Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 30mMore 6mm fantasy. A base of 4 trolls. These are Tom, Bert and William, all stone trolls, and, on the far right, John38742674 an internet troll. 180
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 4hOld blog post about making 6mm Viking Age village bases. adcgaming.wordpress.com/2022/10/04/6...adcgaming.wordpress.com6mm Viking Age: BuildingsIn the last post I wrote a bit about the figures for the 6mm Viking Age project. Now I thought I’d cover some of the scenery. While the project is primarily aimed at doing large battles, I’ll be lo… 0152
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 22hIt's phalanx versus schiltron as North Macedonia take on Scotland in what very few people are calling the pointy-stick derby. 190
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 23hLast side to batter the Croats this badly were the Ottoman Turks. 040
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Tentative talk of 6mm fantasy at the club. So I had a go at a few figures (some conversions involved). Baccus and Perfect Six figures. 4483
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Cronos was 63 when he died. So he was only 18 when Venom released Welcome to Hell. The Mozart of Black Metal. 1102
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Ah Venom, what a band they were. loudwire.com/venom-cronos...loudwire.comVenom Legend Conrad 'Cronos' Lant Has Died at 63, Statement ReleasedRest in power, Cronos. 040
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Bit late to this but Giuseppe of Legio Heroica's family have now decided to try and sell the range. Really nice and very painter-friendly figures. Hopefully, someone will be able to produce them again. www.legio-heroica.com/News-en.htmllegio-heroica.comLegio Heroica - News 041
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 29/09/20266mm Crusades at the club tonight. Battle based loosely on Montgisard. Baldwin IV, Reynald De Chatillon and the Master of the Temple launch a surprise attack against Saladin. 0232
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Probably a British actor. Brits are usually the bad guys in American films. 190
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This RAF Fairfird incident could have been carried out by a state actor with a grudge against the US. That narrows it down to about 190 countries then. 050
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Small car owners should realise their 'cars' are actually motorbikes. 060
Reposted by Gareth BeamishGareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 20/03/20236mm. Reynald De Chatillon, Prince of Outrejourdain and some more knights. The Franks of Outremer were always at the cutting edge of fashion. Here Reynald wears a surcoat, a few decades ahead of the medieval illustrators. Banner conjectural, based on a seal used by Reynald. 162
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"The Undead inhabit a sour and wasted land where no life survives." Same 0100
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Might actually sort out a game for the first time in months for club this Tuesday. Crusades probably. 1171
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I've seen none of these. Which probably explains why all the conversations about TV on Paint and Chat go over my head. 7120
Reposted by Gareth BeamishGareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 05/06/2026[Commission] 28mm Napoleonic Hesse-Darmstadt. Really nice figures from Piano Wargames in Germany. 2335
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Anniversary of the Battle of Blore Heath yesterday. 🎶Blore Heath, nothing goes on here, Blore Heath, nothing grows on here, 🎶 070
Reposted by Gareth BeamishGareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 16/11/2023[Own stuff] 28mm Kingsford Miniatures Sengoku Jidai. 082
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Economic migrant unwilling to return to home country. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBillionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UKIneos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea. 2102
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 18/09/2026#Athlos is probably best watched with the sound off. Women's athletics is in a really good place right now, it doesn't need all the whooping and yelling to sell it. 360
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 18/09/2026American presenters and commentators for the Athlos on BBC. Bit irritating, especially as its in London. Must be a broadcast rights thing I guess. 050
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Actually started painting some of my own figures for the first time in ages. Gonna add some 6mm Scots to the Viking Age stuff. 5473
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Anniversary today (lunar calendar) of the Battle of Sekigahara (1600). I try to avoid that battle as I want to stick to the Sengoku Jidai (😉). But it keeps dragging me back Michael Corleone style to making blog posts like this: tenkafubu608971038.wordpress.com/2023/02/12/s...tenkafubu608971038.wordpress.comSekigahara: An alternative deploymentI was recently brought back to looking at Sekigahara. I normally don’t bother with Sekigahara that much as it happens 10 years after the Sengoku Jidai finishes….. But the stimulus was paintin… 0223
