I'm glad I dazzled you.

Nice looking paint jobs.

It took longer than I thought, but I've finished repainting my Ral Partha Mk4 prototype.
The pink dazzle disruptive camo scheme was inspired by the Swedish splinter pattern used on the Viggen.

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Just as soon as I get my shit together.

Delighted to find both Shroud and Lives of Bitter Rain on the Locus shortlist this year, amongst some amazing company!

Oh gosh, Ian Watson has died. Met him several times and he was witty and erudite. He will be missed.

Salute 53 We went to Salute and had a great day. Susan and I played in a game of What a Tanker, run by Joe Bilton, which won the Silver trophy for bes...

We went to Salute.

Highlights include playing What a Tanker;

Meeting Drew Edney of Slave2Gaming;

Listening to David Manley talking about professional wargaming;

And seeing a bunch of tables; plus what I splurged money to haul home.

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Armored Trooper VOTOMS : Chinese mecha maker meets with Kunio Okawara.Scopedog! start-up! YouTube video by Captain Wangde

Armored Trooper VOTOMS : Chinese mecha maker shows the Scopedog he made to Kunio Okawara
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MekTek 4: The Final Issue Dave Hardwood drew i ssue four's cover, a friend from days when I lived in Southend-on-Sea who also drew  the cover, and  a bunch of interio...

Dave Hardwood drew issue four's cover, who also drew the cover, and a bunch of interior illustrations for OHMU War Machine.

This turned out to be a bumper final issue.

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Wow. good job.

My pleasure.

Cheers. I have a thing for weird camo.

I knew some of these, but there are still lots of great tips here

Chop Shop: One Sep Back So, here I am, still unable to drag this conversion across the finish line. Why? Because the front treads aren't symmetrical, as can seen he...

I procrastinated over what to do about the front of this model being asymmetrical because it bugged the hell out of me.

Drastic solution. Tear down. rebuild.

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It was, I was fair tuckered out.

Herts of Lard 2026: Caen 1944 My afternoon session at Herts of Lard was playing Simon Hatch's What a Tanker 28mm game on a section of Joe Bilton's Caen 1944 table, which...

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.
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Operation Sandbox Operation Sandbox was my BattleTech campaign I started in January 2011, which ended in November 2012. This page is a placeholder for all the...

Many years ago (oh my how time flies) I ran a BattleTech campaign called, Operation Sandbox, set on the Periphery planet of Mummerset.

House Steiner seeking mineral rights to mine Boron. The campaign was run using my quick play rules.

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Herts of Lard 2026: They mostly come at night…..mostly Carrying on with my adventures of a day out at Herts of Lard day. My morning session saw me playing in Mike Wilkins's They mostly come at ni...

I've put up a post with the pictures I took of the morning session game at Herts of Lard, They mostly come at night…..mostly.

Played with modified What a Cowboy rules, using 28mm Alien miniatures from the boardgame, much fun was had.

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Caveat, I'm mad about mecha, and there are not enough films with mecha, so I'm biased.

We watched this last night, and it had an alien mech chewing up a bunch of Ranger candidates on their last training day.

Total gonzo fun. Hope there's a sequel showing the bigger picture of the invasion.

The "Epstein Files" are a masterclass in propaganda YouTube video by struthless

Worth sharing, watch or don't watch, agree or disagree, you're free to choose.

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It was fun though, because one has got to love a rampaging mech stomping around the countryside lowering property values.

Herts of Lard 2026 Saturday we went to Rickmansworth for the Herts of Lard games day run by Joe Bilton. He being the maestro of epic wargame tables, as can be ...

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.

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It was. I have more pics, but need time to sort them out. Will post when I have done so.

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

Alternate TOS Mutara Nebula Battle - Fan Re-Imagined w/ Physical Model Kits YouTube video by NJM Productions

One has got to love the enthusiasm of fans.

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I get all my Cherryh books from Forbidden Planet in Britain.

Alternate TOS Mutara Nebula Battle - Fan Re-Imagined w/ Physical Model Kits YouTube video by NJM Productions

In a world where people gloop together some generative spudwazz and consider themselves creative, it does a soul good to see someone think, "Hey, how about recreating the Battle of the Mutara Nebula, but the Enterprise is the TOS one, oh, and it's model work? Yeah, let's do it." youtu.be/rHYVQCaNpjM

MekTek 3: Letter's of Comment Explode The final piece of artwork generously donated by Steve Kyte adorns the cover of issue three. Again all uncredited articles and artwork for ...

Issue three of the 1989 BattleTech fanzine MekTek had ten pages of reader's comments. Heady days.

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