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Crooked Timber

Occasional paper: Inconstant moon - I said a while back that nobody’s going to Mars any time soon. Which is true. But that doesn’t mean Mars isn’t interesting! Mars is very interesting. So to...
59 minutes ago
Der Alte Fritz Journal

Seven Years' War Association Convention Report - Part One - *Jurgen Olk's famous SYW games set in India* I just returned from this weekend's trip to the annual Seven Years' War Association convention in South ...
3 hours ago
The Eastern Garrison

After Salute 53 - First question has to be: If it's about Salute, why a random photo of a market stall taken from where we stayed. The answer is that we stay in an apart...
3 hours ago
ultravanillasmurf

Scrapjacks crew - Here are the crew preparing to enter their first MHU, YardDog in the lead.
4 hours ago
Jim's Wargames Workbench

Motor Gunboat Blocking In - A good start on the BPB Motor Gun Boats and RAF Rescue Launch today, blocking in the bases and giving the models a matt black basecoat, ready for blockin...
5 hours ago
Warfare in the Age of Steam

"Son of the Morning Star" (1991) - Complete George Custer Mini-Series - Son of the Morning Star (film) - Wikipedia This is good in my opinion. Came out about the same time as Dances With Wolves.
5 hours ago
Wargame news and terrain

Alternative Armies: Scatter Terrain Five New Releases for Erin Celtic Myth - Alternative Armies: The largest range of 28mm scale Celtic Mythology miniatures in the world recently got bigger and now it grows once more with scatter te...
6 hours ago
The Land of Counterpane

A bit of Western Desert - Inspired by the newly working 3D printer I've carried on producing a few models for Gabr-el-Ahmar, 1940. Two battalions of M11/39 medium tanks appeared i...
7 hours ago
Fawcett Avenue Conscripts

Painting Challenge Submission #11 - Leopold's Leopard Company - "Leopold's Leopard Company" is ready to meet an opponent's charge... The XVIth edition of the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge is now wrapped up, but I...
7 hours ago
Tales of an Inexperienced Modelmaker

Minecraft! A few of my creations #1 - So I mentioned I had been playing Minecraft recently. Having made time to play a couple of WW2 wargames, I have fallen right back into playing on the Sw...
7 hours ago
Prometheus in Aspic

Hooptedoodle #496 - Got to Get Ourselves back to the Garden - It's a year since we planted our brave new shrubbery on the site of the legendary Roland's Hedge (which was wrecked in a storm so long ago that I now ca...
8 hours ago
Bunker Talk

What Good are Werewolf Figures? - These two people are not werewolves. The woman is useful for any period where women wear pants, from the Old West until now. The man is useful for the ...
8 hours ago
Small Scale World

O is for Oops! - One of those slightly admissive parables today, most of us have been there once or twice, making a mistake, whether because there's one born every minute, ...
9 hours ago
NEWS FROM THE FRONT

Mixed Bag - Some recent painting to pootle off the desk. First up a Warlord Games Universal Carrier and crew. Next a couple of Germans from Empress Miniatures Kampfgupp...
9 hours ago
Tales From GHQ

Action at Thönghausen - I had somehow forgotten that Phil and I had decided on a SYW game for this week's set too here in GHQ and was happily clearing last week's game away when...
10 hours ago
Musings on Wargaming and Life

The Battle of Ravenna - Back at the club again, Bolt Action against 'Lucky' Jimi. I took the British and Jimi brought his winter Jerries, I debated whether to penalise his move...
11 hours ago
Don't throw a 1

AHPC16 - My Challenge Wrap up - I'm a month late with this post, the Challenge ended on the 21st March. Salute and others took over I'm afraid!!! Well that's another Challenge over a...
12 hours ago
Fantorical

"Enterprise Is Cleared For Launch." - *"Hailing frequencies open, sir."* This 32mm scale resin model of Lieutenant Uhura was bought as part of the Star Trek Adventures Original Series Miniatur...
12 hours ago
The Opinionated Gamers

Dale Yu: Review of Cucumber Catastrophe - Cucumber Catastrophe Designer: Michael Feldkoetter Publisher: dv Games Players: 3-6 Age: 8+ Time: 20 mins Played with review copy provided by publisher...
13 hours ago
Little Odo's Grand Days Out

Chronicles of Midgard - My *Midgard : Britannia* campaign finished way back in January of this year but I have had thoughts bubbling away in my mind since then on what to do nex...
14 hours ago
Board Games - Creation And Play

Launch - It's launch week. *Photo by NASA on Unsplash* Just over 24 hours until the Gal4Xeon Gamefound campaign goes live. At this point the signs are encouraging...
14 hours ago
Wargaming Miscellany

Cutting one's coat according to one's cloth - Regular blog readers might find some of what follows covers things that I have previously written about on my blog, but for completeness – and to help me...
14 hours ago
Douglas Miniatures - 20mm Crimean War

25mm Portuguese Cavalry and Hittite Chariots - This was a bit of a fun project. I purchased a lot of eBay that consisted of around 20 Les Higgins/PMD British light cavalry horses and a similar numbe...
14 hours ago
The Owl Bear's Lair

Japanese terrain - This week I have three small pieces of Japanese themed terrain. They were given to me by IlVJ who got them cheaply in Japan, they are rubbery plastic pr...
14 hours ago
Tabletop Fix

Mantic Games - New Pre-Order - New TerrainCrate sets can be pre-ordered from Mantic Games: Link: Mantic Games
15 hours ago
Società di archeologia e cimeli

Anaconda - * When I saw the trailer of this "reboot parody" of Anaconda, with Jack Black fleeing from a snake with a living boar strapped to it's back, I just wanted ...
18 hours ago
China Defense Blog

You can take my life, but you can never take my flappy fur hat. - p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Ginto Copilot Variable'; color: #26221f}span.s1 {letter-spacing: 0.1px} What we got here is a perf...
19 hours ago
Rabbits In My Basement

Patria e Onore - *Motherland and honour!* The first squadrons for the *Regia Marina* are ready to sortie from Taranto. Putting to sea Two *Zara* class heavy cruisers. ...
21 hours ago
Swords & Stitchery - Old Time Sewing & Table Top Rpg Blog

D100 Sword & Sorcery Random Treasures That Fight Back Table For Castles & Crusades rpg - This table transforms standard treasure rolls into immediate "Wait, why is the gold moving?" moments. Instead of just mimic chests, these entries turn the...
22 hours ago
Soldados em Miniatura

O Aviatik D.I em papel na escala 1/72 - 3ª parte - É de notar que, como o plástico, mesmo que fino, é mais espesso do que o papel, ou mesmo a cartolina, deve haver um pequeno ajuste nas peças da fuselagem,...
23 hours ago
ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLE

....... M1070 Gun Truck ....... - ....... a little more .......
1 day ago
Wars of Louis Quatorze

Reveries, or memoirs upon the art of war by Field-Marshal Count Saxe. Translated from the French. 1757 -
1 day ago
Palouse Wargaming Journal

Lannes Is Still Dead - Last Monday, I wrangled Reject Lee and Reject Ray into taking their shot at the Montebello battle. While Richard and I played the scenario twice in prior ...
1 day ago
ALY'S TOY SOLDIERS

And an other Re - Based unit… - Greetings…. Here is yet another Re- Based Late Roman unit…. Once again… They have had new spears and a little bit of sprucing… Mainly to repair damage t...
1 day ago
Pousse Plomb

