Painting painting painting… and gaming?Ok, I’ m a miniature painter so I have to paint, but Gaming?So I’ m thinking to two scenarios, the first for the Three Muskeeters, and the second for some WWI tanks…I’ m inspired by these pics of a 17th c…
I spotted a great little post on the Gruntz forum where the rules are being used for a WWI game posted by Madottsel. He has run a WWI game using the Gruntz rules and shared some photos of the game.
I have for a while now considered buildin…
Ok, not much to see at the moment, it’s early days yet. And, being fair, it may go the way of many other projects of mine… languishing in a box in the corner of the shed, waiting for the day that it will seem shiny and new to me again (a bi…
I managed to pip a victory in the first round of the Lead Painters League with my Napoleonic French battalion command stand (many thanks to all those who took time to vote) and today we head into the second match.For this entry I’ve put forward a…
Some of the first figures I painted for this WWI project was a poignant set of castings depicting a Belgian HMG team drawing their weapon and ammunition using dog carts. I’ve had the deployed version of the team set aside for a few months now and so wh…
This saturday, 16 March, we attended LUDICA in Milan, Italy.Great show. Comics, Cosplayers, scale models, modelrailroading, model boats, boardgames…and even a small amount of wargame 
A great wargame table of Star Wars from the Naran Team and…us….
Wait, is that WWI stuff in greyscale? Yes, yes it is.Hello again to the folks at the Analogue Hobbies blog. I am happy to document via this guest post a very special game that took place recently in Winnipeg. Curt had to pop into the River C…
From Mike:The three WW1 figures are 28s from the Great War Miniatures British personality set. I bought it a few years back for the splendid padre in the set (he now graces my desk at work) but loved the other figures so much I almost got into th…
Here is another unit of greyscale troops I managed to get done while I was away. This time it’s the Jocks.The battle of Mons is relatively well known in the english histories of the Great War but few realize that there was another fierce engagement fou…
Here are two German Uhlan cavalrymen, an officer and his trumpeter, dressed in their dashing early war uniforms, quite distinctive in their flat-topped czapka helmets.These 28mm castings are from Great War Miniatures. Very nice models to work with and …
This is a post to say two things… The first one: we created a new blog page dedicated to the Marne 1914-2014 projectThis page is dedicated to the preparation of the refighting, in 6mm with Spearhead WWI, of the battle of the Marne, 1914.It will ha…
I took advantage of the ’5-4-4′ deal from Renegade Miniatures to augment my existing WWI models which were mostly from Great War Miniatures.I find these Renegade sculpts to be fairly chunky, but they have a pleasing solidness about them and possess a l…
Basing time!This a post with different topics and pics…Some based 10mm WWI, Pendraken miniatures, ready to fight with Pz8 rules…Germans… And French… And now some characters for a Three Muskeeters game, 28mm Redoubt… &nb…
From Kevin:Here after some delay are better pics of the two Mk IVs, male and female. I’ve also completed their nemesis, a German A7V, named “Nixe” purchased as a resin and metal kit from Old Glory. I was quite happy with the quality of the m…
Kevin from Digger’s Home opens his climb on the points roster with these two excellent British Mark IV tanks from the Great War.From Kevin:I’ve finally produced a finished product from my paint table: two Mark IV tanks - one “male” and one “female…
Here is Sidney’s next entry, building on his new project focusing on the titanic battles for the Verdun fortresses.From Sidney:Well, here’s my next instalment. Les Poilus sont arrivés!! Enfin!!There’s 10 gas masked late war French inf…
Dust Tactics: Operation Icarus $ 44.95 A new campaign expansion for Dust Tactics, Operation “Icarus” relates the first thrust of a major Allied assault against the Axis forces holding Zverograd’s pivotal airfield. Operation “Icarus” introduces new rules for minefields, trees, and the quonset huts in which the Axis forces await the Allied assault. Two new [...]
From Sidney:I’ve been really enjoying watching the entries arrive in the Challenge, there are some super-fast quality painters out there!Here’s a 1918-vintage polygot selection of German Stosstruppen with MP18 Bergmann sub-machine guns, a German sn…
Happy New Year ya’ll. I hope you all are looking forward to a new year of Wargaming as I am. In keeping with my theme of not staying on target, I have distracted off to WWI Air Gaming again. I purchased a few aircraft for the Italian Front. A pair o…
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…
A short post with some poor photos of the Warlord Games dead livestock which I enjoyed painting as the Ayrshire breed, spurred on by them re-releasing them while I still had an unopened blister packet from the original release. When I first saw these I…
First part of our new painting guide:This time 10mm WWI French poilùs…Here’ s an image from the Italian editionof “Soldati della Prima Guerra Mondiale”, “Soldiers of the First World War”,1990, Laurent Mirouze.A soldier of the 51 rgt, 1917.Prim…
I was on a conservator’s course the other week and while on a tour of a local museum’s artifact collection I came across these two rusting German machine guns from the Great War. The odd thing was that they were stored in amongst a bunch of antique toy…
The D-Day Memorial at Lepe, New Forest”They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.” [‘For the Fallen’…
This time first part for our painting guide for the German A7V, WWI tank.Model in 10mm by Pendraken Miniatures.We’ re expanding our 1918 armies and need some tanks,for Germans, British and French. By the way…we’ ll need some FT-17 for the US troops…..