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Just a quickie
Occasionally, one gets inspired to just throw something together, and today was just such a day. My godson Edward is six years old, son to a father who has been a medieval re-enactor for many […]
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Warmaster Ancients
Highlighting flesh… in 6mm?
Yes, I know I said I was going to move on to the clothing, but when I decided to grab an hour this evening to move things a bit further forward, I picked up the […]
Warmaster Ancients
Getting the Greeks going again
Yes, yes, “where have you been?”, I hear you cry. Well, what with getting issue 10 out the door and having the usual seasonal commitments, it’s been a while since I’ve been able to find […]
Warmaster Ancients
Prepping the Greeks
Okay, another short session tonight to start preparing the 6mm Greeks for painting. I have taken a trio of photos to show you precisely what I’ve done. In the first picture, I’ve laid out the […]
Warmaster Ancients
A change of pace and scale
After a mad couple of weeks finishing issue 9 of Battlegames (currently at the printers — see the main site for details), I feel ready for yet another change to keep me sane and make […]
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A Whiff of Grapeshot
Held at the Royal Artillery Museum, branded these days as ‘Firepower!’, this show takes place in premises within spitting distance of the River Thames in Woolwich, London. The venue itself is tremendous, rather like the […]
Whitewash City
Building Whitewash City: foundations
Guy sprang a little surprise on me this week. He had asked me a while ago whether I’d be interested in taking my Tombstone stuff along to the Brighton & Clayton Warlords monthly meeting to […]
Whitewash City
Whitewash City project part 1 complete
Good grief! This doesn’t happen very often! I’ve actually completed painting my first couple of sets of Black Scorpion Tombstone figures. This was prompted by Guy coming round on Saturday for his first game of […]
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No rest for the wicked
It’s always a temptation, whenever another issue comes back from the printers, to think “Aah, I can put my feet up for a week or two now and take a well-deserved break.” Well, issue 8 […]
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The passing of Angus McBride
We’ll be carrying a full obituary in issue 8 of the magazine, written by Angus Konstam, who collaborated with veteran brushman Angus McBride on a number of projects. I’m also grateful to the staff at […]