Kill Team game 2. It’s a great little system. My eldar Corsairs vs some nefarious Night Lords.

Played Cold War goes Hot 6mm on Monday. Painted some space marines on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday. Great fun to paint.

Tonight was 6mm Battlegroup NorthAG again. Really nice rules set.

Playing Battlegroup NorthAG in 6mm again this evening. And why has this never occurred to me before? ‘Suggest for tonight: for hidden deployment/pre planned barrages/etc - easiest will be to take a photo of the table before the game and mark stuff on that’.

Got the Inquisition on the table for my first game of Kill Team. Great great fun. Extremely tight rules set (in a good way) that gave a great game in about 90 minutes. Very tactical and think-y in a good way.

After painting a lot of Cold War 6mm and 15mm WW2 in the last few months, this was an excellent palette cleanser. Playing Kill Team on Monday. Hope it’s rubbish or I might have to paint up some more Kill Teams.

First time in the new Bad Moon on Holloway Road. Superb venue. Lovely space, Guinness Zero and good pizza. And only 50 minutes each way for me on public transport. Premier League of gaming venues. Doing a good Monday night trade too which is great to see.

Somehow only remembered to get two pictures. But got the 6mm Cold War gear out again. This time using Battlegroup NorthAG which is a really fun system.

Getting rid of some stuff I do not longer need - some 2mm stuff for the Roman Imperial era. Link in thread.

Trip back to the 1980s. Some opposition for my 6mm Americans. A battalion of T-64s, a motor rifle company and some BDRM-2 scout cars. Got another motor rifle company and some bits and pieces of support to add. All Heroics & Ros models.

Necessary? No. Fun? Yes. More 15mm Normandy Brits.

Quick play with some of the 15mm Normandy project so far. Coming together.

15mm Normandy Brits, part 4. Some mobile AT to support the Durhams. From the Northumberland Hussars, 50th Division’s AT regiment. Easiest hussars I’ve ever painted.

Russians (a short thread) A couple of weeks ago, my grandson Jacob, asked me to paint some Russians for him. He said he wanted them to go up against my snowy Germans in our games of Chain of Command, and like the soft touch I am I said yes.

Final touches on the Gravelotte table. The quarries will look better like that, than the brown patches.

Top tip: the hobby tray inserts for 4L RUBs are perfect for 15mm armour.

28mm Roman country villa with vineyard:

British 15mm Normandy project, part 3. Some recce. Specifically a scout troop from the 61st Reconnaissance Regiment, 50th Division.

Got a few more of the Warlord epic scale Gauls completed. Will do some proper flocking on the bases tonight. These are painting up beautifully.

The summer 15mm Normandy project continues. Following up the infantry company with B Squadron, 24th Lancers, 8th Armoured Brigade. Ready to support the 50th Division around Tilly sur Suelles in June 1944.

I thought everyone did 8th Armoured Brigade for their NWE British tanks because they enjoyed J Holland’s Brothers in Arms and were drawn to the Sherwood Rangers. I know see it’s because the arm of service number is on the brigade patch rather than being separate. Reduces the number of decals needed.

Painted some cyberpunk figures last year. And backed a kickstarter for cardboard terrain. That arrived about a month ago. Finally got a chance to have a proper look at it and put it on the table.

The oak tree and the base. I've tried out a few things and I think it sorta works. Now I let everything dry properly and then seal it all in. One of the upsides is that the tree is very easy to handle, no shedding or breakages.

Been reading too much Normandy stuff recently. So this happened. A 15mm - individually based - British rifle company plus some support. Mostly FoW plastics but with some Peter Pig. Armour next. Then the Germans and terrain. For CoC, Battlegroup & Rapid Fire.

Always fun to get the ships out for a club game of Mad for War.

Oops. They are big.

Italian Wars TtS at the club. First time lots of this has been out to play for at least a year I reckon.

Woo.

Umpired my first game of Bodycount since about 1999 tonight. Great fun. It’s a bit clunky but it works.

Presume my new Patreon subscription will provide this.

Back to Germany, 1985 this evening.

Huge fan of the three Ian Dalgish ‘Over the Battlefield’ books on Epsom, Goodwood & Bluecoat. Excellent accounts and the frequent use of aerial photos makes them a wargamer’s dream.

CoC2 ordered. Predictably enough.

Just catching up with this. Excellent but…

Cold War 1980s 6mm, game 1. Need buildings! But otherwise looked about right.

Game tomorrow evening so packing up the stuff & terrain. Couldn’t resist a few quick photos. Still need buildings. But it’s definitely all coming together.

6mm Heroics & Ros 1980s Americans. This feels like the right scale for it. Pretty much almost there. A few more bits and pieces to go.

Teeny tiny (6mm) aircraft.

Had a good day at Salute. They even gave us a price. Thanks to everyone who engaged with the game and/or us. Happy days!

Modest/disciplined Salute haul: 5 paints (on a 5 for 4 other), 5 sheets of decals (ditto), 10 brushes for a tenner and one rules set.

Collected these from @walrusgames.bsky.social at Salute. Printed by the superb @sabotag3d.bsky.social. Quick spray and they are almost finished!

A somewhat flying visit to Salute between various parental taxi duties. Some great looking tables on display.

A quick PSA for people travelling to Salute today on the DLR. Get off at the stop after Custom House, it's called Prince Regent. It'll save you a long walk through the Excel as we are nearer the Eastern entrance this year.

6mm 1980s Germany terrain continues with some post & wire fencing (1mm brass rod cut to size and jewellery wire) and some trees to line parts of roads (cheap plastic ones with a light spray of pale yellow). Next: basing them.

Continuing to work out what else I need to make/buy to get the right look for the North German Plain circa 1985.

Not long until Salute 52! @slondonwarlords.bsky.social I'll be running the @toofatlardies.bsky.social game of What A Tanker - multiplayer tank action on a 15ft Caen table! Come along and say hi, and roll some dice!

Quick 15 minute session making some decent 6mm scale roads a bit more “1980s” using an AK paint pen.

Cold War Gets Hot 1999 - Drone footage of the advancing Russian armoured elements which include T-80 and T-90 MBTs, plus mechanised infantry in BTR-80s and BMP-3s.

Made some 6mm scale woods. Started off with a different plan and then quickly realised I could get away with using a lot of course flock at this scale. They give the impression of woods without actually being tiny model woods.