Go West ! - A cette heure, je suis parti en vacances et ça fait presque un an que je n'étais pas parti. Je suis sur l'île de Ouessant pour une semaine voire plus car s...
1 day ago
iron mitten

Play Test - Today, I went along to the Prince Rupert's gaming day and took along my Clone wars project. Obviously, being a bit of a niche project it was very differe...
1 day ago
Geschichte als Hobby: Sehen - Lesen - Spielen

Rebels and Patriots - Butler's farm - Mitten in einer Ebene durch die sich die Straße nach Ticonderoga zog, lag Butler’s Farm. Hier hatten sich drei amerikanische Provinzialregimenter in einer...
1 day ago
Scotty's Wargaming

15mm Republican Romans - Picking up some inspiration from a couple of recent games of Midgard, I completed the two bases of Hastati for the 2nd allied legion. This brings me up t...
1 day ago
World Historyprof

Minions Help Clear the Air - Ao & Ea do not think of themselves a pointless minion in the great cog of the Dark Angels Space Marine Chapter. Noo! They are vital "Mini-Warriors" who bo...
1 day ago
Dampf's modelling page

Basing 101 - part one - Earlier this month I was asked if I would give details of how I model, paint and finish my terrain bases. In most of my magazine articles I tend to skim...
1 day ago
jp wargaming place

1813-15 battles in 20mm and for AoE and V&F - (part 11) The Chasseurs of the Old Guard - These represent the Old Guard Chasseurs of Cambronne and Pelet. Again the good thing of making Imperial Guard is that you can use them across the Nap...
1 day ago
Flintlock and tomahawk

Détachement de la Colonie et la Garnison de Québec à la forteresse de Louisbourg. Crédit photo G. Bergeron -
1 day ago
Yarkshire Gamer

April can be the hardest month - New Unit Day- 28mm Gripping Beast Arab Heavy Cavalry from their plastic box set. Getting going in April is always a challenge after AHPC & Salute so p...
1 day ago
Javier at war

Some British reinforcements - Hello, here is a new batch of British tanks. Shermans Churchills All the painted tanks so far. I started to paint some tanks for Company Commander but ...
1 day ago
Asienieboje - wargaming blog

Black Seas; West Indies Campaign: Jimmy saves the day. - Jimmy set up another game from the campaign for us, once again using the *Black Seas* rules. I hadn't taken part in the previous battle, where the French ...
1 day ago
Steve's Paintingshed

The Viereckstal Campaign. Chapter 9 (Part 4) - // The Battle of Vierecksbrucke // // Turns 5, 6 and 7 // Picking up from where we left off, turn 5 was yet another "ordinary" turn with no extra acti...
1 day ago
BigLee's Miniature Adventures

Is Wargaming a form of Experimental History? - Can tabletop wargaming really help us understand history, or are we simply creating the illusion of insight with dice and miniatures? This video explores...
1 day ago
BigLee's Miniature Adventures

Is Wargaming a form of Experimental History? - Can tabletop wargaming really help us understand history, or are we simply creating the illusion of insight with dice and miniatures? This video explores...
1 day ago
Grid based wargaming - but not always

Planning an Air Campaign - In between painting Zulus, I am up to 180 now, I have finally managed to put together all my Battle of Britain campaign notes for use with the Blood Red ...
1 day ago
The Life And Times Of A Wargames Fanatic

On the rediscovery Of Painting For Oneself - Last night, I finished the final 12 figures for the first of my 15mm sci-fi forces: I want to thank those of you who have commented on my o...
1 day ago
napoleonic wargaming

Cordova Campaign – Battle of Montilla - *Battle of Montilla – table at start of game* Both armies are full strength at the start of the game Each army has three corps The Spanish have 12 infantr...
1 day ago
Tin Soldiering On

If only I could have bought these ....... - Found these on Facebook , the hours I spent looking at them as a youngster (1960's) they were in Superman comics etc passed on to me by our neighbour ...
1 day ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

Louis Zocchi Has Passed - I am sad to learn that Louis Zocchi has passed away. Perhaps best known for his dice and his Gamescience company, Zocchi was a well known hobbyist, gam...
1 day ago
despertaferres

Wargaming Midgard: refusing to love one’s enemy! - Cardiff Dice Studz play their second game of Midgard and try to bring chivalry to the area around Ninian Park Bus station!
1 day ago
Camp Cromwell

Bolt Action 1250 pts on big table - *Objective:* The railway station. *Sides:* Jim set up the scenario, Chris could choose his side & whether to attack or defend. Chris took the Brits & de...
1 day ago
Realms of Chaos

Star wars : West End Games, part 2/3 - Hey guys! Second wave of pictures regarding West End Games Star wars models. My objectives changes and now I wish to own the full collection of metal mod...
1 day ago
Dust, Tears & Dice

Slow boat from China - Battlefield in a Box Terrain - I have had my eye on these additional river sections for several years they were never in stock and when they did appear on e-bay the price was higher th...
1 day ago
The Duchy of Tradgardland

Ancients and medievals - I haven’t really dealt with 15mm ancients for years but have been thinking about them mainly for solo games at the moment. N.Ps recent buying and renova...
1 day ago
Bucellarii

Kublai Khan - Here is a Kublai Khan command stand for my Mongol army. Figures are by Curteys Miniatures from 1st Corps Miniatures. They have an excellent Mongol...
1 day ago
Battlefields and Warriors

The Three Table Battle - not! (Part I). - This post discusses putting on a corps level action, fought over three different tables …. or rather the same table three times! *Backdrop* - this is...
1 day ago
the Man Cave

A return visit to the USNWC - Another week away for work - this time back to my alma mater: the US Navy War College in Newport, Rhode Island. It was my first time back since graduatin...
1 day ago
Fish Tales

April two furlongs in - Mostly with photos from the AD1666 collection. Maybe another 30 or so and all the figures will be painted, and a new campaign could start. *Okay, a...
1 day ago
Blunders on the Danube

Sherburne's Additional Continental Regiment... and Meig's raid on Long Island - "Additional Continental Regiments" were those paid (theoretically, at least) by the Continental Congress, but outside of the quotas it had assigned to e...
1 day ago
Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog

We'll Always Have Paris... - And... maybe Amsterdam...? So... plans have changed and it seems we may not be travelling to England after all... I've been kind of bummed out about that...
1 day ago
Waterloo in 20mm

Smohain in the Sunshine - Taking advantage of the spring weather, I decided to take the Smohain part of the model outside for some sunshine. I was able to make various improveme...
2 days ago
Herkybirds nest

Into the Crusades? - Today we had a sort of Crusader battle between the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Fatamids. Tony asked me to make the lists based on the figures he had, s...
2 days ago
Tyneside Wargames Club

Another new sub period, the Crusades! - Today, we tried a different game, using a Kingdom of Jerusalem army against Fatimid Egyptians. If you want to see how this played in Midgard, please go ...
2 days ago
Balkan Wargamer

Farewell to Salonika - Modern Thessaloniki (commonly called Salonika in English) is the second-largest city in Greece and the administrative capital of Greek Macedonia. Today,...
2 days ago
One man and his brushes.

