by Colonel Scipio | Aug 5, 2022
It's been a couple of years since I posted on this blog. Reflecting recently on what I was doing ten years ago, I realised it was around that time I started this blog.Flicking through the old posts, I remembered some of the fantastic projects, battles and campaigns...
by Colonel Scipio | Mar 24, 2019
Time for another of our Grand Battle Reports! Battlefront have recently re-released their First World War game Great War, and I thought this would be a fine opportunity to kick start the blog again with a battle report. I have had Flames of War miniatures for the...
by Colonel Scipio | Sep 24, 2018
After a busy couple of weeks, I managed to travel back home to have a game with my brother and a few friends.  We’ve been playing a lot of 15mm recently - Flames of War and ‘Nam - but this time we decided to break out our Team Yankee armies, which meant me...
by Colonel Scipio | Aug 4, 2018
Last weekend I had the honour to take part in another Superbattle - the fictional Battle of Cherbourg, which saw the Russian and German fleets take on a combined Anglo-French force in the English Channel in 1904. This has been the culmination of many months of...
by Colonel Scipio | Jul 2, 2018
Today I'm partly going to show a model I'm very pleased with - one of those "one offs" which aren't for any particular project, but rather just painted up for fun. But I also want to share a quick breakdown of my painting style, just to throw it out there and see...