Everything I Painted in 2023

I did one of these last year mostly as an exercise in accountability; it turned out to be a great way of remembering just what I’d achieved on the hobby front and I resolved to repeat the endeavour again this year.Last year’s headline figure was a grand total of 255...

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...

Review:Tumbling Dice Pe-Dreadnoughts

Scale Shot Against A 10p Coin of The RealmPre-Dreadnoughts have always fascinated me. They existed in a brief slice of historical time between the iron clads and true battleships when naval architects were still experimenting with how best to mate steam power, steel...

Superbattle: Cherbourg 1904

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...

1:3,000 Russian Pre-Dreadnought Fleet

Time for a long overdue post, I think.  A very stressful time at the moment as I'm changing jobs and moving house, so I sat down to attack the huge pile of unpainted lead, plastic and resin on my table, and managed to turn out some War Times Journal ships.  You might...