Follow

Unlucky General

Anglo-Allied Peninsular Command: Maj Gen John SLADE - *"Long, Slade and Erskine ... a sorry lot,* *But one makes the best of what one's got,* *To think of what could have been fulfilled had La Marchant not ...
3 minutes ago
The Emperors Blog

Medieval Russians -
49 minutes ago
Wargame news and terrain

Alternative Armies: Halcyon Miniatures Releases Set Two as Singles and Value Set - Alternative Armies: Halcyon Miniatures second set of 28mm releases! Assault Infantry, Commissar and Priest of Truth. Every miniature has free slot base inc...
13 hours ago
Cor blog me!

Three Worlds #8 - (picture from exarc.net) A new day brought a new caravan to Obanhold, and the Castellan quickly recruited two of the caravan guards Melig and Rokas to his...
1 day ago
Wargamingnz

Onto the Galician plains 1914/15 - Jon and I thought we'd try to get a little Great War Spearhead mojo back, so I set up a 1914/15 eastern front game between Russians and Austro-Hungarians...
1 day ago
Wars of Louis Quatorze

Ramillies 1706 event -
1 day ago
Storm and Conquest!

WIP Ancient Greeks - The painting project has commenced some Greeks! These are 5th century foundry Greeks, just lovely and simple to paint also, just gloss the shields add tr...
1 day ago
Dreispitz - Mike´s miniature wargaming blog

FIW - "Defend the supply train" - A scenario played by using the rules of "Muskets&Tomahawks - Second Edition" - *Manufacturers: FrontRank, Galloping Major, RedoubtEnterprises, NorthstarMiniatures, WargamesFoundry* *Scale: 28mm* *Hello again,* *this post co...
1 day ago
Wargames and Railroads

Cartoon Wednesday -
1 day ago
Wargaming for Grown-ups

Two portions of Turkish Delight - A WD friend, Tim G, popped by for a visit today, so I entertained him with a look at my early attempts at rules for the Hapsburgs v the Ottomans in the ...
1 day ago
Don't throw a 1

Salute 2024 - Blogger Meet up - I had a fab time at Salute on Saturday, made even better with meeting up with some great faces old and new. The Blogger Meet up only lasted around 30 ...
1 day ago
Dust, Tears & Dice

Tactics II - Turn 3 Allied - Game 4 Race for Garharish. - A month or so later than planned and it's the turn of the Allies to take the initiative, with the centre ground starting to bog down the Commonwealth for...
1 day ago
Felix's Gaming Pages Blog

Bedford 15 CWT General Service Tender Model MWC - The Bedford MW was a general service truck used by the British Armed Forces during the Second World War. This RAF water tank truck MWC was on display at ...
2 days ago
Analogue Hobbies

Ben the Cleric and Molly from the Town Militia - Just a couple new additions for the fantasy collection. Today we have Ben the Cleric along with Molly from the Town Militia. Both of these models are fr...
2 days ago
NEWS FROM THE FRONT

Way On Down South - Today saw us revisiting the War of the Triple Alliance again using Black Powder rules The Brazilian forces are marching to join up with their Argentine and...
2 days ago
Saxon Dog

Hussar horses -
2 days ago
Tales From GHQ

The Cameron Highlanders - After many lengthy sessions, by my standards, at the painting desk over what seemed like eons at the time, the Cameron Highlanders have mustered into *GH...
2 days ago
Toy Soldiers and Dining Room Battles

Late German World War II Forces in 15 mm - *The Panzerkampfwagen VI; the infamous Tiger Tank.* *While I am finishing up some projects that I am not quite ready to post yet, I thought I would share...
3 days ago
Der Alte Fritz Journal

Game Slots Available For Saturday's Game - *Union artillery battery on Cemetery Ridge* It looks like tickets for my Pickett's Charge games for Thursday and Friday are sold out, however there ...
3 days ago
Light Bobs and Paint Blobs

28mm - Greek Light Cavalry - Victrix - A change from Napoleonics for sure! Yesterday I completed a unit of Greek Light Cavalry made by Victrix. These were certainly a lot easier to paint...
3 days ago
Wargaming Girl

Salute 2024 - The Games (Lots..and lots...and lots of pics) - As promised yesterday, here are the photos I took of all* the games. * I may have missed some I will apologise in advance for the quality of some of the ...
3 days ago
The Mad Padre's Wargames Page

The Canadian Wargamer Podcast Is Back - James and I catch up after a few months off, in a conversation that includes the recent Hot Lead event, Henry Hyde's new horse and musket rules Shot, Ste...
3 days ago
dead lead project

Salute 51 - This weekend was the annual pilgrimage to Salute, to stock up on plenty of miniatures without having to pay for postage, mostly. There was a wild number ...
4 days ago
ALBAtwo Warblog

Battle for Blackside - Mordheim Season 4 Turf War Round 3 - Had the third round PvP game of our fourth Mordheim Campaign back in the end of January and had the full complement of players attending, Ian with his Ca...
4 days ago
Dalauppror

Age of Penda - Planning on puting my Romano-British and Saxon minis up for sale as I dont use them much. Painted them some 15-years ago and they been through some tough...
4 days ago
iron mitten

Creating Skyfire - A real favourite of mine from the cartoon was Skyfire. He was a huge space jet and dwarfed every other bot of the time. I didn't think I'd find a good mo...
4 days ago
BigLee's Miniature Adventures

SALUTE 51 (2024) - The Blogger Meet-up - It's the day after Salute 51 and I still have a load of photos to work through. I posted my Show Report yesterday but I have been sent several pictures f...
4 days ago
Herkybirds nest

Orcish assault - Today, it was just me and my long term opponent Lawrence in our game, so Oathmark it was! We were doing a 2000 pt game (using my new points system - ava...
5 days ago
Tarleton's Quarter

Salute 2024 - I'm still struggling to return to this blog; not sure why, but I will give it another go. In the meantime, here is the annual Salute round up. I took ...
5 days ago
2 Hour Blog

NUTS! weekend special. $7.99 for the PDF, print copy on sale too! - Check it out! https://www.wargamevault.com/product/221641/NUTS-4th-Edition?term=NUTS+4th
6 days ago
One man and his brushes.

