Introduction This is the second batch from the 52 riders I bought on eBay. As with the Georgians before them, they came without hor...

One of my best wargaming "investments" was a collection of hardback reference books released by the Wargames Research Group (...

Preamble The genesis of this batch of figures began with a slip of the keyboard. I spotted 52 Essex early medieval riders (no horses) ...

Introduction In a moment of madness I bought 52, 15 mm Essex riders from eBay. Just the riders, no horses. Thankfully, I had a few spa...

It's been just over a month since I posted anything. I try to post at least once a month, however this last month has been difficul...

Introduction In the midst of an unseasonal heatwave, I made the usual drive up the M6 to Manchester in the cool of the early morning. ...

Here're my latest command bases for my Mongol ADLG armies. They are digital designs from Ten Kingdoms, printed for me by Mick's...

Introduction I have a large Mongol army. I've had it so long I've replaced almost all of it at least once. Nonetheless, I occa...

This post is about testing my new light box. Prompted by other wargamers on social media, I bought the newly available 10" Puluz ...

Introduction The trip began (too) early on Saturday morning at 06:00. I'd decided to drive across the M62 to my first event of 202...

To coin a phrase from the 1970s: "And now for something completely different". This is from Peter Pig's War of the Rose...

Background When I placed my last order with Essex I decided to buy a few extra figures to add some variety to the long slog of paintin...

This is something of a first. Instead of reviewing the books I want to focus on the author. David Morgan died in 2019 but left beh...

I haven't played De Bellis Antiquitatis (DBA) for decades, but I do own a copy of the latest version.  Who knows I may use it ...

One of the things I found during my recent “sort out” was a pair of very old resin tents. They were hidden away in the toolbox conta...

This is a post showcasing the third, and final, infantry command base for my Tudor army at Bosworth. The base represents Sir Rhys ap Th...

Another, if somewhat small, batch of units for my Wars of the Roses army. This time some light infantry: As with the recen...

These are my first figures specifically based for Art de la Guerre (ADLG). Normally, I would base three figures on a 40 by 20 mm metal ...

As regular readers will have noticed, I am busy building an Arab Conquest army for Art de la Guerre (ADLG).  However, not all of this p...

Sunday dawned bright and clear. I was up very early, for me at least, and met with Gareth Jones & Thrasyvoulos Drakoulis for the tr...