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Great Escape Games: The Chicago Way Mounted Untouchables and Royal Canadian Police

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Iain Robinson - Modelmaking

Refurbishing an old 4mm scale friend...and adding a tree or two. - Many moons ago, I wrote a blog entry about a surprise barn find and the traction engine I'd like to find within. The sentiments expressed remain the same...
Iron Mammoth's R&R

Book Review: The Mongol Art of War by Timothy May - I have recently received five books for review, from Pen and Sword Books. I have been fascinated by the rise of Chinggis Khan (Genghis Khan) and the Mong...
RTB AT LARGE

Borodino - taking Utilisa - Last weekend we fought our annual game, this time focusing on the Poles and the village of Utilisa at Borodino. We think we may have set a world record for...
Napoleonic Adventures

Front Rank Foot Yeomen - Another unit for my Lion Rampant force. I painted these up as the retinue of the Duke of Lorraine, and are probably more uniform than they would be in actu...
WWII - 20mm Figures

some FIBUA sequences 20mm - some piccies from a Battlegroup battle fought in a city of east germany early 1945 germans dug in behind some antitank obstacles. can you spot the sniper?...
Geek in the Basement

Jungle vines - I found this stuff a few weeks back in Joanne's fabrics and thought it would look good as a jungle vine. After a little some highly scientific experimentat...
Wargaming historyczno-fantastyczny

Wargamer wspiera Adasia! - Ostatnio nie piszę bloga. Należą się Wam słowa wyjaśnienia. Mój syn jest chory i jest leczony eksperymentalnie w Krakowie. To dość kosztowne i czasochłonn...
Sagas in Miniature

Get Zed Preview I - Everyone has their game that got them into miniature wargaming. My gateway drug was zombies. I made up some quick rules, speed painted a bunch of Wargam...
PIG IRON BLOG

Pig Iron Stock update - Hi all, just a quick one to let you know we have received a box of show stock back from The Bunker yesterday - this has all been added back onto the site. ...
Winter of '79

Olivers Army: Part 1 'Our Kid' - I admit it, I got carried away and spent all of last week writing new rules and games and all things *Winter of '79*. What had started out as a short and...
Miniatures & Terrain

Emhar Set 7206 Saxon Warriors - Hi chaps! Just a quick update in my blog. Some figures, from Emhar's excellent set (Saxon Warriors), I recently painted. The colour variation is not ver...
War & Conquest

Going, going... - Just a quick update to say that this blog will be removed by the end of the week, so if there is an army list or any other resource that you might want to ...
Unite All Action

40k Orks Nobs The bigger they are the harder they fight. - Nobs are the backbone of any ork army and these guys are at the top of the food chain, and they certainly need to look the part. I have done many differen...
Figurine Passion

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Krugers Kreations

Warclouds: Craig Parker FTW! - Hey Folks, So 2016. I wont bore you with a "New Years Post" as I am notoriously bad at posting anyway...but plan to keep up a bit this year anyway. This...
A Project Too Far

Bolt Action - "First Blood". - Some pics from a recent Bolt Action game played with my bro-in-law Jimsy. First time I had played (Jimsy had many games under his belt) so we started si...
Dispatches from the Rim

Merry Christmas! - From the depths of a soggy Southern Christmas morning, I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year. Thank you for sharing my journey. Regul...
World War 20mm

1941/42 German Vehicles -
South London Warlords

The Last Post - The South London Warlord blog has moved to Wordpress on the main SLW site, address is over here or, in cut n' paste format http://www.salute.co.uk/blog/
The Orcs in the Webbe Blog

No Laughing Matter - A New Flintloque Short Story! - Heya Folks! As has become tradition, Orcs in the Webbe brings you a tale of terror for All Hallow's Eve. In "No Laughing Matter" master modelmaker and stor...
In space no one can hear you sculpt

Mariko and the Mobots - It's been a while since I posted something here. I'm a beginner with the computer but it's a cool and exciting tool. Made those characters with 1:56/32 mm ...
Scotty's Workshop

Arkan Thesh reporting for duty! - Got this guy all finished up. He is my first completed Wrath of Kings fig. While I don't think I did a super stellar job, I think he'll do just fine for t...
Fix bayonets!

