19th Century Sudan Wargames Armies 1883-1885

I don't like the new cover style. I preferred the older ones which featured Victorian paintings! I enjoy John Wilcox' novels about ...

This is the commanding officer of my Sudan Expeditionary Force, Major General Sir Gerald Graham VC. Graham was the only son of a Northumbria...

Some of the Perry Beja figures are shown with throwing sticks. These don't look that threatening but a throwing stick is one of the olde...

I have been painting all sorts of other stuff lately, especially a lot of Darkest Africa stuff, but my recent visit to Egypt has got me prep...

I have finished the Egyptians I bought on eBay the other month. They are going to represent the Cairo Gendarme Battalion which formed part o...

Lord Cromer's Room I spent a few days in Cairo the other week running a meeting with the Egyptian Government in the British Ambass...

In finishing the Gardner Gun today I have finished the Naval Brigade. At the ratio of 1/33 I am using I should really only have 5 figure...

The success of the Gatling Gun soon encouraged others into the market The Gardner Gun was invented in 1874 by a former Civil War Captain in ...

I've not been feeling very well this week and have hardly got any painting done. Added to that the weather has been horrible and it'...

The Royal Marines, along with a force of sailors, were the first British troops landed at Suakin. The 464 men and 14 officers of the RMLI we...