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Vietnam
 | Vehicles - Helicopters, APCs and Australian armour. |
| | Infantry - SHQ & ESCI infantry and some shots of a game. |
Sci-Fi
| | Figures - A random selection of WH40K and a couple of scratch built items. |
| | Scenery - Dystopian cities and bunkers. |
| | Cyberpunk - Suits, bikers & savages |
| | Star Wars - A few 25mm West End Games Star Wars. |
| | Epic Imperial Guard - Epic Imperial Guard, Abhumans, Adeptus Arbites and Robots. |
Fantasy
| | Standards - A variety of Games Workshop fantasy and sci-fi standard bearers. Most converted. |
| | Norse - Norse and a Harlequin Champion of Rohan. |
| | Knights - A mixture of Citadel knights, Normans and men-at-arms. |
| | Beastmen - A unit of slightly converted Beastman followers of Nurgle. |
| | Chaos Warriors - Old style Chaos Warriors. |
| | Wood Elves - Slender Grenadier Elven spearmen. |
Colonial
| | WWI Africa - Wargames Foundry & HLBSCo Colonial troops. |
Alan's
| | 25mm Jungle - Jungle and Savannah plants. |
| | 25mm Colonial - Darkest Africa and Indian Mutiny. |
| | 15mm Ancients - Hittite fortified city, Egyptian camp etc. |
Painting Methods
| | Painting Guide - Four core areas to concentrate on when painting. |
| | Painting Techniques - Drybrushing, blending, washes etc. |
| | Painting Glossary - Short explanations of jargon terms. |
| | Paints - A review of various water based paints, qualities to look for in the ideal paint and pot. |
| | Brushes - Choosing and looking after your brushes. |
| | Painting Speed Tips - A few ways to paint faster without sacrificing end results. |
| | Acrylic Retarder - My experiences of using acrylic retarder to assist blending. |
Painting Examples
| | 28mm Faces - Shading two Schutztruppe with blending. |
| | Standard Blending - A typical use of the blending technique on 28mm Askari. |
| | 25mm Tie Fighter - Guide to drybrushing and weathering this large plastic model. |
| | 28mm WWI van - A die-cast model is repainted for service in Colonial Africa. |
| | 15mm Figures - A step by step sample of Alan's figure painting technique. |
| | 15mm Mercedes - 15mm white Mercedes - a typical non-dusty vehicle |
Modelling
| | Using Putty - How to scratch-build a figure. |
| | Modelling Axioms - Little tricks and the big picture. |
| | Miscellaneous Techniques - For figure conversion and small scale scenery. |
| | Creating 3D Shields - Sculpting designs onto shields. |
| | Scratchbuilt Hovertank - A computer mouse is turned into a Star Wars hovertank. |
Banners
| | WH40K Epic Scale - Various Imperial Guard banners. |
Techniques
| | Scenic Materials - Everyday objects as well as purpose made items. |
| | Modelling Tools - Bad workmen will have no excuse. |
| | Adhesives, Puttys and Fillers - Every type of sticky stuff (nearly). |
| | Salvage - Types of junk that you can turn into scenery. |
General
| | Yucca Plant - A yucca plant made from plastic Xmas tree needles. |
| | Palm Tree - A beautiful but rather time consuming palm tree. |
| | Bamboo - Alan's method for making 25mm bamboo. |
| | Jungle - Fecund undergrowth abounds. |
| | Bushes - Rubberised horsehair vegetation (modelling by Alan). |
| | Cliff - Large cliff system (modelling by Alan). |
| | Craters - Turn aluminium pie dishes into craters. |
| | Flexible Road - Foam wrap roadways (modelling by Alan). |
| | Crates - A quick wooden crate and details of drybrushing method. |
| | Storage Boxes - My standard system of storing figures & scenery. |
| | Fences - Concrete, chainlink, log palisades, brick walls… |
| | Fence with Barbed Wire - Making mesh into long barbed wire strands. |
| | Tarmac - Tarmac surfaces, complete with road markings. |
| | Skip - Scratchbuilding a skip/dumpster inc. template. |