Terrain - Quarry - I needed to knock up a quarry terrain piece for the D Day game . I based it on a piece if A5 MDF and built up 4 layers of 10mm XPS to the shape I wanted...
6 days ago
One of My Men Became Restless

28mm Oathmark - Orcs - Slap Chop! - When combined with the 10 archers posted here, this is the whole pack of Orcs, plus the King, Wizard, Drummer and Champions - basically everything they...
1 week ago
SOUND OFFICERS CALL!

WIP Wednesday: Spring Slowdown, Planes, and the Desert Fox - Another week, another WIP Wednesday! Trying to stick with the blog posting and I've got plenty or material queued up. The problem is I've also got lo...
1 week ago
Gaming with TooFatLardies

The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 by James Holland - James Holland, along with Peter Caddick-Adams and Alex Kershaw, forms my favorite trio of World War II military historians. For me, Holland, in parti...
1 week ago
KEITH'S WARGAMING BLOG

A 'Startline' Wargame - Poland 1939 - It was good over a recent weekend to have the opportunity to set up a *Startline* scenario and play the game through, first solo, then with a live opponent...
1 week ago
Geordie's Big Battles

Prepping Plastic Miniatures: Reference Notes - From the Internet: https://mustcontainminis.com/2021/08/how-to-prep-plastic-miniatures-for-painting.html https://massivevoodoo.blogspot.com/2020/07/tutor...
1 week ago
Madaxeman's Wargames Blog

Roll Call 2024 - The Hittites and their opponents - This weekend I took part in the 15mm L'Art de la Guerre competition at Roll Call, finishing in a creditable 7th place with a Hittite army which was salv...
1 week ago
DRESSING THE LINES

Napoleonic British 3rd Battalion of Detachments - OK, anyone who knows their Napoleonic history will immediately be scoffing at me, saying there was never was a British 3rd Battalion of Detachments. And th...
1 week ago
28mm Victorian Warfare

Cacti - I make no excuses to my over romanticised, some would say naive, approach to the historical periods that interest me. A perfect example of this would be...
2 weeks ago
A Wargaming Gallimaufry

Another painting update - Still no gaming to report due to family health issues... I'm hoping this will change in a few weeks (mind you I said that a while ago!) In the meantime I...
2 weeks ago
MacPhee's Miniature Men

28mm Classical Greeks: Peltasts and Psiloi - The Commands and Colors rules for "auxilia" seem written with classical peltasts in mind. These troops can fight as close-order infantry or skirmish with j...
2 weeks ago
the Man Cave

Adieu AHPC Season XIV - Another year and another great Dad & Lad hobby event! Naturally, we lost some productivity by playing games against one another, but its a great problem ...
2 weeks ago
Irishserb's Miniatures Adventure

Not Quite Back Yet - My work crazyness finally ended mid week, though it could pick up for four weeks at any moment. Things had been busy since last October and stepped up a...
2 weeks ago
Doctor Merkury's Lab

Lightening Strikes! 1/56 Saw Boss - Many moons ago I was commissioned to sculpt a 1/56 Saw Boss based off of the Jayce and The Wheeled Warriors cartoon. My stl model that I made was then u...
2 weeks ago
Devon Wargames Group

Sikh Wars - Général d'Armée 2 - Mr Steve dug out his Sikh Wars collection this week to entertain us with a game of the new Général d'Armée 2, (GDA 2) the follow up to the successful GDA...
2 weeks ago
Baron's Blog

March to Victory - the report - This was our third time hosting March to Victory. Notice how there is no"con" in the name? The focus on “games only” resulted in a more intimate setti...
3 weeks ago
The Ooh Shiny Complex

Turn 54: The Thrappled Lemmings and The Amazing Minotaur (Five Leagues from the Borderlands) - It was market day in Fikaby and everyone was in good spirits because the Thrappled Lemmings had reopened the roads to free trade. "The beer must flow," ...
3 weeks ago
GREG'S WARGAMING BLOG

Rail System Update - Here are a few additions to my rail system. Blown up track Railway crossing
3 weeks ago
Scrivsland

Bataljon Jagers No. 27 - 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...
4 weeks ago
Quindia Studios

God Save the Queen! - 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 ...
4 weeks ago
The Warbard

Build Something 2024: A starport - I've had various (ed: poor) success with building things competitions in the past. I've singularly failed to finish a single one I've entered, even the Bui...
4 weeks ago
Meeples & Miniatures

More additions to horde… - As previously reported, I’ve painted a sizeable Orc & Goblin army. Whilst I’m keen to move onto other projects, at the same time, I’m conscious that I stil...
5 weeks ago
Shed Wars

28mm Macedonian Army - part 1 - Good Morning All Following on from my rather large 28mm Ancient Greek Army (see Here ), it was time to turn my attention to the next phase of this proje...
1 month ago
Joe's Delaware Area WarGamerS (DAWGS)

Cold Barrage was Fantastic - My son and I had a great time at the one day event. I played "Save the Montcalm" a re-skinning of another game "Save the Wellington". Save the Montca...
1 month ago
Jay's Wargaming Madness

Warhammer Old World: Skaven Expansion - Basing is slow going in the middle of High School Volleyball season, but I am stealing time here and there to get units completed. I have sooooo much stil...
1 month ago
Trouble At T'Mill - a wargaming blog

The Miller's Tale - Episode 9 - Episode 9: in which Mike once again attempts to remember how the heck the Heath Robinson-esque collection of RSS feed generator, local webspace and heave...
1 month ago
A J's Wargames Table

