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Wargamers With Frickin’ Lasers, Part II
Exactly seven days after I ordered some Orthodox crosses and a few other laser-cut bits from Archeotech, a small padded envelope arrived from the UK. Tucked into a pipe-tobacco tin were 20 of the...
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The Workbench This Week, 15 March 2013
Quiet by our usual standards here on the Warbard this week of both Pi Day and the Ides of March, but I’ve been busy with a couple of small projects leading up to my Russian Civil War game in a few...
View ArticleChinese Warlord Cards & Blinds
Corey recently started painting up a Chinese Warlord force from Copplestone 28mm figures to extend our Russian Civil War gaming in a more Back of Beyond direction, and he’s actually getting units...
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When the Chinese met the train, a RCW game
In a cavalcade of firsts this Sunday, my (mostly) freshly-painted Chinese met their match in our new armed train, all being played on our new gaming mat, some 6′ by 9′ of fully flocked canvas drop...
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The Workbench This Week, 3 April 2013
Even more chaotic than usual as I prep for Trumpeter Salute 2013 this coming weekend! Protected car festooned with Bolshie flags, and other random clutter! The centrepiece is, of course, the...
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All Of Them
Doing final organization for my Trumpeter Salute Russian Civil War game this evening, I did something I’ve never actually done in the two years of this project — laid out every single painted,...
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Martin’s Trumpeter Salute 2013 Photos
Martin, an long-time friend who now lives in Vancouver, has been slowly posting his photos from the recent Trumpeter Salute gaming convention. As I mentioned in my writeup, he’s got a significantly...
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Lead Painters League 7, Round One
So Round One of Lead Adventure Forum’s Lead Painters League 7 (LPL7) painting contest has wrapped up. The (non-mandatory) bonus theme for this opening round was “Headquarters”, so I touched up some of...
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Lead Painters League 7, Round Five
Round Five of LPL7 was one of three Theme Rounds; this time the theme was “Historical Civil Wars”. This fits perfectly into my ongoing Russian Civil War project, and was one of the reasons I pushed...
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Lead Painters League 7, Round Eight
Back to the Russian Civil War again this LPL round with some Copplestone 28mm Bolsheviks. I really like the whole Copplestone Back of Beyond range, even the “rank and file” infantry have loads of...
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Sarissa CityBlock Buildings, Part The First
In my last post (two+ weeks ago!) I mentioned I’d bought a bundle of Sarissa Precision’s lasercut 28mm CityBlock buildings to bring our pulp gaming into an urban realm. I’ve finally got all seven...
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Sarissa CityBlock Buildings, Part The Second
Having assembled my new Sarrisa Precision lasercut buildings, it was time to consider adding some extra details to really make these buildings “pop” and bring them to life. One of the things I wanted...
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Sarissa CityBlock Buildings, Part The Third
Progress continues on my seven Sarissa Precision buildings, albeit at a slower pace than I’d intended! Basecoat and drybrushing is done on all seven buildings, gravel roof details likewise in place on...
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Sarissa CityBlock Buildings, Finished
Finally have the Sarissa CityBlock 28mm lasercut MDF buildings to a table-ready state, including another hand-painted advertising sign on the side of one of them. Here’s all seven buildings (six...
View ArticleCanada’s 1919 Siberian Expedition
Here’s a nice Christmas present for those of us interested in the Russian Civil War, the Great War and related events: siberianexpedition.ca is a huge digital archive of photographs and other material...
View ArticlePost-Great War War Crimes Trials
The Guardian’s Pictures From The Past feature for Jan. 23 (yesterday) featured a photo of the former German Kaiser with his family in his well-known post-Great War Dutch exile — along with the note...
View ArticleThird Anglo-Afghan War Resources
The Third Anglo-Afghan War of 1919 is a short (May-August 1919) and often forgotten war, and an interesting product of both the aftermath of the Great War, Afghan domestic politics of the time, and...
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Retreat From Moscow
Back in late January, two of the gamers of our group put together a 28mm Napoleonic “Retreat from Moscow” game that was a blast – everyone had a small group of French officers and soldiers, all the...
View ArticleThe Free City Sourcebook
Not a roleplaying book, although it sounds like it, and an RPG set in Danzig could be pretty cool, actually, now that I think about it, but the Free City Sourcebook is just-launched site collecting...
View ArticleThe Atlantic on WW1
The Atlantic magazine is running a ten-part World War One in Photos series with some very interesting images I’ve not seen before. They’re doing a post every Sunday for ten weeks. The most recent post,...
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