by madguru | Sep 12, 2013 | Afghan Regular Army, Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, History, Uniforms
I’ve just created a NEW PAGE for this blog, displaying a set of 12 colour plates done by the somewhat legendary military historian and artist Ian Heath. Mr. Heath kindly and generously gave his permission for me to make this very difficult-to-find artwork of...
by madguru | Nov 5, 2012 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Anglo-Indian Army, British Army, Miniature Figures
Many of you may already know this, but I feel compelled to mention it nonetheless: the NWF & Boer ranges are officially back up and available on the Wargames Foundry website. Here’s a LINK to the North West Frontier range –(click image to visit...
by madguru | Oct 24, 2012 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, British Army, Figure Conversions, Miniature Figures
(1) ANOTHER “BALA HISSAR OR BUST!” CONVERSIONFirst up is another conversion for my First Afghan War, “Bala Hissar or Bust!” project. It’s another soldier of the 44th Regt. of Foot, this one wearing a fur coat.The body comes courtesy...
by madguru | Sep 21, 2012 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, British Army, Figure Conversions, Scenarios & Army Lists
Despite not being as actively-updated as I’d like for it to be, this blog has passed a couple of benchmarks lately that I want to take a moment to mention. It was graced by a visitor from its 100th different country, COLOMBIA (then surprisingly soon after by a...
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 | 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...