Painting Peasantry - 3 - ...and a library sale find. Some progress on the desultory painting process on the peasants for Lion Rampant. The last batch of twelve out of sixty is on...
1 month ago
MAIWAND DAY

900 Military Scale Models on Display in Anaheim March 7+8 - My friend Mark Deliduka will be celebrating completion of his 900th or so scale model military vehicle by setting up his entire HUGE collection, all buil...
1 month ago
Joy and Forgetfulness

Battlemasters with Kinchlets - *"Pay attention Sir Harry, the Hun is here, here and here." - LadyBaby* Finished up a practice game of the old MB Games/Citadel miniatures game Battlemast...
1 month ago
Delta Vector

Reasons to Avoid Games/When to Abandon a Project - This blog originally started as a place to stick rules reviews as I was "the guy with all the rules" and I got tired of repeating myself explaining what ...
1 month ago
Din of Battle

Battle of Aliwal - 15mm Sikh Wars game using Battle Command - Hi folks, Eric here! We are doing tons of gaming around here, but this is my first miniatures battle I have hosted in months. I hope to do this much more o...
2 months ago
Adventures In Lead

Blood on the Sands Custom Dice - A good mate has made me a few sets of prototype dice for Blood on the Sands. I'm very keen to try them out when next demoing BotS. Each player only requ...
2 months ago
PanzerKaput's Painted Review

How I Make my Flags form my Muslims - First this is not a tutorial on how I create flags, that's would be another one and if this is interest in such a thing I would consider doing one, or r...
2 months ago
Cold War Hot Hot Hot

Brand New Dutch AFV Cards - In honour of completing my first Dutch unit, I contacted Greg in the UK who originally did the BAOR, West German and Soviet cards to see if I could get ...
2 months ago
Band of Wargame Brothers

Round three!! Assyrians and Elamites! - So the Round three was fought out just after Chrristmas. In our first game my Elamites had been victorious. In the rematch Ross' Assyrians had smashed my ...
2 months ago
Roundwood's World

"Nobody Likes the Chaya": A villainous faction for 'When the Last Sword is Drawn' - "Nobody likes the House of Chaya. Their nobility is bought through wealth and their signature is greed. They are wealthy, proud and ambitious. Their shar...
2 months ago
Olicanalad's Games

An Arabian Night On The Town - My Middle Eastern building collection has grown over the years. Originally designed as generic buildings for use with my Crusades collection it will now ...
2 months ago
Ilkley Old School

Combat at Zinnberg - I had my first game using my Zinnfiguren this morning. The Combat at Zinnberg was played using the DBSYW supplementary rules for DBN. The game is a simpl...
3 months ago
Lead Warrior

A quick update - what happened in 2023 and some plans for 2024 - In 2023 I was able to play 201 games across a lot of recorded and imagined space and time. What particularly pleased me was that my last game of the ye...
3 months ago
Crac des Chevaliers

WWII Vehicle Crews - Some 3D printed vehicle crews by Trenchworx. Very nice details. CdlT
3 months ago
SYW6mm

小狐狸钱包插件安装问题解决方法 - 摘要：本文将详细介绍小狐狸钱包插件安装问题的解决方法。首先，我们将从几个方面进行阐述，包括下载与安装、兼容性问 […]
3 months ago
18th Century Sojourn

Field fortifications - In September of this year, one dozen scenarios were designed and tested for a mid-17th century map-less campaign. Scenarios are randomly selected with ob...
4 months ago
Paint Pigs Blog

Things Photographed: PERRY UNION INFANTRY - I'm getting some quite abysmal quality photo's of my work, I hope these do a better job of representing the colours used. Unfortunately it wont improve ...
4 months ago
SquadPainter

Warlord Epic Pike & Shotte Infantry – Contrast Paints second look - Here's another shot of my Naseby-styled Warlord plastic Epic Pike & Shotte infantry. I like this image as it shows the forward rank of pike at the ready....
5 months ago
Andy's Wargaming Blog

Sgt Ezekiel Hays, Texas Rangers 1858 - Here's the next Texas Ranger. Sergeant Ezekiel hays. Lovely Foundry model. Very evocative of the period!
6 months ago
The Blog With No Name

Bounding Fire Tournament 2023 Prizes - This year the organisers of the ASL Tournament Bounding Fire have decided to broaden the prize table and so went for smaller dioramas with the theme bein...
6 months ago
Kelroy Was Here

99. A Little Bit 'o Dis, A Little Bit 'o Dat - Edit Update: It appears I update here SO infrequently, that even I don't remember what I've posted about. Apparently, blog #98 has details on my Stargr...
6 months ago
Drunken Samurai Painting Blog

Flames of War Projects for August - August was a great month for me and the hobby. I painted lots of stuff and managed to get in a few games as well. August saw a return to Flames of War...
7 months ago
The Wargames Table

Logs - 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...
7 months ago
Maverick Models

FINALLY SOME SCENERY - Hello to all, sorry for the long delay in posts, but time has flown and I have been very busy. Over the last few months I have bought a 3D printer and s...
9 months ago
much ado about nothing

AWI: current state of affairs - As I've just recently stepped over the 50% mark on my AWI project for Sharp Practice, a couple of roll-call pics are appropriate.
9 months ago
Doc's 'Art' of War

Time for another post! - 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...
10 months ago
View from the Duck Pond

Ebro Miniatures-Review - I may have had one or two items in the post, so why not share the excitement? The next video will be more organised, and I will attempt to do something ...
10 months ago
Steve's Paintingshed

New Napoleonic Rules - 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...
10 months ago
Blood, Fire and Death

Paimon Miniatures Chaos Dwarves - It's official. I am now a miniatures company. After long years of plotting, planning and general mucking about, my first commercially available figures are...
10 months ago
Sapper Joe's Wargaming & Toys

