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20mm Terrain

Airfix Jungle Outpost


Sarissa 20mm Far East Huts


Sarissa 20mm Colonial House


Palm Trees for the Pacific


Jungle Terrain


Making Paddy Fields


20mm Eastern Front villages


German Railway signal box


Making simple railway signals


Getting Ready for Storming the Citadel Part 1
(Minefields, Observation Posts, Rough Ground, Platoon Boards)
More gear for Storming the Citadel
(Carts, Wooden Fences)


Making a wrecked T34


Sarissa 20mm Terrace Houses


Greenhouse and scatter terrain


Turning Charlie Foxtrot Models 20mm Workshop into a 1940s French Garage


French War Memorial


Sarissa 20mm Village Church


Making Culverts


Rommel's Asparagus



Pillboxes for 1940


Making Trees


Finding uses for small trees


Teddy Bear fur fields


Making Shell holes


Making a Desert Terrain Mat


Rocky outcrops for desert terrain
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Many Rivers to Cross Scenario 1: The Village

This is the first scenario in our  Many Rivers to Cross campaign for Chain of Command set in the Netherlands during May 1940. We have based...

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  • Jim's Wargames Workbench
    Into the Blue - I decided to experiment with a different shade of blue for my pre-dreadnought base coat today, having almost run o...
    13 hours ago
  • Wargaming Girl
    Paint Table Saturday - I got distracted again and didn't do any painting yesterday. I have made up for it today as this batch is all but finished - I just need to drybrush t...
    1 day ago
  • Will's Wargames Blog
    On the workbench - October 2022 - So I only painted 32 cavalry last month, so I felt I needed to breakdown the cause for my loss of output. I was away for aa third of the month and once I r...
    2 days ago
  • Steven's Balagan
    Monaldini and Monticelli – A Crossfire Battle Report 2 - Bruce Stewart (aka Gunnery Sargent Rock) and his mate Clynt had a go at my Monaldini and Monticelli Scenario. Kiwis, including six Shermans, and Greeks a...
    2 days ago
  • Wargaming for Grown-ups
    Good Bye, Old Friend - After many months of uncertainty, North Northants Council has finally put us out of our misery. Knuston Hall is to close and be sold off. I have been vis...
    2 days ago
  • Just Add Water
    Swordpoint Rules MASTER Class. MOVEMENT, *SHOOTING* ADDED 02-10-2022 - In an effort to learn the Swordpoint rules, without being able to play any games (threat to my life by presented by Covid has sadly prevented this), this...
    2 days ago
  • NEWS FROM THE FRONT
    Imperator Baldinus Iunior - I already have a mounted Emperor do I need one on foot? Of course not but then why not? The Emperor and standard carrier are A&A figures, the others are Av...
    3 days ago
  • Over Open Sights
    1/48 Pfalz D. XII - The mojo for painting little metal men is still on long term leave but I hope to return to them shortly. Steve's surplus kits continue to provide useful...
    6 days ago
  • A Terrible Loss of Lead and Wealth
    Another Hail Caesar Dark Ages game - What? more Dark Ages mass battles with Hail Caesar? whodathunk. *On The Road This Time* Have swords, will travel. I took my Hail Caesar game on the ro...
    6 days ago
  • The Wargames Table
    Episode I: Clash of the Noobs - The Bristol Biguns Star Wars Legion campaign is up and running! Organised by David Clark (thank you), there are a group of us who keen to get gaming in the...
    6 days ago
  • wargaming in 28 mm and sometimes smaller
    Pulp Alley - Last Sunday night, I went to Luis's for a game of Pulp Alley. This was my second game, but the first was a virtual game with P-Y so I was looking forward...
    1 week ago
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    Returning shortly - My neglect of this blog has been utterly woeful, but I'm really hoping to kick-start it back to life this week. There's no point in trying to explain th...
    1 week ago
  • Major Thomas Foolery's War Room
    Sahel Conflicts: Quartermaster 3D Insurgents - It seems like you can never have enough insurgents, so I've purchased and painted more. These figures were designed by Quartermaster 3D and printed in 2...
    2 weeks ago
  • Crac des Chevaliers
    15mm Late Roman Cataphracts - Something of a rescue job: 20-year old+ Essex Cataphracts, stripped, fixed-up, some capes and details added and re-painted. End result is pretty good. ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Shed Wars
    Battle of Edgehill - a 28mm Wargame using Pike & Shotte - Afternoon All On Monday I hosted a rather large epic Pike & Shotte engagement that was a recreation of the ECW Battle of Edgehill which incidentally cel...
    4 weeks ago
  • A Lead Odyssey
    Making for a Mutiny - Like lots of other wargamers I invest a lot of time and effort into collecting and painting figures and models. My terrain; however, could use some work. A...
    4 weeks ago
  • Scrivsland
    T'au starter force - It's been over seven weeks since I last posted. In the meanwhile I have played many great games but have not had the time to record them. I've also bee...
    1 month ago
  • Doctor Phalanx
    10mm Normans rebased - Taking advantage of a rare opportunity to do some painting etc over the last couple of weeks, I have now just finished reorganising and rebasing the 10mm...
    2 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...
    3 months ago
  • JOHN BOND's WARGAMING STUFF
    WW2 BRITISH COMMANDOS - I decided to put together a Section of British Commandos for Special operation scenarios. I didn't want to buy some, so once again I raided my odds and e...
    3 months ago
  • Dalauppror
    Slaine . miniature game - Tried not to but… then just had to have The new 2000AD starterbox From warlord games Slaine - Kiss my Axe! I have the Strontium dog and the Judge Drea...
    3 months ago
  • Trouble At T'Mill
    Chef-du-Pont update - turning to 6mm - So, after a couple of evenings of largely Myk and Andy poring over maps, aerial photos and our boards, we've reached a major decision over the Chef-du-Po...
    4 months 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...
    4 months ago
  • Jacksarge Brushes & Battles
    Knuckleduster Old West - Finished these last week. Knuckleduster Heroic 28mm metal miniatures:
    4 months 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...
    6 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...
    6 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...
    7 months ago
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    7 months ago
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    “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...
    1 year ago
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    Richard Ansell. Very sad News - It is with tremendous sadness that I must report the passing of the hugely talented sculptor and great friend of not just me but all of the Lard Island cre...
    1 year ago
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    1 year ago
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