Set'em Up and Knock'em Down: December 2011

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15mm paint shack

Painting a Sorrel horse Tutorial -
18th Century Sojourn

Scenario test - Attacking a supply convoy - This scenario has similarities to the previous, “Intercepting Reinforcements”, yet, there are a few significant differences. The attacker need only destr...
2 Hour Blog

Kickstarter Has Launched and ... - Already hit our 1st Stretch goal! Luck of the Draw
20mm Nostalgic Revival

Struck on Ebay Again!!! - Great use of Airfix Waterloo buildings, ideal for many periods, and as I got a few weeks back from same seller more farm fields, walls, figures, win...
20th Century Wargames

work in progress - not much - Various small projects on the go..... but not too much to show :( Maybe this week will be little more productive ?
28mm a day

Reinforcements have arrived: Pt.3 Examining the other contents - Now for the final installment of the Noble Armada Ships of the Line box set review. We're looking at the other contents of the box. Enjoy. First up are the...
28mm Victorian Warfare

Crocodiles in the Congo! - I had hoped to post a full and detailed account of Dr. Jones' adventure in the Congo, but with the end of the long summer holiday and the start of the ac...
Plastic Toy Soldier Pictures

Robin's Merry Men - A couple of photos of Marx 54mm Merry Men. These are from the mid-1950's.
Steve's Random Musings on
Wargaming and other stuff...

"Firing into the Brown" #82 - Forsyth, the dark side of the shed(s) and stuff... - *"So Carnehan weeds out the pick of his men, and sets the two of the Army to show them drill and at the end of two weeks the men can manoeuvre about as ...
A fist full of Plastic

A Tale of Two Tracks - The Heller AMX-30/105 Kit - Several years ago I purchased three 1/72 scale Heller AMX-30/105 kits. At the time I was unaware of any issues with the kit and they joined the mountain of...
A Miniature History of the American Revolution

New Directions - At the beginning of this month, I wrapped up a series of daily posts on the battle of White Plains, and the events leading up to it. As much as I enjoyed ...
A Wargaming Odyssey

More on Mike’s Models Colonials - The great figure rebase for the recently acquired Mike’s Models 15mm Colonial collection has resumed once again. I had a little break from it, occasioned b...
Adventures In Lead

Mark's Game Room reviews Blood on the Sands - The excellent YouTube wargaming channel, Mark's Game Room, has done a review and a quick explanation of Blood on the Sands. Please show them some suppor...
Adventures in Miniature Gaming

WW2: Early(ish) Soviets - So here is the last of the WW2 armies that I currently own. I've had most of these soviets for about a decade now. most have been painted for that time. ...
Adventures with Gun, Sabre and Horse

Focus on 2020 - *G*reetings my fellow wargame bloggers. Instead of doing the annual recap of 2019 I'm just going to skip that and focus on what I plan to achieve in this n...
AJ's Wargaming Blog

Dry-brush texture palette - I made this quick dry-brush texture palette for a friend who's starting their painting journey with the Slap-Chop method. I made myself a similar one abo...
Anatoli's Game Room

Witcher 3 "Geralt" painted up - And the second miniature from the SAGA collectibles from Stronghold Miniatures is painted up. Pretty happy with them both, I was thinking how to use them in...
Another Slight Diversion

Greetings - This is my first post
Another WW2 Plastic Soldier Blog

Painted Cromwells - Here are some painted Hät Armourfast Cromwells that will be brilliant to fight with the Revell British Infantry in the Western Front. Now that they have bee...
Armored Ink

CONAN , the board game - Some friends who bought into the Conan board game kickstarter printed out the starter gameboard, cards an other items, made a dice conversion sheet and we ...
AV's Corner

British Vickers Machine Gun team. - Painted a British Vickers Machine Gun team. The miniatures are from Battlefront and 15mm. To bad the mini on the right had a dis-formed face. Sadly enough ...
Baron's Blog

