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Unpacking the Bones Part Seven: Fire It Up! and Haunts
Continuing the grand unboxing, one of the more interesting releases are two sets not cast in the standard white Bones plastic but a transparent orange and green.Fire it Up! (above) contains a wall of...
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Unpacking the Bones Part Eight: Chronoscope
I'm not 100% sure what Reaper's Chronoscope line is supposed to be about but it includes a right mish-mash of different miniatures, many of which are useful for a wide range of games.Taking the Bones...
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Unpacking the Bones Part Nine: Intergalactic Marine Expeditionary Force
Today we have the first of a couple of SF Bones miniatures in big Vampire box of fun. These six miniatures from the IntergalacticMarineExpeditionaryForce are a great example of just how good these...
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Unpacking the Bones Part Ten: Dwarves, Elves and Dark Elves
The next miniatures out of the Bones box are three sets of popular fantasy races. The Dwarves are an interesting set of a Dwarf rogue, pair of fierce Dwarven fighters, and new Dwarf wizard with two...
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Colonial Jungle Warfare on the Tabletop
Whilst painting the Dahomey Legionnaires, I have been pondering on the difficulties of jungle warfare and what type of game would best recreate some of this difficulties. The classic image of colonial...
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Scarecrow Returns!
I've just finished Matthew Reilly's lastest novel Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves (or as the Americans call it Scarecrow Returns). Sometimes you need a book that allows you to check your brain out...
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The (not quite) Half-Price (but still rather good) Sprue Sale...
Warlord Games have a half price individual sprue sale going one at the moment. The normal cost of a sprue depends on what is on it, but for WW2, the Bolt Action plastic infantry sprues are normally...
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Gandalf the Black!
I meant to finish off my Dahomey Legionnaires today but fell asleep in from of the TV(!) so a complete lack of progress hobby wise. However I did come across this wonderful picture by Benjamin...
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French Foreign Legion in Dahomey III
Four more Dixon legionnaires have been painted up for the unit...I have made good progress on the rest of the unit but am popping over to Belfast to see God is an Astronaut this evening so there will...
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French Aeronef Officer
Back from Belfast, an enjoyable evening as well as a visit today to the Titanic Museum which is excellent and well worth a visit if you are in that neck of the woods. Three recommendations, book before...
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Game Over Man?
I guess most of you have seen the news that Prodos Games will be producing an Alien v Predator miniatures game. Fortunately, despite the name, it is not based on the AvP film, but the wider franchise...
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French Foreign Legion in Dahomey IV
Another three Dixon Miniatures legionnaires for service in Dahomey or Madagascar (or as occurred to be me today, Venus!)The remaining seven are almost finished so hopefully the whole unit will be...
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French Foreign Legion in Dahomey V
Finished the penultimate batch of Dixon Legionnaires this morning...The final batch of four are almost finished, just the bases needing finishing off and then the unit will be complete.
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November is... Africa Month!
Painting the Legionnaires for Dahomey service has rekindled my enthusiasm for all things African so I am going to declare November to be Africa Month!The primary mission will be to dig out some native...
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(Africa Month) French Foreign Legion in Dahomey VI
The first miniatures for Africa Month are the final four Dixon legionnaires painted and based.I've enjoyed painting this grubby specimens up and will spend this afternoon hunting through Lead Mountain...
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(Africa Month) Fon Male Warriors I
Africa Month continues apace with the first four of King Béhanzin's Fon army now painted and based (the Fon are the inhabitants of Dahomey).Yesterday I had a rummage in Lead Mountain and found 23...
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(Africa Month) Fon Male Warriors II
On a bit of a roll (shame it's not a bacon one!), with four more Fon using FoundryDarkest Africa Ruga-Ruga and Tribesmen for Africa Month!Painting has been quite straightforward, a drybrush of...
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(Africa Month) Fon Male Warriors III
I received a nice phone call yesterday from Wendy at West Wind letting me know my Empire of the Dead Kickstarter pledge was on its way and thanking me for my support. I thought it was a really nice...
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Big Box of Requiem Arrives!
As Wendy promised, the big box of Kickstarter Empire of the Dead: Requiem arrived from West Wind today and I spent most of my lunchtime rooting through it and trying not to drool too much! :-) There...
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(Africa Month) Meanwhile, Somewhere To The North...
Painting has come to a grinding halt as I have run out of a whole host of things including certain paints, bases and super glue, however alongside the big box of Victorian goodness that arrived from...
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