The Wargaming Depot

Its time for monthly progress report and update. As a reminder I have 6 projects I am running with: 1. Tier 1 15mm Napoleonics 2. Tier 1 20mm Moderns 3. Tier 2 15mm late ECW 4. Tier 2 1...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-2020-update.html

Just finished a quick prototype road using caulking spread out on a strip of canvas from the local hardware store. I then used a model wheel from a cannon to create vehicle lines down the mi...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2020/05/prototype-caulking-on-canvas-road.html

I took the mat to the local hardware store today and picked up 2 colors to use as the base and the heavy highlight to try to get my terrain pieces to blend in to the mat. This is proving more di...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2020/05/color-matching-to-new-terrain-mat.html

Just took delivery of this beauty! Digitally printed on both sides of a 6x4 sheet of neoprene with european grasslands on one side and middle eastern dessert on the other. Can't wait to put t...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2020/05/my-new-digitally-printed-on-both-sides.html

Here is the new technique I am using to make all my scenic items for the 20mm Modern Afghanistan tabletop as well as all my 15mm tabletops as well. 1. Use a section of hard product for the b...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2020/05/updated-technique-making-scenic-items.html

After watching and researching a few different techniques for creating some good gaming terrain for my modern Afghanistan project I found some information on using mdf bases with caulking and...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2020/05/20mm-afghanistan-project-test-pieces.html

So let's see where I'm up to. A lot has happened since I was last here. Around my last posts in 2017 I had made the decision to drop 6mm projects in favor of 15mm. This in part was due to eyesi...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2020/05/im-back-part-2-with-project-updates.html

After a few years of dropping the blog and throwing pics up on various Facebook pages I have recently stumbled back on this blog and realised I really don't have a place to journal my own persona...

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I bought a tonne of roads and rivers from an eBay seller called Fat Frank. They are great but I didn't realise they would come already painted and flocked with static grass. This week during my...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2017/03/roads-reflocked.html

One of the Tier 3 project ideas I have is 15mm AWI. I think Empire V will be took much for this period and the quick game goals I have so I purchased Black Powder for this project. The Paint and ...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2017/03/rebellion-has-arrived.html

The other thing I got into this week was movie making. A couple of the guys on the paint and chat lines suggested using my Iphone to film updates to my blog. At first I passed it off but then t...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2017/02/video-updates-coming-soon.html

Finally! A few years ago I bought some ADF troops in 20mm from Wartime . I got to work on them researching the paints I needed to depict troops in Afghanistan and painted a few dozen. Then ...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2017/02/adf-in-afghanistan-section-complete-in.html

Here's a couple of shots I took of close up on Peter's 28mm figures:

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2017/02/practice-macro-zoom-shots-on-iphone-6.html

So here's a pic of the command figures all sorted and glued to tops for painting. They will fit in to fill the gaps in this Division made up of 2nd hand figures rebased.

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2017/02/15mm-ab-command-reporting-for-painting.html

This book arrived in the mail today. Although its 28mm and I paint 15mm I am hoping it will help me with the quality of my painting and the colours and techniques. Its a fine line between speed...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2017/02/latest-book-to-arrive.html

A promised here are the final shots of a prototype woods piece for my new 15mm scale tabletop. The base is mounting card with paint and flock to match my tabletop mat from Cigar Box but the ...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2017/01/prototype-wooded-scenics.html

2017 sees in a new opportunity for a campaign at the weekly Thursday night group I game with. We needed a good Campaign system that modeled not only movement but the affects of that movement an...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2017/01/thurs-night-gaming-1813-campaign.html

I couple of weeks ago I managed to purchase a large amount of 2nd hand painted AB French. 192 figures! They look good except were based differently to Empire V and were missing all their com...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2017/01/more-15mm-ab-french-arrive.html

2016 was a good year in some respects. I still have only a limited number of projects I wish to focus my hobby time on. These will be mentioned and updated upon later here later. With a new home ...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2017/01/update-2017.html

To go with my 1st division of French Infantry for 1815 I have purchased some guns and crew from eBay and once again added some final touches and rebased them for Empire V. Below is the pic of t...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2016/09/1st-french-foot-artillery-battery.html

I recently saw someone offloading a bunch of 15mm buildings which I thought would be a good addition to my building collection considering I was having trouble getting started on building some of...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2016/09/2nd-hand-buildings-purchase.html

Having gathered all the flags I need as image files from all over the internet I cut them all up into individual units and named them and then added them into a Word document where I can resize t...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2016/09/15mm-napoleonic-french-flag-prototype.html

Okay I need to slow down lol In my efforts to pump out 1 unit per week through either my own painting, eBay purchases or using professional painters, I have been going beserk purchasing French ...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2016/07/ebay-purchases-out-of-control.html

I finally got my chance to print all my flags out and finish my 1st battalion of French Line for 1815. Its been painted and based for around a month now but was missing its flag. Here it is t...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2016/07/my-first-15mm-unit-complete.html

A huge 2nd hand purchase of Moderns arrived today from a sale off facebook. I picked out a few items I wanted but then the owner added a whole bunch of freebies and also offered some additional...

http://wardepot.blogspot.com/2016/07/2nd-hand-purchases-19-july-2016.html