Golden Age Supers: the Revenge! - Years ago, I ran superhero game set during World War 2 in the Pacific. The Japanese Empire vs Allied supers. It was one of the shortest games ever playe...
Basement Generals

SUPERS! - NORAD reports the crash of an extraterrestrial object deep in the Appalacian mountains. The Guardians are dispatched to report on and recover any possible...
Battle Game of the Month

General Standing's Brigade - After last week's ACW game, I decided to fill out the ranks. I've settled on brigade units with 3 regiments/battalions (*in case I want to do a smaller ...
BATTLEGROUP HAWKWOOD

PSC M4A1 Finished -
Battles in Miniature

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Ben's Soldiers

British Light Division - 1810 - Last post! I completed these before the French. They are also AB 18mm figures and also represent the units at the Coa in 1810. Thanks for looking.
Bleaseworld

Indian Rebellion: Bengal Native Infantry Mutineers - The beginning of 2025 saw all hands to the pump for *Winter Wonder Lard V* where I had decided to run an Indian Mutiny *Sharp Practice* game - *The Relie...
Blenheim to Berlin

OPERATION CHROMITE - INCHON KOREA 1950 - On Saturday 15th I joined the Gothenburg Gamers and friends for a special big game – Operation Chromite - the 1950 UN landings at Inchon during the Korean ...
Blogs of War

The League of Augsburg added - The League of Augsburg added.
Bob's Miniature Wargaming Blog

Summer Break - I'll be taking a summer break from posting again this year. The good weather is just too short to spend much time at the paint table. I expect I'll be ba...
Buckets of Dice Wargaming Blog

First figures of 2025 - With the hot of the press publication of the new version of PBI, I've painted a few new bits for my late war Germans. This includes medium mortars, MMgs...
Bunker Hill

Harlem Heights 1776 - Brig. General Nixon's vanguard make contact with Major General Leslie Light Infantry Brigade. Bottom of the screen is North and the top is South. Key ...
Callan's Brush with Destiny: the Adventures of a Tinpot Michelangelo

- It's been a while since my last report. No apologies, just a nod to the vagaries of life. So to spring myself back into action, a short look at a projec...
CAMPAIGNS IN GERMANIA

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2024 - Baby Jesus! The reason for the Christmas Season and the rest of our lives. He quietly grew.... Into a carpenter to build a planetary way of life and.....
Can't Get The Blog Name I Want

For sale - Painted 28mm WSS Bavarians - There comes a point when you need to rationalise what you game and collect. I never really got into WSS, but I did pick these Bavarians up somewhere. A wh...
Capt. Richard's Miniature Civil War

Hope everyone is well. Keep creating. - My daddy "Captain Richard" love creating burning or destroyed buildings. This is one of my favorites. He had since dismantled this one as everything was i...
cianty's Tabletop Wargames Blog

Legends of the High Seas Resources - Legends of the High Seas cover Just a short update: After a recent request I have just uploaded some old resources for *Legends of the High Seas* to the ...
Cigar Box Heroes

ACW Campaign - The Battle of Nashville - Dec 21, 1864 - I've been running an ACW campaign based on Hood's historical Franklin to Nashville Campaign of 1864. We have multiple players from the USA, UK, Austra...
Classic wargaming

Tribute to Stuart Asquith - Whilst it is not news that we have recently lost one of the hobby's best-known figures this past week, I thought it would be appropriate to add my own trib...
CONFESSIONS OF A WARGAMER

Here's the Ruckus! - We had a fun Lord of the Ring's scenario with the skirmish ruleset Here's The Ruckus. The scenario had Faramir, Captain of Gondor, versus a group of Orcs...
Countersmith Workshop

On AFV Logic again - *Finally, all the pre-orders and orders of AFV Logic on or before 16th Nov have been shipped.* *It takes a much longer time than we expected on card sorti...
Craig's Wargaming Blog

O Group- Crossing the Strait of Johore - Below is an O Group scenario I've come up based on the Japanese 25th army crossing the Strait of Johore onto Singapore Island on February 8th 1942. *Ba...
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...
daywalker

