After reliving those saturday evenings from my child hood watching episodes of Robin of Sherwood I got curious about doing a Robin Hood game. As a Nottingham local I've had a love hate relationship with the legend. Loved it as […]

A game of Blood & Valor. US figures are a mix of Great War Miniatures and Phalanx Consortium. German figures are by Atlantic Wargames. The narrative is loosely based on an actual incident involving the US 77th Infantry Division (Liberty […]

A tale of 2 gamers, 1 has never painted before. The choice of game and theme was his.. Historical, ww2 and 28mm (he's played and enjoyed 6mm but wants to get to grips with painting the 'big' scale).. USA vs […]

A short project looking at painting up a pair of plastic brigs from Warlord Games Black Seas range.

15mm Cargo Ships for Modern Wargaming are very difficult to find, so I had to quickly kit bash one together. This is how it panned out.

In this Project Log I'll show and share my hobby adventures.

With this project I Start my first adventure in historical war-gaming. I start with the "band of brothers" starter box of bolt action. My first models: US airborne.

Trying to make my realm of battle boards useable again! 🙂 Trying out the Faux Fur method for the first time!

As I am working on by bushido table, I am planning on working with water effects for the first time ever. Not wanting to ruin my hard work, I decided to make a little experiment piece first. As long as […]

For many years I've been toying with the idea of starting an English Civil War campaign and project. This year whilst on furlough I started watching several documentaries on the subject and this prompted me to start this project.

Always wanted an Irish Saga warband. Wargames Atlantic gave me an easy route in with their new dark age Irish box. The ever awesome Gerry, with over 40 points of Irish Saga minis in his own collection, helped me with […]

Mycenaean Hoplite army starting warband. Watching a Weekender one Friday, the indie of the week was Crocodile Games. I realized that I painted one of their miniatures w/o knowing it was their line. I wanted to step out into something […]

I won a tank and Pak 40 from BoW/Rubicon a year or so back and it's been sat on my shelf waiting for an opportunity and courage for me to sit down and go all in on the hobby with […]

First visit to the FLGS in my home town since lockdown. Had to buy something to help out so went for some Gripping Beast Saxon Thegns time to paint them up.

This is a statue to inhabit the empty cities and ruins of a WW2 gaming map

Saw Mortem Et Gloriam on OTT and thought it looked interesting, so got the rules and one of the new Plastic Soldier Company Pacto Box to make a starter army. Clearly I am doing the classic thing of getting into […]

A painted, late war, NWE Britsh Army for FoW. Based around the 50th division's DLI and units they, likely, saw post D-Day.

This project will show my progress through Black Seas. I am planning on building 2 fleets, 1 English from the Warlord Games models and 1 Dutch, which will be 3D printed models from Henry Turner mostly.

A 15mm Classical Indian Army for ad Mortem et Gloriam. Minis sourced from multiple manufacturers including Essex, Magister Militum, and Xyston. Painted with a combination of contrast and traditional paints.

Having been a fan of Sharp Practice, I was very happy to see Too Fat Lardies were releasing a rules sets for ancients. Having never dabbled in this period before, I quickly watched the Lardies' youtube videos about what was […]

Hi, I backed the Maiden Pledge of the Joan of Arc Kickstarter. Playing and painting this set has been on hold since arrival. JoA still hasn’t finalized its rules. I have been wanting to introduce RanknFlank to my son who […]

My first attempt on building a 28mm napoleonic army using the Black Powder second edition staterset Waterloo from Warlord games. I may add some extras to properly build up the two forces.

My foray into 6mm, after probably a year of umming and ahhing I decided to jump in and grab some 6mm ACW

I'd really like to have roads for my war games that actually sit on the contours of the board. It's just more immersive. This project looks at my mistakes in getting to a solution that's cheap and simple

my dive into 10mm historical / fantasy

Quick conversion - plastic Perry Mahdist Ansar into generic looking 19th century Indian levies.

After me yapping about wanting to do an ACW army a few of us decided to paint up a few regiments for a game of Black Powder, the idea being to come together with a brigade each for a battle. […]

Me and my girlfriend are building and painting the battle of berlin bolt action set and extra terrain and minatures. It is her first piece of painting and building and soon gaming she has done.

This used to be my Dark Age/Fantasy Building post, but having recently been inspired by Modiphius's Cohors Cthulhu rpg Kickstarter, I dug out my unnfinished Sarissa Precision Roman Villa inn, originally bought for Runequest, for which it will still be […]

In the Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943), Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia. Marked by fierce close-quarters combat and direct assaults […]

Documenting my progress on collecting and painting 15/18mm Napoleonic miniatures. This started with challenging myself to try my hand at painting miniatures at a smaller scale, and to look at a historic setting rather than fantasy or Sci-fi. I went […]

This is an account of my journey into the historical genre. **WARNING** I like to ramble, all the thoughts in my head just fall out and they are usually unfiltered!!

My first project here on OTT (so forgive me). I apologize for the project type - could only select one but is actually a two-in-one. This is will be a complete (& long) build of 3 Flames of War armies […]

Pendraken miniatures has reeled me in with their not a kickstarter for 1809 British in the Peninsula. So I picked up some French from their current range to see how I would get on with them. They arrived today and […]

This project will be a collection of all the things I build and paint for my 20mm modern stuff. Basically this will be 3 parts. A coalition force of US Marines, maybe some Special Forces, a lot of Afghan insurgents […]

I'm collecting two armies in 10m to recreate the battle of Quatre Bras the prelude to Waterloo. This will be for the Blackpowder game system. I've never painted minis this small before but I think the battle can be better […]

Nam 68 is a Vietnam wargame currently in development by Warwick Kinrade. This project will follow thr development of the game and the playtest forces as both develop. Nam 68 will focus on a single US platoon and its 12 […]

As a longstanding FoW player I was eventually tempted while at club to give WW3: Team Yankee, the new edition, a go. After a quick survey of what nations others played I decided to dabble with Soviets. The project began […]

Delving into some modern history with a bit of tabletop RPG wargaming

I got bored, watched some FoW videos, and then next thing I know, I've bought two army starters.......

With the release of Blood and Valor I have revisited my old collection is Great War miniatures originally used with Warhammer historicals Great War ruleset and giving them a spring clean and looking at the difference between the two systems

Hello, While I‘m still on the 15mm train I want to show you the progress on both armies within this project log. One army will be a Samurai list of the Ii clan all clad in bright red armour. The […]