Welcome

This is my small part of the web dedicated to my favourite way of staying out of my wife's way, which is by miniature wargaming.

Have been an avid borad/wargamer off and on for some time and my main area of interest is 20mm WWII. I have though like so many other gamers other areas that I like to dabble in and will hopefully be sharing them with the web...

My main wargaming aim other than to have large armies in all periods all well painted (!) is to try and encourage my soon to be 4 year old son to follow in my foot steps into gaming whcih to date seems to be working as he has already started painting figures.

Photos and hopefully plenty wargaming wise to follow.....

Tuesday 29 November 2011

Update

Evening

Am hoping to upload photos of the Brit Paras who will be representing the Ox and Bucks over the next few days, but am busy celebrating my son's birthday over the weekend so please bear with me.

On the painting front have just sprayed with army painter those 15 mm French that I had finished and black underocated the next batch ready to go. Will post photos of my Napleonics after have finished my WW2 shots.

Cheers

Phil

Monday 28 November 2011

Pegasus Bridge

Evening

Here are some photos of my German Garrison for Pegasus.

Have just started painting the pill box for the game and though I'd start with a dark blue drybrush and then build up with the greys. A good theory but on of the walls is looking a bit to blueish, but will see out it pans out.

Had the army painter strong dip out as well as finish off the first half of the next French Light Infantry bn-photos to follow.

Cheers




Phil

Sunday 27 November 2011

Update

Evening. Have just been taking photos of the German defenders and will upload them tomorrow evening.

The French light infantry on my desk are half way to completion and photos will follow.

When chatting to Jesse a Canadian wargaming pal of mine, was admiring his painted armies which were based on an unusual material, in that he was using floor tiles. These are both light weight and you know they will never warp and apparently can be easily cut. The only difficulty is that they do not appear to be available in the UK. Plan to get some photos and upload them.

Have a good week.

Cheers

Phil

Saturday 26 November 2011

Update

Evening

Hope to post some more photos of the Pegasus project tomorrow night or early next week. Have spent the day playing world in flames, which is a board game about WW2 by ADG. Have been playing the game in various editions for the last 20 years or so and still want to play it as there are so many variables to it.

Cheers

Phil

Thursday 24 November 2011

Update

Evening and thanks for stopping by. Have finished setting up the Pegasus terrain with my opponent Tony Swift who had gallantely agreed to play the Germans. Will post photos of the game which we should if kitchen passes allow begin next week. Ahead of that need to paint my pill box and will post photos of the combatants. Cheers Phil

Wednesday 23 November 2011

Update

Sorry just worked out to change settings to allow comments! Feel free to ask questions. Thanks. Phil

Tuesday 22 November 2011








Evening, here are a few shots of my finished terrain boards. With Major Howard giving the order to send out ham and jam above!

Am almost ready to finally play the game though have yet to paint a pill box and a position for the 50mm anti tank gun and to finish a few more German afvs for the RF scenario.

Will post some photos of the combatants shortly and happy to answer questions about the boards construvction alkthough alot of credit would have to Mark Evans for his guidance in making them.

Cheers

Phil

Sunday 20 November 2011

Wargames terrain

I have today managed to finish of my terrain boards for my Pegaus bridge project. Admittedly I have been working on them since 2005 since however I have met my wonderful wife, moved house twice, changed jobs and become Dad so all in all not to bad!

Photos to follow and hope the sword beach boards to be ready a lot quicker!

Friday 18 November 2011

Welcome to my Gaming room and should start my saying thank you to my wonderful wife, Jane for allowing me to have such a good size room inthe house for gaming. In my single days I had a 2 bed house with second bedroom given other for gaming so hopefully has not been to much of a shock living with a wargamer!

A quick tour my gaming table is a dinning room table from Ikea that I have 2 4 by 4 foot mdf boards to go on the top off. On top of thoise go my terrain boards that are slowly being accumulated and plan to do close ups off.

My armies are on a dvd shelf unit that found via amazon which is just deep enough to get a 15mm French bn in coloumn or two Afv 20mm, and has served to help inspire the painting as aim to try and fill it with figures.

The buildings are mainly from Colin Rumford, and am hoping he will re-start painting at some point so can add some more to my collection in the mean time trawl ebay for the odd bargin.

I have a scratch built Arnhem road bridge by Keith Warren and St Elizabeths by Paul McDonagh from Paul's modelling.

the reason there are plenty of troops lieing around on the other shelfs is they have to be based and finsished before going on to the unit -again suppossedly a tactic to keep me basing!

The painting desk and paints really speak for themselves and will be doing close up's over the next few weeks as well as outlining my gaming projects.

Any questions feel free to ask.

Wednesday 16 November 2011

Update

Just a quick update to say photos of my gaming room lair will be updated shortly but been busy working on some French 15mm Napleonics this evening.