Command Base

The life and times of a wargamer

Where to buy from

Bad Squidoo Games
Crann Tara Miniatures
Footsore Miniatures
Front Rank Figurines
Gripping Beast Miniatures
Newine Designs
Perry Miniatures
Rosemary and Co
Wargames Foundry
Warlord Games
WWScenics

Wednesday, 24 December 2014

Nadolig Llawen (Happy Christmas)

Just a quick post to wish everyone a Happy Christmas.

Posted by Meic at 21:36

Email This BlogThis!Share to X Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest

No comments:

Translate

Welcome

Welcome and thank you for taking the time to look at my blog. I hope you find something of interest, and if you like what you see please visit again...

Please see below the Header for links to quality manufacturer's of miniature figurines and artists brushes.

Followers

Subscribe To

Posts

Atom

Posts

Comments

Atom

Comments

Blog History

► 2024 (4)
- ► November (2)
- ► October (1)
- ► June (1)

► 2023 (10)
- ► October (1)
- ► September (1)
- ► July (2)
- ► May (1)
- ► April (1)
- ► March (1)
- ► February (2)
- ► January (1)

► 2022 (38)
- ► December (1)
- ► November (2)
- ► October (3)
- ► September (2)
- ► August (3)
- ► July (6)
- ► June (5)
- ► May (11)
- ► April (5)

► 2020 (7)
- ► October (1)
- ► September (1)
- ► August (2)
- ► March (3)

► 2019 (3)
- ► December (1)
- ► July (2)

► 2018 (13)
- ► August (1)
- ► May (2)
- ► March (5)
- ► February (2)
- ► January (3)

► 2017 (67)
- ► December (2)
- ► November (4)
- ► October (3)
- ► September (7)
- ► August (6)
- ► July (7)
- ► June (8)
- ► May (6)
- ► April (9)
- ► March (7)
- ► February (3)
- ► January (5)

► 2016 (100)
- ► December (21)
- ► November (14)
- ► October (2)
- ► September (1)
- ► August (7)
- ► July (8)
- ► June (4)
- ► May (9)
- ► April (14)
- ► March (5)
- ► February (6)
- ► January (9)

► 2015 (80)
- ► December (14)
- ► November (5)
- ► October (12)
- ► September (5)
- ► August (3)
- ► July (7)
- ► June (5)
- ► May (5)
- ► April (11)
- ► March (3)
- ► February (2)
- ► January (8)

▼ 2014 (32)
- ▼ December (9)
- ► November (6)
- ► October (15)
- ► September (2)

Labels

'45 Rebellion (1)
1066 Saxons (1)
10mm (2)
15mm (5)
15th Century (4)
17th Century (17)
1864 Danes (5)
1866 Prussians (12)
1866 Austrians (7)
1866 Bavarians (2)
18th Century (80)
19th Century (60)
20th Century (7)
6mm (3)
ACW (9)
All Quiet on the Martian Front (4)
Americas (1)
Ancient British (1)
Ancient Spanish (1)
Ancients (50)
Anglo-Zulu (9)
AWI (32)
Basing (1)
Bob Marrion Originals (9)
Bronze Age (18)
Casualty Markers (2)
Colonial (1)
Command Base (11)
Crimean War (4)
DBA (1)
Dux Bellorum (2)
Dux Britanniarum (2)
Early Achaemenid Persians (16)
Early Saxon (1)
ECW (15)
Fantasy (15)
FIW (5)
Flint and Feather (2)
Gallery - Sea Peoples (1)
Game Moments (1)
Gates of Antares (5)
Great Northern War (1)
Hobby (26)
Hoplite Greeks (4)
Hundred Years War (2)
Huns (1)
Late Republican Romans (4)
Late Roman (1)
Memoriam (3)
Mongols (1)
Mortal Gods (3)
Mortal Gods Mythic (2)
Mycenaean (7)
Napleonic British (1)
Napoleonic French (1)
Napoleonic Portuguese (1)
Napoleonic Spanish (7)
New Kingdom Egyptian (3)
Old West (1)
Post Roman Britain (2)
SAGA (9)
SAGA Magic (1)
Samurai (1)
Sci-fi (1)
Sea Peoples (8)
Seven Years War (1)
Seven Years War Austrians (2)
Seven Years War Prussians (4)
Seven Years War Russians (3)
Sharp Practice (1)
Sikh Wars (5)
Steam Punk (1)
Successors (15)
Terrain (21)
Test of Honour (1)
Wargames Shows (20)
Wars of the Roses (4)
WSS British (10)
WSS French (17)
WSS Prussians (9)
WWII American (3)
WWII German (6)

About Me

Meic: Meic a wargamer, painter, collector of rules, father of two and Mental Health Nurse. Background in Archaeology and History.

View my complete profile

2023 Painting Projects

28mm Mycenaean - In progress 28mm New Kingdom Egyptian - In progress 28mm Mortal Gods - In progress 28mm Mortal Gods Mythic - In progress 15mm Huns/Franks/Goths/Late Romans - In progress 15mm Italian Wars - In progress 15mm Hundred Years War - In progress

Places I like to visit

Wars of Louis Quatorze

Khurasan Miniatures news - GOODBYE EU CUSTOMERS If you’re in the EU and you want Khurasan Miniatures, you need to order in the next two weeks! Your laws have changed placing more...
5 hours ago
Don't Throw a 1

Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge XV - Do you wanna join in? - Its Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge time once again If you fancy joining in the fun, get on over to Curt's blog here and sign yourself up. The Bas...
10 hours ago
Toy Soldiers and Dining Room Battles

Canadian Militia (Coureur de Bois) from Northstar Miniatures - *Canadian Militia from Northstar Miniatures.* *My latest unit for the French and Indian War using the rules Rebels and Patriots. For my French Force th...
20 hours ago
Carryings On Up The Dale

