Having a few days away for my wedding anniversary. But there’s still time to get out my travelling paint brushes and plan some very small games of #WhenTheLastSwordIsDrawn

The Night Parade FronTier is in pre-marketing!! The Night Parade of 100 Yokai is made up of 100 Unique Japanese Spirits,Ghost and Demons inspired by Edo Japan. Live November 14th! Check out the link! www.myminifactory.com/frontier/nig... #minis #dnd #miniatures #warhammer #pathfinder #yokai #ghost

Very sorry to hear that George Gush, the father of Renaissance wargaming has died. I was looking for something yesterday and took his book off the shelf for the first time in ages. An absolute groundbreaker. RIP George.

Afternoon everyone 🙂 Here's another little promo post over on OSHIROblog about the Japanese ranges I do (with a gallery at the bottom of the post) 👍 www.oshiromodels.co.uk/post/a-trip-... #oshiromodels #wargaming #japan #nerdlings

While I matt varnish my figures for gaming with, there’s always that “gloss varnish stage” when they seem to look better - more like toy soldiers (or, maybe, glossy boiled sweets). Maybe that second layer of gloss varnish wasn’t really needed 🤔😂

Supported by the South London Warlords, Pip & I will be running a demonstration game at the Naval Wargame weekend at the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovil on Sat 4th October. Please drop by to say hello if you can & enjoy the museum too Here are some photos of my previous games #wargames #shedowar

Early 80s pre-slotta Citadel Lone Wolf figures - Hellghast and Young Wizard - eBay rescues painted for a client (vs how they were before I stripped them) #nerdlings #oldhammer #wepaintminis #miniaturepainting #ttrpg #lonewolf

A feature of First Bull Run was the presence of parties of civilians who went out to watch the battle. Several members of Congress were caught up in the retreat. I needed a Deployment Point for my own retreating senators so here’s their picnic blanket.

In tonight’s episode of “Gamer on a Commuting Train”, I’ve opened up the stylish and bloodthirsty “Ronin” to bemuse my fellow passengers with 🤔😂

I changed how I texture bases a while back for single skirmish figures and multiple bases. Here’s a little guide. 1) I use a course brush to gloop on matte modge podge to the mdf base 2) then a small brush to put a thinner amount of the figures attached base

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Oh dear, the robots have got confused and slaughtered some moon colonists. Anyone fancy a trip off-world to replace them? 🤔🌓

We’re about to creat five fledging colonies on the Moon. With the help of robots. What can possibly go wrong? #BadMoonCafe #MoonColony

@roundwoodsworld.bsky.social is running ‘When the last sword is drawn’ for @frazermac.bsky.social and @sprandell.bsky.social and I this afternoon. It really doesn’t get much better than this when it comes to a gaming table

@roundwoodsworld.bsky.social Inspiration for Flasing Blades www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...

Living history at its best at Castle Rising #EnglishHeritage #BuckinghamsCompany

Boom….💥💥 @desmondo.bsky.social chucks two greandes into the guardhouse. “You couldn’t do that in ‘Escape from Colditz’”😮

Lighting it up with the SAS, in #RogueRegiment at the awesome @badmooncafe.bsky.social with @desmondo.bsky.social and Pip Andrews 👍👍👍 #Boom

Brand new Jon Hodgson backdrop books available in our shop now to pre order! Both designs available in A4 and A3. Each book is 32 hand painted backdrops that make photographing your minis a breeze - Planets & Nebulae, and Deserts & Warmer Climes. badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/Photo...

World-first large-scale exhibition devoted to wasps launched today @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social. Brainchild of @tannisdavidson.bsky.social, with her curation team & Project manager Sylvia Kluczewski Art-science extravaganza of #WorldOfWasps. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... @uclnews.bsky.social

It’s all about Midgard Lord of the Ring Stings at OML this morning. A game skilfully delivered by everyone’s favourite host @glenbrookgames.bsky.social. #Midgard #SpreadtheLard

@perbroden.bsky.social carefully arranges his coins. He’s a master at this - he ain’t playing Pachnko. A lovely, subtle game from the great @ericlang.bsky.social #RisingSun

In a bath of Dettol after 40 years in a box. Progress, of a kind! #OrientalHeroes #WhenTheLastSwordIsDrawn

For anyone intrigued about wasps and hornets, I can totally recommend this wonderful book by Seiran Sumner @waspwoman.bsky.social . And when this beautiful example arrived in the bathroom this morning, I knew it was less terrifying than it looked! (It’s now safely released!). Thanks Ms Sumner!!