Project 28mm Atomic Age Invaders and Horrors Part 2 The Humans (with pics) - We are back with the first blog entry where we show off eye candy. First off, my lighting sucks and I just don’t have good set up for taking pictures of...
10 months ago
Cigar Box Heroes

Battle of Saalfeld 1806 - *We played Valour & Fortitude in 28mm this weekend. I ran the rules and my friend Doug played the Prussians & Saxons and Titch played the French. * *Th...
11 months ago
Legatus' Wargames Armies

A slightly disappointing vist to Salute... - I was very excited to go to Salute again today as the last one I attended was, thanks to the Chinese, four years ago. I hadn't even been on the London ...
11 months ago
Wargaming with Silver Whistle

QUATRE BRAS in 28mm - Well, you may think I have been quiet on the hobby front with no posts on this blog for over 9 months but you would be wrong. I have been busy working ...
1 year ago
Einar Olafson Painting

Tenoch/Slann forced labour party - Tenoch Enhanced Warriors, or slaves for my Slann. Unfortunate neighbours or prisoners of war, they do the dirty work for their overlords.
1 year ago
The Monkey that Walks

Happy New Year! - Hi all, It's been a busy year in Monkeyland, In addition to a range of life events (back to work in-person, promptly getting Covid, the birth of my nep...
1 year ago
The Camlachie Wolfe

Return of the Mack!!! - Hi Bloggers I have recently been listening to Ken at Yarkshire gamers podcast and it had me pining for my old Camlachie Wolfe blog. I neglected the blo...
1 year ago
Wargaming Addict

What's In A Name? - Why the change of title you may well ask? Well when I set up this and my previous Blog, my wargaming consisted pretty much of just WWII battles, using Flam...
1 year ago
The Anderson Collection

Aztecs - The book Eagle Knight warriors Conquistadors All painted by DJ These figures are a cross over from the Malta collection. Still a fair bit of this to see.
1 year ago
Aut Caesar, Aut Nihil

Another Gendarme Unit. - Recovering from a bit of a post Covid wobble I have finally picked up a paintbrush to complete these chaps. Yes ANOTHER gendarme unit, albeit Burgundian ...
1 year ago
Adventures In Miniature Gaming

Blackstone Fortress - 2nd Expedition - Rogue Trader Janus Draik, Imperial Navigator Espern Locarno, Eldar ranger Amallyn Shadowguide, and Kroot tracker Dahyak Grekh unite to once again enter the...
1 year ago
Interbellum

Wargaming the interwar period - *CROSSPOSTED FROM WARGAMING MISCELLANY* This year’s VCOW (Virtual Conference of Wargamers) took place over the weekend, and I was able to take part in se...
2 years ago
DROPSHIP HORIZON

Ion Age 15mm new Hazelwurm and Colabreta Lifter vehicles released! - The Khanate break out from the Belkan expanse saw an ever increasing mass of aliens boiling towards the capital city of Camarthan Prime. While the bulk ...
2 years ago
SmallScaleOperations - 20mm Wargaming

Bretonnians for Age Of Sigmar -
2 years ago
A-Historical Wargaming

Cardstock Campaign - Second Interlude - Totally, 100% fazed by what happened to my precious trio of heroes, I rolled up a whole new party of characters. Led by a commandingly capable halfling,...
2 years ago
Wargame History

FOB 3rd Game in July - British approach in two commands. The time had come to playtest FOB 3rd before taking it to the club. The game was set up as a French vs. British battl...
2 years ago
Military History Blog on the Web

P.Z.L. 18 - The P.Z.L. 18 was a design for a heavy torpedo-bomber that never got beyond the design stage.
2 years ago
Der Feldmarschall

The Cynical Seven - Desperados Gang - *"The liquor's all gone boys..."* Finished up my Desperados gang for Dead Man's Hand. Just a few pics to share as I didn't get too many to turn out that ...
2 years ago
John's Toy Soldiers

Review: Oathmark Goblin Wolf Riders - The Goblin Wolf Riders are the first Oathmark models I have bought and I purchased them specifically to add hobgoblin light cavalry to my Chaos Dwarf a...
2 years ago
Adventures in Miniature Gaming

Hessian Jagers - I keep finding little bits of American War of Independence projects hidden in interesting places. these guys were on bases, primed or partially painted, in...
2 years ago
Thomo's Hole

Trung Sisters - I was searching for some information in the Internet and I am not sure how, but the Trung Sisters turned up. Briefly, these ladies were responsible for the...
3 years ago
Lard Island News

Richard Ansell. Very sad News - It is with tremendous sadness that I must report the passing of the hugely talented sculptor and great friend of not just me but all of the Lard Island cre...
3 years ago
Paco fait le zouave !

1870 : L'Artillerie - A l'occasion des premières photos de la future artillerie française de Perry Miniatures, je fais un petit point sur l'artillerie française en 1870. Il...
3 years ago
THE WARGAMING SITE

Battle of the Falklands - a Full Thrust scenario - 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, ...
3 years ago
With Zeal and With Bayonets Only

Stone house - The Stone House, Manassas National Battlefield Park. Model by Timecast, painted by my friend, Michal. It's hard to belive, but this is 10mm scale model ...
3 years ago
Winter of '79

Terrain & Tokens - 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...
3 years ago
Lonely Gamers

326 BC The Battle of Hydaspes - 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...
3 years ago
Horse and Musket

Deperdussin TT -
3 years ago
Jimbibblyblog

Martian whimsy - 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...
3 years ago
Raglan's English Civil War

Japanese Buddhist Monks -
3 years ago
Rebel Barracks

Oosterbeek 1944 - The other day the lads got together for a small Chain of Command game. We took the scenario from Wargames Soldiers and Strategy 107. An SS German force was...
3 years ago
Project Auldearn 1645

Wargaming Montrose's Campaign (1644-45) - 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 ...
3 years ago
Operation: Wargaming!

