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.

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...

Friday, 17 July 2026

Its an Ill Wind...

Bloomsbury Publishing announced a while ago that they were winding up the boardgames part of Osprey to focus on books, RPGs and wargames. ...

Thursday, 16 July 2026

Priming fail!

Had my first proper failure when undercoating some figures yesterday, thanks to the hot, sweaty weather we're having I thought id take ...

Friday, 10 July 2026

Cry Havoc!

Many of us (of a certain age... and I'm guessing most readers of this blog are of a certain age...) will remember Cry Havoc from Standar...

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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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