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canister grape a website for wargamers army galleries free stuff for gamers millsy s classic wargames books portable wargame fantasy friday 13 may 2022 a return of sorts it s been a pretty horrible couple of years hasn t it we ve lost loved ones been beset by fires and floods and found ourselves in the middle of a pandemic whose overriding theme has become let it rip it leaves one feeling a bit let down but dammit i mustn t get stuck in the slough of despond or is that the swamp of sadness after what has been far too long a hiatus i decided i had to do something anything really to try and unwind from all the depressing garbage the last two years have heaped upon us gardening and cooking are all very well but sometimes you need to get back to your hobby roots of course as a longtime fan of greg stafford s world of glorantha i wanted some models which would fit well within a runequest campaign so i ordered some figures from fenris games makers of some of the most engagingly weird and wonderful sculpts on the market and got to work for the first time in ages fenris games have a good many minis suitable for glorantha but i settled upon some adventurer types and some chaotic abominations first off the bench was this guy he s billed as lance kara safra pumpkin head bear but all gloranthaphiles know a jack o bear when they see one this beastie hits its enemies with a paralyzing gaze before ripping them limb from limb next up was squidhead fred a tentacled monstrosity which haunts the desolate swamps and fens looking for its next snack spoilers it s player characters he was a tough one to paint what with all the arms and differing textures but he didn t turn out too badly well it s a start getting back into the swing of painting again might be just what i need let s see if i can maintain a modicum of momentum stay tuned ev posted by evan hughes at 23 33 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 28mm chaos fenris games glorantha runequest wednesday 20 october 2021 10 months really elves and more elves good grief 10 whole months without a post is pretty slack to say the least i could blame all sorts of things but the answer really is basically just laziness i love painting and modelling but no so much spending time on the pc posting stuff that s got a lot to do with my day job being entirely spent in front of screens too still the point of the blog is to well blog stuff so here you go here s a chunk of new painted stuff oathmark plastic elves kitbashed to some extent with gripping beast arab cavalry there are no oathmark elf cavalry yet and wfb elf shields firstly all the wood elves plus some scratch built way stones frostgave female wizard masquerading as an elven wizardess mounted rangers dismounted rangers and command and now the high elves these two forces are part of a larger saga fantasy project i have going on more of that sooner rather than later cheers millsy posted by millsy at 17 02 12 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 28mm elves fantasy north star oathmark saga wednesday 30 december 2020 gaslands scavenger hunt i managed to squeeze one more game into 2020 yesterday when cory and i played gaslands together his miyazaki team vs my slime team we played a 100 cans game using the scavenger hunt scenario unlike our two previous encounters cory won this one pretty comprehensively i confirmed my hypothesis that adding and exploding ram to a standard ram is bot ha good and and bad idea i ll leave you to think about why that may be the case and just quickly proof that in australia even the stick insect are stupidly large and may well be plotting your demise happy new year to all our followers here s to a 1000 improvement in every way on 2020 cheers millsy posted by millsy at 17 43 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels gaslands tuesday 22 december 2020 a pre christmas napoleonic stoush just before things started to turn pear shaped in sydney with increasing covid 19 cases this week myself and three other lads from our group managed to get in an all day 15mm napoleonic battle we ve all been big fans of the period since we started gaming so these are always welcome games we also love shako ii and having lots of toys on the table what s not to like this time we played a three way battle with the french and their saxon allies forcing their way between the russians and prussians with the intent of defeating one of the two forces and then turning on the remainder ultimately the french were successful thanks largely to a well timed flank charge by the french heavies into the onrushing russian heavies who were themselves attempting to force the issue flank charges are never a good thing to be on the receiving end of and this proved to be true once again the russians losing all their heavies to the french brigade without loss the coup de grace was one retreating russian regiment lost it s final hit to a rather lucky long range artillery shot the miniatures are mostly ab with a healthy dose of eureka saxons and old glory prussians here s some photos for your edification click for larger versions cheers millsy posted by millsy at 12 02 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 15mm napoleonics shako tuesday 20 october 2020 classic wargames book collection reaches 100 titles following a spate of recent acquisitions my collection of classic wargames books has reached the magic triple figure total of 100 titles it s only a number after all but it has given my something of a sense of satisfaction even so there s few things nerdier than a slightly ocd wargamer who is also a qualified librarian it seems the last few years have seen prices and postage increase combined with ever increasing scarcity of titles it is making it more and more difficult to find the remaining items on my wish list in good condition and within my price range it is what it is and we soldier on manfully the most recent addition is a rather unique item one of the very first published sets of wargames rules from 1964 miniature wargames du temps de napoleon by john c candler it s a surprisingly comprehensive tome containing plenty of b w imagery the rules themselves for both land and sea tips on painting modelling campaigns and more at the time it would have been virtually unique in breadth of scope the larger commercial sets these days have very similar formats and content so it s interesting to note how prescient mr candler was in that regard that s all for today hope you are all safe and well cheers millsy posted by millsy at 17 49 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom blog archive 2022 1 may 2022 1 a return of sorts 2021 1 october 2021 1 2020 22 december 2020 2 october 2020 4 july 2020 1 june 2020 2 may 2020 1 april 2020 9 march 2020 1 february 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far too many systems across far too many periods i m a doting husband and father of two wonderful kids view my complete profile about ev i am a secondary contributor to the c g blog a long time gamer war board and role playing a sporadic painter and modeller recovering tartan addict and grandfather my life as a wargamer began over 40 years ago when i stumbled upon the local library s featherstone collection this was the gateway for any number of associated hobbyesque interests upon which i now blog from time to time view my complete profile about our group canister grape is a bunch of disreputable individuals with nothing better to do on a friday night than get together and play wargames contact us name email message games we play battlefleet gothic bfg bloodbowl bolt action canvas eagles epic 40k armageddon flames of war fow form line of battle flob frostgrave gruntz 15mm mordheim necromunda saga dark age skirmish shako ii the portable wargame the sword and the flame tsatf to the 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