Gaming - Schleswig Holstein Wars - Today we did some gaming using DaveP’s baby . He has been building his own figure range for the this war (available from Pendraken - Here) . The table ...
2 days ago
Tom's Miniatures in 1/72

DarkAlliance... Modern Krampus, Witches and more on Ebay - HÄT / DarkAlliance on Ebay
2 days ago
For Ye Kinge

More mounted cossacks.... - A second unit of mounted cossacks finished today... with the other unit I've already finished.. two more units remain to be painted.
2 days ago
Broken Stars & Burning Ships

Full Thrust ESU Custom Builds and Game Stats - *Kamchatka-class Battle Carrier* These custom ESU ship variants were originally posted to a long-defunct site belonging to an old employer of mine, but t...
2 days ago
Travels with Khusru

Salute - Hi! Just a couple of pictures of the two set-ups I liked best: First: One of the first in and off I trot to the Crooked Dice stand! That is...
2 days ago
Tale of Painters

Review: Age of Sigmar Spearhead City of Ash - The Freeguilds and Clan Eshin face off in Cities of Ash, the latest Spearhead Battlepack for Warhammer Age of Sigmar. Packed with brand-new models for bo...
2 days ago
Polemarch

1600 – Something: Khmer Bashing - The Autumn 1605 move in the campaign yielded four wargames. In the West, the French invaded Luxembourg. No one seemed particularly minded to aid the Luxe...
2 days ago
JJ's Wargames

The Battle of Portland (a.k.a. The Three Days' Battle), 18th - 20th February 1653 - General at Sea. - Blake and Tromp - William Lionel Wyllie. This post follows on from Capt. Steve's narrative of the events leading up to the Battle of Portland in 1653 and ...
2 days ago
The Ooh Shiny Complex

What a Complete Cult! (Forgotten Ruin) - "I think we are getting there now." Thruppence Cholmondley-Warner, the L.T. as she was most commonly known, was feeling upbeat and communicating that to...
2 days ago
Projects and Procrastination

Collaborative Campaign Year 16: Part 3 - In the first two posts of Year 16 of the Campaign, we witnessed the destruction of Therissa's once dominant fleet at The Battle of Siren's Tower, and, w...
2 days ago
The Stronghold Rebuilt

Action In The Gulf Of Riga - One thing I've wanted to try with Torpedoes & Tides is a fight between large vessels. Obviously within the scope of the game, large is a relative term (I...
2 days ago
The Games We Play

Once more unto the breach.... Maldon (again) - Only a few of us turned up for our pre Christmas meet up as everyone else had other things on. John produced the 'Battle of Maldon', which we've done se...
2 days ago
PAPERMAU

Garage Stand Papercraft For Miniatures In 1/64 Scale - New Layered 3D Version - by Papermau - Download Now! - This 1/64 scale garage papercraft lets you build a realistic layered diorama stand for your diecast cars. This new version is updated with layered details ...
2 days ago
One Sided Miniature Wargaming Discourse

Imperial Elegy - Five Players One Bot - The game plays a lot better than you would think from just looking at the rules. Better still Richard was able to muster five players: - Prussia: Ri...
2 days ago
Toy Soldiers and Dining Room Battles

Epic Revolution Part 18: A South Carolina Infantry Unit - *South Carolina troops muster. This unit can represent either SC Continentals, State Troops or Militia. The mounted figure is the Daniel Morgan resin fig...
3 days ago
GROGNARDIA

Underground - I'm not dead, but I *am* deep in the proverbial salt mines, working hard to complete the first draft of the second edition of *Thousand Suns. *I'm making...
3 days ago
Madaxeman's Wargames Blog

Dipping into Early Medieval Cavalry - Another tidy-up project to be completed recently has been to dip (using the fantastic, non-smelly Biostrip 2.0 - which you can buy on Amazon UK using th...
3 days ago
Analogue Hobbies

Radioactive Space Zombies! - Continuing on with my Space Salvage diversion, I figure I need to amass some adversaries for my Space Cowboys to face off against. And what better to st...
3 days ago
Peter's Cave

Paulus Miniatures - Medieval figures - 54 mm - Part 1 - Last year I bought some handcasted figures from Paulus Miniatures with the intention to paint them all for the "Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge, but I ...
3 days ago
Trouble At T'Mill - a wargaming blog

The Miller's Tale - Episode 14 - Episode 14, in which Mike gets to have a guest back again! Yes, it's James Morris, back again to explain how Midgard Heroic Battles has been going, what'...
3 days ago
Paint-it-Pink

Ogre Mk4 Reborn - Between working on my Ogre conversion, I've had an ultra rare prototype Ogre Mark 4, rejected by Steve Jackson Games that has been sitting, waiting to be...
3 days ago
Grymauch's Solo Wargaming Blog

AWI: White Plains/Chatterton's Hill, 28th October 1776 - Introduction - This scenario is taken from the British Grenadier! AWI Scenarios book 1. A brief background to the battle: In the summer of 1776 an Anglo-German army und...
3 days ago
A figure painting therapy project.

Robo - Painter! - Stop laughing at the back there! - my wife was in stiches last night when I first tried them on - but I had been looking into (pun intended) investing in...
3 days ago
Hobgoblinry

A converted space orc - Here's the latest in an occasional series of "stick a gun on it and call it a spaceman" - the best and most nostalgic form of miniature conversion. Th...
3 days ago
Wargaming with Barks

40K Sisters of Battle: Cherubim - I love 40K Cherubs. They perfectly encapsulate the grimdark bonkersness of it all. They are vat-grown bio-constructs designed to look like babies. No tru...
3 days ago
Fencing Frog

The Battle of Draneville - The confederate position and supplies. My men come on and drive off Stuarts cavalry sending them off in pell-mell retreat Then Union troops pour on to...
3 days ago
WAB Corner

Hawaiian Terrain for Tribal - The tiki is from a cheap key chain with a base of Tamiya epoxy putty, and repainted. The trunk and fronds of the coconut trees were dry brushed. If I had ...
4 days ago
notquitemechanised

Rules 023 – Balancing a Scenario - There are occasions when you want to know if a scenario is likely to be balanced before a game. I am not thinking of equal point tournament armies, but rat...
4 days ago
History of Wargaming Project

Wargaming Publishing in 2026 - Looking back, 2008 was perhaps a pivotal moment for "serious" and historical wargaming literature. Encouraged by John Basset, Tom Mouat and Tony Hawk...
4 days ago
Rob Hawkins Hobby

Ushabti Archers - It took forever, but my Ushabti Archers are finished at last! Read more »
4 days ago
Irregular Wars: Wargaming at the World's End

Flores Minor Ranger Corp mechanised support - I may have accidentally added an armoured personnel carrier to the Flores Minor Ranger Corp... This is Wombat 3, the newest support unit for my sci-fi hal...
4 days ago
Wee Blokes

Isengard Reinforcements - This is more a catch up post now I've some photography space set - these were actually painted at the start of the year. After the fiddly elves I thoug...
4 days ago
Situation Room

Game 140 : Leipzig 1813 Southern Front - Its been a while since I've done the blog, I blame growing older, but laziness might also have a bearing! A new hip, a crown disintegrating and so a new...
4 days ago
Sgt Steiner's Wargaming Blog

Some solo COINage and ongoing Pbem (Storm Over Arnhem and Combat Mission) - Got Fire In The Lake onto table (no minis game this week) for a solo session (only way I can get a win) and hugely enjoyable it was. I still have not gott...
4 days ago
Beyond Monopoly!

