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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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  • A Terrible Loss of Lead and Wealth
    Quar Trench boards Finished. Also Wash and Flock (Quar boards Part 8) - YAY! The 'This Quar's War Trench Terrain Boards' are finally finished. This is the image that germinated the whole project This post will be the exciti...
    6 hours ago
  • wargaming in 28 mm and sometimes smaller
    Midgard- Britons vs Romans - This past Saturday myself and PY got together for a game of Midgard, our second. In this game PY played the Britons while I played the Romans. We used ...
    19 hours ago
  • Jim's Wargames Workbench
    Balloon Busting - I'm really busy this weekend but determined to crack on with the balloon busting, painting the British Caquot balloon and building a Drachen for the Ger...
    19 hours ago
  • Wargaming for Grown-ups
    I think it's Tuesday, where are we again? - It isn't actually Tuesday. I'm fairly sure of that. Mrs T and I have been away on holiday, mostly without internet connection, so I haven't been posting ...
    2 days ago
  • Steven's Balagan
    Steven’s 1819 Patriot Army on Big Bases - I’ve been quietly painting 1819 Patriots since I posted on my 1815-1819 War in the North – Steven’s Wargaming Project back in May 2024. Roughly a year la...
    6 days 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 week ago
  • NEWS FROM THE FRONT
    Pushing On - After evicting the Germans from Kleine Bikkelheim, see HERE the advance is being continued by an armoured infantry platoon supported by a M7 Priest, M16 ha...
    1 week ago
  • Will's Wargames Blog
    More Napoleonic Italians - Another pair of battalions to add to my Napoleonic Italian Brigade, now up to four battalions. That complete two battalions for each of the 1st (on the lef...
    1 week 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...
    1 week ago
  • Just Add Water
    Nikephoros II Phokas, 912–969: The White Death of the Saracens, Ilkka Syvänne (March 30th, 2025) - Apologies for the brevity of this post but it has just come to my attention that *Ilkka Syvänne* will be publishing his study of Nikephoros II Phokas in...
    2 weeks ago
  • Crac des Chevaliers
    US Marines - 28mm US Marines and an M3 Stuart: Warlord figures (Marine Raiders box) and vehicle. CdlT
    2 weeks ago
  • JOHN BOND's WARGAMING STUFF
    ULTRAMARINES OUTRIDER SQUAD - As expected the second lot of Ultramarines arrived, this is a Outrider squad and I paused my work on my Germanic warriors to paint them, here are some im...
    3 weeks ago
  • Shed Wars
    Battle of Mantinea - To the Strongest in 28mm - Afternoon All, Monday night saw the return of some ancient Greek warfare to the Shed, although this time we used To The Strongest rather than Hail Caesar...
    4 weeks ago
  • Major Thomas Foolery's War Room
    Baltic Independence Wars: Estonian and Latvian Infantry plus Buildings - There are no dedicated lines of miniatures for Estonian and Latvian troops in the Baltic Independence Wars, so you must use proxies and conversions to re...
    4 weeks ago
  • Over Open Sights
    Crann Tara Palatine Pfalz Kürassier. 1740s. - These chaps are Crann Tara French Fitz James' Cavalry figures from their WAS/SYW range masquerading as Kürassier in the service of the Rheinish-Palatina...
    1 month ago
  • Tarleton's Quarter
    British Auxiliary Legion / Isabelino mounted officers - These are mounted officer figures from two Perry First Carlist War packs - two are from pack ISA37 (British Auxiliary Legion staff) and the third, on the...
    1 month 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...
    1 month 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...
    2 months ago
  • Trouble At T'Mill
    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...
    2 months 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 months 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...
    5 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...
    10 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 ...
    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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