I like them and will be interested in the outcome of your 'experiment'. My philosophy has always been if it looks good enough at arms length, why bother painting any more detail? After all, it won't be seen in amongst all the other stuff. A lot of reasonably well painted figures on a table with dece...

It's looking good, and with the rest of it in place it's probably going to look even more impressive.

I don't know if this helps or if I'm too late but the builders merchants/home improvement chain of Wickes stores sells the right stuff. I was wandering through the local aircraft hanger of a store the other week and noticed it. I also checked the prices for an 8x4 board -for future reference- and re...

Years ago, I found that the main cause of warping was the ready-mixed Tetrion because there is so much liquid in it. For anything smaller than 15mm I paint on wood glue straight form the bottle and then dip the bases in sand. For 15 and 25mm I would recommend the tubes of ready mixed filler obtainab...

I only came across your piece about forces humour today; very funny. I found this one the other day about the comparison between various types of small arms. It made me chuckle. Hopefully it will do the same for you. I found it on the www.historicalwargaming.com website. I hope they don't mind that ...

While I was at Derby the other week I got chatting to the lads from the Border Riever Group. Now for years I have been an admirer of the LoA standards. I have read the articles on construction -including Mrs Hilton's comments- but was never sure where to get the material from, so I have left it and ...

If anyone is interested, for years I have been using two coats of water based matt or gloss varnish easily available from anywhere such as Homebase or B & Q etc. Each of these is dry within a few minutes and then followed with a good coating of Daler-Rowney soluble matt varnish, available from any a...

Roy, According to the Osprey New Model Army book by Stuart Asquith it says that the infantry standards were usually 6' 6'' square and each of the 10 companies carried one, normally all together in front of the unit. Cavalry had much smaller standards, 2' square, one usaully carried by each of the re...