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Jul 7, 2021

Japanese Armour - Not the easiest...

Identifying and painting Japanese armour is not the easiest task for many of us. Japanese armour is just not as familiar to us growing up...

Jun 26, 2021

10 most favouritest WW2 German vehicles I have painted

Over the years I have had loads of German WW2 stuff pass across the painting desk, mainly in 28mm but also in 15mm. German commissions...

Apr 17, 2021

Winter Kriegsfuhrung

As everybody knows Germany invaded the USSR on 21st June 1942 in Operation Barbarossa and was spectacularly successful in terms of enemy...

Jan 23, 2021

Nights Watch 2020 - A dark night illuminated a tiny bit

Following my blog about the mass of Free Folk I painted up this is a smaller, but more elite blog about the Men in Black who have to deal...

Jan 9, 2021

Game of Thrones 2020 Review Part 1 - The North forgets a bit - Freefolkerama

As 2020 drags its sorry arse out the door and 2021 edges in sideways with a hopeful look in its eye I thought I would do another of my...

Nov 8, 2020

Several Soviets - painting update 12

A few Bolt Action Soviet bits recently completed and in one place. The BA10 armoured car is one of my favourite vehicles from an...

Apr 14, 2020

Heroes of the Trojan wars - part 1

The Trojan War was for a very long time believed to be a classic Greek Literary myth collected by Homer or Homers about a mythical war...

Feb 29, 2020

Night's Watch - Historical Analogies

Continuing my completely non expert illustrated wander through the possible historical back stories of Game of Thrones I arrive at the...

Jan 25, 2020

Will the real Wildlings please stand up?

Think of the Wildlings or Free Folk north of the wall and the immediate analogy which comes to mind are the Pict barbarians living North...

Jan 11, 2020

Starks - the Good Guys....

In my head the Starks and their allies are a combination of the Medieval/War of the Roses great earls of the North such as the Percy's...