by madguru | Apr 22, 2014 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Terrain Building
This past weekend my 14 year-old daughter surprised me by asking to set the wargames table up with a large Medieval battle, for her to shoot video of for a class project. The table was already covered with my not-quite-finished Charasiab layout, with various...
by madguru | Apr 20, 2014 | Hills, Rocky Terrain, Terrain Building
As promised I’m back again, to deliver a detailed Work-In-Progress photo array showing how I built the last rocky wood-chip hill for my Charasiab layout…1. Draw the outline of your hill on the styrofoam board. This particular hill was 1.5″...
by madguru | Apr 18, 2014 | Hills, Terrain Building
Earlier this evening I finished work on the third of the last 3 low sandy hills needed for my Charasiab terrain layout. I started out thinking I would need 6 of these hills, but later, upon further and more detailed examination via Google Earth, realized I...
by madguru | Apr 8, 2014 | Hills, Rocky Terrain, Terrain Building
Well, I said I was done building rocky wood-chip hills for my Charasiab lay-out, but… I just wasn’t happy with the hill I’d been using for the Western edge of the Sang-i-Nawishta Gorge, which forms the far right end of the long row of tall hills/low...
by madguru | Mar 31, 2014 | Anglo-Indian Army, Fellow Gamers, Hills, Rocky Terrain, Terrain Building
For me, one of the unexpected rewards of blogging has been the occassional opportunity to see someone physically remote but similarly inclined, make use of something they saw posted here. This has happened a few times over the 3-1/2 or so years since I started...
by madguru | Mar 6, 2014 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, British Army, Fellow Gamers, Other, Uniforms
Long-time readers of this humble blog may recall the first time I presented the Second Afghan War-related 1/6th scale work of artist and master model-maker Tony Barton — famous in 15mm-18mm Napoleonic circles as the sculptor behind the highly-regarded AB Figures...
by madguru | Jan 16, 2014 | Hills, Terrain Building
For the past two years, most of my hobby time has been spent preparing the tabletop terrain for a miniature refight of the battle of Charasiab, fought on October 6th, 1879, just North of the Afghan town of Charasiab (which translates to “Four Waterwheels”...
by madguru | Jan 1, 2014 | Miscellaneous History, Other
I wanted to get this post done before the end of 2013, and have scrambled to do so. It doesn’t have anything to do with wargaming, but it’s important to me, so I hope any readers of this blog will bear with me while I digress from the Second Afghan War in...
by madguru | Dec 15, 2013 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Books, Fellow Gamers, History
…DURING THE INDIAN FRONTIER CAMPAIGNS OF 1897″ by Major E.A.P. Hobday, RA This is the name of a rather remarkable book, first published in 1898. What makes it remarkable is the fact that it’s filled with about 50 line drawings made by the author,...
by madguru | Nov 7, 2013 | Fellow Gamers, Hills, Rocky Terrain, Terrain Building
***Thanks to Eric The Shed (of “Shed Wars” fame) for signing on to be the 100th follower of Maiwand Day a few days ago!***That’s the entirety of the reason for this post, to celebrate reaching the “three figures” worth of...
