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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Warring States II: Test of Honour Campaign Day
A dull, wet Saturday in March saw a number of would-be-Shoguns arrive at Warlord Games in Nottingham. Warring States II was organised by the fine chaps of Infamous Wargaming, [...]
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. [...]
Review: Test of Honour Ronin
Rating: The Ronin box set for Test of Honour was one of the wave one expansions for the game. The box set allows players to field a force comprising fully of masterless [...]
Review: Test of Honour Ninjas of Iga Warband
Rating: Ninjas of Iga is the latest box set of miniatures to be released by Warlord Games for their Test of Honour Samurai skirmish game – it is the second box set they [...]
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 [...]
Warring States #2 tickets on sale
You may remember that I had a great time at the Test of Honour Warring States campaign day, organised by Infamous Wargaming a few weeks ago. Well, they are doing it all again [...]
Warring States – Test of Honour campaign day
Saturday 30th September saw twenty hopeful Warlords come together at Warlord Games HQ in Nottingham to do battle in the Warring States campaign day, an event which was very [...]
Review: Test of Honour Samurai Warband
Rating: The Samuari Warband box set from Warlord Games is one of several expansions for Test of Honour. The box contains the following: 1 plastic sprue of Samurai (5 models) [...]
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 [...]
Warring States Campaign Day for Test of Honour
You may remember that back in May I attended a Test of Honour Boot Camp event at Warlord Games in Nottingham The guys at Infamous Wargaming have got together with Warlord [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 211 – Test of Honour Review
Download Episode 211 Welcome to Episode 211 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast In this show hosts Neil Shuck, Mike Hobbs, & Mike Whitaker catch up with what [...]
Test of Honour boot camp – May 6th 2017
Fourteen gamers from across the land arrived on a somewhat damp May morning at the Headquarters of Warlord Games in the heart of Nottingham to attend the first Warlord Test [...]
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