Desert War Archive

Finally got to play with my desert toys last Thursday and the weekly meeting of the South East Scotland Wargames Club. Kevan Gunn had been busy over the past couple…

The wife’s been away for the weekend so I’ve had the chance to do some painting in between looking after the children. Much of my time was taken up painting…

Well I’ve been rebasing my 8th Army armour this week, but I’m not really very happy with it. I think I can paint better now than I could eight years…

Just finished rebasing my small force of Afrika Korps. That’s a Kapfgruppe based round an infantry company for Battlegroup Panzer Grenadier, or a platoon with lots of heavy support for…

Well they may well not fit in terribly well with the Peter Pig figures that make up the majority of my 8th Army forces, but they do look good on…

A chance remark by Kevan Gunn last week, combined with a general increase in my level of enthusiasm for wargaming brought about largely by Cannonade 2006 (see below), has got…