Hitting on a Double 1: May 2023

My On-going Project List

SAGA - 6 points Normans (WIP)

7TV - Miscellanious

Relics - Ridend (Unbuilt unpainted)

Dr Who - Sontarans
Dr Who - Ice Warriors and Yeti
Dr Who - Autons and the Master
Dr Who - UNIT (WIP)

Judge Dredd - Judges and Perps

Pulp City - Ongoing

Black Powder - 15mm Napoleonic Prussian Corps - Ongoing

City Terrain - Ongoing

Spectre Ops - African Militia
Spectre Ops - SSO Spetsnaz

Spectre Ops - Tier 1 Operators

Spectre Ops- MENA

Dragons Rampant - Various Forces

Mortal Gods - Athenian Forces and Mythic Elements

ArcWorlde - All Factions

Adeptus Titanicus - Legio Krytos

Aeronautica Imperialis - Imperial Navy and Tau

2000AD - Strontium Dog

My Blog List

PAPERMAU

A Family House Miniature Papercraft - by Papermau - Download Now! - Another very simple papercraft on just one sheet, a miniature family house to decorate your bookshelf or work desk. You will spend a maximum of half an hou...
2 hours ago
The Responsible One's Wargaming Blog

Infinity Tournament: Red Star Blues - The Anniversary - Back in March, HATE hosted another "Red Star Blues" tournament. The first mission was Resilience Operations, and I was drawn against *Heshore* who was r...
3 hours ago
BrianMcG

Stark Double Bill: Lannisters and then Boltons - So ahead of this weekend's Conquest of the Riverlands events at LEODIS GAMES in Leeds, Ste "PsychoSte" Connor and I had a few games, for him to trial bo...
7 hours ago
Don't throw a 1

3 Million Hits!! - I just noticed that "Don't Throw a 1" has just passed the unbelievable 3 million hit mark!!! This is just a quick thank you to everyone who takes the...
9 hours ago
The Renaissance Troll

Oh, Hypocrisy… - A few weeks ago, I posted an article over on my Patreon (free to read) about why I gave my *Dungeons & Dragons* 5e books away. Long story short, I didn’t...
10 hours ago
The Land of Counterpane

A project update - With Crisis Point out of the way, I thought I'd provide an update on the other things I'm working on. In terms of "which comes first" they are: *Muddy Ri...
12 hours ago
A Wargaming Odyssey

Farewell to Shogun - *I am unsure what the Japanese for ‘a bit like the curate’s egg’ is but the good parts were very good indeed!* A day later than usual I managed to watch ...
14 hours ago
Anton's Wargame Blog

Wargames Atlantic 28mm Afghan Cavalry - Wargames Atlantic recently added to their Imperial Conquests line with this highly versatile set of Afghan Cavalry, it is labelled 1815-1914 but t...
17 hours ago
Hitting on a Double 1

Bovington Tank Museum Visit - Last week I got to visit the fantastic Tank Museum down in Bovington. Unfortunately no events were on and no vehicles were running but that would have ju...
20 hours ago
Wargaming with Barks

Anzac Day 2024- WW1 digger - This figure is a companion piece to last year's Mike Broadbent sculpt from Slave 2 Gaming. I tried to replicate the paintjob. Here they are together: ...
21 hours ago
Trials of a Casual War gamer

A new Project is started...... - While I was browsing Etsy (Always a dangerous game) I discovered starship troopers!! I mean 6mm starship troopers but starship troopers none the less. ...
1 day ago
Tale of Painters

Showcase: Legions Imperialis Iron Warriors Support Detachments (inc. painting guide) - In my last post I rambled on about detachments and formations not really fitting together with what you get in each box of models, in this blog post I pu...
1 day ago
Jim's Wargames Workbench

HMS Anson 1794 - 1807 - Due to bonkers work load and a bit of a nasty cold, things have ground to a halt on the workbench this week, with little to show apart from a single Tu...
1 day ago
Wargaming for Grown-ups

Okay for AK...47 - We played AK47 Republic (classic edition) back in January after a break of a few years. As we were likely to have an even number show for this week's gam...
1 day ago
Hippolyta's Tiny Footsteps

Copplestone Archaeologists - Ages ago, back in 2017, I painted the female archaeologists from Mark Copplestone's excellent Back of Beyond range. Now, much later, here are the male on...
1 day ago
Wargaming Miscellany

Bed B, Side Room 4, Ward 22 (Part 3) - I slept from midnight until 3.30am and again from 4.00am until 6.30am … which is a distinct improvement. Perhaps - after many years - I was finally getti...
1 day ago
Dampf's modelling page

Flintloque Spanish - part two - Here are four more *Flintloque* miniatures that I have painted as Spanish soldiers for my *Flintloque/Silver Bayonet* cross over project. Like the earlie...
1 day ago
Mad Tin Hatter!

Finished: 15mm SP Bofors - Hi folks, Yet another allied anti-aircraft unit for my collection. This time some 40mm self-propelled Bofors guns. These rapid-firing AA guns were moun...
1 day ago
28mm Victorian Warfare

The smallest room - With the main village buildings for our game of Shoot 'N' Skedaddle completed, and in good time I might add, there was an opportunity to add a little lo...
2 days ago
Old School Workshop

St. George and the Dragon - It was a matter of pure coincidence, but I was looking for some other stuff over the net and I eventually found this: Oh, you can see how I had no optio...
2 days ago
Cheaphammer!!!

