by madguru | Sep 9, 2012 | Afghan Regular Army, Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier
Recently on the Colonial Wars Yahoo Group there has been some discussion of 25mm-28mm figures available to model the Afghan regular army of the Second Afghan War (1878-1880) era.As someone with close to a lifelong interest in the subject, I couldn’t help but get...
by madguru | Aug 25, 2012 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Hills, Rocky Terrain, Terrain Building
The family and I are almost done with our European vacation, and tonight one of my daughters was a bit under the weather, so we all came back to the hotel somewhat early — at least for Rome — and everyone is sleeping, except for me, so… rather than...
by madguru | Aug 19, 2012 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Fellow Gamers, Miniature Figures
I just took a water-taxi from the Venice train station, through the canals, to the 15th Century hotel where my family and I are staying — but the thing I’m really excited about is an email that greeted me via the hotel’s wifi system, from the...
by madguru | Aug 12, 2012 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Hills, Rocky Terrain, Terrain Building
About to head off on a family vacation and wanted to put this up before leaving. Just finished this latest rocky wood-chip hill this past week, and think it turned out well. Nothing new compared to the prior info I’ve posted on building and painting...
by madguru | Aug 6, 2012 | Buildings, Bridges, Defensive Works, Etc., Camerone, Fellow Gamers, Maximillian Intervention, Terrain Building
As promised, here are a bunch more pics of Michael Monremarano and Rich Hasenaeur’s Camerone game, put on 3 times at this year’s recent Historicon convention — which won the “Best of Show” Game Master award, meaning it must have...
by madguru | Jul 24, 2012 | Battle Reports, Camerone, Conventions, Fellow Gamers, Maximillian Intervention
Here’s just a teaser of 3 pics from Michael Montemarano and Rich Hasenaeur’s epic Camerone game at Historicon in Fredericksburg, VA this past weekend:If all goes well I will have a lot more pics from the 3 games played on this impressive set-up during the...