BM! Saturday 18th April 2026 - Hey folks, Jim here to let you know that the schools are back and so is Beyond Monopoly. We hope you’ll be able to join us for some more gaming fun this Sa...
4 days ago
Anton's Wargame Blog

More mucking about with 3D animation - I spotted this over on the Louis the XIV blog where he commented on a picture-to-3D software. I was impressed with what he had on display so I ga...
4 days ago
Ed M's Wargames Meanderings

MAYHEM 2026 CONVENTION REPORT - View of the main room on Saturday afternoon. A combination of the usual suspects has caused recent blogging activity to lag for the last few months (u...
5 days ago
Tales of Mirth

Space Minotaurs (aka Red Bulls?) - Space Minotaurs from Warblade Miniatures In my universe, these will be known as red bulls or red devils to some people, greebles in their own language. ...
5 days ago
Tom's Toy Soldiers

Give me a sign! - From the old Warhammer Fences set I think. Been sat around part painted for a long time - flavourful bit of scatter
5 days ago
Camisado

Janissary Handguns? - With the 500 year anniversary of the Battle of Mohács looming what better time to add some more firepower to my collection of early 16th century janissa...
5 days ago
Zardoz the Magnificent's Dungeons and/or Dragons Super Show!

Hot Spots: Draconis Reach (Preview) - So, our benevolent overlords at Catalyst Game Labs were kind enough to provide a review copy of Hot Spots Draconis Reach ahead of its May 13th street dat...
5 days ago
Delta Vector

The Forest - Paint Progress - My local hardware store is out of 3mm MDF so besides purchasing some more hairspray, the terrain building is on hold. I need 3 sets of terrain: *Ruined ...
5 days ago
A Wargaming Odyssey

Pimping an Age of Sail Warship - *One of the ships deployed on the game board from Fighters of the Pacific. I have a cloth with slightly larger hexes (50mm across the flat sides) that wo...
5 days ago
Gunners wargaming

Test camo 10th Lyran guards - Hi guys Another shelf queen finished, I usually like colourful mechs, but wanted to do a unit in camo, so he is a camo test, this guy is the first of my...
5 days ago
Wargaming for Grown-ups

Trebian finally gets to Kursk - Chris has run a number of Kursk games over the last 30 years or so, and I think I've missed all of them. I've never had access to massed Soviet armour, u...
5 days ago
Military Historical Miniatures

Драконорожденный (Dragonborn) - Драконорожденный (Dragonborn) D&D, DnD; «Подземелья и драконы» Dungeons & Dragons
5 days ago
Band of Wargame Brothers

The Troubles...... - Spyros has always had an eye on trying to recreate the confrontations in Northern Ireland on the table. It is difficult for obvious reasons.But using the b...
5 days ago
paintinglittlesoldiers

Narrative campaigns to make battles. - Ever since I was press-ganged, I mean asked to take part in Barry's Herzogtum von Rechburg, I have long had a wanting to make some of my own environmen...
5 days ago
FalkeEins - My Modelling Blog

Finnish B-239 Buffalo from the 'classic' Airfix 72nd kit - The ancient 1:72 Airfix Buffalo is a poor kit. Turning it into a Finnish machine is to be honest a bit of a pointless exercise - everything needs wo...
6 days ago
Hobby Games Recce

Bibliography Validation - “*The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”* — *Rene Descartes* Every so often I feel inspired (co...
6 days ago
Baber on wargames

Seizing Boyardville, Île d'Oléron, 1st May 1945 - *Seizing Boyardville* *Île d'Oléron, 1st May 1945* This is semi-fictional tabletop game, based around the fighting on Île d'Oléron on May 1st 1945. I th...
6 days ago
Random&Creative

Spanish Swordsmen - These are plastic figures for the board game Anno Domini 1666. I don't really care much about the game itself, but the figures look good, so I bought so...
6 days ago
Jaeckel Alone

First rank done - The latest member of the club of Troll Flesh Eaters is a simple conversion of another Giant Slayer miniature, featuring a basic swap of axe blades using ...
6 days ago
Glorious Little Soldiers

Mughal, Mutineers and ... er Highlanders. - As seems to be the norm currently work having taken over my life painting time is severly limited. Nevertheless I am getting a few things finished as t...
6 days ago
Hitting on a Double 1

Salute 2026 - Another year and another Salute wargames show. The largest one day wargames show in the UK and after a hard start to the year for me with various issu...
6 days ago
Tim's Tanks

Bandai 1/48th Jagdpanther G2 - Well, firstly all I can do is apologise......no posts since September last year! What on earth have I been playing at. Well my only excuse is real world...
6 days ago
The Lost and the Damned

Salute 2026 - Let’s start with the bad news – I’m not covering the Salute wargaming show in depths anymore. Meeting up with people on the day, lack of time for post-proc...
1 week ago
Realm of Chaos 80s

More Dwarf Engineers, C22 Adventurer's Cart and Orlygg @ Salute 2026 - What a wonderful hobby holiday it has been! Easter has roared on by but I have cracked on and got plenty of Old School projects completed. Here's hoping...
1 week ago
Yours in a White Wine Sauce!

Russian Fleet reinforcements - A small Cruiser squadron to reinforce my growing Russian Dystopian Wars fleet. *Disclaimer: I have used AI to generate a more contextural background.T...
1 week ago
brtrain

Command is the management of attention - A few weeks ago Jerry Allen Hall (COL USA, ret’d) and I co-wrote a piece on the nature of command and control in warfare and how it is reflected (well or p...
1 week ago
Grumble Jones - An ASL Blog

Our Games B15 Bagging the Bago Bridge, WO35 Heroes' Day, BC12 Itson, and WO53 Two Kinds of People - It's been a while since I put together an AAR. 29 games have been played prior to the four played this weekend and covered here in this latest 4 Scena...
1 week ago
Move to Contact

Salute '26 - Battlegroup demo game, 'Via Faenza', Italy 1944 - The combined efforts of Piers and myself (and some extra borrowed med buildings) to create out demo table for BG: Italy, for Salute. On a 6 x 10' table, ...
1 week ago
The Beard Bunker

Should I update my terrain for 40K's 11th edition? - As I write this we're a few months away from Warhammer 40,000's eleventh edition. In the Warhammer Community post describing the new edition's approach t...
1 week ago
The Beard Bunker

Should I update my terrain for 40K's 11th edition? - As I write this we're a few months away from Warhammer 40,000's eleventh edition. In the Warhammer Community post describing the new edition's approach t...
1 week ago
Just Add Water

The Battle of Cunaxa 401 BC, Battle Day In The North, Society of Ancients - On Sunday gone, Durham Wargames Group put on an all day event, The Battle of Cunuxa 401 BC, Battle Day In The North, run in affiliation with the Society of...
1 week ago
doctorphalanx

Using larger bases with Bloody Big Battles! - *Half-base 10mm lead 'singles' for BBB: moreproblematical with WoFun standees.*I might have been a little hasty in dismissing the use of WoFun 10mm stan...
1 week ago
Tarleton's Quarter

Salute 2026 - Having missed last year's Salute due to being on tour with the boys' rugby teams, it was good to be back. Both boys tagged along again; Monty is now ge...
1 week ago
Ski's Wargames

AAR: Eastern Front Action with Rate of Fire - Mark and I got together on Saturday afternoon to let the 1/72 toys out for a spin. I set up a very simple "capture the crossroads" scenario and put toge...
1 week ago
caveadsum 1471

Italian lance spezzate Great Italian Wars 53 - So not that long ago I hosted and played a couple of great Italian wars games, Fornova and Agnadello, I resolved that I needed more Italian pike and a u...
1 week ago
Here's no great matter

This and that - There has been some movement in the wargaming room since Easter, including some painting, which has been a welcome development. The day job's intensity h...
1 week ago
Numbers, Wargames and Arsing About

