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Another gem of a find from cleaning out my Gmail account! (At least for me) This unit was put together to represent Viking Mercenaries or Norse-Irish Gall-Gaedhill way back in the early 2000's! I thought the pictures long lost (the unit was sold on). The unit contains a few simple conversions...

I have to say I love Gmail.... OK, that's not really true! After receiving several emails from Google trying to sell me space to store my emails I did a deep dive into my old files and came across these pictures of my Hundred Years War collection taken by a mate in 2011, possibly the year the...

Finally, I have the time to drop the Shieldwall markers post! As usual, there are plenty of pictures, including the mass effect of having a few markers in front of a few units, and more detail on my Just Add Water Blog here...

I recently put together some simple (but effective?) conversions to create more varied command bases for my Early Byzantines. Since the days of seeing Barry Hilton's Flodden bases and David Imrie's wonderfully well c0nstructed Late Roman era units back in the early 2000's I have tried to present...

For the full selection of pictures please pop on over to my Just Add Water Blog here: http://justaddwater-bedford.blogspot.com/2022/10/anglo-danes-close-ups-of-each-base-unit.html Here are the close ups of the last unit I finished. So, why the close ups? First off it allows for the bases to...

I seem to be taking myself by surprise presently; on a bit of a roll at the with the completion of the Italian Mounted Arquebusiers a few days ago and now a 24 man unit of Anglo Danes to add to my army. I have just one more unit of Huscarls/Fyrd, a unit of Norse mercenaries and two twelve man...

After a period of absence away from the painting table due to illness, I'm very happy to say that I'm back with a bit of a vengeance; three projects on the go again so my Early Byzantines are getting a few command stands added, another unit of Anglo Danes is very near completion and half of what...

Hi folks, I'm wondering if anyone has any photo's of a size comparison between the A&A Miniatures and Crusader Miniatures (sold by North Star) Macedonian ranges please? I realise that both ranges were sculpted by Mark Simms but they are years apart. Just wondering they would fit together...

Hi, I'm looking for a copy of one of each of the following please: Happy to pay postage costs (and the price of the book!) Please PM me here or Email me at: darrell DOT hindley AT googlemail DOT com Frederick the Great's Army (1): Cavalry: No.1 (Men-at-Arms) Frederick the Great's Army...

Hi, I occasionally use AK interactive Ultra Matte Varnish on spots of any given miniature that I might have missed with Winsor and Newton Pro Matt Spray. I have not had any problems up to this point. I haven't used the varnish in weeks; but now when I drop some out on my palette instead of...

Hi, I've been looking into using oil washes on 28mm Historical miniatures and have found a ton of stuff on Fantasy/Sci Fi stuff in terms of tutorials/vids. Either my google foo is very off or the tutorials/vids simply do not exist. I'm aiming to use them for The Crimean War, Ancients, Dark...

Hi, A quick question..... Does anyone have any size comparison pictures for the Artizan Designs vs The Assault Group Italian Wars/Renaissance Spanish please? I'd like to have an idea before I sample any of the new Artizan Renaissance Spanish mini's if possible. Thanks. These are the...

Prompted by Maciej Barwicki's enquiry into the placement of the post about the High Elf Tower that featured in White Dwarf many a moon ago- I thought I would post up some pictures of a tower put together for me by the manager of the Edinburgh shop in the very early 2000's. Sadly I sold off all...

Hi, I'm thinking hard about putting in an order for some of the beautiful old school type miniatures from Nightmare Games but before I do so I was wondering if anyone knew about how reliable the company is? I'm not casting aspersions here- I just thought that I would check to see if anyone...

The final part of the 500000 views on my blog! Here's the link to the page- this time fewer games I I focus in on what I've managed to paint during the pandemic. There are pictures galore on the following link to my Just Add Water Blog...

Welcome to Part Two of my celebration of reaching 5000000 views. A mix of some of the most enjoyable games I've seen at shows and my own painting. Most of the images are "clickable" should you wish to enlarge them. Part 1 of the Just Add Water Miniature Painting and Wargaming Blog- 500000...

I really wasn't certain of where to put this post so please feel free to place in the requisite board if I have got it wrong :) First of all, many, many thanks to everyone who has visited my blog over the years. Having started Just Add Water in the early 2000's, deleted the blog, started...

Some how, somewhere I have managed to find the strength to start getting back into my painting. As I have mentioned before I am battling real demons in terms of mental health and it is no exaggeration that it took a heck of a lot of effort and determination to pick up the brushes again! This...

I have been asked many times lately on social media (Facebook and Twitter) how I go about painting a yellow. Rather then repeat myself constantly on many posts, usually with all too brief and unsatisfactory answer, I thought I would do a quick post on how I go about painting yellows would be the...

I cannot get near my painting table at the moment and consequently I find myself with some downtime. I want to keep the momentum going on all my projects ergo this post featuring all the units painted thus far for my Anglo Danes. If you hop on over to my Just Add Water blog there's a host of...