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Few figures for sale
As my own range of figures for the French Indian War gains momentum I will gradually replace the figures I’d already painted from the excellent Galloping Major rangeFirst up I have 32 Canadian Militia...
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A few more Prussians.
In between preparing an article for the Wargames Annual and doing battle with companies who don’t want to refund money when they don’t supply goods I have found a little time to further the SYW...
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Lots of New Greens
Richard Ansell just sent me photos of the next set of greens heading my way,Civilian militia marching and skirmishing, female homesteaders fighting and some nice French regulars in turn back coats...
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Cuirassiers take to the field
Managed to finish and base up two sets of Prussian Cuirassiers. These were already painted and just needed touching up. It brings the Prussians to about 50% of the force indeed for the initial...
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Lazy Sunday Afternoon
Most of Saturday was spent sorting out more stuff to sell, projects that will never see the light of day, figures that are painted but incomplete armies, buildings - lots of buildings that are no...
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A busy bench and foam gaming boards?
Well the work bench this week is more a production line. Going through a lot of basing of the flat figures and some final touching up required. At the same time the ‘round’ highlanders are waiting to...
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A bit of an unusual post, there has been a lot of ongoing discussion about the future of the Hobby. Littlewars TV ran a piece on the future of Historical War gaming and I know Robbie on the...
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Preparations for the long winter!
Apologies for the recent lack of posts, I’ve been slowly insulating the converted garage so it can be used as a year round gaming room. It is taking longer than I’d planned due to the recent inclement...
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Off the bench
Apologies for the long gap between posts, my main efforts have been focussed on finishing the garage conversion to gaming room. All the structural pieces are in place - some tidying up required and...
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Garage/gaming room conversion almost done
It’s been a while but my winter project to insulate the garage and rebuild the gaming table is now into final stages.All the construction work is done, so walls and ceiling suitably insulated and...
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Port Edward - The beginning and real value for money?
I think I have mentioned before on the blog my desire/plan to present an 18th century raid on a Port.In all the notes I’ve made on the war between Scotia Albion and the Duchy of Comyn, Edward Island...
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Workbench catch up
The workbench continues to be full with my diverse! Projects. Anyway this week I managed to finish basing all the Macedonian pike I have - 15mm Forged in Battle figures with Little Big Man...
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2nd St.Albans
Yesterday saw me have a bit of a lazy day! Needed a break from figure painting and sorting stock out so I thought I would revisit Blood and Roses 2nd Battle of St.Albans. This is the third battle I’ve...
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Merry! Christmas ?
Well without getting into any political, moral or scientific debate as to the rights or wrongs over the decision to effectively ban Christmas, feels like the good olde days of Cromwell 😩. I sincerely...
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Battle of Towton
I’d mentioned in an earlier post that as my wife was working a 12 hour shift today I decided to indulge my self in the Men Of Iron scenario of the Battle of Towton.Allegedly the largest battle to have...
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It’s all gone Epic!
I would think that the majority of you by now will have seen or heard the announcement of Warlord Games new ‘Epic’ scale ACW their journey into plastic small scale figures to provide a variant for...
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Bit more Epic! Rules and figures for sale
First up finished painting a second sprue of Warlord Games epic ACW as ConfederatesNot come out too bad although the anti shine spray didn’t Matt them down as much as usual, I’m blaming...
View ArticleHinchliffe Figure Company for sale.
Ian Hinds is a friend of mine and runs a successful second hand figure business. He is also the owner of Hinchliffe Models and figures.Ian doesn't do social media and he asked me to highlight he is...
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Slow progress
These last few weeks I’ve been pushing to get all my Crann Tara stock sorted in preparation for a mini sale later this month so the painting has slowed, however I should have some new pieces to show...
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Wofun miniatures - initial thoughts
As I mentioned in my last post I was most pleased to receive a very, very early birthday present from my wife in the form of some 18mm Peninsular War figures from Wofun games. I’ve talked about Peter...
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