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. [...]
Painting & Modelling
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, [...]
Miniature painting in 2017
It’s fair to say that my painting output in 2017 has been somewhat sporadic. It started off well enough – I received a number of units for my Planetfall Terran [...]
‘Rebel’ warband for Test of Honour
You may remember that back in September I painted a warband for the Test of Honour Warring States day with an Star Wars Imperial theme. Well, thanks to #hobbystreak I have [...]
Review: Asset Drop subscription box
Rating: I recently ran a news item about a brand new subscription box service – Asset Drop. Andy from Asset Drop very kindly offered me the November box to review [...]
Hobby Streaks – accountability on Twitter
We have spoken in the past on the blog and podcast about ‘painting mojo’ and various ways of trying to maintain hobby output – back in 2015, Henry Hyde [...]
Test of Honour – Painting a warband for Warring States event
It’s fair to say that my painting has been somewhat stalled over the past few months – I haven’t really done anything since building scenery for our [...]
Kenneth’s Heroes – Building the board, Part II
Over the past few weeks, Dave Luff and I have been scratch-building scenery for our “Kenneth’s Heroes” game for Operation Market Larden, which is being held [...]
Kenneth’s Heroes – building the board, Part I
Dave Luff and I are putting on a game for Operation Market Larden 5, a wargaming event being held in Evesham in a few weeks time. We are once again running a Big Chain of [...]
The best laid plans…
With Test of Honour from Warlord Games due for release at the end of next week, I had been planning for a while to produce a series of articles in the coming week on [...]
Samurai – what scale of warfare?
When it comes to gaming in the period of the Samurai, one thing is certain – we have a wide range of miniatures to choose from, whether it be large battles or small [...]
A happy accident
In history, it’s amazing how many discoveries are made by accident: Telfon, Play-dough and every modeller’s tool – Super Glue. All were discovered / [...]
Barwell Bodyworks Airbrush / painting workshop
I had the dubious pleasure earlier this year of turning 50. My wife asked me what I wanted for my birthday, and whilst the idea of driving a tank appealed, getting stuck [...]
On the painting table – 31st January 2017
With one thing and another, I didn’t quite keep up with my 30-minute-a-day painting schedule like I’d hoped – I only managed a couple of evenings last [...]
On the painting table – 24th January 2017
It’s the end of the first week of the 30-minute-a-day painting challenge that I set myself, so time to check on my progress. At the start of last week, my painting [...]
On the painting table – 19th January 2017
My model painting stalled at the end of September last year – there wasn’t a particular reason for it, I just always seemed to have something else to do! Whilst I [...]
Review of 2016 -Painting & Modelling
Despite the fact that my hobby production dropped off dramatically in the last quarter of 2016, given my lack of production in previous years, I’ll take this year as a [...]
On the painting table w/c 26th September 2016
Following a week in which most of my free time was taken up with podcast editing, I have actually managed to apply some model paint – not much, but at least I’ve [...]
