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Picture of the Day: Daughter & Dad
 Today's picture shows Lady Emma Cuddlestone-Smythe and I leading the Prussian army to victory over the Russians (boo! hiss! boo!) at Gross Jagersdorf circa 2017. My dice rolling was notoriously bad...
View ArticlePassing Another Age Milestone: 70
I turned age 70 on December 18th. Age years that end in zero are a milestone of sorts in which one can look back on the decade just concluded and look ahead to what lies ahead in the next decade. Now I...
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Back From Vacay
 Fritz and The Flamingos(Sarasota Jungle Gardens)I am back home after two weeks of vacation in sunny Sarasota, Florida and as one might imagine, I have not done much in the way of hobby activities...
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Getting That Painting Mojo Back?
We have all been there. We reach a point where we couldn't paint another miniature if our lives depended on it. It could be a result of hobby or painting burnout, seasonal depression or family matters...
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A Change of Scenery, If You Will
 The new table layout - a change of scenery, if you will.CLICK PIX TO ENLARGE THE VIEWLast night and today I decided that it was time to take down the Nile River terrain and set up new terrain  for my...
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Terrain Enhancements & Little Wars Convention
I have been tinkering with the terrain for my Khartoum! game this week and I came up with an idea to enhance the appearance of the city walls. The "Before" picture, below depicts the city walls placed...
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In the Bazaar of old Khartoum
The local market place, or bazarr in Khartoum I like to populate my wargame scenics with civilians and vignettes to enhance the appearance of my table top. Civilians are easy to find in my regular...
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For Sale - Thinning out my collections
 These are 54mm Rot Wurzberg figures from John Jenkins Designs as part of its Battle of Leuthen figure range.I am starting to thin out my collection of wargame figures because I need the extra storage...
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New Terrain Goodies (and all that)
 Front gate house.CLICK OR DOUBLE CLICK ON PIX TO ENLARGEI recently purchased this set of resin 28mm German farmhouse buildings at a local store called Games Plus. It looks like it could be used almost...
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Charles Grant's Mollwitz game at SYWA Convention
 Table layout for The Wargame scenario for the Battle of MollwitzCLICK ON ALL PIX TO ENLARGEI was searching for a scenario to use for my games at the upcoming Seven Years War Association Convention in...
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Prussians on the march
 Prussian musketeer regiment Alt Braunschweig marches across the chasm.I made these "end cap" mountain modules to decorate the ends of my game table for the Sudan. However a little bit of greenery here...
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Austrian Artillery at Mollwitz
 I worked on some close up pictures of units on my game table for my Mollwitz game. I thought that the Austrian artillery pictures were particularly good. The equipment and figures are Minden...
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Khartoum! Pop-Up Display Board - Really Cool!
 I ordered a pop-up display piece from Vistaprint to use when I run my Khartoum! war game at conventions. I had a copy of the original movie poster, uploaded the image into Vistaprint, and instantly...
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Khartoum Play Test on 18ft x 32ft Table
 The vast sands of the Sudan look very vast indeed over three 6ft by 32ft table.This weekend I am taking my talents (and my giant Khartoum game) to Woodstock, IL to run a full size play test of my...
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Khartoum! Game Report - Part 1
The Cast of Players On Saturday March 18, 2023 our band of brothers (all six of us) gathered at the game emporium of Keith L. and played my 54mm Khartoum! game. Keith has a huge basement that holds...
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Khartoum Game Report - Part 2
 The Dervish take to the ladders and are over the walls.Let us now look at the infantry side of the battle of Khartoum! that we fought last Saturday.The Dervish army of The Mahdi consisted of five...
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Charles Grant's Mollwitz Game at the SYWA Convention
 The Austrian headquarters located within the town of Mollwitz.Houses were made by Ian Weekley and I made the church model.I was in a bit of a bind for putting a game scenario together in time for this...
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Khartoum! The movie trailer for Little Wars
 mThe Dervish scale the walls of Khartoum54mm figures largely from Armies In PlasticI made a new movie trailer on iMovies for the running of my Khartoum! game at this year's Little Wars convention in...
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One Week To Little Wars - Work to do!
 Play testing my rules. The Dervish didn't do very well in this iteration.So here we are on a thursday and it is exactly one week to go before the start of the Little Wars convention in Lisle,...
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Packing Up For Little Wars
 This evening I packed all of the miniatures for my Khartoum game at Little Wars this coming Thursday, Friday and Saturday. I also got all of my terrain packed away into stackable plastic containers....
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