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Keith's Highlanders
Keith's Highlanders or the 87th regiment of foot were formed in 1760 and saw action at the Battles of Warburg and  Villinghausen, they were deployed to Holland in 1762 before returning to Scotland in...
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Wilhelmstahl part deux
Last weekend saw my travel to Charles Grants to participate in our second game based on one of the actions at the Battle of Wilhelmstahl, this one based upon Granby's attacks.The game continued to...
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Partizan - Invasion of the Sugar Islands
Today I kept up the tradition of putting on a demo game at the Newark show - first started many moons ago when it used to be held in a school sports hall!,I had intended all along to do a game based on...
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Playing around with the printer.
Whilst I primarily bought the resin printer to allow me to print resin masters for my figure range I really have been wanting to see what else it could do.I noticed on Tamsin's blog that 'Gaslands'...
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40mm Prussians anyone?
The 40mm project continues to take another leap forward.GrahamH has cast the command, fusiliers and Grenadiers and is sending me some metal masters to examine.If all ok then I need to decide about...
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Refighting History Volumes 7 and 8
Many of you know that I'm in a very fortunate position to engage in a number of refight s that feature in Charles Grants Refighting History series.I recently heard from Charles about progress with...
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40mm Royal Horse Artillery
A bit of a change for me, Ian Smith ( he of the outstanding 40mm Napoleonic and ACW games) and Lee Gramson ( Napoleonic Therapy Project) commissioned Dan of digital Sculpts to make an Officer of the...
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Chilled Sunday afternoon
since moving home and setting the loft to be a bit of den I have managed to meet up with a colleague from my school days.Steve and I go a long way back initially playing board games, then figure games....
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More 3D printer madness
well after much deliberation I bought myself a Prusa MK3s fdm printer! Â I have two projects for the 18th century figures I'd like to get done. The first is to build a harbour and docks with dockside...
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More printing and what of the future?
well up and running early today 🤣 First the resin printer is busy printing some 15mm jeeps! But last night I printed some more Prussians etc. In particular the Fusilier NCO and the first draft Austrian...
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Vauban - the start
Well after the mammoth 22 hour print the first two pieces of the first bastion is complete, the next two pieces I think I will print one at a time.I scaled it down slightly and printed at 90% - I think...
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Half a bastion, half a bastion onwards
Half way there on the first bastion 😀And if you thought I had forgotten the figures I've finished basing 2 squadrons of the British 6th Horse and a 15mm Ancient Greek armyNo photos of the Greeks yet...
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Bastion finished
i know you may be mighty bored of this by now 🤣 However the final parts for the bastion are done, I'm well impressed.I shall now do some walks etc and let you have a rest before there's any more...
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Just for Lee and Tamsin (and anyone else interested)
Ok some more printing projects - Tamsin enquired about printing the 1/100 scale Bergman files off thingiverse at 28mm scaleAirborne radio jeep, I got the orientation slightly wrong so front wheels need...
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Workbench update
Sorry for the short break - real life got in the way I'm afraid.That doesn't mean to say I've been idle though - the Vauban continues to grow, 2 bastions done and work has started on walls.I also did a...
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Battle of Maidstone redux!
I have just been finishing my next article for the Wargames Annual and it is the second part of the proposed Invasion of England 1744.Now I did a brief report of the Battle I fought on here which will...
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Breaking the silence - Fire as she bears!
Thought it was about time I announced my return to the UK - actually I got back from seeing my son in Chicago on the 16th after a really good 12 day break. This was then followed last Thursday to a...
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A little more printing
In between being hit by a chest infection and settling in at the 'pod' for the Crann Tara business I've managed to squeeze in a little more printing. The FDM printer has mainly been used to print dolls...
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HOTT, Fiasco and bits and pieces
Once a year I travel to Brompton for the Good, Bad and Ugly! Hordes of the Things Tournament.!For me it's a good chilled day with like minded people and allows me to paint something that's a bit...
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Stuart Asquith
I learnt from Charles Grant this morning the very sad news that Stuart Asquith passed away last night.A prolific author and gamer one only has to look on the Caliver books website to see how many books...
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