| | Lush Elephant Grass - Plastic elephant grass. |
25mm Arid
| | Arid Basics - The basic techniques, used with a variety of features. |
| | Arid Elephant Grass - Elephant grass from broom head bristles. |
| | Arid Bushes - Three different methods of making bushes. |
| | Acacia Trees - Scraggy trees from twigs & rubberised horsehair. |
| | Rocky Outcrops - Rocky hills and outcrops. |
| | Palms (Masking Tape) - Palm trees made from masking tape. |
| | Crab Skeleton - Sci-fi desert features made from dead sea life. |
| | Palms from Pine Cones - Turn squirrel left-overs into slightly alien tropical plants. |
| | Fallen Trees - Driftwood becomes gnarly withered trunks. |
| | Oasis - Acrylic medium on plastic. |
| | Rock Pillars - Rock pillars made from stones. |
20mm Vietnam
| | Paddy Field - Paddy fields from bits of glass or perspex. |
| | Paddy Field 2 - Paddy fields with acrylic medium or meltable scenic water. |
| | Jungle Outpost - An Airfix kit, which makes an ideal Vietnam building. |
| | Sandbags - 20mm and 15mm sandbags from oven-hardened putty. |
| | Huts - Huts clad in a variety of materials. |
| | Delta Hut - A hut on a raised platform, typical of the Mekong delta. |
25mm Sci-fi
| | Small bits - Small scale machinery and street furniture. |
| | Pumice Fungus - Fungus made from pumice stones. |
| | Plaster Dome - A domed plaster building in the Tatooine style. |
| | Machinery tower - Suitable for any scale of sci-fi. |
| | Container tower - Water tank type tower. |
| | Walkway - Mesh covered ramp/walkway. |
6mm Sci-fi
| | Gun Turret - Shampoo bottle top becomes planetary defence. |
| | Large Bunker - WH40K style buttressed concrete bunker. |
| | Small Bunker - Smaller plainer bunker. |
Reader's
| | Hedges - by Nigel Budd from synthetic wire wool |
General - General principles
| | Basic probability - Calculating probabilities from a wargaming. |
Steel Inferno - My generic micro-armour rule set.
| | Rules - Simple but with capacity for tactical play. |
| | Unit Stats - Generic - Statistics for generic modern units. |
| | Unit Stats - Epic WH40K - The statistics for Imperial units from GW's WH40K range. |
Mad Minutes - My 20mm Vietnam skirmish rule set.
| | Counters - Print out .jpgs for counters and unit flags. |
| | Design Notes - Some key features of the rules |
| | Lies and Politics - Some thoughts on Vietnam wargaming |
| | Assault on Thon Tan Xuong - Report of a US company attacking a VC reinforced platoon. |
| | Extraction from Thon Tan Xuong - Report of a US company waiting for extraction while fending off two VC companies. |
High Calibre - My 25mm modern/cyberpunk skirmish rules
| | The Desert Dish - A battle played during rules testing. |
Colonial
| | German-Eng Dictionary - Military ranks and items of uniform |
| | Early colonisation of DOA - A brief account of initial German involvement in East Africa. |
Vietnam
| | Book Reviews - Information and reviews of 11 assorted books. |
| | Zen & the Art of Model Making - Are you approaching your modelling in the right state of mind. Find out with this adaptation from Pirsig's 70s classic book. |
| | Space Hulk - A gaming classic - Why Space Hulk is one of the all time greats. |
| | Another way to skin the cat - Realism, Omniscience and Quantum Mechanics in Wargaming |
| | My Wargaming Biography - A partially illustrated account of my path into the hobby. |
| | Aliens Trivia Quiz - Test your knowledge of this classic film by answering 300 trivia questions against the clock. |
| | Full Gelatine Jacket - Paintball's implications for simulating small arms combat. |
| | Who controls the bad guys? - Adversarial Games vs. Games with Umpire Controlled Enemy. |
| | Sooner or later - The problems of turn order in wargaming. |