More for Northern Ireland

After completing the required figures I moved on to vehicles and was looking for scenery . The vehicles I got a Humber Pig and a Saracen from Battlefield 3D both are superb ,no clean up or sanding was needed I also bough a Hotspur Land Rover from Butlers Printed models again nice but lots of sanding needed and the lines can still be seen .The crimes toppers decals came from Butlers and these are superb , I also bought a lot of decals for my 15mm IDF as the decals supplied with the battlefront models were awful . As for scenery I looked at Warbases new Table ready Scenery and orderd a single terraced house and acouple of fields and I cannot poraise these enough ,the building comes ready painted and was ultra easy to put together ,probably the easiest MDF kit I have built , it comes so you can easily detach the roof and upper floors to place figures inside and my 1st Corp figures match up nicely with the vehicles and buildings.

The Troubles pt 2

Finished off my 28mm Troubles figures from 1st Corps , a 10 amn Britsh Army patrol and 4 more RUC officers . I ahve ordered acouple of suitable vehicles a humber Pig and a Alvis Saracen .

The Troubles

A small project for 2026 will be a small to large scale skirmish game set during the "troubles " in Northern Ireland using 1St Corpos newish range of 28mm FiguresArmy Vehicles such as the Humber Pig will be from Battlefield 3D , civilin cars will be variuos Die Casts suitable for the period ,Building will probably be the Red Brick ready painted range from warbases . Purchased afew figures to test the water and they are really nice and paint up Nicely. Rules will be rogue Warrior for small scale and Combat patrol using the winter of discontent for a larger skirmish First up are some of the RUC figures these are armed with rifles , there is another pack in the range i donot have yet

Next are a set of undercover S.A.S or DET all carrying small SMG's or pistols

And the last lot are 10 I.R.A terrorists /Freedom fighters depending which side you are on ,wearing a mix of balaclavas or scarfs covering their faces they are mainly armed with assault rifles but 2 are ready to take on the armies vehicles with a molotov and a RPG launcher .

More Raffle Prizes from Dashing Dice Games and 1st corps

Eric of Dashing Dice Games the publishers of WitchFinder General Rules as kindly donated the following as prizes


1 Witchfinder General Rulebook

The two new figures- 'Mitchell & Megan'

1 box of Warlord Games ECW Infantry

1 box of Warlord Games ECW Cavalry

2 Heresy Miniatures Hellhounds

1 Heresy Miniatures Werewolf

1 Heresy Miniatures Vampire

1 Heresy Witch


1st corps have donated 8 Blister packs of 28mm figures including 4 of their new WW2 British Para's , which are lovely figures full of character .

I will post full descriptions and more  photos soon.

Para Command Picture by 1st corps

Raffle Update ....updated again

A great response so far with the following pledging items for the raffle :

From previous years :

Ambush Alley Games
Battle Flag
1st Corps
Gripping beast
Northstar Miniatures
Rogue Miniatures
S&S models
Sheffield War Games Society
Warlord Games

New for this year Prize support from:

Dashing Dice Games
Plastic Soldier Company
Sally 4th
Tim Gow of the St.James's Place Partnership




More info as soon as possible .

And for the first time ,to keep your good ladies happy or even for those war gamers that have leanings towards being the next Jamie Oliver ,non wargaming prizes from :

Paella World .

Paella world is a family run business who specialise in importing authentic Spanish Paella pans directly from Valencia. These can be used to cook a range of dishes from curries to Chillies to full English Breakfasts ,Dominic and Howard have strong links with the armed forces and are proud to help with this fund raiser and have donated 3 pans from their extensive range ,each pan as a retail value of £18.00 for more info visit the link shown in the side panel . 

RBL 2013 Raffle UPDATE

well I did not think I would have any thing to update this quick ,seeing as my first emails to sponsors went out on saturday afternoon ,but so far I have had the following responses ,in order I received the answers confirming support :

Sheffield Wargames Society

Dashing Dice Games

Ambush Alley Games

Rogue Miniatures

1st Corps

Northstar Miniatures

Battle Flag

All the above have confirmed they will be sending prizes out as they confirm what they are and I receive more confirmations from other sponsors I will update this blog , A special thanks to every one so far and a big welcome to Dashing Dice Games as this is their first year sponsoring me and the prize package they have donated is fantastic  ,more info soon .