by madguru | Sep 26, 2011 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Hills, Rocky Terrain, Terrain Building
My previous post (LINK) showed some pics of the first few steps of building this hill, namely:(1) Carve contour out of 1.5″ foam, using mix of coping saw, dovetail saw, utility knife, and X-acto hobby saw.(2) Trace footprint of hill onto model aircraft plywood,...
by madguru | Sep 24, 2011 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Hills, Rocky Terrain, Terrain Building
Bad news: I just spent a couple hours loading up close to a hundred pics showing the process of building my new hill — but unfortunately Blogger experienced a problem and this page I was working on lost them all. Needless to say, this kind of sucks, and after a...
by madguru | Sep 22, 2011 | Conventions, TSATF
Word got out about a week ago that “Maiwand Day” will be participating in the first ever all-TSATF gaming convention, “Colonial Barracks,” to be held on the weekend of November 4th through 6th, at the Sheration Metairie-New Orleans Hotel in...
by madguru | Sep 7, 2011 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, British Army, Figure Conversions, Miniature Figures
For followers and repeat visitors to this humble blog it will come as no surprise that I am somewhat obsessed with the uniforms, equipment & weapons used by the Afghan, British, Indian troops present at the 1880 battle of Maiwand. Over the past months I’ve...
