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Allied Principes
Today is the turn of the allies. These two units are the Allied Principes, and I think they look even better than their Roman colleagues. They are of course Aventines and came from the brush of 2...
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An excellent video of the games at the recent Partizan in the Park, from the chaps at Wargames Illustrated. It is very interesting to see closeups of the games I didn't have time to see properly on the...
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Allied Hastati and Triarii
This is a (clickable) work in progress shot of the hastati and triarii of my allied legion. These lovely Aventine figures all date back to the 2010 Zama game, and, unusually, most were painted by me....
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Wargames Bloggers Quarterly
The Wargame Bloggers Quarterly (WBQ) is a FREE community driven electronic magazine (PDF e-Zine) composed of the best wargames and miniature painting content from the collective blogosphere.The purpose...
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Trees of Trasimene
I have just come back from a very enjoyable holiday in the Umbria area of Italy, to the east of Rome I took the opportunity to take some shots of the countryside, as in the future I might want to model...
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Allied Hastati (and Legion) finished!
These are the Aventine Allied Hastati I was working on before my holidays. I decided to spend some extra time on them, to bring them up to my current standard. This included retouching, replacing some...
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Chairman of the board
Today I've managed to cut and paste green flocked paper onto the additional 15 MDF boards I need for our unfeasibly large Pydna game at Partizan. When combined with my existing boards, they will form...
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Equites Honoriani Seniores
The Equites Honoriani Seniores are the first of four units of Late Romans that my friend Craig Davey very kindly sold me earlier this year, that I've recently based. The photo is clickable. The...
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Legio Secunda Britannica
These are the last of the figures from Craig Davey, which I've supplemented and based to form the greater part of a Late Roman legion. The Secunda Britannica (or the Secundani) were the descendants of...
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Back from the Wargames Holiday Centre
Had a very enjoyable long weekend in Basingstoke gaming with a fine bunch of chaps at the Wargames Holiday Centre, near Basingstoke. Much lead was shifted, and fun had. Not a lot of photos were taken...
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Pydna 168 BC at Partizan on Sunday
I am in the final stages of preparing for our Very Large Pydna 168BC battle to be fought at Partizan Wargaming and History in Newark on Sunday. Pydna was the last hurrah of the Macedonian army, and the...
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A short video of a game I played today with Scrivs and Mog, to show them my " To the Strongest" rules. Mog's legion was roughly handled by the Britons, but managed to hold on (barely) until relieved...
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Pydna at Partizan
My brief tour of the Midlands culminated with our Pydna game at Partizan. The Pydna Project was a joint venture between myself and friends Keith Branagh from Aventine, Craig Davey, David Imrie and his...
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Getting laagered-up
I've been to busy writing to do very much modelling, recently, but am trying to get back in the saddle. This is a revival of a truly ancient project, which I've been working on in a very desultory...
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Laager II
Lousy photo, but all the wagons are primed black, and the bases have been grouted.I've decided that the civilians in the wagons will be removable, so that I can used them for any laager-related need,...
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Did I mention that I hate painting Celts?
I find myself back at the brush, painting some more Celts for a demo game at SELWG on Sunday week. To minimise painting the detested plaid, I decided to paint a unit of nekkid fanatics and...
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Still not feeling it for the Celts...
WIP shot of my celtic fanatics, now almost ready for base gunking. Who will be first to spot the elf?
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Fanatics!
"On the beach stood the adverse array, a serried mass of arms and men, with women flitting between the ranks. In the style of Furies, in robes of deathly black and with dishevelled hair, they...
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Wagons... roll!
Here are two wagons that fill a gap in my arsenal. Both are from Irregular Miniatures, with Front Rank oxen and resin loads from Colonel Bill's. The top wagon has converted Front Rank crew, and the...
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Caesar at SELWG
I'm bringing a big Ancients game at SELWG in Crystal on Sunday, and am keen to find a few players.It's the follow up game to my C-Day game at Salute, and features a British counter attack against...
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