Our newly formed Wargames club is trying to get its name out there, we meet about once a month, with the next day 24th May

Finished this Italian Semovente 47/32. Lovely model, particularly the crew figures. Probably not going to do too well facing off against a Sherman!

Painted up the plastic AB41 from Warlord Games. Decent kit and happy with the finish!

Somewhat expected, but great to have Warlord’s plastic 14th Army kit revealed. I could even see it being useful for my Italian campaign forces.

FOR SALE Two 28mm Universal Carriers. £35 each or £60 for the two. £4 post/ UK only

Been a little while since I painted any Italians, so fixed that with this M14/41 tank!

Couple of highlights from the Bolt Action event I ran Saturday. 18 players, with a range of ages from 16 to 65! Still yet to see this ‘greying’ hobby everyone is talking about… Really fun day, and some really well painted armies on display.

New hobby update from me, showing off my Epic Pike and Shotte Dragoons, and going through my Salute Haul! youtu.be/OSky_wGndGs

A foot and mounted unit of Dragoons for Epic Pike and Shotte. Nearly at two really useful boxes full of painted Epic units so certainly making progress!

All set up at Salute! Sword beach in 15mm using Rapid Fire Reloaded

Made a grand old hobby update today of the last few months of painting, mainly WW2 British and Epic English Civil War. Also looking forward to salute! youtu.be/1j6xAfczX_A?...

Palette cleanser finished today. 4 White Russian infantrymen from the plastic Wargames Atlantic set. Painted up quite nicely For the slow burn Russian Civil War project.

Spent this afternoon giving a friend an intro to wargaming with a slightly simplified version of Bolt Action. We both had a lot of fun and he commented on the social nature of wargames compared to computer gaming - certainly something we as a hobby collective should emphasise!

A second Sherman done to join 4th Armoured Brigade boiling in the Sicilian heat

First batch of British paratroopers. Denison is time consuming but happy with the end result.

Playtesting a scenario for the second attack on San Pietro. The game came down to the final turn so a qualified success!

Test model for the best looking troops of WW2. What are people’s thoughts? ‘How to paint Denison’ seems to be a perennial wargaming question

Another Epic Pike and Shotte cavalry unit done, this time Henry Ireton’s horse. Tempted to get all the painted units on the table to see how much I’ve got done of this mammoth set.

Last batch of British Infantry for now. Bit of a mish mash of Sten guns and engineers

Three assorted figures for my British in Italy. Having painted a Warlord Resin figure (on the left) and two metal figures, the resin figure took the paint a lot better.

Challenging week work wise but a delivery day on Friday more that makes up for it! Picked up these three army boxes in the @mightylancergames.bsky.social sale for the Mithradatic Wars. Well packed and great service, survived Royal Mail leaving it out in the rain!

Finished a universal carrier for my British. Lovely little vehicle. I added some infantry packs to the side to make it feel a bit more ‘lived in’

Another Epic Pike and Shotte unit, the Earl of Essex’s Foot. This is foot regiment number 7 of 14 you get in the set now painted. Can’t complain about that value for money…

Great to see that an Artizan Russian Civil War range is coming this year. On a side note has anyone played Zero Hour? The sandbox approach seems to be a good fit for a ruleset

All do the Timber framed ECW buildings done with AK paint pens, around an evening each a building. Happy with the result for the time it took

I’ve committed to running an English Civil War game at the Broadside wargames show in June, so best get painting! Here’s the first of 8 units that need to be done - the Earl of Essex’s Horse

My third Bolt Action event sold all 18 of its tickets in 24 hours. A good sign for the health of historical gaming in my area at least!

I’ve been enjoying using the paint pens for these buildings so much I’ve made a video about it! youtu.be/Qv35IE5sRPA?...

Ordered some paint pens and they arrived today (ordered on Sunday, greta service by Great Escape Games!) Managed to paint a 15mm building in an evening. They work really well for flatter surfaces, I’m impressed.

Pike and Shotte for our monthly club meet. Testing a scenario for the Broadside wargames show. Only all the buildings and one army to paint! Also talking about Salute this year. A few months out but a good time to start planning the shopping list and end the no new miniatures ban!

Back to something smaller with 2 Medium guns and 3 mortars. Benefits of the English Civil War is that these could be used by both Parliamentarians and Royalists!

Given the wind and rain here is the opposite of perfect priming weather, this weekend will be most building kits! A Tiger 1 done this evening. Always hesitated having such a big tank for a platoon sized game, but given there’s a couple of battles in Sicily they could be used for gave me an excuse!

Some support weapons for my British platoon. 6pdr fun and crew by Rubicon, pretty sure the Vickers is an old 8th army model I had lying around from Artizan. Different sculpting styles so interesting to paint them at the same time!

A Humber armoured car finished up to join my British force. Always love the chunky look of British armoured cars, and the Humber is as ubiquitous as you get!

Yesterday we had a refight of Talavera, a battle in 1809 between the the French and the British & Spanish. The French objective was to seize the hill the Spanish battery was on, and cross the road the British were defending. The Anglo-Spanish needed to prevent this. (Points also for destroyed units)

And my #FestiveTankChallenge is complete, a Sherman from 4th Armoured Brigade ready to fight through Sicily into Italy. Always fun to paint a tank around Christmas.

After binging on great food and drink, Christmas number 2 is now done. Among other gifts, I was luckily to receive these all to help my Italy/Sicily collection. No work until the 5th Jan, and two gaming days lined up as well as lots more painting - there’s still a Sherman to finish!

Good progress on the #FestiveTankChallenge today, built and primed early this morning, armour base coat on this evening. Hoping to get more basecoats on tomorrow.

In what’s starting to be an annual tradition, it was a wargames themed secret Santa and games day together with my mates. Got some great units for my upcoming Germans in Italy platoon. I also ran a very enjoyable, and festively silly home brew RPG. Now, best get started on that Sherman!

Defenders against Royal Tyranny or cursed rebels? All a matter of perspective! Parliamentarian commanders for Warlords Epic Pike and Shotte range. Also first time I’ve needed orange for a historical model!

The AK paint pen is working a treat for labelling the bottom of unit bases. Previously I’ve used white fine liner that rubbed right off

While I’m sure something fantasy or sci-fi will win (it’s a numbers game after all). I’ve put in a forlorn vote for plastic Austrian-Hungarians to compliment their World War 1 range. It’s great when Wargames Atlantic fills in holes for less games historical periods!

Start of a passion project! Ukrainian infantry for the ‘Russian’ Civil War. Gorgeous figures by @hicksy.bsky.social , lucky to find his sculpts for such an obscure topic!

Fresh from the Osprey Sale. A good example of ‘I wish Wargames Atlantic would make plastic Austrian-Hungarians’!

Been a while since I painted something small, so back to Epic Pike and Shotte for Phillip Skippon’s Regiment of Foot! Chipping away at the pile of sprues from the Push of Pike box

Officers, PIAT team and 2” mortar to complete the core British Platoon

Fantastic day at the RE Play show at the Royal engineers museum. I was lucky enough to play in a huge battle of Hastings. I commanded the right flank of the Anglo-Saxons. Might have committed the classic blunder of charging down the hill but the flank held and we carried the day!

Does anyone else feel like 2025 has been a year chock full of new rulesets? Particularly Medieval and WW1… Just seen that Gripping Beast have come out with/are supporting a new WW1 game, which like many others are focused on the 100 days Offensive

Third and final section for the British in Italy platoon. Just the platoon leaders and support weapons to go.

Section No.2 for my British in Italy platoon. Luckily only a 3 section platoon so just one more to go!