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Sarissa Plantation house with porch


Renedra American Church


Sarissa House with porch

Scratchbuilding a Wooden Barn


Making Split Rail fencing


Animals, vegetable patch and stores


Making Trees


Teddy Bear fur fields


Making a Desert Terrain Mat


Rocky outcrops for desert terrain
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How I write a Chain of Command game report

I've been asked several times how I put together my after action game reports  for Chain of Command. Someone even remarked that the pict...

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  • Wargaming Girl
    The Source of My Recent Distraction.... - Yesterday I included a teaser pic of a box. There were actually four boxes delivered yesterday, two each from IKEA and Amazon; the teaser pic was one of th...
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  • Jim's Wargames Workbench
    Leander! - I have a real soft spot for 1960's Royal Navy warships, specifically the Type 12 Leander, Type 41 and Type 61 frigates, which I remember from Navy Day...
    9 hours ago
  • Will's Wargames Blog
    WW2 French reinforcements - Yet again, problems have slowed progress, but the bulk of my extra French are completed. Most of these bring my forces up to the strength required for the ...
    13 hours ago
  • Scrivsland
    Waaagh Scrivs and the Stinkies - Yesterday Peter and I met up at Warhammer World for another game of Warhammer 40K. I took the Orks as usual, Pete spun the roulette wheel of selecting...
    20 hours ago
  • Wargaming for Grown-ups
    You'll never take our...what was that again? - In his constant quest to test the applicability of his "Battle Commander" rules, Richard took us back another 100 years or so to Edward I hammering the S...
    1 day ago
  • NEWS FROM THE FRONT
    Repulse At San Hernandez - Having being pushed back in previous encounters the Carlist forces, bolstered by two freshly raised battalions have made a stand at the village of San H...
    1 day ago
  • A Terrible Loss of Lead and Wealth
    66/100 - Hello Again, Welcome back to the Terrible blog. Today we have average painted miniatures and below average writing. 66 Out Of 100 I've completed 1...
    1 day ago
  • Shed Wars
    The Battle of Arsuf - a 28mm Crusade wargame - Morning Folks Following on from my two month project to rebase and add to my Crusader and Saracen armies (see previous two posts) it was an opportune ...
    2 days ago
  • Wargaming with Silver Whistle
    WIP 10 for my ongoing project. - I have made some bases for the buildings that I did in the last post, plus an allotment, more hills, stream, railway embankment, wheatfields, 15ft fenc...
    3 days ago
  • wargaming in 28 mm and sometimes smaller
    Huzzah 2022-Chain of Command - Last Friday, I had a quick trip to Portland, ME for the annual convention put on by the The Maine Historical Wargamers Association. I could only go f...
    3 days ago
  • The Wargames Table
    Zero Hour at Legionary - As promised here are some photos from the Zero Hour participation game. I’ve added a few notes to some to help make sense of the action, but really I think...
    4 days ago
  • Doctor Phalanx
    10mm armies for 'To the Strongest!' - I've had to deal with some domestic redevelopment work and have also been preoccupied with following events in Ukraine, but I did find time to fit in a ...
    4 days ago
  • Major Thomas Foolery's War Room
    Sahel Conflicts: Insurgent Heavy Weapons - My terrorist force for Mali continues to expand with the addition of some more heavy weapons. [image: 28mm Modern African terrorist miniatures for Mali a...
    5 days ago
  • Steven's Balagan
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    5 days ago
  • Jacksarge Brushes & Battles
    Knuckleduster Old West - Finished these last week. Knuckleduster Heroic 28mm metal miniatures:
    1 week ago
  • Just Add Water
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    1 week ago
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    40th of Foot, French and Indian War, the completed unit. - Figures from Front Rank. Colours from GMB Designs. Also, a mounted General Officer, again from Front Rank.
    3 weeks ago
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    4 weeks ago
  • A Lead Odyssey
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    5 weeks ago
  • much ado about nothing
    Texas War of Independence: project finished - I have powered through the final tranche of figures for this project. It's always the last bits that see my enthusiasm flagging. This final lot brings th...
    1 month ago
  • Dalauppror
    Almughavars and Catalan Company - Some time ago I got me a box of FireForge Almughvars and as I already had some other FireForge minis in my pile of shame I thought it was time to make ...
    2 months 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 months ago
  • Trouble At T'Mill
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    2 months ago
  • Moiterei's bunte Welt
    [20mm] PaK 38 & leIG 18 - I‘m currently stuck in a lack of mojo, and also I‘m working on several units at once. Thus it’s taken me a while to get todays submission done. The PaK38 i...
    2 months ago
  • Storm of Steel
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    3 months ago
  • Tarleton's Quarter
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    6 months ago
  • Tiny Hordes
    Japanese Sword School - Sometimes when you watch a samurai movie you could be forgiven for thinking everyone in mediaeval Japan was a master swordsman automatically, like it was i...
    8 months ago
  • Roundwood's World
    “With Flashing Blades” – Recommendations for Background Books - Since my last Blog post, a couple of people have asked me about reading and viewing material which might accompany the game which Nick, Rich and myself h...
    9 months ago
  • Crac des Chevaliers
    KV-1s - KV-1 and KV-1S, plastic BF models. With some work, both turrets can be used. CdlT
    10 months ago
  • Too Fat Lardies Blog
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    1 year ago
  • News of the Lard
    Lard Magazine 2020 - Lard Magazine 2020 brings you 180 pages of wargaming fun. Scenarios, complete campaigns, rules amendments, fresh periods to game, previews of future ...
    1 year ago
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