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A wrecked T34

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Painting French armour for 1940

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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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  • Wargaming for Grown-ups
    Conference of Wargamers 2025 - Part One - Off to Missenden Abbey for this year's COW. Alas this is our last visit to Missenden as it is being put up for sale. It has been a good venue for the las...
    3 hours ago
  • Jim's Wargames Workbench
    Magasin de Presse - A couple of very interesting magazines from the local newsagent today, two of my favourite publications to grab when I'm in France. The current issue of ...
    5 hours ago
  • Will's Wargames Blog
    Islands (in the sun?) - I acquired two sets of islands from Irongate Scenary at the Wirral Warboot. Although I was tempted to make them look more fancy I decided on keeping them r...
    1 day ago
  • Zinnkameraden
    Terrain - Building an Oasis - My next project - a model an oasis for our wargames set in North Africa and the Levant including a water basin, water channels and of course showing it´s a...
    4 days ago
  • NEWS FROM THE FRONT
    Horses - I am not painting any mounted troops of my own at the moment but here are some Bicorne Miniatures English Civil War Royalist cavalry I have completed fo...
    5 days ago
  • Doctor Phalanx
    My WoFun plans - *WoFun Bavarian Foot*It will take time to sell off the armies I've decided to let go, and completing what remains of the lead mountain is even more uncert...
    5 days ago
  • Trouble At T'Mill
    The Miller's Tale - Episode 13 - Episode 13 - in which Mike finally gets to catch up with former Dux Brit partner-in-crime and rock god Andy Hawes, in a wide-ranging discussion covering ...
    1 week ago
  • A Terrible Loss of Lead and Wealth
    Trench Hills part 2; further along the hills - Whoa, an update so soon? How did I manage that? It's due to the parent-kid ratio formula. Observe: When you have 1 Kid and have to watch 1 kid: Feels...
    1 week 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...
    1 week ago
  • wargaming in 28 mm and sometimes smaller
    M3 Grant- A Bit of an Orphan Tank - I recently resin printed a M3 Grant AFV, I got the STL from a Canadian Vehicles kickstarter. I have to say that these were the best vehicle STLs I have...
    3 weeks ago
  • Just Add Water
    North West Frontier, Brits with Grit! - These images, originally from my Shooting Leave Blog, but too evocative not to publish here again. So, a few snaps of the Renadra Mud Hut and my Artizan ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Over Open Sights
    Jazz Band Restored. - Many moons ago, I painted up the Eureka Miniatures 1920s Jazz Band and dancers for my late friend Adrian Shepherd. A few months ago, Shep's collection o...
    1 month ago
  • Major Thomas Foolery's War Room
    Baltic Independence Wars: Final Units and Buildings - Construction for my Baltic Independence Wars project has come to a close with the last few units and bits of terrain. First up are a unit of Astrakhan Co...
    1 month ago
  • Steven's Balagan
    Download Bolivar’s Very Bad Day - I’ve been working on Bolivar’s Very Bad Day, my variant of Tilly’s Very Bad Day for the South American Wars of Liberation, for a while now. Years even. S...
    2 months ago
  • Shed Wars
    Large Napoleonic Cavalry Battle - 28mm - Afternoon Folks Last Monday the shed hosted a Black Powder Napoleonic Game with a slight twist. The game featured more Cavalry units than Infantry. To b...
    2 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 ...
    3 months ago
  • JOHN BOND's WARGAMING STUFF
    TYPE 97 – CHI-HA JAPANESE MEDIUM TANK - With my growing interest in gaming the Pacific theater, fueled by the long anticipated release of TooFatLardies Pacific handbook for Chain of Command. It...
    3 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...
    3 months 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...
    3 months ago
  • Crac des Chevaliers
    US Marines - 28mm US Marines and an M3 Stuart: Warlord figures (Marine Raiders box) and vehicle. CdlT
    4 months 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...
    5 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...
    5 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...
    8 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.
    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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