So there is a cool Kickstarter from a local game company. The price is a little too high for me, wish they had $1.00 and Add on level as I like the miniatures.
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The Gunbus Scourge? - Having made some new planes it was time to christen them in a game. The problem with the Bleriot XI and the Etrich Taube is that it's hard to find a poi...5 hours ago
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Adding to the Medieval property portfolio - While putting together the serf threshing the wheat vignette in the earlier post, I also bodged together a couple more pieces of Medieval village to a...14 hours ago
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A Few More Moors - As outside temperatures begin to cool, activity at the painting desk is heating up again following my usual mid-summer lull. Cooler weather means that I r...1 day ago
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Retreat from Moscow - Still more French Wagons! - Keep them Wagons rolling!!! Here we have another 2 wagons for the train, I'm not sure of the make of this one, but its an older metal wagon, the hors...1 day ago
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The Founding of the Swiss Militarry System 1300–1400 - Albert Winkler’s *The Founding of the Swiss Military System, 1300–1400 *is one of those history books that might look super serious on the cover— but ...2 days ago
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Bigger Bugs Pt 23 - Much as the High Elf post suggests otherwise, painting has been very much on the back burner for the last few weeks. I decided last week to try and ge...3 days ago
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NWF/BoB - Afghan tribesmen - I have been doing a bit of commission painting recently- mostly 10mm Naps , so it’s been nice to have a few days to do some bits for myself. I picked up...3 days ago
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Zombie RV: Game 3, "Trial By Fire" - I had to take today off work to take Gina to a doctor's appointment out in Rochester, and we got home early enough for me to set up the table and get an...3 days ago
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Klosentheim, the Fifth! - (Below) The Bachscuttel infantry continue their advance. Far to the rear, their cavalry support waits stolidly, snoring. The riders, that is, rather than...4 days ago
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Gundabad Command Base - I selected these two figures to finish off the command base. A pointing character always goes well with a big grumpy looking commander. The other characte...5 days ago
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Back on the blog - Hey everyone! I'm back. Work and real life has kept me from adding to the blog for a bit, but I promised myself I would start posting more often. I've be...1 week ago
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Wargaming in the Age of Shadow: Scenario 1 - OK then, I think I’ve talked enough about setting up this game – time to actually play it! *(Note that the battlemat I used here is from battlesystems, a...1 week ago
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Battle of Zorndorf: August 25, 1758 - *Karl Rochling painting of the Prussian king Frederick II grabbing the standard of oneof his regiments to encourage them to make another attack again...1 week ago
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Yarkshire Gamer Podcast - Episode 87 James Morris - Midgard - Welcome to the show, This episode I begin by speaking with Mr James Morris a regular on the UK Show Circuit with his excellent array of display and pa...1 week ago
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Inquisitor Eisenhorn - WIP - WIP pic of the iconic GW 54mm Eisenhorn model for the old Inquisitor game that I'm just now getting round to painting after around 20 years or so. Hav...3 weeks ago
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Mechwarrior Online (PC Game) 2026 - This is an aging freemium PC game perfect for "dad-gamers." It has had a tumultuous past (OP clan, p2W aspects, casuals playing with premade teams of pr...5 weeks ago
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7TV: Doctor Who vs Frankenstein - One of my favourite things about tabletop gaming is that moment when your brain asks, *‘What if...?’* What if Sherlock Holmes investigated Innsmouth? Wha...2 months ago
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Jecsan - Wild West Figures - 54 mm - Two figures of the Spanish manufacturer Jecsan of their Wild West range. The first one is a gambler called Yancy Derringer. Not so easy to paint because ...2 months ago
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25mm Mayfair Games Teen Titans - A few weeks back, I posted up some 25mm superheroes from the mid-1980s. I got another box in the mail, this time the Teen Titans. The box came with six h...2 months ago
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Dol Amroth Captain - It's been awhile since I added anything to my Dol Amroth forces. Recently a friend sent me a *Guards of Traitor's Toll *sprue. It's a really nice spru...3 months ago
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Introducing 'ScrapJacks' to PaulOG via Discord - Hi All, I hosted PaulOG for a game of 'ScrapJacks' over Discord the other day and he's written up a terrific post-game write-up. Check it out! Cheers! ...3 months ago
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THANK YOU! THIS BLOG IS NOW CLOSED - A heartfelt thanks to everyone who supported Farsight Blogger since June 2009, through the streams of conciousness, articles, reviews, interviews and gam...3 months ago
