Today is the late actor
Peter Cushing's birthday.
Mostly remembered for his legendary roles in Hammer horror films & his iconic roll in Star Wars
His hobby was miniature soldier painting & war gaming
Peter Cushing painted minis!!
#nerdlings
#miniturepainting
#hobby
Updated the pdf to fix a few cockups and typos on my thoughts on aligning the Blitzkrieg 1940 Handbook with the new CoC² rules
You can download the pdf from the link below or FB group.
Updated support lists available to via Files page
#spreadthelard #wargaming #chainofcommand
Updated a few mistakes, v2.1 22 May 2026. Support Lists in Files section also updated to match As a long time fan of the early war pe...
I managed do paint the webbing on 5 chaps and then got distracted making a damaged railway section?!?
What is wrong with me?
#wargaming #easilydistracted
Based up the Hastings stuff in 3mm with flock and clump foliage.
Ash
Wargaming Things (Andy)
With exactly 1 month to go so far we have sold 6 tickets. Now I'm not expecting this to rival Salute or anything but as we need 20 people to cover the cost of hiring the shop before we get into the fundraising area I'd really appreciate it if this could be shared around a bit.
Thanks! #SpreadTheLard
Wargaming Things (Andy)
On this day 2 June 1941, the massacre of unarmed civilians at the Village of Kondomari by men of the Luflande-Sturm-Regiment commanded by Oberleutnant Horst Trebes happened.
#neverforget
Must paint miniatures, must paint miniatures, must paint miniatures....
#wargaming
Mark Backhouse
The latest WSS podcast has a great discussion on overcoming the blues or lack of mojo when facing a pile of shame.
Now stop listening to podcasts and get on with painting those frick'in BEF chappies!
#wargaming #wss
Song of Drums and Tomahawks fun at the club tonight.
My valiant loyalist were trying to escort a tax-dodger across the map whilst his tax-dodger friends tried to stop justice.
There may have been some civilian injuries along the way but they shouldn't have interfered with the King's justice!
I have been working on a PSC covering just the 13 May 1940 and Infantrie-Regiment Großdeutschland's crossing of the Meuse.
To that end I have created an overview map of the strategic and unit dispositions on the day.
#wargaming #spreadthelard #chainofcommand
In this episode of the Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy podcast, the team discusses beating the blues and staying motivated when hobby enthusiasm begins to fade. Every wargamer experiences those period...