Working on United Empire Miniature's 1/6 Scale bust of Plato - I've started work on a 1/6 scale bust of Plato by United Empire Miniatures. I've been using acrylics for this project. I think the eyes and skin tones tu...
3 years ago
Henry Hyde's Wargaming Blog

Sittangbad and Mollwitz for Partizan In The Cloud - Today would have been the Partizan show at Newark Showground. But of course, whilst we are in lockdown and social distancing conditions due to the Coronavi...
3 years ago
Wargamer Blue

15mm Canadian Platoon -
4 years ago
Arlequín's Worlds

Cara Melacak Handphone Android yang Hilang Melalui Gmail - Smartphone ialah salah satu benda yang hampir seluruh manusia di dunia ini memilikinya, setiap elemen kehidupan memang sangat dimanjakan dengan lahirnya ...
4 years ago
merseybooks

Battle Ravens in Tabletop Gaming's Best Games of 2019 - I've been tipped off that my Battle Ravens boardgame features in TABLETOP GAMING'S BEST GAMES OF 2019 issue, publishing at the start of December! This is ...
4 years ago
The Angry Lurker

15mm Battered Markers for Dragon Rampant...... - *........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...
4 years ago
Irish Army of James II and other things

More Empress Vietnam painted with contrast paints - other than the skin and the highlights on the black painted with citadel contrast paints
4 years ago
Baconfat Log

Saxons, Robots, Romans, Survivors, Dogmeat, Junk, and More - Happy Sunday Distinguished Viewer, I've recently finished painting 33 more little guys. There's recently been no rhyme or reason behind any of the ...
4 years ago
Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA)

The Day After - “I smell smoke” is the worst First Thought Upon Waking. Close behind it (for me, at least) is “I recall having a Clever Idea at about 2 AM last night and t...
4 years ago
Matt's gaming page (Glenbrook Games)

US Infantry speed painting - Sort of painted this platoon by accident. Started it a few weeks ago while messing around with contrast paints on the light green kit.
4 years ago
'Victory V'

The Hottest War & Peace Festival Ever ! - Probably the most impressive and unusual 'kit' at this years War & Peace extravaganza was this superb Marder 111. This was very interesting to see close...
4 years ago
Fine and Dandy

42 Murray regiment of Foot - Since I am concentrating on battlefields around our Maison for battlefield tours and wargaming them I am selling off my English units for the French Indian...
4 years ago
Monsieur le Rosbif & Johnny Frog

A Tale of Two Battles - Part the Second - After the battle recorded in the previous post, I felt I had unfinished business with Paul and his Russians, so I challenged him to a game the followin...
4 years ago
Kevin's Miniatures & Hobby Table

40K Terrain Bits and Pieces - 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...
4 years ago
Anything but a One

Another big (well small)gun - I continue with my alien 15mm army of Snakemen (Astragar). Just a few figures painted. The are of course 15mm CRITICAL MASS Games. Yes I do have some more...
4 years ago
Platoon Fire

A Nation Sundered Part the Fourth; The secret of the shattered City - * Lord Edwin Dufflecoat pondered the wreckage before him. Clearly it had once been a house, possibly quite a grand one to judge from the stonework...
4 years ago
Itinerant Hobbyist

The Blog has moved... - Blogger is becoming more difficult for me to update via mobile, so I moved over to Wordpress to find a more mobile friendly home. Please come check it out ...
5 years ago
Glory Eagles de l'Empereur!

[Review] Baccus 6mm Punic Wars Range - Another review, this time of my latest batch of figures (a present from my wife) which arrived this week. After being impressed by the new Age of Hannibal ...
5 years ago
Ubique

Battle Ravens Preview - PSC games - 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...
5 years ago
Morts 1938 Scrapbook

Battle of the Cokers - I'm putting on a Sunday game at the end of October set in my South Somerset campaign. The game will start with all the players having fought for up to 24 h...
5 years ago
Cold War Gamer

Review Book - Red Armour an Examination of the Soviet Mobile Force Concept, R Simpkin, 1984 - So this was the summer reading, all part of a project called Deep Battle that I have yet to really start writing about or indeed executing but have bee...
5 years ago
20th Century Wargames

Boarding Parties - A couple of stands to represent RN boarding parties or sailors with small-arms put ashore For CD3 the count as 'other' so of limited use, expecting spec...
5 years ago
Kriegsbuch

The Swedish Army in the battle of Wittstock 1636 - *Commander in Chief: Fieldmarshal Johan Baner* *The Artillery:* The sources have very little to say about the number of guns present at Wittstock, ex...
5 years ago
Do You Have A Flag?

The French Fleet at Cherbourg 1904 - My last post was a look at the Battle of Cherbourg game that we played a few weeks ago, I thought I'd take a look at the French fleet with this one. Myse...
5 years ago
Wargaming Buildings

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5 years ago
Castle by Moonlight

Best in Show... - Our little local convention, ShepparCon, entered its second year this year and it turned out to be a fantastic weekend of great games and more importantly,...
5 years ago
Threwdish Ways

Turkemen, part 1 - The first post regarding some of my Half-Continent hobby work in a long time can be found here < link
5 years ago
15mm paint shack

Greek Light Cavalry Final Victrix review finished painted -
5 years ago
Flags of War

Kickstarter: 28mm 1745 Jacobite Rebellion Miniatures - LINK HERE Flagsofwar.com is looking to raise money via Kickstarter to launch our new 28mm Jacobite Rebellion miniatures range. Most folk will have heard o...
5 years ago
FunkyBrush's Painting Blog

Necromancer and his Zombies - Just finished this little group of freaks. The Zombies are made by Mantic and the Necromancer is a Games Workshop miniature.
6 years ago
The Old Gamers’ Den

