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  • Ascaria,  Colonial,  Funny Little Wars,  Imagi-Nation,  Paint Table Saturday

    An Unexpected, Though Pleasant, Diversion

    July 23, 2020 / No Comments

    Looking for a break from … well, everything I have been painting, with the added incentive of reducing the pile of boxes of unpainted Armies in Plastic, I reached for a box of Indian cavalry. They were from the AiP…

  • Colonial,  Funny Little Wars,  Vintage

    Beefing Up the Band

    July 22, 2020 / 1 Comment

    Your Humble Correspondent has been suitably prolific on the hobby front, but not sufficiently strict about documentation. I have much to share. Whilst in quest of identification of my Royal Marine Band, I found an Ebay listing for a quite…

  • Colonial,  Funny Little Wars,  VSF

    “… Sgt. Pepper Taught the Band to Play”

    June 24, 2020 / 2 Comments

    Two-and-a-half weeks ago, I found myself dutifully masked, hands a-glisten with sanitizer. I was assiduously perusing a local Junque Shoppe, a joy I had missed during the time of quarantine. I knew this store to have had toy soldiers —…

  • Colonial,  Fantasy,  Funny Little Wars,  Isla Victoria,  Old West,  Paint Table Saturday,  Painting,  Pirates/Naval,  VSF,  Warhammer

    A bit of a jag

    April 1, 2020 / 2 Comments

    Even before the recent “sheltering in place,” I seem to have gone on a bit of a painting jag — the term is, apparently, an Americanism: “a bout of unrestrained activity or emotion, especially drinking, crying, or laughing.” There is…

  • Colonial,  Fantasy,  Funny Little Wars,  Paint Table Saturday,  Painting,  Warhammer

    Odds & Sods

    January 20, 2020 / No Comments

    Missed the traditional Saturday, but I submit a brief painting update. First up we have the first painted fellow from my recently-won WHFB 6/e starter set. I hereby revise my assessment of the sculpts from “aren’t my favorite” to “absolutely…

  • Colonial,  Funny Little Wars,  Paint Table Saturday,  VSF

    Toy Soldier Update

    June 15, 2019 / 1 Comment

    The toy soldiers I found in a junk store (last seen here) have been successfully stripped and repainted. Here they are after a lengthy bath in acetone and then Simple Green. The chap on the left is clearly an authentic…

  • Colonial,  Funny Little Wars,  Painting,  VSF

    The Year That Was

    January 6, 2019 / No Comments

    I can say “long time, no post,” but when an entire year has passed since I attended to this blog, it seems a bit ridiculous. When I finally did check in a week ago, I discovered that the blog had…

  • Craftees,  Funny Little Wars,  Isla Victoria,  Modern,  Pirates/Naval,  Pulp,  Sci-Fi,  Square Pegs,  VSF

    More Square Pegs

    January 4, 2018 / No Comments

    Fresh from showing off my counterfeits of Matt’s figures, I should make clear that I also steal from Kenneth Van Pelt. Here are a few pictures of my Square Pegs 54mm craftee VSF soldiers (and some experiments in other genres).…

  • Colonial,  Funny Little Wars,  Isla Victoria,  Pulp,  VSF

    Vintage Christmas

    December 31, 2017 / 1 Comment

    I came to miniature wargaming as an adult. Childhood Christmases did include wondrous gifts, but never the tubs of little plastic warriors that so many boys enjoyed. As an aside, I did yearn for that crate of Revolutionary War Soldiers…

  • Colonial,  Funny Little Wars

    Sawyer’s Playmobil

    January 1, 2013 / No Comments

    Despite the seriousness with which many pursue the cause of wargaming — devoting hours to painting figures and constructing terrain; then devoting hours more to arguing over the proper number of buttons or color of facings — one should never…

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