Prometheus in Aspic

    Strelets set No. 253 Very strange week for my WSS project. I've been playing about with ideas for a couple of French dragoon units, ...

Yesterday was a flagging day, which means I was involved in attaching a flag to a new unit. I keep stocks of my home-printed flags, and fi...

I have had some problems getting hold of command figures - especially drummers - to plug the gaps in my refurbished French infantry units. O...

Mark emailed me on the subject of size compatibility of various 20mm and "true 25mm" figures, so I have knocked up another of thos...

Today's post is a bit of a quick revisit of a couple of recent topics. If there is a common theme, then it might be the subject of ...

Different period, same problem - the troops look OK with buildings in a slightly compressed vertical scale, but the greatly compressed hor...

Steve Cooney very kindly sent me a note with some more pictures of his ECW troops, focusing on conversions. As far as I am concerned, this i...

At the request of Mr L Gunner, here's a quick comparison. My new Foy Figures men are made to 1/72, so are a tad larger than Hinton Hunt...

This is going to get me dangerously close to obscure worlds such as railway modelling, of which I know nothing, and where I am likely t...

I had a hard day yesterday – it doesn’t matter why. Honest toil is a fine thing, I’ve just got out of the habit, but one consequence is th...

I've now received figure samples from SHQ (Kennington) for their 20mm ECW range, and I like them. They are somewhat chunkier in stature...

Here are figures from Irregular (their Restoration range), Hinton Hunt and Les Higgins. The figure marked with a carat on the right hand en...

Ian sent a comment, and I've had a couple of emails from people wondering how Falcata's idea of 1/72 scale or 20mm lines up with oth...

I find myself a bit hot-&-cold on the subject of Qualiticast. Sometimes I am very enthusiastic, then I'm not so sure. No doubt abou...

A neglected theme, which is maybe a surprise given the average physical condition of the attendees of the last wargames convention I visited...

Unusually among the figure manufacturers I have featured in this series, Kennington are still in business. The figures are available in pack...