Balkan Wargamer

Thank goodness for the Xmas holidays and a chance to get some figures onto the tabletop. Had my first serious effort at playing Flames of ...

Bit of a fill in job this. I picked these Hussars up from the Geordies at Under the Bed Enterprises in the Summer to strengthen the Austria...

A bit more work completed on the Lord of the Isles project.  I have re-read Andrew McDonald's book on the subject. This is a more acad...

And the final units (for now at least) for the British in Egypt project. I now have a balanced force for Black Powder. The Highlanders are p...

There is an excellent article in this month's Wargames Illustrated by John Bianchi on the second, and less well known, Battle of Kossov...

This is the first novel from Jack Hight and is based on the siege of Constantinople in 1453. The book weaves the story of Sultan Mehmed, L...

Working hard to finish a few projects before Xmas so I can do some gaming rather than painting. The British in Egypt army is close to comp...

Done a bit more on the Vikings for the Lord of the Isles project. Firstly I have read Magnus Magnusson's book Vikings!. I picked up my...

I have been working through my reserve book pile in anticipation of an xmas restocking, he says with a broad hint to the nearest and dearest...

Latest figures off the workbench are not from one of my current projects. They are 28mm Bulgarian Legion figures from the Russo-Turkish War....

Plenty of train journeys this week because of the weather that enabled me to finish the latest John Wilcox novel, Siege of Khartoum . This...

These will be the last of the Nationalists, for now at least. First we have the regular Moroccan infantry. These troops formed the backbon...

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 ...