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Wofun part 2 - progress and more thoughts.
After my initial post on the Wofun having now had time to base up all the infantry, cavalry and Officers for the armies heres some further thoughts.The slots in the bases are extremely tight for the...
View ArticleRichard Ansell - very sad News
Over the weekend I received the sad news that Richard Ansell had died on the 11th February, he died from a heart attack after attending hospital to undergo an exploratory operation on an old injury...
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In memory of Richard Ansell
IN MEMORY OF RICHARD ANSELLI received the metal masters of the last set of sculpts Richard did for me.One set is General Montcalm both mounted and dismounted - I have decided that all the sales from...
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The Jacobites assemble
My Jacobite army project has dragged on for way too long so I have set myself a time limit to have the army completed bu October of this year.So I thought it would be timely if I paraded the troops to...
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The Government Forces prepare for action.
It seems only fair that after parading the Jacobite army I parade what I have so far in my Government army. It doesn’t include the forces I have for the war in Canada and the Caribbean they will be...
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Happy Easter to me 😁
First can I wish you all an enjoyable Easter break, even without pubs and cafes been open to sit down I have found the villages along the coast incredibly busy with visitors so I am out very early...
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Is it really that long ago?
Just a short post. I picked up issue 400 of Wargames Illustrated yesterday! Leaving aside content for the moment I found it hard to believe it was 1987 when issue 1 was published, this was Duncan’s...
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Workbench and New reads
Well received a few new books to read that have caught my eye.Whilst I don’t game the ECW (yet🤣) I find the some of the characters in it fascinating and bit by bit I’ve been collecting books on some...
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Playing with boats
As part of my French Indian War range Martin at Warbases very kindly offered to make me some Bateaux. He’s done two sizes an accurately scaled one and a Wargame friendly one as some customers stated...
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Marching off the bench
I managed to finish basing and issuing the colours to two units this week. Regiment Rochow for the Saxons, an actual Grenadier regiment rather than one made of of detachments from other units. Flags...
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New pieces from Andy Stadden
It’s been a bit of a long wait but Andy has completed the latest set of figures. The majority have been done to accompany Stuart Insch’s next publication.So there are Indian labourers, British Sepoys,...
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More Saxons to the fore
The Graf Rutowsky Cheveaux Legers are now completed and are ready to join my Saxon army.Also finished basing a Saxon general and gave him a spare standard bearer just need to sort a standard.Really...
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Workbench Saturday
Trying to get bits and pieces sorted and off the bench at the moment so today saw 50 highlanders bases finished - standard still to be issued.(Sorry for the quality of the photos - poor light today)I...
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Workbench Part 2
Just a quick update after a productive weekend, reinforcements for the French Indian Wars have started being based, more militia and 2nd battalion Regiment Cambis - standards by Flags of War I just...
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A Very Sad Day
Today I was going to do an update post on my workbench then it was with disbelief and great sadness I read on the Wargames Illustrated page of the unexpected death of Duncan Macfarlane.Like many in...
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On the bench
Well thought I’d show a quick shot of the real bench and not the side bench I use for basing, finishing off etc.I realised I hadn’t done Sempills (25th regiment) foot for my Culloden army! An extreme...
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All at sea
I always find that naval battles quite often provide a suitable diversion from large games, generally quick to set up and don’t always need a large table. I have 1/1200 and 1/600 Napoleonic ships but...
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Happy Waterloo Day and more Ironclads
Having arrived back from a few days walking in Scotland I’ve seized a few hours this afternoon to catch up on some admin etc. Whilst doing so thought I’d watch Waterloo (again) seeing it’s the...
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Refighting History volume 9 and Ratnik miniatures
I received my copy today of the latest in Charles Grants series of Refighting History, published by Caliver books.The second in the small actions series this has 8 challenging scenarios which are a...
View ArticleCrann Tara miniatures marches to a new drum
You will all be aware from previous comments that the success of Crann Tara has brought with it it's own problems for me, mainly the increasing demands on my time and also the ability to keep creating...
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