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Chain of Command 2 QRS & Vehicle Stat's cards. - Chain of Command is my favourite WW2 rules set. However, I don't get to play it anywhere near as much as I would like and as a result I need a good comp...4 months ago
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The Awards for Challenge XVI - *Like so many prizes, it's the anticipation of the opening that's so exciting...* Ahem. Speaking of prizes, welcome to the wrap-up of the 16th edition ...4 months ago
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Battle on the Border 1809 - Hi all, After my last post about finishing the 28mm Bavarian's, I took them out for a little battle with the Austrian Jagars. I am using Songs of Drums...5 months ago
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IMPERIAL BORDERS - THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA - *IMPERIAL BORDERS – THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA* *by Larry Harris* For the past year, I’ve been regularly playing board games with my near neighbor, John Perk...6 months ago
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Looking at the year ahead - With so much of 2025 taking up with preparing to move, moving and reorganising following the move with most of my gaming paraphernalia being in storage f...7 months ago
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Russian Jager - Perry 28mm - Six units of Jager from Perry. These are the plastic Russian infantry kit, but I converted the standard bearer models using spare Austrian infantry arms ...8 months ago
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Captain's Log SMS Emden Part III - When we last saw SMS Emden, she was tied up in a Thai cove when three British warships were sighted. Here's the rough sketch map that I received from o...8 months ago
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Saxe-Bearstein v. Stagonia in a meeting engagement - The wonderful BloodAxe minis collection of Bluebear Jeff was in action on the tabletop this November. Details can be found at MurdockS MarauderS9 months ago
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Images - crazy situation - Hi Folks Just discovered that all my blog pictures for the past five years are no longer available to readers in the UK. As a result of recent legislat...9 months ago
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Projects and stuff - Just a simple post, mostly to get me back into the swing of things with this site...Here is a brief view of my projects:Lots of the same from before, but ...10 months ago
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New STL Files - Swivel guns for Age of sail or Pirate gaming - This is the next installment of my 3D STL files series. These are swivel guns for 28mm age of sail or pirate games. There are many makers of deck guns, b...1 year ago
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Still still alive! - Hey folks, Despite my previous good intentions, blogging got away from me again. That's not to say I haven't been busy with various things, just rather l...1 year ago
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Salute 2025 - OK, it's two days late but here is my photo round-up of Salute 2025. You can also take it as proof of life, given that I haven't posted here since last ...1 year ago
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Beer and Pretzels - It's been 18 months since I last posted, this is not a proper return to the bloggersphere, yet. Lots has happened in that time, mainly I have taken ear...1 year ago
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WSS in Spain forces completed - It isn't Napoleonics, but at least it is horse and musket! A couple of months ago I repossessed my old Spanish Succession armies and decided to finish t...2 years ago
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Bounding Fire Tournament 2023 Prizes - This year the organisers of the ASL Tournament Bounding Fire have decided to broaden the prize table and so went for smaller dioramas with the theme bein...2 years ago
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Flames of War Projects for August - August was a great month for me and the hobby. I painted lots of stuff and managed to get in a few games as well. August saw a return to Flames of War...2 years ago
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Vallejo Guides Broken - It has recently come to my attention that the LINKS on my vallejo paint guide pages are not currently working as expected and readers are not able to vie...4 years ago
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The Cynical Seven - Desperados Gang - *"The liquor's all gone boys..."* Finished up my Desperados gang for Dead Man's Hand. Just a few pics to share as I didn't get too many to turn out that ...5 years ago
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“My Daughter, which she really is, tho’ but an adopted one” - This story came up (in my head at least) during yesterday’s online presentation from King’s Chapel about how the Revolution affected members of that Angli...5 years ago
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Kebugaran Mengubah Wajah Tur PGA - Lalu apakah Glumory akan menghasilkan Ketergantungan & menimbulkan efek samping glumory beauty drink ? sama sekali Tidak, dikarenakan Glumory terbuat hanya...6 years ago
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Crimean War toy soldiers - Finally got round to unboxing my toy soldier collection after almost 6 years in boxes and searching through my late fathers collection to for figures of...6 years ago
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Witcher 3 "Geralt" painted up - And the second miniature from the SAGA collectibles from Stronghold Miniatures is painted up. Pretty happy with them both, I was thinking how to use them in...6 years ago
