Some people apparently seemed to think that William the Conqueror (also known as William the Bastard) was a jovial, friendly, fluffy-bunny of a man…. what were they smoking??? The Harrying of the North was not the act of a nice chap…. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/20/william-i-how-we-misunderstood-the-conqueror-for-950-years
Chris
I have decided that Saga is the historical tabletop game I want to try my hand at – and as I had some random Saxons and Norse lying around from some previous dabbling with Warhammer Ancient Battles – I thought I’d paint some of them up for Saga. Here is […]
A fantastically useful resource on colours used in the dark ages – very useful for painting Northmen, Saxons and co…. http://www.rosieandglenn.co.uk/TheLibrary/Costume/CnTGuides/General/Colours.htm
So – here are two newly painted miniatures from (previously unknown to me) C-P Models – http://www.cpmodelsminiatures.co.uk I have to say – I really love these miniatures – they were a delight to paint and are wonderfully quirky. I am not sure exactly what I am going to use them for – […]
Yesterday a nice English girl called Anna Tomson came into the shop and we discovered we both sing English folk songs… the funny thing is, we don’t know any songs in common (at least not well enough to sing). So, we decided to each sing a song a that we […]
This might come as a surprise… an update without any nudity at all! Well – I have just become a father and don’t have the time at the moment (a shoot with a model takes 3-4 hours) – although I intend to start again soon. We took the little one […]