Hannibal! - I recently received a nice package from Second Chance Games, Hold the Line: Hannibal by Worthington Games. I pre-ordered many months ago. The box weig...
1 week ago
Carryings On Up The Dale

Sassanids (99%) Finished! - A few more flags (as many as I can muster) and finish replacing all the spears and lances and these are (almost) ready to go. Two more elephants, half a...
1 week ago
Carry on up the Dale

Sassanids (99%) Finished! - A few more flags (as many as I can muster) and finish replacing all the spears and lances and these are (almost) ready to go. Two more elephants, half a...
1 week ago
Storm within the Empire

Stilicho vs. Alaric, a test case - Linear campaigns are a simple way of bringing continuity to a series of related battles. To avoid unnecessary bookkeeping to track the loss of particular...
1 week ago
Nations In Arms

28mm AWI British Grenadiers - Another gaping hole filled in my AWI collection, this time for the forces of the Crown. The 18 stands can be formed into two large or three smaller ba...
1 week ago
Dear Tony Blair

Salute 2026 - stepping in another man's shoes... - As many of you will be aware, I run The Little Soldier Company (for my sins and for the quest of penury... a poor man is more likely to enter the king...
1 week ago
Dear Tony Blair

Salute 2026 - stepping in another man's shoes... - As many of you will be aware, I run The Little Soldier Company (for my sins and for the quest of penury... a poor man is more likely to enter the king...
1 week ago
Cthulhu

401 - The Living Mummy, part 18 - Greeting you damn dirty apes. In this episode you'll be assaulting the mountain and dealing with Egyptian Mummys Download the show
1 week ago
The Kingdom of Wittenberg

Wittenberg.. Cavalry Regiment Leib-Kurassier (no1)... - The Leib-Kurassiers have joined the Wittenberg army; the figures are my own home-casts.. Here they are with the rest of the "heavy's" - Kurasssier No2, ...
1 week ago
KEITH'S WARGAMING BLOG

Cheap Wargames Rules - Their Time Has Come - Well, that's what I hope. I have an article in *Wargames Illustrated *460 (April 2026), entitled 'Too Many Rules?'. In it I argue that there aren't really ...
1 week ago
Bob's Miniature Wargaming Blog

28mm furies - I continue to paint when I have some time and, this week, I finished off five 28mm fantasy figures. These are some kind of feathered, bird-based monster....
1 week ago
Steve's Random Musings on
Wargaming and other stuff...

"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 ...
1 week ago
Hinton Hunt Vintage Wargame Figures

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...
1 week ago
miniafv

1/72 Sd.Kfz. 7/3 Artillery Tractor Feuerleitpanzer by Cem Esen - Hello friends, I apologize for not posting a new page for a while. Let's continue where we left off. Let's start with a beautiful model by Cem Ese...
1 week ago
Cold War Hot Hot Hot

Specialist Artillery Munitions - Hi Everyone. Time for a bit of bonus material - something to get your teeth into - to get everyone interested in this game talking, suggesting, offerin...
1 week ago
MurdocK's MarauderS

Parts FOUND! - wiping the brows ... The video from the Eylau 2007 game (with the blowing snows effects!) has been found! More images taken at the game from other pla...
1 week ago
The Tactical Painter

Romans on the Rhine - Having put together a force of Germanic tribes to use with the *Infamy, Infamy* rules, I felt an irresistible urge to then create an opposing force of Ro...
1 week ago
Wargamingnz

Back to the Peninsula - The Volley and Bayonet rules have a great scenario generation system included. For me it works well, but it doesn't always suit the needs of every 'gamer...
1 week ago
Battle Game of the Month

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 week ago
The Northumbrian Wargamer.

Prince August 40mm SYW - More progress on my 'Old School' Prince August 40mm SYW figures collection. Quite a few added, the existing Austrian battalion was brought up to the 48 ...
1 week ago
20mm and then some....

Blogging will resume after the Mark 1b Eyeball upgrade is succesfully completed. - After having a scalpel jabbed into my eye (ywice) on Tuesday I now get to test my blinddtyping skills, cause I can't see Jack at arms length. First ch...
1 week ago
CAMPAIGNS IN GERMANIA

General Pettygree 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...
1 week ago
Witch Queen of Portmuck

Call of Cthulhu, Episode #14 - 'Now that's Magic!' - With McDaid safely ensconced 'on the inside' - even though it may be a very dangerous place to be, the remaining characters deliberate what to do, having...
1 week ago
Not By Appointment

Standards of the Dutch Carabiniers 1690s-? - First raised 1688 as a regiment of carabiniers 6 companies strong. In 1701 3 extra companies and a company of Horse Grenadiers were added to the regiment...
1 week ago
Will's Wargames Blog

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...
1 week ago
Just Another Wargames Blog

Newish Ironsides - I noticed that I have two posts that I have yet to put up on my blog. One was started over a month ago and the other about a week ago. Unfortunately, I ...
1 week ago
Wargame Hermit: Solo Wargaming

Hex Acrylic Templates - I am a big fan of Archduke Piccolo's Napoleonic campaigns, and have been thinking of trying to use his rules for a game. While leaning towards using 2...
1 week ago
Over Open Sights

Kingsley Receives THE Order. A Second Minden Vignette. - Maj. Gen. John Kingsley (Commanding the second echelon of von Spörcken's division): Who is this hasty Hanoverian, James? Lt. Col. James Lockhart-Ross (O...
1 week ago
Campaigns of General William Augustus Pettygree

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...
1 week ago
Archduke Piccolo

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...
1 week ago
DiRi-Miniaturen

MM-Park - La Wantzenau (Frankreich) - Gestern waren wir zu Besuch im militärtechnischem Museum "MM-Park France" in La Wantzenau, welches ca. 10 km nördlich von Straßburg liegt. Dort sind über...
1 week ago
A Wargaming Gallimaufry

No Salute for me this year - It's Salute this weekend which I rarely miss but this year it coincides with World Parkinson's Day and as I work for a Parkinson's charity I'm going to ...
1 week ago
Storm and Conquest!

Wip Wednesday - Judge Dredd - Skysurfers - Judge Dredd Skysurfers -WIP Playing around with some green stuff this week while assembling some figures for Judge Dredd I thought I would scratch build so...
1 week ago
Heretical Gaming

Hobby Update 08 Apr 26 - A Million Hits - One million hits used to be the sign of a very popular blog. These days it isn't quite as true since much of the traffic will be scripted bots but still,...
1 week ago
Kampfgruppe Willow

Baor - exercise pics - Baor exercise pics This week working on the chateau renovation we have a laborer who was a ex tank driver/loader/gunner working for us, he brought me in t...
1 week ago
1/72 Multiverse

Krampus - The Krampus is a dark companion figure who accompanies Saint Nicholas during his midwinter rounds in Alpine regions and countries that were part of the for...
1 week ago
The Epic Gamer

Relicblade Bone Construct and 15mm Roman Camp - I finished up the Relicblade Bone Construct last week, and the second bone stalker awhile back too but never snapped a pictre. The bases are a combinatio...
1 week ago
The Poetry of the Symphonic

The Sentinel Gate Affair, Episode VIII: When Serpents Fly - Continued from Episode VII: Memphis Blues Augustus awoke as *Piscivorous* dropped out of the twisting nightmare of transit space at Luxor. Only t...
2 weeks ago
The Tartarus Rim

