Peter Pig Pirate Ship Stocking Fillers
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Stocking Fillers
The assembled fleet from 2015
Ten years ago (!) I embarked on a pirate project using the 1/450th scale
ships from Peter Pig and the fast...
Polish Bofors 37mm AT gun
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To accompany my lashed up Polish infantry battalion - and in anticipation
of a game - I dug out this 1/35 kit and set about it. It was every bit as
ho...
‘Twas the (Four) Night(s) before Christmas…..
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*Definitely looks better at night!*
A little earlier than usual but I have a busy few days coming up before
‘Der Tag’! I will post a review of the year l...
A Naval Excursus -
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Hex grid as pencilled. The white lines is just the overhead
light reflecting off 2B pencil
Interrupting the Roman Civil War narrative is this little i...
The Brandenberg-class predreadnoughts
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The four ships of the *Brandenberg*-class were the first heavy armoured
ocean-going ships built for the Imperial German Navy. Unlike the previous
classes...
WIP Union artillery
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Hi guys
Mocking together some artillery teams, 3 deployed, 3 towed, I’m converting
the airfix crews, except 1 of each pose for nostalgic reasons, I’ll p...
The Battle Raged To An End
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It is hard to believe that more than two months has passed since my last
post. I had just started back into my Barbarossa battle, a German attack
near P...
DBA 2.2 Numidian 40/II army.
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Speed paint of a very easy and fast to paint army. This is entirely from
Essex.
I am playing it this evening, and I'm itching to try six light cavalry in...
Fokker D-II and D-III
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The Fokker D-II was a fairly mediocre and uninspired successor to the E-III
monoplane responsible for the “Fokker Scourge” of 1915-’16. The D-III
impr...
Keep or Sell? Indiana Jones (West End Games)
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Star Wars (the movie series) is quintessentially pulp at its core, and the
d6 system West End Games designed for their licensed RPG emulates it
beautiful...
Game Design #109: Cinematic Moments
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I bought the *Titanicus *rules out of interest (though I'll never afford
the minis!) and when experimenting with them I found myself thinking "this
is re...
Mustangs
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I've been after a copy of Avalon Hill's Mustangs for ages, having heard
really good things about it and being an aviation fan. This was a bargain
and i...
SOVIET DPP40 AMPHIBIOUS PONTOON SYSTEM - Part Two
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New additions to my Soviet VDV forces are these DPP40 Amphibious Pontoon
Systems. Fellow Cold War Commander very kindly 3d printed four sets of
pontoons ...
Final Post
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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
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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
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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
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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...
15mm German SS
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All
Waffen SS
Yes, I know they are evil, and yes, I know some wargamers find them so
repugnant that they don't wish to even wargame with them, but I'm a...
November Update
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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
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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
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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.
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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)
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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
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*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...
3D Printed Star Wars Ships
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I got a new 3D printer for Christmas and am having a lot of fun with it.
The one I have is the Ender3 Pro, and it was just under $200.00 new. You
have to...
Fighting for Hearth and Home
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When word came from the Watchers that the host of Iron Men in the pass had
taken the North East road, the Elder of Smawlton was quick to send word to
Duke ...
Focus on 2020
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*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...
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*"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 ...
Charge of KG Peiper #3
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All,
On to the Meuse!
0900
19 December 1944
Kampfgruppe Peiper, a German SS Panzer formation, moved out as part of
'Wacht Am Rhein," AKA, "The Battle of...
Dreadnought: Great War at Sea
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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
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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...
The Ion Age returns to Alternative Armies
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*Please read this major announcement from The Ion Age. Thank you.*
*'This galaxy has decided to gorge upon itself, to consume its vitality
once more in po...
1809; Somewhere in Southern Germany
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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
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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
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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
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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...
12th legion Angry Boiz
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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
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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
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Here are some of the medieval japanese figures painted in 2016. Mostly
Perry miniatures and some Clan War miniatures. Buildings are from Plastcraft
Games.
...
De Profundis : My First Impression
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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!
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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
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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...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!!!!
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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.
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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
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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...
2500 scale ships
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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
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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...
Photo Update
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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
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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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