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...
I have recently noticed a number of unscrupulous sellers offering Games Workshop Warhammer (4th Edition) Chaos Dwarf Miniatures – the ones with the tall (and some would say silly) hats for staggering...
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 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...
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...
Modern convention states that one of the most feared vehicles of WW2 was the Tiger Tank, despite its short range, slow speed, and vulnerability to air or rear attack, and its notorious mechanical...
Conversions Once you've been in the Games Workshop gaming arena for a little while, or maybe right from the beginning, you'll wonder how you're supposed to find the right figure to depict your leader or...
Uniform quality basing makes a big impact on the table, often more than the quality of the figure painting, the base after all is the largeest area Second hand figures are usually based and new ones are often...