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Charlie Don't Surf: We Will Sacrifice Ourselves For You, My Homeland...
Egypt, noble are your children. Loyal, and guardians of the reins. Be we at war or peace We will sacrifice ourselves for you, my homeland.Bilādī, laki ḥubbī wa fuʾādī (Egyptian National...
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Rebels and Patriots: The Battle of Darling's Farm
Having pushed the boundaries of how big a game Rebels and Patriots could handle, George, Steve, Andy and myself ventured late last year into what probably should be Black Powderterritory by using an 8'...
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Six-Day War: Magach-2 Tank Company
The dusting off of my October War collection for games of Seven Days To The River Rhine and Charlie Don't Surf (and more recently WRG 1950 to 1985 and Fate of a Nation) led to me rummaging in the...
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Seven Days To The River Rhine: O! The Horror That The Enemy Shall Suffer...
Rise and close ranks, With lives ready for sacrifice. O! the horror that the enemy shall suffer, From you in the fire of the battlefield.Walla Zaman Ya Selahy (Egyptian National Anthem...
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October War: Israeli M51 Sherman Tank Company II
Back in 2014 I painted up a company of Israeli M51 Shermans as part of my October War project. Whilst no longer 'state of the art' and largely replaced in the IDF Armoured Brigades in 1973 they still...
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Sharp Practice: Violenza alla Vecchia Romagna...
Wanting to give his brand new Austrian army a spin on the battlefield, Phil set up a 120 point a side Sharp Practice scenario against my Italians, so back to 1809 and the War of the Fifth Coalition we...
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ColdWar '58: The Cold War Goes Hot... in 1958!
I did say the other day that "I've just started moving on to pastures more verdant than the Sinai" so I thought I better lift the lid on the project (well not exactly lift the lid as I did mention it...
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ColdWar '58: Soviet T-10M Heavy Tank Company
The first unit I've painted up for my new 6mm late fifties Cold War project is a ten tank company of Soviet T-10M heavy tanks. First introduced into service around 1952 as the IS-8, it was renamed the...
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ColdWar '58: Soviet T-55 Medium Tank Company
Even though the heavy tanks are what attracted me to the idea of the late fifties I am still going to need some of the more common medium tanks and for the Soviets this meant the ubiquitous T-55, which...
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Sharp Practice: To Rescue Ms Anna Strong...
This was my last wargame of 2021, an American Revolutionary War Sharp Practice game against Andy. In this scenario the Tory oppressors of liberty have captured the brave Ms. Anna Strong who needed to...
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ColdWar '58: British Armoured Squadron
The first opponent for my ColdWar '58 projects is this British Armoured Squadron based on the 7th Armoured in Germany at the time. Unlike the Soviets and Americans who pooled their heavy tanks in...
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ColdWar '58: US M103 Heavy Tank Company
As previously stated, one of the attractions of late '50's cold war gaming are the heavy tanks and for the Americans that means the M103... In 1958 the US Army had consolidated some of its M103's in...
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ColdWar '58: US M48 Patton Tank Company
Backing up the US M103 heavy tank company in ColdWar '58 is this company of M48 Patton medium tanks, more ResinHistoricals 1/285th miniatures... :-)As with the M103's they are basic US olive drab with...
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ColdWar '58: US M59 Mechanised Infantry Company
The advent of 3D sculpting and printing has led to the various 'rare' APC's being made available by enterprising sculptors - such as the M59 armoured personnel carrier, the US Army's frontline battle...
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Scenery Bits & Bobs...
Alongside the 6mm tanks I've been painting up odd bits of scatter scenery for 28mm games...First up here is a resin roadside shrine from Grand Manner purchased in their recent "unpainted" sale. I've...
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The War of the Eight Year: Sea Peoples Ox-Carts
You may vaguely recall that one of my Cunning Plans for 2020 was to paint up the Foundry New Kingdom Egyptian army I'd bought to play Chariot Rampant (a late Bronze Age supplement for Lion Rampant that...
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The War of the Eight Year: Sea Peoples Light Chariots
Now as Chariot Rampant is not called Ox-Cart Rampant(!) my Sea Peoples needed to have some chariots in their arsenal and like the Ox-Carts these models were purchased from Newline Designs in one of...
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Sharp Practice: Presente su tarjeta de llamada...
Phil asked Andy and I if we'd fancy teaming up against him to try out a scenario he'd come up for, for a future Lardy Day, so we headed back to the valley of the three Cojones to the estate of El...
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The War of the Eight Year: Sea Peoples Spearmen
Backing up the chariots for the Sea Peoples the first two units of foot - some Spearmen (in Chariot Rampant terms, Foot Serjeants in Lion Rampant).Again these are Newline Design miniatures, block...
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The War of the Eight Year: Sea Peoples Light Infantry
Some cannon fodder for my Chariot Rampant Sea Peoples army - two units of Light Infantry (Foot Yeoman in Lion Rampant speak) from Newline Designs...The miniatures are very similar to the Spearman...
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