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 | Jun 18, 2012 | Fellow Gamers, Miscellaneous History, Rocky Terrain
It’s been a busy Spring here at the Maiwand Day household, on work and family fronts, and hobby activity and related blogging have suffered from the resulting lack of time on my part. But sooner or later this too shall pass, and with the successful...
by madguru | Apr 30, 2012 | Fellow Gamers, Hills, Other, Terrain Building, Trees/Woods
As I write this it is 12:59am on Monday, April 30th, 2012.Later today will be the 149th anniversary of the battle of Camerone.Though this blog is devoted to wargaming the Second Anglo-Afghan War in general, and the battle of Maiwand in particular, I must confess that...
by madguru | Apr 13, 2012 | British Army, Hills, Rocky Terrain, Terrain Building
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything new here, but there’s some good stuff in the pipeline…(1) I’m almost done with my second “vertical wood-chip” hill — here’s a few WIP pics as a...
by madguru | Apr 4, 2012 | Buildings, Bridges, Defensive Works, Etc., Camerone, Maximillian Intervention
Below are some images I found while searching the web for visual reference to help with detailing the Camerone hacienda compound and various other buildings for the project.I also found a photo-stream LINK filled with what I think are more useful images of old mexican...