The Scavenger - Have you seen the *Fallout* TV series on *Amazon*? It's good. Even if you've not played the games. This is a hard recommendation to watch it. Naturally,...
3 days ago
Fanplastic Little Men

The Old World: Chaos Chosen! - Finished these bad boys today, the last of my current pile of Warriors of Chaos: Hopefully they will see some play with my forces but i fear cavalry m...
3 days ago
Wee Blokes

MC1 Population Explosion - It may have been more than a couple of months since the last post but there has been some painting at least going on in the background. This batch are a...
3 days ago
SEEMS Wargames Club

17th April Games - We had four different games running last Wednesday night; Rob and Alan were playing Marvel Crisis Protocol (details of the factions were vague, but I did n...
3 days ago
Gunners wargaming

15cm sFH Lorraine’s finished - Hi guys 2 x 15cm sFH Lorraine SPGs and 2 x Lorraine artillery observer vehicles of the 155 Pz artillery regt finished, these guns will be attached to th...
3 days ago
Shed Wars

Napoleonic adventures - Afternoon all, its been a few weeks since I last posted and boy have things been busy here at the Shed. First up since I last posted back in early Marc...
3 days ago
Tyneside Wargames Club

Colonial shenanigans! - Last Saturday (20th April) Pete Foggin and co did a Colonial game using their 'Great Captains' rules, which seem adaptable to many periods! The game was...
4 days ago
Major Thomas Foolery's War Room

Outskirts of Tanga 1914: A WW1 Skirmish Game in German East Africa - My WW1 African armies haven't seen the table in a while for lack of opponents, but last week my friend Steve passed through town and brought his Germans ...
4 days ago
BigLee's Miniature Adventures

A Changing Hobby? Small Skirmish Games vs Big Battles - Is the Tabletop Wargaming Hobby shifting away from Big Battles towards small skirmish games? This subject arose during last week's SALUTE 51 and was even...
4 days ago
Ski's Wargames

Some Painting! - Not to be outdone by a gaming post a couple weeks ago, I actually completed some painting this week. It's been a slow go, but enjoyable. First up are a ...
4 days ago
PanzerKaput's Painted Review

My Guide to Painting Aged Wood - This is a strange place to start a new project but it sort of makes sense. I started this a very long time ago and with the interest in my club, Leice...
4 days ago
Andy's Wargaming Blog

Wargaming The Age of the Anglo-Saxons at Sutton Hoo - Great privilege to be organising the second Wargaming the Age of the Anglo-Saxons event at Sutton Hoo this summer. Where better to game early Saxon batt...
4 days ago
Dust, Tears & Dice

FootSore Muslim Light Cavalry - Outremer. - Still in the Levant and I finished a another group of light cavalry for the forces of Saladin armed with spear and bow they could be a real handful on th...
4 days ago
the Man Cave

ShireCon 24 - While lamenting the loss of our No 1 Wargaming apprentice (who regularly kicks our arses on the table, just to show what fantastic instructors we are), S...
4 days ago
Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Radukar the Wolf and Kosargi Nightguard - Radukar the Wolf is the Vampire Lord who rules the city of Ulfenkarn, and, presumably the ultimate nemesis in Warhammer Quest: Cursed City (I haven't rea...
4 days ago
Herkybirds nest

A return to France - Today we decided, well, I did, that we would return to What a Tanker for a couple of games, Oathmark is on the back burner for a short while! Lawrence l...
5 days ago
Paint-it-Pink

Real Robo Manifesto Size Comparisons - Void Scar Miniatures Taurus APC next to RAFM HG conversion and Abrams Shocked to find it has been six years since I posted the size comparison shots for...
5 days ago
Palouse Wargaming Journal

Still Fornovocating - We return to the Battle of Fornovo and Game #4 in these refights. In tabletop action on the 16th, five players join into a remote game to try their hand...
6 days ago
Fantorical

"The Infantry Of Prussia In 1806..." - *"...Was 'a museum piece' reflecting the great days of (King) Frederick the Great."* This 28mm scale metal model is produced by “Wargames Foundry", and ca...
6 days ago
JJ's Wargames

JJ's on Tour - Up the Top End in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. - The last post in this series concluded Carolyn and my stay in Queensland before our boarding a flight from Cairns to our next destination, Darwin the cap...
6 days ago
Mini Metal Mayhem

AK-47 Republic Checkpoint Competition - part 3 (completion) - At last, the finished checkpoint! Everything came together more or less as I hoped. It's got a few differences from the original plan, mainly due to me ...
6 days ago
The Nothelm Chronicle

Some vikings painted ... - Saved from a job lot of old figures heading for the melting-pot of doom; four rather characterful viking figures... a nice addition to the collection.
1 week ago
wargames and walking

More Carnevale - painted up some more Carnevale miniatures ,4 Pulcinella including 1 on an Ostrich and a rialto assasin for the guild and 3 Agalopes for the Rashaar and the...
1 week ago
JOHN BOND's WARGAMING STUFF

FIRST GAME OF CHAIN OF COMMAND FOR 2024 - Set up my gaming table at home and started gaming again, last time I played CoC was Christmas 2023, Early war Brits vs early war Germans, played the Hast...
1 week ago
SHADOWKINGS

Wargames World Solo, rules play test. - I love new rules and ideas, this was on adverts and FB pages so I ordered a copy wrote by Gregory Ward, it is a solo war game rules, featuring some to me...
1 week 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 ...
1 week ago
dead lead project

Salute 51 - This weekend was the annual pilgrimage to Salute, to stock up on plenty of miniatures without having to pay for postage, mostly. There was a wild number ...
1 week ago
Dalauppror

Age of Penda - Planning on puting my Romano-British and Saxon minis up for sale as I dont use them much. Painted them some 15-years ago and they been through some tough...
1 week ago
Mike's Random Wargame Meanderings Blog

The Army Of The Dead - *The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. **The way is shut.* An army I bought at the start of 20...
1 week ago
2 Hour Blog

