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Bastion finished
i know you may be mighty bored of this by now 🤣 However the final parts for the bastion are done, I'm well impressed.I shall now do some walks etc and let you have a rest before there's any more...
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Just for Lee and Tamsin (and anyone else interested)
Ok some more printing projects - Tamsin enquired about printing the 1/100 scale Bergman files off thingiverse at 28mm scaleAirborne radio jeep, I got the orientation slightly wrong so front wheels need...
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Workbench update
Sorry for the short break - real life got in the way I'm afraid.That doesn't mean to say I've been idle though - the Vauban continues to grow, 2 bastions done and work has started on walls.I also did a...
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Battle of Maidstone redux!
I have just been finishing my next article for the Wargames Annual and it is the second part of the proposed Invasion of England 1744.Now I did a brief report of the Battle I fought on here which will...
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Breaking the silence - Fire as she bears!
Thought it was about time I announced my return to the UK - actually I got back from seeing my son in Chicago on the 16th after a really good 12 day break. This was then followed last Thursday to a...
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A little more printing
In between being hit by a chest infection and settling in at the 'pod' for the Crann Tara business I've managed to squeeze in a little more printing. The FDM printer has mainly been used to print dolls...
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HOTT, Fiasco and bits and pieces
Once a year I travel to Brompton for the Good, Bad and Ugly! Hordes of the Things Tournament.!For me it's a good chilled day with like minded people and allows me to paint something that's a bit...
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Stuart Asquith
I learnt from Charles Grant this morning the very sad news that Stuart Asquith passed away last night.A prolific author and gamer one only has to look on the Caliver books website to see how many books...
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Winter Project.
As I have mentioned before I am quite fortunate in having a 4'x4' gaming table in my loft/study which can extend to 5x4 if needed - it's been ideal for my resurrected interest in board games, the...
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A weekends wargaming - Mollwitz
I've just returned from a most excellent weekend at Charles Grants residence. As usual Charles and his wife Liz are most excellent hosts and as well as the game Saturday night was spent putting the...
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Small ! Disruption to service.
Apologies for the quiet spell this has been largely due to an unforeseen turn of events - when we lost our last dog in August my wife went to great lengths to explain to me how we should take a time...
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On the table
Whilst I haven't made it to the paint desk I'm seizing the opportunity to catch up on lots of minor tasks.Today it's basing the dismounted Languedoc Dragoons. I really like these figures 😀 And Steve...
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Seasons Greetings - Those were the years.
Well I hope you have all had an enjoyable festive break, I had hoped to get a couple of posts in before but many things prevented it.My daughter requested a couple of photos of herself when she was...
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Happy New Year - Let's keep moving forward
Happy New Year to you all. I hope you have all had a decent festive break and that this year is kind to you all.I know a lot of  people tend to look back at what they've achieved or not and whilst it's...
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Workbench cornucopia
As is my usual m.o. I keep my interest and mojo! going by doing a variety of projects so since New Year I've spent some time doing 3d printing -In 15mm the Hummelbaugh farm from Gettysburg, and some...
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This War Without an Enemy
Steve and I dabbling with doing some ECW !!! and were discussing a campaign system, now it's not often I point people to purchases etc but this Kickstarter looks interesting and the graphics are nice...
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Lots of new toys
Today saw me receive 32 kilos of metal from Griffin moulds! That's a lot of figures believe me.The vast majority are the new releases for Crann Tara Miniatures- the biggest addition being Scheithers...
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Off the bench
Whilst I'm printing some 40mm Napoleonic Naval gunners for Ian Smith I've taken the opportunity to base up some figures ( don't like to work in the same room as the resin printer fumes aren't...
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French Indian War
Some great progress on this front has been made. Jim in his Fife and Drum range commissioned Richard to do Mohawks for the AWI Saratoga campaign, these chaps will also serve for the FIW and I will be...
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Back to the printer
i haven't really done any printing on the Prusa for a while so this week has been a bit of a full on event.I finished the barracks for the Vauban - this guy is big and I've printed at 90% of normal !...
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