Balkan Wargamer

My interest is easily aroused when it comes to obscure conflicts. Whilst browsing through a second hand bookshop last year, I came across Ne...

Nationalists finally off the bench. Mostly a rebasing job as I picked up a job lot at a bring and buy over a year ago. Supplemented by more ...

Holiday weekend in my part of the world is an opportunity to catch up with some reading and painting. Finished off John Sadler's study...

Finished the last (for now at least!) of the Republican units for the Spanish Civil War project. The infantry represent the Abraham Lincoln ...

Picked up some very nice Viking Hirdmen for my Lord of the Isles project. These are Gripping Beast plastics and the first I have seen. I...

I actually got some painting done in the last few weeks. Even an hour the odd evening helps, although I find 15mm quick but hard work after ...

Just finished the memoirs of Colonel Napier who was the British military attache to Bulgaria in the run up to WW1. This is a detailed stud...

On returning from Budapest I was pleased to see the main feature in this month's Wargames Illustrated is the Siege of Budapest in early ...

I have just finished reading Paddy Griffiths 'The Viking Art of War'. As always with this fine historian he gives the reader much mo...

First run out today with FoG Renaissance. Of the first army book I could field Austrian Imperial and Translyvanian armies. The dice gave m...

A bit more historical fiction in line with my current Viking/Lord of the Isles project. A new author for me is Giles Kristian and the first...

Just got back from a trip to the Hungarian capital Budapest. Lovely city for a short break. The mighty Danube separates Buda with its cast...

Finished a bit more background reading for the Lord of the Isles project. First off as always I turn to Nigel Tranter and his fictional acco...

Start of the new club year and the first round of the FoG competition yesterday. My Byzantines did not do well last year but surprised me wi...

Just finished the new Osprey Vanguard 170 'Spanish Civil War Tanks' by that No.1 tankie, Steven Zaloga. He gives a good overview o...

Early thoughts about a new project for next year's shows have focused on something Scottish. A surprising change for a Glasgow wargaming...

Dusted down my 28mm armies for the South American Wars of Liberation at the club yesterday. This was a first run out for these armies using ...

I have finished reading on the train tonight 'Lost Capital of Byzantium' by Stephen Runciman. This is a history of the hilltop cit...

A couple of train journeys help to catch up with some reading. My latest is the new Osprey, 'Fiat CR.32 Aces of the Spanish Civil War...

Another round of our club WAB competition last Sunday. My Sicilian Normans doing well again. Good firepower from the crossbow and bow armed ...