I am still alive! - and this time I am painting Prussians! It has been a long time since I posted anything so let me say that I am glad to be back again! 2014 was a busy...
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...
My Little World Of Dementia

Historicon 2015 Pictures Part Two - Hi Kids, Here's the second installment of the latest con in Fredericksburg VA. Here's the long view of the 25mm Joe Hack ancients game. Better rig up ...
The Marienburg Gazette

The Whole Age Of Sigmar 'No Points' Issue - I don't have any issue with the lack of points in Age of Sigmar. Others do. Such people comment that this means the game lacks 'balance'. But do points ...
Eastern Funker's 'Panzerfaust: Armoured Fist' blog

Eastern shacks by Battlefield Accessories are complete! - It’s only taken two years and ten months, but the Eastern shacks I bought from Mike Parker of Battlefield Accessories are complete! They turned out very ni...
Take The High Ground

Battle in a box UPDATE - After another long hiatus I've finally got my act together to post something! The pictures above are of some factory - industrial building terrain ba...
Santa Cruz Warhammer Historical

Bolt Action! Trenchworx review, Part 2: BT-7 - This is a review for the Trenchworx Soviet BT-7A 1/56th scale resin tank. Trenchworx creates scale models for table top gaming, with the intent to man...
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 ...
Großbeeren 1813

Back to blogging -
Lead and Plastic Blog

D&D: Gaming on Skype - Yesterday I got my first D&D game on Skype. I had a blast, even if the conditions were far from optimized. This spurred a reflection on what is needed for an...
Terrain Wench Productions

- I have a new website! Complete with a store and educational archive. A lot of the walk-throughs posted here will end up in the tutorials section of the sit...
My Tiny Things

Book time! - Got home from work at 10.45pm and these are waiting for me. This weekend will be one of reading!
Page of SADA's Hobby (from JAPAN)

West Tokyo Wargamers Games Day 10 August 2014 -
Runequest Fun

Zombie! Survivor Sheet Update - Still a design made in Google Drawing: version 5 of the Zombie! survivor sheet has been updated with 4 new attributes, as well as some more flavour: call...
Corbania Prime

IG Wyvern built and ready to paint - I've got my Wyvern put together and I've got to say, it's a very nice little kits. I love the look of it and it was a pleasure to put together. My only ...
Creepy Corridor

First game of Bolt Action - On Friday night we all met up at John's place for a couple of games. This was to be an all World War II affair, with one table running Germans vs US Flames...
Painted Lead (Soldiers in Miniature)

Order of Illumination NPC for IKRPG - This guy was a favorite with my group. Blessed double-barrelled scattergun plus that book with the writings of Morrow and Thamar... what's not to love?
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...
El Senyor Verd

Fotos Jornades Alpha Ares 2013 - Hola a tothom, Com que encara estan reparant la meva càmara; no puc oferir fotos pròpies de les Jornades de Portes Obertes del club Alpha Ares que es van ...
Ubik's Mini Workbench

Sedition Wars - WIP - Finally got up the will to start on these, great sculpts but poor execution.
Project Arnhem

A thing! - I've posted a thing! But it's not here, it's over there.
KippersMinis

Flames of war - open fire Germans - I was given this as a present for Christmas (after some rather in subtle hinting from me) Mrs Kipper treated me, like many of a certain age I've had/ playe...
15mil of Fame

An update about lack of updates... - Or words to similar effect. Still, in a bid to be more proactive, I've set up a facebook page, which might, by dint of being less hassle, see more updates ...
La Figoblogotheque

That is not dead which can eternal lie ... - ... and with strange aeons even death may die. I'm not dead, just working on something else. That "something else" should be released before the end of the...
In Chigh's little world

inchighslittleworld -
The Kiwi's Figures n stuff

They came from the north - Out of the chaos wastes of the north - daemons. Some figures I've done recently for our Warhammer RPG gaming - these cover the most commonly encountered da...
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...
Sole Member of the Napoleonic Connoisseur's Club

Six player corps sized game - This Tuesday six of us gathered at our club for a "big game" of General de Brigade. We had set up a table 180cm deep and 480cm long (6x16'). I, Nisse and M...
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...
Chaos on the red planet!

The second battle of Gnui No - In 2208, Imperial convoys regularly flew towards the Red Planet in an attempt to claim the planet for the Empire as it was now only inhabited by a small ...
Dirt Cheap War-gaming

The wheels are now turning.... - So, deployments fell through, employment was more like indentured servitude, and I'm currently enrolled in school! The baby was born and all is well. THIS ...
Mark's Lead Heroes

marksleadheroes -
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...
Consul's Ancients Blog

Selling and getting out - Hello all! Apologies for the lack of updates but the reality is, I haven't done anything in the hobby for over a year. I've not really had the time or spac...
A Year of Frugal Gaming

The End of the Frugal Year(s) - As you may have noticed I haven't been posting on the blog too much recently. This is, in part, to it's success; I've been playing too many games and ge...
The conquest of Mbuij Mayi

The cultural study of the Turi - *O*ur biologist Morgan Hunt has the pleasure of announcing that he successfully ended his study of the Turi tribe. During his five month stay Hunt became...
Hard Times of Old England

