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...
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 brief beginners guide to some of the 1/32 scale (54mm) plastic toy soldier sets currently in production. It details the leading manufacturers, the figures they produce and the historical periods...
This is a brief guide to building an American Civil War Union wargames army using 1/72 scale plastic figures. I use the excellent Fire Fury rules and make up units, markers and scenery required under that...
This is a brief guide to building an American Civil War Confederate wargames army using 1/72 scale plastic figures. I use the excellent Fire Fury rules and make up units, markers and scenery required under...
This is a guide to making markers for use in wargames. I have illustrated the article with painted 1/72 plastic American Civil War figures that I use with the Fire Fury rule system. These rules pay particular...
This guide is intended to accompany the French Napoleonic Line Infantry paint set I sell in the Vallejo Paint Sets section of my ebay shop. Click HERE to open the page ! It's not a guide about figure...
This is a brief beginners guide to the main magazines catering for those interested in military related hobbies - particularly collecting toy soldiers, wargaming and modelling. It is aimed principally at those...
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 simple 10 stage guide to painting 1/72 scale plastic ancient Gaul Celtic warriors. I have used Italeri's set #6022 Gaul Warriors for the pictures to illustrate my text. However the same principles...