NUTS! weekend special. $7.99 for the PDF, print copy on sale too! - Check it out! https://www.wargamevault.com/product/221641/NUTS-4th-Edition?term=NUTS+4th
1 week ago
Gaming with TooFatLardies

The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 by James Holland - James Holland, along with Peter Caddick-Adams and Alex Kershaw, forms my favorite trio of World War II military historians. For me, Holland, in parti...
2 weeks ago
Will's Wargames Blog

Easter Big Game - Grave to Nijmegen - Days 3 and 4 - Easter Monday past by very quickly and I failed to take enough pictures of the action. At last Guards Armoured had arrived but their progress was slowed by...
2 weeks ago
Geordie's Big Battles

Prepping Plastic Miniatures: Reference Notes - From the Internet: https://mustcontainminis.com/2021/08/how-to-prep-plastic-miniatures-for-painting.html https://massivevoodoo.blogspot.com/2020/07/tutor...
2 weeks ago
Warfare in the Age of Cynics and Amateurs

'Ruthless' - Wild West Game - Hot on the heels of the previous post - we played a game of the free 'Ruthless' rules this morning. This was truly 'cheap-ass' since: - Most of the...
2 weeks ago
Peter's Cave

The Magnificent Seven - Part 02 - Vin Tanner - Here is number two of the "Seven", named Van Tanner and played by Steve Mc Queen in the movie. Hardest part of painting this figure was the pink shirt. I...
2 weeks ago
A Wargaming Gallimaufry

Another painting update - Still no gaming to report due to family health issues... I'm hoping this will change in a few weeks (mind you I said that a while ago!) In the meantime I...
3 weeks ago
Platoon Forward

A Preview of Boom and Zoom - Still busy with family issues but have played one game of Boom and Zoom and 1 game of WW III US defending a bridge. I had told several people on TMP tha...
3 weeks ago
~ anevilgiraffe ~

More Renaissance types - Three more Renaissance types. The first two are from Antediluvian Miniatures and the last one from The Assault Group. I tried to follow the painted exam...
3 weeks ago
Baron's Blog

March to Victory - the report - This was our third time hosting March to Victory. Notice how there is no"con" in the name? The focus on “games only” resulted in a more intimate setti...
4 weeks ago
Somewhere the Tea's getting cold...

Last Ham at Grazer's Leat - Well that's been a busy few weeks but the Snotlings are finally here. I've weathered a nasty cold (not the best when you work outdoors everyday), survi...
4 weeks ago
Jay's Wargaming Madness

Warhammer Old World: Skaven Expansion - Basing is slow going in the middle of High School Volleyball season, but I am stealing time here and there to get units completed. I have sooooo much stil...
1 month ago
Pijlie´s Wargames Blog

Building a Wild West town - All sorts of real-life events blocked my time and energy to wrote blogs since last October. But I haven't been idle in other respects, so here is my fir...
1 month ago
Trouble At T'Mill - a wargaming blog

The Miller's Tale - Episode 9 - Episode 9: in which Mike once again attempts to remember how the heck the Heath Robinson-esque collection of RSS feed generator, local webspace and heave...
1 month ago
Joy and Forgetfulness

Battlemasters with Kinchlets - *"Pay attention Sir Harry, the Hun is here, here and here." - LadyBaby* Finished up a practice game of the old MB Games/Citadel miniatures game Battlemast...
2 months ago
Roundwood's World

"Nobody Likes the Chaya": A villainous faction for 'When the Last Sword is Drawn' - "Nobody likes the House of Chaya. Their nobility is bought through wealth and their signature is greed. They are wealthy, proud and ambitious. Their shar...
2 months ago
oldSarges Wargame and Model blog

- For those of you who have followed Old Sarge through the years, we would like to let you know that Gary passed away on Jan 23. Please remember him with ...
3 months ago
Chris' Miniature Woes

A Reflection on 2023 - Welcome back to Chris' Miniature Woes! It's been quite a journey, and I appreciate your patience as I navigate through the challenges that 2023 brought i...
3 months ago
Don't Throw Bloody Spears At Me!

Happy New Year - Hi everyone, normally I would be posting my "review of the year" today and my plan for 2024 tomorrow. But as some of you may know I'm poorly in hospital...
3 months ago
Rough War

Legions Imperialis battle report II - +++5.988.006.M31 +++Subsector Christus Ecclessia +++Kashmeeri reach +++Bellum omnium contra omness Our operations have been detected by elements of t...
3 months ago
Jim Duncan Wargamer

Is It Christmas yet? - A few weeks ago when the bitterly cold weather started I had to curtail the figure painting sessions in my garden hobby hut as it took forever to heat ...
4 months ago
Unit57

New Brighton Part 11 - This project needed something big. I toyed with the idea of doing a version of Big Ben, something which I may come back to in the future, but for the mo...
4 months ago
GMorts Chaotica

Vampire the Masquerade - V5 - Session Two - Galerie Sanguine: San Diego - I'm currently running a Vampire the Masquerade chronicle using the 5th Edition rule-set for a small group of fellow role-players. Our primary chronicle is...
4 months ago
Carmen's Fun Painty Time

Senjutsu: Battle for Japan - I haven't actually played it yet, but I've seen the videos, read the rules, and it looks fun. Not only that, but I already have a sizeable collection ...
4 months ago
Level 2

Pirates! More Pirates! -
5 months ago
Colgar6 and the Infinite Legion of Toy Soldiers

Zomtober 2023, Week 5 - *<== Go here for Week 4* Introduction It's the last week of Zomtober, at least for 2023. As is required by the rules of that competition, I've completed...
5 months ago
The Blog With No Name

Bounding Fire Tournament 2023 Prizes - This year the organisers of the ASL Tournament Bounding Fire have decided to broaden the prize table and so went for smaller dioramas with the theme bein...
6 months ago
Paul´s Bods

