A Warlord favorite Dan Hoyt from Red Over Blue has come up with a fantastic way to re purpose all that pillow stuffing that you may have been using for Christmas decorations: Dan: Smoke is an oft underused tactical tool in wargames, especially so in Bolt Action. Useful for covering an advance, or obscuring friendly forces…
Composition, framing the picture, telling a story, Warlords Richard Carlisle takes a look at some entries to this years Diorama competition and offers some inspiration along with some tips for your 2016 entry: Ardennes Defence in progress – Warlord RichC RichC: It’s only been a couple of weeks since we launch the Diorama competition, however…
With the recent repack release for the Finnish forces, Juha Nieminen from Mentor On Miniatures in Finland, dropped us a line about his recent work on a superb battlefield for Bolt Action. Juha: I was just reading a battle report of USMC vs. Japanese from Warlord web site. At the end of that report Warlord encouraged people…
Our friend Jakob Lotz has a penchant for digging out the oddities among WWII vehicles. Today is no exception as he takes us through the steps to add a German Pak40 onto a Stuart light tank: Jakob: There isn’t much information on the internet about this vehicle however there are a fair few good pictures…
Way back in 2009, the wonderfully named Bennett Blalock-Doane sent us in some snaps of his Warlord models – and how impressed we were! Bennett tells us he has more to send us and we can’t wait! Bennett also commented; “It’s great to finally have GW-quality product available for ancients in plastic! Some pieces have some putty converting done…
Warlords Dave Lawrence has been grafting away at his armies, but in between these long… term projects he’s managed to fit in a bit of terrain building: Dave: Since GoA has been released, instead of painting up my Algoryn force, I have instead been busy putting some Area Terrain together, inspired by the Terrain section…
Daz Evans from our Mail Order department has some pretty crazy hobby ideas, but this one caps them all… He’s taken the exclusive Finnish Sniper miniature, Simo Hӓyhӓ ‘The White Death’, which you receive for free when you buy the Armies of Italy and the Axis book, and mounted him in a snow globe! He…
Andy Singleton has been scrubbing up the new M8 in a different from usual scheme, and shows us how to camouflage it to boot: Warlord’s new M8 is a fantastic kit, so naturally I wanted to add one to my collection. The first thing I do when starting a new vehicle is do a quick…
Ken Redington recently popped together a Finnish force using the existing Finns but also cleverly adapted the Blitzkrieg Germans to fit in and expand his unique army: Ken: They are out! The Finns have come back out in a new way (typically just after I started my new army!) and with a great choice of…
Ever thought of starting a Black Powder Napoleonic Russian army, or indeed any other? Peruse this fantastic guide by Laurens Vannijvel of Abrushwithbattles fame, as he takes you through the steps to completing a battalion in a weekend: Laurens: Above and before all else (and before all those lovely Cossacks, Licornes and Jaegers) a budding…
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