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...

Introduction In February this year, I raised an issue on the Art de la Guerre Forum about furious charge, armour and missile suppor...

Introduction This was my third Northern League event in 2025. It was still dark when I got up! Winter is coming. It was also quite col...

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

Introduction Every once in a while I check the UK Art de la Guerre (ADLG) ranking provided by the British Historical Games Society...

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...

Introduction I've seen lots of event t-shirts & polo shirts: both printed and embroidered. I began to wonder just how hard cou...

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

For over ten years I've been using gPodder to manage my subscriptions to music and hobby podcasts.  Recently, I realised that gPodd...

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 ...

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

Important update (31 July 2025) I've decided make the versions available below (4.04.03 with & without macros) the last to ...

Late last year I released the first version of this tool .  It was a nice data project that I thought would fill a rainy afternoon ...

I'm sure we have all noticed the torrent of news about AI.  I've remained sceptical, but I've found some of the AI image pr...

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

This is a follow up to my report on 2023's King In The North (KITN) competition .  In it I noted that KITN attracted a lot of playe...

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 a...

I have a two-day competition in October: "The King in the North" held in Haxby, a small village outside York.  As the day dra...

In this post, which I admit falls into the category of "a blogger writing about blogging", I want to discuss the histor...

Anyone who spends any time online knows the benefits of using the Internet as well as the annoyances.  The key is to strike a balance b...