The Sentinel Gate Affair, Episode VIII: When Serpents Fly - Continued from Episode VII: Memphis Blues Augustus awoke as *Piscivorous* dropped out of the twisting nightmare of transit space at Luxor. Only t...
2 weeks ago
Book and Sword | Some thoughts by a scholar of both

On Trip-Hammers and Rolling Mills - Over on his site Bret Devereaux has a good description of a problem in Roman Military Equipment Studies. In book 6 of his histories, Polybius says that mos...
2 weeks ago
Warfare in the Age of Cynics and Amateurs

Stones River 1862, with Volley & Bayonet - Having some time over Easter to set up a large game, one of the ACW battles from the old V&B '90s scenario book seemed appropriate. Stones River is of an...
2 weeks ago
SHORES OF THE COLD SEA

Progress! - Despite life intervening with tragedy and challenges. Despite moving house and rebuilding yet another old house. Despite age setting in and worldly dist...
2 weeks ago
fantasy-gelaende

The Guest of Honor - Dieses Diorama im Maßstab 1:72 zeigt eine ruhige Szene aus dem ländlichen Mittelalter. Im Mittelpunkt steht ein altes Farmhaus mit verwitterten Wänden und ...
2 weeks ago
A J's Wargames Table

Happy Easter! - The struggle is real...
2 weeks ago
Another Slippery Slope

Gribbly Aliens - With the Bretonnian Damsel having broken my painting drought, I’ve got down to work. First up, completing all the genestealers from my copy of Space Hul...
2 weeks ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

Happy Easter -
2 weeks ago
SPEAR TO THE STRIFE

Basic / Expert 1e D&D - Figs - *Classic Sculpts for Classic Folks!* My mix of Grenadier and Heritage figs has survived these 40 years or so - amazingly! No dry rot, etc. Some were prim...
2 weeks ago
Shaun's Wargaming with Miniatures

WW2 Battle report British Vs Germans using 20mm figures and my own rules on a 2'x2' table - *Introduction* Playtesting a variation of my WW2 rules. Using a 2’x2’ board as I still don’t really have the room for the table tennis table (later this...
2 weeks ago
Platoon Forward

New Scenario: Roadblock - The big news is based on the discussion from my last post I am going to update *Grunt's Forward*. When I made GF it was focused on asymetrical warfare ...
2 weeks ago
Painting Wargames Figures

28mm FPW 1870:1st French Brigade - Six battalions of the 1st French brigade under General de Brigade Montmarie.16th Chasseur regiment, three battalions of the 50th ligne and two battalio...
2 weeks ago
Table Terror

DAS MOTORSPORTSPIEL: Oschersleben - Das Tableterror Team meldet sich live aus dem Motopark Oschersleben. Unsere Reporter sitzen am Norisring und kommentieren die Bidübertragung, unterstützt...
2 weeks ago
Captain's Blog

The Court of Sinister Doctor Koo - This is my second straight entry using figures from Pulp Figures China Station catalogue. PCS-01 The Court of Sinister Doctor Koo, or as advertized The...
2 weeks ago
Doctor Merkury's Lab

Building the Sprawl: Bringing 3D Printed Cyberpunk Streets to Life - There’s something uniquely satisfying about watching a digital design become a physical piece of your tabletop world. Recently, I assembled several sets...
2 weeks ago
Collecting Toy Soldiers

It's all Greek to me, or Italian.....maybe Rumanian? - This is a "What are they" post. I bought a unit of these on ebay because nobody wanted them, so they were dead cheap and I thought they might be useful...
2 weeks ago
wargamesinthedungeon

Capture the ‘flag’ scenario : RCW : Bolt Action - As a change of pace from our Chain of Command campaign George came to the dungeon for some ‘jolly’ gaming ? Well it had been a while since the RCW colle...
2 weeks ago
Wargame Dork

Vic 20 The Second: More Pictures and Useless Trivia! - Yes indeed! I have more Vic silliness to share just because I can. In between work which in some work strings has had six or seven in a row runs I o...
2 weeks ago
Wargaming in 28 mm

Americans in Winter Uniforms - This will be it, I hope for 28mm WWII figures. These are again resin printed from the RKX kickstarter. I believe these came out of the soup a little shar...
2 weeks ago
An Hour of Wolves And Shattered Shields

Alpha Strike Inner Sphere Trans Flag Themed mechs are ready to go! - apr01_2026 - I've finally finished painting all of the Inner Sphere mechs from the Alpha Strike box set! It's a record in that it only took me six months, haha! Anywa...
2 weeks ago
Shouting Into The Void

Grenadier "Night Hag" - 1986 - While I was looking through some accumulated boxes of stuff, I found one containing a whole bunch of old white metal miniatures from Ye Olden Times. Thi...
2 weeks ago
MacPhee's Miniature Men

Heth's Division at Gettysburg, 15mm ACW - Lots of pictures follow. I finished up Mitch Erickson's commission this past weekend. He can now field Heth's complete division at Gettysburg for Regimenta...
2 weeks ago
PARADE GROUND

Are you not EntertAIned!? - I'm going through my blog post drafts, working on getting them published, this is a little one I started a while back when, longtime friend within the h...
2 weeks ago
Hakostwo - Skavenblight & Kapitan Hak Blog

Figurkowy Karnawał Blogowy. Edycja #140: "Otchłań"! - Po raz jedenasty mam zaszczyt zaprosić Was do udziału w *"Figurkowym Karnawale Blogowym" *(dalej: "FKB"), tym razem w jego *sto czterdziestej * odsłonie... ...
2 weeks ago
LA PETITE ARMEE

L'Ours et le Loup 7 : Fin de la session 3 et de la saison1 - Avec ce post se clôture la saison du CdA du Warhammer Forum. Je vais sans doute rempiler pour une saison supplémentaire. Ce mois-ci, j'ai tenu mes eng...
2 weeks ago
Remco Miniatures

850 Romain soldiers - It was a real party at the recent EME 2026 event in Lingen, Germany! All the painted soldiers came out of the crate, and number 850 was ready just in ti...
2 weeks ago
Left Handed Panzerfaust

Rangers of Shadow Deep Cards - Creating Bestiary Cards for Rangers of Shadow Deep I like cards. There is something awesome about holding a thing in the palm of your hands with informati...
2 weeks ago
I LIKE the things I LIKE!

Expeditionary Force Royal Navy Landing Party touch up. - After I finished the Royal Navy Sailors I realized that they looked too Gilbert and Sullivan. I added colored and striped trousers and painted over th...
2 weeks ago
The Mad Padre's Wargames Page

Foundry Grenadiers and Happy Civilians for Old Fritz - Recently finished and mustered into service with the Prussian army are these 28mm Foundry sculpts, grenadiers painted in the uniforms of the Anhalt Desa...
3 weeks ago
Son Of Sun Tzu blog

Book Review - Ctrl+Alt+Chaos - Book Review: Ctrl + Alt + Chaos - How Teenage Hackers Hijack The Internet Ctrl+Alt+Chaos I was lucky enough to win a copy of this book from the author whe...
3 weeks ago
Captain Darling's Miniatures Emporium

The Spoiling Attack Set Up Details - Bonus The Russian Are Coming Campaign Game - Here are the set up details and special rules for the bonus scenario I've now included in my The Russians Are Coming Campaign. This game will not be play t...
3 weeks ago
Grants Grimsby Wargames Blog

Raw Material supply partnership request offer.-- - Good day, Confirm if you are still using this email for details . I look forward to your response. Regards, Lewiston Freeman. Business Broker. (C) Co...
3 weeks ago
Another Slight Diversion

