28mm Heroes

 Saturday I went over to Matt's for another Blood in the Sand Battle. It was a great battle and I took rubbish photos but Matt's report can be found here . This morning some men in aa van came...

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 Another winter painting figs for the Challenge has finished and I painted 4643.6 points of figures - equivalent of 928 28mm  infantry figures. I finished an honourable 3rd (although it is not...

http://28mmheroes.blogspot.com/2023/03/13th-analogue-hobbies-painting.html

 Yesterday a wandered over to Bren's shed to play a dark ages battle. Bren was fielding an Anglo-Saxon army and me and Stig the Picts. Stig arrived late so we started with out him, and more impo...

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 I've been painting a 10mm Polish army for the Siege of Vienna for several years now. Well I painted some a few years ago and painted the rest last week. Cossacks More Cossacks Wi...

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 Last weekend I wandered down to Stig's for a game of Spanish Civil War using Rapid Fire rules. They are a nice set of simple rules that work well and are well written. It was Stigs 1st ever SCW...

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 I have posted a couple of times already my work on a 10mm imagiNation Scots army for 7YW. I love imagiNation armies and would like to have more. I even prefer fighting imaginary comapigns using...

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 Managed to get in 2 days of gaming this weekend, and they were brilliant. Yesterday I went off to Matt's to refight the Battle of Hochkirch. Frederick has been caught strung out in camp by a mu...

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 Other friends are posting reviews of the year so I thought I would do the same. Happy new year So last year ended with a massive Vietnam game at the wargames club formerly known as the Old Gu...

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 The 13th Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge starts in 6 days and i've not painted anything for 3 months due to my shoulder injury. So I thought I'd have a practice, I was very rusty. 1st ...

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  It's been a while. I've been out of action for a couple of months with a trapped nerve in my shoulder, 2 weeks of agony, 4 weeks of pain and now it's just sore. I'm still having problems ...

http://28mmheroes.blogspot.com/2022/11/its-alive.html

 So this weekend was The Other Partizan and Dave and I we due represent the Old Guard to put on a large Vietnam table with all our collections out and loads of action. We had been frantically fi...

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 When we think of transport in the Vietnam war we think helicopters. However you can't actually get a lot of stuff in a helicopter. Most of the supplies were moved in trucks. Huge great 300 truc...

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 The thing I like best about wargaming, apart form the other things, is letting my imagination run wild. I don't mind recreating old battles, esp ones I don't know the outcome of, but I really l...

http://28mmheroes.blogspot.com/2022/08/scottish-seven-years-war-army-what.html

 I've finished the next batch of jungle and river sections. I bought some 2mm mdf rectangles from Amazon, they were cheap and infinitely better than using card, which is a pity as I have loads o...

http://28mmheroes.blogspot.com/2022/08/in-jungle-might-jungle-sorry.html

 So in light of the truly epic time in Scarborough, Dave and I were discussing going back next year to put on another massive game. So if you are playing a massive game what do you go for. Obvio...

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Last weekend Dave and I wandered down to Scarborough to play Sands of the Sudan on Gerry's ridiculously large wargames tables. We were playing Friday, Saturday and Sunday and were recreating the ...

http://28mmheroes.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-whopper-or-how-i-played-epic-wargame.html

 Today I popped over to Matt's for some back of beyond action with Afghans vs British beyond the Khyber Pass. These punishment raids were common place in the late 19th and early 20th Century and...

http://28mmheroes.blogspot.com/2022/06/punishing-afghans-1920s-style.html

 Today I went down to sunny Redcar to visit Ian and Jane and play in Ian's games room / garage/bike shed. We were giving my SCW armies a 1st try out and testing my Land and Freedom Rules, see pa...

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 I've completed my planned Spanish Civil War armies. We all say "finished" and mean the other thing. I had planned to have forces of 2 brigades per side, with additional support units and that i...

http://28mmheroes.blogspot.com/2022/05/spanish-civil-war-painting-mania.html

 Over the last few weeks I've been assembling and buying a Dwarf 28mm army and 10mm Polish Renaissance and Ottoman armies, but I wasn't feeling the love to paint them. When I'm in the mood I wil...

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 Hello everybody. It's been a whie since I posted, not since the Painting Challenge ended. I've not painted anything since them, some degree of burn out. I had a good challenge and painted a f...

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 Saturday I went over to the dungeon to fight another 7YW epic against Matt. In the battle of Hochkirch Frederick had been caught napping by the Austrians and was facing a desperate fight to esc...

http://28mmheroes.blogspot.com/2022/03/battle-of-hochkirch.html

 So I'm charging through the challenge, currently I've painted 2500 points worth of figures and am comfortably sitting 3rd in the total points. No messing about on to the painting WW1 Arab I...

http://28mmheroes.blogspot.com/2022/02/12th-analogue-hobbies-painting.html

 Last year i painted up a set of figures for Dunsterforce. Dunsterforce, named after Lionel Dunsterville their commander, invaded Azerbaijan at the end of 1917. With the Russian Revolution the B...

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 Today was Ardhammer in Gateshead. I've not been before and Matt and Steve were making the trek over to have a look. So I popped down. It is simply a bring and buy sale with about 30 tables in 3...

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