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Airplane stands for my Aeronefs - I've been working on different ideas for my aeronef stands - and finally got a solution I'm happy with. For the Aeronef and Imperial Skies rules, hexago...6 years ago
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Massacre Men: Soldiers of the 29th Regiment charged for the events of 5 March 1770 - Eight soldiers of the 29th Regiment of Foot were directly involved in the Boston Massacre on 5 March 1770. Their names are well known, because they all st...6 years ago
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Ghost of Christmas Past....... - The New Year has finally shuffled in with plans of new armies and periods in which to dabble, but I found myself thinking back to a Christmas a long time a...6 years ago
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Pulp Alley AAR – Tomb of the Serpent Campaign – Cairo Caper - I teased about this game more than a month ago and I think it is time to tell the world of what the CSSS (Corpo di Spedizione della Santa Sede, or The Ex...6 years ago
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Nostalgia Thursday - Chaos Wars (1987) - Thirty-two years ago, the super-simple four-page Rules According to Ral which were designed for Medieval combat were expanded into the thirty-page (approx)...6 years ago
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Red Dawn (Calumet, Colorado 1984) - The Wolverines, a group of guerrilla resistant fighters, ambush and attack the Soviet forces headquarters at Calumet, Colorado. Spring 1984. ...6 years ago
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Dreadnought: Great War at Sea - This is my prototype box, with the Battle of Coronel tucked away inside! Hi all, big news today! As you've no doubt been aware, I've been furiously making...6 years ago
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NOVEDADES / NEWS - *VOLVEMOS* con nuevas actualizaciones: Estamos haciendo una re-estructuación interna, pero lo que de verdad os interesará es que ya tenemos copias del *Mus...7 years ago
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Raid on Lancaster, MA King Phillip's War - Dave Soucy hosted a game day at his home in Londonderry, NH a few weeks back. I attended a partook in a game featuring a raid by Narragansett, Wampanoag a...7 years ago
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Saga AoM Great Kingdoms - Saga Age of Magic is taking off in the Twin Cities and I just finished my 1st fantasy warband, the Great Kingdoms. I'll be taking them on the road next wee...7 years ago
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A Tale of Two Battles - Part the First - The Italian infantry brigade. The only unit to come out of this with their heads held high. This is the first of two battle reports featuring my French ...7 years ago
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Re-PAINT - I decided to "Re-Paint" the BRMDI painted earlier in the week. I can hear you already screaming at me (And with some justification). I am Happier now. I s...7 years ago
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Freshly Plowed Fields - Open spaces, while essential to maneuver warfare, aren’t very visually appealing. Freshly plowed fields are a great addition to most gaming terrain collect...7 years ago
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Forever Seeking, Forever Prepared and Forever Unready....... - Today I thought I would present to you renders of the new building range coming out with the release of the Trilaterum Starter Set. If you missed the a...7 years ago
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2019 Goals - It's been forever since I've posted, and the only gaming I've gotten in is a Warmaster matchup between Undead and Dwarves. I'm playing against my son, but...7 years ago
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Wholesale Gamer Gifts – With Free Domestic Shipping - tet The post Wholesale Gamer Gifts – With Free Domestic Shipping appeared first on Fun Elements.7 years ago
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(New) Col. Bills Blog Just Launched! - There is now a new blog for Colonel Bills Wargames Depot, which you can find here:- https://colonelbills.blogspot.com/ ""Tales From The Depot; The goings ...7 years ago
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Please Update Your Link! - If you're seeing this, it means your link to the Greyhawk Grognard blog is out of date. Please update your link to www.greyhawkgrognard.com (RSS feed is h...7 years ago
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Over 170 Games and geeky gifts for (mostly) under $20! - Every year for the past six years or so I’ve put together a list of 40, then 60, then 80 and then 90+ games and things for the geek in your life that cost ...7 years ago
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Kicking it with the Homies - The feared El Taco Cartel homies are kicking it Southside, plotting and scheming on ways to get product across or under the border. Figures are 28mm S...7 years ago
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The Song of the Dodo - Yes, nice to see you too. Where have I been? Nowhere really, but I've been reading and ruminating and the like. Been cautious about what to get involved w...7 years ago
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Blucher Revisited - Hi Team It's been a few months since I played a game of BLUCHER so Rowan and I decided to have another game. We settled on 250 points each and Rowan comman...7 years ago
