This is a guide to painting toy soldiers offering some quick tips gained from over ten years of painting figures myself. Whilst mainly focussing on 1/72 and 1/32 plastic figures much of this information will...
Three major global hobbies should be compatible with each other, but are not. Scale Modelling, Railway Modelling, and Military Modelling / Wargaming conflict in model scales. This guide is to assist...
This is a brief guide to collecting Del Prado and other partwork toy soldiers. Partworks have been popular in Spain, Italy and France for a long time but its seems they have really caught on in the UK in...
This is a brief beginners guide to the 1/72 scale plastic toy soldier sets that are currently in production. It details the leading manufacturers, the figures they produce and the historical periods they...
This is a simple and straight forward listing of the De Agostini Battle Games in Middle Earth Series. This 91 piece partwork ended a while ago now and when originally released in the UK offered subscribers a...
This guide offers an overview of the Del Prado Relive Waterloo partwork that was released in the UK in the past few years. It lists the issues in order detailing the booklets, figure packs, individual figure...
This guide offers a few potentially left field tips on solo wargaming gained from many years of fighting battles for both sides. Wargaming as a hobby is a fairly idiosyncratic one with folk pretty free to do...
This is a guide to what is good about plastic toy soldiers.More specifically current production, unpainted, mainly soft plastic (as opposed to hard plastic kit type figures) sets in 1/72 scale (20-25mm) and...
Over the years I've often been asked by my customers about wargaming. Many hobbyists are into other related pastimes (ie modelling, painting, reenactment, militaria, collecting, military history, battlefield...
This is a guide to storing wargames figures using plastic DIY cabinets designed for holding nuts bolts etc... It is aimed at any fellow hobbyists who may be interested - either as a possible solution for...