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Little Great War: TO&E Ruberia - The major enemy of Francophone Republic, Azuria (BLUE) is the powerful Kingdom of Ruberia (RED) Here is the list Army of Ruberia*Commander:* *Field Mars...

The Barons' War Birthday - It was my birthday yesterday and I was lucky enough to get the starter set *The* *Barons' War, *which now gives me a bit of a conundrum. The models an...

Camping Mat Foam (EVA) Terrain - For me in small-town Australia, the pink dense "terrain builder" foam (XPS?) is pretty rare or pricey. I don't have a big enough vocab of swearwords to ...

A new Belle Époque army: The Kingdom of the Obele - I recently bought a small 15mm Zulu army *via* eBay and I have begun the process of renovating, varnishing, and basing it so that it can become part of m...

The Kaiser's High Seas Fleet - The Great War at Sea 1914-18 - This was another Christmas arrival which I'd pre-ordered some months ago and been looking forward to playing. It's a development of the good old War A...

Thoughts on the Recent Battle - *The Russian cruiser Oleg beginning to have a bad day….* I have been fortunate in that so far the testing of the rules for my new book has been conducted...

Strelets Streltsy - Strelets includes this little guy, or a mini like him, in all their soft plastic 1/72 figure sets, regardless of the actual subject matter of the set. ...

Painting 15mm WWII - I have been busy on Christmas Holidays but I still have to paint many more tanks, guns and buildings. I always wanted to have an 88. This is from 28mm Esk...

A Festive Surprise - The Midlish plan was to surprise the Valdurians, spoil their New Year's Eve and Day and make up for all of their defeats over the last decade...... But...

Wanderings - Yesterday, it was September; tomorrow is nearly Christmas. I don't think I'm doing this whole "experiencing time" thing right. Despite having plenty of...

3 more 15mm BT Kurita mechs - Hi guys Next on my 15mm Battletech project, working on 3 Kurita mechs, Panther, Locus, and a hunchback, I’ve also printed a grand Dragon and a Hatamoto ...

TERRAIN - Blessed Be Thy Name - Dan Hodgson from Reveille Studios was recently selling a few painted 6mm bits from his collection on Facebook and after a quick peruse through his wares ...

3D AI Generators for Miniatures. - Review of 3d Figure AI generators. I buy a lot of 3d files to print, and love the manufacturers that I purchase from. At times though, I can't find what I...

15mm Platoon-Level Test Game #4 - All, The Platoon Sergeant, Staff Sergeant Saunders, gathered the squad leaders to brief them, running the mission since Lt Hanley was still out, recuper...

15mm (1/100th Scale) Project KampfHund Light Battle Titan - Launch Day for the 1/100th (15mm) Project KampfHund Light Main Battle Titan Free PDF Instructions for the 15mm/1-100th scale KampfHund (the 28mm ver...

KG Klink in Barbarossa, Fight #2 - All, Alright, here we go, time for the second fight of KG Klink's Operation Barbarossa. Following Captain Tausch's failure to 'blitzkrieg' through rel...

World-Building via Letter Tiles: Last Example Round (Solo RPG) - This is, mercifully, the last post recording my playtest of using letter-tile prompts. I carried it through the fourth oracle question in order to show ...

Alternative Armies launches new website. Triggers memories of a ‘painting commission’ which I didn’t record here - Wayyyy back in 2017 Gavin at Alternative Armies gave me the opportunity to paint up some 25/28mm fantasy miniatures for potential use on his site as produc...

Summer Holiday Games - It's that time of year again when I get myself organised for the summer holiday board wargaming season. I've been exporting a lot of games over to Fra...

Final Post - This will be my final post to this blog. Family obligations will be keeping me from wargaming as they have for the past few years. Instead I will be...

Very Sad News - I'm very sorry to be making this post but I've just learned that Dale past away from a heart attack on November 5th. Most of my relationship with Dale wa...

New Fantasy sets from Alliance - I know, I havent been active for..???..a long time but I keep looking at what´s going on in the world of bods..and today I found these.....Apparently the...

15mm Terminator: Junkyard Dogs - I’ve started work on sourcing and painting up some scenic elements and terrain for the 15mm Terminator project, and am kicking things off with some wr...

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...

November Update - I've been slow to update my blog for the past few months. I was able to do some hobby stuff in late October, but a recent setback in my cancer treatment ...

Going on hobby hiatus - About to dive into a major project at work that may lead to a nice promotion... So, I am officially standing down all hobby work for at least the rest o...

Armoured Strike Arab Israeli Battle - This game was played at Excalibur games. The scenario was an Israeli attack on Syrian held positions in the Golan Heights. The dug in Syrians were thouroug...

CoC Campaign: Crossroads, Closing the Gap. Intro. - Myself and Des have embarked on a new CoC PSC, and one that is very intriguing indeed. It is produced by PTO Games and you can pick up here from Wargames V...

Operation Chunky Bandit #50 (Ground) - All, 0530 on 6 Aug 1990 Mini-Campaign Fight #24 TF Hawk vs FSNL 8th Company 1st Lt Beriana Acting Task Force Hawk Commanding Officer Awarded the Medal of ...

Initiative Bidding in Undaunted Normandy - *Undaunted: Normandy* (*UN*) is a new card, counter, and tile game about combat during WWII in Normandy 1944. I purchased this recently and just played a g...

Forged in Battle 1:3000 fleets hit the streets! Well..."Hit the waves!" - *Alexander Hay-Whitton, a South African based in Bangkok has corresponded re: the Forged in Battle review posted here [CLICK]. We went back and forth a few...

