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 painting a 15 mm He...

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 be...

I haven't written a post like this for a while but recently I've been having a bit of fun working through some odd packs from m...

This is mainly a photo post. The figures are all Roundway and are intended as medium spear or javelinmen for my ADLG Timurid army: ...

In April I saw an offer on TWW from Alternative Armies for a bundle of 40 mm frontage wall sections in five different styles that was too g...

At Britcon I bought three packs of figures. One of them is shown below. They are Essex (RNO2 Azab/Turk Javelinmen). As always I really en...

I have just finished basing these. They are a mixture of Roundway and Donnington figures and horses and will see service in my medieval Tim...

Medieval Eastern Europe Command (15 mm Essex XMED1) For my Later Polish or Lithuanian armies.  I posted some WIP photos in February . ...

After last month's post I'm pleased to say that I have managed to play six medieval games.  The games used armies built from the me...

As you can see I did not come away empty handed from this year's Stoke Challenge. Having said that I had a very mixed day.   Best de...

Yesterday I reached a really significant point in my Islamic Persian project: I now have all the figures I need to complete the 650 point ve...

April in the UK was warm and sunny. So apart for enjoying the weather I've been getting on trying to finish a 650 point Field of Gl...

I've just realised that it's nearly a month since my last post. So what have I been up to? Well the Islamic Persian project con...

A few weeks ago I wrote about my new plan for 2015 . Well it seems to be working. This morning I finished four more Islamic Persian...

I've been promising myself I'd write about my experiences of playing Field of Glory Renaissance (FOGR) over the last tw...

I sent Ian Kay of Irregular Miniatures a photo of one of my Persian camel gunners . I promised him one for his web site: He's now g...

I've been following a very useful board on Pinterest: The term "Indo-Persian armor" includes armor from Persia, Ottoman Em...

I've had a free print subscription to Saudi Aramco World for quite a few years now. It often contains articles of historical int...

Today I finished the last camel gunners for my Eastern renaissance armies (Safavid Persians & Moghuls mainly). As I've mentioned bef...

I have finally finished the six Irregular Miniatures camel gunners I bought earlier this year. I posted photos of the first painted figure i...