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Derek's Wee Toys Blog

Review of 2022

2022 was a busy year for gaming, I fitted in 101 miniatures games in the course of the year and 36 boardgames. Building a permanent table in my study has...

Plans for 2022

Games I’m going to be ambitious this year and aim for 100 gaming sessions, including at least 52 involving miniatures. I’m on target so far with nine sessions in January....

Warcry Warbands

I’ve been playing rather a lot of Warcry recently, it’s a really enjoyable skirmish game and I think it’s the best game that Games Workshop have published in recent years....

Decals for 6mm Samurai

Since I started selling my range of Samurai decals I’ve been asked a few times if I could make them for 6mm, notably those for the lovely models from Baccus...

Review of 2021

2021 was a year of change for me.  I retired from full-time employment in November 2020, started collecting my pension, and found myself with plenty of time to indulge in...

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...

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....

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)...