HELSREACH: The Movie - Vol. 1 - So I’ve had a bunch of requests for this and I figured with 10 episodes in the can, now would be a good time to do it.
6 years ago
Wargaming the Zulu War

Perry Miniatures plastic Zulus: Part 1 - I have a lot of unpainted Zulus but none of them are really satisfactory. Empress' British metals are marvellous but their Zulus are small, anatomicall...
6 years ago
Satrap Miniatures

French Line Infantry - 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...
6 years ago
Birmingham Wargames Society

Scrabble Sprint Online Game - This game of the year watch will comprise of my main five games of the year up until this point, and in addition greatest amazement, greatest disillusion...
6 years ago
Unboxed: The Board Game Blog

Game Night Reviews: Mysterium - Continuing our adventures into the world of Cooperative gaming the next game I introduced to my fledgling group of non-gamers was Mysterium. Mysterium tak...
6 years ago
20mm Nostalgic Revival

More Farming stuff - Had these for a few weeks off Ebay , reminds me, must get outside and do some weeding!!! Also got me hands on from a German pal nearly a complete collectio...
6 years ago
Evilginger Shield Walls clash

The Resurrection - After leaving this blog alone, for dear god has it really been five years, I have returned to it largely because I have taken up the brush to earn my livin...
6 years ago
Johnno's Miniature Projects

- So here they are! In all their glory! 20 Infantry and a standard bearer, leader and Lewis gunner for the HQ element. I picked up a 2nd banner bearer off o...
6 years ago
Watching the Paint dry

19 part 2.... As I missed 18 out - Hobby News ... No games this week, 4 sleeps til LARPCommission Painting .... Started 27 Norman knights for Simon Millerown Painting... Base painted some gl...
6 years ago
Hardtack and Coffee

Additional Blue Regiment Units - Here are the last units for the Blue Regiment. One unit of elite commanded shot and two units of gallopers.
6 years ago
Herefordshire 1938

Spoiling a Good Walk – Golfing VBCW-style! - *Sir Alan McGuffin and the Committee of the Hereford Golf Club (which is neither Royal nor Ancient) welcome you to the County Cup Charity Challenge and w...
7 years ago
saltflats1929

Moving on - For some reason i can't connect to this blog from my phone, and since that's where 99% of my photos get upl o aded from, I've decided to start another blog...
7 years ago
Gjallarhorn

Blood Eagle - First Warband. - Pointed up the first warband for Blood Eagle. A pretty simple process but each individual needs to be thought about and the figure looked at. Meet the s...
7 years ago
Plastic Warriors

Stalingrad Pt5: Combined Ops - After a seemingly refreshing break from the bloggasphere, Stalingrad is back! While the previous games had been some classic infantry attacks, we noted ...
7 years ago
Monty's War Gaming

Chivalry - Medieval Warfare PS4 - I am very conscious of my continued sporadic posts of late and that my much heralded return has fallen somewhat flat. However, here I am and I thought I'd s...
7 years ago
A Conflict of Interests

Happy New Year! - Hello everyone! Despite what some of you might have suspected I've not fallen off the face of the earth, but rather taken a break from the hobby. Since lat...
7 years ago
Life In The Past Lane...

Congo: Sultanate of Zanzibar Expedition - This is the finished 'Sultanate of Zanzibar' expedition box set from Foundry for Congo. They have a very Arabian feel to them, and the figures would not ...
7 years ago
Captain Richard's Miniature Civil War

Macro shots of the Undead Pirates and a Zombie? Creepy! - It was amazing to see the detail through the lens.... Captain Richa...
7 years ago
WARGAMING THE AGE OF WARS

- My Takeda clan still continues to grow. Not decided on a rule set as of yet, just enjoying the painting :)
7 years ago
Land War in Asia

Sky Pirates of Venus - Teaser - Sky Pirates have been the scourge of the Worm Empire of Venus for years, and the Great Worm has had enough! He sends a team of four crack worm commandos to...
7 years ago
From Matchlock to Dog Lock

The Sealed Knot in Mayfair 1970 - Here from the October 1970 issue of *Mayfair *magazine is an article on the, then, relatively new English Civil War re-enactment society The Sealed Knot. ...
7 years ago
Lou's Toy Soldiers

Thank you Tabletop Commanders - I painted most of this lot and then some, over the past few weeks while listening to the Tabletop Commanders "paint and chat" sessions. Thank you gentlemen!
8 years ago
Tabletop Wargames Blog

"...There is Only War." - On a personal note, I recently moved from the lovely state of Virginia to the wonderful state of Ohio. Things are different here. I miss my gaming partners...
8 years ago
England Prevails...

Rules: Living on the Frontline - Well, there's life in the old dog yet! It's been a while since I last posted anything here but the creative juices are starting to stir, least of all bec...
8 years ago
Miniatures & Terrain

How to make: Saxon Huts - 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...
8 years ago
Dispatches from Multan

Finally completed the Fauj-I-Khas, The Guards Brigade - After a few years of gathhing up the figures needed, I have finall y completed my Guards Brigade. Originally raised and trained by an ex-French Napoleonic ...
8 years ago
Regeln des Krieges

Napoleonic units : Taking Stock - A few (bad) photos of my Napoleonic figures. I came across a great set of old school rules called 'Muskets & Marshals' which upon reading took me right bac...
8 years ago
Little Tin Men

New CoC Campaign - Operation Martlet - Hi All, Just a quick update this time. Rich has been madly researching away and has released the latest in his series of ridiculously low-priced 'Pint Size...
8 years ago
Green Fields Beyond

Nautical Porn - The title of naval porn was my first thought for this piece, and than I Googled it. Not a good idea. Don’t try this at home with the kids around. By naval ...
8 years ago
Waterloo to Mons

elegant wedding shoes in 2015 - [image: awesome satin wedding shoes by shoekandi] you are now visiting* awesome satin wedding shoes by shoekandi* , And in this page we have more than 5 be...
8 years ago
Wargaming the Great Northern War

A visit on board the Russian Frigate Shtandart - The other weekend we were down in Cowes for a long weekend to watch the Cowes Torquay Cowes powerboat race. We were all having dinner on Friday night in...
8 years ago
1699 ! Well ? ish !