Plancenoit in 28mm - My club this weekend added to its Waterloo in 28mm game the battle of Plancenoit, which wi...
Der Alte Fritz Journal

New Bunker Hill Battle Boxes at discount - *Iconic painting of the Battle of Bunker Hill by John Trumbull."The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill"* Today marks the 250th anniv...
Derk's miniatures blog

Dux Brit army nearing completion - After having given the new TFL Dux Brittaniarum rules (see http://toofatlardies.co.uk) a spin during the playtest time I've been working on painting my Gri...
Desperation Morale Blog

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Die Schwartzekreutz Bruderschafft (wargaming blog)

Northern Europe and the domains of the Teutonic Order, Circa 1410 - .
Don't throw a 1

Broadside Loot! - I bought a fair bit of scenery at Broadside this year. I spent a few quid at the most excellent Debris of War, adding another 7 of their excellent trees...
Dots of Paint

Old Collection, 'new rules' (ACW 15mm) - Years ago we lived in a apartment condo during an occurrence of many fires damaging suites, I told The Wife that should we encounter such an emergency to...
Echoes of Glory

I May Be Selling My 28mm AWI Collection - My War Room is growing short on space and I am working on a new 40mm AWI project. These two factors have me thinking about selling the collection below. ...
Fields of Armor

WI298 - EW Russians (Invasion of Poland) - [image: Photobucket] In what is becoming a tradition with this blog, today I present pictures of the EW Soviet army list from Wargames Illustrated #298. I...
Flintlock and tomahawk

Good cover image - Le dossier du prochain numéro de la revue d'histoire Cap-aux-Diamants portera sur la Révolution américaine. Bien hâte de lire ce numéro.
Fog of War

Tigers on the Hunt released - And the game is released. http://www.matrixgames.com/products/578/details/TigersontheHunt
Frontkämpfer

An old project returns... - The monstrosity from the front. Way back in 2011 I posted my plans for an improvised tank killer on an old 38(t) chassis. Following a move of house it w...
Frozen Gamer AK

No Longer an Active Blog - I am no longer actively maintaining this blog. I have been blogging and writing articles for WWPD.net and Boltaction.net for the last year. However I don...
Garage-gamer

A Couple of Short Scraps - It's been a couple of weeks since my last post but we have still been playing out the campaign in the meantime. Our battle at Markendorf finished prematur...
Geordie's Big Battles

Dad's Army: Father's Day Card - Bless the kids, they got me this! (see below, a Dad's Army Father's Day card, fantastic, or perhaps I am just easily pleased!): Naturally with an exemplar...
Glorious Little Soldiers

Catching up on my Reading no 24 - A Chunky Tome from Partizan Press. Some few weeks ago I ordered a new book from Partizan Press. When it arrived a week or so later the 'Thunk' as it hit th...
Gowan's 1/72 scale models

Get out of here Stalker: Wargame rulebook - So something arrived in the post today, something I almost thought would never arrive. Perhaps security around the zone has been tightened? Meet Zone Alfa...
Gunfreaks Apartment of war

This is Minuteman: Two-Three - Since my wargaming hobby has taken a back(far back) seat to my simming hobby, I've gone from reading books about the Napoleonic wars etc. To listening t...
Harness and Array

Some excess photos - I managed to take a couple of new pictures of my figures, intended for use in the new Saga rules supplement 'Age of Chivalry'. Whilst several pictures - ne...
Herkybirds nest

Tanking in Normandy - Today we had a couple of games of 'What a Tanker' at the club! It was my suggestion so the others got to choose the tanks! Phil fancied using Tank Destr...
History in 1/72

Do you know TS-Miniaturen? - Thomas Ströbelt from TS-Miniaturen asked if I am interested in getting some flags for our 18th century figures. I asked him to show what he is able to d...
I LIKE the things I LIKE!

