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.

Friday, 12 August 2022

War of the Ring and giant cats

One of the problems with many boardgames is that they take ages to play. When I was younger I would happily spend most of a day and eveni...

Monday, 1 August 2022

Laserburn update

I've been busy with my scissors and glue adding to my paper 10mm Romans and Gauls and, to be honest, the ridiculous heat here in thr SE ...

Wednesday, 27 July 2022

Battle of Walton

A return to the Wars of the Roses this week and a game of Never Mind the Billhooks. Most of my games of this have been the large scale ser...

Thursday, 21 July 2022

Revisiting Blood Red Skies

One of my 'on again... off again' projects is Blood Red Skies by Warlord games. Checking back on the blog it was a scary 3 years ag...

Wednesday, 13 July 2022

10 mm Paper Armies

I mentioned in my last post about having discovered the Paperboys range of 10mm armies. I've since been busy sticking and snipping an...

Saturday, 25 June 2022

More paper soldiers

...and a new scale! Well, having managed to avoid Covid for the last 2 years we've all managed to catch it when it isn't trendy an...

Saturday, 18 June 2022

Muckleburgh Military Collection

So sadly our holiday is over and I'm bracing myself for the usual post-holiday depression when I return to work on Monday. We had a bri...

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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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