Painting Tally: October 2018
October turned out to be another somewhat frugal month on the painting table… Painted: 10 I did manage to get the two Gangs of Rome mobs that I needed for the [...]
Painting & Modelling
Through the round window
As part of my preparation for scratch building several houses for Burrows and Badgers, I have been looking for any sources of round window frames in MDF. Round windows seem [...]
Painting Tally: September 2018
My plan for September was for it to be a big follow up to my minor victory of actually getting some figures painted in August. As it turned out, it wasn’t quite as big [...]
Painting white and making cobblestones
I recently finished painting my latest Gangs of Rome miniatures. A few comments have been made about how they liked the white on the models, so I thought I would share how I [...]
Painting Tally – August 2018
August found me reconnecting with hobby time, although much of the month was spent building terrain rather than painting figures: creating bamboo forests, paddy fields and [...]
Making bamboo forest terrain
One of the iconic pieces of terrain in South East Asia and Japan in bamboo forest. These are relatively easy to model, thanks to the fact that you can order plastic model [...]
The Painting Tally: July 2018
July has proven to be another month of little progress on the painting front – due to a combination of a) The Weather and b) My son constantly using my hobby desk for [...]
Reunited with a (very) old friend
I have the best friends. No really – the very best a bloke could hope for… You may remember that in Episode 250 of the podcast, we were chatting at various point [...]
The Painting Tally: June 2018
As much as May was a bumper month, June has proven pretty much barren Painted: 1 A single Perry Mounted Samurai was painted during June (it’s the one on the right) [...]
The Painting Tally: May 2018
May has been a much better month for painting, with a number of miniatures painted, as well as some scenery (mainly trees) Painted: 40 Painted 19 Ashigaru and 21 Samurai for [...]
Plastic bonsai trees
I’ve been creating a lot of scenery for Sengoku period Japan recently, and I was looking for different ideas for trees, other than using plastic bamboo to make bamboo [...]
The Painting Tally: April 2018
April has not been a good month for hobby output. I’ve been messing around with a few MDF kits, but haven’t really got much done – certainly no miniatures [...]
Pimping ‘Half Moon Jacket’
I backed the Kickstarter for ‘Full Moon Jacket’ last year. If you aren’t aware, Full Moon Jacket is a boardgame that has US forces fighting Werewolves in [...]
Star Wars Legion – an inspiring day of gaming
One of the joys of our hobby is the social aspect of getting together to game. I can’t remember the last time I had a game with Rich Jones, so when he suggested getting [...]
The Painting Tally: March 2018
March was a good month for painting, as I constructed and painted this entire terrain table for Test of Honour, which included over 4 feet of walls, corners and gates, a [...]
The Painting Tally: February 2018
It’s been a very meagre month for miniature painting… Painted: 2 I only managed to finish two figures this month – a couple of Japanese Monks from Perry [...]
Town Planning
There is one thing that as miniature wargamers we cannot get away from – we all need terrain over which to fight. Luckily, we seem to be in a golden age for terrain. [...]
Bringing Rome to life
It is perfectly possible to play our wargames on a table populated with roads, buildings and vegetation. However, it looks so much better if the terrain has a ‘lived [...]
The Painting Tally: January 2018
Last weekend I finished painting my first figures of the new year. After tweeting a picture, one of my followers, @NeilHughes71, came back to me with the following question: [...]
2018 Painting Project Plan
“Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.” Winston Churchill It’s always dangerous when planning painting projects for the coming year, [...]
