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New WW2 Tiny Boats
Latest batch of World War Two coastal naval vessels in 1/1200 scale is done and based. As with the previous vessels, these are all Figurehead from Last Square in the States. I’m especially pleased...
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Tiny Boats and Even Tinier Planes
When I did my first WW2 coastal order to Last Square back in November 2019, well over six months ago now, I added a pack of British Beaufighter/Beaufort and a pack of German Ju88 for the heck of it,...
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Blinds & Markers for WW2 Naval Gaming
Most naval rules have spotting and target ID rules of some sort or another, often with various stages of “we think something’s out there” through “there’s probably a ship over there” to “It’s a German...
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Fifty (or so) Tiny Buildings
I’ve finished painting the last buildings of my first Brigade Models Small Scale Scenics order, before I start in on painting the buildings and scenic bits I got in my second Brigade order. This batch...
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There aren’t a lot of small scale scenery tutorials out there, either as videos or traditional blog post writeups. Viv on RubbishInRubbishOut, though, did some YouTube videos of Dystopian Wars scenery...
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Nice little sculpting tutorial on doing feathers in greenstuff from JuanHidalgo Miniatures. I really like short, approachable tutorials like this, it’s something specific to concentrate on if (like...
View ArticleLinks of Interest, 30 September 2020
Busy month but not much gaming activity of any sort!Over on the awesome Lead Adventure Forum, Silent Invader discussed a really neat Snakes-and-Ladders inspired English Civil War mini-campaign idea,...
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2020 In Review
Well, that was quite a year, wasn’t it? No conventions, no in-person gaming at all for a good part of the year thanks to our local COVID precautions, and yet things still got painted, finished, and...
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Cold Waters Ocean Mat Review
For my naval gaming I knew I needed a proper mat eventually; I thought about doing up a sheet of grey felt with spraypaint and such, but then I found the Cold Waters mat from Cigar Box Battles and...
View ArticleLinks of Interest, 10 March 2021
A scattering of links for our first Links of Interest of 2021! More possible sources of small scale scenery are always welcome, and over on Wargaming3d Wozname has started a new line of 3d printable...
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New Books for the Library
Went on a bit of a book buying spree recently in aid of getting more background material for my WW2 coastal naval gaming; among the classic references in the field are the trilogy of books published...
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BCS 2021 & A Blog Update
Well, “a few weeks” in my last update apparently turned into two months of radio silence here. Oops.Build Something Contest 2021 over on LAF had the end date pushed back by two weeks due to the...
View ArticleLinks of Interest, 11 August 2021
Quiet around here as I’m not doing a lot of gaming, painting, or terrain building this summer. Too busy with other things! I did have a couple of fantastic games of WW2 coastal forces earlier in...
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Fire, Explosion, and Wreckage Markers for Tiny Boats
Sometime earlier in the pandemic I ordered a batch of 1/1200 3d printed stuff from Shapeways, who use some sort of resin printing to get incredible detail on their prints. I keep meaning to write up...
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An entry for Lead Adventure’s Build Something Competition 2022 – a farm!
Each year Lead Adventure forum runs a Build Something Competition, each with a theme. Brian and I have participated 5 times at various points in the past years. So with 2022 here, I figured it was my...
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Bloody Miniatures Company of Wolves
Finally finished the sixteen English Civil War 28mm figures from Bloody Miniatures’ Release 1, The Company of Wolves. I did mine up a bit plainer than the painted examples on the company website,...
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Back To The Boats
Getting back into the 1/1200 WW2 boats a bit, had a refresher game of Germans attacking a British coastal convoy last week and I’m running a large-ish game in a couple of weeks at a convention over in...
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Remembrance Day Weekend, November 2022
Went to our local municipal Remembrance Day ceremony in person this year, after two years of live streamed ceremonies watched from my computer, which was nice. Also making time for some hobby this...
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Sandbars for Naval Gaming
As mentioned in the last post, I recently made a pair of new sandbars to give our boats and ships more stuff to run into during our games. I’ve done some before but this time I actually managed to get...
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Rocks vs Boats
After doing a pair of new sandbanks, I wanted to do something slightly different but still on the theme of “stuff to crash boats and ships into” and decided on a trio of rocky reef pieces. As with the...
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