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Battlefield Evolution: Romanian Infantry II
I managed to finish the bases on the remaining HaT Romanian infantry today. Once I get the lmg teams done that will be three sections complete, with just the platoon HQ and support to go...Painting...
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Battlefield Evolution: Romanian Infantry III
I finished the three Romanian officers I painted today. I really only need one for my infantry platoon, but having converted two I painted all three, I'm sure I'll find a use for the spare two...The...
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Forgotten Soldiers of Empire
I eventually sat down and watched the two episodes of BBC2's The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire, shown last August as part of the centenary programmes around the start of WWI. Written and...
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Battlefield Evolution: Romanian Infantry IV
These are the final figures from the first batch of HaT WW2 Romanians - a sniper team. The HaT box contains lots of useful platoon support types including hmg teams, mortars, flamethrowers and a sniper...
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ACW: Union Infantry I
Well.it's taken a bit longer than planned but I have finished the first three bases of my first ACW Union Infantry Regiment using Perry's 28mm plastics. Hopefully the other three bases including...
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ACW: Union Infantry II
I managed to finish the remaining bases for my first Union regiment this morning despite waking up with a stinking cold...As with the Confederates the flags are from Solway Crafts and give a really...
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Order of Battle: Pacific
My eyes are playing me up today so I've not been up to doing any more painting, however I did have a nose at Slitherine's website and came across news of a forthcoming hex-based WW2 strategy game...
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Lion Rampant: Back to Bas(e)ics
Having recovered from my 48 hour lurgy I was hoping to get some painting done today, but instead ending up watching Looper, which was a lot of fun. I did however undercoat my retinues for Lion...
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The Empire's Twilight
I came across a fun looking modern alt-history setting on Facebook, called The Empire's Twilight. It postulates a setting where the British Commonwealth came out of WW2 much stronger with the point of...
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War-Factor!
Today's announcement by the Harvest Media Group (producers of the X-Factor) of a brand new TV series called War-Factor must be really exciting for many in the business, especially the larger companies...
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ColdWar 1983: National Volks Armee
I've had a very lazy day today, watching the final six episodes of Day Three of 24 with Saul. I'd seen it before but Saul hadn't and much enjoyment watching non-CGI explosions and Jack yelling...
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Battle Academy 2: Kursk Expansion
I restarted playing the Normandy Campaign for Battle Academy yesterday, but that came to a rapid halt when I saw Slitherine released the Kursk expansion for Battle Academy 2: Eastern Front...Based on...
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I spent most of today helping SWMBO dismantle my mother's kitchen so didn't get a chance to paint anything, though I did sneak in a couple more games of BA2: Kursk, the fourth scenario becoming...
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Frostgrave
Last year Osprey announced that 2015 would see the release of a new set of fantasy wargaming rules called Frostgrave. A small warband skirmish game with a dozen figures a side, it sounded interesting...
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The Joy of Six...
Playing the Kursk supplement for Battle Academy has rekindled my desire to return to 6mm WW2 gaming. My first real experiences in wargaming as a teen were in 6mm and the Kursk games have a definite 6mm...
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Warhammer: Dwarf Mountaineers
Dwarf Mountaineer - yours for £97!Typical wargamer, my thoughts turn to 6mm WW2 so that naturally today sees me start painting some Warhammer Dwarves! :-)I have had a unit of old Citadel plastics that...
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Lord of the Rings: Olog-Hai
I progressed the Dwarves during my lunch hour today, the metal work is now all done and all non-metal bits re-undercoated.I also managed to base this pre-painted Eaglemoss Armoured Troll (part of a...
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Lord of the Rings: Olog-Hai II
I had planned to use today's lunch hour to crack on with the Dwarf bear riders (and have made a bit more progress), but the postie delivered another Eaglemoss pre-painted troll picked up on eBay for a...
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Warhammer: Dwarf Bear Cavalry I
I finished the first of the two Dwarf bear cavalry I have converted using the bear and legs from a Arcane Legions Ursan Cataphract (from the Roman Cavalry box) and the top half of a sixth(?) edition...
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