It's been nine years since I started playing Art de la Guerre (ADLG) and I have decided to take a break for the next year or so. I ...

This is new: a show report! The last time I went to a "major" show was in 2008 when I helped Mirliton run their trade stand a...

Jonathan Freitag runs a long standing blog, the Palouse Wargaming Journal , which has just celebrated its 13th anniversary 1 . In his l...

Introduction When I lived on the Wirral in the 1980s, I was lucky enough to live close to an art shop called Tapley's run by th...

Preparation Base edges : I always paint the edges of my bases before applying any groundwork as it gives a far neater finish. I usuall...

In October last year I cleaned my painting desk and re-organised my paints. When I'd finished I realised it was time to invest in a...

This weekend I prepared a pack of 15 mm Illyrian cavalry and much to my dismay I found:

It's been a while since I posted anything in this occasional series.  This is more a "thought piece" delving a bit dee...

No. Not cutting your fingers with a scalpel or stabbing yourself on a pike. This is a bit more serious and a cautionary tale for all av...

I don't normally do this but what follows is that staple of wargaming blogs: the "what I bought at the last show" post bu...

After more than 25 years in our current home it's time to move on.  It's the usual set of motivations for people in retirement:...

My wife and I have been trying to move house for almost all of this year, but the whole process in England is a nightmare.  As I write,...

A recent question on the Society of Ancients forum set me thinking.  The question was: "How do you define wargaming?".  Most ...

Ever since I returned to wargaming in the 1990s I've used metal toolboxes to store and transport my finished armies.

There's been something nagging me for quite some time. It's about my hobby. It's so troubling that I've written this po...

One of my mini-projects for 2021 is to refresh, and re-flag, the command bases for my War of the Roses retinue & levy bowmen. This ...

This morning I was perusing the list of new posts on the Lead Adventure Forum when a post piqued my interest; not because of the specif...

Photos of hobby desks are quite common. Some hobby forums run "show your desk" threads and I enjoy them immensely. I'm al...

As my retail business winds down I have started painting a few display samples for Ian Marsh at Fighting15. I'm now on my fourth...

Regular readers will know that I hate photographing my toy soldiers. So after seeing this on a hobby forum somewhere I bought myself a ...