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 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 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...
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 (25mm) and 1/32...
This is a quick photo guide to Italeri's set 6022 Gaul Warriors. It's purpose is to help those interested (wargamers, painters, diorama builders, collectors etc...) see which poses you get in the set, in what...
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...
This guide is aimed at wargamers,figure painters and diorama builders and shows a simple yet effective way of basing wargames figures. I will illustrate the technique I use with 3cm square plastic building...