I love the painting element of this hobby and the idea of buying models that have already been painting generally doesn’t appeal to me. My FLGS (Gamers World) buys and sells second-hand models and recently there was some German WWII pieces. They were painted in DAK colours, but the paint job (certainly the uniforms) was [...]

Thought I’d share a little something I’ve been working on over Christmas – I like the concept of the Lady Justice Avatar, but not the model. The pose looks awkward. However, the battle between Ram and Crow is pretty cool. I tried to capture that in my conversion. I’m looking forward to painting it now. [...]

Happy New Year everyone. I hope 2012 brings you joy and peace. I’ve had another good year on the blog. I’ve written 98 posts this year, down a bit from last year. Not bad considering little Ciarán arrived in May! My main focus in 2011 was campaign play and I see that continuing in 2011. [...]

Merry Christmas Everybody… (I decided I’d keep up the bad photoshopping tradition!) Owen

If there was one word to describe tonight’s game it would be ‘attrition’! When the dust settled there was very little left standing on either side. Anthony used a pretty competitive Scaverous list that included a Skarlock, Malice, two Ripjaws, two Warwitch Sirens, two Pistol Wraiths, a min unit of Bile Thralls, a full unit [...]

This became a bit of a labour of love. I’m really happy with how it turned out, but boy am I glad it’s finished! Until next time, Owen

Myself and Phil got a 50pts 4 hour(!) game in on VASSAL last night. We played the scenario for the Hordes: Domination release event (PDF) (which Phil kindly did up a map for). If you flick through the images above, you’ll get a good sense of what happened. I managed to drop some damage at [...]

… is coming. I haven’t roleplayed in years, but I’m really excited for this. Owen

Tonight’s Flames of War game against Peter was great fun. We played the Cauldron scenario with my fortified Hoch und Deutschmeister force defending. I started the game with lots of barbed wire sections, some HMG nests, a Panzer II turret, a platoon of Panzerknacker Rifle/MG troops and my company commander. I kept my three Panzer [...]

This has been on my painting table for weeks. I’m really pleased with how it turned out. The simple story behind the conversion is that an artillery shell landed in front of the carriage, tearing a wheel off, blasting one horse apart and smashing the other into the crater. The crew filled sandbags and created [...]