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(FFL Month) The Frustrating Scale Creep Dilemma
A little while back I picked up a few blisters from Foundry's Maximilian Affair miniatures to help expand the Camerone set from the same manufacturer that I am currently painting. Amongst them was a...
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A Steampunk Bonanza
As regular readers will know I love Victorian Science Fiction, however as a general rule I prefer that it is based or inspired by the scientific romances of the period rather than the more modern OTT...
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Terminator Heavy Weapons
The em-4 and Copplestone robot ("Terminator") infantry are a bit light when it comes to heavier weapons. em-4 do a couple of decent heavy machine-guns but that it about it. Enter Forlorn Hope Games...
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(FFL Month) “We’ll Die Before We Surrender!”
I managed to finish the first batch of Foundry Camerone French Foreign Legionnaires last night. To make the process easier I split the 25 models I have into three smaller batches with the intention of...
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Myths and Legends: Dragonslayers
You may recall that I was a little excited by the 2013 Osprey Catalogue and some of the new releases. Amongst the items that caught my eye were the new Myths and Legends series. Three volumes are...
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Kickstarter: Brave New World or Extinction Event?
I came across a really interesting poston ¡bitzkrieg! blog about crowd funding the other day. A chunk of the post was from Andy Foster of Heresy Miniatures and his viewpoint on how crowd funding is...
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40K Imperial Army Medic on Bike
Last year in a fit of Rogue Trader nostalgia I painted up a pile of 25 year old miniatures for the Imperial Army (as the Guard were originally called).Alongside them I had a pile of vehicles from 1988...
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Zvezda Hot War Game
Modern gamers will be pleased to see that Zvezda are building on the success of their WW2 Art of Tactic game with a similar modern version called Hot War. As with the Art of Tactic game it appears the...
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Zvezda Armada Invincible Game
Following on from yesterday's post about Zvezda's modern Art of Tactic game, there is also news that they will be producing a naval version set around the time of the Armada.A bit of investigation has...
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Flames of Yom Kippur?
Last year I mentioned the intention to get back into some 6mm WW2 or Modern wargaming. 6mm (or 1/300th or Micro as we called it in the old days!) was my first love and Big Lee's 6mm WW2 North Africa...
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Projekt X: The Science of Evil
Three years back (oddly, to the day!) I posted some photos of my North Star1/48th British infantry that had been used in some Gehiemkrieg Weird War Two games. Today I realised that whilst I'd posted...
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(FFL Month) Los Chinacas Rojas
These are the first of the (dismounted) irregular Republican cavalry. They typically wore the vaquero Mexican cowboy costume but some uniform touches such as red lance pennants and occasionally jackets...
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(FFL Month) Los Chinacas Rojas II
Whilst I have made good progress on the next batch of the Camerone set Foundry French Foreign Legionnaires I doubt they will be finished today without rushing them. I did however manage to finish the...
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March is... Plane Month!
I need to clear a bit of a rule logjam at Wessex Games so March will be dedicated to painting models for these games.First in line is the second edition of AirWar: 1918, whilst I have a number of...
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Old Stuff Day 2013
Apparently today is Old Stuff Day - no I hadn't heard of it either, but it is a wonderful idea so I thought I'd join in and encourage all my fellow bloggers as well.So what is Old Stuff Day? Well I'll...
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Zvezda Art of Tactic WW2 Releases
Following up on the new games from Zvezda I decided to investigate what they are planning to release for their WW2 Art of Tactic game in 2013. Some of this information has been available for a while...
View Article"Death is Coming For Everyone and Everything..."
Looks like Sky Atlantic will be showing season 3 of Game of Thrones on April 1st, just one day after it premieres in the US - and that's no April Fool's joke!Need to give some thought towards gaming...
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Penguin Shorts
No, not some snazzy new clothing for our feathered friends but a relatively new range of e-books from book publisher Penguin which echo the origins of the publisher in producing cheap reading material...
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(Plane Month) 3D Printed Felixstowe F.2A
I must confess that "Plane Month" has started somewhat slowly and almost a week gone by with little to show for it. Part of the reason for this is my attempt to finish the batch of French Foreign...
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A Martian Trilogy
I've been a bit under the weather today so I only managed a little bit of painting before work this morning before "rain stopped play". My "Plane Month" research into Luftwaffe paint chips is not very...
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