A Wargaming Gallimaufry

Musings on toy soldiers, life, family and the world... but mainly toy soldiers. Gallimaufry: noun - a confused jumble or medley of things.

Thursday, 3 September 2026

A bloody day at Mars -La-Tour

There haven't been many posts over the last month or so, although there's been plenty of gaming and painting. On the paint table, I...

Friday, 7 August 2026

Airfix Britons on the paint table

I've been on a bit of a roll with painting recently with some ECW Epic Highlanders and Lucid Eye Elves on the paint table, and in a rus...

Thursday, 6 August 2026

1st game of Cry Havoc

I posted a little while ago about the reissued version of the classic 80s boardgame Cry Havoc. I have fond memories of playing this at un...

Sunday, 26 July 2026

Bucklers Hard

We had a short trip away to the New Forest this week... just one night but a lovely break, staying in Lymington. We stopped off at Buckler...

Wednesday, 22 July 2026

Sheer nostalgia

The very first 'proper' toy soldiers I remember were from a toy wild west fort that I got for Xmas... apparently my dad had wanted ...

Sunday, 19 July 2026

Orkney road trip

A few weeks ago we went off on a busy 10 day break back home in Scotland. This was a combination of a visit back home for my nephew's w...

Saturday, 18 July 2026

Red Book of the Elf King

In my recent post about a base coating disaster* I mentioned I'd been painting some figures from Lucid Eye miniatures . These are al...

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alastair: Surrey, United Kingdom; A 50 something dad and wargamer. I've been playing with toy soldiers for longer than I can remember [I blame my parents for buying me a toy fort when I was little!] I'm originally from Glasgow but have lived in London/Surrey for 30 odd years [very odd in some cases!] and toil away at the gritty coalface of Charity Sector middle management. https://bsky.app/profile/red3584.bsky.social

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