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  • wargaming in 28 mm and sometimes smaller
    Scouts Out: German Uhlans almost take the day! - Myself and Gabriel got together at the abyss for our monthly Scouts Out game. Gabriel always does a great description of the game so I will post it ...
    2 hours ago
  • JJ's Wargames
    The World Turned Upside Down - 4th Virginia Continental Regiment. - The 4th Virginia Regiment was authorised on December 28th, 1775, and organised on February 28th, 1776 at Suffolk Court House, Virginia, for service with ...
    14 hours ago
  • Scrivsland
    Imperial reinforcements - What with the hot weather, vacations and family illness the painting mojo has been low of late, but I've finished the last of the Imperialist troops that...
    15 hours ago
  • Jim's Wargames Workbench
    Eject! Eject! - The next book on the holiday reading list is this one, written by ex-RAF Tonka pilot, John Nichol, who has penned some surprisingly good historical books...
    1 day ago
  • Over Open Sights
    Another French (German) Infantry Command Stand. - Hot on the heels of the command stand for the Regiment de Saint-Germain, I give you the command stand for the repurposed blue coated (with yellow facing...
    5 days ago
  • JOHN BOND's WARGAMING STUFF
    WILD WEST SCRATCH BUILDINGS PART 2 - Finally finished painted my 28mm Wild West buildings which includes a Barber, Saloon, Undertaker, Post office, Dentist, Church, Bank, Sheriff, Gunsmith, ...
    5 days ago
  • Just Add Water
    Battle of ???, Society of Ancients, Battle Day in the North Run Through - This weeks game was right up my street and had me quite excited as we were to play a Late Medieval game. If any of you remember my La Journee blog you w...
    1 week ago
  • Tarleton's Quarter
    General Ramón Cabrera - Ramón Cabrera y Griñó (1806-1877) was one of the best generals on the Carlist side of the First Carlist War. Originally a leader of a small band of Car...
    1 week ago
  • Wargaming for Grown-ups
    20mm tag team themed DBA - After COW time for planning Tuesday evening's MNG session is at a premium, so I suggested that we did some DBA. The twist was that we'd use armies made o...
    1 week ago
  • NEWS FROM THE FRONT
    Evening The Score - Digging a unit of Roman light cavalry out of the pile of potential I happened to check on the blog the last time I added a unit and the last time they saw ...
    1 week ago
  • Will's Wargames Blog
    3D Resin Printing - summary of the last batch - Having written my half year review I wondered how much I had actually printed. So here is a summary - 5 x M3A1 Stuarts - for my British desert force...
    2 weeks ago
  • Steven's Balagan
    Yoshimoto’s Very Bad Day – Daimyō Army List - I’m working on a variant of Tilly’s Very Bad Day called Yoshimoto’s Very Bad Day. I don’t have any figures so an obvious question is, what do I have to b...
    2 weeks ago
  • Zinnkameraden
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  • Major Thomas Foolery's War Room
    Wars of the Samurai: Ikkō-Ikki - I'm back with another resurrected Warhammer Ancient Battles project. Originally abandoned when Warhammer Historical dissolved and the Divine Wind supple...
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  • Crac des Chevaliers
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    5 weeks ago
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    2 months ago
  • Trouble At T'Mill
    The Miller's Tale - Episode 14 - Episode 14, in which Mike gets to have a guest back again! Yes, it's James Morris, back again to explain how Midgard Heroic Battles has been going, what'...
    3 months ago
  • Moiterei's bunte Welt
    20mm Fallschirmjäger and Firefly - First off fthis time is a 20mm 3D printed Sherman Firefly by Arvernes Miniatures. Having painted two regular 75mm Shermans for my Canadians previously I fe...
    3 months ago
  • Shed Wars
    Images - crazy situation - Hi Folks Just discovered that all my blog pictures for the past five years are no longer available to readers in the UK. As a result of recent legislat...
    8 months ago
  • A Terrible Loss of Lead and Wealth
    Vetcon AAR and Goodbyes - Time to go, But first, there's just enough time for a VetCon AAR. But just barely. *VetCon AAR* VetCon is a medium sized convention held in Auburn Ca...
    8 months ago
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    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 ...
    1 year 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 year 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...
    1 year 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 year 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...
    2 years 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.
    3 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...
    4 years ago
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