Half-squads interview with Haye Wauford

 I met Hayes via The Miniatures Page.   I found out after corresponding with Hayes that we shared very similar interests.   Hayes had Played Easy eight Battleground rule.  My all time favorite rules.  Plus Hayes enjoys ASL in 20mm miniatures.   Here is his interview with The 2 Half-Squads interview.

3d Printed Roman walls ( SOLD)

 While trolling Print RPG website, I found a series of stl print files for Roman fort and other items. It was on sale.  Being a sucker for Roman items.  I pulled the trigger.   As you will the prints came out nice.  The are 95mm in length. Plus can be printed on a ender 3 printer.  The larger buildings I have printed these on my Any Cubic Kobra Max.   Now for the photos.   If interested I do on demand 3d prints of these for sale.  SOLD

Destroyed section

View of the wall with the 45 degree corner.

45 degree corner

Victris Romanss it front of incomplete corner tower.

Legion Man the walls

How to apply rubbed and buff on your model

  The video explains what you will need to apply rub & Buff on your model,  I have used the old finger method for year. The author of the video method beats my way hands down.

New releases Napoleonic Danish Hussars. Lutzow'e Legion and Prussian Jagers

 New Napoleonic Danish Hussars, Lutzow’s Legion and Prussian Jäger.

Here's some new bits and pieces, including probably some of the most colourful Napoleonic cavalry, painted by the very talented John Morris.

28mm metal figures designed by Alan Perry

Danish/Norwegian Napoleonic Army 1803-14

DAN 53 Danish Hussar command galloping (separate pelisses) 1808-12

DAN 54 Danish Hussars galloping, swords shouldered, galloping (separate pelisses) 1808-12

DAN 55 Danish Hussar command attacking, wearing pelisses 1813-14

DAN 56 Danish Hussars attacking, wearing pelisses 1813-14

Prussian Napoleonic Army 1812-15

PN 60 Lutzow’s Legion Jäger command advancing.

PN 61 Lutzow’s Legion Jäger, advancing.

PN 62 Prussian Jäger command skirmishing.

PN 63 Prussian Jäger skirmishing.

For sale Warhammer Historical rule books

 The following Rule book are for sale.  Postal Money order. Price does not include postage. Shipping will  be via book rates. Both are brand new, never used.   

Price 37.00 postage not included

Sold 10 Jan 2021

20mm buildings for sale (SOLD)

    I got a pile of 20mm buildings to sell.  Most are from people that backout of a deal for me to print. Others are spares that I made for myself.  Right now I may never get around to painting them. Here is the first batch.  SOLD

Band of brothers Caretan detroyed house.

Bridge from saving private Ryan.

Barn or auto garage.

3d printed epic ACW

 Just recieved my stl file for Union Epic miniatures.  These figures are amazing. Plus they print without any problems.  In the kickstarter package is the Iron brigade, flock coats with hardee hat and regular Kepis. In the package is all the Union General in 28mm scale.  An berdan sharpshooters unit

Den of Imagination paint service for Warhammer 40K

 Den of imagination is a amazing painting service for 40k. The company will individual figure to making complete Battle boards.  Located in Poland, the compnay is staff by young artist from the Uninversity. The company also will train one to become a professional minature painter. This training takes a year.

Here is a link to their website: Den of Imagination

Dawn of Iron: The American Civil War at Sea

 From Facebook.

Last night at Boards and Swords Hobbies in Derby, UK Richard Robinson , Simon Clark and I had another practice through the participation game of Dawn of Iron we are taking to ‘The Other Partizan’ wargames show in Newark, UK on the 9th October.

HOME | Mysite (partizan.org.uk)

We have tried this twice before and the aim is to get a workable participation game lasting about 45 minutes with two participants. The show lasts six hours so we want to get as many players through as possible. So, we decided to limit the game to six turns. Last time we reduced the number of ships per side to two but we again tried three per side to give a variety of ship types, bearing in mind potential players will expect to see ironclads:

CSS Albemarle – Ironclad, CSS Arkansas – Light Ironclad and CSS Little Rebel – Cottonclad.

USS Benton – Light Ironclad, USS Cairo – Light Ironclad and USS Queen of the West – Cottonclad.

Both sides had a land battery.

The effective river bend scene is 4ft by 4ft with three sandbanks and we have reduced shallows to 2” wide. One thing we did do which is not in the rules, Mike Haught , is to dice off each turn to decide who activated a ship first.

Turn 1. General advance.

Turn 2. Arkansas was hit and suffered a Fire and Worsening Situation.

Turn 3. Arkansas later repaired Worsening Situation but took additional Fire, Flooding and Propulsion. Benton took a hit on its Gun Deck. Question for Mike Haught , we assumed that if you repaired a Cumulative Damage which caused a Hull Hit that the hull was thus repaired.

Turn 4. The Little Rebel was now going the wrong way round the large sandbank and engaged the shore battery. Otherwise although the fleets closed little damage was caused.

Turn 5. Albemarle rams Cairo at speed 2 and causes one Critical and one Cumulative. Arkansas causes one critical hit on QoWest and sails past it. Queen of the West does Hard to Port and rams Albemarle at speed 5 causing 2 Critical and one Cumulative taking one cumulative herself. The Albemarle is sunk.

Turn 6. Arkansas gives QoWest a broadside and sinks her. Little Rebel comes off the worst against the shore battery and is Derelict.

In conclusion a Union victory. This took us an hour and a half which is too long so we concluded that we had to reduce the sides to two ships each for Partizan. If you can come along it would be good to see you. We are on stand PG15 which is next to Syborg 3D’s stand T5 (who have Dave Manley’s ships) and more importantly the Cafeteria!

Grand tactical battles ACW

 Found this blog while searching for 6 mm buidlings. Here is a link to free 3mm civil war buildings.

Terrain tips 

E.T. phone home

 My daughter is a huge E.T. since she was a child.  She still has her E.T. doll at her condo. well I figured I would make her an E.T. Mug. The mug will hold a plastic water bottle ot drink bottle.  I plan to sell these on etsy or e-bay.  The print time is 26 hours.

A guide to painting French light inf video by

 Culloden makes amazing videos on painting miniatures. Even I, who is not great painter can follow his instruction to paint a nice figure.

Civil war montiors

 There is this amazing site on Civil War shops. Their Monitor section has a heatlh of great information for a gamer and modeler.   Link: Civil War Montior classes

Wargaming China

 Just by chance I found this you tube channel.  The owner of the you tube channel wargaming period is China 30's and 40's.  This video is for Anton

Simon Ford's 27 ft x 5.5 ft gaming table

 Simon is located in Austrialia.  His FB page is Wargameroz's 20mm rambling. Smin using geo-hex tiles. Plus 3d prints his buildings.