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No Can Do...
Bit of a painting disaster today that has put a major crimp in Zulu month, I dropped the can of Army PainterLeather Brown spray and snapped the nozzle off! Well half off, but when I tried to use it I...
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Back To The Trenches...
You may recall a couple of years ago that I painted up a battalion of the Corpo Expedicionário Português for Élan. Earlier this year I completed two battalions of German infantry which I forgot to...
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Lurgy 1 Miniatures 2
Returning from Paris with somekind of Gallic lurgy I have been confined to barracks, annoyingly missing out at a music festival I had tickets for in Leicester yesterday and the Reveille wargames show...
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Thousands of Them? Where?!!
Zulus? What Zulus?Well "Zulu Month" came to an end with zero Zulus painted (well finished, 24 are close to dipping stage and 48 are base coated). The dreaded lurgy is still here (office Xmas dinner...
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The Joy of Six...
I think it is Big Lee's fault, yes, let's blame him! You may have seen on Big Lee's Miniature Adventures the start of his 6mm North Africa project which started me mentally reminiscing about the "good...
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A Sailor's Life For Me?
Still merrily coughing away here in Blease Towers so I haven't picked up a paintbrush for nearly a fortnight now though I intend to slap some metal work on the Zulu blades tomorrow. In the meantime,...
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A Dread(ful)Ball Experience...
I must confess to being a bit jacked off...Back in October I told you all how I'd been seduced by Mantic's shiny new Dreadball project and had been looking forward to painting up the miniatures and...
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The Great DreadBall Fumble...
I wasn't going to post on this topic again but my blood pressure is rising the more I look into it...Allegedly all the Kickstarters have now been shipped. I say allegedly because on 26th November...
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As the Mayans haven't been considerate enough to advise whether the world ends today at GMT, EST or even PST I thought we could all do some music. I'll be painting some Judge Dredd figures on the off...
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Sharke's Aquila
Craig Andrew's has uploaded my annual contribution to his Orcs in the Webbe advent calendar which you can read here.This year I have gone back to exploring the possibilities of gameworld crossovers...
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Merry Christmas
Hoping you, your family and friends have a peaceful festive period and that Santa brought you lots of shiny new wargaming presents and not too many socks!The model is Scibor Miniatures' Snowman Slayer,...
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It was sad to read the news of Gerry Anderson's passing today. To many of us of a 'certain age' his TV shows defined our youth, in my case Stingray and Thunderbirds...A few years back I bought a...
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Nice Looking Rack...
I spent part of Friday trying to get at least one of my Zulu regiments ready for dipping before the year ended and found myself spending more time trying to find the particular Vallejo paint pots I...
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That Was The Year That Was...
So 2012 we come to the end...Looking back at 2012 from a hobby perspective I haven't achieved anywhere near as much as I wished.In the plus column I finished an army - the Athenians! I also painted up...
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New Year's Resolutions!
A couple of months back I sat down and drew up a list (from memory) of all the outstanding wargames projects I had on the go and found that if I spent one month on each, I had at least five and a half...
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January is... Zombie Month!
I've decided that for January I will focus my attentions on the big box of Mantic Zombies I picked up from North Star for a steal last year. The box contains sixty models (to add to thirty I already...
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Something fun to look forward to on these cold winter nights. Sadly the final series...
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Bolt Action
When Bolt Action was announced I must confess to being a little disinterested. Yet 'another' set of WW2 rules and oh look special dice was a bit of a turn off. However being the rules magpie I am, I...
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(Zombie Month) How to Paint Zombies - Quickly...
Whilst I was pleased with the end result of my modern zombies painted last year and intended to replicate the process on my fantasy zombies I did a bit of web surfing and came across this excellent...
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(Zombie Month) The Undercoated Dead...
I hadn't intended to post work in progress posts of the Zombies but having made the second horde up and undercoated all 80 I thought they looked pretty impressive even in white undercoat!I have decided...
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