Greetings…The butterfly has decided that I should do a little painting test on one of the lovely “Women of WW2” from Bad Squiddo Games.This is a cracking range of miniatures and fits in nicely with what I want to do with my “Dads Army” proj…
Greetings …About a year ago I had an excellent game of Clashing Katanas around at my friend Matt’s…https://alystoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2025/11/clashing-katanas-dashing-daimyo.htmlALYS TOY SOLDIERS: Clashing Katanas… The Dashing Daimyo.Of c…
Greetings…A few weeks ago we had a little game of Bolt Action round at Matt’s house… The idea was to have a little introduction game for a couple of the youngsters who hadn’t played it before.Matt set up a little scenario at a crossroads in…
Greetings…Yes another year older… Doesn’t time fly.So now I’ve got to try and remember what I have done over the last twelve months…sigh!Well this time last year (JULY), I was about to go into hospital and have my first Cataract operation…I…
Greetings…I completely forgot to mention the quiz…Every year we have a quiz set by one of our more intelligent comrades… This years was a tough one…( Thank you Toby).And you will not be surprised to learn our/my team… came…. 🎉🎉🎉… Fourth!…
Greetings…I realised that I hadn’t posted any of the pictures that I took last month at our Wild Geese get together.So here we go…As always (it seems) I threw myself into Steve’s beautiful 42 mm Home Cast…Battle of Kenilwitz.I came a magnif…
Greetings…So I have finally got most of my newly acquired Terrain Boards tucked away in my cellar… Just a small amount of shuffling around and it will be done…Hurrah!But being a butterfly with limited patience who is easily lead I decided t…
Greetings…Here are another two rebased Roman units…As before spears have been replaced and a little sprucing has happened…There will be a slight pause in rebasing and maybe a slow down in painting as I sort through… and find somewhere to pu…
They have had a little bit of sprucing and some new spears… More rebasing to come plus a report from the Wild Geese Weekend… While my old friend David was visiting over the Partizan Weekend we had game to christen my Shiny Napoleonic Collec…
Greetings…While my old friend David was visiting over the Partizan Weekend we had game to christen my Shiny Napoleonic Collection/New Wargames Table/New Wargames Room…We were joined by Alan Perry…Alan and I commanded the beautiful French wh…
Greetings…I finally got round to finishing off the fourth (Command) stand for my 5th Westphalian Landwehr…There is no official Standard for them but I liked the look of this one…Okay… I suppose I should get on with that battle report 🤔All
Greetings…I almost forgot to post about what Loot I picked up at the show…By my standards I don’t think it was too much…🤔A couple of interesting looking books..And some MDF buildings… The Dark Age Roman Villa should be useful for my Late R…