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Land Ironclads: Aurorean Martian Contraptions and Infantry
The Aurorean Martians, being introduced into Land Ironclads via the forthcoming Belgian supplement, are based on the race of Martians that appear in George Griffith's Astronef scientific romance and...
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A Different Kind of Madness...
And some people think our playing with toy soldiers is weird... :-)Many, many more here.
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An Interesting Colonial Diversion (aka French Chocolate Bar Trading Cards...)
The internet is a wonderful thing for getting you to go off on completely weird tangents and lose hours of time!Yesterday I was reading the Osprey MAA on Louis XIV's Army, which I picked up to improve...
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Donnybrook: The Madness Begins...
So Donnybrook is available for pre-order and will ship at the end of the month. The plan to buy my figures from the classic Dixon Miniatures has gone up in smoke as I decided to order a pile of figures...
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I think most UK wargamers will have, at some time or other, moaned about the lack of British war films, especially when Hollywood reinvents British heroes as American, or casts Brits as the bad...
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Donnybrook: Beneath the Lily Banners
I had hoped to get some painting done this weekend but life conspired otherwise and having driven up and back to London to take Saul to a concert at the Hammersmith Apollo last night I have spent most...
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Donnybrook: More Opportunities...
You'll have to excuse me for going on yet again about a set of wargames rules that have not been released and for a period for which I have yet to paint a figure, but the world moves in strange...
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Warhammer: Plaz-Tik the Barbarian
I thought we better have a break from my ramblings about Donnybrook, at least until I start painting some miniatures, and get back on the painting horse after a few days break. So, for your edification...
View ArticleAll For (BBC) One!
I started reading the Sedgemoor book today and am hugely enjoying it. There was a fascinating anecdote when looking at Churchill (Marlborough)'s military career when serving with Monmouth alongside the...
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Warlord Rules Sale...
I'm not sure who perpetuated that children require less looking after as they get older but it isn't true! Nappy changing and burping is a doddle compared to A levels, UCAS applications, university...
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Whirarwistan: The British Are Coming!
The Whirarwistan "Cold War Hot" project has gone a bit cold of late but a bit if inspiration has come from the latest part-work magazine, Military Vehicles, issue two of which is out complete with a...
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Donnybrook: Getting Started...
With my Warfare Miniatures order having turned up earlier in the week and the flags from North Star I have decided to make a start on Donnybrook, organising my first force. This might seem a bit stupid...
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Donnybrook: How Green are your Coldstreams? (or are the Blue?)
I had planned to paint up at least one miniature today as a test piece but spent most of the afternoon trying to help Saul interface his Roland synthesiser and MacBook, all to no avail (can these...
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Wargames Illustrated Goes... Dynamic!
I spotted the "last"White Dwarf today at Tesco's, I had been tempted to buy it as some kind of momento but leafing through it decided it was the usual crap so left it on the shelf. I came home to find...
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Of Gods and Mortals... and Toys
Santa kindly brought me a copy of Osprey's Of Gods and Mortals mythological wargames rules for Xmas, and inbetween bouts of painting my first Donnybrook figures I had a proper look at the rulebook. I...
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Donnybrook: Coldstream Guard I
So the first figure is painted for Donnybrook, a serjeant with halberd, a character to be attached to a Coldstream Guard unit.The miniature from the Warfare Miniatures range was a bit of test piece but...
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Donnybrook: Coldstream Guard II
The first half of the first unit! These four Coldstream Guard for Donnybrook are from Warfare Miniatures and were enjoyable to paint once I worked out the colour scheme and what colours the various...
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Donnybrook: Coldstream Guard III
I managed to finish off the final four musketeers for my first Donnybrook unit. To add a bit of variety in the unit I went with four firing figures...These Warfare Miniatures figures are great and it...
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Donnybrook: The Rules Arrive!
A week earlier than expected the Donnybrook rulebook has arrived and mighty fine it is too. 112 page full colour with soft cover, it is wonderful looking tome and very inspiring, choc full of photos of...
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Bolt Action: Fallschirmjäger in Tunisia
I made a bit of an unexpected discovery in Lead Mountain today whilst looking for a couple of packs of (still elusive) Foundry Pirates. I came across a bag of 28mm Crusader Miniatures Fallschirmjäger....
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