Month: July 2025

Work in Progress Wednesday

Welcome to another work in progress Wednesday. We start this week with Mark J and yet more Shermans, I don’t know how many he is planning to do but it has sparked a Sherman bragging contest, I think the winning bid was 65 Sherman miniatures although in 10mm scale.

Next up and Eric has been painting some fantasy celtic warriors. Liking the flesh tones on these.

And of course a shot from the front of the warriors.

Tony F has been plucking random things from the lead pile to finish up. This ones a bit of a cheat but interesting. Apparently this is a pre-painted model truck, Tony has added an ink wash to make it look used. It’s perfect for a number of early 20th century games.

And some English policemen, not sure why Tony has these, clearly an impule buy at some point in the past.

And we finish off this week with some Pulp sci-fi from Marcus. I think these are going bright colours as is entirely appropriate for the genre.

And with that we will see you next week.

Work in Progress Wednesday

It’s Wednesday again and we start this week with Stephen and an A-7 Corsair, 1/100th scale ready for duty over Vietnam.

Stephen also managed to pick up a Warhammer 40K walker, that he stripped of the over abundance of insignia to make it more generic for various sci-fi games.

Next up and continuing with the walker theme, Tony F has repainted an old plastic Star Wars toy droid as this rather wonderful sci-fi JCB vehicle.

Moving on and Phil has made some more progress on his 10mm Mordor orcs, I think this represents about 1% of what’s planned!

We finished up with more miniatures from Marcus. Firstly some more Celtos orcs.

And the start of some Barsoom miniatures.

And with that we will see you next Wednesday.

Work in Progress Wednesday

And we’re back with our normal Work in Progress Wednesday posts.

First up and Mark J has been painting up a 3D printed Sherman tank. This is going to be for a big Nijmegen game.

Moving on and Marcus managed to paint up some more miniatures that we saw at his Open Day game. Firstly some Celtos miniatures, some beastmen, orc champion and a barbarian.

Not sure who makes these miniatures, but we have three more mean looking beasts.

Stephen has been busy tinkering and has come up with a mobile gun platform for his Quar captain.

And by chopping up a couple of other miniatures created this fetching sniper.

And finally for this week Tony F picked up some scatter terrain at a wargame show and got to work. Not sure what he plans for the Mini we’ll have to wait and see.

See you next Wednesday.

Open Day – Roundup

Welcome to another Wednesday blog post, for this week we are looking back at the games from our recent Open Day.

We start with Stephen’s Barons War game. The table looked great, lots of terrain almost exclusively scratchbuilt by Stephen. With lots of normal life trappings to give it a lived in feel.

Stephen managed a couple of games on the day, the second resulting in a major fight in the middle of the field the claim the trebuchet.

We move onto Mark J and his big Vietnam game. Mark now owns an impressive collection of jungle terrain to say nothing of the miniatures and vehicles assembled and painted.

I’m not sure how far the American armour made it across the table. The game had a settlement complete with villagers, animals and rice fields to set the scene.

Next up and we had a lord of the Rings battle put on by Tony F and Phil. I participated in this battle by helping Phil’s orc forces streaming out of Moria. Well I say helping, Phil gave me a troll to play with but I managed to get it killed in its first battle with Tony’s dwarves.

But a lack of dwarven reinforcements allowed the orcs to push on, but they failed to kill the dwarf king in order to secure victory.

Something different now with David and Chris putting on a game involving Technicals, or improvised vehicles for those not in the know. These were converted from matchbox cars and miniature crews added.

The game involved a dozen vehicles at a time and as you can see was somewhat explosive. It’s always nice to see these different types of games at the society, and a good addition for the Open Day.

Our last game at the Open Day was another outing for Marcus and his award winning labyrinth style pulp adventure game. Featuring dozens of 3D dungeon tiles.

Marcus added a couple of tower tiles this time round and played the game as a dungeon fantasy game this time. It was good to see the tiles used for another game, and I believe they are getting another revamp later this year.

We hope you enjoyed seeing the games that were put on. We’d also like to thank those wargamers (or would be wargamers) that came to our open day to see what we get up to at the society.

If you are interested in coming along to the Maidstone Wargames Society all our details can be found on our about us page.

Work in Progress Wednesday

Welcome to another Work in Progress Wednesday. It’s very sunny here so progress might slow down a bit. I know I’m struggling to get projects done.

But this week we start with Phil who is putting the finishing touches to a gate to Moria for a Lord of the Rings game, and sticking with the Lord of the Rings theme but in a different scale with some 10mm Orcs.

Next up and Mark J has been putting the finishing touches to a universal carrier.

Returning to the Lord of the Rings theme and Tony F has been painting up more dwarves, no doubt with an eye on that gate.

And finally for this week Eric has been busy with a rune incrusted Wyrdstone.

And some miniatures referred to as Skullswords from a Kickstarter.

And with that we will see you next week.