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Germans, Greeks and Giant Scorpions (20th May 2012)
I’m not dead.I’ve just been busy doing other stuff (mostly ridin’ bikes and doodling… it’s that time of year…). I haven’t rolled dice in (mock, simulated) anger or put paint on any metal in almost two weeks… It’s really starting to ... Read More
Panzer Crew, Heracles and a Beggar (7th May 2012)
I haven’t been doing so much painting this past week. I’ve been reading a lot - graphic novels mostlybut I did finish up a few things last night…(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)A Panzer Crew from West Wind Productions.Heracles ... Read More
Vikings Invade England and… NORMANDY!? (2nd May 2012)
Johnwas over again to play some more DBA. There was 100% less cheating than last time.This time I wanted to try out Vikings vs Anglo-Saxons – to see how the flank support for spears works against the Vikings – which normally walk over them. I also wan ... Read More
Picts!? (29th Apr 2012)
Yes… Picts….(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version) These are two elements of Psiloi for my Pict DBA army. All the figures are from Wargames Foundry. Here’s the backside of them to show off their pretty tartans. Two individual Pi ... Read More
Assorted Ancients (27th Apr 2012)
A I’ve been working on some Greek and Amazon Hoplites… but managed to finish up a number of various ancient gods, heroes, and civilians in the meantime… (Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version) First, a few goddesses from Wargame ... Read More
Hera, Amazons, and Perseus (23rd Apr 2012)
A few more Wargames Foundry Greek Mythology figures. My copy of Agon arrived earlier this week but I was too busy to really have a look at it. I may or may not actually ever try the rules, but rather likely will use it for inspiration and add-ons to a Sa ... Read More
Normans and Saxons (20th Apr 2012)
Following up the games on Monday with David, John popped for a couple quick games on Thursday. I wanted to try out Normans versus Saxons with the latest draft so John took the Normans and I fully expected to be slaughtered…GAME ONEFORCESNormans1x Knight ... Read More
Hoplite – Psiloi – Centaur (18th Apr 2012)
A couple more individual figures from Wargames Foundry .(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)A Greek Hoplite and Psiloi (light infantry skirmisher) Centaur. Other side of Centaur. I’m not so sure about the black background on the shield ... Read More
Meanwhile, Somewhere in Wales… (17th Apr 2012)
David popped by this evening for a couple quick tries at the latest draft of the DBA3.0 rules. We just used the rules as written – no changes to the terrain placement. The really new thing was the side support for spear… GAME ONEDavid thought he’d t ... Read More
Greek Hoplite General Element (and others) (16th Apr 2012)
(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)A General element for Greek Hoplite army #2 (most of these are from Black Tree Design though the hornblower is from Crusader Miniatures)…Why do a General Element for #2 whan I haven’t even complet ... Read More
Atalanta, Amazons, an Egyptian, and Dogs (15th Apr 2012)
A few more odd and sundry items rolling off the workbench this weekend. I've tired of the standard grass green background for the photos, so I thought I'd let this lot frolic on the beach in saucy sea-side photo shoot... (Remember: click on the pictures ... Read More
Artemis, Amazon Archers and the last of the Satyrs (15th Apr 2012)
I was up way to late last night… (or early this morning, however you want to look at it…)Please ignore big blobs of still-drying carpenters glue... i was... a bit impatient to get these up...(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)Artemi ... Read More
More Satyrs (13th Apr 2012)
A few more I finished up last night. I should have all the Satyrs (about a dozen more) finished up tonight – along with a few more Amazons as well.. (Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)The chap in the middle is from Crocodile Games (Wa ... Read More
Satyr and Amazon Archers (12th Apr 2012)
Just a couple more… (Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)The Satyr is from Crocodile Games (Wargods of Olympus) and the Amazon is from Wargames Foundry. I’ve been mostly prepping and priming figures the last couple nights (paint-on pr ... Read More
A Few More Greeks (11th Apr 2012)
(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)A Few more Wargames Foundry Ancient Greeks.Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:More of the same; could be Heroes and Hoplites or Centaurs and Satyrs or Amazons and… more Amazons…?! ... Read More
Centaurs and Stuff… (9th Apr 2012)
A few more Greek Myth figures from Wargames Foundry.(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)An element of Centaur “Riders” for Hordes of the Things (or “Light Horse” in DBA – I’ve been thinking of a semi-historical Heroic Greek c ... Read More
The Graeae, a Gorgon, and a Bronze Bull (8th Apr 2012)
