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Quality Castings 15mm M42 Duster
After doing some searching on the web for photos and finding nothing, I did a stupid thing and ordered miniatures without seeing them first. Well, much to my surprise, this wild and crazy guy gambled...
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AAR6: Enter the Separatists
This is an After Action Report for the sixth battle in my African Imagi-nation campaign. The last AAR was:http://irishserb.blogspot.com/2011/07/aar5.htmlMugabian leadership had long supported the ULF...
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AAR7: Uwanda Strikes Back
In Uwanda, the elections were held, and a new face became president. President Danganyo was a charismatic man, who stressed that leadership and decisiveness was what had been lacking in dealing with...
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Dragons for my Cold Warriors
Though I'm behind on most of my gaming projects, I ended up working ahead a little on infantry for next year's Cold War project. For the most part I decided to use Old Glory Vietnam figs for my late...
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15mm Odds and Ends: M42, S-60, M113A1
Not getting too much done on the hobby front with with the holidays happening and all, but thought I'd post a few pics and whatnot to sort of tie up some loose ends.First up are a couple of pics of the...
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2011 in Review, and Plans for 2012
I don't imagine my ramblings here will be of much interest to anyone but me, but I do find this to be a somewhat motivational process, so I shall indeed continue with this totally unoriginal idea. If...
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Ghosts of Christmas Games Past
The day after Christmas we traveled to visit my wife's family, which for me includes a visit with an old friend and gamer located nearby the in-laws. As it turned out, another of the old gang happened...
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Roll Call in 15mm
In November, I got the grand idea of rounding out some infantry units for my modern armies, so that I could finally play some of the games that I am forever putting off. Additionally, I figured this...
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Hand on the Mend
When the tendons in my right hand inflated to twice their normal volume (or more) a few weeks back, I had no idea that I would be sidelined for this long. Beyond the pain from the injury, the...
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28mm Sci-Fi Bunker Complex Revisited (Photo heavy)
This is a re-post of the pics from my 28mm sci-fi bunker complex from my old website. Over the last couple of weeks, I've been toying with design ideas for my post-apoc terrain, and got some of my...
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Back in Action
Actually, I have been for about two weeks now, but have been too busy to post anything. Anyway, I've been a casting fool, trying to get everyones' vehicle orders out, manage to paint some 15mm French...
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Those First Steps...
Miniatures enthusiasts all have them, those first steps down the hobby path of military miniatures. For me it started in the late 1960s, but would be the late 1970s before I played a proper wargame or...
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Roll Call II: Light at the End of the Tunnel
Back in January, when I wrote my original "Roll Call" post, I knew that it would take awhile to finish my infantry project, but I still didn't understand the scope of what I had gotten myself into. As...
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A Few Soviets for the Cold War
July 4th turned out to be a pretty open day for me, so I hid from the summer heat and got some work done in the basement. I decided to try to clear some of the half finished stuff off of my various...
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My First Company of Cold Warriors
I just finished my first company of 15mm US Army Mechanized Infantry troops for the 1978-1981 time frame, and thought I'd share a few pics and a little psycho-babble. I still need most of the M113s,...
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My Turn at Painting 15mm ACUs
Well, here is my first squad of 15mm US Army figs (Rebel Minis) in ACUs. I went to the local surplus store and looked at used and new uniforms and gear, made notes and took some pics, but it didn't...
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The Ships of Ponape: 28mm Colonial Gunboats
Some years ago, probably sometime in 1999, I began working on a 28mm colonial adventure game set in the South Pacific. The idea was born roughly 17 years earlier, while watching the the movie Nate and...
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Ponape: A Pacific Island for Colonial Gaming
Like the Gunboats in my previous post, my island setting of Ponape is a caricature of features ranging from Australia to China through Melanesia to Micronesia. Some of it is pure fiction, some things...
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Mission to Pingelap: 28mm Colonial Adventure in the Pacific
The last variation of "Ponape" came in the form of "Mission to Pingelap". The only negative thing about Ponape was the cargo room needed to transport the game to gaming sites, as my own table was no...
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Mugabia's New Air Defense Weapon
With my eight month long infantry project all but complete, I got the bug to clean up some of the many half finished projects setting all over the basement. One of the little heaps of pieces that...
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