Balkan Wargamer

Today is the 100 th anniversary of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.   Th...

My loose end painting schedule continues with some Malaya 1942 campaign project items. First up is three Marmon-Herrington armoured ca...

Vis is an island in the Adriatic, part of modern day Croatia, that has a number of interesting connections with Britain. The first of these ...

Better weather means I am more attracted to the golf course than the painting table, but still time to tidy up some loose ends. First up i...

More tidying up projects post-Bannockburn, although on that point BBC2 tonight has the first of a two part documentary on a new archeologica...

I have had a bit of reawakening interest in Napoleonics recently. It started when I picked up the latest Charles.S. Grant, Peninsular War ...

I picked up a set of the League of Augsburg's latest rules, 'Donnybrook' at Carronade. These are skirmish rules for the period...

'Life and Death in the Balkans' is the family story of Bato Tomasevic. He was born in Montenegro and he tells the story of the regi...

With the Bannockburn project and Carronade out of the way I have been focusing on finishing some other projects. First up are some comman...

The poor weather helped bring out the crowds at today's Carronade show at Falkirk. Our participation game was Bannockburn 1314, based ...

The Thief's Tale is the first in the Ottoman Cycle series by S.J.A Turney. The author is probably better known for the Marius series on ...

I am pleasantly surprised to be ahead of schedule for a show with no last minute painting. Well another unit of knights but that really is i...

This is the second in the series written by James Wilde about Hereward who led an English revolt against the Norman conquest from the Fen co...

Two more Schiltrons of Scot's spearmen for the Bannockburn project. One more left to base and that will be enough for our Carronade part...

My annual trek down to London yesterday for Salute and some footie in the afternoon. A vital three points for Fulham made my day! The queue ...