Big Bill's Saloon. Foam, plastic, cardboard, and wood. - 54mm scale Saloon with a side cutaway to show the bar and upstairs apartment. Furniture is painted MARX brand. Figures are by Replicant. ...
Irishserb's Miniatures Adventure

April Hobby Summary (Mostly Star Trek Related) - I'm still limping along with a crippled computer, a problem that I'm likey to fix next week given that all of my work travel cancelled for next week. So...
iron mitten

Make it snow! - I tried a few snow effects on my Weird World War bases a couple of years ago, some worked better than others. The blizzard paste from GW I thought was th...
Jacksarge's Wargames Ramblings

Old Guard & a Note of Caution - Hi Everyone! Here are some pictures of recently completed French Old Guard from North Star Military Figures Retreat From Moscow range. Plus, just a hea...
Jim's Wargames Workbench

Dawn Patrol Scenario Solo Game - I've set everything up for a solo game of the Dawn Patrol scenario tomorrow, if it's not too hot to allow me to use the garden table outside. I've wiggl...
John's Toy Soldiers

Review: Oathmark Goblin Wolf Riders - The Goblin Wolf Riders are the first Oathmark models I have bought and I purchased them specifically to add hobgoblin light cavalry to my Chaos Dwarf a...
Joy and Forgetfulness

The Battle of Prokhorovka - We’re re fighting the battle of Prokhorovka at the moment using Memoir ‘44. This was the giant armour clash between the 11th SS Panzer Korps under Mans...
Kampfgruppe Willow

French 75mm artillery - French 75mm artillery Completed another 75mm French artillery piece, 3d resin gun with battlefield/ blitz crew, painted with the new AK French uniform col...
KILLroy's WWII War Gaming Blog

Lt. Gen George S. Patton Jr. character for FoW v2 -
Kokoda Campaign 1942

The Japanese Advance – Awala and Gorari Ambush Actions - *Campaign Actions Phase 1 July 1942* *The Japanese Advance – Awala and Gorari Ambush Actions* The initial battles for control of the lower part of the Kok...
Kriegs Corner

Zvezda's KV-1 Obr.40 - 2017...'Bye Felicia! Hello All and Happy 2018! I've been working on a 15mm plastic Zvezda KV-1 Obr.40 tank has the option to build an earlier Obr.39 (simp...
Lazylimey's Wargaming Place

Alberken(Early Minifig) 20mm Napoleonic Personalities - Duke of Wellington - There were eight personality figures in this range - four British and four French. These sample figures were all painted many years ago by a very dear fr...
Lead Gardens

Casting Season - It's casting season here at the Lead Gardens. The weather has "springed up" and it's perfect for getting outside and starting on some summer casting proj...
Lord Ashram's House of War

A bunch of painted Mantic "The Walking Dead" photos - Hey all! Well, just eye candy today... no story, no game, just terrain and figures!
LOST LEGION MINIATURES

Daftar Lowongan Kerja Di Jakarta November 2015 Terbaru - *Lowongan Kerja Di Jakarta November 2015* - Lowongan Kerja Terbaru memberikan informasi terbaru mengenai *info lowongan pekerjaan 2015* yang sedang anda ca...
M C Monkey-Dew's Miniatures Games

Legendary Dragon from Mythic Games - “Smaug lay, with wings folded like an immeasurable bat, turned partly on one side, so that the hobbit could see his underparts and his long pale belly cru...
Madaxeman's Wargames Blog

The Khurasanians go to Spain ! - In these 6 all new, all singing and flamenco-dancing battle reports you can thrill, gasp, gag and feel mildy queasy all at the same time as you read the...
Mannie Gentile: Toy Soldiers Forever

Marx Giant Blue and Gray pt 2 - Summer fun. Pictured, is no particular battle, it's just the inventory of what I'll be working with in my all-Marx (mostly) battle scenario. It'll be f...
Marx Playsets

Not So "Grail-like" After All - Well, it doesn't seem so awesome after all......These pics, found on dinosaurcollector.com, show the contents, but I am significantly underwhelmed. Maybe ou...
Matt's Little Soldiers

