Games Workshop Space Marine

 Games Workshop Space Marines

Not of my own but proudly in my collection. Painted by talented (Canadian) Alex Nemes, Golden Demon winner, and photographed by (Belgian) Johan Cottyn.

Games Workshop Space Marine

 Games Workshop Space Marine
Claymore Wargames Event

Claymore is Scotland’s captital city Edinburgh’s annual wargames show.

See my photographs of Claymore 2007 here.

See my photographs of Claymore 2004 here.		 Claymore 2007Claymore
Carronade Wargames Event 2008

Carronade is Falkirk’s splendid annual wargames show.

Right and below: My photographs of Barry Hilton’s (League of Gentlemen Wargamers) Battle of Ligny 1815 (with my added backdrop of your actual Belgium).

Battle of Ligny

 Battle of Ligny
Terrain Tiles

These are my terrain tiles; the ‘tabletop’ I do all my battle gaming on. I designed them to suit all the periods and scales that I may ever game. For me, they are just perfect – unlike all the re-designs of the past – and they continue to reinvent themselves as I take on new projects.

They are made from nothing more than the usual MDF board topped with sculpted polystyrene, splashed with PVA and sand and finished off with Dulux emulsion paint sprinkled with flock. Importantly, the finish of the tiles is exactly the same as the bases of my figures. So as long as I don't get carried away with my figure basing (for example, with highlighting), bases and terrain should match beautifully. This also allows the use of 'chunky' bases (that encourage players to pick up the base rather than the figure) as they merge into the landscape better. As a result, all my bases for all scales are 3mm thick.

The tiles are 20cm square. This has proved as they were conceived to be extremely practical. A 20cm square nicely accommodates a 28mm building or a 15mm village, for example. Rivers can meander, coasts can pair up and become riverbanks, and significantly a battlefield can transform into something quite different with little effort and sometimes surprisingly with little extra work.

The bases of the pirates below do not have flock on them so do differ from the finish of the terrain tiles. This, however, is so they can stand on the decks of ships without any obvious sign of vegetation.