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British for 1944-45

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Basing figures

Basing sizes and shapes

Adding grass and texture to bases

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Crossfire

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A wrecked T34

Dug-in Panzer IV

Painting French armour for 1940

Airfix Stuka for Blitzkrieg

Two Tiger IIs

Broken down Opel Omnibus and Mechanics

Sherman with hessian camouflage

Cromwell with camouflage netting

Bail Out! AB crews for knocked out tanks

Die cast commercial vehicles for the Far East

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  • Jim's Wargames Workbench
    Bag the MiG Card Deck Mod - It was pointed out to me that the use of colours rather than phonetics was more appropriate for the Korean War, so I've modified the card deck I produce...
    1 day ago
  • Wargaming for Grown-ups
    Getting Hammered in Castleton - Day trip for the Monday Night Boys! Up at 5:30am to get to Phil's for a prompt 6:30am start...or not. Chris of the broken clock was our driver, and arriv...
    1 day ago
  • JJ's Wargames
    Lance-Corporal Robert Kells VC, 9th Queen's Lancers in the Indian Mutiny, 1857 -1858. - Robert William Kells was born on the 7th April 1832, in Meerut, the son of a soldier serving in India, and was a boy soldier in the 9th Lancers at the ...
    2 days ago
  • Scrivsland
    For Sale: Vikings and books and all kind of stuff! - It's time for a clear out so I can make room for more stuff in the hobby room! All prices include UK postage and are in GBP I've got two packs of 28...
    3 days ago
  • Zinnkameraden
    15mm Swedes for the late TYW and the Deluge: First Cuirassiers done - Warlord's Epic box "Thirty Years War Cavalry" includes 2 Cuirassiers on each of the 3 sprues and while a total of 6 isn't enough for a full unit, it's at l...
    5 days ago
  • NEWS FROM THE FRONT
    A Pleasant Surprise - I recently received a surprise package in the post, it was a box full of Spanish Civil War figures. Kindly sent to me by Aly, a gentleman and scholar of th...
    5 days ago
  • Will's Wargames Blog
    On the workbench - February 2026 - If all goes to plan I will become a Grandfather this month, I expect this will involve quite a bit of time away from the painting bench. January has been a...
    6 days ago
  • wargaming in 28 mm and sometimes smaller
    Liebertwolkwitz-The Final Battle in our 1813 Campaign - Last Sunday five of us got together to play the final battle in our Battles for Germany campaign. We decided to go with the large version of the battle a...
    1 week ago
  • Over Open Sights
    Sackville Dithers. - A little vignette to grace the table of a planned refight of the Battle of Minden to take place later this year. Hauptmann Winzingerode of the Hesse- Ka...
    2 weeks ago
  • Just Add Water
    28mm Late Roman Cataphract, Alternative to Oil Wiping Horses, Abbasid Naffatun - I have spent the last month or so trying to decide what it is I wanted to get painted for the *Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge* this year and have se...
    3 weeks ago
  • Doctor Phalanx
    2026 Plans - *My re-labelled mahjong blocks*My plans for 2026 are centred on three sets of rules: 1. *Maurice*. 2. *Bloody Big Battles! *(B3) 3. *For King & Parliamen...
    4 weeks ago
  • Major Thomas Foolery's War Room
    Into the Wasteland: Aliens and the ‘Burbs - Happy 2026! I luckily had a short break during the holidays, and was able to knock out a few more items for my Fallout/This Is Not A Test Project. Fi...
    5 weeks ago
  • Trouble At T'Mill
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    5 weeks ago
  • JOHN BOND's WARGAMING STUFF
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    5 weeks ago
  • Moiterei's bunte Welt
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    1 month ago
  • Steven's Balagan
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    1 month 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...
    2 months ago
  • A Terrible Loss of Lead and Wealth
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    2 months ago
  • Crac des Chevaliers
    28mm Merrill's Marauders - Warlord figures, a couple of boxes of there Merrill's Marauders figures. Marauders, USMC Dog Teams on the far right. CdlT
    3 months ago
  • Tarleton's Quarter
    Nizam-i-Cedid (1) - This is the first unit of Ottoman infantry I painted - a unit of "boustangee" musketeers from the Nizam-i-Cedid army. This was a corps of infantry tra...
    7 months 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 ...
    9 months 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...
    10 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...
    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.
    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
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