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...
Category: Basing
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...
Flexible Basing and Saboting (2) –turning things upside down
In a previous post here on Derek’s Wee Toys I discussed basing system I’ve been using in various forms for over 20 years for projects where I want to have...
Flexible Basing and Saboting (1) – Coins as bases
For over 20 years now now I have been basing single figures for skirmish games on 1p (20.3mm), 2p (25.9mm) or eurocent (16.25mm) coins. When I started I did it...
Guerillas for Sharp Practice 2
In Sharp Practice 2 Spanish Guerrilas can either operate as 10 man units of irregular infantry, or six man units of Irregular Skirmishers. As you can see in the picture...
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...
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...
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...
Altar of Freedom – Troops Ready
Off to SESWC to play a game of Altar of Freedom this afternoon and the Union side is ready to go. That’s two Corps each of three Divisions of three...
Altar of Freedom
The American Civil War project continues with a new order off to Pendraken, and perhaps a new game – Altar of Freedom. I’ve already got enough Union forces for use...
Picts on Sabots
I’ve had some sabot bases made for my Dux Britannarium Picts and spent part of today assembling, painting and texturing the things. I think they look quite good.
Sabot Bases for Dux Britannarium
We’ve started up a Dux Britannarium campaign at the South East Scotland Wargames Club and four of us are trying to get a game in every couple of weeks. So...
Recent Comments