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Another alarming development...
I couldn't resist buying these superbly painted minis off of chum David Imrie; they turn out to be late c. 17th French and Huguenots in Williamite service. The flags are stunning, and I love the grey...
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The second "To the Strongest" World championship
Caesar Nick plans his advance in the first TtS! championship last FebruaryThe second-ever To the Strongest! World tournament will be held on February 13th in the village hall of the village of...
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Athenians for SELWG
I've been a busy boy for the last week or so with very little time left over for blogging, but here's a shot of my painting tray, where I've just based up two units of Athenian hoplites that I bought...
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Ally Pally to Crystal Palace
On Sunday I motored from Alexandra Palace in North London to Crystal Palace in Sarf London, for what turned out to be a very enjoyable day at the SELWG show. This year I took a very portable ancients...
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II Adiutrix
This lovely unit was painted by the most illustrious Saxon Dog. It used to be Impetus-sized but David very kindly painted another 6 minis to match so that I could extend the base to the 18cm frontage I...
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Bucolic Interlude
This hill was a corner piece from the recent SELWG game; there was quite a bit of interest in it. It stands around 6" tall and is built from some old OOP foam railway terrain and features the excellent...
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I'm coming to the end of my Foundry Athenians and want to get my mits on some of the World of the Greeks Thebans, and some more Spartans. If you have any painted or unpainted that you'd like to sell...
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Sumer to Sargon
I've just uploaded a new booklet for To the Strongest! covering the Third Millennium BCE and including Sumer, Akkad and many more lists, which were largely written by mate Happy Wanderer who runs the...
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Ranking-up
Above, I've been painting some additional hoplites to provide a third rank for the three Athenian units at the front of my painting tray. Below, I've stuck 25mm extensions onto the back of the existing...
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Tell Cid
On Sunday I'm driving up to the Hereward Wargames Show in Peterborough to help Ibn el Scrivs and Santiago Morris run an El Cid Game featuring minis from their collections as seen in the wonderful...
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Valtierra 1110 AD
Yesterday I drove (through dense fog) up to the Hereward show in Peterborough to help James Morris and Scrivs lay on a fantastic game using parts of their "El Cid" collections as previously seen in the...
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Aventine archers
David Imrie very kindly sold these lovely Aventine Miniatures Hellenistic archers to me last year.I felt the original 3mm thick bases were a little too thick, so I soaked and trimmed away the MDF,...
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Terrain Boards
A friend is looking to sell these- they are unused and custom made by TSS. They are 600mm square, 20mm thick and marked with a 20cm grid. He's looking for £145 including UK P&P. Please mail me...
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53 boxes of minis loaded for a weekend of TtS at the Wargames Holiday Centre, I reckon there are just over 4000 miniatures plus terrain. Should be a riot! I am hoping that I've not forgotten anything...
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Last weekend at the Wargames Holiday Centre
Last weekend I had a super time running a weekend of To the Strongest! at the Wargames Holiday Centre with Mark Freeth and 14 gamers, many of them veterans of previous events. I'm afraid I was too busy...
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Norfolk billmen
I mentioned a while back that I have bitten the bullet and started to collect my first medieval army. These stunning minis were painted by Patrick Connor and I've unit based them on one of my new MDF...
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Norfolk bows
Here are the archer counterparts to the earlier billmen, again beautifully painted by Patrick Connor and based by me on one of my new Bat bases. Those Perry plastics are really lovely. :-) A pleasant...
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Pikes, pikes, pikes.
At the Wargames Holiday Centre I was running four games at the same time and briefly ran out of both pikemen and Hellenistic cavalry. I've therefore decided to invest in some more miniatures, below are...
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Pike Fever
It's been almost 2 weeks since my last post and this is because in the meanwhile I been modelling like a madman. Above are 2/3 of the minis that I recently bought from Craig Davey, now re-piked,...
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Pike Fever II
I'm afraid that I have been too busy painting pikes for much posting. However, here are some WIP shots of some of the units.Above are the better part of two phalanx blocks, a mix of my painting and...
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