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For King and Country... (and The King!)
Wandering around Bristol taking photos of Gromits there are many historical sites of interest and I took a couple of photos that may be of interest to English Civil War buffs, especially as it is the...
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Painting Target Broken (and Carosello)
Back on January 6th, faced with eighty white undercoated zombies, I wrote this: "I have posted in the right hand column my 2013 Painting Target for the year - one miniature for each day of the year....
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When Aliens Attack! (and Butterfly)
Watching the third series of Falling Skies on Fox the other night I began pondering on the gaming possibilities the series offered and then why, from a wargaming point of view, that SF is well and...
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Back to Bas(e)ics (and Hound Dog)
I have always thought that basing vehicles was, well, a bit weird. I don't know why, but the thought of tanks having bases seems a bit strange. Of course there is a logic to it, especially as your...
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Painted - After 34 Years! (and Zodiac)
Another fit of "Attack the Lead Mountain" enthusiasm saw me tackle a regiment of old CitadelFantasy Tribe Goblins. Indeed at 34 years old some of these miniatures were actually Fantasy Tribe Gnolls...
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Reading Material (and NewFoundLand)
As part of the preliminary work on the 1973 Arab Israeli project I have acquired a little reading material...In addition to these OspreyCampaign books, I picked up a couple of the Duel series that...
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August is... 1918 Month! (and Doodles)
Well Catch-up Month was a bit of a bust. Whilst I did get some painting done I didn't do what I'd planned, consequently this month will see a dedicated push to finish the remaining aeroplanes for...
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Stripping! (and Gnashional Gromit)
Calm down boys, I'm talking about paint stripping!Having painted the old Fantasy Tribe Gnolls I decided that I want to keep the project ticking over and my beady eyes alighted on the remaining three...
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Executive 904 Air Car Limousine (and Lancelot)
On Thursday I popped into Modelzone to have a poke around and in addition to some of the AirfixOperation Herrick models I walked out with four cans of HumbrolMulti-Effect Spray. This is the paint that...
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Everything Came Up Smelling Of... Apples! (and Gromit Lightyear)
Ok, I'll confess, I bought the wrong Dettol!In my defence there were so many different types to choose from and I forgot that Big Lee's post said I needed to get the old fashioned smelly brown...
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Mountain Orcs (and Gromit Lightyear)
I know, funny looking aeroplanes... Bored with the prep work on my Shapeways stuff my eyes alighted on these couple of old Alternative ArmiesMountain Orcs I have had sitting around since the...
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300: Rise of an Empire (and Grosmos)
It seems we've been waiting forever for the sequel to 300 but a trailer has at long last been released...Gromit of the Day:Grosmos
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Z-Busters? (and Malago)
I finished Jonathan Maberry's Patient Zeroover the weekend. Saul had enjoyed it and suggested I gave it ago and it wasn't bad at all. A mix of zombies, fundamentalist terrorists and Special Forces...
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Do-It-Yourself Blob! (and Gromitasaurus)
Like many wargamers I see things that other normal people don't! For example take this waste piece of DIY aerosol filler foam that we used to fill a hole where a pipe had been removed. Am I the only...
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(1918 Month) Le Centre d'Aviation Maritime de Corfou Sopwith Bébé (and...
You may recall that I bought a Der Kampfflieger Shapeways Sopwith Baby for no other reason than I like the plane. Initially I intended to paint it up as either an RNAS or RAF plane, but a bit of...
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(1918 Month) Kommando Sivry Fokker E IV (and The Wild West)
I hadn't intended to expand my WWI collection into early war aircraft, but I decided that the AirWar: 1918 rulebook could do with a couple of examples so I picked up a couple of types from Shapeways to...
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(1918 Month) No. 1 Squadron Morane Saulnier Bullet (and Antique Rose)
After some prevarication I decided that I was not going to paint this ShapewaysMorane Saulnier N as a French machine, but as one from 19 Korpusnoi Aviatsionniy Otryad (Corps Aviation Detachment) flown...
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Contagious Ohhshinyitis Alert!!! (and The Green Gromit)
The ExplorerHalfling CookUnfortunately I have to report that a very bad case of Ohhshinyitis has been caught here in Blease Towers which may be contagious.The cause of the affliction appears to be that...
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(1918 Month) Jasta 12 Sopwith Pup (and Two Eds Are Better Than One)
Earlier in the year I painted up twoDer Kampfflieger Sopwith Pups as machines from B Flight of 3 Naval Squadron RNAS commenting that I might buy a third model to paint up as a captured plane in German...
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Bricks of War! (and Poochadelic)
This is all Saul's fault. He insisted I watch the trailer for next year'sLego the Movie on You Tube and I discovered a whole host of Lego 3D animation war films.The Pacific and Bulge ones are better...
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