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...
7 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...
7 months ago
Too few tanks

Maybe the blog is dead, after all - Well, we had a good run. I was far more active when I had more time, but for some years I have had a job (*mirabile dictu*! - that's Latin for "remarkab...
7 months ago
Lead Reckoning

More Freakin Hexes - About ten years ago I had this idea for terrain hexes. About five years ago I started making some when i got my first laser cut. Then I had a thirty five...
8 months ago
Caliban-somewhen

Cannich Scots - Also known as part two of the *Shadows of Yog-Sothoth* segment in our *Call of Cthulhu *campaign. Arriving in Scotland, our three intrepid investigators ...
8 months ago
Thoughts of a Depressive Diplomatist

Reading in June 2023 - My deep-dive into *The Hobbit* continued. *John D Rateliff, The History of The Hobbit* *JRR Tolkien; Douglas A Anderson, The Annotated Hobbit* ...
9 months ago
Teun135's Miniature Wargaming

Vallejo Shifters - ...are pretty cool for 'mechs! --Teun
9 months ago
Faeit 212: Warhammer 40k News and Rumors

The Future of Epic Horus Heresy Plans to reach to M41 - Stepped away briefly, but there are rumors to lay out on the future of Epic Horus Heresy. Especially seeing how something like Epic may expand into the f...
11 months ago
A League of Ordinary Gamers

Hurricon 2022 Photo Report: A Bit Late... - It has been several months since my last post, which was photos from HMGS-South's Recon 2022 convention. I thought I had deleted the photos in this post,...
11 months ago
Brummie's Wargaming Blog

7TV Post Apocalypse Road Warrior Day - So 18th March I went to Board in Brum for a 7TV Apocalypse day. We played 3 games throughout the day. Following a narrative set by the organise...
1 year ago
Green Stuff Industries

More Figs! - Clearly, I'm not keeping up as well as I could. So, here's a Barbarian Warrior and... ...and a Barkeep. I think these are both Reaper Miniatures. ...
1 year ago
Buckets of Dice Wargaming Blog

Painting Sudan - With a new vigour for painting and some motivation to get things done, I ordered a Dervish army from Peter Pig a couple of weeks ago and painted them up...
1 year ago
Dougie's Wargaming Blog

28mm Empress Cold War SAS and Update - This is just a quick update as I haven't posted anything for a little while because of working on my YouTube channel Dougie's Wargaming Blog Show Anyhow...
1 year ago
Dannoc's wargaming blog

Wings of glory - Tonight's game at the club will be a campaign game of Wings of Glory. My glorious SPAD XIII flown by my French pilot Renee Delon will take to the skies ...
1 year ago
Canister & Grape - A Website for Wargamers

A Return of Sorts - It's been a pretty horrible couple of years, hasn't it? We've lost loved ones, been beset by fires and floods, and found ourselves in the middle of a pand...
1 year ago
Four-Color Figures

Ogre Redux! - So I love painting ogres - so sue me. I really do enjoy them, especially the great Reaper Bones sculpts that you can get for cheap. That and the fact tha...
1 year ago
Twin Cities Gamer

Victrix Gauls - Saga Age of Hannibal gave me a reason to finally paint naked Gauls in 28mm...bucket list item checked! Seriously, these Victrix plastics are quite lovely...
1 year ago
Plastic Legions

Scenes from the Barrowmaze - My daughter and I started playing thru Barrowmaze , (which if you are not familiar is a classic mega dungeon campaign for old school style RPG play) ...
2 years ago
Lair of the Uber Geek

Terrain Workshop Sorted (at least for now) - Well I've managed to clean out the Terrain Workshop. Sadly, the bulk of the "debris" consisted of various shipping boxes that were retained for storag...
2 years ago
Four Colour Super Minis

VBCW Game 2022- Attacking Shrewsbury - I have just got back from having a great game of VBCW in Shrewsbury. The two day battle features various factions manoeuvring close to the Free City of S...
2 years ago
24 Hour Gamer Geek

- New year. New stuff. Hey guys, Jay here... it has been... a while. I have decide to give this blogging thing a try again. I have been posting small am...
2 years ago
Brazos Evil Empire

How Britain Stopped the Japanese Invasion of India in World War Two -
2 years ago
EndTransmission's gaming stuff

Out on the banks of a river... - Over on DakkaDakka there's a regular terrain challenge that I've started to take part in thanks to the modular boards. While most people take the themes...
2 years ago
The Spider Web of History

6MMRPC - Pulp/Gothic/Eldritch Horror (2) - In my continuing saga of horror gaming, I've been pushing through a bunch of stuff since November 1st and the beginning of the 6MMRPC. Below, you'll find...
2 years ago
Welsh Wargamer in Devon

More buildings, yet more buildings! - Hello again, I have been a bit busy with other things but have managed to sort out a few more buildings for my town project. I still have yet more to ba...
2 years ago
Left Handed Panzerfaust

Test - Download my file The above is from: https://www.blastanalytics.com/blog/how-to-track-downloads-in-google-analytics-v2
2 years ago
Lokis Great Hall

Vallejo Guides Broken - It has recently come to my attention that the LINKS on my vallejo paint guide pages are not currently working as expected and readers are not able to vie...
2 years ago
Eclectic Gentleman Tabletop Gamer

Pulp War 35 Kickstarter - Final 48 Hours! - *Kitbash Games* has launched a Kickstarter for its new range of 1/35 scale pulp-influenced Weird War II miniatures - *Pulp War 35!* *Link to the campa...
2 years ago
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...
2 years ago
20mm Gamer

And Don't Bring Hordes to a Knight Fight! - Ahiahi marie ano, Good afternoon again, Game two. Goblins vs. Orcses. Hordes vs. Warband. For the second game we both brought out our Greenskins. My Rae...
2 years ago
The Dark Templar

Confronting The Pile Of Shame - When I heard that Salute was on for November this year, I got very excited… no seriously, like so over-the-top excited I nearly had a fit. My first thou...
3 years ago
Napoleonics in Miniature

Prussian Horse Artillery WIP1 - Just started the last of my Prussian artillery, this time AB horse artillery loading crew. These are some of my favourite Prussian figures, I'm guessing...
3 years ago
THE WARGAMING SITE

Battle of the Falklands - a Full Thrust scenario - Battle of the Falklands A Full Thrust Scenario by Phil Broeders *Authors notes* This scenario is based on the The Battle of the Falkland Islands, ...
3 years ago
The Anarchy of Anton!

