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Blue horsemen
Here are some minis I bought on eBay a while back, and retouched and rebased. They are a somewhat generic troop of Late c.17th horse, that I'll later expand to a full unit. I'm not sure what I'll use...
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Swords to ploughshares II
Here's the second in what will be a very occasional series of posts on the garden work that I'm doing when I really should be basing minis. ;-) The plan is to grow tons of vegetables that we can eat...
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Burgundian Crossbowmen
This unit of crossbowmen is my favourite Burgundian unit, so far. The Perry plastic minis were all painted by Lionel Bechara, although I did the Little Big Men Studios pavises and (with the help of Ian...
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Burgundian Arquebusiers
Here are the last of the Burgundians, for the time being, a unit of skirmishing arquebusiers painted, once again, by Lionel Bechara. These Perry plastics are superb minis- feather-trimmed hats off to...
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Swords to Ploughshares III
Garden- latest! During the current emergency I've taken a brief pause from modelling to transform the back garden into a big vegetable patch.I conscripted all the Bat-lings this weekend, for a Big...
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Venetian knights II
I've started to prepare a second unit of Venetian knights. I'm cannibalising a unit I based last year- I plan to repaint 5 of the 6 models (they weren't originally painted by me, and need some TLC),...
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Venetian knights II part 2
Four or five painting sessions haven't got me very much further, with these, I seem to be getting slower and slower, and my sessions getting shorter and shorter. :-( But the three new horses are...
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To the Strongest! 1066, unleashed online!
I'm very pleased to announce that friends and I have been able to set up an online version of To the Strongest!, for your isolation gaming pleasure! It has been developed by Antony Unwin, with Paul...
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TtS! Midsummer Madness
Midsummer Madness is a pop-up on-line To the Strongest! tournament designed to while away the isolated evenings of early summer 2020. The tournament will commence on Monday 11th May and finish on...
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Knights of Terra Firma II
Here's my second unit of Venetian knights. These are a repaint, re-base and and expansion of an earlier unit (below); they look all the better for it. They were too drab, before. There's a WIP shot,...
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Mid-Summer Madness Tournament- first game!
Last night I played the first game of the To the Strongest! 1066 online tournament against Howard Litton (Limejelly3). I drew Harald Hardrada's Norwegians (ie Vikings), and Howard drew King Malcolm's...
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Midsummer Madness- Week 1 results!
We've been running the online To the Strongest! 1066 online tournament for a week, and, so far, ten players have played eight games between them- which is a super start.Here's a shot from a game I...
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Everything coming up (bar) roses
A brief digression from wargaming. The garden has been a rare beneficiary of lock down. This new bed has cabbages, red cabbages, green beans, broccoli cauliflower and a solitary courgette plant. It had...
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Coustilliers
I've not been painting much, recently, but am just getting back in the saddle. Here are some minis painted my chum Shaun McTague for me, that I've just done a wee bit of additional highlighting, and...
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Coustilliers II
Last night, I couldn't resist starting to base most of the finished coustilliers up with their knights. Here are a couple of quickly snatched photos. In the front are two units of 18 Venetian...
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TtS! 1066 Online Tournament- the Final Results!
Congratulations to Andy Lyon, our new Bretwalda, who won the TtS! 1066 online tournament, and commiserations to Antony Spencer, who came second, after a very closely fought battle last night. Here's a...
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Weekly catch-up
This week I received some much-needed reinforcements from the Perrys. I must have already gone through at least 20 boxes of their Wars of the Roses plastics, and here are almost as many, again. They...
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Switzers I
Here are my first two Swiss pike keils, forming up. All the minis are Perrys, painted by Shaun McTague, and highlighted and inked by me. They are mounted in threes on temporary painting blocks...
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Switzers II
I've finished up most of the remaining minis for the first two Swiss keils- adding a highlight and matt ink wash over Shaun's painting. I now just need the final 2 dozen pikes, the flags and some new...
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More long pointy sticks
A quickly-snatched picture of some Burgundians that I’m working on- mostly painted by Shaun McTague, with some by Lionel Bechara and a couple painted by me. I’m adding facial details, highlights and...
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