Imperial War Museum. - Made a quick visit to the Imperial War Museum in London on Monday. Very informative and interesting day out. Took a few (not particularly good) pictures an...
Skull Island

Updates to come - Sorry, I was just getting up a full head of steam creating this blog, then bam, I'm in the ICU with aseptic meningitis. I was discharged today and will go ...
Scott Pasha's Wargames Blog

Boots on the Ground-- a sort of review - from Worthington's BotG page Several months ago I received *Boots on the Ground* which I had pre-ordered from Worthington Games. It is a very rules-light...
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...
Golconda Rising

Blog Harassment - I am sorry to say that I have had to select comment moderation as a permanent feature now. I am sick and tired of being harassed by a follower of this blog...
Q.B WWII Heroes

"Niekończąca się opowieść"... / The "neverending story"... - Witam! W kwestii projektu Monte co rusz natrafiamy na jakieś problemy lub opóźnienia. A to nie pasują idealnie segmenty, a to szufladki terenowe nie wys...
panzerfauste painting

last post b4 xmas - no doubt this will be my last post before Xmas, with some international brigade figures finished and a republican HMG team.but on the paint table from toda...
Nap Time

French Porte-Fanions.... a little help here. - Next up for my French is another line battalion, I've started with the figures left over from my first Victrix box and I'm going to add to that greatcoated...
Quendil's Works

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Sippin' On Paint Water

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Paul's Small Wars

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Touching History

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The Command Tent

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Wargames Atlantic: Plastic Aztec Warriors Reviewed!

Today we will take an extensive look at the brand new Wargames Atlantic Aztec Warriors! These new 28mm hard-plastic multi-part miniatures ...
Russian Alternative: The Dwarves of Fire Canyon Reviewed!

Today, we will take a look at one of the newer releases from Russian Alternative , the Dwarves of Fire Canyon Unit. These chaos dwarfs we...
Claymore Castings: English Billmen

Hi, lately I mentionned the new casualties of Claymore Castings but hadn't seen these new miniatures, the stout English billmen of whic...
Perry Miniatures: Three Waterloo Vignettes and BIF Command

Perry Miniatures has released these three Waterloo vignettes and also a BIF command for their growing British Intervention Force range. ...
Radio Dishdash Publishing: Skirmish Sangin: The Day of the Rangers Expansion and Miniatures Kickstarter - Full Funded

Radio Dishdash Publishing: Maalintii Rangers or Day of the Rangers is a Skirmish Sangin Battle Book and new miniatures range from Radio...

Disclaimers

Wargames Atlantic: Plastic Aztec Warriors Reviewed!

Today we will take an extensive look at the brand new Wargames Atlantic Aztec Warriors! These new 28mm hard-plastic multi-part miniatures ...
Russian Alternative: The Dwarves of Fire Canyon Reviewed!

Today, we will take a look at one of the newer releases from Russian Alternative , the Dwarves of Fire Canyon Unit. These chaos dwarfs we...
Wargames Atlantic: Plastic Classic Fantasy Lizardmen Reviewed!

Today we will take a closer look at the Wargames Atlantic Lizardmen! These 28mm hard-plastic multi-part creatures are the fourth set of thei...
Warlord Games: New Bolt Action Sd.Kfz. 251/9 – Stummel

Warlord Games: Adding close support firepower to your Panzer Grenadiers comes the latest upgrade for the Warlord Games Plastic 251 Hanom...
BigRedBat: To the Strongest! Ancient & Medieval Rules

BigRedBat: To the Strongest! is a set of simple rules for Ancient and Medieval tabletop wargaming. It enables a battle to be fought with mo...

Wargame Companies

Pen and Sword: Wargames Terrain & Buildings - The Napoleonic Wars Modelling Book Reviewed!

Today we will take a look at the brand new Wargames Terrain & Buildings - The Napoleonic Wars Modelling Book written by the experience...
Scibor Miniatures: New Fantasy Rebels Preview

Scibor Miniatures: New Fantasy Rebels Preview
Wayland Games: Warhammer 40K Kill Team: Tomb World and More!

Wayland Games: A vast new expansion descends as Kill Team: Tomb World unleashes close-quarters conflict in the heart of a Necron vault! Fres...
WIP Games and Miniatures: WIP Games and Miniatures at BRITCON

WIP Games and Miniatures: WIP Games and Miniatures are at BRITCON next weekend, August 23rd – August 24th! If you are looking to try your ha...
Trench Crusade: New Trench Crusade Skirmish Game!

Trench Crusade: Trench Crusade is a skirmish-scale tabletop miniature game that will plunge players deep into a horrifying alternate timelin...