New Lanciarii from AD Miniatures/Footsore Ready for ***Released!***

the new Lanciarii from AD Miniatures/Footsore Ready for Release this weekend and I'm ready to grab a good number of them hot from the moulds.

More stunning dynamic detailed sculpts from Adam Smith.....

Cheer

Clubbing it! Another Fab Game of ACW from Shaun

Just a few snaps I managed to get of another one of Shaun's fantastic ACW games at the club. He really knows the well the minutia of how to put on an excellent game.

Middle Imperial Romans vs Sassanid's WAB Game about to start!

Roman General and Warlord Games Plastic Legionary! From 18 years ago!

After a conversation with a mate about painting up some of the lovely AD Miniatures Third Century Romans range, cast and sold by Footsore Miniatures I started to search for older Imperial Roman painting from the past. Unfortunately, my laptops tend to get overloaded and die and I was only able to find a couple of sets of images. One was a vignette I painted up for a friend some 22 years ago just after the publication of the Warhammer Ancient Battles, Spartacus supplement! 

Roman General Vignette

Warlord Games Early Imperial Roman Legionary

(I think this came free with Wargames Illustrated?)

So, in effect I found very little by way of inspiration for the AD Miniatures Third Century Romans but was very pleasantly surprised to find some work from many a moon ago!

Cheers

Battle of Agincourt Anniversary

In place of the ubiquitous Shakespeare quote, I will leave you with the words of chilling words of Jean de Wavrin (Jehan de Waurin) who witnessed the carnage from the safety of the French baggage train on that day, October 25th, 1415. 

"The French advanced proudly, but the mud clung to them like glue and their ranks fell into confusion." 

"Soon afterwards the English archers, seeing the vanguard thus shaken, issued from behind their stockade, threw away their bows and quivers, then took their swords, hatchets, mallets, axes, falcon-beaks, and other weapons... and never ceased to kill."

Bayeux Bloopers!

A bit of divertissement in terms of the The Bayeux Tapestry's sojourn to the British Museum which tickled me a wee bit.....

Cheers

Hussite/Bohemian/Polish Heraldry LBMS Transfers

More to report on the North Star Hussite Range......

Quote from Northstar Facebook Page:

"Shield transfers for the new Bohemian Knights. Designed by Little Big Men Studios, these four new sheets of transfers will fit the shields of our Bohemian Knights. They will be ready for the release of box 2, Bohemian Knights with Great Weapons. Keep a look out for the launch."

Transfers by Little Big Men Studios/Victrix available for Pre-Order from North Star HERE!

The Other Partizan, October 11th 2026

I had the pleasure of attending The Other Partizan hosted by by Laurence Baldwin and Richard Tyndall (Newark Irregulars), the UK's premiere wargames show in terms of the quality of games.

It is always a lot of fun attending Partizan, or indeed The Other Partizan, as I am always highly impressed by the sheer number of extraordinarily high quality games; so many that it's almost impossible to take them all in without i/ ignoring all the folk you have got to know over the last few decades and ii/ floating around at such a pace that one has no time to really look at the games nor the traders. Thus, what you see here is a representation of what I was impressed by via my own long and winding path through Partizan and the people I know, and was to meet for the first time yesterday.

Please do not equate the number of photo's with the feeling of pleasure I gained from any particular game (thought this certainly is representative of some- I think this will be clear!). Quite often the flow of pictures was interrupted by saying "Hi" to friends and chatting. no bad thing at a large social event. 

all the photo's are "clickable" in order to enlarge; so please, if you are of a mind to, click right then "Open image in New Tab" for the larger file. 

1st Corps, 28mm, WW2, BEF Counter attack at Arras 1940

Barely Legal Wargamers, 28mm, WW2 Sicily 1943 'A stroll in the sun'

Old Pikey's Gaming Group, 20mm, kwa Jimu.

Boondock Sayntes, 28mm, 18th Century Indian, A Very Midgard Third Panipat 1761

 The Bodkins                                           28mm Ancients                                                Britannia AD60

Bramley Barn Wargames Club, 28mm, Second Anglo Sikh War, The Battle of Suraj Khund

TooFat Lardies, 28mm, WW2, Brécourt Manor Assault

Fieldcraft UK, 28mm, WW2, Operation Exporter 1941, Vichy French North Africa

Forest Outlaws, 28mm, Foreign Legion, March or Die

Iron Brigade, 20mm, WW2, Juno Beach June 1944

League of Augsburg, 28mm, War of Spanish Succession, Churchill’s Challenge!

Midgard, Narnia

Mr Steve Jones, 28mm, American War of Independence, The Battle of Hubbardton

Sharp Practice, AWI

Skirmish Wargame,s 54mm, Samurai, Once Upon a Time in Old Japan Samurai Showdown

The Bodkins, 28mm, Ancients Britannia AD60

The Bunker, 28mm, Indian Wars, The Battle of the Little Bighorn

Yarkshire Gamer, 28mm, Franco-Prussian War

Too Fat Lardies, 28mm, What a Tanker

Cheers. I hope you enjoyed my wee sojourn around the sacred halls of The Other Partizan at Newark Showground.