Yes, I had the same experience a few months ago. The new one is too shiny, however the old stuff is still available direct from the manufacturer via Amazon - search for Hycote

Dipping into Early Medieval Cavalry The blogger site for Madaxeman.com with content on Ancients, Medieval, WW2, Moderns, & Renaissance in 6mm, 10mm, 15mm, 25mm, 28mm

Some Italian City States era Medieval cavalry - dipped, stripped and refurbished in #15mm madaxemandotcom.blogspot.com/2026/04/dipp...

Was really hoping this book in the Korean National History Museum would turn out to be a battle formation … gutted to discover it’s the Order of March for a Princesses wedding …

ADLG, Biblical Match Reports Battle Report from Brixham, Sea Peoples at Brixham 2025

I See Peoples ! 5 super-abridged match reports featuring the Sea Persons in 15mm Biblical action from Deepest Devon.. www.madaxeman.com/reports/Brix...

15mm Roman archers

“Rear Support” marker bases for #ADLG #Romans and #Byzantines underway in 15mm, Donnington figures

Just noticed that Pendraken have their own account here on Bluesky @pendraken.bsky.social !

Has anyone else out there ever idly wondered if the paint-naming team at @thearmypainter.bsky.social had someone specific in mind when they came up with such a poetically alliterative moniker for this particular shade of green ?

(And.. was it signed off on Friday afternoon perchance ?)

#SU25 #Frogfoot 1/300th from Pendraken, awaiting a run through the matt varnish paint shop.

Has anyone else out there ever idly wondered if the paint-naming team at @thearmypainter.bsky.social had someone specific in mind when they came up with such a poetically alliterative moniker for this particular shade of green ?

(And.. was it signed off on Friday afternoon perchance ?)

Nothing like a bit of rebasing and LBMS-applying to upgrade those tired old figures who’ve spent far too long languishing at the back of the #Bisley drawers …

The main body of Red Copper camels are now done and on the blog - 3 to a base, hard-charging Arab camelry

More pix and info at Madaxeman.com

Red Copper Camels The blogger site for Madaxeman.com with content on Ancients, Medieval, WW2, Moderns, & Renaissance in 6mm, 10mm, 15mm, 25mm, 28mm

Red Copper Camels - the actual blog post with details and stuff madaxemandotcom.blogspot.com/2026/03/red-...

Midland Air Museum YouTube video by Madaxeman.com

A reet proper toybox - my photo gallery of a trip around the Midland Air Museum at Coventry Airport #MAM #Coventry #FrankWhittle youtu.be/hTSFck3bh6s

doh... just realised there's 36 lancers, a general and 4 LH - which doesn't add up to 52!

Avar Cavalry 15mm

Avar Cavalry 15mm

Avar Cavalry 15mm

Avar Cavalry 15mm

52 Avar/Sarmatian Cavalry going on eBay - making room for the camels in my Bisley storage ! ebay.us/m/tZ1aG6

It's just a straightforward crosshatch pattern - it "looks like" a checked keffiyeh when it's on a 15mm figure at tabletop distances, but probably more as that's what your eye expects to see .. and attempting actual checks would have looked really rubbish anyway!

Almost done with these Red Copper Camelry #3DPrint #15mm #wargames

I'm talking about going back maybe 20-25 years - at one point a tank was simply a tank in PBI...

Its when they started introducing different grades of gun and armour around 2005 is where it started to go off piste !

I enjoyed playing it immensely back in the day, but I also have a strong suspicion that every edition of PBI has gotten a little more complex and a little less playable.

(Perhaps these two things are linked... now, that'd be a first for the evolution of Wargame rules eh?!)

ADLG, Romes Frenemies Match Reports Battle Report from Warfare, Numidian vs Ancient British

Numidians at War...fare.

5 batreps from Warfare 2025 now on the website at www.madaxeman.com/reports/Warf...

Based on wargamesabi know, I’m pretty sure the Venn diagram of “wargamers” and “people who like juvenile stuff with a war theme” is actually kinda circular 😜

Red Copper Arab Camelry printed at 15mm scale #wargaming YouTube video by Madaxeman.com

youtube.com/shorts/p7DPv...

Red Copper 3d Arab camels in (large) 15mm

Frankish Foederate foot, using mainly the new Wargames Atlantic Dark Age Generic Troops sprues + stuff from the bits box

Who Played What - the 2025 Edition The blogger site for Madaxeman.com with content on Ancients, Medieval, WW2, Moderns, & Renaissance in 6mm, 10mm, 15mm, 25mm, 28mm

Put down the egg-nog, step away from the mince pie, hold onto your jingle bells and brace yourself for another vaguely interesting edition of my regular end of year update on competition attendances for Ancients mass-battle rulesets in the UK. madaxemandotcom.blogspot.com/2025/12/who-...

Hubertus Bigend distributing Panorama to US TV networks wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card … #GreatDismal

Armoria Heraldry Generator and Editor by Azgaar

Just seen this on FB. Bonkers-amazing stuff for anyone wanting to design and print out medieval shields!

azgaar.github.io/Armoria/

Tiny tanks on table last night at #CLWC. Whilst it feels somehow unclean to say so, it’s our 2nd bash at Team Yankee and … it’s actually quite entertaining

Really good - great coverage. The Demonic Yellow is the first yellow I’ve ever bought that actually covers properly in one coat - I’ve even been tempted to buy some of the 6-part “triads” (through Amazon)

The Numidians have been at Farnborough this weekend...

There are a few places where the top edge of the sail has a small slit cut into it, but the whole piece is so visually complex to look at I don’t think anyone will ever notice !