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Scratchbuilding 1/300 Roman Quinqueremes	4	18 Aug 2024 6:23 p.m. PST
Blog Update: "Projects, and People, and Pirates! Oh my!"	3	16 Aug 2024 4:37 a.m. PST
Easy Scratch-Built 28mm Waterwheel	4	16 Aug 2024 12:04 a.m. PST
ultimate scratchbuild - T34 from wood	9	30 Jul 2024 5:48 a.m. PST
Trenches for the Quar, Part XI, Crated and delivered	4	22 Jul 2024 3:42 p.m. PST
How much wood ...	12	07 Jul 2024 5:28 a.m. PST
Trenches for the Quar: Part X, Barbed Wire	3	05 Jul 2024 6:03 p.m. PST
trenches for the Quar, Part IX, Shattered Forest	3	26 Jun 2024 1:41 p.m. PST
Trenches for the Quar, Part VIII, Sandbags completed	2	24 Jun 2024 9:17 p.m. PST
Trenches for the Quar: Finishing surface texures and turf	7	24 Jun 2024 8:24 p.m. PST
Trenches for the Quar' Part VII; Sandbags	5	23 Jun 2024 5:43 a.m. PST
Trenches for the Quar, Part V Battlefield debris etc	6	20 Jun 2024 10:27 p.m. PST
Pashtun Force for the 1897-1898 Frontier Uprising	7	16 Jun 2024 6:08 p.m. PST
Trenches for the Quar, Part IV, craters and trenches	1	15 Jun 2024 11:38 a.m. PST
Trenches For The Quar, Part II Shells Holes Etc....	4	14 Jun 2024 8:12 a.m. PST
Trenches for the Quar, Part II Blocking in the trenches	3	12 Jun 2024 11:12 p.m. PST
A Pagoda for Burma	12	07 Jun 2024 7:02 p.m. PST
Starting a Quar terrain board, trenches and all	8	07 Jun 2024 6:35 p.m. PST
Scratch building an Ottawa Longhouse in 29mm	5	05 Jun 2024 7:34 a.m. PST
15mm ACW farmhouse for skirmish	11	02 Jun 2024 8:48 a.m. PST
Battle of Scarif on a custom board	6	28 May 2024 8:28 a.m. PST
2mm matchstick army first pike and shot unit	5	29 Apr 2024 1:30 p.m. PST
Stylized 1930s naval squadron in "15mm"	4	29 Apr 2024 10:51 a.m. PST
Snow Golems, Snowgrew, and Sgnowmes	4	15 Apr 2024 1:59 p.m. PST
28mm scale buildings from a UK high street store	1	30 Mar 2024 11:32 a.m. PST
Making dice, templates and cards	1	23 Mar 2024 6:38 a.m. PST
Buildings for my TWI project	8	22 Mar 2024 7:28 a.m. PST
PC Skellies	7	17 Mar 2024 2:26 p.m. PST
17th Century Dutch Row Buildings (15mm scale)	10	10 Mar 2024 6:53 a.m. PST
Two more Wargames Tables	5	08 Mar 2024 8:53 a.m. PST
Two Solo games with my homemade armies	9	01 Mar 2024 6:07 a.m. PST
Postapoc Terrain ..? S'not a problem@	6	17 Feb 2024 1:11 p.m. PST
Page Markers: easy, useful crafting item	3	15 Feb 2024 7:53 a.m. PST
Soda cans for making waving Banners	15	20 Jan 2024 12:54 p.m. PST
How to build NKE Egyptian boats	4	17 Jan 2024 7:14 p.m. PST
Facelift for a Lift Bridge	6	08 Jan 2024 12:49 p.m. PST
Why put a building on a base?	19	26 Dec 2023 2:39 p.m. PST
Across The Rubicon Nostalgius - DIY Mk 1 Land Raider	1	30 Nov 2023 11:36 a.m. PST
Dug-in Panzer IV	11	30 Nov 2023 4:34 a.m. PST
cutting matchsticks?	11	29 Nov 2023 3:58 a.m. PST
Pics Of Your SCRATCH-BUILT Apocalyptic SF Shantytown	7	25 Nov 2023 5:29 p.m. PST
Making some 19th century whaleboats	6	12 Nov 2023 6:12 a.m. PST
Scratchbuilt factory	6	06 Nov 2023 9:53 a.m. PST
Bunkers and spider holes for the Far East and Pacific	8	25 Oct 2023 7:35 a.m. PST
Do You Want to Build a Rutan?	7	23 Oct 2023 4:21 p.m. PST
#Orktober (Belatedly) - Da Black Ork Cav	2	23 Oct 2023 2:56 a.m. PST
Scratch-built Muppet(?) Beholder	10	30 Sep 2023 4:58 p.m. PST
Woodes Rogers' Delicia - finished	9	25 Sep 2023 1:27 p.m. PST
Sloop Marianne and Sultana Gally - Finished models	5	18 Sep 2023 6:17 a.m. PST
