We got a chance to take another look at the winner of our Summer Offensive: Painting Competition Individual Unit category. Jamie’s Last Levy impressed the judges with his crisp, clean paint job and exceptional attention to detail. My favourite part of the Last Levy is the Hitler Youth kids running around Berlin with panzerfausts. My…
We’re starting a new semi-regular series on the uniforms and accoutrements of various armies. Last week, after our brief look at the French-Indian War, we’re returning to the woodland to show off how easy it is to differentiate your regiments. Painting uniforms can be a daunting task, but often a rewarding one. Having an army…
This week, we got the opportunity to sit down with the winner of the Summer Offensive: Painting Competition Diorama category, Dimitri Verna, to discuss all the hard work that went into producing his fantastic entry. Take it away Dimitri! “The idea for the diorama was to create a meeting between the STuG-mounted Panzergrenadiers and a…
To support the release of our new starter set Waterloo we have the first of our Napoleonic paint sets produced in collaboration with leading paint manufacturer Vallejo. With a reputation for their fantastic quality, we have worked with Vallejo to produce great value sets to help get you started painting your French or British Napoleonic…
With the release of Black Powder 2 just around the corner, we’re sure some of you must be looking to add some ferocious Highlanders to your army. The task of painting all that tartan must seem pretty daunting, so we’ve put together a painting guide to help you get started. While traditionally associated with Scottish…
Last week we announced that we’d handed all your excellent submissions for the Summer Offensive, Painting Competition over to the design studio for judging. Since then studio head Paul Sawyer and his team of painters have been poring over all the entries and have picked the best from each category! We’d like to thank everyone…
We’ve been completely blown away by some of the entries you guys have submitted for the Summer Offensive: Painting Competition. We spent last week collating all the entries and passed them over to the studio for judging, so we’ll be able to announce the winner of each category in next week’s newsletter. We’ve picked out…
As a quick follow-on from our feature on Farqharson’s Highlanders, We’re taking a very brief look at our versatile Pike & Shotte command groups, and the options available to you with a bit of chopping and changing. The Command Group Central to the identity of a Pike & Shotte regiment is its command group. The officer…
Warlord Rich C delves into the French countryside as the Warlord HQ Bocage battlefield project begins… RichC: Hey all, I’ve been building terrain for a ‘few’ years and when Warlorder Conner came up with an idea for a new battlefield I couldn’t resist getting stuck in! Connor Sam and RichC get started on the build…
After looking over what you’ve bought in our fantastic Summer Clearance Sale, we noticed that a lot of you have picked up sprues of the excellent Macedonian Phalangites. We took a look at the campaigns of Phillip II and his military reforms last week, so this week we’re going to show you how to paint…
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