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Keeping busy
I'm back at work, but confess that working from home offers many distractions. Most notably the accessibility of my garage, where a bunch of toys in painted and unpainted states constantly call to me....
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Digging into the Ancients pile
Painting over the last few days has seen me finish off Craig's 'blob' of pikemen for his successor army, and move onto some Gauls.The red phalanx completedA closer shot. LBMS shield transfers, looking...
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Sorting some shade for the Spartans
These Persians are no pussies! Just because they dress like colour blind residents of Carnaby St c.1966 does not make them any less deadly. Their arrows can block out the sun... hence the title of this...
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Shiny new figures
Over the weekend I managed to finish off a number of figures, most of them intended for Mortal Gods.Skeleton archers for the forces of Hades - when I get the Mythic supplement.Two Athenians doing what...
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The Spanish make a flank attack Part 1
With something approaching normality on the horizon whereby I return to work next week, I thought I would try and sneak in a small game before hand. Deciding that I wanted to try out the changes that...
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The Spanish Flank Attack continued
After heading back to work today I decided to come home and play a few more turns of the game. It took about an hour and it was all over. This time I remembered to take a few more photos.As the Old...
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Towards a complete Spanish Town
In terms of terrain I've always largely made my own. and been satisfied with a relatively limited selection of versatile buildings, trees etc. But there are some interesting scenarios in the Scenarios...
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Church build continued
Further progress on the Spanish church, and the tall slim building for the town.From the frontAnd the backYou might notice in the background is one of my completed buildings. I've been making sure that...
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Spanish town so far
The church is finished, bar a couple of little additions that I will get to when I have the chance to find the necessary accessories.At the same time this building was completed:So the Spanish village...
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Success with the Successors
Yesterday I painted the bases on the last figures for Craig's Successor army. So I think it might be time for a parade.Pointed pachyderm on the left flankMore points - the phalanx covered by...
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Argonauts
Most of this week I spent painting 15mm Goums for Chris, but I also managed to finish off some heroes for Mortal Gods Mythic. These aren't the official figures, which are lovely, but some Black Tree...
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Dewback and Scouts
The latest figures to be finished are a Dewback and a unit of Imperial Scouts.Great character in these models. I chose the rider with the modified Lewis gun in homage to my World War One obsession.Once...
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First phase of commission complete
I'm pretty impressed with myself. I set this weekend as the due date to complete Craig's 15mm Flames of War Germans and I succeeded!Support elements for the Heer forces that I completed a while...
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Doings
Firstly, a big sorry to the online community for not replying to comments and making comments on other people's blogs. Life has been exceptionally busy recently. Today I am off work with a sore throat...
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Terrain and stuff
It's over a month since my last post, and a busy month it has been. The family took advantage of cheap camper vans and we went to Northland for the school holidays. More on that later.Wargaming wise,...
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Making the August Deadline
Over a month since the last blog post! Not that nothing has been happening. NZ went into Level 2 (Level 3 in Auckland) and shit just all got very weird again. Honestly, I can imagine that the...
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Those Crazy Brits
The Infamy, Infamy preparation continues, with 2 units of Britons and one of Numidians. Fanatics aren't in my basic army list, but they are the first cab off the rank for any extra choices my army...
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Some more participants for the Ancient Battle of Britain
This week I managed to finish another few units for Infamy, Infamy. A horse unit being only 6 figures makes them a lot easier to get completed, and the Iberian infantry with only 8 figures was also a...
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Busy times
The year started with a steady production of blog posts but things have become much busier and I now surprisingly find myself writing my first entry in 6 weeks. As always, the hobby hasn't stopped, but...
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Do you still exist?
One might well ask me that question when my last blog post was in November 2020! Did I contract some mystery illness? Did I give up wargaming for scrabble? Did I drop my phone in the toilet and never...
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Napoleonics - a love letter
I've been thinking a lot lately about the wargames that I have most enjoyed in my 35 odd years of 'proper' wargaming (using rules and dice and stuff). And the ones that constantly pop up in a cloud of...
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A bit of painting and the Epic saga
This week I had some Star Wars legion figures to finish for Craig, but I did manage to get some test figures painted for the English Civil War project.As voted for by you, the readers, they are...
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Epic beginnings
The Prussians showed up on Tuesday, and after a couple of evenings of snipping sprues I have them all based up. A few of the strips were wobbly in their bases, and a couple were completely loose, so...
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Starting over
It is hard to believe that it was 6 months ago that I began my return to blogging and Napoleonics. In that time, I have made exactly three posts - all in August last year. It isn't as though I haven't...
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WSS in Spain forces completed
It isn't Napoleonics, but at least it is horse and musket!A couple of months ago I repossessed my old Spanish Succession armies and decided to finish them off so that I had 10 battalions, 6 cavalry, 4...
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