Grymauch's Solo Wargaming Blog

Hobby time has been in short supply over the past month. Trebia is on the tabletop and being played through, albeit slowly!  More progress h...

A new project! I have Assassin's Creed III to blame for this. Playing the game reawakened my previous interest in this period which had ...

 Refurbishment of 1/3000 scale ships painted eons ago continues. All here are Navwar. Andria Doria Fiume (Zara class cruiser) Continued -

A long overdue task, now underway, was to complete the refurbishment of my original Purbeck Terrain river boards. The river banks have previ...

More progress has been made refurbishing my collection of models painted decades ago. Hence the rather random nature of the ships completed....

 More additions to the Carthaginians for Trebia have been completed along with several more refurbished 1/3000 scale ships. Only 2 bases wil...

Time for an update on what I have been painting this year so far. Starting with figures for the Trebia project: 4 bases of Spanish Heavy Cav...

Some decent headway has been made this year on the Trebia project. Plenty yet to paint but these are the latest on the painting table: Repub...

 Another project completed and ready to play is the Peninsular War Battle of Busaco.  Originally I intended to include the entire battlefiel...

 The US Airborne for the 505 PIR is now complete and is the subject of the next game. All figures are of the new Heroics & Ros range and...

The start of a short series of "On the Workbench" covering painting and modelling undertaken over the past few months. I will begi...

Firstly the latest painting progress. A long overdue attention to the Market Garden project - Groesbeek Heights. Almost complete prior to ba...

More terrain pieces have been completed for Pony Wars. My first use of cork bark was used to make rocky terrain pieces which will also form ...

A few weeks ago, prior to my splurge on painting ships, I completed all the figures for Pony Wars with the exception of 4 cannon and crew aw...

 The final batch of ships before returning to figure painting is now complete. Two Essex class carriers and the lead ship of the Bogue class...

 The latest on the carrier progress - a quick update: I have for the most part worked in batches of 3 ships and here is from top to bottom, ...

With the blog having switched to a nautical theme over recent weeks, I post here an update on naval painting, in particular aircraft carrier...

The compliment of Native Americans has been completed, albeit 120 short of the 600 mounted figures recommended in the rules. Having seen adv...

I am acutely aware that my blog posts are becoming a little rare of late! A combination of real world commitments and, dare I say it, a lack...

There has been a lull in my gaming allowing me to concentrate on terrain in preparation for forthcoming tabletop action. An additional reaso...