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Sunday, August 26, 2012

Wow...Talk about Big Boy Toys!!!

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  • 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
    Blog Update - Returned From Hawaii Trip - Got back from my family visit to Hawaii a few days ago without mishap. Easing back into the hobby, I started on a couple of 120mm resin figures - one eac...
  • 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
    HaT 1/32 ACW marching - These look worth getting. 1/32 Scale Figures buy them here
  • Wargame news and terrain
    Alternative Armies: Serpere Mobile Fortress Huge New Bradley 6mm! - Alternative Armies: We are delighted to present Bradley Miniatures last 6mm science fiction release of the year into their growing range. A true monster in...
  • 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
    Pastoral Visit - MNG member Will hasn't been around much on Tuesdays this last year or two. He's our oldest member and is suffering from exactly that - being old. I got a...
  • wargaming in 28 mm and sometimes smaller
    German Vehicles in 1/72 - I have had my resin printer busy recently filling in some gaps for my WWII German vehicle collection. I have a Mar 3 Pro and am using water washable AB...
  • Wargaming Miscellany
    The Imperial Japanese Navy … in 1/1200th-scale: The collection continues to grow … as does the rest of my model ship collection - My collection of Imperial Japanese Navy warships continues to grow. The latest additions are: IJNS *Uranami, *IJNS *Asagari, *IJNS *Shirayuki*, and IJNS ...
  • 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
    elegant wedding shoes in 2015 - [image: awesome satin wedding shoes by shoekandi] you are now visiting* awesome satin wedding shoes by shoekandi* , And in this page we have more than 5 be...
  • 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
    WSS Garde Te Voet - The last of my Dutch Infantry for the War of Spanish Succession is the Garde Te Voet
  • 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...
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