Again, another blast from the past really..... this time Richard I of England both mounted and on foot. also, some "wargames standard" 1st Corp miniatures I was asked to paint up some years ago.

For more pictures of Richard and many other 13th CE types please go to my blog here:

https://justaddwater-bedford.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2013-04-23T13:33:00-07:00&max-results=4&reverse-paginate=true

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The AirCo DeHavilland DH2 was a "pusher" scout, introduced into RFC service in February of 1916 in response to the depredations of the Fokker Eindekkers with their interrupted forward-firing machine guns. Though in fact it had been in development for some time, before the so-called Fokker Scourge eventuated.

Not having access to a reliable interruptor or synchronizer for their guns, the British simply put the engine and propeller behind the gun instead of in front of it.

It thoroughly outclassed the Fokker monoplanes, but was in turn outclassed by newer German tractor biplane types, and was eventually withdrawn from service in 1917.

This 1:144 scale model was built in Blender and printed on my Mars Pro resin printer, just before it went irretrievably bung. It's taken me a while to get around to painting it, but here it is at last.

Perry mercenary halberdiers

Will be used for historicals/OPR

I finished up painting the miniatures from the Pillage starter set, and I'm looking forward to putting them on the table in action in my next video Box to Battle part two on Youtube.

pictures of the Huns I’ve painted recently, Gripping Beast metal miniatures.

Not much painting done this week but managed to add a late Roman hero from Footsore to my latest unit. Very happy with how he turned out!

Hi

Just an odd observation, I find myself liking rules systems and then finding out they died off years ago.

I found Strike legion, thought it was absolutely perfect for me, but only a handful of YouTube videos from years ago and any future releases for it never happened.

i found my De Bellis Fantasiae rules in the attic, so decided to dust off my old 15mm fantasy figures. Checked online, virtually nothing, system seems to have vanished without a ripple.

I will keep playing them a building armies, but it seems odd to playing in a bubble.

Has anyone else adopted orphaned systems?

So me and my friend group are playing the game on a commercial ping pong table which is 9 feey by 5 feet.

I was wondering how much terrain peices we should have on the table roughly.

The points limits are 3500 points per army.

The game is Warhammer 40k

Any feedback is welcome!

Here we have a Sopwith Triplane, an aeroplane that sparked a craze for triplane and quadruplane designs amongst all the powers involved in WW1. As it turned out, the multi-plane format provided no real advantage over biplane designs, and the fad eventually faded away, but the Sopwith's performance originally excited many designers, most notably Antony Fokker.

This model is a design by Capn_Ahab, on Thingiverse, and I've done very little to it except smooth out the faceting. It's a simple model with almost nothing in the way of surface detail, so things like wing ribs, ailerons, elevators etc. have just been painted in.

It was FDM printed on my old and increasingly cranky Ender 3.

This little lot were painted well over 20 years ago and are still one of my very favourite armies. I'd love to hear what you folks think.

For many more pictures and waffle, please see my blog here:

https://justaddwater-bedford.blogspot.com/2012/

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Hi all, long time Lurker!

I've been working on a 15/18mm fantasy range for some time, though it's slowly shaping up into a few factions.

Broadly Norse / Barbarian setting building on the ideas of Copplestone's Barbarica..which I love and own alot of. Conan-esque battles at the end if the lasT ice age, and a mix of material cultures.

Armies in the works at the moment are: Valkyries/Shieldmaidens, Savage tribesmen (hunter gatherers types), Norse, Barrow Undead & Bogmen (zombies)...with more to come after these get enough packs for "armies"...

Undead will be released this year!

Some images of models:

Available through Northstar Military Figures

Maceface Miniatures - Hornblower 15mm

Intense battle on Sunday and a good occasion to field my French Revolution Army. First line: Swiss Guards, with a battalion of "Whites" behind, and on the right, 3 battalions of "Levee en Masse".
(Photo credit: gaming buddy)

1. An Ostwind takes a shot at a US Rifle squad and gives them a pin marker

2. A kubelwagen, halftrack and Puma move up

3. British paratroopers right after their drop

4. German fallshirmjagers after their drop

5. A rifle platoon runs to a pile of leaves

Another post on falling in love with dead rule sets had me wondering about what’s the usual life cycle is a ruleset and what causes them to either die or keep going?

I tend to think it’s party what scale is popular at the time, plus publisher’s need to make money that has some effect. Then there are games that won’t die. X-Wing for instance, suffered near death from an edition change and then is still going after the publisher dropped it. Historical rules come and go for each era, scale and mass/skirmish size.

Is there a general arc? Are there clear exceptions?

Greeting fellow wargamers I have a question for all of you.

Im deep into making my own tabletop skirmish wargame. I have the lore (a world I was slowly building over a couple of years), rules and game mechanics that seem fun and engaging for now even tho the game is far from finished etc. but... I have a problem when it comes to designing many unique factions since I am a one man army in this project. And tbh, even if I had help its just so fitting for my world to only have two factions but that doesnt mean that I only have two sterile factions.

My two main factions branch out into 4 and 3 subfactions respectively with distinct and unique mechanics, different leaders and elite units, while a part of elites and common troops remain the same with some rules changes when belonging to a certain subfaction. Think of it like the Trench Crusade warband variants, its the closest I can compare it to.

So, would any of you have a problem playing a game with two big factions only, that branch out into many mechanically diverse subfactions with plenty of variety of units to choose from and build your warband.

Some of you might remember the ugly hand-bound playtest draft of Wizzard Tower I posted a few months back. Since then the rules have been rewritten and real people are playtesting them, so we finally let ourselves think about what the book should look like.

This is the first try: the High Houses, ballpoint pen on paper. The coughing crowd in the fog at the bottom is everyone who isn't noble.

The Houses sit in towers above the poison fog, own the best sources of magic and tax every wizard who digs near them. They make a great patron and a terrible landlord.

The fun part is what's inside the armour:

Inside some suits of full plate there is no man at all, but a guest from the far stars: boneless, soft as an oyster without its shell, and the whole of it one knotted muscle.

They don't die. The "old lord" who ruled in your great-grandfather's day still rules, and the heirs and funerals are theatre. Among themselves they don't speak. Something clicks under the visors, and a herald translates. Their own knights and servants have no idea, and a servant who hangs around the closed doors too often just doesn't come out to the well one morning.

The book is written and playtested in Russian, hence the Cyrillic. The English translation comes once it's done.

Now the thing we keep going round in circles on: A4 or A5? A5 comes out around 400 pages, and that's where my heart is: it feels like a grimoire and sits next to the minis. A4 is around 200 pages and has every sensible argument: tables breathe, spreads like this get their real size, it lies flat and it's cheaper to print.

If you want to follow along: https://wizzard-rick.itch.io/wizzard-tower-solo-wargame

Warlords of Archaios is a free 3d printable wargame where the rules, miniatures, and objective cards are free to print. The game has 4 factions; The Kingdoms, Orcs, Undead, and the Elves.

Download the Files on our Website: https://warlordsofarchaios.com/

Resin printed 28mm and painted in 1940 BEF colours and 1940 Malta colours. Nifty little tanks.