We welcome Mark Backhouse to the SALUTE 53 stage. An advocate for small-scale wargaming, for the past 16 years he has been a regular contributor to Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy. His fascination with the Ancient World led him to write Strength & Honour. Find out more: @markbackhouse29.bsky.social

This is brilliant!

We have a flyer! And a website! A PayPal link will be set up shortly to make things easy and transparent. There's about 5 games on offer already with lots of room for more. So tell your friends and let's play some games and kill some disease! #SpreadTheLard cooperscreate.wixsite.com/west-midlards

Has anyone got lots of the Warlord Games flame stuff hanging around that they don't need? I seem to have lost my bag of it, and I need quite a bit for my games of What a Tanker at shows

Extra Tanks for Montcornet WaT , at Salute next month!

And now I've put up a post with the pictures of my afternoon session at Herts of Lard. I was playing Simon Hatch's What a Tanker 28mm game on a section of Joe Bilton's Caen 1944 table, which as you can see is an outstanding set-up. panther6actual.blogspot.com/2026/03/hert...

As promised, I have now posted a bunch of pictures on my blog of the Herts of Lard day. I've added descriptions of the games with each picture. panther6actual.blogspot.com/2026/03/hert...

Another Herts of Lard under my belt, Joe @joewargamer.bsky.social excelled once again, bringing together a huge group of Lardies for another amazing day of games, new friendships, and a beautiful weekend. I came away with a new gaming mat thanks to sabotag4d.com, cheers Paul. Here’s to HoL 5 in 2027

Another Herts of Lard successfully completed! Thats 4 now! A massive thanks to everyone that put on a game and attended with with a great attitude. The quality of the tables was high, but more importantly seeing a room packed with people enjoying wargaming is wonderful !

Went and had a great day out at Herts of Lard @joewargamer.bsky.social

A few shots from the Battle of Cynuit game I ran at Herts of Lard today. Ran the game twice, with different groups of players each time. Both games resulted in a victory for the Danes over the Saxons, although each game played out very differently. #HertsOfLard #spreadthelard

Joe Bilton’s wonderful WW2 terrain at Herts of Lard today. 28mm loveliness #wargaming #wargames #shedowar

Had a great day at Herts of Lard yesterday, playing 2 great games and catching up with mates. Special call out to Jenny and Phil for their amazing IABSM game. Loads of fun! @jennyturner1971.bsky.social

Didn't take enough photos as was blown away by the tables and all the fun. Great Herts of Lard run by @joewargamer.bsky.social, who made a spanking table as ever. And brilliant table and game from Phil and @jennyturner1971.bsky.social who have made me fall in love totally with IABSM as well.

Fantastic day at at Herts of Lard yesterday. Thank you to @joewargamer.bsky.social for putting it on. Thank you to everyone who put on great games. Thank you to the players.

Great day yesterday at Herts of Lard organised by @joewargamer.bsky.social. Presented a Sharp Practice game representing the late afternoon attack on La Haye Sainte by the 13th Legere & 17th Line at Waterloo. A tenacious defence by the Kings German Legion saw the farm held in both am & pm.

Thank you to all the players at Herts of Lard yesterday, what a colonist proved to be great fun again, I managed to write down the rule changes that were made during the day, and we now have a new name…..Blipskreig!!!

A few pics from yesterday’s Herts of Lard. Played two fantastic games AWI in the morning and Napoleonic Naval in the afternoon. Thanks @joewargamer.bsky.social #spreadthelard

What another fantastic Herts of Lard! Congratulations and many thanks to Joe for putting it on again. A packed hall full of gamers enjoying some cracking games. Apart from the games themselves it was great catching up with people and meeting new ones. Long live the Lard!

Very productive evening, finishing the last (kinda) buildings for my Montcornet table ahead of HoL this sat. The townhall is a placeholder as the real town hall scratch build is delayed (I made it too large..). All are 3d prints that are reentered etc. Plus painted 30ft of latex road!

One Space left!!

Don't miss out!!

