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French Religion Wars Piquiers

Just finished restoring some 25mm Minifigs Wars of Religions Pikemen. I am missing a command base, I will probably order some flag bearers and officers from Caliver. I have received my order: The unit...

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Spanish light cavalry

Just based and varnished a set of Minifigs 25mm figures from the xvi century renaissance range. To be more precise from the Aztec range. The range contained a number of spanish figures not available...

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Non-vintage Dragoon horse-holders

Just painted two sets of dragoons and horse-holds from Bicorne Miniatures. These figures will add to my vintage collection of Thirty Years War miniatures. In the ’70s no model maker had horse-holders in their...

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Big Battle of Oldendorf, 1633

We just finished playing the game on a big 12’x6′ table. The table size matched the terrain scale and all units present in the battle were represented, down to the single cavalry squadron. The...

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Preparing for Oldendorf

A few pictures to the two armies just deployed on the table, ready to clash. I have put together some thoughts about the battlefield and the battle itself, with the help of Google maps...

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Napoleonic artillery spotting

I have some Mirliton guns and I wish to understand exactly what they are, both barrel and carriage. They will have all to be stripped of paint and repainted in the correct colours. Austrian...

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Giugno 2025

This month I am working with Arturo to prepare a new Falklands campaign. It will be in 1985 this time. We will use my application, which currently handles movement, detection, air launch and missile...

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Artillery restoration

Another two gun crews and a gun just restored to working, ..err… playing order. Figures are from Mirliton, Italy. The russian figures had a wargame quality, while the austrian crew are top level. Below...