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A brief interlude
I needed a break from painting and doing Crann Tara orders, with a nice day forecast I arranged a game with my son - nothing too onerous as it was also a good opportunity to spend time outside.Anyway...
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Rearguard Action
During this crazy time my son and I have been trying to get a weekly game in. This week he asked if we could do 18th century - he admitted he's never looked too closely at my figure range and other...
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Off the bench and another scenario
Spent part of day finishing off a few figures, first up 12 more bases of highlanders, standards haven't been issued yet as I need to get the collection out and work out exactly where I am. In the...
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Another 'Scenario for all Ages'
Yesterday my son and I played another battle pulled from the excellent publication ( I'd really forgotten how good this book is)This time it was 'Flanking Force' and is loosely based on the Battle of...
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Back to some printing
I needed a break from the paint, many years ago the Teesside triumvirate as Duncan used to call us had plans to do an 18th century version of the raid on St.Nazaire, well I’ve dug the notes out and...
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Battery painted
Thought I’d make the most of the weather so in between gardening slapped some paint on the coastal battery, the doors are still to do and a little more weathering but it’s looking better.
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Just a short post to sound people out, I know we will all be moving to ‘new blogger soon’ but is anyone having problems with comments etc.I suddenly find I can’t reply to comments made on my blog in...
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Command and Colours chill day
My son popped round for a few hours today and he had asked if we could continue our Command and Colours AWI run through.Today we went for the Battle of Monmouth, again I just ran with the game scenario...
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Feeling a bit ‘flat’
There are only so many tartans you can paint before you need a break.Paul Robinson - Grimsby Mariner on his blog had gone back to his SYW project using flats and of course that got me thinking!I’ve had...
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A bit more C&C and a touch of nostalgia
Last week saw my son and I continue our AWI foray using the Command and Colours game.On this occasion we started with Grant’s attack at the Battle of Long Island. In effect the British were attacking...
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This week off the bench.
well I’ve finally finished the 30mm flats and made lots of notes on rules, figures etc.I’ve enjoyed doing these and look forward to doing more.Steve finished painting the new Mowhawk figures, I’ve...
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Off the bench this week - ( Reinforcements for the Mohawks and more flats!)
This is my third attempt to post, apologies in advance if my text suddenly gets underlined! I’m finding that once I post photos then all the text gets underlined and I can’t remove it!Anyway I finished...
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Few figures for sale
As my own range of figures for the French Indian War gains momentum I will gradually replace the figures I’d already painted from the excellent Galloping Major rangeFirst up I have 32 Canadian Militia...
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A few more Prussians.
In between preparing an article for the Wargames Annual and doing battle with companies who don’t want to refund money when they don’t supply goods I have found a little time to further the SYW...
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Lots of New Greens
Richard Ansell just sent me photos of the next set of greens heading my way,Civilian militia marching and skirmishing, female homesteaders fighting and some nice French regulars in turn back coats...
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Cuirassiers take to the field
Managed to finish and base up two sets of Prussian Cuirassiers. These were already painted and just needed touching up. It brings the Prussians to about 50% of the force indeed for the initial...
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Lazy Sunday Afternoon
Most of Saturday was spent sorting out more stuff to sell, projects that will never see the light of day, figures that are painted but incomplete armies, buildings - lots of buildings that are no...
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A busy bench and foam gaming boards?
Well the work bench this week is more a production line. Going through a lot of basing of the flat figures and some final touching up required. At the same time the ‘round’ highlanders are waiting to...
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A bit of an unusual post, there has been a lot of ongoing discussion about the future of the Hobby. Littlewars TV ran a piece on the future of Historical War gaming and I know Robbie on the...
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Preparations for the long winter!
Apologies for the recent lack of posts, I’ve been slowly insulating the converted garage so it can be used as a year round gaming room. It is taking longer than I’d planned due to the recent inclement...
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