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Incidentally, there's no way Gripping Beast have been going for 30 years. 15 tops. 2131
Reposted by Gareth BeamishdeMagdeburg @demagdeburg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Ho hum, another wargames supplier looking to call it a day 😟 12479
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Only 6% of Northerners see the Norman Conquest as negative? After the Harrying of the North? What kind of Northerner are you if you can't hold a grudge for even a thousand years? 1171
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Anniversary today (lunar calendar because it's much easier to find anniversaries that way...) of the 4th Battle of Kawanakajima in 1561. Some game pics and background stuff in this thread. 1234
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 09/09/2026[Commission] 28mm WW2 (except the tank...) Photos from the rulebook "No Easy Ground," recently released WWII rules. 2446
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I have "legitimate concerns" about Vallejo putting the names of their paints on the bottom of the bottles. Might go and block the doors of Asda tomorrow. 1101
Reposted by Gareth BeamishGareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 30/01/202528mm Sengoku era Sakai waterfront. Sakai was a prosperous trading town near modern Osaka. It was where I was originally going to set some skirmish games before getting sidetracked. 36512
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Yeah, it's not like the Antichrist walking among us is a big deal for Christians. 260
Reposted by Gareth BeamishGareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 20/12/20206mm WOTR battle using Bloody Barons rules. 2nd St. Albans isn't very gamer friendly, so this is based on some tenuous what-ifs. What if the Lancastrians had headed south earlier on their march, and what if Warwick felt the need to intercept them south of Stevenage. #WorldWarRoses 1133
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Some guys at club have started doing dwarves v orcs fantasy. I idly had a look at doing 'proper' Middle-Earth in 6mm. That Tolkien guy could bang on for pages about trees and rivers, but virtually sod all on dwarf shield designs and banners. Come on JRR, where are the painting guides? 2130
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Going full Dominic Cummings on editing an old 'blog post. "Of course, I was saying this years ago, as my 'blog shows...." 030
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I guess Americans can't use HOMES as a mnemonic for the great lakes anymore. They'll have to use SHAME instead. 050
Reposted by Gareth BeamishGareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 16/06/2026[Commission] 28mm Polish Napoleonic 0223
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Romans v Goths at the club. 90's figures, painted in enamels and gloss varnished. As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow. – Horace, Roman lyric poet. Hey now, hey now, now, sing This Corrosion to me. – Andrew Eldritch, Goth lyric poet. 1150
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 24/08/2026WordPress helpfully tells me the anniversary of previous blog posts. Which means that instead of writing a new post, I can just link to an old one. So here's a post from 2 years ago attempting to analyse a Sengoku Jidai army structure. tenkafubu608971038.wordpress.com/2024/08/24/s...tenkafubu608971038.wordpress.comShibata Katsuie’s Northern ArmyI thought I’d have a go at demonstrating how one might extrapolate a wargames army from a historical force. In this case the ‘Northern Army’ that Shibata Katsuie led on the unsuccessful Kaga expedi… 1100
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"I'll admit it: I've burgled people's houses. But Britain's property laws are to blame, not me." 0120
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 20/08/2026If you see this, you're legally obligated to quote with your favourite Star Wars character. 020
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 19/08/2026You do have to wonder just how many copies of The Watchtower were fed into these AI image generators. Still, these Han Chinese seem to be enjoying themselves... 040
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Great to see the UK at the cutting edge of drought and climate management. Want to get it to rain? Just start a test match. 081
Gareth Beamish @adcpainting.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Wrote a blog post about Sekigahara again. It keeps happening, even though I try to stick to the Sengoku-Jidai 😉 tenkafubu608971038.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/s...tenkafubu608971038.wordpress.comSekigahara: The problem with the numbers.On the face of it, Sekigahara is a very well-detailed battle, with complete breakdowns of troop numbers for all the participants. These numbers derive from the study of the battle made by the Imper… 081