Dukes Soldiers - Hi These are the first of the Dukes troops for his flying column, they are Newline figures from their late colonial range, again all 20mm, I need some supp...
8 years ago
The Tapestry- A Site Devoted to Saga by Gripping Beast and Studio Tomahawk

AAR: Franks v Welsh in Champions of God - I managed to get a very quick game of SAGA in recently. Four points of Franks (all mounted) versus four points of Welsh Warriors. Four pieces of scenery we...
8 years ago
The Repple Depple Club House

Pimp my ride! - A while back I posted about the first of several LAV-25's I intend to build. That post can be found here. Now if you read yesterday's post (if not go and r...
8 years ago
MiniStories

20mm WW2 - US M3A1 halftracks - 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...
8 years ago
The Anglo-Irish War in Miniature

Resep mie titi lezat - Resep Mie Titi Mie Kering Makassar, kita harus bangga sebab Indonesia ialah bangsa yang terdiri dari banyak suku dan juga ras yang berlainan. Perbedaan beg...
8 years ago
A Little From Leofwine

MHWC Painting Competition 2015 - Part 1 - How'do Folks, Leofwine here after a long hiatus. As anthropomorphic personality of Milton Hundred Wargames Club I currently find myself out of sorts. It's ...
8 years ago
... an inconvenience rightly considered.

Well, well, well... - A Flintloque Battle Report - It has been a long time since my last update, mostly for health reasons. Without giving to much detail, you can imagine things are pretty awful when you ca...
8 years ago
Pyrrhus In Italy

I'm Back!!!!!! - Back burner project, have had this on hold for so long now, it really needs finishing off, and with the advent of the new plastics from Victrix, the possib...
9 years ago
Surf Shack Gaming

[1080p] Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) HD - Vollständige Film Guardians of the Galaxy Film streaming. Download Guardians of the Galaxy Vollständige Film HD Mit Dauer 122 Min Und Veröffentlicht am 20...
9 years ago
Mitch's Wargaming and Modelmaking

Royal Yugoslav Air Force Hawker Fury II - Here's my latest effort: a Hawker Fury II in the markings of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force. The Fury was, of course, an iconic fighter of the 1930's RAF, ...
9 years ago
Wargaming The Great War

Bolt Action WW1 from Osprey - The recent slew of WW1 tanks gave it away but Osprey have just officially announced a publication date for Bolt Action WW1 rules of a year from now. Th...
9 years ago
Lenin's Library

Projects Update - August - I don't recommend that you hold your breath for regular updates, but I will try… So, in historical order, this is some of what is on my painting table righ...
9 years ago
Tank Girl

Kabar Lowongan Kerja Manado Agustus 2014 Terbaru - *Kabar Lowongan Kerja Manado Agustus 2014 Terbaru - **Lowongan Kerja Terbaru* kali ini akan memberikan informasi *Lowongan Pekerjaan Terbaru* . Lowongan K...
9 years ago
Harper's Weekly

More Photos - Here are a few more photos from the Sharpsburg game. Sharpsburg Starting positions. Burnside's Bridge to the left. Looking up the table from the other end...
9 years ago
The Inevitable Spark

Taking Stock - After six months of being away I needed to take stock of where I am on my Punic Wars project and set some new goals for getting some things completed. I ha...
9 years ago
Yockbo's Boardgame Blog

Last Chance for Victory (MMP) - "7.9 The Best Three Hours..." - Game: Last Chance for Victory (LCV) Publisher: Multiman Publishing (MMP) Series: Line of Battle (LoB) 2.0 Scenario: 7.9 The Best three hours of Fighting Anyw...
10 years ago
View from the Veranda Podcast

Time called on the Veranda - Henry Hyde and I don’t get the opportunity to meet face-to-face very often, so when we do, it’s time to chat about all manner of things. One such opportuni...
10 years ago
Basilhare's Game Blog

Christmas “Domes” for 2013 - A few years ago, I began making these for the special people in my life…sometimes they are purely whimsical and sometimes they have a hidden meaning, speci...
10 years ago
Evesham Wargames Club

Evesham Wargames Club now known as Wyvern Wargamers - Wyvern Wargamers finds a new home on the web....http://wyvernwargamers.org.uk/ After weeks in the planning the Evesham Wargames Club have rebranded and wi...
10 years ago
Jon's wargames minis

Trying out a kickstarter - If you frequent TMP much you'll have noticed that Kick-starters have taken off in a big way the last year or so. Up until now I have quite happily avoid th...
10 years ago
Akula's Blog

Back Again! - Real life has a nasty habit of getting in the way sometimes, and the last six months plus has been busy to say the least, meaning that I haven't been posti...
10 years ago
Project Arnhem

A thing! - I've posted a thing! But it's not here, it's over there.
10 years ago
Metal Mountain

Monmouth 'Sythemen' Unit - Some pics of the Sedgemmor 'sythemen' component of the first rebel unit. I've started the musketeers for this unit but nothing to show yet. As I paint more...
11 years ago
La Figoblogotheque

That is not dead which can eternal lie ... - ... and with strange aeons even death may die. I'm not dead, just working on something else. That "something else" should be released before the end of the...
11 years ago
Tim's Wargaming Stuff

US Airborne, Roads and some Tanks - I haven't posted in a while, how unusual I can hear you all say, well I have been busy. I've managed to get quite a lot done in between games of Bolt Acti...
11 years ago
Two Up, One Back - Bard's WWII Blog

