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Gripping Beast: New WWI French & British Backpacks!

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Over There

Armageddon x 7 - Played a massive 7 person game of Shadow war Armageddon. A fun game with a great group of people, some great figures and great terrain.
Diary of a Gaming Magpie

Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge VII (belatedly) - *Oh crikey, is it June already? I started drafting this post weeks ago, and just never got around to finishing it...* Here's my belated wrap-up on what I m...
Napoleonic Adventures

Not quite dead - I should really have posted something a lot, lot sooner. Just a little post to say I'm still alive and will be dusting off my brushes and paints pretty soo...
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...
Sole Member of the Napoleonic Connoisseur's Club

The League of Augsburg: Waterloo 200 - League of Augsburg style - The League of Augsburg: Waterloo 200 - League of Augsburg style: Waterloo from the south west This was months in the planning and involved Adrian building ...
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...
15mm.co.uk

Thank you for a Decade and a list of our links now at Alternative Armies - The merger of 15mmcouk back into its originator parent Alternative Armies is complete meaning that our cart is closed and all of our products are now on t...
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 ...
Warhammer Historical Wargamer

Fall of the West... - After completing the painting (finally!) on Alans Fall of the West Roman army, it seemed only right and proper that we should get a game in as soon as po...
RTB AT LARGE

Campaign dressed Poles - We've been working on developing Poles in campaign uniforms that can be used for Retreat from Moscow, Germany in 1813 and the Peninsular. The idea was to ...
The Miniature Company

Light Chariot WIP - It's been far too long since I posted anything here on the Blog, not to mention produce any new releases. So I thought it would be a good time to show ...
Iron Mammoth's R&R

Book Review: The Formless Empire by Christopher Mott - Another review in my series of books relating to the Mongols from Pen and Sword Books. The Formless Empire: A Short History of Diplomacy and Warfare in Cen...
Geek in the Basement

Laser Cut Card Doors and Windows - I used a couple of these great door and widow kits from Laser Cut Card on a couple of card stock boxes from Hobby Lobby. The effect is great and I will b...
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...
Krugers Kreations

TnT: K1LL-80T Communist Securitron - Hi Folks, In my first game I got lucky and Head Scribe Kaine managed to find and activate a military Securiton (Freelancer Depend-o-Bot) After equippin...
Dispatches from the Rim

Thought experiment - Greetings, my beloved. The long hibernation is over and I emerge from cryo-sleep rested and refreshed and ready to talk hobby matters with you, my faithf...
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...
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. ...
Miniatures & Terrain

How to make: Saxon Huts - Hi Chaps, Hope you are all well. These past few days, I've been working on some new projects, for a new game, that I think you already know, it is called...
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 ...
Figurine Passion

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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...
Scotty's Workshop

Ser Snapjaw almost done - Finally put some more time into this guy. After finishing the helmet, I was a little daunted to work on the rest and make it all the same level of detail. ...
Fix bayonets!

I am alive part 2 - And as I promised, here is the big update that I have been talking about: My Prussians are based on the *Großgörschen* OoB from the General de Brigade sc...
My Little World Of Dementia

Scott Johnson, aka Col. Kilgore, has passed away - On Thursday Scott lost his fight against cancer. He was 45 years old and leaves behind his wife Ashley and 12 year old son Nicholas. Scott was a good na...
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...
The Marienburg Gazette

A Different Kind Of Work In Progress - Not exactly a miniature this one! However, I'm hoping that this end of the garden hideaway will provide some much needed extra hobby space. It's for work...
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...
Santa Cruz Warhammer Historical

Bolt Action for WW1? That would be sweet.. - Last week my buddy Christian gave me a tank to paint for his new project: Flames of War, WW1, a supplement that allows FOW to take their game back from W...
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

Infinity: female Wildcat WIP - Here I'm proceeding rather slowly on the paint side, since living alone adds a new meaning to "doing the chores". And I'm having troubles uploading photos...
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...
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: calls...
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 ...
In space no one can hear you sculpt

Guys with glasses - Made those ones last year for an upcoming company called Anvil Eight Games (AEG? :D): http://www.anvil-eight.com/ That one had his pose changed from the...
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...
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

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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...
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 get...
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 pageSeveral months ago I received *Boots on the Ground* which I had pre-ordered from Worthington Games. It is a very rules-light g...
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

Painted Bengalis - Finally, pictures of the painted Bengalis! variant 1 All painted by Peter as usual. variant 2 variant 3 variant 4 The paint scheme depicts the arm...
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...
Touching History

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Quendil's Works

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Sippin' On Paint Water

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Paul's Small Wars

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The Command Tent

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Alternative Armies: Shia Khan Empire 28mm Ion Age Many New Releases!

Alternative Armies: New Khanate Weapon Platforms, Repulsar Unit and Gunners for 28mm Ion Age! Chain, Swarm and Scatter Cannon, Juno and Tri...
Rubicon Models: New Plastic M48A3 Patton MBT Preview

Rubicon Models: Painted sample of our plastic M48A3 Patton MBT (280141) by Steve Perry.
Victrix: New Plastic Medieval Islamic Cavalry Preview

Victrix: We aren't sure what we are looking forward to more... the Foot Knights, or the Islamic Cavalry & Infantry! The Islamic Inf...
Warlord Games: New Bolt Action: Third Edition WWII Rules!

Warlord Games: New Bolt Action: Third Edition WWII Rules! Check them here
Wargames Atlantic: New Plastic The Expanse Crew Preview

Wargames Atlantic: New Plastic The Expanse Crew Miniatures Preview

Disclaimers

Element Games: Necromunda Hive Secundis and Warhammer Old World Dwarfs!

Element Games: Have a great weekend from all at Element! Let's head over to the Labs of Hive Secundis where I'm sure nothing untowar...
Pen and Sword: Wargaming and Tabletop Miniatures, Scenery Books!

Pen and Sword: Wargaming and Tabletop Miniatures, Scenery Books! Check them all here Pen & Sword's new wargaming books will offer or...
Modiphius Entertainment: New County Road Z Core - Solo Tactical Tabletop Rules!

Modiphius Entertainment: Gather your survivors, build your community, and battle the zeds! County Road Z is a solo game of miniature tableto...
Green Ronin: The Expanse TTRPG: Transport Union Edition Plastic Crew and Ship Miniatures Preview

Green Ronin: The Expanse TTRPG: Transport Union Edition Plastic Crew and Ship Miniatures
Northstar Miniatures: New 15mm Fantasy Hornblower Range

Northstar Miniatures: Hornblower - The new 15mm fantasy range from Mace Face Miniatures. The first release is Shieldmaidens, with much mo...

Wargame Companies

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...
Battlefront Miniatures: New Flames of War Clash of Steel!

Battlefront Miniatures: Clash of Steel was one of the biggest secrets we have had to keep and it is exciting to be able to share this new pr...
Wargames Atlantic: Plastic SciFi Death Fields Male & Female Cannon Fodder Reviewed!

Today we will take a closer look at the Wargames Atlantic Death Fields Male and Female Cannon Fodder kits! These 28mm hard-plastic multi-par...
Battlefront Miniatures: New Team Yankee Plastic Cold War US and Soviet Infantry Preview

Battlefront Miniatures: We've been quietly working away on one of the most important projects that Battlefront has ever embarked on. Fi...
Element Games: Necromunda Hive Secundis and Warhammer Old World Dwarfs!

Element Games: Have a great weekend from all at Element! Let's head over to the Labs of Hive Secundis where I'm sure nothing untowar...