Wargames Terrain and Buildings, The Napoleonic Wars is a book written in 2019 by Tony Harwood (probably more well known by his online pseudonym Dampfpanzerwagon) and [...]
Grenzer Games has launched a kickstarter project to create a box set of 15mm scale Imperial Romans as part of their new game At Lances Point. The box is intended to contain [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Forged in Battle have just launched the third in their series of War & Empire Kickstarter projects. Having previously tackled Ancients from Early Greece through to the [...]
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 [...]
Whilst at The Other Partizan show last weekend, I had a chat with Martin and Gavin from Warbases. In recent months, changes at the company has meant that Martin has been able [...]
I have always felt that there has been something of a hole in the 28mm sci-fi vehicles market since Old Crow Models essentially ceased trading. In recent years, there have [...]
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 [...]
You’ve all seen them – the posts from those who are new to wargaming that ask the apparently simple question: “What scale should I game in?” This is [...]
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 [...]
We have spoken a couple of times on the podcast recently about Empires At War – a company that sells ready painted MDF scenery, and I have lamented the fact that they [...]
Rating: Bushi No Yume (BNY) is a set of skirmish rules for fighting in ancient Japan, using either a historical of fantasy setting. They were written in 2010 by our friend [...]
It’s typical isn’t? You visit a website looking for one thing and something new pops up… Najelwitz Modellbau – one of my favourite producers of resin [...]
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 [...]
Last week I received a parcel, very kindly sent to me by podcast listener Jon Yuengling. He’d heard Dave Luff and I chatting about this year’s project for [...]
I wanted to give a shout out to White Dragon Miniatures. I first saw this company at Salute last year, when they were promoting the launch of their Kickstarter for starship [...]
The Plastic Soldier Company have just announced two new releases for their 15mm range of vehicles: The first is the German SDkfz 231 8-rad Armoured Car, which is one of my [...]
Here are a few of the pieces of news from around the hobby that caught my attention this week: Curteys Miniatures are releasing some new Romano British Heavy Cavalry. [...]
Welcome to the new look hobby news. As I blogged about at the end of last year, I am now only reporting on hobby news once a week on the blog, in a weekly round-up on the [...]