Yom Kippour War

Sunday, December 31, 2023

Bryan Ansell passed away of Citadel and Games workshop fame

     Bryan Ansell was the founder of and designer for Asgard Miniatures.[3]:45 In 1979, Games Workshop formed a partnership with Ansell to found a new company called Citadel Miniatures.[3]:45 Ansell designed Warhammer Fantasy Battle (1983) with Rick Priestley and Richard Halliwell.[3]:47 In 1985, Ansell was appointed the Managing Director of Games Workshop.[3]:47 Along with Rick Priestley, Alan and Michael Perry, Richard Halliwell, John Blanche, Jervis Johnson, and Alan Merrett, Ansell was responsible for the Warhammer (later Warhammer Fantasy Battle) boom of the mid-to-late 1980s.

He later sold Games Workshop to Tom Kirby, and left to concentrate on Wargames Foundry. Wargames Foundry creates historical miniature ranges, originally sculpted by the Perry Twins for Citadel Miniatures, but no longer sold as part of the Games Workshop fantasy ranges.

Ansell took a number of figure moulds used for historical and fantasy figures under Citadel Miniatures and Games Workshop, and they have become part of the Wargames Foundry range. Wargames Foundry continues to sell a range of metal figures for historical, sci-fi and fantasy war gaming.

Brian Ansell has just started a new venture in the world of miniatures and miniature wargames with another renown legend Kev 'Goblinmaster' Adams, under the banner of Warmonger Miniatures. Warmonger consists of Bryan, Diane and Marcus Ansell alongside sculptor extraordinaire Kevin Adams.

To quote Briann Ansell 'We are about to embark upon the task of filling this new site with some hundreds of fantasy miniatures. As we mould and cast them up, new models will regularly appear here on these pages. Our Mission is to go back to the original master moulds and bring over two hundred of Kevin's fantasy models from 15 years ago back into production. Simultaneously, we will be launching Warmonger: our own new fantasy range. Kevin and Bryan have been working on the Warmongerers for about a year now: we have about two hundred Warmongerers to get through too. It's hard to predict how long this process is going to take, as we have a very large number of masters, master moulds and production moulds to get through and we are a small team. It would be nice to think that we will have done most of the work within 18 months. We will start out relatively slowly and accelerate as things progress. Meanwhile Kevin will (of course) continue (to sculpt).'

This would seem to signal the emergence of a giant of the wargaming industry, and interesting things to come.









Sunday, December 24, 2023

Dougies Wargame Blog

 Great blog that covers all ranges of  figure.  Plus they doing a series on 20mm Vietnam figures.

Dougies wargaming blog








Saturday, December 23, 2023

Flintcon 2024

 


Event Date: Saturday February 3rd 2024

The event location:

St. Paul Lutheran Church and School.

402 S. Ballenger Highway, Flint, Michigan 48532

About the location : St. Paul Lutheran Church and School

Directly across from McLaren Medical Center with parking in the back of the building... Enter through door number 3 the event will take place in the gym.  Concession stand available onsite!

There will be flea market tables available bring your old stuff, go home with new old stuff.

Discussion site:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Flintcon/

Doors open at 8AM (for Game Master setup)

Gaming starts at 9 AM

Doors close at 11:30 PM

Cost per person $10 (children 10 and under are free when accompanied by an adult)  All proceeds are donated to support our host St. Paul Lutheran Church and School. 

Great Mini-events for flintcon 2024

Painting demo and Tutorials!  This will be going on through out the day where kids and adults can try out some techniques or just relax and paint a miniature stop paint and take (Riders Hobby Shop).

Pathfinder (and Starfinder) Room 

will be running events again this year all day and evening, presented by the Pathfinder organization sign up on Warhorn or walk up and play.  This year the room will be run by Paul Croutteau   Check out Warhorn for specific events.


Preliminary list of planned events for flintcon 2024 (stay tuned for updates):


Running 9AM-2PM and 3pm-8pm

Path Finder - Paul Crotteau


1st Session 9AM

Black Powder Napoleonics (Sponsored by Riders Hobby Shop) - Jon Carroll

Hattin 28mm - Brian Peruski and Larry Weichel

World of Tanks – David Bacon

Star Wars fleet battle full thrust modified – Aaron Cain

Rangers of Shadowdeep – Rob Gendron

54mm French and Indian War – Tod Kershner

Fights of Fantasy - Chris Reichenbach

Gas, Guts, and Guns - Jeff Pryzbylo

15mm ACW Johnny Reb - Michael David Wedding

Freeblades Borag’s Hoard Scenario – Scott Grubbins

Car Wars 6th edition - Matt Mark Grocki 


2nd Session 1PM

Alpha Strike (Sponsored by Riders Hobby Shop)– Desmond Wolston

Red Baron (Sponsored by Riders Hobby Shop) - Jon Carroll

Hattin 28mm – Brian Peruski and Larry Weichel

World of tanks - Charles Rowlson

Dungeon Crawl Classics – James Pozenel

Conquest The Last Argument of Kings – Andrew Campbell

54mm ACW Battle Cry Command and Colors – Craig Charron

Carnevale Narrative – Adam Kinne

Clifton Moore Jacobite Rebellion Black Powder -Joe Barrette

Fights of Fantasy - Chris Reichenbach

Freeblades Beast Hunt – Scott Grubbins

Car Wars 6th edition - Matt Mark Grocki 


3rd Session 6PM

Freeblades encounters, cooperative scenario “Into the Arlian” - Scott Grubbins 

Terraforming Mars -Donald Mark Haynes

Blue Max – Rod Cain



Australian Armor and Tank museum

 

🌊⚠️FLOOD UPDATE⚠️🌊
Apart from the new river swamp camo on our 88 and some flooding in the shooting gallery we got off very lightly.😮‍💨
The museum is open for the school holidays except, Christmas day, Boxing Day and New Years Day. 🎅
The workshops fire back up on the 8th of January. 🔥
Thanks for supporting the Australian Armour and Artillery Museum this year and, as always, stay tuned for new updates in 2024! 🎉🎉






Friday, December 22, 2023

All I have been doing test for cancer.

 Had surgery on Wednesday to see it the cancer had spread. The result was no but being sedated. I ended my not being able to urinate. I ended up in ER, Where They stuck a tube in my Bladder. Now I have to wear urine bag. Until the day after Christmas, this was my view for 12 hours. In the ER.

I wish everyone A Merry Christmas.




Wednesday, December 13, 2023

3d printing madness for the holidays

 Got a new Bambu x1 carbon printer.  The plan was to get a table at a Christmas sale event.  But my health got in the way. If interested post a comment with your name.







Tuesday, December 12, 2023

My stomach cancer update

  I may be a little slow on updates for the blog. I have stomach cancer. And will be starting treatment shortly. First I must see all the specialist needed for treatment. I will be busy until the 3 January. After this date I will start the Chemo treatment.

Wish all my readers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.




Friday, December 1, 2023