2020 a year in review - To say that this year has been a bumpy ride, with lots of things going on is an understatement. So before I start on the mayhem that was 2020 take a mom...
3 years ago
The Wargame Addict

Happy New Year - I hope you had a marvelous Christmas – topped off by making it onto Santa's “good” list, and have enjoyed every minute of the festive period. I wish you ...
3 years ago
Mr. Lee's Painting Emporium

Kill Team - Genestealer Cult forces - Another project that I started over the lockdown with my colleagues from Mr Lee's Minis. A small kill team to play with. Thanks in part to Volomir's c...
3 years ago
Monty's Caravan

9th Lancers to Kandahar - From the very beginning of my NWF efforts a painting by Orlando Norie kept fascinating me: Thus acutally since 2015 I've been pondering about painting a ...
3 years ago
Anatoli's Game Room

New site with much improved blog - please have a look - Friends, after several days of hard work I'm happy to present to you my new site. After 10 years with blogspot I have moved my online hobby operation to a ...
3 years ago
Kenzie's Tabletop Gaming Blog

Black Seas - Battle report - Journey to the new world. - *Black Seas - Battle report - Journey to the new world.* *Black Seas is the Age Of Sail era fleet ship-of-the-line combat game set between 1770 and 1830.* ...
3 years ago
The Megalomaniac (Mwhaha)

Battle of Hastings - Caldbec Hill 1066 - This is my 3rd refight on Caldbec hill, rather than Senlac hill. The terrain in my opinion fits the descriptions of the battle better from the books I've r...
3 years ago
Rebel Barracks

Oosterbeek 1944 - The other day the lads got together for a small Chain of Command game. We took the scenario from Wargames Soldiers and Strategy 107. An SS German force was...
3 years ago
The Miniatures Man

Aerosan OSGA 6 - More stuff for Whiteout, this time 2 Aerosans from Baker Company. In Whiteout you can have Sno-Cats as equipment or find them as terrain-encounters. My ta...
3 years ago
Metal Skirmish

LDZA: spring supplies run - [Reprinted from Facebook, which is where most gaming chat is going on these days. In fact, if it were not for it being the place for gaming chat, I likely ...
4 years ago
Battleground Hobbies

Warhammer 40K Alternatives by Victoria Miniatures - If you are on the lookout for some alternatives to Games Workshop Warhammer 40k miniatures, Check out Victoria Miniatures. They offer some fantastic vehi...
4 years ago
Solo Wargaming in the UK

Isolation is Bliss to a Solo Gamer! - Hi Chaps, I pray that you are all healthy and avoiding the virus? On to business... the UK is in "lockdown" which makes sense to me and as a solo gamer ma...
4 years ago
Vampifan's World of the Undead

The end - This will unfortunately be my last blog post. I am critically ill in a hospice and I do not know how much time I have left to live. I have thooughly enjoye...
4 years ago
Pendragon Without

The Horus Heresy, or Rogal Dorn - His part in my Downfall - Well, I thought the 40K itch had been scratched years ago, especially given that they now have 'Primaris' Marines, which appears to be an anagram of 'Marke...
4 years ago
da Gobbo's Grotto - Wargaming blog

2 Fanitball, 2 Furious - Hi all My apologies for the late post, but this Saturday (when I normally post) I took part in my first Blood Bowl tournament, the delightfully titled "2 ...
4 years ago
Mr. Bug Man

Its the end of this blog - Hello fellow blog friends. For many years I have maintained this blog and it was the best and most enjoyable platform to show my sculpts and concepts. Init...
4 years ago
Wargamer Blue

15mm Canadian Platoon -
4 years ago
Learning by doing

Finally finished! - These figures are the very last of the minis included in the The Walking Dead Kickstarter from Mantic Games. There was some terrain and cars too, those are...
4 years ago
Pulp Citizen

Pulp City: Full Effect - coming 020! - *Pulp City: Full Effect **Kickstarter* - coming Q1 or Q2 2020!
4 years ago
merseybooks

Battle Ravens in Tabletop Gaming's Best Games of 2019 - I've been tipped off that my Battle Ravens boardgame features in TABLETOP GAMING'S BEST GAMES OF 2019 issue, publishing at the start of December! This is ...
4 years ago
The Angry Lurker

15mm Battered Markers for Dragon Rampant...... - *........and some ladders!* *The gravestones are leftovers and MDF from Blotz, these are used to signify a unit in distress marker for the rules, rather t...
4 years ago
Baconfat Log

Saxons, Robots, Romans, Survivors, Dogmeat, Junk, and More - Happy Sunday Distinguished Viewer, I've recently finished painting 33 more little guys. There's recently been no rhyme or reason behind any of the ...
4 years ago
Matt's gaming page (Glenbrook Games)

US Infantry speed painting - Sort of painted this platoon by accident. Started it a few weeks ago while messing around with contrast paints on the light green kit.
4 years ago
Mikes Wargaming & Modelling Blog

Rubicon Sherman - 1/56 Rubicon Models Sherman, lovely kit
4 years ago
Anything but a One