Star Wars Trench Run Gaming Model	13	11 Sep 2023 9:19 a.m. PST
Sealing edges of foam board for terrain	8	30 Aug 2023 3:52 p.m. PST
My homemade 30mm Horse & Musket armies ready for playing	18	30 Aug 2023 8:44 a.m. PST
Hau Nau Haunebau - DIY German Flying Saucer	5	29 Aug 2023 12:06 p.m. PST
Terrain making with Warlord's Ruined Hamlet	9	28 Aug 2023 8:13 a.m. PST
O scale buildings - adding sidewalks	2	18 Aug 2023 11:47 a.m. PST
Setting terrain on fire	6	16 Aug 2023 9:28 p.m. PST
28mm Scottish Bastle House project completed	3	16 Aug 2023 12:32 p.m. PST
Bastle House project, the Big House gets an interior	4	13 Aug 2023 9:33 a.m. PST
Japanese bunkers	7	12 Aug 2023 5:35 p.m. PST
Whydah Gally scratchbuild model, finished!	13	12 Aug 2023 3:08 p.m. PST
Three 15mm Late Medieval Houses	34	17 Jul 2023 8:14 a.m. PST
After Easter: Plastic Egg Sci-Fi Scatter Terrain	6	11 Jul 2023 7:59 a.m. PST
Whydah Gally tutorial pt 2	2	09 Jul 2023 9:50 a.m. PST
Scratchbuilding with foam core	9	26 Jun 2023 12:43 p.m. PST
Bastle-House project, Interior work begins!	2	25 Jun 2023 1:09 p.m. PST
Whydah Galley scratch-build cardboard model	6	20 Jun 2023 11:19 a.m. PST
Bastle House; Stone Cold Painting	7	16 Jun 2023 9:09 p.m. PST
Tech Bazaar Workshop	2	10 Jun 2023 1:56 p.m. PST
Bastle House Project, The Painting Begins!	4	04 Jun 2023 8:09 p.m. PST
Woodes Rogers' Ship Delicia	2	01 Jun 2023 10:47 a.m. PST
Bastle House Complex Build phase completed	2	31 May 2023 9:19 p.m. PST
Homes for the humble folk and a garret for the Great House	2	31 May 2023 11:07 a.m. PST
Smalled buildings inside the Barmkin	1	29 May 2023 8:42 p.m. PST
Scratchbuilding the Marianne and Sultana (Tutorial)	4	26 May 2023 5:10 a.m. PST
Adding details, The Bastle House gets gunports and windows	3	25 May 2023 9:52 p.m. PST
Building a Carrack for Never Mind The Boathooks	6	25 May 2023 9:14 a.m. PST
A Barmkin for the Bastle House	3	24 May 2023 1:19 p.m. PST
Of Stone and Shingle, the Bastle house gets a roof	2	22 May 2023 8:24 p.m. PST
28mm Scottish Bastle House from scratch	2	21 May 2023 9:11 a.m. PST
Painting my cardboard ships	9	17 May 2023 6:18 p.m. PST
Ruins from foam core	10	16 May 2023 5:10 p.m. PST
Fixing up roofs of MDF buildings	4	12 May 2023 8:20 p.m. PST
Couple New Tech Bazaar Machinery Pieces	5	10 May 2023 2:34 a.m. PST
Check Out My Ass	16	28 Apr 2023 1:49 p.m. PST
So SWMBO asks ...	12	19 Apr 2023 2:23 p.m. PST
update on birdhouse ship conversion project	9	18 Apr 2023 2:31 p.m. PST
Any ideas for using plastic eggs for a terrain build?	12	18 Apr 2023 9:28 a.m. PST
Fishing28 Update	3	15 Apr 2023 6:32 p.m. PST
Scratchbuilt 28mm Rickety Scaffolding	7	11 Apr 2023 1:26 p.m. PST
15mm 3d files	1	06 Apr 2023 3:53 p.m. PST
cardboard boats and ships	18	31 Mar 2023 4:38 a.m. PST
How Would Your Play ROLLERBALL (1975) With 15mm Figures?	35	13 Mar 2023 2:09 p.m. PST
2nd Ed 40k Terrain - Vibrant Alien Cactii	4	27 Feb 2023 5:47 p.m. PST
conversion project: a ship from a (ship-shaped) birdhouse	14	17 Feb 2023 6:04 a.m. PST
What a Pile of Junk	7	02 Feb 2023 1:40 p.m. PST
what should I build? A pile of scrap foamboard	8	30 Jan 2023 4:01 p.m. PST
Scratchbuild: Columbus Monument, Barcelona	3	13 Jan 2023 2:06 p.m. PST
The Great Hobby Retrospective 2022	2	09 Jan 2023 6:59 a.m. PST
More Tech Bazaar Machinery	6	06 Dec 2022 5:33 p.m. PST
Sci Fi Modular Longhouses	9	25 Nov 2022 4:35 a.m. PST