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Mike's Wargame Blog

Checking In... - Friends I have lost my focus. Since my last post my Mother became ill and passed away. I guess I am the proof that regardless of how old you are, losing a p...
Miniature Mayhem

Stargrave The Lost Prospector - The Devil's Fruit Bowl - Today we played Scenario 2: The Devil's Fruit Bowl. We had 4 crews continue on the surface of Honera. Each of us had our guide. As we arrived, it was ...
Miniature Warfare

Disney Princesses's Dance Hall - Maybe you do not know it, but I live with a princess ... My daughter! Here's her last commission
Miniatures of Wrath

Battletech: The Novels, Oh So Many Novels! - Howdie. So, over the past few months, I have been re-reading (or in the case for a handful, reading for the first time) the series of Battletech novels. I...
MiniStories

20mm WW2 - M20, M10 and M8 - There we go again. I had a long break from painting but a trip to Salute and a vist to Normandy in May did the trick this time. I've sort of finished the A...
Monty's War Gaming

Battlefield 1 Beta PS4 - Painting is resuming in the background while I am indulging in the frenetic, open beta demo of EA's upcoming world War 1 shooter, Battlefield 1, currently...
MrFarrow2u (plus Jack & Amys!!) DBA 1500 Onwards Page

Sharp Practice. SP3 - Adventures in the Peekaboo Valley – Clash at the Crossroads! - *'DaDa Dah, diddler, DaDa Dah, diddler, DaDa Dah.....'* Episode Three in our Mighty War of 1812 Sharp Practice Saga! *"The Heroic British forces led...
MurdocK's MarauderS

Travelogue XII: A taste of Wales - We departed the Chalice Well garden and Little St Michael's house, then made our way to Wales. of course Arthur is important to the tale of Avalon the m...
My Very Own Spanish Ulcer

Grognards 1 - La Garde; a joint project with David Imrie and Lionel Bechara. These chaps will eventually be going to the big Waterloo anniversary do in Glagsow in the ...
Myles Keogh - Three Wars; Two Continents; One Irish Soldier

Nurse Margaret Kehoe, The Rising's 'First Martyr' - A descendant of one of the most heroic and dashing figures from American military history died in the fighting in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Risin...
Not such small toys

Metal finishes - Here's the first model painted with the Alcald line of metallic paints. It's a Korean war era fighter. F-86F Been pretty busy working on scale models t...
One More Gaming Project

Desert Infantry with Spears and Bows for "Wars of Ozz" - Over the weekend I finished up a unit of Desert Infantry with Spears and Bows; my first unit for a brigade of Temujican Eastern Nomads for my "Wars of...
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...
Panzerfaust Nostalgia

Team Yankee: The Northern Flank - A pretty lazy post honestly. Just showing some of my work for TY. Includes M60A1 ERA reactive armour mod as well as Humvee fording kit. I need some more M60'...
plastic general

Tallarn - Tallarn troops for the Imperium!! these are 3d scans of the original metal miniatures I got from a friendly guy on facebook. scaled down to 20mm scale.
Plastic Legions

Fallout Wasteland Warfare - Mission 3: The Water Treatment Plant - The following is a play-through of tutorial mission 3 from the FWW campaign book, it incorporates the previous sections of the rulebook discussed in t...
PLASTIC WARRIORS

WIP: German Calvary - While things have been quiet on the posting front, things have actually been limping along in the background. Most of my efforts have been going on label...
Platoon Forward

Boom and Zoom with the Blue Tails - Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I haven't been able to transfer photos off my phone. Boring blog without photos. I have been playing primarily SAGA...
Project Leipzig (1813)

Probsthain for Lasalle. The Scenario - *O*ne of my best wishes for this year 2018 is to return to wargaming after almost two years of absence, in which work and family obligations have left me w...
PROJECT LEWES

Bow & Blade: Lewes - Bow & Blade: LEWES Just yesterday (March 12) I was browsing my podcast list in Spotify to see what was new amongst my favourites and I saw that in Novem...
Rabbits In My Basement

Farewell to Trumpets - The salutes have been given. The parade has marched off to thunderous applause. The band has fallen silent and packed their instruments away. The Trainin...
Ramblings of a Great Khan

2024 Retrospective - A pic I thought was cool on FB, just to grab attention. I didn't do much of anything in 2024. My health took a nose dive this past year, although, looki...
Return to ACW.