Another big (well small)gun - I continue with my alien 15mm army of Snakemen (Astragar). Just a few figures painted. The are of course 15mm CRITICAL MASS Games. Yes I do have some more...
4 years ago
Plastic Zombie

Creating the Earth - Having only a grass mat, play surface, purchased for less then a fiver from work, I required something more deserty. So I decided to make one. The are plen...
5 years ago
Lead Rising

OSS Lists & Report - 3/56 at UK Satellite - Yes, it's a blog post! I shook off the cobwebs last weekend, having not played Infinity since the Interplanetary, and headed to Cardiff to try out some OSS...
5 years ago
David's Wargame Retreat

The first two Brigades almost complete. - Brigadier General Bielke. Commander of the 1st Struddlhiem Brigade. The Cabernet Regiment. Fighting for the honor of Alsace. Struddlhiem's Liv Garde.
5 years ago
The Gamer's Table

Mongol War Machines - This post is my recently completed heavy fire power for my fantastical Mongol collection. The crew are a combination of bits. Heads from FireForge Mongol p...
5 years ago
Itinerant Hobbyist

The Blog has moved... - Blogger is becoming more difficult for me to update via mobile, so I moved over to Wordpress to find a more mobile friendly home. Please come check it out ...
5 years ago
Tales from the Maelstrom

Norse Giant - Evening all! My last post was an update on my 3rd edition Warhammer Norse army, and I mentioned in it that I had a Norse Giant on the way - well, here he ...
5 years ago
Down Among the Lead Men

What do I do now? - Oh no! Guess I'll have to do some work for a change!
5 years ago
Ubique

Battle Ravens Preview - PSC games - Battle Ravens is a brand new boardgame created by Dan Mersey and produced by the Plastic Soldier Company (http://www.pscgames.co.uk/). Apologies to both as...
5 years ago
Constantly Risking Obscurity

The Resumption of Hobby Night - Hobby night is back to a weekly thing. I'm even dragging my carcass down to paint on other days as well. I suppose one could argue that if I'm having to dr...
5 years ago
The Illustrated London News

More of a Clearout - As I said in a previous post, my main Wild West Gaming Focus is now Draculas America and Dead Mans Hand (I'm totally entranced by both - best Western Games...
5 years ago
Dark Future Games

Helloween: Lord Of Skulls/ Imperial Knight Kitbash: It's NOT a Kytan damn you! - Look, I already know what you are saying: "TJ shut up, bro, it's a Kytan." and you'd probably be right, which is why I am posting these blue-tac fitting...
5 years ago
Fresh Coast Gaming

Playing in a Kill Team Campaign - We've recently started our Kill Team campaign at Gamers Sanctuary in Flint, MI (still time to join if you like!) and while the overall campaign is relat...
5 years ago
Dirty Paint Pots

Mystery Ship - Anyone know what it is?
5 years ago
Do You Have A Flag?

The French Fleet at Cherbourg 1904 - My last post was a look at the Battle of Cherbourg game that we played a few weeks ago, I thought I'd take a look at the French fleet with this one. Myse...
5 years ago
Brigantes Studio

More Recent Greens - 18mm Scale for Lancashire Games Various greens from the forthcoming Italian Renaissance Wars Range
5 years ago
Model Buildings by MOD

Investment Opportunity. - Hi, Compliment of the day. My name is Tor Arne Andreassen, I work with ExxonMobil Norge as a contractor here in Stavanger, Norway branch. I have an impor...
5 years ago
Fire Broadside!

A Mouse Guard and Torchbearer Primer -
5 years ago
The Dice Warrior

Euro Modell Expo - Back from the dead. It has been some very freaky months for me. Not really much time for the hobby but last weekend I did find zhe time to viesit the Euro M...
6 years ago
Armies Army

Fancy the Falklands..... - Well I do :) Since I have some time to my hobby again, Ive been thinking on the Falklands War. I had was chatting with a mate about the conflict and he was...
6 years ago
Exiles Painting

Working on my Photography set up - Been taking a few test shots, need to up the light a bit but as a first try on my new set up I am happy. My targets today were some Modern 28mm Figures an...
6 years ago
Engineered Gaming

Saxon reinforcements aka the final Painting Challenge entries - With the painting challenge over it's time wrap up with my final entries. In the last few weeks I focused more or less solely on painting some Saxons. Our ...
6 years ago
Ugbluds Wargaming

Club game - Hi all, Off to the club tomorrow, we'll be playing a Napoleonic game using the General d"armed rules. I'll try and remember to take some pictures of the gam...
6 years ago
Battleshed Diaries

[static] ...establish... [static] link. Battleshed... [link broken]... - Realign sensors...re-establishing link. Link established. Recieving frame-burst transmission. Quantum nodes optimal and processing. Preliminary human rende...
6 years ago
Itty Bitty Soldiers

2017 Gaming Year in Review - All in all, this year saw less painted stuff than 2016 - 994 things. The vast majority (943 of them) was 28mm figs, which is a change from last year's 15mm...
6 years ago
Vicki's Crazy Wargames World

German Platoon - German platoon for wormingrad. That's probably it till after Christmas, I just don't have the free time these days. I'll potter away at terrain next, slo...
6 years ago
CODENAME: Wargaming!

The Walking Dead All Out War - Solo AAR nr.1 - Witam serdecznie Jako, że cały czas siedzę nad figurkami do Żywych Trupów i maluję je sobie powoli, dzisiaj postanowiłem zagrać sobie solowy scenariusz z...
6 years ago
Hobby Before I Die!

