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Windmill from ‘The Last Stand at Glazer’s Creek’
White Dwarf 222, of June 1998, featured a battle report adaptation of the Battle of Rorke's Drift - best known from the film ‘Zulu!’ Naturally, this pitted a platoon of the then newly released...
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Easy Medusa Conversion
Here is another small project that happened between other things. I had two Earthshaker Platforms and I wanted one to be a Medusa Siege Gun. I had seen similar conversions on the net so I gave it a...
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Hobby space rework: The reset button has been pushed!
I have not posted here since last year but sometimes it is healthy to step away from things to come back re-invigorated. There has been some sporadic hobby time in there but nothing made it to the blog...
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Terrain Building: My Quest for Better Wargaming Trees
From my younger days with Warhammer 40K I remember seeing many battles fought on what looked like wide grassy fields. I appreciate that Napoleonic and earlier real battles might have looked like this...
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Terrain Building: Carving Rock Pillars with a Hot Foam Cutter
I have been on a terrain building bout recently working on my old school wind generator and a small forest of trees. I have always wanted to make some big rock pillars and cliff faces for my terrain...
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Terrain Building: A mixed bag update - Wind Generator, Rock Formations and...
I really love having lots of things on the go at the same time. It is not great for finishing things but I do get there eventually. I like to keep my hobby as 'me time' so I place no constants on what...
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Terrain Building: Finishing the Rock Formations (and a 40k Sharpe)
I carved up a few more rock formations and set to work painting them. For those just joining this adventure, here are my previous posts on my foam carving and terrain building (post 1, post 2 and post...
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Sharpe’s Duty - A 40k Narative Skirmish
Lieutenant Richard Sharpe Lieutenant Richard Sharpe of the 95th Praetorian Rifles, Imperial Guard, stood at attention in Major-General (Margrave) Chretzo Sigenandus’ command tent. The young lieutenant...
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Ackland Returns from Exile with Plans to Invade Europe: The Blood Lion Crusade
Hello Blogging world! I have pushed my way past the scattered piles of half written blog posts to finally hit the publish button on my blog again. As always I have enjoyed reading many of your posts...
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The Greatest 40k Hobby Adventure Ever Told [Part 1]
Big call right. - Trust me, it's worth it.The Easter break provided me with the opportunity to finally pen this epic tale. Enjoy it while downing a few choccy eggs ;) Being married with young kids,...
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The Greatest 40k Hobby Adventure Ever Told [Part 2]
(Part 1 here)[Please excuse my over use of Gifs. It was tough for me to write some of this out. Also sorry for the long post - I could not break this part of the story up. If you can make it to the end...
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The Greatest 40k Hobby Adventure Ever Told [Part 3]
The Pride of Praetoria. A thin red line stretching to the horizon, backed up by big guns. This is how I always imagined Praetorians going to war. (Part 1 here, and Part 2 here)I had made it to...
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Attilan Rough Riders Bring Horses to a Tank Fight – and Win
Games Workshop has just announced new Rough Rider models on their community page. It is time to resurrect the Macharian Thunder Guard Cavalry Division. Colonel Ackland is coming out of retirement....
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