More 'Yanks' + new painting service! - I have been asked several times recently if I would accept commissions for painting miniatures. Having given this a lot of thought, (and finding myself wit...
Return to Darkest Africa

Congo cancelled! - *"I say, you chaps, any sign of breakfast yet?"* Well, for me anyway. I was due to go to Eric the Shed's for my first game of *Congo*, as organised by ...
Sarge's Wargame Diary

28mm Painted Napoleonic French Legere for Sale - Hey all. I'm changing theatres and scales for my collection. Rather than re-paint plumes and epaulets and change flags and re-base, I just decided to se...
Scotty's Wargaming

More Quar - After enjoying a couple of games with the Quar, I wanted to get a couple of extra figures done to complete 2 small skirmish forces. The first of which wa...
Sgt Steiner's Wargaming Blog

Commands & Colors Ancients - Vassal PBEM games ends - End of another C&C Ancients Vassal game with Mike and this time his Carthaginians were victorious at the Trebbia braking my winning streak whe...
Sigwald's Safehouse

Rangers of Shadow Deep - I recently purchased the Rangers of Shadow Deep rules. A very simple but entertaining dungeon crawl type of rules designed for solo/coop play. I have take...
Sipsey Street Irregulars

I'm spiking the guns here on Sipsey Street Irregulars - A couple of days ago, I received some news that ended up shaking me to my very core. After a great deal of consideration, I have decided to close the door...
Sitrep

Blockhaus Rock - Now that I have your attention, I’d like to revisit a number of anomalies in Chapter H. I stumbled upon them in the course of designing scenarios for my...
Solo Wargaming in the UK

Yesteryear Y-14 Maxwell Roadster - Hi Chaps, I was rummaging around my bits boxes-I have a lot of those as I am sure most war gamers do when I came across a rather worn looking model car. My...
Somewhere the Tea's getting cold...

Dead Wood... - Happy Halloween - or at least it would have been if I'd gotten this post out on time! Read more »
Soweiter League

Fauna - After a recent expedition "down under" a couple of new animals have been added to the national zoological gardens. *If I recall correctly these are from a R...
Sparker's Wargaming Blog

Waterloo 210 - Today is the 210th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. It is also the 10th anniversary of our Waterloo 200 mega wargame, held at the Hall of Heroes F...
Steve's Wargame Stuff

Atau longe untuk biaya, ia penuh blyndnes Dan tidak houre - Atau longe untuk biaya, ia penuh blyndnes Dan tidak houre akan beristirahat, tapi styll dalam pikiran dan Perawatan Payne untuk biaya owne Mu, theron menga...
Storm and Conquest!

ME 163 - ME 163 Komet Another kit completed from my MAYDAY build, it has been finished for three weeks or so, but I mislaid the canopy, which I found yesterday...
Swamp Fox Brigade

Why the Cooper and Ashley Rivers were so important in the American Revolution - When looking at the roads covering the state of South Carolina today, it is hard to imagine a time when there were only a few roads for transportation and...
Sword and Sandal Gaming

Alfred the Great - 1969 Film - Its very disappointing when one gets a chance to relive a cherished childhood memory, and it doesn't live up to one's recollections. That is the case for ...
Tank Girl

Kabar Lowongan Kerja Manado Agustus 2014 Terbaru - *Kabar Lowongan Kerja Manado Agustus 2014 Terbaru - **Lowongan Kerja Terbaru* kali ini akan memberikan informasi *Lowongan Pekerjaan Terbaru* . Lowongan K...
Tarleton's Quarter

