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Soviet Machine Gun Platoon

How many figures do you have to paint to field a platoon in Chain of Command? 30? 40? 50? Er, how about thirteen? Yes, this is my new Soviet force, and the core platoon has a grand total of thirteen...

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Warlord Soviet 45mm AT Gun review

You can’t have a WW2 Soviet force without one of their dinky 45mm AT guns, so I got the Warlord one and took a crack at it: The 45mm Anti-tank gun The Soviets seemed to never really chuck anything...

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Warlord Soviet Zis-3 Gun Review

Nothing says “Halt!” to a panzer like a big lump of Russian steel hurling 76mm AP rounds. So I’ve upgraded my stalwart defenders of the motherland with some heavy metal: a Zis-3 gun. The history bit...

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Sarissa Quonset/Nissen Hut Review

The “Nissen” or “Quonset” huts are iconic military buildings seen all around the world, and won’t look out-of-place in any wargame set in the last hundred years. Designed during WW1, these corrugated...

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Sarissa Watch Tower Review

Arising from the depths of the box optimistically-named “terrain WIP” on my shelf comes another MDF kit from Sarissa. This time it’s a nice simple watch tower. This’ll be handy for wargames set behind...

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Modern Police

The wargames table can be a chaotic place, with all sorts of villains and wreckers smashing things up. Thank goodness then for the thin blue line. Acting as a third force of neutrals or reinforcements...

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Militia Miniatures Robots

Sci-fi skirmish isn’t something I normally do, but I had the chance to pick up these great little robot figures as part of a Kickstarter I was backing. Militia Miniatures is a relatively new venture...

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Scifi Space Marines

A bit of a random departure for me, this. It’s a squad of futuristic soldiers in power armour. No, I don’t really know why either, but aren’t they cool? Space Marines Usually I’m very focussed about...

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SU-122 assault gun

“Quantity has a quality all of its own”, said Stalin famously. So why bring a little gun to the fight when you can bring an absolutely ridiculous chunk of self-propelled Nazi-blasting hardware? As...

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BA-64 Armoured Car

The dinky little BA-64 armoured car is an iconic vehicle and when I saw a free model for one available on Thingiverse I decided I had to have one. It didn’t turn out to be quite that simple, but this...

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Hill Giant

A long time ago I used to play a lot of Warhammer fantasy, and one thing I always wanted but never had was a giant. But now I do! The Hill Giant First up, although I’m a cheapskate and print as much...

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Scifi Gangers using DesktopHero

Nobody else in the entire world has these miniatures: I made them myself using the online miniature customising tool DesktopHero. It’s a lot of fun, I recommend giving it a go! Gangers I’m getting...

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Space Pirates

Yarr, laddie! Solid info about Stargrave is still on the drip-feed, but one of the teasers which did drop from the author was that the game included a clock mechanism. As the fight goes on you attract...

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Killer robots from outer space

Painting robots and aliens is the best part of sci-fi gaming. Besides looking cool, robots are such a different style of painting that it’s a refreshing change. All of these guys are 3D prints from...

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Urban terrain boards

I’ve been wargaming since I was a wee lad, but until now I’d never built a whole table. I’ve always just used mats I’ve bought. So I decided to build some urban terrain boards for modern and sci-fi...

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Stargrave Crews

Now that we’ve seen what’s in the rulebook for Stargrave we can map out some actual crews ready to get stuck in when the book lands properly. So here are two crews to get things started: Human Crew The...

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M1927 76mm Regimental Gun

The Soviet 76mm infantry gun is a fairly hard model to find in 28mm, especially this earlier model of it. There were a couple of 3D models of it around, but none that would print well and have good...

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Scifi Buildings

Most of the terrain work I do is MDF kitsets, so these scratchbuilt scifi buildings were a bit of a change. By tarting up old pieces of discarded packaging with some 3D printed details and a paint job...

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Sci-Fi Terrain

Miniatures, check! Tabletop, check! Now all we need is some smaller terrain pieces are we’re ready to rock… Scatter You need a bit of scatter in a skirmish game where everybody has a gun. All of the...

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WW2 British Half Track passengers

I made an M5 halftrack a while ago, but I’ve always disliked that it had no passengers in the back. After a bit of a fruitless search I’ve decided I just need to make my own The truth is that nobody...

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