This is a 1/72 scale American Civil War project for Sharp Practice. I will be building two small forces, one for the Union and the other for the Confederates using Italieri and Hat models I bought several years ago at […]

On July 4th, 2026, Americans will celebrate 250 years of independence. This long-term project is the way to get there. I have been interested in the history of the creation of the United States for a very long time and […]

Starting the painting for the Clash of Katanas army. It is going to be rather large as I basically bought everything Samurai from the Perry twins. I did want some mounted samurai with Umi, and had to find them from […]

Borders Wars: Under a Reiver Moon is a new skirmish game for raids by the Border Reivers in the mid to late 1500s on the Borders of Scotland and England. Like many periods throughout history, the outlaws have been romanticised […]

A project to help me focus, and push forward with the game.

For a long time I have been sat on two boxes of Perry's Wars of the Roses Infantry. I think they were free with a magazine subscription. I want two late medieval armies to battle it out. Nothing historically accurate […]

I am going to clean up the awful first attempt at painting US airborne from years ago and finish this army.

The game SAGA has been of interest to me for years, but I’ve never taken it beyond just an interest. My young son (just turned 13) is now expressing a desire to do some wargaming more seriously, and has a […]

Waffen SS Charlemange Army based around the defence of Berlin where they worked alongside the Hitler Youth and the 11thh SS Panzer division. they will be done in Oakleaf camo, as I imaine them in the initial battles in around […]

At weekend I brought the Latest Edition of Two Hour Wargames 'Nut's WW2 game and thought I've got a lot of Freebie Wargames Illustrated Sprues, so why not do a bit of squad based WW2 gaming g with the Freebies […]

I love bolt action, but never play it. I have a gaming group, but transporting everything has become very impractical. So I want to try it in 15mm. Here's my Project so far.

I bought this on a whim during a visit to the Warlord Games HQ store and it has thusly sat on a shelf quickly inching its way towards my "Pile O' Shame"... Fast forward a few months and I find […]

Showing my process for Painting a large British 8th army. Currently the army will mainly consist of infantry along with a Humber from the gentleman's war starter set. I have also picked up the British 8th Starter army so it […]

. Pay What You Want for outpost palisade + village Walls . 100% supports free for FDM printing . All files ready for download . OpenLOCK system

Painting up all the figures for the Baron's War: Outremer.

Lets paint up a whole horde of 17th century sailors

Time to jump on the Blood & Plunder bandwagon that's taking over BoW.

Rob talked me into doing this, what have I done!!!! Rob ‘suggested’ we go to a Mortem et Gloriam tournament, have the rules but haven’t had a go of it yet, thanks Covid!!! Have a 6 point Viking Saga (Gripping […]

A selection of battle reports from the games I have been involved with.

Historical gaming? I avoid it like the plague mate. All those gatekeepers in the community, no thank you. Army painting? Takes me long enough to do a Stargrave crew, let alone an army. So why do I keep eyeing up […]

This is my islands table, built with pirate shenanigans in mind, but I guess it could work for anything.

On Saturday April 22nd, 2023, the South London Warlords will be hosting the Salute Wargames show at ExCel in London. At this show the Friends of General Haig (FOGH) gaming group will be demonstrating the Battle of Dirschau/Tczew 1627, between […]

Gustav II Adolph, King of Sweden, was one of the key military innovators of the early 17th century. During his reign he constantly sought to improve his army (and navy) to support his policy of making Sweden a ‘great power’. […]

This is a IDF diorama in 1/72 scale. I have had these models for years, and this year I want to try and focus more on older models than on newly bought miniatures. My goal is to wither away at […]

Another project revisiting my past, in the ancient past (70's) my first 25mm ancient army was a Later Carthaginian mostly made up of Garrison and Lamming figures, now its time to recreate it. A Carthaginian force will initially be used […]

Two Perry ACW Battle in a box sets hit the field.

A fun little diorama to wish you all a Merry Christmas

Building the 40 year anniversary edition of the famous U96 in 1:144 from Revell

Turning an historical event into a game to be played by a bunch of folk in the museum industry who have no background of miniature games.

Our local gaming group is play testing a campaign system for Clash of Spears. Bradicles is one of my starting characters and this is his story.

Several years ago, I got into Saga... I created a Scottish Warband. Now several years later having never used my warband in a game of Saga, it has just been gathering dust. Then recently it was announced that in early […]

So after UKGE 2022 I decided to commit to a bolt action army, after much analysis paralysis and peer pressure I decided to jump for 1 thousand points of British Airborne from the starter army. Having built the majority of […]

This project will be similar to my Bolt Action in the Pacific project. I’ll be posting photos of various models and terrain I’ve built for the Eastern Front, something I’ve been doing for the past 4/5 years!

I actually started this project numerous years ago, it got added too at the D-Day Bootcamp, and now with Bulge BriI can try and Finish it

Covering OVER 40 tables we take a look at the games on offer at this years The Other Partizan. Once again, a fantastic show, busy and bustling atmosphere with some stunning displays and traders aplenty.

Just a quick project that involves nearly no painting whatsoever

Starting a Takeda Clan army for CLash of Katanas, with heavy use of Perry Miniatures Samurai Range, the only ones that aren't Perry are the A&W Mounted Samurai Archers. It's strange that the Perry Brothers don't have Mounted Samurai Archers...

This project is just going to be a photo-dump of my finished Afrika Korps army for Bolt Action.

02 Hundred Hours is a skirmish wargame focusing on night-time raids in World War II. Inspired by classic war movies as well as historical events, battles are fast paced with roughly 10-20 models on either side. Field an elite force […]

Time to return and finish off my collection for an old game that I have had for a long time.

The plan is to build a Qing army that covers the period from 1800 to 1911, and then into the Warlord Period. It will include background material on the various conflicts during this time that will include the Opium Wars, […]

I've just bought a 3D Printer and I can finally do Flames of War in 6mm starting with the Desert