Assassins!! - Finally finished the Midlam Miniatures Assassins and the Lead Adventurer figure bought recently. This completes Die Meuchelmörder-Gilde von Altefritzenburg...
3 weeks ago
The Emperors Blog

Assassins and templars - Newly painted miniatures for the Assassins and Templars game. This is the two war-bands from Gripping Beast With a few extras
3 weeks ago
Brushes and Bases

Back to the Brushes 418 - The desk needed a good clean so over the last few days been spending a bit of time tidying up a few odds and ends. Currently, there is a mix of Essex and...
3 weeks ago
The Waving Flag

15 mm Medieval Georgians (Essex Miniatures) - Preamble The genesis of this batch of figures began with a slip of the keyboard. I spotted 52 Essex early medieval riders (no horses) on eBay. At just ove...
3 weeks ago
The Waving Flag

15 mm Medieval Georgians (Essex Miniatures) - Preamble The genesis of this batch of figures began with a slip of the keyboard. I spotted 52 Essex early medieval riders (no horses) on eBay. At just ove...
3 weeks ago
Hazdrubal's Wargaming Blog

Even More Dragon Rampant 2nd - Thursday night (12th) I got together with Kevin to play another game of Dragon Rampant 2nd edition. It was my first game played in the Game Chamber's ...
3 weeks ago
Moiterei's bunte Welt

20mm Fallschirmjäger and Firefly - First off fthis time is a 20mm 3D printed Sherman Firefly by Arvernes Miniatures. Having painted two regular 75mm Shermans for my Canadians previously I fe...
3 weeks ago
Irishserb's Miniatures Adventure

AAR 1: Lyran Attack on Kzinti Base Station 0701 - My first battle of the new SFB campaign was a bit of a walk over. This was a Lyran attack on an weakly defended base station in F&E map hex 0701. The ba...
3 weeks ago
18th Century Sojourn

Disaster at Nicopolis 1395 - The Hungarian and Ottoman armies were enlarged to 24 elements forming a vanguard, main body and rear guard of equal strength. Simulating an army moving o...
3 weeks ago
Working on the Lead Mountain

Napoleonic Portuguese - 6mm - First up with the deep dives is the Portuguese units completed during AHPC XVI. All are Adler miniatures. A few overview shots. The the Cacadores / L...
3 weeks ago
This Life in Lead

15mm Arab Conquest Army Completed - Just a quick post with a few photos of my recently completed Arab Conquest army. All the figures are from the Forged in Battle Dark Ages Arab range: ...
3 weeks ago
Sources And Methods

Sooner or Later, Someone Is Going to Need to Think - The military doesn't do PT every day because every day requires a high level of physical fitness. The military runs every day because there are days wh...
3 weeks ago
Sources And Methods

Sooner or Later, Someone Is Going to Need to Think - The military doesn't do PT every day because every day requires a high level of physical fitness. The military runs every day because there are days wh...
3 weeks ago
Save Vs. Dragon

Simplifying Magic Resistance for B/X - In furtherance of my new d30 project mentioned in recent posts, I'm working on a demons encounter table. As a fan of Tom Moldvay's approach to creating a...
3 weeks ago
Andy's Wargaming Blog

Civilians for Dux Italica - Civilians and loot markers for Dux Italica.
3 weeks ago
Battle Brush Studios

Showcase: Dark Souls Gaping Dragon - Heyhey, it's time for some Dark Souls. This time it's just one figure, but it's a special one - the Gaping Dragon, from the Dark Souls boardgame expan...
3 weeks ago
Grimsby Wargaming

Japanese Demon Hunting - Last week having a few days spare I took my fledgling Japanese collection to the Grimsby Wargames Society for a day of hunting Oni in the valleys of Japa...
4 weeks ago
Not just old school wargaming

Seven Years War - The Battle of Hohenburg : PART TWO - A Dinos "Honours of War" scenarioPlease see PART ONE for background (and thanks to everyone who commented on it). This was my take on Dinos' "Take these G...
4 weeks ago
Bunker Hill

Pyrrhic stone throwers and slingers - I was hoping to post two units, but the other one will take a bit longer so decided to post just this one as it's finished and I can get it off the desk ...
4 weeks ago
Miniature Minions

Now in Full Glory - the Completed Spanish Artillery Battery - 1812-1813 - Life got in the way again, but the last few elements of the Spanish artillery battery are finally done. The new elements include gunners servicing the canon...
4 weeks ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

Gary Con 2025: Days 3 and 4 - *Dawn Patrol* Gary Con 2026 started today, but I am still traveling there, so here's the final installment of my report from last year. This post covers...
4 weeks ago
Major Thomas Foolery's War Room

Into the Wasteland: The Brotherhood of Steel - I'm back with one of the fan favorite forces from Fallout, the Brotherhood of Steel. As with most of my warbands for This Is Not A Test, these are 3D pr...
4 weeks ago
Jay's Wargaming Madness

Space Hulk, KublaCon, and Rambling - It's my busy time of year. January through early May I'm pinned down with work - which is in a near constant state of crazy - and coaching high school boy...
4 weeks ago
sediment's wargame blog

GMT Holland 44 (Conclusion) - 22ns September. Turn 15 morning 30 Corps relieve the pressure on Veghel, pushing 107th Pz Bgde back with losses on both sides. There is a developing Ge...
4 weeks ago
Arnhem Jim

Arbitrary Labeling as "Sensitive Material" - It is extremely disconcerting to have the Google Blog identify, and control this biog with a specific label “*Sensitive Content Warning*”, particularly w...
4 weeks ago
Vulture's Wargaming Blog

Boardgames Are More Than Just Fun, Science Reveals - This interesting article on the Tabletop Gaming site about Boardgames and how useful they are in promoting cognitive health and social skills, is worth a...
4 weeks ago
The Sharp End of the Brush

French and Indian War - I'm behind on blogging, as usual, but I've gotten the 40mm French and Indian War stuff out today for a trial game using A Fistful of Lead Bigger Battles.
4 weeks ago
Felduniform

The Minuteman - American War of Indipendence 1775-1783 -
5 weeks ago
Service Ration Distribution (Hobby)

1809: Karako, 11th June. Hungary - Here we are again gentle reader. The seemingly unstoppable Eugene and his duelling banjos are intent on snuffing out the Austrian rearguard.... As soon...
5 weeks ago
Santa Cruz Warhammer

'The Rot Inside' - Another Oldhammer Box Diorama! - I had an idea to create a scene that shows our society's general apathy to bad things happening here or abroad and of course I include myself in that ...
5 weeks ago
Adventures with Gun, Sabre & Horse

Return to the Hobby - It has been quite a while since I last posted here. When I started my tool truck business back in 2021, most of my hobby time disappeared almost overnigh...
5 weeks ago
DROPSHIP HORIZON

Renegar Superheavy Tank - Big Tank Day! Use code TWENTY2026 at checkout, or join my Patreon ( patreon.com/johnbearross) or Tribes for even larger discounts. Not all worlds a...
5 weeks ago
History in 1/72

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...
5 weeks ago
The Zhodani Commando

Warriors of Athena - Warriors of Athena is the new Co-op, Solo play mythic adventure by Joseph A. McCullough. If you're familiar with Rangers of Shadowdeep then the only diff...
5 weeks ago
Sabre and bayonet

