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DC delivery
Just prior to Christmas I ordered a few Heroclix figures from Strikezone online to start my DC collection. Strikezone is always pretty swift with international delivery, and I secretly hoped they would...
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Further DC goodness shows up
After yesterday's post about the present in the post, I was expecting the follow up would be a while away - after all, there was ten days between the two orders to Strikezone Online. Lo and behold, in...
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Marlburian parade
To prove that I can actually finish a wargaming project by myself, I thought I'd post evidence in the form of my Marlburian armies. Put together for the Black Powder rules, the end result was that the...
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Mothron Monday # 2
'Great comics are a work of art. Bad comics are put together late on Sunday night' - Oscar Wilde (possibly)Click on picture to read it easierThat's right. Mothron has returned in his first adventure....
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18mm Blue Moon WWI - first painted figures
I finished off two groups of WWI figures tonight. a section of British and a section of Germans. Normally I would try and paint all the same figures at once and try and knock out two groups of the same...
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Upgrading the 1973 armies
All of the forces for the Yom Kippur War are now painted to a nice wargames standard. So I am revisiting them a few at a time to perform an 'upgrade' to their paint job. This essentially consists of...
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Zatanna Heroclix repaint
Well, here she is. All repainted.She suffers from the same problem as a lot of the early female Heroclix in that the face is not particularly well sculpted. Just look at that chin! I've done my best...
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Mark V tank
Thought that I would get this 15mm beauty out for a test paint. I'm quite pleased with the results so far - nice and grimy.Blue Moon Manufacturing Mk V Male tankI haven't added any markings yet, as I...
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Wherein I join the wargames fashion police
I am the last person that would consider joining the ranks of the WFP (Wargames Fashion Police). My Marlburians were painted up 'near enough'. My Revolutionary French have any old flag because the...
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Last night was games night
The Rotorua Irregulars haven't got together for a good while (as befits our name), so we thought that we would organise a Fast Flames tourney evening. There were eight of us playing (if you count Chris...
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Mothron Monday #3
Today - Mothron realises that he is needed!Yay! Mothron is on his way!
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Austrian Regiment 39 - Nadasdy
Here is the latest unit for the French Revolutionary Wars, the Hungarian infantry regiment Nadasdy.Nadasdy regimentAnd a close upFor the first time in ages I tried to speed up the painting process by...
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Battle of Beckstein - set up
One of the reasons behind this blog is to motivate me to play a few more games solo, so I have officially made Friday wargames night. In order to get through a game in a relatively short space of time,...
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Battle of Beckstein - the game
August 1794 and the French avant-garde under General Maladroit catches up with the Austrian rear-guard under Erzherzog Helmut (a distant cousin of the Hapsburgs).The first thing that the French do is...
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Heropress competition entry - the Hand
One of the blogs that I really enjoy following is Heropress and this month Tim decided to run a competition. The idea was to construct some sort of story around this:What am I?It could be games stats,...
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World War One Wednesday
German cavalry during the spring offensive 1918I thought I would start a new featurette, which is to post a picture or two related to WWI. I thought I'd start with one of my favourite images from Joe...
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CanCon 2013
Not to be confused with Cancun, CanCon features significantly less bikinis (in fact if the frequenters of Cancon wore bikinis it would probably cause temporary blindness and permanent insanity in all...
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Friday night was games night
Once again we scurried, hopped and crawled our way over to John's place for another Irregulars Games Night. Once again we broke out the Flames of War 3 game tourney, but this time using Late War lists....
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I must have these!
'Ohh - shiny' does not even begin to describe it. Unlike Empire of the Dead which, despite its late Nineteenth Century setting, was just too horror for me to get my teeth into, this is right up my...
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World War One Wednesday
Photos of the dioramas at the Australian War Memorial. Apologies for poor photography.GallipoliMore GallipoliPalestinePalestineTurkish gun and TurkLight horse chargeMont St QuentinMore Mont St QuentinI...
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