Sabots for Sharp Practice 2
I’m involved in the play-testing of the new version of TooFatLardies‘ Sharp Practice rules and I’m enjoying it thoroughly. I can’t really say much about the details but the new...
Author: Derek
Plans for 2016
It’s that time of year again so here we go. Painting My main plan for 2016 is to paint up forces of British, French and Spanish for Sharp Practice from...
2015 in Review
In a hostage to fortune posting made on Jan 1st last year I laid out my wargaming plans for 2015 and I haven’t done too badly at getting them done....
6mm Grande Armée for Blucher – more rebasing
The Anglo-Portugese need someone to fight and I many years ago volunteered to do Poles, Westphalians and Italians for 1812 and later, while my mate Jim did all the Austrians...
6mm Anglo-Portugese rebased for Blucher
Having put together fifty stands each of 15mm Russians and French for Blucher, it was time to rebase my collection of 6mm Napoleonics. They all used to be on 2″...
Crisis? What Crisis?
Crisis in Antwerp of course. A few of us from the South East Scotland Wargames Club are off to Crisis, the Tin Soldiers of Antwerp show on November 7th where...
Baccus 6mm WWII
I was speaking to Pete Berry from Baccus 6mm at the Claymore wargames show last Saturday and he very kindly gave me a few samples from his forthcoming range of...
Galleys Guns and Glory
I’ve been involved in the play-testing of the Galleys, Guns and Glory rules from Skull and Crown. A rather jolly game with some really nice models made from laser-cut plywood. ...
New sabots for my Dux Forces
Back in 2012 when we first started playing Dux Britannarium at the South East Scotland Wargames Club I designed a set of different sabots that would allow people who base...
Lord of the Rings Rampant
I played a game of Dark Ages Lion Rampant at the club the other week and enjoyed it a lot. It all seemed a bit generic and not particularly attuned...
More 4Ground
Following my efforts trying to improve some 4Ground buildings earlier in the year Jack of the PioneerPainting blog asked me if I’d do something similar for him. I was due...
Sabots for Blucher
The oldest historical models I have in my collection date from 1983 (or thereabouts) and are some 15mm Minifigs French Napoleonics that I bought when I returned to the hobby...
