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Jim's Wargames Workbench

Carry on Sweetheart - I have no idea if my Bag The Hun article will make it into this year's Lard Mag but I'm still going to crack on with my 1/600th scale Finnish aircraft fo...
10 hours ago
Wargaming for Grown-ups

Well, that could have gone better. - I've not been around in the wargaming sense for a week or two, but we were back in SHQ this Tuesday. You may recall that I enjoyed an ancient naval game ...
14 hours ago
Tarleton's Quarter

7TV - WW2 (1) - 7TV as a system breaks down into "genres", each of which have their own sub-rules and terminology. These genres are currently undergoing a bit of a reva...
2 days ago
Will's Wargames Blog

Napoleonic Russian limbers and crews - Back in the summer I 3D printed some Russian limbers to replace my very old crude Airfix conversions, but then I discovered some files with replacement lim...
3 days ago
wargaming in 28 mm and sometimes smaller

SAGA Grand Melee - This past Saturday, I attended the SAGA Grand Melee which was put together by David. He has done a great job in the past year with a monthly SAGA Night...
1 week ago
NEWS FROM THE FRONT

Heroes Or Villains - Suitably inspired by our recent outing with the new Midgard rules I have added to post Roman Britannia collection. Myrooin, a wizard. Figure from Footsore M...
1 week ago
JOHN BOND's WARGAMING STUFF

Anti-Tank Ditch, Road Block, Type 94 Tankette, Stoessis Heroes- Hiroo Onoda, Water Buffalo, Game Markers and Mule/Donkey - Another post with items for the Far East. *JAPANESE JITTERPARTY/SCOUT * I decided to make 2 x 3 man teams to use as Support options for the Japanese. These ...
1 week ago
Over Open Sights

Age of Reason Painting Guide now available to order from Caliver Books. - Available to order from Caliver Books....just tell Santa! This book gives palettes for various uniform colours common to the period. Palettes that can...
1 week ago
A Terrible Loss of Lead and Wealth

Quar stuff - Man is it cold around here. Colder than a brass toilet seat on the shady side of the iceberg. There was like one week of Fall, where the weather was...
2 weeks ago
Just Add Water

We Went a Wee Bit Mad OR We Played a 24000pts a Side; Seleucid vs Republican Roman WAB Game! Part 2 - *Image Above- the Seleucid Extreme Left Flank.* Week two brings us to Part 2 of our Republican Roman vs Seleucid game carried on from last week. As the ga...
3 weeks ago
Steven's Balagan

Burmese Battlefield Reinforcements - I was pretty happen with my Burmese battlefield but our Experiment in Ningthoukhong proved I needed more. More temples. More houses. More roads. All this...
3 weeks ago
Major Thomas Foolery's War Room

Into the Wasteland: Commie Ghouls - While raiders tend to be the primary adversaries in post-apocalyptic settings, I like the idea of encountering remnants of the enemy communist army, even...
3 weeks ago
Doctor Phalanx

Eisenhower: First game impressions - *Surrounded German lorried infantry* Although I hadn't expected to be able to play it so soon, my good friend Ian agreed to give *Eisenhower *a try. Altho...
4 weeks ago
Moiterei's bunte Welt

Early War French Colour Guide - I've been away from Blogger for more or less two and a half years now. Admittedly sometimes I've felt the urge to share some of my work again, but than rea...
4 weeks ago
Dalauppror

Fire Forge Samurai Minis - After watching the new vesions of Shogun I was once again hooked in the Feudal Japanese history and the later Sengoku period 1540 -1600. Ofcourse the...
5 weeks ago
Scrivsland

Prussian reinforcements (1) - Fresh from the inspiration of last weeks game I've been working on some more Prussians for the 6mm Napoleonic collection. All the miniatures are from ...
1 month ago
Trouble At T'Mill

The Miller's Tale - Episode 10 - Episode 10: In which the podcast reaches double figures, and Mike has his first ever guest, namely James Morris! Links from the episode: - James' we...
1 month ago
A Lead Odyssey

I hate basing... - Ok. It kind of makes sense to do all the basing at the same time... but this is just intimidating. It took 4 hours to do these with a mix of paint, gro...
1 month ago
Roundwood's World

"When the Last Sword is Drawn": Bringing a game idea to life - ******** "*Something terrible has happened at the small mountain monastery of Ikoto. The monastery is under the protection of the House of Akiyama, and i...
3 months ago
Shed Wars

Battle of Chaeronea (338BC) - A 28mm Wargame - Afternoon All Following my last post which focussed on my completed Macedonian/Successor army (HERE) , it was about time that this force saw some action...
4 months ago
Jacksarge Brushes & Battles

Old Guard & a Note of Caution - Hi Everyone! Here are some pictures of recently completed French Old Guard from North Star Military Figures Retreat From Moscow range. Plus, just a hea...
6 months ago
Crac des Chevaliers

28mm WWII British Late War Force - 28mm Late War British. Warlord figures, guns and vehicles. Infantry & Support Weapons Guns Armour CdlT
7 months 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 ...
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...
1 year 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.
1 year ago
Tiny Hordes

Blood Bowl Sideline Lizards - Hot off the printer, it’s a few entirely unnecessary but fun extra miniatures for my Blood Bowl team! My team of dodgy lizard guys has just completed their...
2 years ago
A Grab Bag of Games

Goodbye WordPress – hello (again) Blogger - Folks After wrestling with the god-awful WordPress interface called Gutenburg for months, I am abandoning the WordPress platform. They had an excellent Cla...
2 years ago
Storm of Steel

Little Wars TV Caesar Awards Nomination! - Vote here: https://www.caesarawards.com/
2 years ago
Too Fat Lardies Blog

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
News of the Lard

Storm of Steel Wargaming - IABSM Videos - The people from the Storm of Steel YouTube channel have produced these rather good videos introducing I Ain't Been Shot Mum. *More videos follow* They...
4 years ago
Wargaming with Silver Whistle

Sign Up To SETTING THE SCENE Volume 2. - We are getting closer to finishing the 2nd book, Setting The Scene Volume 2. If you would like to sign up for a copy of volume 2 or add your details to ...
5 years ago