Review – Wargames Terrain and Buildings, The Napoleonic Wars.
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 [...]
Terrain
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 [...]
Tim Eagling – Builder of Worlds
As you may be aware, we launched ‘The Meeples Challenge’ on episode 251 on the podcast, and I chose Burrows and Badgers, but not only painting models but building [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Review: Sarissa Precision 28mm Japan MDF terrain
Rating: Sarissa Precision Ltd are a company that produce high quality MDF terrain in various scales at a mid-range price. This review is looking at their Japan range of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Core Space – new sc-fi skirmish game launches on Kickstarter
Core Space is the new sci-fi skirmish game from Battle Systems, which is currently funding on Kickstarter. Battle Systems have previously run four very successful kickstarter [...]
Review – Cigar Box Battle Plush Gaming Mats
Rating: Cigar Box Battle produce a number of different styles of terrain mat (we interviewed Chris Ward and Cory Ring from the company in Episode 221 of the Podcast) One of [...]
Warbases – new MDF releases
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 [...]
Cigar Box Battle – Double-Sided Plush mats Kickstarter launches
As we recently discussed in our interview with Chris Ward and Cory Ring in episode 221 of the podcast, Cigar Box Battle have launched a Kickstarter project to produce a [...]
Cigar Box Battle Kickstarter – video previews
In podcast episode 221 we spoke to Cory Ring and Chris Ward from Cigar Box Battle, and we talked about their forthcoming kickstarter to produce double-sided plus battle mats. [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 221 – Cigar Box Battle
Download Episode 221 Welcome to Episode 221 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast The Meeples crew get together once again to talk about what they have been up to, which [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 218 – TMTerrain
Download Episode 218 Welcome to Episode 218 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast The Meeples crew get together once again to talk about what they have been up to, [...]
Last 24 hours for Terra-Formers kickstarter from Sally 4th
We recently mentioned the Sally 4th Terra-Formers Kickstarter project on the podcast. This project has just entered it’s final day. The premise of the project is to [...]
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 [...]
Deep Cut Studios release more mats for Runewars Miniatures Game
Over the past few weeks, you may have picked up the fact that I’m a bit of a fan of the new Runewars Miniatures Game from Fantasy Flight Games. One thing is typical, [...]
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 [...]
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