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20mm Terrain

Airfix Jungle Outpost


Sarissa 20mm Far East Huts


Sarissa 20mm Colonial House


Train Station for the Far East


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


Building 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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I Hear the Camel Train a Comin' - a Sharp Practice game in the Sudan

'Go Sharp into the Desert' is a variant for Sharp Practice that appeared in Lard Magazine 2021 . I've played several games and ...

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  • Jim's Wargames Workbench
    Strength and Honour Show and Tell - I'm taking my copy of *Strength and Honour* and my Imperial Roman and Parthian armies to the club this evening, in an attempt to drum up some interest...
    5 hours ago
  • wargaming in 28 mm and sometimes smaller
    GdA Talavera: Battle for the Redoubt - This Saturday we all met at the Abyss in Montreal for another GdA demonstration game. Learning from my experience from the the Mt St Jean scenario, I c...
    9 hours ago
  • Just Add Water
    Andalusian/Almohad/Almoravid Noble Command Vignette Base - This piece was sitting in my undercoated and primed cupboard since 2019 and was just begging to be completed. I have minor wargames butterfly tendencies,...
    11 hours ago
  • Shed Wars
    More progress in the New Shed - Morning Folks Since I left you I have when time has permitted been cracking on with the refurbishment of the new shed /games room. Since I left you las...
    13 hours ago
  • Will's Wargames Blog
    Vapnartak 2023 - Up nice and early yesterday for the drive across to York. So for me it was 12 hours day. I was helping with the Lance & Longbow as usual and the battle sel...
    1 day ago
  • Wargaming for Grown-ups
    Ebergenyi's Ersatz Hussars - As I mentioned a week ago I bought a load of Strelets WSS French Dragoons with the intention of using them as Hungarian Hussars. This buying choice was d...
    1 day ago
  • A Terrible Loss of Lead and Wealth
    Star Trek 1/7000 (Federation) - Oh noes, lookit more little trek ships...but this time the good guys. *1/7000 Star Trek Federation* These *are* the good guys right? I mean this is n...
    2 days ago
  • The Wargames Table
    Mediterranean Garden - Walled garden for my Mediterranean collection made using some spare Charlie Foxtrot movement tray bases and some Hovels resin walls. The only “work in prog...
    2 days ago
  • Wargaming Girl
    AHPC XIII - 7th and 8th Submissions - I decided to split my submissions over two posts this week. *Entry #7 - 15mm Gallic Cavalry* These are the ones that I didn't have time to do last week...
    2 days ago
  • NEWS FROM THE FRONT
    World War Two Additions - Last year I threw caution to the wind and purchased this Ace Models gun for my Volksturm. I assembled it with surprisingly little cussing, one can't say tha...
    3 days ago
  • Steven's Balagan
    ANZAC M113s – Revisiting the APCs to get for my Vietnam Project - Having done quite a bit of research on ANZAC/Australian M113s in Vietnam, I’ve decided to change my plan for collecting them. I’ll recap my original plan...
    3 days ago
  • Doctor Phalanx
    Foamboard trays for Really Useful Boxes 2 - I thought I'd better photo the completed modular foamboard RUB storage trays described in the last post. All the trays have a 1/4 or 1/6 footprint and ar...
    1 week ago
  • Dalauppror
    Rohan Building - Been painting a lot of minis for the Games Workshop Middle-Earth Battle Strategy Game the last couple of month, thought it was time to show at least s...
    1 week ago
  • Major Thomas Foolery's War Room
    Star Wars Legion: Inferno Squad and IG Assassin Droids - Just a small update this time: Inferno Squad with support Imperial Special Forces troops and the IG assassin droids. All black uniforms can look rather...
    2 weeks 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...
    2 weeks ago
  • Trouble At T'Mill
    Personal update - The best laid plans, as they say... Currently 100 miles from home looking after mum because her full-time carer (dad) is in hospital. Wandering the labyr...
    3 weeks ago
  • News of the Lard
    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 ...
    1 month ago
  • A Lead Odyssey
    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...
    2 months ago
  • Over Open Sights
    Minden Miniatures SYW: 1st Battalion, Infantry Regiment Osten - Time for a new direction. This is the first time that I have painted up any Minden Miniatures SYW figures. They are a delight to work with. Here we have...
    2 months ago
  • JOHN BOND's WARGAMING STUFF
    CANCON 2023- LARD DOWN UNDER - The Battle for Wau - Jungle Table - The second gaming table ready for Cancon 2023, for Len Tracey to host the Australians battling it out with the Japanese in the Battle for Wau. Once again...
    2 months ago
  • Scrivsland
    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...
    3 months ago
  • Tarleton's Quarter
    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...
    4 months 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. ...
    5 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...
    7 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...
    8 months ago
  • Jacksarge Brushes & Battles
    Knuckleduster Old West - Finished these last week. Knuckleduster Heroic 28mm metal miniatures:
    8 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...
    10 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...
    10 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...
    11 months ago
  • Storm of Steel
    Little Wars TV Caesar Awards Nomination! - Vote here: https://www.caesarawards.com/
    11 months ago
  • Too Fat Lardies Blog
    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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