Grymauch's Solo Wargaming Blog

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

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

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 ...

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

Casting my eye around other uses for the recently purchased Rubber Steel sheets (see previous posting) my attention was drawn to my collecti...

Over the Christmas holidays I noticed an interesting Facebook posting on how to make roads. The poster cut his roads from a thin rubber stee...

My fictional WW2 campaign in the Aegean, Op Nostalgia, that I was to start with one of my sons has stalled due to his availability. I have ...

As readers of my blog will be aware, my terrain tiles are commercially built products that I acquired in the 1990's from the now defunc...

Finally I have completed the tree upgrades: I did not count them but there are a lot! To give some idea, there are 30 pine trees in...

A few months ago I converted several river sections I had made for 15mm ACW to streams/runoffs for 6mm. These were acetate with one side pa...

The size of the Battle of Grissburg in my room was such that it was rather cramped at my painting table. That, combined with allocating tim...

I thought I would give a quick run through on how I completed the redoubts supplied by Total Battle Miniatures. To recap these are the medi...

Two more buildings completed for Grissburg, one also for Gettysburg: A city (hall) building and the Lutheran Seminary of Gettysburg fam...

On my return from holiday I found some very welcome home parcels: In the foreground my largest 6mm Baccus order to date. Zulu Wars an...

A couple more buildings have been completed for the 6mm ECW, WOTR and Napoleonic campaign projects. These are again from Total Battle Minia...

More 2mm bases have been completed this week. This time it is Austrians: These are the first Austrian bases. As you can see I have be...

Several buildings have been finished for the Napoleonic campaign battle of Grissburg: Together with another building I completed earlie...

Three 6mm Spanish battalions completed this week: For Talavera, I need a 72 figure Mallorca battalion. Rather than having one larg...

Another batch of Fallschirmjager have been completed together with a British para engineer stand.  The Fallschirmjager are prima...

Completed this week was the armour for the 2nd Armoured Battalion of the Irish Guards, XXX Corps together with a bunch of QLT trucks for th...