Monday, 23 November 2015

Tea Break!

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It feels like time for a tea break. I've spent what few spare moments I could muster in the past week painting what Messrs. Skinner and ...
Saturday, 7 November 2015

"A man will never need a grave dug if he is shot in this desert"

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After reading Wavell's rather dry " The Palestine Campaigns " (pardon the pun), I needed to get back to some history told ...
Saturday, 3 October 2015

6mm scratch-built entrenchments for Great War Spearhead II

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I love an excuse to drop everything and scratch build something. I was setting up for my second game of Great War Spearhead II (GWSH II)...
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Wednesday, 30 September 2015

GWSH II - Rolling with the punches, France, August 1914

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I am pleased to report that my 6mm Great War project that I started back in July 2014 , has finally got off the blocks. After months of (occ...
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Monday, 14 September 2015

20,000 camels - quenching the thirst of the EEF

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By early 1916, the Egyptian Expeditionary Force was using nearly 20,000 camels in its transport lines. Camels were organised in companies of...
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Monday, 7 September 2015

EEF digs in - Battlefield Accessories' Hasty Entrenchments

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Not a great deal of progress was made on miniatures this weekend - although a scratch-built Ottoman blinkgerat is on the painting table (sec...
Sunday, 30 August 2015

Heliograph team, Egypt and Palestine c1915 - Eureka 15mm British in Sinai conversion

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In the BEF signals were dealt with by the Royal Engineers: In 1914 each infantry Division included a Signals Company with a total strength...
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