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20mm Terrain

Airfix Jungle Outpost

Sarissa 20mm Far East Huts

A Pagoda for Burma

Sarissa 20mm Colonial House

Train Station for the Far East

Palm Trees for the Pacific

Jungle Terrain

Making Paddy Fields

Bunkers and spider holes for the Far East

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)

Russian villages
(Carts, Wooden Fences)

Sarissa 20mm Terrace Houses

Greenhouse and scatter terrain

Building a 1940s French Garage

French War Memorial

Sarissa 20mm Large Factory

Sarissa 20mm Village Church

Facelift for a Lift Bridge

Tiling MDF roofs

Scratch building with foam core

Some thoughts on basing buildings


Making a Ruined City table

Making Culverts

Rommel's Asparagus


Pillboxes for 1940

Making a wrecked T34

Dug-in PzIV

Making Trees

Tree lined roads and bocage

Teddy Bear fur fields

Making Shell holes

Setting Terrain on Fire

Making a Desert Terrain Mat

Rocky outcrops for desert terrain
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  • Steven's Balagan
    2024 Reflections of a Megalomaniac Wargamer and Amateur Historian - My goals for 2024 were typically overly ambitious – some would say megalomaniac. As usual I didn’t achieve them all, in fact hardly any. This year was a ...
    7 hours ago
  • Crac des Chevaliers
    15mm Sd Kfz 250 half-tracks - Transport for the recently posted 15mm Waffen-SS figures, a mix of Battlefront and PSC Sd Kfz 250 half-tracks. The BF are, in general, the better models....
    14 hours ago
  • Jim's Wargames Workbench
    Vintage Bag the Hun? - I noticed today that several of the original, pre-Chain of Command era Toofatlardies rules have now been shunted off into a sideline section of the websh...
    15 hours ago
  • Wargaming for Grown-ups
    Inaugurating a new wargames room - Phil has been talking about turning his spare room into a wargames room for a while. Goodness knows he has enough to put in it. At least two large car lo...
    2 days ago
  • NEWS FROM THE FRONT
    More Moors - I have finally got around to painting the rest of the figures to field a platoon of Regulares for my Nationalist Spanish Civil War forces. Figures are as ev...
    3 days ago
  • Over Open Sights
    Empress MIniatures Jazz Age/WW1 British Cavalry. - I have had these sitting on the "to do" shelf since I first purchased them at Colours, Newbury in September, 2023. Painted up as the Queen's Own Worceste...
    5 days ago
  • Moiterei's bunte Welt
    Painting Guide - Hard edged vehicle camouflage - DisclaimerI wrote this painting guide a few years back already for Pats (https://wargamingwithsilverwhistle.blogspot.com) excellent 2nd Volume of Setting T...
    6 days ago
  • Will's Wargames Blog
    Recon 2024 - last show of the year - Quite an exciting journey across the pennines and back to Pudsey, Leeds for the Recon show due to Storm Darragh. It's quite a friendly low key show with a ...
    1 week ago
  • Tarleton's Quarter
    7TV - WW2 (1) - 7TV as a system breaks down into "genres", each of which have their own sub-rules and terminology. These genres are currently undergoing a bit of a reva...
    1 week ago
  • wargaming in 28 mm and sometimes smaller
    SAGA Grand Melee - This past Saturday, I attended the SAGA Grand Melee which was put together by David. He has done a great job in the past year with a monthly SAGA Night...
    2 weeks ago
  • JOHN BOND's WARGAMING STUFF
    Anti-Tank Ditch, Road Block, Type 94 Tankette, Stoessis Heroes- Hiroo Onoda, Water Buffalo, Game Markers and Mule/Donkey - Another post with items for the Far East. *JAPANESE JITTERPARTY/SCOUT * I decided to make 2 x 3 man teams to use as Support options for the Japanese. These ...
    2 weeks ago
  • A Terrible Loss of Lead and Wealth
    Quar stuff - Man is it cold around here. Colder than a brass toilet seat on the shady side of the iceberg. There was like one week of Fall, where the weather was...
    3 weeks ago
  • Just Add Water
    We Went a Wee Bit Mad OR We Played a 24000pts a Side; Seleucid vs Republican Roman WAB Game! Part 2 - *Image Above- the Seleucid Extreme Left Flank.* Week two brings us to Part 2 of our Republican Roman vs Seleucid game carried on from last week. As the ga...
    4 weeks ago
  • Major Thomas Foolery's War Room
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    5 weeks ago
  • Doctor Phalanx
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    5 weeks ago
  • Dalauppror
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    1 month ago
  • Scrivsland
    Prussian reinforcements (1) - Fresh from the inspiration of last weeks game I've been working on some more Prussians for the 6mm Napoleonic collection. All the miniatures are from ...
    1 month ago
  • Trouble At T'Mill
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    1 month ago
  • A Lead Odyssey
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    2 months ago
  • Roundwood's World
    "When the Last Sword is Drawn": Bringing a game idea to life - ******** "*Something terrible has happened at the small mountain monastery of Ikoto. The monastery is under the protection of the House of Akiyama, and i...
    4 months ago
  • Shed Wars
    Battle of Chaeronea (338BC) - A 28mm Wargame - Afternoon All Following my last post which focussed on my completed Macedonian/Successor army (HERE) , it was about time that this force saw some action...
    4 months ago
  • Jacksarge Brushes & Battles
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    6 months ago
  • Wargaming Girl
    Salute 2024 - The Games (Lots..and lots...and lots of pics) - As promised yesterday, here are the photos I took of all* the games. * I may have missed some I will apologise in advance for the quality of some of the ...
    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.
    1 year 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...
    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...
    2 years ago
  • Storm of Steel
    Little Wars TV Caesar Awards Nomination! - Vote here: https://www.caesarawards.com/
    2 years 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...
    3 years ago
  • News of the Lard
    Storm of Steel Wargaming - IABSM Videos - The people from the Storm of Steel YouTube channel have produced these rather good videos introducing I Ain't Been Shot Mum. *More videos follow* They...
    4 years ago
  • Wargaming with Silver Whistle
    Sign Up To SETTING THE SCENE Volume 2. - We are getting closer to finishing the 2nd book, Setting The Scene Volume 2. If you would like to sign up for a copy of volume 2 or add your details to ...
    5 years ago
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