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 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 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 guide to building a Moria Goblin wargames army using mainly Games Workshop Lord of the Rings figures. To keep things simple for myself I adapt the same rules - Fire and Fury - for use across whatever...
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...
I have written this guide to help people negotiate the nightmare of buying figures and losing out because they are not what they expected. What surprises me here, is every other person is selling...