The Age of Sail was dangerous enough when contending only with the bellow of carronades, the clash of steel from enemy boarders in the heat of close-quarters combat and the threat posed by the fickle climate – where a light rain might become a storm in the blink of an eye and threaten to drown…
Whitewash camo was a tactic employed by the Germans and Soviets on the Eastern Front, as well as the German and American forces on the Western Front – so Andy’s tutorial focuses on the rather splendid Tiger, although it’s a technique which can be applied to the vehicles of any nation! Andy: ‘This is my…
Words and Images provided by Norm Flam of Toy Soldier Gallery in PA. First, I get steel wire. I use 36” Music Wire, 0.015 dia. It’s the perfect size to use as rigging for the ships and it doesn’t sag over time. I then spray paint it black. This can take several sprays but it’s…
Despite a spirited defence from the opening hours of the Normandy invasion in June 1944, Hitler’s forces in northern France were comprehensively defeated and forced to retreat westward. Although their position was strengthened considerably following Operation Dragoon – the landing in southern France in August 1944 – the Allies were faced with considerable logistical problems as they…
Bossman John latest hobby project returns to the Napoleonic Wars, this time Russians. Compiled constructed and painted during lockdown, John’s assembled three regiments as well as two artillery batteries. John managed to speed paint a regiment, from undercoat to varnishing and flocking and adding tufts to the base, in four hours and twenty minutes. That’s…
As the design of aircraft advanced, navy tactics employing them evolved in tandem. With an aircraft carrier, a fleet gained the ability to strike at targets hundreds of miles away with relative impunity. Despite the advance of anti-aircraft weaponry and the presence of defending fighters, aircraft spelled the eventual demise of the battleship as the…
This Bolt Action campaign book focusses on the conflict in the area most commonly referred to as the Western Desert – a campaign theatre reaching from the Libyan city of Tripoli to Cairo, and the Egyptian Nile valley, a distance of some 1300 miles, a featuring some of the most hostile terrains on Earth. When…
Juergen Horn’s Winter German army, previously featured in Wargames Illustrated, is a fantastic demonstration of getting the most out of our Bolt Action plastic kits. Juergen: “Hi, when Wargames Illustrated asked me whether they could do an Army Spotlight about my Stalingrad Army Project I was of course delighted. And I was also a bit…
Lately, Bossman John has developed a new hobby obsession which has seen him plundering our Bolt Action ranges to create a highly characterful set of miniatures representative of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. Although our Bolt Action range is predominantly concerned with the conflicts of World War Two and, more recently, the Korean War, a…
Fresh from the Studio, more images of our forthcoming Napoleonic Spanish, featuring different regimental colours. We’ve been allowed to preview a small selection… The formation of the Spanish National Militia dates back to the War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714). It didn’t come to full fruition until the Peninsular Campaigns of the Napoleonic wars, however. They…