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Sep 24

Mycenean Tower Shields - speedy painting

Ever since seeing Peter Conelly's illustrations of Ancient Myceneans in his book 'The Greek Armies' published way back in 1977 they have...

Sep 12

Malaya campaign in Memoir 44 #1

Not to give the end away but as most people reading this will be aware the Malaya campaign at the end of 1941 and start of 1942 was not...

Aug 3

Contrasting fortunes - Speedy Haqq...

This blog is a quick demo of my current technique for painting my own miniatures as quicly as possible to a standard I find acceptable...

Jul 13

The Tufty Club - making tufts for basing

If you are old enough to know what the original Tufty Club was congratulations for still being here with me! If you are not or reading...

Jun 10

O12 Team Space Police - alternate colour scheme

After buying my first Infinity minis back in 2019 I finally played my first game a couple of weeks ago using my PanO force and an O12...

May 5

Goblins 2 - more goblinoid goodness

In part one I covered the first half of my Goblin force made up almost entirely of 3d printed miniatures. Part two covers all the support...

Apr 28

Van Saar from Staart to finish...

First of all apologies for the title, you get to a certain age and puns become amusing for no good reason. This blog is covering how I...

Apr 21

PanO - part one of probably two

A few years ago I picked up a number of Pan Oceania Infinity miniatures off ebay just for the fun of painting them as a sort of busman's...

Apr 7

Ancient Greeks in Speedypaints

For many people the relatively new 'contrast/speedypaints' are something strange and possibly wrong in some way. For those of us who made...

Mar 31

Foxes and Wildcats and Badgers oh my!

One of the cool things about being a commission painter is getting to paint stuff you would never ever normally buy for yourself. This...