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doh... just realised there's 36 lancers, a general and 4 LH - which doesn't add up to 52!

Avar Cavalry 15mm

Avar Cavalry 15mm

Avar Cavalry 15mm

Avar Cavalry 15mm

52 Avar/Sarmatian Cavalry going on eBay - making room for the camels in my Bisley storage ! ebay.us/m/tZ1aG6

It's just a straightforward crosshatch pattern - it "looks like" a checked keffiyeh when it's on a 15mm figure at tabletop distances, but probably more as that's what your eye expects to see .. and attempting actual checks would have looked really rubbish anyway!

Almost done with these Red Copper Camelry #3DPrint #15mm #wargames

I'm talking about going back maybe 20-25 years - at one point a tank was simply a tank in PBI...

Its when they started introducing different grades of gun and armour around 2005 is where it started to go off piste !

I enjoyed playing it immensely back in the day, but I also have a strong suspicion that every edition of PBI has gotten a little more complex and a little less playable.

(Perhaps these two things are linked... now, that'd be a first for the evolution of Wargame rules eh?!)

ADLG, Romes Frenemies Match Reports Battle Report from Warfare, Numidian vs Ancient British

Numidians at War...fare.

5 batreps from Warfare 2025 now on the website at www.madaxeman.com/reports/Warf...

Based on wargamesabi know, I’m pretty sure the Venn diagram of “wargamers” and “people who like juvenile stuff with a war theme” is actually kinda circular 😜

YouTube video by Madaxeman.com Red Copper Arab Camelry printed at 15mm scale #wargaming

youtube.com/shorts/p7DPv...

Red Copper 3d Arab camels in (large) 15mm

Frankish Foederate foot, using mainly the new Wargames Atlantic Dark Age Generic Troops sprues + stuff from the bits box

Who Played What - the 2025 Edition The blogger site for Madaxeman.com with content on Ancients, Medieval, WW2, Moderns, & Renaissance in 6mm, 10mm, 15mm, 25mm, 28mm

Put down the egg-nog, step away from the mince pie, hold onto your jingle bells and brace yourself for another vaguely interesting edition of my regular end of year update on competition attendances for Ancients mass-battle rulesets in the UK. madaxemandotcom.blogspot.com/2025/12/who-...

Hubertus Bigend distributing Panorama to US TV networks wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card … #GreatDismal

Armoria Heraldry Generator and Editor by Azgaar

Just seen this on FB. Bonkers-amazing stuff for anyone wanting to design and print out medieval shields!

azgaar.github.io/Armoria/

Tiny tanks on table last night at #CLWC. Whilst it feels somehow unclean to say so, it’s our 2nd bash at Team Yankee and … it’s actually quite entertaining

Really good - great coverage. The Demonic Yellow is the first yellow I’ve ever bought that actually covers properly in one coat - I’ve even been tempted to buy some of the 6-part “triads” (through Amazon)

The Numidians have been at Farnborough this weekend...

There are a few places where the top edge of the sail has a small slit cut into it, but the whole piece is so visually complex to look at I don’t think anyone will ever notice !

And so the French Navy now has a pair of 1st Rates !

The annoying thing is that I think I’m gradually getting better at this.. whilst each ship I complete makes me even more convinced that I never want to have to do another set of rigging ever again! #BlackSeas

Only the really really fun bits of this build left to do now 🤥😫😖😱 #blackseas #rigginghell

Nice !

Last one, I promise … #blackseas

L'Art de la Guerre, 1200-1299 Europe & Middle East Match Reports Battle Report from Kegworth Codgers 2025 , Berbers

5 Video Batreps from the Kegworth Codgers event now posted, with the Berbers in #15mm #ADLG action against a variety of Feudal foes.

The reports also include tracks from a number of Medieval-themed Metal bands, none of which you will of heard of before 😜

www.madaxeman.com/reports/Kegw...

Achieving stand-alone global leadership is not to be sniffed at !

Don’t knock yourself - “Once” may be a joint world record for one of those “all in a box” naval games !

That unfortunately doesn’t get around the not insignificant fixed cost of replacing a spin cast mold - which then has to be amortized over future sales of that figure set. That’s the barrier that’s getting harder to get over for many older and low volume manufacturers nowadays

“Want”, “need” and “could make good use of” have always been semantically challenging words and phrases to differentiate when translated into wargamer !

.. the maths will simply fail to add up as many smaller, older "heritage" ranges age. 3D scanning may be our only chance to some classic sculpts alive.

I just hope it develops fast enough that some companies can do it commercially for complete ranges rather than individuals pirating the odd figure

I've been told by several people that it costs between £40-80 to get a spin-cast mould replaced, with the lower price being just the cost of materials if the manufacturer can do it themselves ... with hard plastics & 3D printing eating into sales volumes with often (frankly) better sculpts ..

But equally I haves more very robust figures in 3D as well which are better sculpts, with more detail than almost any metal cast range - it is a fast maturing technology, and we must now surely be very close to almost every printer knowing what type of resin actually works for robust gaming minis?