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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]