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Writer, designer, podcaster, Patreon creative, artist. Author of best-sellers The Wargaming Compendium, Wargaming Campaigns, Tabletop Battle Tactics and Martinstaat 1744. Lifelong wargamer. Cancer survivor. Mental health warrior. #wargaming
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Published: April 21, 2025 16:24
Inside one of the lambing sheds today at Coombes Farm, near Steyning in Sussex. We were told that they are usually much quieter but feeding time was approaching and all the new mums were hungry!
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Published: April 20, 2025 18:36
30mm plastic Spencer Smith hussars, an iconic sculpt from the late 1960s by Holger Eriksson for Spencer Smith miniatures – but a pain to stand up when unbased: the slightest table jog sends them sprawling! Here are 156 of these famous horsemen, a good…
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Published: April 20, 2025 13:18
The count creeps up. Various colour plastic 30mm Spencer Smith marching musketeers, plus some more rescued from other people’s collections. After discarding those with ankle rot, we now have 676 in the column. This is not including those from my own…
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Published: April 19, 2025 18:30
And now the musketeers… Just the unpainted grey plastic ones so far – 370 here, so about half a real-life battalion? (Or a full one at campaign strength.) Just shows how dense a target a column makes!
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Published: April 19, 2025 17:49
Sometimes, the only way to boost morale is to count one’s collection. Here, some newly-arrived 30mm plastic Spencer Smith dragoons, dating back to the 1970s, on parade, showing what a couple of real-life squadrons might have looked like (there are 221…
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Published: April 17, 2025 16:49
Have a good Easter weekend, folks, whatever you have planned. I may even shove some miniatures around and roll some dice.
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Published: April 13, 2025 15:34
Wargamers = the ultimate recyclers.
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Published: April 13, 2025 12:13
Huge congratulations to @yarkshiregamer.bsky.social and @perbroden.bsky.social for your awards at Salute yesterday. From what I can see on @biglee.bsky.social ‘s video, the best looking games at the show by a considerable margin. Well done! 👏👏👏
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Published: April 12, 2025 09:06
An absolutely fascinating development.
https://open.substack.com/pub/wesodonnell/p/swedens-kreuger-100-drone-hunter?r=3i1ku6