AWI Plans - I completely missed the 250th anniversary of the "short heard around the world" on 19th April. I saw excellent posts on Facebook from Jim Purky and Stev...
Teaching My Wife To Play ASL

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The Aircav Saga

Terrain for pulp vs Alley’s The Hollow Scenario - Part 3, The End - This is the Final part of my wittering on about putting together a board for The Hollow Scenario. The last three plot points were quite easy to sort ou...
The Back 40K

Gencon 2018 Photo Dump: Venue & Exhibits - *by SandWyrm* I spent much of my time at Gencon this year testing my own game, but I did get some nice pictures of the costumes, products, and other cool ...
The Colour Of War

Hordes and Heroes on Hexes - Alliteration FTW!! Wow! Doesn't time fly? It's hard to believe it's been nearly a year since I posted anything here, but there's been a fairly good reason ...
The Hinton Hunter

The figures are nice but not the most interesting thing... - These were a reasonably recent eBay purchase. Good original figures nicely painted in a style which matches well with mine. Though I must have at least ...
The Mad Padre's Wargames Page

Swan of the East: A Great War Naval PBEM Game - Players Needed - Hello friends: If you've been following this blog for a while, you'll know that I've been thinking about a Play By Email naval campaign loosely based ...
the Man Cave

Stuka Ace: French Theatre Complete - *June 28, 1940* *StG 2 – Northern France, post-Armistice reorganisation* The guns had fallen silent. The roads no longer vibrated with the thunder of Pa...
The Old Metal Detector

Rose Napoleonic project 2019 - Back in September 2018 I posted on Vintage Wargaming about the acquisition of some Rose figures from Peter Goldsbrough's collection of 20mm Napoleonics....
The Peninsular War in 15mm

Russian Napoleonic Pre 1809 Sapper Conversion - A short post about a conversion I put together recently. Finding sappers in 15mm scale for the more common armies isn't a problem. I was unable to find a ...
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...
The Wargaming Depot

Roads Reflocked - I bought a tonne of roads and rivers from an eBay seller called Fat Frank. They are great but I didn't realise they would come already painted and flocked ...
THE WARGAMING SITE

Airplane stands for my Aeronefs - I've been working on different ideas for my aeronef stands - and finally got a solution I'm happy with. For the Aeronef and Imperial Skies rules, hexago...
The Wishful Wargamer

The Württembergers are Coming - Having painted quite enough 15mm Napoleonic Russians for the time being (see various previous posts, plus this glorious AAR representing their first outi...
Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog

Return of the Soroibus Tortus - With the new Codex: Emperor's Children, I've had to massively reorganize my old Emperor's Children force - that was organized using the rules in the prev...
Tin Soldiering On

10mm A.W.I. Unit Finished. - I've got the 10mm unit finished that I started painting in the previous posting . I was going to try photographing them outside - but as this photo was ...
Tom's Toy Soldiers

Compagnies Franches de la Marine - Last of the set I bought several years ago. That gives me 20, which isn't quite enough for two units for Rebels and Patriots and I'm not paying...
Toy Soldiers and Dining Room Battles

The Boxer Rebellion Project, Part 3: Lt. Col. Shiba Gorō - *A great figure of a Japanese officer and NCO from Crusader Miniatures.* *Shiba Gorō (柴五郎, June 21, 1860 – December 13, 1945) was a samurai of Aizu D...
Triple Point Blank Fire

Out of Nowhere! - I just finished a nice gaming session with the Prawn this morning. Since he transferred to a new school we just don't get in as much ASL (if any) as usual...
Two Up, One Back - Bard's WWII Blog

WWII Game with Morschauser Rules - Closing out my week off from work this weekend, I had a solo WWII game today using the modern era rules from Joseph Morschauser's *How to Play Wargames in ...
View from the trenches

Ambush - In this small scenario US marines have been warned that the insurgents are sending a column to attack the small force that has landed. A squad in the vang...
Vintage Wargaming

