Desert War 4: Afrika Korps
Just finished rebasing my small force of Afrika Korps. That’s a Kampfgruppe based round an infantry company for Battlegroup Panzer Grenadier, or a platoon with lots of heavy support for...
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Desert War 3: British Engineers
Well they may well not fit in terribly well with the Peter Pig figures that make up the majority of my 8th Army forces, but they do look good on...
Flames of War scalecreep
A few years back, when I was making up some 15mm forces for the Normandy campaign of 1944, I chose to use mainly Command Decision figures, mixed in with some...
Desert War 2: Rebasing
My WWII Desert War project advanced this week as I manged to rebase all my 8th Army and Afrika Korps infantry, artillery and anti-tank gun stands. That’s over one hundred...
Photo Kit
A couple of people have asked me what I’m using to take the pictures on this blog. Well that’s the answer over there on the left. It’s a Nikon D70...
Battle in the Snow
Fun night at the South East Scotland Wargames Club last night when Kevan Gunn brought along his new snow themed terrain. He’s also painted and based a load of German...
Another Weekend and Another Show
I had a very good day out with my son yesterday at Conflict Scotland, a Games Workshop competion in Glasgow. Neither Duncan nor I play competition games but there were...
Rat Patrol Radio
Whilst browsing round the web looking for stuff about the Desert War in WWII I came across an internet radio station called Rat Patrol Radio which broadcasts music from the...
Desert War 1
A chance remark by Kevan Gunn last week, combined with a general increase in my level of enthusiasm for wargaming brought about largely by Cannonade 2006 (see below), has...
Cannonade 2006
Had a fun day on Saturday visiting Cannonade 2006, a wargames show run by Falkirk District Wargames Club. A new show this year it got off to an excellent start...
