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French cavalry part 1
Over the last 6 weeks I have focused my efforts on doubling the cavalry in my French Army, an ambitious target (for me) of 20 figures was set and this was to be my summer project.You can view my...
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Battle Report; The last Apostle Revisited
This week I visited Michael & Alan Perry to play a different approach to 'The Last Apostle' skirmish scenario. With troops from my own collection bolstered by those from Michael's, Aly Morrison and...
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Battle Report; the raid on Ardes
A couple of weeks back my local wargaming support group (myself Keith & Jeff) met with Simon at Firestorm Games in Cardiff. We're all separated by distance and time to a greater or lesser extent...
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French Cavalry Part 2 - with added content !
Quite a treat for you all today and very much so for me, I'm pleased to say that I have completed 2 lances of French Cavalry for my Louis XII army. Edit, and with a day of decent light (and the family...
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The Stanley Retinue and a Scenic Interlude
In this post I have a bit of a mixed bag to present. First off, some Tudor Archers that I've been working on for a while, well not that much actual work but it's taken me about 6 weeks as life has got...
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French & Tudor Custom Dice !
To personalise my early Tudor games of Lion Rampant I have commissioned some bespoke Tudor and French dice. I was limited in choice of dice, spot and image colour but I think they're pretty good. The...
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2017 a Year in Review
Here's a round up of the highlights of my gaming and painting year. I'd say it's perhaps been my busiest and most enjoyable yet with easily the most output by a wide margin. In no particular...
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Last call for Custom Dice
Back in December I mentioned that I had commissioned some bespoke dice and to gauge interest I would be submitting a bulk order at the end of January.I've received a few orders and this is a final call...
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Archers of the Dorset retinue and a brief study of early Tudor livery coats
My first project of the year has been to complete my existing retinue of the Marquis of Dorset by adding some supporting archers.You can review the creation of Dorset's retinue in the original blog...
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Face Tutorial
By popular demand here's a brief tutorial on how I approach painting faces. For the tutorial I have selected a converted figure using the head from the Perry Ansar set with added cloth cap and hair....
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Casualty Markers
For a while I have had this project steadily gaining progress in between others and with some gaming looming this month I've made an effort to complete it. These four new casualty markers join the...
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Tudor Dollies move to Steel Fist Miniatures
The Tudor Dollies are now available direct from Steel Fist Miniatures;https://www.steelfistminiatures.com/product/wfd-10.-tudor-dollies/I have long wanted to contribute to Steel Fist Miniatures as both...
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New terrain commission
I was going to put all of this into one post but decided upon two as the best way forward. In this post I shall introduce some new terrain and in the next as part of a shared blog post with Oli of the...
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Renaissance Rampant AAR Tudor Rebellion !
This weekend I hosted a series of 3 linked games with fellow Renaissance enthusiast Oli of the Camisado blog. Oli and I have complementary collections of Italian Wars figures for which we have spent...
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Renaissance Rampant rule adaptations
The Lion Rampant adaptation that Oli and I use for our wargames will be published in the June issue of Wargames Illustrated, WI 368.We still continue to make tweaks to these as we play, generally to...
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Marching Retinue Bowmen
I've been working on this unit for quite a while making steady progress in between other projects as each figure required a fair bit of conversion. I must say that I'm really pleased with the results,...
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The Battle of Beaulieu Abbey, 1513
Last weekend Simon Chick and I were invited to bring our collections for a Franco Tudor battle hosted by Michael Perry.We had a great time and it was good to catch up over a game and beers thereafter....
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Of Guns and Gendarmes
I was going to title this post 'What I did on my Holidays' but I've a feeling I'll want to refer to it at a later date so this makes it easier.The 16 August was the 505th Anniversary of the Battle of...
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Rhys ap Thomas and Demilancers
This unit has been a long time in the making, perhaps longer than I'd have liked but that's the way it goes sometimes. I'd considered putting this across two posts as it's a bit long but hopefully the...
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Tudor culverin
Another little project come to fruition.I've been slowly working on this as a break from the demilancers (see previous post) so I guess it's been a couple of months in production, albeit for 4 figures...
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