It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

Just when I thought I was crossing the finishing line, I stumbled when I was marking out where to drill the holes for the secondary guns. Do...

Susan and I  played  together in the second of two games  run by Tom Mouat.   I felt  super fortunate to be chosen to play with Tom again as...

After a full fry-up for  breakfast , Saturday morning's game was The Extraction run by Alex Treacher,  using Mongoose 2nd Edition rules. W...

After  Saturday  morning's  full fry-up  breakfast , my first  game of the day  was  run by Tom Mouat, who presented The Tagachi March,  u...

TravCon is a Traveller RPG convention run by BITS – the British Isles Traveller Support.  On our way up to TravCon, traveling on the M1, o ...

Now that the body is symmetrical, see the post here , it was obvious where work was needed. The old joke about asking for directions to some...

Not forgotten, just place aside, just a much needed change of pace. I needed a break from mixing epoxy putty, and filling it smooth, as yet ...

We went to Salute and had a great day. Susan and I played in a game of What a Tanker, run by Joe Bilton, which won the Silver trophy for bes...

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Dave Hardwood drew i ssue four's cover, a friend from days when I lived in Southend-on-Sea who also drew  the cover, and  a bunch of interio...

So, here I am, still unable to drag this conversion across the finish line. Why? Because the front treads aren't symmetrical, as can seen he...

My afternoon session at Herts of Lard was playing Simon Hatch's What a Tanker 28mm game on a section of Joe Bilton's Caen 1944 table, which...

Operation Sandbox was my BattleTech campaign I started in January 2011, which ended in November 2012. This page is a placeholder for all the...

Carrying on with my adventures of a day out at Herts of Lard day. My morning session saw me playing in Mike Wilkins's They mostly come at ni...

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Saturday we went to Rickmansworth for the Herts of Lard games day run by Joe Bilton. He being the maestro of epic wargame tables, as can be ...

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The final piece of artwork generously donated by Steve Kyte adorns the cover of issue three. Again all uncredited articles and artwork for ...

Shrove Tuesday I was at Tokamak Energy. All bundled up because it was freezing cold in Oxford.  The whole machine is housed inside this hug...

Above is the model from last time, given a trim, and to check I took the photo and mirrored each half to judge how close I was to my goa...

Again another beautiful piece of artwork from Steve Kyte adorns the cover of issue two. All uncredited articles and artwork  contents for is...

Symmetry is a thing. One that castings made from sculpts were more of a suggestion, rather than something strictly adhered to. My Ral Partha...

I only very recently (2020) learned of the existence of OHMU and was lucky enough to acquire a lone remaining copy from one of the authors. I always enjoy taking a look at older games like this, too s...

MekTek was a British BattleTech fanzine produced by me, which came out in 1988. The cover of the first issue was by Steve Kyte. All the uncr...