Hmm, this blog has been far too quiet this week, maybe I need to drop a hint about that I’m working on… Okay that’s less a hint and more of a preview. But expect a post soon about some of these fine figures from White Dragon Miniatures. It’s actually been a nice change, jumping around …
Month: January 2022
Battle Report: Operation Rubicon– Ultramodern Chain of Command
Well it’s finally here. After almost 6 months of pondering, mulling over ideas, hunting through forums for tidbits of a hint of shadow, we finally put figures on the table and played a game of Chain of Command in an ultramodern setting, using forces from the ChargeReal setting I’m working on. And oh boy, we …
Read more →“Battle Report: Operation Rubicon– Ultramodern Chain of Command”
SITREP – Rules and Platoons!
Well I do love a good contents page don’t I? A lot of time has been spent digging through various conversions of Chain of Command these last few weeks, trying to arrange together some information to be used to make up a set of changes to move Chain of Command into the Ultramodern era. I’ll …
News- Podcast Time!
Surprise! The guys over at The Table’s Edge (a Spectre Operations podcast) invited me on to chat about all thing Ultramodern Wargaming. We talked a lot about a wide selection of things from how I started in the hobby up to my thoughts on rulesets and even the ChargeReal, which might explain why it’s 90 …
SITREP – Big Printing Pt.3 – Typhoon
Well I finallly did it – I finally a printed the Typhoon MRAP. This is was on of the vehicles on my wishlist when I was looking at the bigger printer, inspired mostly by my trips to Tarkov. But with the real vehicle being 9m long, it was way too big to print on the …
Battle Report: Operation Carronade – Chain of Command
Two years ago, the Dastardly Regular Opponent and myself were summoned North to the home of our Creative Regular opponent to take part in Operation Chisel, a scenario written by our host and featuring four platoons in total on the board. It was a great introduction to Big Chain of Command, as well as a …
Read more →“Battle Report: Operation Carronade – Chain of Command”
SITREP – Big Printings Pt.2
And there we are – all 5 walls from the Vae Victis advent calendar printed. I still have the damaged wall to repair but I’m very happy with how these giant pieces of resin have turned out. There will be a little bit of clean up before undercoating (mostly clipping off the chunks of raft …
2022 in Planning
Earlier this week, I ran through what I got up to in 2021, which honestly having gone back through it all I’m pretty happy with. 2021 saw me work on a variety of genres Looking ahead, what are my plans for 2022? Well…. Project 365 First up, my plan to paint 365 models in a …
2021 in Review
2021 is over. It was definitely a hard year for most people, with me finding myself especially struggling by the end with life and work. However, through all of it there was a lot of good! I managed to get a chunk of things done, including a lot of the social side of the hobby …
SITREP – Winter Churchills
In preparation for tomorrow’s Big CoC game, I needed to get my Churchill tanks painted up and ready. As my British Infantry are designed for late World War 2 mud snow and horrible times, so must my tanks match the colour scheme. I originally had planned to just do them in green and then add …
SITREP – The Prince’s Private Army Pt.2
The second half of the latest set of Bazi SF is done. These were the last three models I painted in 2021 (with the final wash being done moments before the clock struck midnight). I really enjoyed painting thse guys and I’ve very happy with how they have turned out. Expect a full post on …