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Ruckzug campaign - An overview

The Ruckzug campaign for Chain of Command follows the desperate rearguard actions of a hastily organised German kampfgruppe as it attempts a...

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    Partizan May 2023 Show Report - It's now a week or two since I visited my first Partizan show in a number of years. I was treated very well by the organisers, for which I'm very thank...
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    Some work in progress from the printer - A quick view of some of the intems coming off the 3D printer. From top left: another Waco glider and some bagge camels; a selection of various 1/76 vehicle...
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  • Jim's Wargames Workbench
    A Change of Tack - That absolute gentleman, Mr Nick Jones Esq, was kind enough to send me a copy of his work in progress Napoleonic naval rules yesterday, whic...
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  • Major Thomas Foolery's War Room
    Punic Wars: More Refurbished Units - Work continues on refurbishing my old Carthaginian army. First up is another unit of African hoplites from 1st Corps Miniatures. This unit has the con...
    20 hours ago
  • Steven's Balagan
    Musing on Japanese house rules in Crossfire - My Japanese leg infantry battalion for Crossfire is now painted and based. All very exciting! The more I read about the Japanese, the more I realise they...
    3 days ago
  • Wargaming Girl
    Wednesday Workbench 31 May 2023 (aka 27 Days Later) - Oh dear. It seems that I dropped away from posting for much longer than I should have done. Sorry about that. I haven't picked up a paint brush since fi...
    5 days ago
  • Wargaming for Grown-ups
    Up in the air - the prequel - Richard took us back to 1916, with some older and more awkward planes. We had seven players, three Germans and four Brits, with four in the room and thr...
    6 days ago
  • A Terrible Loss of Lead and Wealth
    Last in Space - It's Memorial Day weekend and that means all the cool gamers in CA. head off to Kublacon; the largest, most diverse, most fun convention on the west c...
    1 week ago
  • wargaming in 28 mm and sometimes smaller
    Club de Jeux de Figurines Historiques de Montréal - Our tiny historical wargaming club in Montreal are having an inaugural event at the Abyss this coming Sunday. We are putting on a game of Bolt Action a...
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    Building Bikkelheim - From the previous post I have already removed the flowers and window boxes, the setting for Bikkelheim is early 1945. Most railway buildings on EBay, if you...
    1 week ago
  • Tarleton's Quarter
    Navarre Infantry - 1st battalion - This is the third unit of Carlist infantry I painted towards the end of 2020 (I was determined to erase my Carlist War lead-pile). I assigned it to Nav...
    3 weeks ago
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    Happy Star Wars Day - Normal posting to resume shortly, all being well. In the meantime…
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    EARLY IMPERIAL ROMAN AUXILIARY ARCHERS AND BALEANIC SLINGERS - Starting to slowly put together forces for Infamy Infamy, after looking at all the different manufactures' miniatures for this period I decided to go with ...
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  • much ado about nothing
    AWI: painting mojo has returned - Over the last few weeks, I've been riding a wave of painting enthusiasm (always best for me to go with it when it comes). The unfortunate part was this ...
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    Some very exciting news!! - Good Morning All Delighted to announce some very exciting news today. As of this morning *the Shed Wars Experience* is live. What do I hear you ask is *...
    1 month ago
  • Crac des Chevaliers
    28mm US Paratroopers - 28mm US Paratroopers painted here in the M1942 jump uniform. A mix of Warlord Games and Artizan Designs figures, all metals. The 101st Divisional marking...
    3 months ago
  • Dalauppror
    Building - Built me a Mordheim inspired ruined house.
    3 months ago
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    Old West at Cavalier 2023 - *Bank robbers make their getaway* *Tonbridge Wargames Club* staged a highly innovative Old West participation game at the Cavalier show. Masterminded by...
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    3 months ago
  • Over Open Sights
    Crann Tara SYW: 1st Bn. Infantry Regiment Preysing. - Some Crann Tara 28mm SYW Prussian figures painted up as 1st Bn. Infantry Regiment Preysing of the Palatine Auxiliary Corps (*Pfalzische Subsidienkorps*)...
    3 months ago
  • Roundwood's World
    The Disciples and Acolytes of "The Celestial Path" - ******** The monk, Makoto, looked at both Lord and Lady Fuchida. Makotos's company of poor ronin, former retainers and impoverished tradesmen had been t...
    4 months ago
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    Specials' Index Updated for 2022 - Download an Excel spreadsheet with an index of all the TooFatLardies Specials and Magazines Updated to include Lard Magazine 2022 on 20th December ...
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    Mea Culpa - Lots! - I recently had reason to do a search on this blog for some of the earliest content, and realised I had been blogging for quite a while. Not as early as s...
    6 months ago
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    Halloween Candle Jacks - It's been over two and a half month since I last posted anything and what with the house move and everything the painting mojo has been low and the ti...
    7 months 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...
    11 months ago
  • Jacksarge Brushes & Battles
    Knuckleduster Old West - Finished these last week. Knuckleduster Heroic 28mm metal miniatures:
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    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...
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    [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...
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