Perry and Warlord Russian Napoleonic infantry
It seems a bit strange to be posting pictures of my latest efforts from an hotel room in Amsterdam but its better than falling asleep. We arrived here 2 days ago and the jet lag is quietly receding...
View ArticleA Riot of Colour
Not quite what you might have been expecting I suppose, I just thought that I’d post a few pictures that I took at Keukenhof Gardens in Amsterdam a few days ago. The pictures above are from the...
View ArticleLest we Forget
As I previously mentioned I’m currently on a Rhine river cruise and my next intention had been to make a post about castles – it seems only fair as I’ve seen so many! However, we took an excursion...
View ArticleABC or Another Bloody Castle
Today we start the first leg of the journey home with a journey to Nottingham. This will entail a stop off at the Partizan show tomorrow and hopefully a visit to Warlord Games and Wargames Foundry on...
View ArticleSpeed Painting Horses
From talking to most wargaming friends its pretty obvious that one of our most common complaints or difficulties is actually getting units finished and painted so they can be used on the wargames...
View Article15mm Prussian Napoleonic cavalry
Happy New year to all Following on from the fast paint horses post I’ve managed to finish some of the cavalrymen in the past month. I’ve completed the 2nd Dragoon Regiment, The Leib Hussar regiment and...
View ArticleMamelukes, ADCs and Prussian Command
I finally managed to paint the remaining 37 horsemen from the fast paint horse batch along with 3 additional foot I found in the spares box to make up some ADC stands and Prussian command The French...
View ArticleThe Great Wargames Room clean up
I’ve not been that productive in the paint department of late but I have at last managed to finish the 28mm Perry Russian Hussars whose horses I painted some time ago Here they are – the Izumy Hussar...
View ArticleOh Look Shiny – yet another new project and other bits
Will I ever learn? No matter how many times I tell myself I have more than enough to do and despite the fact that I already seem to have several large projects on the go in 28mm Napoleonics, 28mm SYW …...
View ArticleYet Another Diversion – Samurai
I have to ask what I’m doing again when I was supposed to be painting some ECW figures or was it 28mm SYW figures or was it Russian Napoleonics! At what about those 15mm AB Young Guard figures I just …...
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I haven’t been lazy – More Work in Progress
I’ve been quiet but I haven’t been lazy , honest though have been distracted by the Rugby World Cup, or that’s my excuse. I have been lumbering my way through another load of cavalry, this time...
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A few photos on a sunny day
Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat – and as it happens so am I! Inevitably in NZ With Christmas approaching this means that the sun comes out and there’s a chance to take photographs....
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Off the Workbench
I felt I needed a change from painting recently so decided to make a few terrain bits again with the main aim to finish some fields. I’d picked up some tufts at Partizan almost 2 years ago, I can’t...
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I should have been at Borodino!
Yesterday I should have been making my way back home from Wellington after taking part in a refight of the battle of Borodino. Instead, here I am at home like the rest of you wondering what to paint...
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Quatre Bras – a refight
Needing a change from painting, I decided I would play a solo game. I’ve wanted to replay the battle of Quatre Bras for some time and so decided to to this over the Easter holiday. This was a solo...
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The Lead Pile
I took a break from painting this afternoon and by way of motivation I decided to tally up what is in the Lead Pile. After doing this I thought it might be novel to do the opposite to what I normally...
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AB 15mm Russian Napoleonic Miniatures
Really this post should have been about a refight of D’Erlon’s attack at Waterloo. I started the game an age ago but still haven’t finished playing in yet, let alone written it up and sorted the...
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D’Erlon’s attack at Waterloo – Part 1
Well I finally got around to starting the game that I’ve been wanting to play for ages. It’s probably the first time I’ve used my “Waterloo ridge” in a game, bit of a shame that I’ve had to use some...
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D’Erlon’s attack at Waterloo. Part 2
Part two starts where I left off at the end of turn 6. From this turn onward I’ve generally been playing about a turn per week when I’ve had the opportunity. With just under a hundred units on the...
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Russian Napoleonics on parade – the great re-basing.
Thank god that’s over, I’m looking forward to picking up a paintbrush again after a few weeks of misery. I hate basing figures and so re-basing an whole army seemed particularly tedious and seemed to...
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