Flames of War - 8th Army

After years of painting medieval figures for DBx and now FOG I thought I'd try something a bit different. So here we have my first atte...

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A Resurgence of Blogging?

In this post, which I admit falls into the category of "a blogger writing about blogging", I want to discuss the history of, and o...

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Mission Creep

This is quite a long post with only one picture. It chronicles how a small rebasing and re-flagging project mushroomed into a major pie...

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DBMM For The Befuddled – Part 15

I’ve been getting my army list ready for the next round of the Northern DBMM Double League on Sunday, April 19th at Walkden. I needed t...

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Marvel Comics Library: Avengers. 1963–1965 (Bibliotheca Universalis): Amazon.co.uk: Busiek, Kurt, Kirby, Jack, Lee, Stan: 9783836599511: Books

Buy Marvel Comics Library: Avengers. 1963–1965 (Bibliotheca Universalis) 1 by Busiek, Kurt, Kirby, Jack, Lee, Stan (ISBN: 9783836599511) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery...

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ADLG: Size Matters

In my last post I looked at army performance under version 4 (V4) of Art de la Guerre (ADLG).   I made the point that, as far as the...

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DBMM For The Befuddled :: Impetuous Survey “Results”

At the end of last month I posted a short article publicising an online survey on this area of the rules. All told, 37 people took...

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Transylvanian Renaissance Hussars

Another simple post. I bought these as samples at Britcon as I am think of building a Transsylvanian ally for an Early German Protestan...

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15 mm Medieval Baggage Tents

One of the things I found during my recent “sort out” was a pair of very old resin tents. They were hidden away in the toolbox conta...

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Landsknect Halberdiers

This week saw the completion of another mini-project. Not everything was a straightforward as I wished. First off there's the results: ...

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DBMMlist In A Tizzy

Like many wargamers I subscribe to numerous Yahoo! groups and they are often helpful and a source of interesting snippets and news.  I ...

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ADLG: Northern League (Eccles, 07 Nov 2021)

My return to the Art de la Guerre (ADLG) competition circuit saw me travel once again to Eccles on a cold Sunday morning for the final ...

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Painting Yellow

There's been a recent thread on WD3.4 forum on the basics of painting with acrylics using a black undercoat. My contribution was my fav...

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ADLG: Northern League (Manchester, Nov 2017)

It's been a while since I wrote a competition report. In fact it's over two years! My last report was in July 2015 for the Stoke Chal...

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Yet More Fame

I sent Ian Kay of Irregular Miniatures a photo of one of my Persian camel gunners . I promised him one for his web site: ...

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DBMM For The Befuddled – Part 16

The latest cause of Befuddlement is mounted infantry. Not dismounted cavalry but mounted infantry. They are an interesting tactical opt...

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New Improved

Introduction After many years posting at least once a month, it's been six weeks since my last post. That's a long gap for me. It wa...

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Adventures In AI

Background I'm sure you've all seen the media hullabaloo about Artificial Intelligence (AI). I'm also sure you've asked yourself: what...

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ADLG: Northern League Round 4 (Manchester, 21 Sep 2025)

Introduction This was my third Northern League event in 2025. It was still dark when I got up! Winter is coming. It was also quite col...

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15 mm Early Medieval Polish Knights (Essex)

This post features something a little different: rebasing & reworked figures.  Normally I don't do either but since my work on my War...

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New Toy Time

This post is about testing my new light box. Prompted by other wargamers on social media, I bought the newly available 10" Puluz model...

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ADLG: Northern League (Manchester, Nov 2017)

It's been a while since I wrote a competition report. In fact it's over two years! My last report was in July 2015 for the Stoke Chal...

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15 mm Arab Baggage (Various)

In between painting masses of Arab infantry of various types, I've been distracted by such things as baggage tents and command ele...

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15 mm ACW Old Glory vs Warrior

In this somewhat long post I'm going to tackle the thorny issue of figure compatibility. But I'm going to start with a true wargamer's ...

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Recent Projects

New posts have been a bit scarce since early May. This is partly because I've been busy: Painting the Turkoman cavalry and Persian ...

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Rebasing Thoughts

One of my mini-projects for 2021 is to refresh, and re-flag, the command bases for my War of the Roses retinue & levy bowmen. This invo...

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So Macho?

No not the Sinitta 1985 song but something completely different. There’s been a flurry of forum posts about Field of Glory Renai...

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And Now For Something Completely Different

Over the weekend 12 –13th June  Elaine & I visited Warsaw for the wedding of our friends Matt & Karina.

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15 mm Byzantine Mounted Commanders (Donnington "Originals")

Introduction As a change of pace I've painted two command bases for my "fantasy" Byzantine project. This time they are figures specifi...

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