Flexible Sabot System
. One of the good things that comes from spending fifty plus years in the wargaming hobby is that you build reserves of toys which you can repurpose and use...
Derek's Wee Toys Blog
Building a Wargames Table
For many years I’ve wanted to get myself a permanent wargames table at home, but we’ve just not had the space. Earlier this year my son Duncan got himself his...
Ten New Samurai Decals
Ten new patterns of samurai decal are now available for sale in the Derek’s Wee Decals store. That makes 80 different patterns available for use by Samurai wargamers and modellers....
Heraldry for Samurai Skirmish Wargames
Having got my range of samurai decals on sale I thought I’d write a brief article about different ways they can be used to make interesting forces for Samurai Skirmish...
Samurai Heraldry Resources
I’ve been doing a lot of reading about Samurai heraldry as part of the process of designing the waterslide decals I have on sale here and I thought I’d share...
Ossiarch Bone Reapers for Warcry
I do like my undead, so I’ve been putting together warbands of them for Warcry. I’ve finished warbands for Nighthaunts (ghosty boys), for the Legions of Nagash (ordinary looking skeletons)...
Undead Space Marines
I do like my skeletons, so I’ve made some undead space marines? Wargames Atlantic Skeleton Warriors come with extra heads and they fitted fine.
Nurgle Warband
I painted this lot up for use with Games Workshop’s Kill Team, but I played the game once and didn’t really like it. I have used them in a game...
Stargrave – My Robots
In the search through my unused science fiction miniatures I came across a number of the pre-painted Star Wars Miniatures that were sold by Wizards of the Coast between 2004...
Stargrave – Crew of the Beltalowda
Over the past couple of years I’ve been enjoying playing small skirmish games in several periods with rules like Warcry from GW and a Fistful of Lead games from Wiley...
Gauls for Infamy! – an army in a month.
February 2021 was a very productive month for me on the painting front. At the start of the month I had 30 Victrix Gallic Warriors built and undercoated and a...
Undead Samurai
As a wargamer who has hundreds of undead figures for fantasy armies and likes samurai for historical games I have always been attracted by the Undead Samurai range Zenit Miniatures...
Plans for 2021
Games My aim for 2021? 52 gaming sessions – at least one per week online or face to face. Covid has left me with a few completed forces that I’ve...