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CoC: Revisiting the Flanking Scenario - Last time I played CoC, we had my Americans attacking Fritz's Germans in the Flanking Scenario, and it proved extraordinarily difficult for the attacker. A...8 years ago
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Watch the Mac Fam stream D&D Live on Twitch Tuesdays and Sundays! - If you want to hear the Steve and Sean O get real nerdy with Dungeons and Dragons, the team is now streaming games live! Check us out on our Twitch page at...8 years ago
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Hitting the Social Media with new logo - So as I start down the road to my new full time commission painting I have set up a FaceBook page FaceBook cover picture. I have also set up an Instagram a...8 years ago
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The Skinwalker Tribes for Dracula's America - Just a quick post as I managed to get around to digging out my *Dead Man's Hand* figs so I could add them to my North Star figs and so take a pic of my ...8 years ago
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Custom Space Marine Chapter: The Swordbreakers - Greetings fellow gamers! It has been a long, long hiatus and I finally have something I feel like posting about! With the new edition of 40k, I decided to...8 years ago
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The Marches and I - The Wrekin (left distance) and its hinterland at Dawn. Even some miles away, you can just about make out the rise of the ramparts of the hill fort on the ...8 years ago
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IV/57abc Low Countries - Army List (2nd edition) IV/57 Low Countries, 1297–1478CE (a) 1297–1329CE: 1x3Kn or 4Pk Gen, 1x3Kn or 4Pk, 1x4Cb, 6x4Pk, 1x3Bd ... Continue reading9 years ago
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Hougoumont at 1:3 scale - a late report - *West Country Hougoumont* There were such a lot of photos on this game that it took me over 18 months to get round to doing a proper report on my blog. Ja...9 years ago
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Team Yankee: Scimitars and Scorpions - The first sections of my Recce company are finally done. These guys have been sitting in front of me for what feels like months now primed and begging f...9 years ago
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So long, and thanks for all the fish. - I know this blog has not been very active, but my time and interest hasn't been in fow lately too much either. Thanks to the way BF put the new version, pr...9 years ago
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15mm.co.uk to merge back into Alternative Armies during February 2017 - *This is a major announcement by Alternative Armies concerning the future of its fellow website 15mm.co.uk. * *About ten years ago Alternative Armies de...9 years ago
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Congo: Sultanate of Zanzibar Expedition - This is the finished 'Sultanate of Zanzibar' expedition box set from Foundry for Congo. They have a very Arabian feel to them, and the figures would not ...9 years ago
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Blue Bear had some challenges - Hello readers, this is Murdock writing from Jeff's desktop. Jeff has encountered more than the usual Gout and had complications from the treatments of the ...10 years ago
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Zvezda SU152 - SU152 The Box The Zvezda SU152 is one of two new Soviet assault gun kits to be released recently, the other being the SU100. Originally entering service ...10 years ago
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I wrote a thing. - This time last year, I had just started BABEL. While I had written many things in the past, finishing a novel still eluded me. Several months later, BABEL ...10 years ago
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Year Five: A Reading Renaissance - I've heard it said that birthdays become less important when you get older and it looks like it was true of my blog's birthday this year - I totally forgot...10 years ago
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F@#k (or Eff) Fifty! - It's a matter of record that I was born in July in the year of our lord nineteen hundred and sixty six. While math is hardly my strong suit by my quick cal...10 years ago
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Interview: Ash Baker of Guerrilla Wargaming - Here’s another in the Interview series. I talked with one of, IMHO, the best wargaming Youtuber out there. Ash has a great Youtube channel which present ho...10 years ago
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Gone Painting - Once again I have decided to join in the madness that is The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge, which has become the biggest online painting event of the...10 years ago
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There is a new lizard wizard in town! - The city was almost silent,only the dripping of melting ice and the occasional foot fall shuffling thru snow could be heard. Hashtis the wizard motioned hi...10 years ago
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A quick guide to easily making hedges - Having recently decided to give my terrain collection a bit of an overhaul and splashing out on some new buildings, I've found myself in "need" of a few o...11 years ago
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New Irish now available - We've just release the Brian Boru and Ulf the Quarrelsome packs on the website. New releases will be something Saxon I suspect :)11 years ago
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Pendraken Miniatures Zombies for Crooked Dice 7ombieTV - After a couple of acquisitions yesterday, at the Durham Wargames Group open day, I've been sorting out what I've got for this little project. Embarrassingl...11 years ago