WWII Game with Morschauser Rules - Closing out my week off from work this weekend, I had a solo WWII game today using the modern era rules from Joseph Morschauser's *How to Play Wargames in ...
11 years ago
NDC Weblog

The Last Post - All things must pass, and so it is to be with NDC Blog. ‘Why?’ I hear you wail (with murmurings of ‘big deal’ in the background). Well this blog was origi...
11 years ago
Confessions of a Wargamer

Super Fresh – short film -
11 years ago
Kent's 28mm Painting SYW Project

British - Here's a few pics of some British that i've been working on there are more in the British pages above
11 years ago
The Disgruntled Fusilier

disgruntledfusilier -
11 years ago
Flagstaff Adventures

Something blue, something new… - Hooray! Another batch of miniatures finished. I have added a few figures to the Auckland Volunteer Militia. May favourites are figures of the working party...
11 years ago
Adventures in Dark Age Britain

First Campaign Year - It is a sad day in the Great Halls of the Saxon’s camps. The year will come to an end with little to show for it. The Saxon chieftain has only enough to pa...
11 years ago
Terrain Monkey

More Lead Adventure Brugelburg painted - Couple more finished, really enjoying these figures.
11 years ago
Surfshack games

Might not be near the sea but there are still barrels to be... - Might not be near the sea but there are still barrels to be found out there.
11 years ago
Confessions of a Lead Junkie...

Still here... - Just an update that I am still around, and will try to get an update here some time soon. Regards, Greg
11 years ago
Peeler's Wargaming & Wittering Page

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...
11 years ago
Gebirgskrieg

Garrisoning the Collina Della Formica - *You* probably thought this project was dead and buried. Well, it's still alive. A pair of *Tiroler Kaiserjage*r manning a *Schwarzlose* MMG on an improv...
12 years ago
Black Powder

Models for sale and new book! - 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 ...
12 years ago
little legions

stevesblog-yorkie -
12 years ago
Mark's Lead Heroes

marksleadheroes -
12 years ago
EvilGinger Ramblings

In Reply to Emelio's comment - My reasoning with hose Pistols was thus there seemed to be quite a variety of ways cavalry used fire arms in the period but they seem to boil down two thre...
12 years ago
Soapy's Workshop

Count down to Crossover Part 4: The pitch - So here we are at the end of Countdown but hopefully the beginning of something great: Now whether Crossover comes into being or not is kind of in your ha...
12 years ago
Itty Bitty Battlefields

Nery 1914 game - I hosted my first 1914 game the other day at my store. The game was to represent the action at Nery between British and German Cavalry. The British had one...
12 years ago
For God, England & King Edward.

Running Guns to the Rebels - The *Severn Riverside Wharf Labours Federation (SRWLF) *had been running low on weapons and ammo recent engagements had not gone well, Harry Doyle had arra...
12 years ago
Spartan Wargames Armies

Some more plastic hoplites - *The three legged symbol is that of the Alcmaeonid clan* I have just finished four more Immortal Miniatures plastic hoplites which, as usual, were prett...
12 years ago
Iron Men and Boundless Land

Napoleon's Old Guard Grenadiers - There are few units in military history that are as esteemed as Napoleon’s Imperial Guard Grenadiers. They were his bodyguard and fierce reserve held ba...
12 years ago
Scott Pasha's Wargames Blog

Boots on the Ground-- a sort of review - from Worthington's BotG pageSeveral months ago I received *Boots on the Ground* which I had pre-ordered from Worthington Games. It is a very rules-light g...
12 years ago
Hurry Up And Wait!

Opening Shots OPERATION PARAQUET - I thought that I would just put a couple of shots up of my representation of Captain Brian Young's Task Group 317.9 which was tasked to retake South Geor...
12 years ago
Tunnels in the Mud

Back on the Horse! - Wow! It's been a long time since my last post! The path has largely been cleared for me to share my miniature wargaming exploits, so let's get into it! Ou...
12 years ago
BEF Miniatures

Two shows down - First Partizan and then one nearer to home, just completed in two weeks. Unfortunately either the full time job or space at other shows is restricting me f...
12 years ago
Steve-the-Wargamers Campaign Blog..

The "Waynes Junction campaign".. - I've decided to revive this old campaign diary project blog to record the unfolding of events in a new campaign that DG and I have just started... One of ...
13 years ago
Jon's Military History Page

Malayan Emergency - Ive posted some photos of the time my dad served in the army with the R.A in Malayia in around 1957-58. The ship that took him out to Malayia. Training ...
13 years ago
A Very British Revolution

Workers Militia - Here's a shot of a couple of the workers militia for A Very British Civil War (figures by Musketeer Miniatures) that I varnished this afternoon. I think th...
13 years ago
Craig's War

1914 Battle - Here are a few pics of a small game fought between 1914 Germans and French. The Germans are a mix of the new HaT early war figures and Emhar Fran...
14 years ago
Richard_Hamster

The Stig - Who is the Stig? In this blog post, I think we should take a look at some of the things we know about the Stig, and what this could mean. First though, 10 ...
14 years ago
A la Outrance!

And of course I need to think of artillery... - *Batterie Honneur de l'Artillerie* *Uploaded by musee-artillerie*
15 years ago
THE TOWN OF IMELDA

WHIRLWIND HITS IMELDA! - 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" ...
15 years ago
19th Century Sudan Wargames Armies 1883-1885

The British Ambassador's Residence in Cairo - * Lord Cromer's Room* I spent a few days in Cairo the other week running a meeting with the Egyptian Government in the British Ambassador's Residence. This...
16 years ago
WAR of 1812 Wargaming

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...
17 years ago
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Lenin’s Library

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Wargaming the War of 1812

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Battles in Miniature

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"The Zone"

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Wargamer's Odds and Ends

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The Death Guide To Life

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Musketeer Miniatures

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Grimsby Painter

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Desperta ferro!

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Friday 1 January 2021

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