Star Wars Legion - Tatooine Table - Part 11 - Slight detour from the Tatooine buildings... To help break the routine of carving foam, I decided I needed something a little different to model and pai...
6 years ago
IF IN DOUBT CHARGE

A small update on PBI in 28mm and yet more Dracula's America - As is usual, plans of mice and men often go astray. I was hoping to have a bit more done by now, but what with the boss having a bunion operation and deman...
6 years ago
Little Wars VA

Fate of Konor: Tau vs. Black Legion - 40k 8th edition: the game bringing many old hands out of the woodwork for the first time in many years. Why? Probably for the following reasons: 1....
6 years ago
The Conflict Cornucopia

Von Mohnblume Line - A package arrived from Alternative Armies recently and I had the pleasure of being one of the first to see the *Von Mohnblume Line *, due for release later...
6 years ago
Brains and guts

But where has the rum gone? - *To folow up from last blogpost.... Here be Pirates! A kickstarter from Macrocosm * *Click the link please. A wellcome surprise as the parcel arrived. L...
6 years ago
Bandit86 blog

Mountain Giant - Converted a toy Hulk figure into a Hulking Mountain Giant. Took this toy for $5 and made a Giant Using some Green putty,copper BBs, jewelry chain,a shiel...
6 years ago
Watching the Paint Dry

19 part 2.... As I missed 18 out - Hobby News ... No games this week, 4 sleeps til LARPCommission Painting .... Started 27 Norman knights for Simon Millerown Painting... Base painted some gl...
6 years ago
Dux Homunculorum

Battlegroup Tobruk Goes Strong into the Desert - Pavlov's dogs, famously, were conditioned to salivate when hearing a bell which they associated with food. I have been similarly conditioned to associate...
7 years ago
Tales of a Tabletop Skirmisher

All Spider-man Miniature Game rules - As Knight have removed all of the Marvel content from their website, I am trying to gather it all together so people still have access to it. Today is t...
7 years ago
Pirate Viking Painting

MISSING: ONE CLIENT - Are you M. Taylor of Cardiff? If so, we have lost touch and need urgently to regain such. I have your models you see, the work is done and all that is nee...
7 years ago
PLASTIC WARRIORS

Stalingrad Pt5: Combined Ops - After a seemingly refreshing break from the bloggasphere, Stalingrad is back! While the previous games had been some classic infantry attacks, we noted ...
7 years ago
Dan's Wargaming Blog

Things I Want to Get In To / Vision Board - This post is for Chris, and maybe Brandon. Here's some stuff I'd be keen to try if I had someone else joining me in converting, painting and building. *...
7 years ago
Dice of Legends

Shots from Crucible V in Orlando, March 2016 - Wow, I totally forgot to post anything here, everything went on Facebook! ...
7 years ago
Haqqislammed: Infinity shennanigans

Small girl big tournament - My first Northern Open - This was my first big tournament - the only other one I ever played at was the previous weekend at the *Just Play* event in Liverpool. That was 8 players, ...
7 years ago
The Wilde Goose

New Sharp Practice Army Lists - So with the kind help of Richard Clarke of Too Fat Lardies fame, I've managed to put together army lists for the South American Wars of Liberation to go w...
7 years ago
Wargaming historyczno-fantastyczny

Serce gracza / A player's heart - Czwarte mistrzostwa *"Ogniem i Mieczem"* mamy za sobą. Skończyła się także akcja, mająca na celu wsparcie leczenia mojego syna, poprzez kupno specjalnej f...
8 years ago
Ferb's Fighting Forces

First games of Zombicide: Black Plague - I had my first try at the new Zombicide: Black Plague game last night. I had played the original Zombicide a couple of times and didn't enjoy it at all. I ...
8 years ago
The Lead Will Walk The Earth

Dust Tactics: Pegasus Models 1/48th V2 Rocket - Ever since I started playing Dust Tactics I had an idea about having a V2 rocket on the table. For me, rockets exemplify the Weird War II style and I wa...
8 years ago
1914-45

20mm WW2 Lord Lovatts' RM Commandos -
8 years ago
Two Tharks One Cup

The Battle of Three Armies - I met up with some friends tonight to try out the newly released edition of Kings of War. It was also the first outing for my new Dwarf army. I'd been slav...
8 years ago
The Tapestry- A Site Devoted to Saga by Gripping Beast and Studio Tomahawk

AAR: Franks v Welsh in Champions of God - I managed to get a very quick game of SAGA in recently. Four points of Franks (all mounted) versus four points of Welsh Warriors. Four pieces of scenery we...
8 years ago
The Repple Depple Club House

Pimp my ride! - A while back I posted about the first of several LAV-25's I intend to build. That post can be found here. Now if you read yesterday's post (if not go and r...
8 years ago
MiniStories

20mm WW2 - US M3A1 halftracks - Well, these took me a while to finish. They were 90% done in Januari and I've been staring at them on my workbench since. Until last month... I finally h...
8 years ago
A Little From Leofwine

MHWC Painting Competition 2015 - Part 1 - How'do Folks, Leofwine here after a long hiatus. As anthropomorphic personality of Milton Hundred Wargames Club I currently find myself out of sorts. It's ...
8 years ago
The Lead Mountain

What's Happening - Over the past couple of weeks I've managed to get a couple of board game sessions in with some good friends. Whilst not miniature gaming but at least it's ...
8 years ago
The Boneyard

We Built This City - Test Paint - Just a quick update today. I've done the test paint on one of the terrain tiles, take a look: I'm really happy with the way it turned out, I was a little ...
9 years ago
Ancient Warriors

D&D PLAYER CHARACTERS - Made a start on my D&D project, these are the start of my player characters, this group is the Magic User/ Thief and Assassin set, Thief on the left the...
9 years ago
Andy's Wargaming Adventures

A Christmas Fantasy Campaign - Next month, I'll be heading back to the UK for the 1st time in nearly 2 years. Me and my brother Matt have been talking about arranging some games of W...
9 years ago
A Gentleman's Ones

Happy Halloween - Happy Halloween from A Gentleman's Ones and from Anvil Eight Games. Let's hear it for High Fructose Corn Syrup! complements of Chris "one take" Tavonatti
9 years ago
Zombicide!

