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Hi, I've been looking into using oil washes on 28mm Historical miniatures and have found a ton of stuff on Fantasy/Sci Fi stuff in terms of tutorials/vids. Either my google foo is very off or the tutorials/vids simply do not exist. I'm aiming to use them for The Crimean War, Ancients, Dark...

Hi, A quick question..... Does anyone have any size comparison pictures for the Artizan Designs vs The Assault Group Italian Wars/Renaissance Spanish please? I'd like to have an idea before I sample any of the new Artizan Renaissance Spanish mini's if possible. Thanks. These are the...

Prompted by Maciej Barwicki's enquiry into the placement of the post about the High Elf Tower that featured in White Dwarf many a moon ago- I thought I would post up some pictures of a tower put together for me by the manager of the Edinburgh shop in the very early 2000's. Sadly I sold off all...

Hi, I'm thinking hard about putting in an order for some of the beautiful old school type miniatures from Nightmare Games but before I do so I was wondering if anyone knew about how reliable the company is? I'm not casting aspersions here- I just thought that I would check to see if anyone...

The final part of the 500000 views on my blog! Here's the link to the page- this time fewer games I I focus in on what I've managed to paint during the pandemic. There are pictures galore on the following link to my Just Add Water Blog...

Welcome to Part Two of my celebration of reaching 5000000 views. A mix of some of the most enjoyable games I've seen at shows and my own painting. Most of the images are "clickable" should you wish to enlarge them. Part 1 of the Just Add Water Miniature Painting and Wargaming Blog- 500000...

I really wasn't certain of where to put this post so please feel free to place in the requisite board if I have got it wrong :) First of all, many, many thanks to everyone who has visited my blog over the years. Having started Just Add Water in the early 2000's, deleted the blog, started...

Some how, somewhere I have managed to find the strength to start getting back into my painting. As I have mentioned before I am battling real demons in terms of mental health and it is no exaggeration that it took a heck of a lot of effort and determination to pick up the brushes again! This...

I have been asked many times lately on social media (Facebook and Twitter) how I go about painting a yellow. Rather then repeat myself constantly on many posts, usually with all too brief and unsatisfactory answer, I thought I would do a quick post on how I go about painting yellows would be the...

I cannot get near my painting table at the moment and consequently I find myself with some downtime. I want to keep the momentum going on all my projects ergo this post featuring all the units painted thus far for my Anglo Danes. If you hop on over to my Just Add Water blog there's a host of...

I've been trawling through my old website again on the hunt for pictures that could be potentially be rescued from WaybackMachine. It is quite a frustrating process as more often then not the images most desirable for rescue will not link and I find myself just left with the thumbnails which are...

Hi, A few years ago I painted up some of the test sprues for the Perry Desert Rats plastics that were planned for release for Salute and aimed at being presented as a diorama. When the painting was complete then it a case of waiting to see what Michael would do with the miniatures and how he...

In order to get the promised images of the single bases taken I was up a little earlier then normal. The photo's have been taken mostly with artificial light and I do hope they hold up to my usual standards(?). In this post I've included samples of the single bases from the front only- there...

This unit was started prior to the beginning of The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge with the first six cavalry models being completed before I went into clean up, prime and undercoat a whole Late Roman army for the challenge, which ended in the Great Varnishing Disaster which put pay to all...

Spanish Sword and Buckler/Rodeleros - Army of Gonzalo de Córdoba, "El - Capitán" To be honest I have also found it very difficult to paint of late. I have discussed my mental health issues briefly on my blog before. Of late, things have become about as difficult as they I have ever...

Hi, This piece was written for my old La Journee blog but as I'm resurrecting the Verneuil project I thought it might be i/ a good introduction to what I'm going to be doing and ii/ the importance of pageantry and Heraldic display (sometimes in surprising ways) in Late Medieval Battles. As...

Hi, A bit of a long story so please defer to my blog article for info. This is my latest piece for the Spanish in Italy, Italian Wars project and also The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge. My Just Add Water Blog link to the full article...

Warning,- I'm going to name names in this article. I'm at once both distraught and furious! I have never had a varnishing disaster like this before in all my decades of experience. Help! In order to preserve my dwindling supplies of the superb Winsor and Newton Professional Matt Varnish I...

Back in the groove! It seems like a very long time since I actually managed to work on any of my own stuff. I've started working on some Heavy Cavalry which will join the Early Byzantine long with another such unit and Belisarius' Boukellaroi. I finally got around to basing the last six of...

The first mini's I've managed to paint since August 8th! I'm a little out of practice but I think they have come out quite well. Many more pictures and the usual blurb on my Just Add Water Blog here: https://justaddwater-bedford.blogspot.com/2021/11/wargames-foundry-medieval-civilians.html