A few more Wargames Foundry Greek Mythology figures… (Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)One of the Gorgon sisters. The Gaeae: Deino, Enyo, and Pemphredo.The Bronze Bull of King Aeetes – made by Hephaistos himself. I should have a p ... Read More
Hordes of the Things Again (8th Apr 2012)
As we didn’t have Campaign Quorum for out Savage Worlds Dragonlance Campaign, Dave and Patrick and I played a couple games of Hordes of the Things last night. I thought I’d try to incorporate a few of the new ideas from the DBA 3.0 drafts I’ve seen. ... Read More
Greek Myth (7th Apr 2012)
The first of my Greek Myth stuff rolling off the line…All of these figures are from Wargames Foundry .(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)CentaurZeusDudes turned to stone from looking a Gorgon in the eye…Coming soon on Tim’s Miniat ... Read More
Egyptian Axemen (3rd Apr 2012)
Aaaaaand it's back to the Egyptians... Here are a few more of the New Kingdom Egyptians:(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)An element of Blade for the DBA army…As with the others, these are all from Wargames Foundry Went with the hide ... Read More
A Few More Egyptians (2nd Apr 2012)
I’ve been back and forth, painting a bit of this and a bit of that and not finishing off much of anything… I did manage to finish off a few New Kingdom Egyptian soldiers… (Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)Spearman, a dud with a ... Read More
Amazon Priestesses (1st Apr 2012)
Another element for the Amazon DBA/HOTT army. (Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)These, as the other Amazons, are from Wargames FoundryCould be a Cleric (or Magician!?) in HOTT (but how would they move that altar around the field is bey ... Read More
Amazon Psiloi! (1st Apr 2012)
The bulk of my Amazon Army arrived this week from Wargames Foundry. This army was, ostensibly, to be for my daughter to play with (As Amanda already has a Army of Warrior Wimyn of her own). I thought the girl would be all excited – seeing as how she’s ... Read More
When in Rome… (26th Mar 2012)
Just to keep you all guessing… (Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)These are some dead and dying Romans from Black Tree Design to use as casualty markers for my Early Imperial Roman DBA army.Some Roman Sentries from Warlord Games to o ... Read More
Egyptians (24th Mar 2012)
Back at it with a few new Egyptians… (Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)This will be an element of Psiloi in a New Kingdom Egyptian DBA army. Figures are from Wargames Foundry Same sort of stuff on individual stands for skirmish gami ... Read More
20mm WW2 Soviet Rifle Regiment (21st Mar 2012)
Well… most of it… I really only did this to wrack up a lot of points for Analogue Hobbies Winter Painting Challenge… mostly… A month or so ago I briefly had a notion I should have another go at Blitzkrieg Commander and while the notion has, for t ... Read More
20mm WW2 Odd items (21st Mar 2012)
A couple odd items for my various 20mm WW2 forces(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)These are Canadian 6-Pounders and crew. The guns are from RAFM and the crew, I think, are from FAA.Casualty marker – some plastic 1/72 figures… I’ ... Read More
What I Actually Painted… (21st Mar 2012)
So here’s what I actually painted to finish up that Imperial Russian Infantry Brigade (plus a couple other things I finished up…)(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)These were not included in the Imperial Russian Infantry Brigade… ... Read More
Game Plan 2012 – Second Quarter (21st Mar 2012)
Well with the Dark Age DBA Campaign and the Analogue Hobbies Spring Thaw Painting Challenge all over with it’s time to take a look ahead and see what I’m planning for the rest of the year… According to the original 2012 Game Plan I was planning to ... Read More
Imperial Russian Infantry Brigade (21st Mar 2012)
I’ve been painting up a storm this past week, trying to rack up a few more points for the Analogue Hobbies Winter Painting Challenge… and, while I won’t show you the individual pics of what I finished (lest I incur the wrath of CURT!) – a few of t ... Read More
RAF Fliers, Ancient Civilians, Modern Merc (14th Mar 2012)
An odd assortment of things today…(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)These are RAF (or RCAF) fliers from Black Tree DesignAncient Greek Civilians, also from Black Tree Design.Ancient Egyptian Priest from Wargames FoundryAnd finally... ... Read More
Vietnam Guns – in 20mm! (13th Mar 2012)
Some fire support for my 20mm Vietnam era Americans…(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)These guns and crew are from RAFM.Of course now I feel the urge to build a hilltop firebase for these guys to sit on (and for the Vietnamese to ove ... Read More
WW2 British and Canadians – in 20mm! (13th Mar 2012)
A while back I had a hankering to bust out the Blitzkrieg Commander and throw down with some battalion-level WW2 gaming. Mostly the feeling has passed… but during that time I’d dragged out a pile of these 20mm WW2 figures and got to thinking and organ ... Read More
Egyptian Family (12th Mar 2012)
