Earlier today Sue and I visited Warwick and enjoyed a great day out having afternoon tea and browsing the many antique shops. I was particularly struck by this naive piece of ‘Trench Art’, a Mk IV Male (I think?)What caught my eye was not the modelling…
In addition to these early Fathers day presents on Sunday, I received the following;Cottage Modelling for Pendon – a very in-depth and detailed book showing new techniques for super-detailing terrain models. The card-backed book written by Ch…
Building Wargame Terrain, a further update. Yesterday I arrived home to find the first proof copy, a congratulations card and a bottle of Champagne. Thank you Sue. (We didn’t drink the Champagne, preferring to go out for a celebratory meal instead).The…
If you watch the news and see anything of the western forces in Afghanistan, you’ve probably noticed that a number of the military vehicles are driving around looking like they’ve been enclosed in a metal cage. This type of protection, vari…
UK Fathers Day is this Sunday and I’ve already had three presents from my Wife. All three were charity shop purchases.Military Modelling Guide to Wargaming by Stuart Asquith, an ex-library copy first published in 1987. It will come as no surprise that …
Painting proper. The flesh areas are built up in my usual colour combination – Snakebite Leather from Games Workshop, highlighted with Snakebite and Skull White. In these two images I have tried to not highlight too much. I have also washed the flesh a…
Firstly … don’t forget Broadside on Sunday ! This is an excellent little show with an impressive list of traders (Wargames Foundry, Warlord Games, Ainsty … oh, and us !). We have a long awaited release in our 2mm scenery range today. …
Not much to see. The six Rifles have been undercoated black. I have used a cheap ‘rattle-can’ to lightly spray the figures and when this is fully dry, I have touched-up any missed parts with GW Chaos Black.Regular followers will know that I usually und…
The first proof is now being printed and should be with me within the week. This does not mean that I have been idle. As both my daughter and I have been busy proof reading the electronic copy and uploading the book to the printers. Then proof reading …
Progress so far. I have based and textured six of the eight miniatures, the main group of Rifles. Oswald Pepperkettle and the Harpy figure are being worked on separately. I have chucked Oswald into a tub of Dettol as I thought the paint was a little th…
Several people have sent us links to photos or blog posts featuring our 2mm buildings range, and we thought we’d round a few up and link to them from here. Some show comparisons between our models and other ranges, others show methods of basing/p…
Earlier today, Sue and I had an ‘away-day’ to Coventry. The main aim was to visit Spon street – a Medieval or Tudor reproduction of what old Coventry used to look like. For details see this link. Unfortunately, there are a load of road works and b…
My Pledge for June 2013 is to paint this group of eight Orc Rifles – ‘The Fighting Forty-Firsts’.The miniatures are mainly taken from the Alternative Armies boxed set 5104 The 105th Foot – ‘The Rifles’, see this link for more details with ser…
Not one, but two parcels have arrived at Brigade Towers lately, bearing more prints of new models – lots of them. 2mm buildings, 15mm SF vehicles, spaceships and a few odds and ends as well. It’s going to take me a little while to work thro…
The Pledge for May 2013 – a simple vignette of Sharpe and Harper from Graven Images sculpted by Jim Bowen who sadly passed away earlier this year.I have commented about the sad passing of Jim here and felt that painting and mounting this smal…
Not much to show as all I have done since the last post is Gloss Varnish the figures and the groundwork. I still need to paint the metallic areas and there are some small areas that need added detailing or cleaning up.I have used Ronseal Hard Coat Glos…
On Saturday morning I drove across the Midlands from Droitwich to the NEC and the new venue for Games Expo. I have previously reported on this event, which used to be held at The Clarendon Suite on the outskirts of Birmingham. This year the organisers …
Our next show of the year is fast approaching – our local show, Broadside 2013 on June 9th in Sittingbourne, Kent, run by the Milton Hundred Wargames Society. It’s so close that I can walk to the venue from home in 10 minutes ! Last year…
Black Army Productions have recently released this resin model of The Stanley Steam Tank that served for a short time with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during the last days of WW1. For full details go to this link.The master for this mode…
At long last I have something to show for over eighteen months of hard work. This is the cover of my soon to be released book – Building Wargame Terrain.The content has now been completed, checked and formatted for full production and I am now discussi…
The natural enemies in the Iron Cow universe to the Germans are the European Federation. Encompassing the southern states of the old European Union, the Federation is effectively controlled from Paris and seemingly perpetually in conflict with the Nort…
This weekend Birmingham is playing host to UK Games Expo 2013. For full details go to this link. My plan is to attend the show on Saturday May 25th.This is the first year that the show will be held at the NEC Hilton Metropole hotel, having been pr…
With the recent release of the new German 15mm vehicles (and the impending re-release of the EuroFed models) I’ve been working hard lately at redesigning more of our 15mm range (and coming up with new stuff too). First up, and just about finished…
Photos Two, Three, Four and Five – Show the progress so far. I still need to paint the metallic areas and varnish but I am very pleased with how the piece is coming along. I know that it would have been easier to have fully painted the two figures prio…
I wanted this pair of 40mm Graven Image figures to be mounted on to a display or diorama base. I searched through my box of bits and settled on this 50mm round 28mm tall socket or plug of rough wood, (pine I think) that I picked up some time ago. I hav…