Details - True North LardEhs Game Day, May 30 2020 in Hamilton, Ontario - *Updated 20-05-07 - Postponed! Unfortunately, but not unexpectedly, we've had to postpone the LardEhs Game Day until probably the fall. More details on t...

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...

- *"En avant!" Les Chars de Cavalerie (Cont.)* *Moving right along, here are my Chars de Cavalerie of the French Army of May-June 1940. These are the SOMUA ...

Dreadnought: Great War at Sea - This is my prototype box, with the Battle of Coronel tucked away inside! Hi all, big news today! As you've no doubt been aware, I've been furiously making a...

Irregular 6mm Chinese - A question came up on the ColonialWars Yahoo Group about 6mm Chinese troops for the period. As luck would have it, I happened to have one of the Irregular...

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Blog necromancy. - Wow I still can get in here!?! Well I better see if I can do any better this time.

1809; Somewhere in Southern Germany - The first battle of the new 6mm Blucher era here in Canberra has been played and won. As we've both started holidays, John and I broke out my Austrian...

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'...

Scenery Forge Gothic plaster and resin build - I decided to try using the Scenery Forge Gotic mold again, but this time using regular Plaster of Paris for the casts, then infusing it with resin. It is...

Horror at Moose Cove - Captain Barney McBarnacle surveyed the harbour. All seemed quiet—but you could never tell these days. Ever since the start of the zombie apocalypse there h...

Vanguard Miniatures 3mm Gothic Science Fiction Line: Introduction - Although today I am scornful of Games Workshop and even more so of the company’s fanbois, the plain truth is that GW is responsable for making me a seriou...

Orgonne 1st Volunteer Infantry -

12th legion Angry Boiz - While working on the noble lads of the azure 13th, I was also expanding the footprint of their temperamental cousins in the 12th. At this point this is my ...

X-Wing - Scurrg H6 Bomber Preview - This is one expansion that I would say Scum players will definitely want to pick up, I mean who could pass up "infinite bombs"? I know I will be getting...

Medieval Japanese Miniatures - Here are some of the medieval japanese figures painted in 2016. Mostly Perry miniatures and some Clan War miniatures. Buildings are from Plastcraft Games. ...

New Battlefront Cold War Tanks on the Horizon - Battlefront previewed newer T-55 AM2 models. This is something I have been hoping to find for the Alcovia project.

De Profundis : My First Impression - As DragonCon approached*, I was reminded that I had come across a copy of *De Profundis: Cthulhu Gaming on the Edge of Madness *in the dealer's hall one ye...

Umm... I've been a bit quiet! - Just a quick update, I've taken a small break from my 15mm gaming for the moment as I've started playing X-Wing and Star Trek Attack Wing. I've just starte...

Clearhorizon Omega Squad - Mr. Harold sent me these a while ago, and I finally got around to painting them. The delay was mainly that the neck length bothered me, so it took a while ...

Blog Moving... - I have decided to move this campaign blog as well as any other activities involved with Modern era wargaming to my main blog here: Adventures with Gun, Sab...

Mrs. History PhD's new FOW project - Having said that she was ready to begin a new Vietnam War vehicle, Mrs. History PhD has chosen to recreate her 1/285 South Vietnamese National Police Field...

Grimlocks in 15mm - Here are 12 grimlocks for dnd 5th ed.....15mm Picts from copplestone. Back from a long break in gaming....looking forward to a little dungeons and dragons s...

Test Casts of the Banshee - First pictures of the test casts! (Cast by the very talented Jon at Paulson Games, Sculpted by Steve "Coolhand" Tyler) Note: the Banshee comes with ...

Moving On - It's been a long while since I've posted here. Since I've started this blog four years ago, you guys and gals have given me a tremendous amount of inspirat...

C21 Air War Vietnam - Slowly getting things done. MSD Games Target Terrain, although only 1in, I placed them on a Litko 1.5in hex. I used MSD Games Target Terrain, although...

HAPPY NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!! - NATION CELEBRATES INDEPENDENCE AND PROSPERITY! (Sudekia) The morning sun usually greets our country, but on this day of days, it was greeted by the peo...

More 15mm Orcs painted this weekend. - This weekend I worked on finishing another squad of Orcs. Note: These minis are OOP and are no longer being sold. I Also removed the banners that were cast...

Fortified Chapel - Hi, folks. Here's another bit of terrain for our Kings of War table. It's a fortified chapel made from a Pegasus Hobby Gothic City Building Large Set. I ad...

Work in progress and review of some Khurasan Miniatures Space Demons - I recently had some time available and decided to add to my 15mm miniatures. I succumbed to severe temptation and purchased some expansions to my “Space D...

2500 scale ships - Captain's Blog Stardate 201308.25 I got this in from Del (Multi-Verse Models) the other day. It is a resin copy of my M-4 Strike Cruiser I submitted for ...

Viper's Fangs-forces - Hello, just some pics of the painted forces for my game of Gruntz moderated Clantroops scenarios. The first scenario I plan on playing is called the Viper's...

Raid on Blount Landing - Dark Elves vs Horse and Musket - Ok so here are some shots from some Mighty Armies games recently played in GPTs basement. Scroll down for bonus Man O War pics. First 3 shots are the s...

Photo Update - About eight weeks of work in pictures here, I didn't photograph everything. A GZG grav tank painted up for my Lochrim army, I have two of this model pain...

Dr. Zooch Shuttle - I had planned on posting along with every step of the directions in this Dr. Zooch kit. My lack of an established method or habit in blogging prevented su...

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