I'm a United Methodist pastor (my wife is, too) and father to my daughter (Lydia), a ferocious cook, artist and bibliophile. I also have a ridiculous affinity for miniature soldiers, and no idea how to be a blogger.
William Algernon Tapsell DCM (and bar), MM
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One name that stood out on the display at the Abbey Wood Memorial Garden
was William Algernon Tapsell. He had served and died during the First World
War ...
Nizam-i-Cedid (1)
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This is the first unit of Ottoman infantry I painted - a unit of
"boustangee" musketeers from the Nizam-i-Cedid army. This was a corps of
infantry tra...
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How is Battle Command Ancient and Medieval different?
Battle Command (as a series) - as well as Field of Battle, have at their
core the focus on key dec...
Beja completed!
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This week I have finished the Beja contingent for the Mahdists - I've
halved the Mahdist lead pile! It's not the end of painting Mahdists for a
while lon...
"Lust for Glory" at Colours
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Here are a few shots of the first test game of the "horse and musket" rules
I've been working on, tentatively named "Lust for Glory."
This was the fir...
A new direction on an old road
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Bern front ranks
In the early 1980s, I, like many others were enormously inspired by the
pictures in the early editions of Miniature Wargames of Pete...
Culm. The journey begins.
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Carrying on from my last entry, some early work has now been completed, as
well as a number of segments of narrative.
I am still working from the map that...
'The Pikeman's Lament' arrives
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In today’s post I received a familiar shaped cardboard package. It was, as
I hoped, the latest release from Osprey Publishing, ‘The Pikeman's Lament’.
Thi...