How I Base Ships: A Tutorial

Often it seems like there's nothing new in the world of wargaming, but I've never been satisfied with the 'standard' ways of basing ships for miniature wargaming, and so came up with my own method; I've never seen this done anywhere else, but if it has I'd love to...

How Not to Win an Award at Salute

Last Saturday my wargaming group - the excellent London Wargaming Guild - took a participation game to Salute. The day went well; we rarely had fewer than half a dozen players at any one time, often many more; there was widespread enthusiasm for the subject and model;...

All the Terrain I Made in 2022

 Just like its counterpart for painted miniatures, this is a roundup post.2022 was a pretty good year for making terrain - probably my favourite part of the hobby - and finished with an exciting development I'll get into later.I've not tallied up my terrain...

Everything I painted in 2022

 I'm starting 2023 as I mean to go on - late.Let's not beat around the bush, this is just another roundup post - but at least in this instance none of the figures here have been shown off yet, so it's all new never-before seen stuff.2022 was an...

The Waterloo Kriegsspiel: Conclusions

 Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon, by Sir William Quiller OrchardsonI opened this series of posts with the following summary:I recently concluded one of the more unusual, least sensible and most time consuming things I've done in this hobby: I and ten friends...