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...
Derek's Wee Toys Blog
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...
Review of 2020
Games Played My target was one game a week in 2020 and the year started extremely well on this front. I was off work and got invited along to a...
Republican Romans for Infamy, Infamy!
Two boxes of Victrix plastics and I’ve got a Republican Roman force for the upcoming Punic Wars expansion for Infamy, Infamy! not at all bad for £60. That’s four groups...
Derek’s Wee Decals
I have been designing and laser printing waterslide decals for my own use for a number of years and now that I’ve retired from full-time employment I’ve decided to offer...
Heroes Lochos for Mortal Gods Mythic
For many years now I’ve not planned any wargaming projects that didn’t have me painting two sides for a game. There have been too many occasions in my life when...
Fun things to do with Wargames Atlantic Skeleton Warriors
I’ve been off on a skeleton kick this year and have been putting together quite a few of the Skeleton Warriors from Wargames Atlantic (WA from now on) along the...
Hades Lochos for Mortal Gods Mythic
The Hydra – I also got the Hydra model from the Kickstarter, but I’ve still to build and paint it. When I get that done I’ll have over 1,000 points...
Harryhausen Skeletons
I am a hopeless model skeleton addict. I have hundreds of the things and keep on buying them despite already having a huge collection. I blame it all on Ray...