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Getting Women Behind the Wheel at 2015 Heels and Wheels - 2015 Jaguar F-Type Convertible, #HeelsAndWheels2015There are dozens of automotive events held throughout the year, with journalists and bloggers invited t...11 years ago
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Mary's Visit Part II - One of my mountain guide friends (I know most of them pretty well since they have to speak English for their job) had offered at the wedding to take Mary ...11 years ago
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Sacket's Harbor reprised at Huzzah! - Steve Keyer and I reprised the Sacket's Harbor scenario using Carnage and Glory II computer aided war gaming rules at the Huzzah Conference in Portland, Ma...11 years ago
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Battle in a box UPDATE - After another long hiatus I've finally got my act together to post something! The pictures above are of some factory - industrial building terrain ba...11 years ago
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Still clearing up '83 - Ok, this blog update is dedicated to Kevin Davies (no not that one), Shaun Watson, Steve Clark and the two or three Frothers that commented, without whom I...11 years ago
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New Location In Manchester NH - Look for us at 260 Mammoth road Manchester Behind Aarons next door to Rite aid,this will be our new home starting June 30th 2015 more info on facebook and...11 years ago
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Celtic Medieval Designs - All of these images came from the Dover clip art book Medieval Ornament. The first two are Mediveval Celtic designs and the one below is the only banne...11 years ago
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West German AFV's from the Mid 80's - Spahpanzer Luchs Marder IFV Jagdpanzer Jaguar M113 Command APC ASSEMBLE! Coming soon: Leopard I's and II's and Flakpanzer Gepards.11 years ago
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Final Tally - All the monies from the auction have now been collected, and arrangements made for the safe transfer of lots. And so, this is the end. I'm not going to na...12 years ago
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Easy Hills - Hey everyone, I haven't had much time for lengthy blog articles, so I have a feeling that most of my posts will now be made through the iPhone blogger app....12 years ago
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Arrrgggghhhh! - Everyone has a favourite gaming area.... I like pirates, aarrrggghh! Buccaneer was the first pirate board game I played, at the tender age of around 10 or...12 years ago
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Panzer IV F1 - I am still around and I am still painting. I may have to 'reboot' this blog as I know bunch of pictures arent showing up. Any way here is what I was wo...12 years ago
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I am moving to a new blog - Hi guys. I have to announce you that I will not post anymore in this blog. I am moving to a new one. I have been having some problems with it and it has ga...12 years ago
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Wargames Paper craft Part III - In the third and forth part of my series on Papercraft for RPG & Waregames I'm going to look at Miniatures figures for you. Id like to start by tha...12 years ago
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Flames of War skirmish report - After both sides occupying high ground over a ruined town, German reinforcements engaged American Paratroopers in fields. The Germans inflicted light c...12 years ago
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Huzzah 2013 Day 1 - Yes, it’s that time of year again, Huzzah is upon us, starting today. I haven’t been blogging much and so didn’t have any lead up posts, but will try to at...13 years ago
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The Helpers - Social media, television channels, radio broadcasts & cell phone conversations... everyone is buzzing in hushed, shocked tones about what happened yest...13 years ago
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Too Busy Writing To Write? - Greetings Dear and Faithful Reader, Well, it's been a while. Months have come and gone since my last post. I'm sure many of you even noticed. I have bee...13 years ago
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Moving Locations - Well, the title says it all. I've decided to revamp my websites and as part of this "Across the Table" is on the move. To visit my revised site please vis...13 years ago
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Magic: The Gathering futures - The *Return to Ravnica* set has brought many casual (and not so casual) players back to Magic: The Gathering. Many of you have been questioning me on the a...13 years ago
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Outlaws...I mean Inlaws - August brought both sets of parents across the pond for a visit as well as Lico and Stephanie. First Meek's parents came for just shy of week. It was a c...14 years ago
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Samodzielna Brygada Strzelców Karpackich - Objectives - Every army in Flames of War should have two objectives to fight over. Typically I've seen supply dumps, bunkers, and burnt out tanks, but I figured ther...14 years ago
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Lamb Two Ways - Lamb’s one of my favorite meats, and (life often being unfair), it’s also one of the most expensive. I managed to get a good deal on a 3 lb leg of lamb, an...17 years ago
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