Warplan 5/5 Campaign System - I'm afraid I couldn't find a way to reproduce the snazzy double headed arrow in 5/5 in the text so will have to do with this instead. Warplan 5/5 came o...
Vulture's Wargaming Blog

What A Tanker! - Dashboard & Dice Set - I recently purchaed Qty 4 of these Dashboard and Dice Set from Sabotage 3D for 'What A Tanker!'. These are really excellent and especially useful if you...
WAB Corner

Victrix Greek & Persian Wars Hoplites - Completed - Finally finished these guys. Added some highlights to the armor and flesh after the Minwax staining. LBMS transfers used for the shields. These should wor...
wab-ramblings (click on photos for better view)

Team Yankee - Ok Mark Piper and I played our first game of Team Yankee in nearly 3 years and had a ball. We play in 20mm but don’t make any changes to ranges but usual...
WAR of 1812 Wargaming

Why the WAR OF 1812? - I just received two of the more recent Osprey Men-at Arms books on the War of 1812 in the mail the other day (not really that recent - 1998 and 2000...but...
Warfare in the Age of Steam

The Southern Skirmish Association re-enact an American Civil War battle in 1978. - (1 Oct 1978) In the grounds of Claverton Manor, near Bath. I am local to this Museum so I saw some of the really early Soskan battles. I actually finish...
Wargame news and terrain

Wargames Atlantic: Preview of the Civilians/Survivors Men Box...and a Bonus Teaser! -
Wargamer Blue

Kicking it with the Homies - The feared El Taco Cartel homies are kicking it Southside, plotting and scheming on ways to get product across or under the border. Figures are 28mm S...
Wargaming for Grown-ups

Carry on Up the Yangtse - Last week I had a first go at trying to game the assault on Chin-Keang-Foo (modern Zhenjiang) at the end of the first Opium War. One of my takeaways from...
wargaming in 28 mm and sometimes smaller

Saga Night-English vs the Flemish - Ten days ago we had our monthly night, this was well attended as usual with 6 tables set up, half being Age of Vikings and half being Age of Chivalry. ...
Wargaming Miscellany

The Battle of Tamai refought using Dominion of the Spear and Bayonet - *Background to the battle* During the campaign to relieve the besieged Egyptian forces in Khartoum, an expedition – led by Major-General Sir Gerald Graha...
Wargaming the Zulu War

Rorke's Drift at the Shed - * Rorke's Drift. It's quiet. Too quiet* After the epic recreation of Isandlwana at the Shed on Sunday morning, the table was re-dressed for the battl...
Warhammer Fantasy Battle Tabletop Gaming

Warhammer Fantasy Battle Database Update - Current edition army books only filter, 5,000 searchable battles archive, double batrep notes and more exclusive member accolades. Hi folks, I've been twe...
Warrior Pope's Italian Wars

The battle of Milan 1522 - We played a big Pike and Shotte game up at the club on Sunday. I set up a semi historical scenario based on the battle of Bicocca. The rules were fun and not...
Waterloo to Mons

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West Models & Figures

New(ish) man cave. - Hello all, A few months back the wife wanted my son to have a larger room so I was kicked out of the guest room into a smaller room. The bribe was it would...
Will ye go to Flanders

Peter Watkin's "Culloden" - *The* Battle of Culloden offers a somewhat tenuous clue to the identity of the unfortunate gentlemen referred to in my *previous post*, but is certainly re...
Will's Wargames Blog

Sopwith Camel - The second of my aircraft for the Wargames Forum April 30 Day Group Build was an Esci Sopwith Camel. I applied quite a simple paint job so I can use it for...
World War 20mm

1941/42 German Vehicles -
WW2 - Somewhere in France

Harbour Raid ... The Game.... - *Early morning at the small port of St Honore-Sur-Mer.......* *Amended 02/06/2025 to add some notes on the game (see end of the post)* ---oXo--- German sen...
WW2 Small Scale Miniatures

HAPPY NEW YEAR - its been a while, work and life preclude me from adding anything of value BUT i found these !!! never before seen..... One of the last armoured engagements...