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Most of the pages in this section came from my old website, some have just been copied over to this new location but others have been re-worked and more will be added as I find the time. There will also be a page of Links to various other sites of Wargaming and historical interest - I'm working on that but it just seems to get longer and more disorganised as I go. |
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Articles |
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2mm Wargaming - a brief Introduction | Advice from an old hand ? | |||
The Original DBA in 2mm
article The original on 20mm frontage bases |
A set of illustrated articles written some years ago that, so I have been told, inspired a number of people to try 2mm for the first time. I try to explain how and why I did things the way I did and give a few tips along the way. |
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The original on 20mm frontage bases |
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DBA : 2mm on 15mm bases | ||||
Renaissance Principles of War in 2mm | ||||
Wargaming in smaller scales A leaflet we use at shows to promote the 'Tiny Tin Troopers'. Contains a brief overview of 2mm-10mm and smaller Air and Naval scales. Includes lists of manufacturers. I try to keep it up to date but I know there are some non-UK manufacturers that are missing. |
Two PDF's to download and distribute as you see fit : Click to view on-screen in a separate window Right-click and 'Save Target As' for printing & stapling |
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6mm Wargaming | Just a few notes at the moment but I'll get back to it when I have time. | |||
Information |
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Irregular Miniatures 2mm blocks : A descriptive and visual catalogue | ||||
Irregular Miniatures 2mm Terrain : A
descriptive and visual catalogue
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Heroics & Ros 6mm ranges : some images of pack contents | ||||
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I'm working on these and re-doing the images so not all of the links may work properly all the time | |||
Galleries : Some photos of my armies |
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Not all of these are completed (OK, most of them aren't) but they give an idea of the extent of my wargaming and painting interests as they stand at present. |
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2mm |
Most of my 2mm collection can be seen in the Articles section above |
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6mm |
I'm slowly building more armies in this scale. They are pretty quick to paint and relatively inexpensive but there are just so many of them !!! |
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The Zulu War 1879 | A project that started as a show demo game. Once I re-do the rules (called Impi & Empire) I many even finish the armies. | |||
NEW | Renaissance |
I've had this pile of H&R Renaissance figures for a while but only really got inspired to paint them recently. I'm using the new version of Maximillian (sort of DBA with attitude). I've had the armies finished for a few months now and finally got to taking some pics and getting them up here. |
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WW2 - France 1940 | The one period of WW2 that has consistently interested me. About 2 years ago I started to put together the forces I'd need to play this using the Lightning War ruleset. I'm still working on the rule 'tweaking' and unit organisation - I promise myself I'll start the painting soon (but then I lie a lot). | |||
HoTT Fantasy | I never really though I'd do a Fantasy army but HoTT is almost DBA and I play a lot of that so it doesn't really count. These are mostly Irregular figures (and not all from the Fantasy ranges) and I really did them because I wanted an Irregular army or two to go with the H&R and Baccus ones I'm building. | |||
War of the Spanish Succession | These will be done using Baccus figures and the GaPa rules. Some of the units completed are in the Galleries section on the main site but I just can't seem to find the time to do the rest so that we can have a go at the rules. | |||
15mm |
This was definitely 'scale of choice' for many years but somehow I got very few armies painted |
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Early Medieval | I planned a collection of DBA armies for the 'Dark Ages' in Britain MANY years ago and have only a few to go now | |||
Medieval | I'm including this as a gallery item in the hope that it might inspire me to actually get some of the huge pile of figures from Normans to Gendarmes painted - some hope, I've had some of them for more than 20 years. | |||
Thirty Years War | I started these to add to the collection of a gaming pal but he extended his armies so fast these became redundant so I ended up selling them | |||
Other scales | ||||
54mm Gladiators | The figures to go with yet another set of home-written rules - 'Ave Nemesis'. I demonstrated them at a couple of shows but never got any further with either the rules or the rest of the Irregular 54mm gladiators that I bought | |||
Naval |
My interest in Naval warfare goes back a long way but, although I have ships from almost all periods I don't seem to manage to get any fleets completed |
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NEW | Pre-Dreadnoughts | I managed to get these done in a relatively short time and use them with a modified version of Phil Barker's 'Damn Battleships Again' rules (original available here) | ||
Napoleonics |
These are the old Gallia 1/3000th scale - Borlase did some very similar more recently but sadly both are now OOP. I also have some Hallmark 1/2400th ones that have been part-painted for years. |
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Armada |
Hallmark 1/2400th scale - They paint up quite well. One day I'll get them finished but I need some inspiration from a decent (but simple) set of rules that really have the 'feel' of the era. I picked up some of the Tumbling Dice ships for this period at Fiasco - very nice indeed and reasonably well in scale with the Hallmark stuff but sturdier and less prone to the broken masts that have plagued my Hallmark ships. |
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Other Projects |
Some of the crazier ideas I've had |
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3mm Sci-Fi |
Germy's Micro-Minis just caught my imagination and I had to have some - absolutely no idea what I'm going to do with them. I'm having more ideas about these now - hex-based game using the hexes from the Heroscape game (picked up cheap). |
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GZG Spaceships |
Spaceships - I ask you, what is a hardened historical gamer doing buying spaceships. I honestly can't think of any excuse but that they were on offer and I needed some more of Germy's Micro-Minis from GZG. |
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