A young family of ancient Egyptian peasants…(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)These figures are from Black Tree Design.I also recently picked up a handful of Egyptians from Wargames Foundry off a friend of mine that was getting rid o ... Read More
Bringing out the Dead - More Casualty Markers (9th Mar 2012)
Here are a couple casualty markers I finished up that didn’t seem like they’d fit in the post about the Hoplites… not that Ancient Egyptians and Brtitish Paras “fit” in a post together… but since there’s only one of each… and I didn’t wa ... Read More
Hoplites (9th Mar 2012)
And here they are…(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)This is a stand of Hoplites (Spear) for an Early Greek Hoplite DBA army. The army may take some time to complete…The figures are all from Black Tree Design. As I mentioned in the ... Read More
Hoplite Preview (8th Mar 2012)
I thought I’d take a quick pic of some of the Hoplites I’m working on before I removed them from their painting stands and stick them on their base. (Because last time a number of the Hoplites shields weren’t really visible after I’d put them on t ... Read More
Greek Heroes (8th Mar 2012)
As promised, a few Greek Heroes….(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)These are the Spartan Heroes from Crocodile Games Wargods of Olympus line. There’s a King Leonidas figure… but I thought he looked goofy so I didn’t pick one up ... Read More
SPARTANS!!! (7th Mar 2012)
PREPARE FOR GLORY!!A few more Ancient/Mythic Greeks:(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)These are Spartans from Crocodile Games Wargods of Olympus line. Their backs – with thoroughly soiled himation from some serious hard campaigning ... Read More
Centaur and Djinn (5th Mar 2012)
A couple of odd items, loosely related to other stuff I'm working on (greek mythology... mythology... whatever)…(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)This is a Centaur and a Djinn – both are from Mega Miniatures.Coming soon on Tim’s ... Read More
More Ancient Greek Psiloi (5th Mar 2012)
Back to 28mm… Back to Ancient Greeks. Starting with something simple; Psiloi in the nuddy (hope that doesn’t get me an adult content warning…!) (Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)Two stands of Psiloi for DBA. The figures are all f ... Read More
20mm WW2 Soviets!? (3rd Mar 2012)
And now for something completely different…I knocked these off in an evening. I feel like a cheap point whore… I totally did them just to gain some points in the Analogue Hobbies. Spring Thaw Painting Challenge... I will paint something more... worthy ... Read More
Dark Age DBA Campaign… Some thoughts… (28th Feb 2012)
Lessons learned, etc….As Christian has mentioned in the comments of one of the other posts I think this was the most successful of the campaigns I’ve run so far. This was a combination of the players involved plus some minor tweaking/evolution of the ... Read More
Dark Age DBA Campaign - Year Three (28th Feb 2012)
Carrying on from Year Two…(and if you haven’t read the Year One’s report, you probably should do that too…)YEAR THREEDeclarations of WarIN this third and final year of our saga The Norse, Scots, Irish and Welsh all declared war on Wessex! Wessex a ... Read More
Dark Age DBA Campaign Year Two (27th Feb 2012)
Carrying on from Year One…(Seriously, if you haven’t read the previous year’s report, you probably should…)(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)There was considerably more negotiation before the beginning of Year Two – pairs and ... Read More
Dark Age DBA Campaign - Year One (27th Feb 2012)
This weekend I hosted a Dark Age DBA campaign. I've been dreaming of running an historical DBA campaign since I first got a copy of the game nearly 22 years ago. The first campaign I tried to orchestrate was the Alexander the Great 334BC Campaign. I had s ... Read More
The Glasgow Uprising (26th Feb 2012)
Yesterday I ran a Dark Age DBA campaign… one would think I’d get on that report first… but this afternoon I ran a game of Ever Contemptible Victorious Little Black Powder Armies (of DOOM!) (a mash- up of a few rule sets that I kind of like…). The ... Read More
Dark Age DBA Kick Off (25th Feb 2012)
As per tradition we’ve started our campaign weekend with a big battle to allow people to try out some of the armies we’ll be playing with tomorrow. We WEREN’T necessarily playing with the armies we’ll be playing with tomorrow – as some of the pl ... Read More
Campaign Preparation Update (23rd Feb 2012)
Well just over 28 hours to go until the campaign weekend starts with our Friday Night Big Battle that kicks things off. All day Saturday we will be playing a Dark Age DBA campaign starting around 9AM (and probably going until about 9PM…). Sunday I’m g ... Read More
Normans and Saxons (21st Feb 2012)
Finally the long awaited “last of the Anglo-Saxon Spear” – and a pile of Norman heavy foot that I happened to finish up at the same time… (Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)These are the last of the Angl-Saxon Spear I need for m ... Read More
