SF Modular Terrain
Battles inside structures is a staple of science fiction, whether it is Marines versus Aliens or Judges raiding blocks. To date the only real options for gamers to play these types of action is to use...
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Operation Black Friday Thwarted!
As an Englishman I must confess to inwardly cringing at the attempt by certain retailers to bring Black Friday to these shores, especially as no one is offering a public holiday and a turkey dinner the...
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(Africa Month) Bad Light Stopped Play
It has been a beautiful day here in sunny Bristol but it wasn't until after lunch that I got the chance to start painting. Unfortunately the sun soon dipped below the horizon thwarting my attempts to...
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December is... Victorian Month!
After the success of Africa Month I have decided to stay in the nineteenth century and so declare December (with its hot chesnuts and Dickens' stories) to be Victorian Month!I've primed a couple of...
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Fon Female Warriors II (aka Amazons)
Despite the distraction of basing up and undercoating some miniatures yesterday for Victorian Month I did finish half the remaining female Fon warriors from Africa Month.As previous the miniatures are...
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(Victorian Month) Gentleman on Steam Powered Penny Farthing
View Halloo!! Victorian Month starts in tip top fashion with this wonderful Gentleman on Steam Powered Penny Farthing.Great fun to paint, the model is from the Design 28Lord Fecitt and Hunting Party...
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(Victorian Month) Clockwork Robot
Continuing Victorian Month I have now painted up this Clockwork Robot I picked up last year. At 50mm tall, it is certainly quite imposing amongst regular 28mm high miniatures.The model is one of...
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(Victorian Month) The Ripper
Well it wouldn't be a proper Victorian Month without a model of Jack the Ripper would it?The sourge of Whitechapel here is a Design 28 Miniatures figure from their V6 Jack The Ripper pack. The good...
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(Victorian Month) The Landlady
Along with Jack, Design 28 MiniaturesV6 Jack The Ripper pack contains a man with sandwich bard (no doubt to carry the headlines of the latest murder) and a woman in dress, apron and pistol. I'm not...
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A Little Transparency...
Whilst concentrating on matters Victorian my mind does wander and I have been thinking about the growing (unpainted) Judge Dredd collection.As you will have seen from earlier posts I have based the few...
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A Desperate Venture...
I have been pondering what to use the Warlord WW2 sprues I picked up in their sale recently and have decided to use the US and German troops for an Operation Torch and beyond project. I have always had...
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Avanti!
Having had one of "those days" including a business trip to London for a meeting which could have been replaced by a six line email, then Dad's taxi duties to was nice to get home just over an hour ago...
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Meanwhile in Umbongodwongoland...
Any hope of grabbing some time to paint anything today has evaporated in a lunch hour lost to Survey Monkey and over fifty pie charts! However I have grabbed five minutes to let you know Craig Andrews'...
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Operation Black errr... Wednesday?
You may recall that the interweb seemingly thwarted my attempt to pick up a copy of Battlegroup Kursk during Plastic Soldier Company's Black Friday sale. I eventually managed to make contact with Will...
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The Fall of Denmark
Today was the first of Saul's university interviews necessitating a trip to Southampton. Whilst he regaled them with music technology mumbo-jumbo I sat in the Uni cafe with a cup of coffee and my iPad,...
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Books Are The Best Medicine?
After a week of nagging pain from a toothache no amount of Sopadol stopped me being in agony at 3am this morning so it was off to the dentist and I am now one wisdom tooth and fifty quid lighter (I...
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Dwarf Schutztruppen!
I undertook the Great Christmas Present shop today. After ten minutes on Amazon(!) I checked my emails to find Bob had sent through photos of the first three packs of Darke Lands miniatures - the Dwarf...
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(Victorian Month) Gentlemen's Club I
Despite a host of festive preparations needing doing I was determined to grab some time to slap a bit of paint on something despite the horrendous light today here in Bristol.As Victorian Month had...
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(Victorian Month) Gentlemen's Club II
Having enjoyed painting up the first of the West WindEmpire of the Dead figures at the weekend I decided to paint another from the Gentlemen's Club set! I hadn't planned to paint them one at a time but...
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(Victorian Month) Gentlemen's Club III
The latest miniature from West Wind's EOTD-1 Gentlemen's Club set, inspired by some of the more colourful coats worn by the richer characters in Ripper Street I went with this fetching lilac coat. I...
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