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Another game of Memoir 44 with my son tonight after having not played for a little while. Omaha Beach and a close game but eventually the Allies broke through.

Very cool.

Old style beakie helmet for a space marine in grey primer. Incorporating lights from an arcade machine, nose vents from a vacuum cleaner, and an old car stero aerial.

Prototype crew helmet for Apache British army flight crew, one of approx 16 variants we made over the same number of weeks.

Photo of a photo of the completed fibreglass space marine suit shot in an industrial surroundings.

Closeup of assorted acrylic, nylon and resin components hand-machined, turned, and knurled into a mockup set of HUD goggles as fitted to the prototype helmets. I don't get asked to knurl stuff any more. Sad face.

Knurling nostalgia! In the same year at college I built not only a wearable beakie but also prototype crew helmets for UK Apache for the MOD/USAF. The former possibly the only cosplay ever to use real laminate kevlar. Don't get me started on how bloody difficult kevlar is to work with.

Superb. And it looks like a great game was had too.

That looks great!

Nice work. I’d go with the first one mate.

Song of Drums and Shakos - I think.

Commodore Format magazine poster for Space Crusade with a bunch of characters that look like celbs and fem marines.

I love this bit of made for magazine, poster art, of space marines from when Space Crusade came out.
I believe it was painted by Paul Kidby of discworld fame. It features a bunch of celebrity referenced characters and fem marines in a cool 'what could have been' bit of art.
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Excellent.

Superb.

If you use them primarily as gaming pieces there really isn’t any point to improving beyond a certain level. Though if your main hobby is actual painting or sharing photos online there is obvious benefit to improving.

Superb.

The first page of the Warhammer inspired model railway layout.

The second page of the article.

The third page of the article.

My neighbour gives me his #ModelRailways magazines once he's read them and this one caught my attention.

A #Warhammer #WH40k inspired layout in the July 2025 issue!!!!!

It's going on display at the Scarborough Model Railway Show next Saturday in Scalby.

Ok maybe I am misremembering as it was 2019 when I bought the kit but I was fairly sure there was only one option for this absolutely tiny gun. And even if not they should have put two wholly seperate guns on the sprue as you say. Awful kit.

One of the worst kits. The absolute most ridiculous is where there is some tiny gun which is in two if not three pieces, for no reason at all.

That looks great.

These sort of sandwiches are very common in Japan.

What's different in Chain of Command v2?

My notes on what has changed in Chain of Command v2. Hopefully useful for players of v1 making the transition. It's not a review, just a list of changes to help remind me of what is new/different, but I thought I might as well share it. #spreadthelard thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/2025/06/what...

Love it. I always intended to do something similar for Mordheim games myself one day. Will certainly use this as inspiration when I get around to it!

Well done—looks…great!?

That looks great. Well done!

Sorry to hear that. A walk with a dog in that landscape seems a pretty good way to clear your head.

Getting Started with Chain of Command (including v2)

This has been the most popular post on the blog for some time, with 40,000+ views. It seemed timely to give it a refresh and bring it up to speed for the publication of CoC v2. Warning: CoC veterans are unlikely to find much they haven’t seen before.
thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/2018/07/chai...

Great stuff!

Brilliant—well done!

This is a Chinese temple for Back of Beyond games. I had a black and white photo of the exterior to use for reference and some of my own photos of Chinese temples in Malaysia, which I used to detail the temple front and the courtyard.

Superb 👍

Superb work. Well done!

Is that an M113? I believe the one at Warhammer World is based on an FV432.

Half a dozen grav combat vehicles in two-tone blue camouflage with armoured infantry.

Large 15mm scale sci-fi force made up of ingrav combat vehicles in two-tone blue camouflage with armoured infantry.

Close-up view of a 15mm combat car in two-tone blue camouflage.

Close-up view of a 15mm combat car in two-tone blue camouflage.

I don't often see our models out in the wild - we're not as cool as Warhammer or other manufacturers, so people don't seem to share them as often. However, I spotted this excellent 15mm Hammer's Slammers force over on Facebook so I felt I had to share it.