A Tale of Ratspike: A few original John Blanche painted miniatures.

One of the great things about working in the wargames industry in Nottingham is that occasionally you get to see some really cool and rare stuff. In this case, today's was a collection of miniatures painted by the late and dearly missed John Blanche, some of which were actually featured in the Ratspike book. I was asked to bring in my copy so we could work out which ones were in there! 

 More photos after the cut! 

The SS Sirius, a 28mm scale ww2 Merchant Cargo Hauler

In my never ending quest to only print the largest and most pointless things, I'm finally calling this done! 

It's the SS Sirius, a civilian Cargo hauler that's been comandeered by the Handelsflotte, the German Merchant Navy for use in the Mediterranean. 

More photos after the cut!

GW's Weirdest Ever Release - Calamity!

 Here's an interesting one for you, what I consider to be Games Workshop's absolute weirdest release ever, a board game called Calamity! (with the exclamation mark!) 

Not only was it a game based in the world of insurance, it was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and also contained multiple suicidal insurance brokers on the front!

More info after the cut....

A quick 2025 Review.

 It seems like a bunch of other people are doing this, so thought I'd copy their lead, mostly to reassure myself I did actually get some hobby stuff done this year, as tbh, it's not felt very productive. 

As you'll know if you follow my blog, I kind of stopped posting for a couple of years, a combination of hobby burnout, not feeling enthused about posting, and tbh wondering if the blog format was still worthwhile anymore, but I came back in March and decided to make a bit more of an effort. 

This big guy was probably the catalyst for all that, as I really enjoyed printing, assembling and painting him:

Anyway, if you want to see more, then take a look after the break...