Absolutely spot on❤️ RIP Sam Neill

Getting back into podcasting,sharing weird and wonderful stories in a slightly different way.

I would kill or die for Larry

Public health warning… Electric Fans can be killers. Only Fans can be a killer too, especially if your wife/partner finds you perusing🤪😂

It's worth repeating if you want to think of the Norfolk coast or Broads. youtu.be/5DeT3DkyXc8?...

One from 1627, the other from 1937. When the SCW drab and muted shades get a bit boring, I switch to the bright side of the 17th century and pull out the more lurid shades of the Polish/Lithuanian commonwealth 🤪

Beautiful skies out my way this evening.

More flag nonsense. Second colour for the Haiduk unit. The coat of arms is the Vasa family, the ruling monarchy in Poland during the 17th century. Kinda based on historical images with a bit of artistic licence from yours truly😂

Playing with flags again. Polish Haiduk flag. Still deciding whether it needs something Latin written on the eagle's side.

Looks like the Cossack Rebellion is now firmly on the painting schedule for this year. if you have not checked them out already, then go have a peep at Baroco Miniatures. A fast growing range of really bloody lovely Eastern Renaissance STLs. Tartar light horse next month apparently 🙌👏

Take one Victrix plastic Islamic horse archer, add the arms and head from a Wargames Atlantic 3d printed Polish Hajduk, give it a dodgy paint job and hey presto, Polish Cossack cavalryman

A real life clash of the titans😂

Welcome to the Great British summer😂

Getting the hang of this face painting malarkey🤪 28mm International Brigades for the Spanish Civil War from Ebro Miniatures. Might have a go at making a video about the long and convoluted process involved.😂

So instead of “Achtung Schweinhund” we are now going to get “Ich will gehirne”😳

The problem with doing more obscure things is that LBMS don’t make shield transfers 🤪 Baltic tribesman with a rather dubious hand painted shield design. I found some symbols related to the pagan tribes from that area and just went for it.

My Polish Lithuanian project hit a wall, problems with finding enough figure variety and other supply issues made me shelve it for now. Decided to go skirmish scale and fondle with my pile of Victrix plastic. It’s quite refreshing to make your own unique little chaps from the plastic pile of shame😂

This is so well done. 👌

Sniffing glue and melting plastic on a sunny Tuesday afternoon in Norfolk.🤪😂

Happy Easter

Chilling on a sunny Saturday. I do love it when a new book arrives.

Homemade flags and a Pole on a pole, welcome to my exciting world😂

I made a flag; amazingly, it looks vaguely like a flag. I shall print it, cut it out, and stick it on a flagpole and see if it looks ok with a figure to wave it. If anyone wants to give it a whirl, please feel free to grab it and print it. It's meant to be a 17th century Polish Haiduk regiment flag

Yet another Polish pony walloper 🤪

Plain cross or an added Madonna? Decisions decisions

Broke out Mr Tufty, the static grass machine to replenish my basing stock. Just leaving this selection of greenery to go tacky and then I can get in with a bit of basing. Mr Tufty was a good investment.

Had a go at making a flag using a graphics program. It's for one of the German mercenary units in the Polish/Lithuanian force I'm currently working on. Not too bad for a first attempt.

Adding bling to the Polish/Lithuanian commonwealth cavalry I’m working on just got a lot easier. I might even use some of them to decorate my own nails😂 Going to cover how to use these in my next YouTube video.

They do look rather pretty painted up, and yes, that is a Oldhammer Kislev figure carrying the standard😂

It’s a daunting task!! Three down , eight to go. Spending today’s hobby time cleaning up more metal castings for this Winged Hussar unit and getting them all undercoated. I’m a perpetual non-achiever on everything I do, so I’m hoping I can change that and get this boyhood dream army onto the table..

It’s time!! I’ve wanted to paint a 28mm Polish/Lithuanian Commonwealth army for years, but never felt capable of doing it justice. Finally decided to do something about it before I shuffle off this mortal coil.

A trouser dilemma 🤔

Fashion Victims😳 I had to look up the details in my big boys book of Bavarian bits n bobs🤪 Painting Napoleonics can be torture, but they look great when you get them done.

My first attempt at “sponging a pony” please don’t report me to the Authorities 😂

The latest addition to my painting arsenal, yep make up sponges 😂 Going to have a crack at using them to speed up my horse painting process as I’ve got a shedload of Bavarian pony wallopers to paint. Watched a video on YouTube how they do it and the results look quite good.

Showing Bavaria a bit of love today. These chaps have sat around for ages in a nearly complete state and it’s only going to take an hour or so they finish them. 28mm 3d prints from Piano Wargames. Bavarian napoleonic 6th light infantry battalion LaRoche and very nice figures they are indeed

Three different views of 17-year old Marina Ginestà on top of Hotel Colon in Plaça Catalunya on 21 July 1936 staged and taken by German born Juan Guzmán, plus overview over all of Guzmán's photos of her, on the roof of Hotel Colón and in Bujalaruz, Aragón with Durruti and soviet journalist Koltsov.

Rebooting my YouTube for 2026, the first of what I hope will be many videos. youtu.be/w2auQ3LnuYw

Born #OnThisDay 29 Jan 1919 Marina Ginestà in Toulouse to politicised working class exiled Catalan parents. Family returned to Barcelona 1928, prewar communist youth and war. 1939 escaped Franco's Spain, exile in LatAm, later France, 1970s won Cat literary award for one of her novels. Died Paris2014

About halfway through the International Brigades, really starting to come together as a force now.

For the next few days, I shall be mostly reading this 😊 A quick flick through, and so far, so good. Lots of information, lots of images, both colour and black and white, that include some fabulous uniform colour plates. Fully intend to do a video review of this on my YouTube Channel.

German anti-Nazi exile magazine covers (1936-37) featuring images from the war in Spain.

Just the bases to finish off on these International Brigadiers. I hope to add some videos on my YouTube channel running through some of the processes I use when painting my stuff.