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...
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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...
Infamy sabots from Supreme Littleness – a review
It’s not often I write reviews on the Derek’s Wee Toys blog and I have to declare an interest here, Mike Scott, the man behind Supreme Littleness Designs, is a...
Sprucing Up “Old School” Sabots
Over the past few days I’ve written two blog posts about sabots and have taken part in several conversations on Twitter and Facebook on the same subject. There have been...