Dots of Paint

Musings of a miniatures wargamer

Tuesday, 23 May 2023

Old Collection, 'new rules' (ACW 15mm)

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Years ago we lived in a apartment condo during an occurrence of many fires damaging suites, I told The Wife that should we encounter such an...
Tuesday, 9 May 2023

while in the Canadian 'West'....

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 Well, the Lardies are at it again with a new rule set with "What a Cowboy!".  Not surprising given the title, it is a variation o...
Tuesday, 11 April 2023

new Napoleonic "reinforcements"

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 While I would love to add these to my beleaguered Russian Napoleonic army as reinforcements in the current campaign I am engaged in, they w...
Sunday, 9 April 2023

an Austro-Hungarian Landwehr action

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Brought out my only "Austrian" Napoleonics for a quick solo game,  The "Hungarian Militia" are now sporting proper shako...

Algerie 1834

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For the French Zouave Player: You are Lt. Hans Neinschiese of the 2e Zouaves.  Due to Berber activity and lack of ammunition and food, you w...

"Battle of Pont Heinz"

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 The battle is named for the bridge in box 57 of the campaign map in Peter's 'One Week Campaign' Napoleonic clash with Craig tak...
Thursday, 9 March 2023

Not everyone is in scarlet...

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 While most of the British full-dress uniform of the Victorian era was scarlet, not all units were thus dressed and the rifle units wear a d...
Tuesday, 7 March 2023

Painting style changes

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Like your choice in clothing, hair style, heck, even type of underwear, your style of painting can change over time. The latest new army I p...
Monday, 20 February 2023

Alamo - a scenario everyone knows

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The Alamo.  Everyone has heard of it.  Famous enough that Tom Hanks in "Saving Private Ryan" can say it and the movie makers didn...
Monday, 6 February 2023

Nest hunting on Folium III

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 Yeah, OK, a  Xenos Rampant game using ex-GW plastic Catachans as "Palaeoeversors" (my very poor Latin of "Old Thing Killers...
Saturday, 28 January 2023

Various Games

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This post is a bit of a photo summary of the various collections and play in the past while. ("various" is a definite theme of my ...
Saturday, 17 December 2022

Terrain up

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 When asking "What have you been up to?" to the wargamer, the inference is usually "What have you been painting?"  And f...
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DougH
Now 60 plus (how the heck did that happen?!) A Wargamer for some 5 decades. Actually an obsessed, can't go without a day, always thinking about, rather spend the grocery money on a new army kind of miniatures wargamer.
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