25th April 2013The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. ”Those heroes that shed their bloodAnd lost their lives.You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country.Therefore rest in peace.There is no difference between the JohnniesAnd the Mehmet…
Although I finished the painting on the last one of these stands a wee while ago the basing was only finished of the other weekend.These are all Foundry WW1 HMGs. Two from the early war period and one from later in the war.These early war HMGs have bee…
Hoi,Yet another instalment in the vehicle showcase series brings you my resin Rolls Royce armoured cars. These are about my favourites. I have bought two at the Crisis in Antwerp two years ago and they painted up a treat. I painted one to resemble an E…
Hoi,Another part of the vehicle showcase series today and I bring you a plastic kit truck. The kit is an RPM 1/72 72402 Mack AC ‘Bulldog’ Type EHC. As this was going to be a wargames model, put on a base, and played with; I left all the fiddly details …
Hoi,Today’s vehicle showcase shows my least favourite WW1 vehicle the German A7V. Why don’t I like this one? Mainly because I botched, or should I say Bosched, the paintjob. It’s the Emhar kit, kindly put together by Hans and mis-painted by me…Cheers…
Hoi,After showing the European troops with which the Germans fought the Great War in Africa, I here now present the Ruga Ruga allies of said Germans. These are part of the growing HäT range of Africa Theatre figures and are test shots, so no productio…
Hoi,Continuing the Great War Vehicle showcase today is my Whippet. Again I painted it in the late war regular greenish scheme with British markings. Partly because they are simple, partly because they are colourful and most importantly because this is …
Hoi,A more civilised item in the Vehicle showcase series is this Fine Scale Industries carriage. At first I was thinking of using it as Napoleons carriage, but it is of newer build and thus I decided to use it as Victorian / WW1 era civilian vehicle. T…
Hoi, This update takes us to Darkest Africa where a small German force led by the legendary Von Lettow-Vorbeck and aided by native auxiliaries, is fighting the French, British and Belgians. These figures are part of a series of HäT sets that depict bo…
Hoi,For my WW1 games I posses a small wagon-park and I thought I’d put them up in a new “showcase” series, hence this “Vehicle showcase” article.Let’s start with that most famous of WW1 silhouettes: the British Mark IV. I have several EMHAR plastic kit…
Bruce hosted me in another game of Square bashing by Peter Pig. This time we tried Turks versus whomever Bruce was playing (Arabs?). We had thought a different theatre would result in a more open game but I gimmicked the terrain to channel his attack t…
1/72 model for Canvas Eagles by Airfix. Pilot: Ritter von Schleich
Some German balloon markers done for our 1/72 Canvas Eagles campaign.
Made from modelling clay and florist’s wire and the ack ack tufts are obviously made from bits of cotton.
1/72 model for Canvas Eagles probably by MAC or Roden. Pilot: Verner Voß
Bruce machined-up two early WW1 armies for an eastern-front go at Square Bashing last night. I played the Russians trying to overwhelm the Kaiser’s boys. Bruce had lots of troops in reserve that he could never get onto the board while all of mine arriv…
I have for sale a lot of painted 28mm interwar troops. There are 26 men and 1 dog in this lot of HLBS figures. I picked these guys up at auction this spring in my continuing effort to rescue floundering projects of my buddies..I have painted them up as…
I dropped in on Bruce last night and we gave Square Bashing (by Peter Pig) a go. Bruce printed up armies to see how the rules played. I’m not really a big fan of WW1 games (meh) but I’m game to try new things. And printed armies meant we could do this …
SOLD!I finished a small force of Canadian troops for a Very British Civil War. There are 19 28mm figures (maybe Renegade?) all pictured below. These were troops picked up at auction partly finished (as part of an abandoned WW1 project) and they struck …
Finished painting these two chaps along with their gun a while ago but only sorted out the basing the other day!WW1 German HMG team from Renegade Miniatures.
I have for sale 53 painted 28mm WW1 Germans, including two MGs and a mortar. I bought these as a job lot, painting about half from scratch and completing the painting and basing of the remainder. The result is an under-strength company of Landwehr…
Hoi,Each year I am allowed to organise a school-trip to the Ypres area. IIt’s awesome to go there with 100 odd pupils and see how the madness of the Great War sinks in when we visit Tyne Cot cemetery. The Netherlands remained neutral during the conflic…
The often-fascinating website BibliOdyssey has just posted a glorious selection of World War One posters from the US, UK, France, Greece and elsewhere. I’m hard-pressed to pick a favourite, but purely for graphical awesomeness and a slightly surreal message, it … Continue reading →
Bruce and I refought Quatre Bras last night (twice!) using Commands and Colors Napoleonics. I managed two wins with the British–once because Bruce couldn’t roll worth beans and once because I couldn’t miss. Close games–they could have gone eithe…
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Squamous Cthulhumas, or whatever other mid-winter holiday you celebrate! Here’s a bit of family Christmas history to share. I might well have shown this off here on the the Warbard in the past, but I’m half-full … Continue reading →
The fourth 28mm horse I’ve painted is this British officer from Great War Miniatures who only on being based revealed himself to be crookedly mounted. This makes his nationally questionable and suggests he might be a fifth-columnist. It’s a…