Shapes of Things to Come...
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Battle of Lutzen: action joined on the wings
As it will be a day or two or three before I get my battle narratives
done, methought to offer here by way o...
Never Fight Uphill me Boys!
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Here as promised are the finished Belgians parading for your inspection.
They don't represent any particular unit and as I don't intend to paint any
more...
Bed B, Side Room 4, Ward 22 (Part 4)
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My sleep was yet again rather spasmodic. I fell asleep just after midnight,
but was woken up at around 2.30am by flashing yellow lights that were
outside...
Terrain ideas for gaming
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I’ve been painting more of my backlog of Mark’s Little Soldiers. Now the
mountain troops are done ( five infantry to a unit/ per hex and officers on
2p ...
A Zieten Figure Does Exist - Minden Miniatures
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A couple of days ago I was rather gobsmacked to to look at my Facebook feed
and read a post by someone lamenting the lack of a von Zieten personality...
Farewell to Shogun
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*I am unsure what the Japanese for ‘a bit like the curate’s egg’ is but the
good parts were very good indeed!*
A day later than usual I managed to watch ...
Carry On!
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At a time like this, there's nothing like carrying on like usual.
My ACW armies have not been out in some 18 months, the only active
collection that has...
Retrospective: Kara-Tur: The Eastern Realms
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I remember being very excited about the imminent release of the *Oriental
Adventures *in 1985*. *Aside from the obvious reason – the introduction of
play...
All change!.
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Due to vast amounts of unwanted attention I am taking this blog down
permanently. But fear not, I have copied most of the posts onto a new blog My
"Old ...
Decepticon Medic
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After playing the first game of Xenos Rampant with this guy's and using the
Medic rule for the Autobots, I thought it would be a good idea to create a
D...
ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 72
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This drawing by James Montgomery Flagg is as confident and brash as Flagg
himself.
The drawing is large-- nearly 30 inches (76 cm) and appears to have be...
Blood on the Sands at ShireCon
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Had a great day at ShireCon, or the Little MOAB, as I like to call it. Had
a lot of interested people play a game or two and got to play test some new
g...
I have been to... HMS Warrior
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Time for another update..
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Time to take advantage of my yearly dockyard ticket, this time with a visit
to HMS Warrior...
New Nassau Infantry from Frank
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Our Hobbymate Thomas Mischak asked Frank to sculpt him some Nassau
Grenadiers for his Waterloo project.
These figures will be available from Hagen soon...
Foxholes
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I found a bag of these resin-cast troops in foxholes in a batch of stuff I
was given a couple of years ago. A few weeks ago I decided to try painting
so...
Traffic Chaos on the Autobahn.
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A collection of no less that 5 of the Tantobie Warfare and Tactical Society
met last Saturday at our new venue of Stanley Masonic hall. (Does the
change of...
Easter Big Game - Grave to Nijmegen - Days 3 and 4
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Easter Monday past by very quickly and I failed to take enough pictures of
the action. At last Guards Armoured had arrived but their progress was
slowed by...
An Italian Wars scenario for Pike and Shotte
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What follows is a short report on a recent game at Steve's. It is over
two years since an Italian Wars game featured on the blog, so a
reappearance was...
Battlemasters with Kinchlets
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*"Pay attention Sir Harry, the Hun is here, here and here." - LadyBaby*
Finished up a practice game of the old MB Games/Citadel miniatures game
Battlemast...
Merry Christmas 2023 and Always
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This painting arrived as a Christmas card a few days ago. It is the most
beautiful depiction of love and adoration of Jesus by heavenly angels and
his...
Very Sad News
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I'm very sorry to be making this post but I've just learned that Dale past
away from a heart attack on November 5th.
Most of my relationship with Dale wa...
Happy Birthday Joseph Morschauser III
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Another year is almost in the books and today is Christmas Day… This isn’t
a Christmas story, but it is a story (article) written by a man born in New
York...
Trying Something New
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Based on what I said last time, I’m going to try out something new. Check
out my posts at Medium – one test you can ignore, one discussion of why I
chose t...
Wargaming the interwar period
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*CROSSPOSTED FROM WARGAMING MISCELLANY*
This year’s VCOW (Virtual Conference of Wargamers) took place over the
weekend, and I was able to take part in se...
The Constantinov Regiment
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Whilst I have, for the most part, 'moth-balled' my Classic Wargaming
collection over the past few years, occasionally I get the urge to dip back
into it....
Alas - no more ....
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After a lot of thought I have decided to stop my gaming project in the
Caribbean for the foreseeable future.
The bulk of the completed units will become in...
The Fritz Leiber WIKI - [Currently Reading]
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---------- The Fritz Leiber WIKI Welcome to the Scrolls of Lankhmar. It
contains information on the writings of and also the RPG Guide to Nehwon,
which is ...
A Tale of Two Battles - Part the Second
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After the battle recorded in the previous post, I felt I had unfinished
business with Paul and his Russians, so I challenged him to a game the
followin...
Problems with Jackson Gamers Web Site
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We are having problems accessing and updating the Jackson Gamers web site.
Evidently the main page has been "stolen" by a French language pharmacy
site. ...