Thaissa, the Entrepreneur - Dressed to Impress (and kill zombies...) - Hello all, So here is another of the survivors I painted some time ago and simply forgot to post pictures of. This is the lovely Thaissa, described as th...
9 years ago
Shinto Kamikaze's Zed Men Walking

Lord Zsezse Works Ruins - More pics at the other Blog http://republictheirishwarofindependence.blogspot.ie/2014/09/lord-zsezse-works-ruins.html
9 years ago
Attempted Gamer

Super Dungeon Explore - Today I managed to break my usual pattern and get some gaming in. I got together at the local games store with my friend John and a few other guys to play...
9 years ago
Mi7

10,000 Views! - Wow not posted in ages but finally the Mi7 blog has reached 10,000 views! Not painted much for ages but i have been enjoying working on this classic 80s m...
9 years ago
Paul's Doctor Who Miniatures

Off Topic: Transforming Toys painting and gaming blog - So, everyone knows by now that I like blogging. Lots of different blogs, for different topics, and different games, so here's yet another one! I've relivin...
9 years ago
The Lair of the Breviks

Back painting and posting! - Well it's been a while hasn't it? I ran out of enthusiasm for writing blogposts late last year, my enthusiasm for the hobby was still there, but my paint...
10 years ago
Laughing Ferret

Happy Xmas & all the various holidays - Seems to be a new tradition that December runs over me, repeatedly, like a herd of reindeer on meth. What a month. So please excuse the pathetic trickle ...
10 years ago
Blogs of War

The League of Augsburg added - The League of Augsburg added.
10 years ago
Battlefront People

The Final Battle of Railway Six (Desperate Measures Battle Report) - *By Andrew Haught* Steve and I have started to get games in every week and this week we thought we would switch things up a bit. I took the Soviets for ...
10 years ago
Lead mountain

- 6mm Napoleonic Russian Lancers Sorry for delay in updating blog, but started a new job Working weekends at Edinburgh, which is a 5 hour train ride away an...
10 years ago
Frontline Gamer

Sunday Sermon: Learning to say no! - We all suffer from varying degrees of what psychoanalysts call "shiny toy syndrome" (it's not actually a condition in the DSM V, but it ...
10 years ago
Tales of Mega-City One

Mars Attacks Dredd?!! - Observant citizens will have noticed that *Mantic* have launched a *Kickstarter *based on the legendary *Topps* trading card series *Mars Attacks!* Whils...
10 years ago
The Studio McVey Blog

Aphid barker - Assembly - Here's the assembly guide for Aphid loader Barker, from the wave 2 Kickstarter miniatures. This is quite a complex miniature to assemble, definitely the mo...
10 years ago
White Rabbit's Legendary Blog

Gaming Done Right - If you haven’t seen it yet, head on over to the Guessing Zero network and check out the new podcast, Gaming Done Right. Dan, Brian and I have put our ...
10 years ago
Miniatures, Painting and Hobbies

Infecting Havensburgh 25 (Studio Miniatures Plastics) - Jailbreak! Man, it took me a while to get this guys up, especially considering they are not all that well done. But anyway, here they are. I was part of ...
10 years ago
Akula's Blog

Back Again! - Real life has a nasty habit of getting in the way sometimes, and the last six months plus has been busy to say the least, meaning that I haven't been posti...
10 years ago
The Hangar Bay

Man Date to Common Ground Games in Stirling - So at the weekend, myself and some of my cohorts from Glasgow Games Group decided to go through and check out a new games store that has opened up in Stirl...
10 years ago
An Exercise in Wasting Time

We Done Gone Played Relics - So, Tuesday night, club night, what to do...? LET'S PLAY RELICS! My opponent tonight got into Relics at the same time as I (towards the end of last year, ...
11 years ago
CUT INTO THE EARTH

Pulp City: Ulthar - My Jan painting challenge gave me a bunch of momentum, so I have kept rolling and trying to get stuff finished. In the last two days I managed to finish of...
11 years ago
7TV-ACTION-BLOG

7tv action blog -
11 years ago
Indy 40K

Dust Warfare Resources/Player Aids - I'm working on a new battle report for the game I played this week. In the meantime, I thought I would post some of the resources that I've come across ...
11 years ago
Pulp City Planet

Astonishing X-Men #48 - The latest issue of Astonishing X-Men is out, my mate Mike Perkins being the Artist on this one - with Marjorie Liu taking over the writing duties. The co...
12 years ago
Vinnie's World

WW1 British Tanks Part 7 - Part 7 Another design by William Tritton was the Whippet it had a crew of 5 men and a speed of 8 mph ...
12 years ago
Hurry Up And Wait!

Opening Shots OPERATION PARAQUET - I thought that I would just put a couple of shots up of my representation of Captain Brian Young's Task Group 317.9 which was tasked to retake South Geor...
12 years ago
Citizen Williams

The Ten, parts 1 & 2 - Chapter 1 He walked out into the cold spring air, looked down at the courtyard, and shivered. Arrayed in a single rank, cloaks billowing in the gentle wind...
12 years ago
Dystopian Steam

Miniatures Feature: Prussian Bombers - Here's a look at my newly painted Prussian bombers in Field Grey(Reaper color). My Prussian ships are a blue-grey(Reaper's Uniform Blue), so I wanted my a...
13 years ago
Wargamer's Odds and Ends

-
Cristina Piras VIOLET Paint

-
WARGAMES BLOGGERS

-

Thursday 4 May 2023

Happy Star Wars Day