Goat Major

Listens to podcast and unwanted new project is now front of mind

(This is a great podcast on all things 18thC Warfare)

Empire podcast has also just done an interesting series on the bronze age collapse which is nicely adjacent

Lovely !

I remember the adverts for the Standard Games figures which looked nice but ive never seen any in real life

For those who asked the cut out saxons army was as shown from Standard Games. Unfortunately not part of the magazine anymore

Took some faffing but the wheel assembly finally assembled at the right height

Arrived in yesterday's post

I don't but its pretty popular. Some dislike it for being a little gamey with special dice etc. There are loads of dark age skirmish sets (Pillage from victrix being a new one) all depends how many figures you are wanting to use. You'll find plenty of reviews on YouTube

Hammerhead today.

Bit of progress on the goblin siege tower today

Good call. I may dig mine out

You havent aged a day !

Wish I still had mine

This afternoon: Hingeable flaps

Cladding underway

Four 28mm Wargames Foundry Pirates

Four 28mm Wargames Foundry Pirates

Four 28mm Wargames Foundry Pirates on a grass terrain mat in front of trees

Four 28mm Wargames Foundry Pirates on a grass terrain mat in front of trees

Finished four more 28mm Wargames Foundry Pirates. Such fun to paint. A great range with some wonderfully characterful sculpts.

#wargaming

Siege tower construction underway

In a "your glasses are on your head" moment for the 2020s, i spent several minutes this morning looking for a missing Samsung Earbud that turned out to be in my ear

Is it Drizzle Cake and Custard Tuesday? I forget that every year !

Test paint of a Minifigs D&D Hobgoblin

Amazing result !

Lovely!

Black Scorpion Privateers Pack 2 painted. 4 28mm figures. Front view.

Black Scorpion Privateers Pack 2 painted. 4 28mm figures. Rear view.

Black Scorpion Privateers Packs 1 and 2 painted. 8 28mm figures on a grass mat in front of trees and a sky backdrop.

Black Scorpion Privateers Packs 1 and 2 painted. 8 28mm figures on a grass mat in front of trees and a sky backdrop.

Completed Black Scorpion Privateers Pack 2. That's packs 1 and 2 done now. Lovely little (well... not exactly little...) resin figures. Now...do I get any more...

#wargaming

Tonight i've put together a prototype for my Goblin Siege Warmachine

It won't look like this because i'll probably use balsa wood and coffee stirrers for the frame, but this is to get an idea of dimensions and to use to test what works

The Small Faces!

A bit of goblin prep today.

Goblin shaman with her idiot brother and gnoll bodyguards. She carries the ancient wand of Thomm-Sunn

Also oodles of minifigs hobgoblins given weapons and shields

The outer covers of the paperback version of Battle Maps for Miniature Wargamers. The PDF will be available from my payhip/gladiuspublications site this weekend, paperback will follow as soon as Amazon finish their checks (next week?). PDF £15, paperback £22.50. (Deliberately paperback as there’s space inside for you to make your own notes and treat it as a workbook.) Watch this space for direct links over the next few days!

My latest: Battle Maps for Miniature Wargamers, a collection of 52 maps (one for every week of the year) with suggestions for how they can be re-interpreted for different theatres, periods and even genres. There are even suggestions for how the maps can be linked to create your own simple campaigns.

Nice pen haul!

Today's bookshop find

Kobolds are out of the bath

Deliveries yesterday, another one for the Dan Dare collection and some Minifigs Hobgoblins and an Orc to make some units up to full strength