Herts of Lard - 2 last minute spaces for players! Held in Rickmansworth School on Sat 7th March, two amazing games from the @toofatlardies.bsky.social stable. £11 to cover the venue and refreshments. Message me here or email [email protected] If you're coming, ask your mates!

More buildings for Montcornet! Patrick Miniatures was incredibly generous and designed and printed these as a gift towards the table. Based on actual houses in the town, they were fantastic to work on.

Herts of Lard - one space left! If you're keen to come along to Herts of Lard next Saturday in Rickmansworth, Herts - I've got one player space left! Let me know !

Great fun play testing my Sharp Practice game for Herts of lard “On the Road to Brussels”. Great fun and absolutely stretching SP to its limits 😂 #spreadthelard

Montcornet Town Hall! Here we go!

On Friday we announced 6 new Old West kits that are being added to our Table Ready Terrain range of colour printed buildings on Wednesday. We are also releasing these 7 kits to our existing Cactus Creek range which you can find here; warbases.co.uk/product-cate...

I had a brilliant day on Friday. Visited the Wargames Illustrated office, played some WaT from @toofatlardies.bsky.social and showed a sample of my next table

Lots of armour for my Montcornet 1940 table finished up. Some will be used for CoC at HoL, but most for Salute and WaT

Blitzkrieg tank factory in full swing!

What a colonist gets another outing at Herts of Lard 2026. Just need to remember the rules adjustments I made.

Some close ups of amazing @sabotag3d.bsky.social models I've done recently

Big push the last few days to finish up this set of houses for my Montcornet 1940 table. Most are 3d prints from the amazing @sabotag3d.bsky.social , plus some hybrid scratch builds. I just need to glaze the windows,then they're done

Working on a few @sabotag3d.bsky.social designs..

😭 I've had to cancel going to Southampton Lard tomorrow :( Car was loaded with terrain, then steering wheel clockspring failed, so no airbag, horn, controls. Taking it to the garage tomorrow. Gutted though, was looking forward to it, and feel awful for @markbackhouse29.bsky.social

Working on a couple of hybrid scratch-builds for my France '40 table. 3d printed windows and rooftops from @sabotag3d.bsky.social , XPS structures, and polyfilla brick work

Hi! We're a woman owned business that specialises in 28mm miniatures of women! WW2 is one of our largest ranges, We're currently knee deep in Resistance Fighters for reasons at the mo but we have lots of troops. Here's some Soviets! www.BadSquiddoGames.com [ @handiworkgames.bsky.social backdrop]

We're filling out our diary for 2026 and can't wait to start playing some BattlegroundHD! Want us to bring BattlegroundHD to a show near you? Let us know in the comments and we'll see what we can do. @battlegroundhd.bsky.social @slondonwarlords.bsky.social

I'm a ww2 wargamer through and through, so I'm selling this piece on ebay ebay.us/m/KRTkKS

I've enjoyed a fantastic year of wargaming, despite a very quiet summer with GCSEs and a holiday. But great fun at Lard Days and shows, and some amazing games with friends. Plus, picked up 2 Best in Show Awards and featured in a French national newspaper! Here's to more of the same in 2026!

My Sherman is finished! Very enjoyable tank to paint up! #festivetankchallenge

An excellent blog post. This is looking a really exciting! Will be at Come and have a go if you think you’re LARD enough 2026 next month l.

This was a fun project! A piece of terrain from packaging and some scrap from the bits box!

I managed to get it undercoated! Hooray! This very cool. Looking forward to painting it!

This bit of packaging is just screaming 'turn me into a star wars Tatooine terrain piece'!. So I've raided my bits box - let's see how it goes!

I finished up a Christmas present from @tomjmegan.bsky.social - a pair of excellent 3d printed ruined farm buildings. Painted up to look just like a building 5 mins from Montcornet, my next table. So, perfect! Cheers Tom , these were great fun

78 French infantry built and primed for my Montcornet 1940 table. These are going to be Chasseurs Portes. Minis from @warlordgames.com

Merry Christmas Wargame buddies!

Finished this lovely French house from @sabotag3d.bsky.social , with a scratch built garden . Paul did a phenomenal job with this model