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...
View ArticleWarlord 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...
View ArticleWarlord 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...
View ArticleSarissa 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...
View ArticleSarissa 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...
View ArticleModern 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...
View ArticleMilitia 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...
View ArticleScifi 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...
View ArticleSU-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...
View ArticleBA-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...
View ArticleHill 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...
View ArticleScifi 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...
View ArticleSpace 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...
View ArticleKiller 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...
View ArticleUrban 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...
View ArticleStargrave 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...
View ArticleM1927 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...
View ArticleScifi 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...
View ArticleSci-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...
View ArticleWW2 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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