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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think I may have ADD and making stuff settles me down. Of course I also often have the TV on as well as a Youtube video while making stuff.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The last building of this style done. I’ve run out of roofing and that window style. Just chimneys and some filling to be done. Minor differences between them but am happy so far.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just about finished adding details to this. About to start the next one.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In this day and age I must be mad scratch building rather than 3d printing, but I have time and the basic materials on hand. 20mm European type house. First of a number of this type.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wait till I get out the other gun and the auxiliaries etc.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sunday I had another go with The Men Who Would be Kings in a small Isandlwana setting. Hindsight I realised that the Brits were under sized compared to the last game. Next time I will arrange the Brits lengthways so will have more room and have flanks. I’m finding the rules a bit simple.

Casualties removed. The Zulu units are about 75% intact. Brits would be wiped out next turn.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The original owner and painter of the other Army informed me that it is Bastarnae not Buyids.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Saturday I played DBMM with my EIR against Buyids. Or rather I sat and watched them get demolished.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Finished my 2nd test game of The Men Who Would be Kings. Took 4 1/2 hours so would be a good one day demo game. I had a similar result to last time with the Zulus capturing the Hospital courtyard. Will see if more regiments will improve results for them. Next up will try a small Isandlwana scenario.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Two of them are old and broken the green G-Shock was a second hand gift I use when painting the house or gardening.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s that time of year when I lose my mind. I think in future I will keep the black G-Shock to winter time and the chrome one to Summer time. The black Tissot was bought as a travel watch being so simple to change the time on. The other chrome one was used for work but I kept misreading the time.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

More updating of old terrain. The hedge rows were given me by a club mate. He had used nails to hold the sponge which went rusty and were dangerous. I ripped them out and used the excess sponge to bulk out some trees. The trees got some flock on the sponge and bases. The trees are for DBMM.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m making progress on my Order of Saint George army. Dated 1522 but looking more like 1565 I suspect. I’ve been inspired by the current ceremonial uniforms as seen in Malta. I have painted up a Sarrisa Precision desert Castle but scratch built the tower.

Sarrisa Precision castle with added tower.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Up cycling or refurbished Bellona vacuum formed walls. I had painted these in the late 80’s and were a nuisance to use as the would move around being so light. I cut up some mdf left over from building kits and based them.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There was a game of Gaslands one of Necromunda a Naval game and a couple of 40k plus two of Saga.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Two games of DBMM. Sassanids verses Turgesh and Ghurids verses Buyids. I don’t know what they are either as my Ancient knowledge is limited to Romans and Britons.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think this was probably Black Powder as that’s what this group normally uses.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yesterday I didn’t have a game organised at the Wellington Warlords club day so went around and took some photos. 13 games plus a three table multiplayer Napoleonic game. First up Fire and Fury 15mm ACW.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My partner came home and caught me undercoating 10mm German Paratroopers. “Why is your army so small? Looks silly.” My answer was “so you can get more on the table” I should have said “they are much cheaper”.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Saturday played a 15mm game of Battlegroup set in Italy using a friends setup. I used his British and surprisingly won. We only used Infantry and real world tactics worked. Am now looking again at doing Crete. In 10mm I can do Company or 15mm can do platoons for about the same cost.

I was originally going to use Rapid Fire in 10mm.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I forgot to take photos of the 2nd game which had Ottoman Turks that won the painting award. I also found out that I had miss pointed my army resulting in my morale being too low. So broke too early😤. I’m keen to try the new list but not in a comp for now. I also sold some stuff which is good.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I nearly forgot that two weeks ago I was in a DBMM competition over two days. Games went 15 To 10, 15 to 10, 15 to 10 and lastly 25 to 0. Last game was against the winner of the tournament and I came last.😥 When I got home I rewrote the list after getting some advice on my Army and discovered.🧵

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Some figures for my Order of Saint John 1522 DBMM army. The Foundry Halberdiers (mercenary) were a test batch that I decided were too red so the Wargames Atlantic crossbowmen (mercenary) were painted more random.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I think that I have enough paint on my castle. I was trying to get it looking like Rhodes so its still a bit dark.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I’m just about ready to start sealing this up but still deciding how to pave the entrance gateways. Also intending to reduce the width of the bases.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Had a great game of DBMM. My terrain selection, positioned by dice was rather mean to my opponent but worked well. Luckily I thought he would try a flank attack so positioned one command to defend against it. My Army was hardly bothered and he had one shattered command and a disheartened one.

Initial terrain placement, mine were built up area with road and river.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Building a Sarrisa Precision desert castle for my Order of Saint John DBMM army.The tower looked too large and would probably cost an excessive amount of points so I built my own. The leftover frames of other kits make nice detail bits.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Having similar frustrations here on a local selling site. Took me a few attempts to realise that the site automatically re-logs the watchers the next time you list the same item.😟

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Been playing around with “The Men Who be Kings” rules with my collection. Seems to work well but I really need to use the whole of my table which has Vietnam on half of it.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I've been looking around for a set of rules to use with my 28mm platoon plus forces. I was using CDS am about to try CoC. TWAT sounds like it would work combined with CDS.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I’m really happy with this bits box Tamiya Sherman but am scared of adding decals and sealing it, as it will change the colour.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

By bases I meant movement trays.🙄

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Another three regiments that needed sorting out. One needed the shields repositioning the other two bases are new. The one marked -uVe- is the second uVe regiment. It was assembled from two skirmisher units which weren’t useful in previous games.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A regiment of Perry Zulus, my 11th. The movement trays have shields to indicate their position in the formation and dice holders for wounds and shock. I went through the Army to name each regiment for ease of identification rather than strict historical accuracy.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Painting 1/35th scale figures turned out to be easier than I thought.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I had noticed that the edge hanging over the table was getting dried out years ago. I had no idea that the middle was sweating. Maybe they need rolling up and storing away rather than leaving out on the table top long term. I've put two coats of paint on the table top to get rid of the stain.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I briefly considered trying to seperate the cloth from the neoprene backing but its such a mess. I instead rolled it up lengthwise then cut it in half so I can fit it in a rubbish bag.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Deep Cut Studios mat which has gone a bit toxic, I’ve heard of another club member having similar issues but found nothing on an internet search.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Well that didn’t go as well as expected. The game afterwards went about as badly as the trip there.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My Rorke’s Drift defenders are finished.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I haven’t watched the final as I thought the Formula 1 would be more interesting. From the sounds of it I made the correct decision although I can watch the replay. Good to see the French and English can still have a civil game.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

So thats it then. I followed five teams through the World Cup and watched about 80%of the games. My top two teams are playing for the runner up 3rd and fourth places. I probably wont watch the final live so I can have a lie in.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Yesterday I played my second game of DBMM with my EIR army. I was lucky with my river placement which held back my opponent’s Pathans. End result was a draw.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Thats me these days. I once put some chicken wire on the garage floor and then spent 15 minutes looking for it as it blended into the concrete floor so well.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I stumbled across this on Youtube. Bloody good to listen to while painting. youtu.be/qbm6rYgLXiU?...

youtu.be

Cake Live on the David Letterman Show.

YouTube video by Alejandro Romero

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I'm on Ian Knights Anglo-Zulu Wars History Group Facebook page which is very useful. Also have his Zulu Rising on Kindle and am reading Rorke's Drift by Adrian Greaves currently.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The gale force winds coming from the Antartic have dropped so today is much warmer. Hope to do some painting later.

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Dan Wade @danswargamingworld.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Thanks, I'm getting a bit impatient but it has given me time to sit in front of the gas heater reading about Rorkes Drift.

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