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That’s a proper battle and table too?

Favourite picture of the day, just glad I was on the flank!!

And that’s a wrap! Battle of Borodino all done. Fabulous day of gaming. A marginal French victory so a very historical result as the Russians retreat. But a great game with some fantastic stories from both sides. Gaming doesn’t get much better than this! #borodino #bigbattles #napoleonics

The French advance #borodino

No prizes for guessing where we are heading today! #Borodino

Setting up for Ebor Lard. Go Lard into the Desert as Major Dartington-Cristal attempts to lead a British column to safety. A Sharp Practice game #spreadthelard

When Grimgutz Ironjaw found an old book with picture of chariots racing at stupidly dangerous speeds he had a cunning plan. He would build a great racing track, & send the fastest, most dangerous Ork cars hurtling around it. And so was born, Da Circus Orkus Shiteous! Coming to Ebor Lard 2026 #orks

Finally painted a Blood Bowl team. Well a 7s team at least. Release of the new 7s rules has spurred me onto starting a long term ambition of getting a few Blood Bowl teams done and have some games. Orc 7s team next, after I get the bases finished for these. #bloodbowl

Lard Workshop is go! All set-up for tomorrow’s What a Cowboy game at Lard Workshop. #spreadthelard

I needed a figure to represent Molly O’Hara the rather formidable owner of the Red Rock Saloon in my What a Cowboy game at Lard Workshop this weekend. A search in the unpainted Foundry pile presented a likely candidate. Channelling Joanie Stubbs from the great Deadwood TV series. Base to be finished

Delighted to be presenting “What a Cowboy” at Lard Workshop on Saturday. Can Sheriff Roundwood get the notorious outlaw leader Rich Clarke onto the 3:10 train to Lardville to face justice? Or will Clarke’s sidekick & accomplice in crime Nick Skinner lead the Clarke Gang to the rescue? #spreadthelard

We’ve plans for Borodino 1812 later this year. And you can’t have Borodino without the flèches and the iconic church. So here’s the church. 3d printed model.

It’s the annual Waterloo game this weekend and things are taking shape. Troops have deployed into their Corps areas but will no doubt see some tactical rearranging on the morning of the battle. 1 allied corps yet to arrive. Hopefully the rain will hold off this time 😉 #blackpowder #waterloo

Got the Orklandz Gaslands game on the table at OML this afternoon. The usual chaos & mayhem. Just what you expect from Gaslands. #ruleofcarnage #gaslands #orklandz

I knew there was a reason I’ve kept this in the cupboard for over 20 years! The crashed Imperial shuttle from the Battle of Macragge finally gets a paint job and adds some colour to the Gaslands Orklands table.

Orklands Gaslands is almost ready to go! Looking forward to the inaugural game next Friday afternoon as a pre-OML icebreaker! #gaslands #orklands

All coming together! #gaslands #orklands

Next stage of the Orklands Gaslands project is some terrain. Picked up these desert outcrops from eBay. The basing was pretty basic so added my own pva/sand mixture & repainted them today. Will work nicely to represent The Badlands & provide some obstacles for the racers. #gaslands #orklands

And that’s the full collection all finished (bar bases for the bikes and a quick varnish). Sort out the vehicle cards (hope the dice & templates arrive early next week) and we should be good for Orklands Gaslands at OML on Friday afternoon 🤞#Gaslands #Orklands #spreadthelard

Got the Orkland bikers done. Bit of a slog as so much to paint! Ended up leaving a lot simply in the plain metal finish but they will do! #gaslands #orklands

Well what could better than 4 wheels? Well 3 of course 🤦‍♂️. Last of the Orklands vehicles done (for the moment). Just bikes to do #orklands #gaslands

Racers start your engines! More to do but it’s starting to come together! #Orklands #Gaslands

2 down 2 to go! Another Orklands racer done. Great fun putting these together.

Expanding my vehicles for Orkland Gaslands. Here’s the first, 3 more to do!

Rebased my Warmaster figures onto 80mm wide bases for use with Midgard, Hail Caesar & other element based rules. Really like the way the larger bases give 10mm figures gives a sense of formations. Never really liked the 40mmx20mm Warmaster bases. Done a unit of the new WA dwarves as well!

WIP Wargames Atlantic 10mm dwarves. Surprisingly fun to paint.

More 10mm. Bretonnian Pegasus knights. And the Bretonnian Lord. Lovely little figures and fun to paint. 10mm Wargames Atlantic dwarves next.

10mm Bretonnian Lord on Hippogryph. Really fun little model.

And just to prove the point here is the finished Bretonnian (or generic knightly based human faction) trebuchet. 10mm 3d print which is likely to hit the table using Midgard or possibly some bastardised version of Warmaster.

Assault Guards and some more hanger finishes off my Republican platoon for CoC SCW. Carlist platoon next for the nationalists, but I’m getting distracted by 10mm fantasy at the moment 😬

Midgard Moot this weekend. A great event hosted by @mogsymakes.bsky.social. Hosted my “Eagle of the Ninth” game with 1 victory a piece across the day. All finished off with a curry and several drinks in the evening. The Moot is becoming one of my favourite events of the year!

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Finished off some of the SCW bits and pieces lying around. Couple of bombers, Soviet advisor and standard bearer (standard still to be done) and an assault guard I found hiding! Lovely figures that are fun to paint.

Second batch of SCW Assault Guards in lightweight overalls. Lovely Paul Hick’s sculpts by Empress Miniatures.

SCW Assault Guards off the painting queue and ready for basing.

Empire Engineer with long rifle. He’ll be a character in my Empire Midgard force!

Finished off some bits and pieces and now based ready for the table…although probably not together 🤔

A complete change of pace today as we left the streets of Vietnam and travelled to Plancenoit in 1815 as the Prussians attempted to seize the village from the French. A fun game of Black Powder. An infantry slugfest in and around the village with some swirling cavalry action as well. Great fun

After a tough afternoon Golf 2/5 fight through to the MACV Compound in Hue. A valiant effort by the NVA and probably a political victory with large US casualties. Hoping to bring this game to Partizan #spreadthelard

Some more pictures from our Charlie Don’t Surf game. US heavy armour are doing the heavy lifting. #spreadthelard

Good Friday gaming! What’s not to like! Golf 2/5 attempt to relieve the US MACV Compound in Hue. Our first try out of Charlie Don’t Surf by TFL!

Adding some colour!

Playing around with a table for Vietnam. A mix of urban and rural. Not finished but I quite like the contrast.

Pz. IV hits the French Sonia S35 through the rain. The shot bounces but the French tank lurches backwards as the driver panics. The Commander is shocked saving the Germans from any return fire!

German recce gets over confident and pays the ultimate price! Big CoC with @joewargamer.bsky.social

Great day yesterday at Herts of Lard organised by @joewargamer.bsky.social. Presented a Sharp Practice game representing the late afternoon attack on La Haye Sainte by the 13th Legere & 17th Line at Waterloo. A tenacious defence by the Kings German Legion saw the farm held in both am & pm.