Uwanda and Mugabia: The Strategic Situation
Uwanda's all out invasion of Mugabia had barely begun, but a number of significant events had taken place:First, Uwanda had caught Mugabia flat footed. Despite the obvious signs, the Mugabian spies,...
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Surprising Painting Progress
When I started painting the odds and ends needed for gaming my third world imagi-nations in 6mm, I hadn't realized just how much micro-armor that I had laying about. A pack here, a pack there, trays...
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A "Little" Nostalgia
About 30 years ago, I built a number of 6mm buildings for use in Red Dawn type scenarios with micro-armor. In time they were lent to a friend for games at his house, and eventually fell into disuse as...
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Perfect Six Miniatures
I recently received my first order from Perfect Six Miniatures. I became aware of Perfect Six after asking for suggestions for sources of 6mm field fortifications on The Wargames Website. I found...
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Nostalgia at Sea
I haven't accomplished much of anything over the last couple of weeks, except a little molding and casting, but while searching for 6mm buildings and supplies, I stumbled upon more old school leftovers...
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First Two 6mm Modern African Buildings Built
I finally finished the first two 6mm buildings for my modern African imagi-nation games. They are patterned after 15mm buildings that I made previously, which are based on actual buildings from...
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My First Order from Heroics & Ros
Despite having purchased my first Heroics & Ros 6mm infantry circa 1983, I only placed my first direct order with H&R a few weeks ago. I ordered infantry, vehicles, and aircraft for the 6mm...
View ArticleCharlies Journal - Long Range Recon: The Briefing (Post-Apoc)
We got briefed on a special mission today, a long range reconnaissance mission. I guess we're gonna head east, further than we ever gone before. HQ figures that there's probably communities like ours...
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Irishserb's Miniatures Update
For the last month and a half, I've mostly focused on mold making and casting, and though I'm running behind as usual, my 15mm modern vehicles will be available for sale again sometime later this...
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More Progress on Modern 6mm African Buildings
Though slowed somewhat by an ailment and casting vehicles, I have managed some progress on the next batch of 6mm buildings for my modern African imagi-nation project.The next batch of buildings...
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The Breaking Point
I've spent much of the last few weeks in a sort of hobby limbo, with some of my free time occupied with making masters, molds, and casting. And much more of it spend waiting for glues, solvents and...
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Odds and Ends - December 2018
My frequency of posting has dropped as a result of giving time to selling miniatures again. A couple people have asked me about the status of my campaigns and whatnot, so thought that I'd share what...
View ArticlePushing Ahead
The 6mm Soviets are finally off of my painting table (659 miniatures painted), giving way to the 6mm African buildings. So far, only some cleaning and assembling has been completed, as I've been...
View ArticleBook Sale Page
I've added a page to my blog to lists books that I am offering for sale. There are currently about a dozen books listed, covering the Cold War, Vietnam, WWII, and model-building/painting. It is...
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A Few More Cliffs for the Apocalypse
I've been trying to get my 6mm African buildings done, but have been struggling for whatever reason with only four of them more or less painted after a couple of weeks. I've also really been...
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Cliffs Are Done, But Late On Everything Else
They used every scrap of time that I could muster over the last week, but the additional cliff sections are done.The seam in the road didn't look so bad when I first lined them up, should have fixed...
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Looking Back at 2018
The year started out with an ambitious project, building the modular cliffs for my post apocalypse (and other) games, and generally, I made progress and played some games in each of the periods that...
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Charlie's Journal - Long Range Recon: Days 1 and 2
DAY 1We started out today. Drove east on the old highway for awhile, then veered slightly north cross country. Ran into a radiation zone, and then spent half the day working our way around it. Scared...
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Charlie's Journal - Long Range recon: Day 3
Day 3Things started to look different, seein' more plants and eventually came across a small river or stream. There were a lot of really odd plants; Panky took some samples from them. And there were...
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Charlies Journal - Long Range Recon Day 4
Day 4Countryside started gettin' bumpy. Hilly, rocky areas, and cliffs and whatnot. We found an old road, and stuck more or less to that for most of the day. We had to clear some rocks and a road...
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