The Confederate left flank starts to fold - masterly tactics by @toofatlardies.bsky.social 🙄😂 #Blucher #Chamberlain #SpreadTheLard

The hand of doom targets another Rebel brigade #Blucher #Chamberlain #SpreadTheLard

Troops down and shooting started…. As the Rebel cavalry ride in. #Blucher #SpreadTheLard

Tonight, at Le Club, we’re back in December 1862, at the battle of Murfreesboro. So far, nothing turned over….cagey so far. #Blucher #SpreadTheLard.

Back at Gettysburg, Meredith’s Iron Brigade holds firm at Willoughby Creek, but Heth’s rebels are reforming to tray and take McPherson’s Ridge #PickettsCharge #SpreadTheLard

We’re back in July 1863, recreating Henry Heth’s attack on McPherson’s Ridge on the first day of Gettysburg. Quickly mugging up on #PickettsCharge #SpreadTheLard

A group of rōnin arrive at a seemingly abandoned shrine. Clearly, drawing their swords is their first (but maybe not last) mistake... #WhenTheLastSwordIsDrawn #SpreadTheLard #BonsaiBonkers

Lovely work in the Lord's Own Scale from @johnsavage.bsky.social at the great #HertsOfLard2025 this weekend 👍👍

Huge thanks to everyone who made the trip to #HertsOfLard2025 yesterday. Some great games, old friends & new and players excitedly slaughtering themselves on the tabletop. A great day's gaming!

Mayhem in the Quartier des Lardons as the perfidious agents of Spain come to a sticky end. #WithFlashingBlades

Dialled in all the colours for my US infantry. Now for the rest of the platoon. Hopefully the Fighting First will be table ready soon enough.

New (frivolous) Blog Post: The Potentially Simmering Rivalry of Ping-Xi and Pong-Li. Wargaming characters with the flimsiest of backstories! (now with correct blog link!) #WhenTheLastSwordIsDrawn. #SpreadTheLard sidneyroundwood.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...

#Wargamingnews: New releases from Bloody Miniatures More information on the WSS website: https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/blogs/wss-news/new-releases-from-bloody-miniatures?utm_source=spf&utm_campaign=blogs&utm_content=new-releases-from-bloody-miniatures&utm_term=wss&utm_medium=bs #wargaming

Another day of #WithFlashingBlades with Mr @jennyturner1971.bsky.social. So far we've had broken swords, naked men keeping from windows, an acrobatic leap over a 6' wall and quite a lot of stabbing. #spreadthelard

Recontre dans la Place Saindoux. Dawn in Paris, 1628. Today is a With Flashing Blades campaign day with Mr @jennyturner1971.bsky.social. #spreadthelard.

We will be recording an Ask Sidney Oddcast in the next few days, so if you have a question for Sid or the team , please post it here and we can get it into his mail sack.

New Blog Post: the fun of making things which celebrate clumsy swordplay #WhenTheLastSwordIsDrawn #SpreadTheLard sidneyroundwood.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...

A Blog Post on the pleasures of making stuff for the wargaming table: today, the "Blood Dice" from #WhenTheLastSwordIsDrawn #SpreadTheLard sidneyroundwood.blogspot.com/2025/01/let-...

Happy New Year, everyone! And a new blog post to start off in the right direction. Lord Ghoda faces a limbo of his own sorcery #WhenTheLastSwordIsDrawn #SpreadTheLard. sidneyroundwood.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...

"Kwaidan", a #Bushido #RPG scenario from #WhiteDwarf issue 47. (But, by all the exalted kami, please watch Masaki Kobayashi's 1964 movie first, and read the Lafcadio Hearn stories. Then I won't feel Oliver and I have committed sacrilege.) fabledlands.blogspot.com/search/label...

The last of my 2024 Advent Windows with @toofatlardies.bsky.social and and Nick Skinner, chatting about streamlining wargames 🎄👍 youtu.be/bPzlEfRfCwU?...

Dragon Warriors: evolving covers from Alan Craddock's original sketch & 1985 painting to the 2008 revisiting of that scene by @handiworkgames.bsky.social #ttrpg

New window in the @toofatlardies.bsky.social advent calendar. Señor Skinner discuss why or why not is a good idea streamlining rules mechanisms. Very good insightful thoughts as usual youtu.be/EGP7-99bRao?...

We continue with the @toofatlardies.bsky.social Advent Calendar. Today @roundwoodsworld.bsky.social discuss the topic of wargames design youtu.be/cBAFKdhouAA?...

Always enjoy the TFL Advent calendar and today's from @roundwoodsworld.bsky.social is good. He discusses what to do when you run out of hobby space. Something I can relate to. After moving house 3 years ago my space was halved and I've now got more stuff! #wargaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1jM...

Resurrected from Humbrol gloss red and three coats of gloss varnish, and then a month in a jar of Dettol, the dragon I first painted in 1981 😮🐦‍🔥🔥