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Sarissa Plantation house with porch


Renedra American Church


Sarissa House with porch

Scratchbuilding a Wooden Barn

Making terrain with Warlord's Ruined Hamlet


Making Split Rail fencing


Animals, vegetable patch and stores

Scratch building with foam core

Making Trees

Teddy Bear fur fields


Making a Desert Terrain Mat


Rocky outcrops for desert terrain
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  • Wargaming for Grown-ups
    It's May. It must be Partizan! - I'd barely unloaded the car from our weekend in Milton Keynes before everything was back in the boot and we were off to Newark. Same set up, slightly dif...
    13 minutes ago
  • NEWS FROM THE FRONT
    Partizan Continued - First up chum Kevin AKA The Iron Brigade put on a splendid ACW game, I really missed chatting with his fellow Brigader, Peter who sadly passed away shortly...
    12 hours ago
  • Jim's Wargames Workbench
    Red and White Painting Challenge - I was daft enough to start a thread on the Algernon Pulls It Off! group, setting a challenge to paint Josef Loeser's red and white striped Albatros DIII...
    1 day ago
  • Tarleton's Quarter
    AWI Plans - I completely missed the 250th anniversary of the "short heard around the world" on 19th April. I saw excellent posts on Facebook from Jim Purky and Stev...
    1 day ago
  • Just Add Water
    Un-Typical Night at the Club. Clubbing it! - First off a big "Duh!" to me for not taking any pictures of our large WAB game, which saw the Early "Justinian" Byzantines hook up with the Kushans (I kn...
    2 days ago
  • wargaming in 28 mm and sometimes smaller
    Medieval Warriors - Here are the last 3 units I have painted for Saga, Age of Chivalry. there are 2 units of warriors with bills and one of a unit with spears. They are mo...
    3 days ago
  • Major Thomas Foolery's War Room
    Baltic Independence Wars: Final Units and Buildings - Construction for my Baltic Independence Wars project has come to a close with the last few units and bits of terrain. First up are a unit of Astrakhan Co...
    3 days ago
  • Steven's Balagan
    Download Bolivar’s Very Bad Day - I’ve been working on Bolivar’s Very Bad Day, my variant of Tilly’s Very Bad Day for the South American Wars of Liberation, for a while now. Years even. S...
    1 week ago
  • Doctor Phalanx
    3mm 1940 for Eisenhower - It was in 2013 that I first mentioned my interest in doing 3mm French and German armies for the Battle of Hannut in May 1940. This developed into the *Ro...
    1 week ago
  • Will's Wargames Blog
    On the workbench - May 2025 - Still slow progress (for me), and as I plan to spend quite a bit of May away, I need to focus on my plan. Some progress has been made, at least on rebasing...
    2 weeks ago
  • Shed Wars
    Large Napoleonic Cavalry Battle - 28mm - Afternoon Folks Last Monday the shed hosted a Black Powder Napoleonic Game with a slight twist. The game featured more Cavalry units than Infantry. To b...
    2 weeks ago
  • A Terrible Loss of Lead and Wealth
    Quar Boards in Action - or an alternative title: Intergalactic Conquest AAR. Kinda. But not really. Because I am lazy and a bad blogger. What was supposed to be an Intergalac...
    4 weeks ago
  • Wargaming Girl
    Salute 2025 - OK, it's two days late but here is my photo round-up of Salute 2025. You can also take it as proof of life, given that I haven't posted here since last ...
    4 weeks ago
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    TYPE 97 – CHI-HA JAPANESE MEDIUM TANK - With my growing interest in gaming the Pacific theater, fueled by the long anticipated release of TooFatLardies Pacific handbook for Chain of Command. It...
    1 month ago
  • Over Open Sights
    Some painting for a chum. - Something different. Some German Paratroopers, a group of plucky english locals and a dodgy looking Nun all from Wargames Foundry.
    1 month ago
  • Dalauppror
    Midgard - Heroic Battles - Short post about my favouritr wargaming rules for the moment, Midgard - Heroic Battles by James Morris. I am not totally objective as I been involved in...
    1 month ago
  • Moiterei's bunte Welt
    AHPC#5: Lanciarii - Winter is finally drawing to a close and neither have I been as productive as I had planned -not that I was expecting much, mind- nor have I been as active...
    2 months ago
  • Crac des Chevaliers
    US Marines - 28mm US Marines and an M3 Stuart: Warlord figures (Marine Raiders box) and vehicle. CdlT
    2 months ago
  • Scrivsland
    Colonel Claude Runciman and Josefina Lacosta - I was suffering with "the Lurgy" this week but had a quick change from 6mm to 28mm. So I pulled out a couple of figures in the 28mm Napoleonic backlog t...
    3 months ago
  • Roundwood's World
    The Potentially Simmering Rivalry of Ping-Xi and Pong-Li - ******** "They're *just* the latest fashion. Everyone, and I mean *everyone* at the Imperial Court has taken a pair of Chinese bodyguards into their reti...
    3 months ago
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    2024 in review - The best laid plans, as they say, once again... (and we'll see how 2025's plans look in the next post!) There's a big 'ole right outside my bedroom window...
    4 months ago
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    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...
    7 months ago
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    11 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...
    3 years ago
  • Storm of Steel
    Little Wars TV Caesar Awards Nomination! - Vote here: https://www.caesarawards.com/
    3 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...
    4 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...
    5 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
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