Hot Reception
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Gun and crew by Hinchliffe (SYW range)Christmas is an anxious time if
you're Hessian - but this year we're ready for you Mr Washington!
Battlegroup Tobruk Goes Strong into the Desert
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Pavlov's dogs, famously, were conditioned to salivate when hearing a bell
which they associated with food. I have been similarly conditioned to
associate...
Happy Winter Solstice!
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I decided I might as well face the truth, that this blog and project is
pretty much over and done. It was fun while it lasted, but my gaming
interests lie ...
Sky Pirates of Venus - Teaser
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Sky Pirates have been the scourge of the Worm Empire of Venus for years,
and the Great Worm has had enough! He sends a team of four crack worm
commandos to...
Stephen King’s Threshold
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“There is probably no dedicated fantasy fan in America who doesn’t have at
least one of those distinctive black-bound volumes upon his or her shelf .
. ....
High time...
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It is high time I posted here again. The project has stalled. Last night I
decided to have a read of book 2 after many years away from it. It begins
so wel...
La Passeggiata
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Artist: ItalianTitle: La *Passeggiata*
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Deadbeat Advertiser?!?!?!?
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I just noticed that I have been listed as a deadbeat advertiser at The
Miniatures Page. I asked Mr Armintrout over 12 months ago to cease the
advertising d...
Memories, Tangents and the Power of the Pastoral
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*Charles Stadden 30mm BEF released fifty(ish) years ago*
It occurs to me that wargaming the Great War is not going to be a straight
forward thing.
L...
Second World War comparisons on "World War 20mm"
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Piers Brand has recently posted a side by side shot of several figures
painted in his inimitable style. They represent a number of different 20mm
metal ma...
Byzarbia at Ayton Game.
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Once again it's been a while, though in my defence I plead that I have been
busy painting figures for our second Ayton Weekend Game, even forgoing two
of o...
Buy my e-book and save the police (again!)
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*Wasting Police Time** is now available on Kindle.
You don't need a Kindle itself to read it - you can download an 'app' onto
your iPad/laptop/whatever.
U...
10 of the most beautiful things I've ever seen
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1. The sun setting over a still sea, woven to silk, and the swimmers,
silhouttetted wading back to the shore like merman returning to land.
2. My br...
Why the WAR OF 1812?
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I just received two of the more recent Osprey Men-at Arms books on the War
of 1812 in the mail the other day (not really that recent - 1998 and
2000...but...
I've been working nights for the week and have had little chance to do much of anything, domestic concerns have held sway. The Tyranny of work, study and home as been near total.
I was sent the above video the night before last and it cheered me mightily.
There has been little progress on the wargaming front, though I intend to make some inroads into my Indian project during my next few days off and get my Waterloo PBEM campaign in order.
I have yet to pick a name for my Indian kingdom and have done relatively little reading for the project beyond casting an eye over the Osprey on the battle of Assaye. I think Donald Featherstones "Colonial Warfare: India" and the always fascinating "Encyclopedia of 19th Century Warfare" by Byron Farwell will be my first ports of call. What I think I'll do is work out what sort of games I want to play, then puzzle out what sort of military establishment will allow me to play those games and then design the principality to suit.
Based on what I've read thus far, I think my hypothetical Raja will have a force made up of...
Compoos - Indian troops drilled in the European style with battalion guns.
Bargirs - Heavy cavalry with lances, mail, etc.
Silladars - Medium (?) cavalry, a sort of light cavalry under discipline.
Pinadari - Rampaging cossack types, who fulfill the traditional role of hussars without the magnificent hats.
War Elephants - The need I feel for one of these defies all reason and sense.
Sredni Vashtar Cultists - These gentry will almost certainly bear a striking resemblance to the Kali cultists from Temple of Doom.
That's brilliant!..."more intelligent kind of girl"...right, I've finished setting them out according to my 'Generalship', time for a fag!
I am supposed to have some of his collection in mine, I bought some 20mm Merten from Stad's in the States which he stated were from the sale of Peter's stuff, but there was no provenance when they arrived, the lot didn't bear much relationship to Stad's description and couldn't be tied to the original (Christie's - I think?) lot descriptions either, but it's nice to think I have some!
Anyone recognize either the paints he was using, or the reference booklets, 'cause they weren't Osprey?
That's brilliant!..."more intelligent kind of girl"...right, I've finished setting them out according to my 'Generalship', time for a fag!
ReplyDeleteI am supposed to have some of his collection in mine, I bought some 20mm Merten from Stad's in the States which he stated were from the sale of Peter's stuff, but there was no provenance when they arrived, the lot didn't bear much relationship to Stad's description and couldn't be tied to the original (Christie's - I think?) lot descriptions either, but it's nice to think I have some!
Anyone recognize either the paints he was using, or the reference booklets, 'cause they weren't Osprey?
How is Mrs. Kinch doing? Hopefully things are progressing in a positive direction.
ReplyDelete-- Jeff
That is so cool! And old school. :)
ReplyDeleteI like the line about it being like chess but more exciting. :D
Ah, Sredni Vashtar. I had nearly forgotten about that bit of Saki. What a great name for an evil cult in the subcontinent!