Damn the Defiant! (1962) - Damn the Defiant! (1962) stars Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, and Anthony Quayle in a powerful Napoleonic-era naval drama directed by Lewis Gilbert. When ...
5 weeks ago
Harness and Array

Red Buses...! - Hey, so you wait ages for one blog post and then two come along at the same time!! I found some images I took of the extra figures that I did for the Monta...
5 weeks ago
MAIWAND DAY

Mini-Wars 2026 Sat Oct. 10 & Sun Oct. 11 convention webpage is LIVE! - I am happy to announce that the webpage to register games to GM and buy tickets to attend MINI-WARS 2026 is now LIVE on the Table Top Events website at t...
5 weeks ago
Miniature Soldiers

Napleonic Brunswick Leib infantry in 1815 - These figures are from HaT Industrie.
5 weeks ago
hobbyone news

- Choses promises, choses peintes… Voilà l’arrivée de l’Empire pour Shatterpoint. Bientôt sur une des superbe table de jeu des Dingues de jeux.
5 weeks ago
WW2 - Somewhere in England

Alas no more ..... - After a lot of thought I have decided to close down this project. My WW2 stuff is little used compared to my other collections. I want to expand other c...
1 month ago
Tanks-a-Lot

Alas - no more .... - After a lot of thought I have decided to close down this project. My WW2 stuff is little used compared to my other collections. I want to expand other c...
1 month ago
Road To Appomattox

15mm ACW Buildings - Here are all the new ACW buildings as featured in the game on the previous post - they are all 3D printed models available from *Battle Honours*. Twin Hou...
1 month ago
Last Stand at Cairngorm

Second time in the North West Frontier since 1985 - I started to buy the Ral Partha Colonials back in the '80s when they first came out. No real plan on a rule set or how to paint and organize them it was...
1 month ago
Association - Les Riflemen

955 Lechfeld - *Le camp Magyar est installé en Bavière, objectif l'arrière garde carolingienne.* *The Magyar camp is set up in Bavaria, with the objective of targeting...
1 month ago
Meeples & Miniatures

Well… It Had to Be a Dragon - If you’ve been following the blog, you’ll know that I’ve been building a High Elf army, primarily based around the Oathmark Elf range, since August 2024. W...
1 month ago
Pijlie´s Wargames Blog

Battlegroup Northag: new obsession - Recent paintwork for my new obsession Battlegroup Northag (a review might be forthcoming). The miniatures are mostly from the excellent Heroics and Ros ...
1 month ago
Megablitz and more

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...
1 month ago
Light Bobs and Paint Blobs

10mm - Battle of Culloden Moor 1746 - Wargame Report - *HRH, Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) with his entourage* Last night saw the eagerly awaited Battle of Culloden Moor wargame tha...
1 month ago
The Aircav Saga

Small Warehouse finished - It’s taken some time to get around to painting the Warehouse, but it’s finally done. I've the same colour palette as with the other rendered buildings....
1 month ago
ALBAtwo Warblog

Alarums and Excursions (and other stories) - Well, thats been fun a 2026 so far. Lots of worrying things abroad in the world and nearer to home too, And it's ony the end of February. Closer to hom...
1 month ago
Joy and Forgetfulness

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
Ashley R Pollard

Tokamak Oxford - Shrove Tuesday I was at Tokamak Energy. All bundled up because it was freezing cold in Oxford. The whole machine is housed inside this huge warehouse, wh...
1 month ago
Kampfgruppe 1/144

1/144 Kriegsmarine U-boat U-96 "Das U-boot" - Neverland Hobby - *1/144 Kriegsmarine U-boat U-96 "Das U-boot" - Neverland Hobby * *I've not heard of this manufacturer before, and it could be a reissue. As altho...
1 month ago
Tomorrow, when The Revolution Begins

Hola Muchachos again - getting there (100 Hour War) - So my little side project has now pretty much blossomed to the point I may have to put it on a table! While I work out how that is going to work, here ar...
1 month ago
SquadPainter

Unlocking Pro Acryl Paint Secrets - When I made the switch from Games Workshop and Vallejo Game Color (VGC) to only Pro Acryl (PA), I knew that there would be an adjustment period. Making ...
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Geordie's Big Battles

Been making some 28mm Kits - For my Chain of Command 28mm British Infantry the welcome sight of a Sherman Mk I (see below, the ubiquitous Western Front armour support): She came up n...
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Converj - David's Blog

Salamanca - 22 July 1812 - *Haven't posted here for a year. I'm still using LinkedIn for most work and wargaming PhD stuff - which currently doesn't leave much else. PhD should ...
1 month ago
The Independent Wargames Group

Ian Kay and Irregular Miniatures. - Ian [ in the red top ]commanding divisions at a refight of Borodino. 1987!!! I found out the other day that my old friend Ian Kay was final...
1 month ago
I SEE LEAD PEOPLE

NEW BLOG - Hey folks, I have decided to move my superhero gaming content over to a new blog - RIPPING THE FASE. As the name implies, at least to those n the know...
1 month ago
Mr Saturday's Mumblings

Undead Spearhead 4 - Silas Harrow - A minor, but slightly oddball addition to the Spearhead today; Silas Harrow, skeletal fiddler for the second unit of skeleton warriors. Silas is a mini ...
2 months ago
Winser's Wargaming Page

For Sale: Warlord Games La Haye Sainte - I have been holding on to this project for a few years now, but it's time to let it go. Included is the entire Warlord Games La Hay Sainte complex assemble...
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Blood, Fire and Death

28mm WW2 German Fallschirmjager Army Project - I've spent last weekend going through a large shoebox of 28mm WW2 German Fallschirmjager that my friend Rob gave me. It came with other boxes full of W...
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Miros' Games

Robin Hood Project: 28mm Wolves & Bear - Work on my Robin Hood Project continues at a good pace. Last week I painted 5 wolves and a bear. Many creatures lurk in the depths of Sherwood Forest. I...
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Prinzipalität des Schultze-Böhnstadt

A Bridgehead Too Far - As planned, the Rebel mercenary general, Ritter Esthvany de Kispilis-Chopak had made a crossing on the Große Grühne near Mathiasbad, and set up a pontoon...
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Lloyd of Gamebooks

Entries are now being accepted for the 2026 Lindenbaum competition! - Entries are now being accepted for the 2026 Lindenbaum competition. This year, 50% of the weighting for the results will be due to judges and 50% of the...
2 months ago
ZeroTwentythree

Miniatures For Sale - For Sale Mostly oldhammer/fantasy & 40k stuff. Some Foundry renaissance that was slated to be used as WFB Empire but will never get painted. Prices in US$...
2 months ago
ZeroTwentythree

Miniatures For Sale - For Sale Mostly oldhammer/fantasy & 40k stuff. Some Foundry renaissance that was slated to be used as WFB Empire but will never get painted. Prices in US$...
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Un Soixante-Douze

La bataille de Cowpens 17 janvier 1781 au 1/72 -
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ATOMIC-ANNIHILATION

1970 ... French postcards from the South Pacific! - These are sequential photographs of the 1970 French, Force de Frappe, 918 kiloton H-bomb test. It was conducted at Fangataufa Atoll, French Polynesia. Cod...
2 months ago
ATOMIC-ANNIHILATION

1970 ... French postcards from the South Pacific! - These are sequential photographs of the 1970 French, Force de Frappe, 918 kiloton H-bomb test. It was conducted at Fangataufa Atoll, French Polynesia. Cod...
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Geordie's Big Battles

Tuesday, 16 December 2025

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