Balkan Wargamer

My first purchase at Carronade was Sharp Practice 2 and today was the first opportunity to give it a go. I played the first edition, but was...

Anyone who has visited Venice, with its fine buildings and waterways, probably thinks of the Renaissance. While Venice was of course a powe...

Back to some painting this week and the Mexican Revolution project. First up, some machine guns for the Federales. Machine guns played an im...

Today was another excellent Carronade show put on by the Falkirk Wargames Club at a very good venue, Graeme High School in Falkirk. There wa...

That's another Salute come and gone. We will pass quickly over my trip to Brighton the night before for the footie - grim on all counts....

The Pancho Villa project has got off the starting blocks. Well the first two units painted at least! The plan is to paint up two armies i...

Coincidentally, as Palmyra has been in the news following its ‘liberation’, I have been reading Richard Stoneman’s book ‘ Palmyra and its E...

I was listening to the Meeples and Miniatures interview with Great Escape Games about their new WW2 rules, Iron Cross. Sounded like my sort ...

2015 was the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign, although the final evacuation took place in 1916 and the naval campaign went on until the...

The latest reinforcements for the French in my 28mm Peninsular War project, comes in the form of Napoleon’s Irish Legion. A bit exotic, but...

Scottish artist John Bellany was inspired by the story of the Scottish Women's Hospitals (SWH) to create a large series of paintings and...