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 [...]
15mm Gaming
What is the best scale to wargame?
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 [...]
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 [...]
Empires at War – 15mm range
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 [...]
Review: Bushi No Yume
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 [...]
Najelwitz Modellbau – new 15mm resin desert buildings
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 [...]
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 [...]
15mm World War II British vehicles from Gaming Models
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 [...]
White Dragon Miniatures – 15mm Sci-Fi & Shattered Void
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 [...]
New 15mm models coming from Plastic Soldier Company
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 [...]
Hobby News Round-up: w/e 20th January 2017
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. [...]
Hobby News Round-Up: w/e 6th January 2016
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 [...]
Kickstarter Round-up – 18th November 2016
After a week off, there are LOTS of wargaming & boardgaming Kickstarter projects to catch up with. I hope you’re sitting comfortably, as this may be a long [...]
Spartan Games discovers that 24 hours is a long time in wargaming, never mind politics…
On Wednesday, Spartan Games published a blog announcing plans for a new game: Dystopian Empires, with the idea of launching a Kickstarter campaign towards the end of October. [...]
Kickstarter Round-Up: 30th September 2016
Miniatures Corvus Corax Miniatures – Reinforcements Corus Corax are a Swedish company producing 35mm resin miniatures. These look interesting and a bit different. The [...]
PSC release British 25pdr with CMP Quad Tractor
Following their successful Kickstarter project earlier in the year, Plastic Soldier Company are currently releasing different variants of their British 25pdr kits. The 25pdr [...]
Kickstarter Round-up – 23rd September 2016
There are new Kickstarter projects starting every day – these are the ones that have caught my eye this week: Miniatures Greenskin Wars This Kickstarter project is [...]
Halo Ground Command – First Play
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to pop down to Spartan Games HQ outside of Shepton Mallet to play a couple of games of the new Halo Ground Command (HGC) game, plus have [...]
Dragon Rampant – Kindle Edition on offer
‘Warband’ sized games seem to be hugely popular at the moment. I’m not sure whether it’s a question of economics, space or other factors, but rules [...]
Size comparison – Battlefront vs Plastic Soldier Company 15mm Sherman Tanks
Last night I found myself putting together the plastic models that are supplied with the Tanks skirmish game. These plastic kits are from Battlefront. The construction [...]