The Winter War 1939 - exciting new movie - This looks like it’ll be an excellent piece of source material for when I get my Winter War Finns and Soviets on the table next. https://youtu.be/bbmpWf...
1 day ago
Sgt Steiner's Wargaming Blog

A bit of Rapid Fire Reloaded and some solo Combat Commander - Game at Stephens today using Rapid Fire Reloaded and the OP Epsom scenario he set up a couple of weeks ago. We only managed a few turns due to discussing...
1 day ago
Jim's Wargames Workbench

Sea Wars Fleet Actions - I've been hunting for a copy of these rules for years, as they are out of print and usually quite over priced, but I've tracked down a copy in good nick ...
1 day ago
You do not know the North

Sudan Progress-TMWWBK - Things proceed apace. Mike Snook’s Book has arrived. I’ve not read it yet but I have paid attention to the pictures. All very helpful. I wanted to ...
1 day ago
Der Alte Fritz Journal

Roman Quincunx - Roman 54mm Project Update *Three 54mm Roman legions formed up in the Quincunx formation* I have been busy basing a lot of the 54mm Punic Wars figures tha...
1 day ago
Musings on Wargaming and Life

Even more battles. - I have just recieved my 1/72 Stuka so this weekend I will build and paint it, I am still waiting for a few things to turn up which were ordered weeks ago...
2 days ago
Palouse Wargaming Journal

Mikata Ga Hara #3 w/Player Commentary! - Game #3 in the Mikata Ga Hara series took place ten days ago in a two-player game between Mark (*Blood Mud and Steel*) and Tony (*Prometheus in Aspic*). ...
2 days ago
My Wargaming Habit

Are Command and Control Mechanisms Really Needed In Wargames? - I was listening to a podcast on the *Yarkshire Gamers Reet Big Wargames Podcast* where George Nafziger was being interviewed. I found it a very interest...
3 days ago
The League of Augsburg

BLACK FRIDAY BOOK DEAL! - For the 72 hours between 28th November and 30th November, the *WARFARE MINIATURES BLACK FRIDAY BOOK DEAL* will allow you to get any or all of our hardbac...
3 days ago
Just Add Water

We Went a Wee Bit Mad OR We Played a 24000pts a Side; Seleucid vs Republican Roman WAB Game! Part 2 - *Image Above- the Seleucid Extreme Left Flank.* Week two brings us to Part 2 of our Republican Roman vs Seleucid game carried on from last week. As the ga...
3 days ago
ALY'S TOY SOLDIERS

Shiny Napoleonics… The Wellington Way. - Greetings… Here we have a Prussian gun and crew painted in the ‘Wellington Way’. One of my biggest influences when I started my Shiny Napoleonics collect...
4 days ago
Tarleton's Quarter

Gaslands (1) - And now for something completely different..."Gaslands Refuelled" is an Osprey game that I've been playing with the boys. "The game of vehicular mayhem...
4 days ago
Iron Mitten

Warfare 2024 Game - Just recovering from a long weekend spent at Warfare 2024 playing 'A Rum Do'. This was Prince Rupert's Gaming club's participation game and was this time...
4 days ago
Wee Painted Men - Wargaming with Miniatures

Hoplites - a wall of shields and spears! - My commission work this year has included a large number of hoplites by Crusader Miniatures. These were painted in stages I’m pleased to say - not all at...
5 days ago
Will's Wargames Blog

La Garde au feu part 2 - Well, my painting out put maybe slow, but I have tried to get on with the 3D printing while the warm weather lasted and it seems to have come to an end. Th...
5 days ago
Pijlie´s Wargames Blog

Tercios in Warlords' Pike & Shotte - I have played Warlord's Pike & Shotte rules lots of times. But the way the interaction of the pike and shotte units is handled by the rules always see...
5 days ago
Bucellarii

Command and Colors Medieval Crusades Game - Nicaea 1097 - Command and Colors Medieval Crusades Original CCM board game and rules Nicaea 1097 scenario Seljuks win easily 5-2 Victory Banners Yesterday I re...
5 days ago
Lace Wars in Tin

SYW Moulds Offer - Just in case anyone not on the PA mailing list is interested there is an offer on the SYW moulds ending on 19th Nov.
1 week ago
GA PA Great Northern War Gaming & Other Projects

Partizan Game 1920 Assault on Urga - It has taken me a couple of weeks to get the game report from Partizan together thank s for bearing with me. Today we put on our 1920 Assault on Urga gam...
1 week ago
Dust, Tears & Dice

Chechnya - New Xenos Rampant Vehicle Damage rules. - Having painted up a number of in fills an excuse to give them a first outing. The additional Russian and Chechen support units will come in handy and wi...
1 week ago
Madaxeman.com Updates

Roman Cavalry (not quite a choir!) - Chris Martin may have sung about Roman Cavalry Choirs singing, but in most sets of wargaming rules the Roman Cavalry are, well, a bit "*out of tune*" wi...
1 week ago
A Military Gentleman

Back to New Spain - The British artillery have destroyed the Spanish cannon to the rear of the coastal fort allowing their infantry to advance. This is a most enjoyable small a...
1 week ago
Yarkshire Gamer

Yarkshire Gamer Podcast - Episode 62 - Trevor Dixon - Dixon Miniatures - Welcome back everyone to Episode 63 of the Yarkshire Gamers Reet Big Wargames Podcast and today I've got off my backside and driven down t'road to Hon...
2 weeks ago
1866 and all that

A Bit of Scenery Work - Stew is going to be disappointed with me. In an exchange of comments of an earlier post I said that in my next batch of terrain tiles I was going to make s...
2 weeks ago
Campaigns of General William Augustus Pettygree

POWDER RIVER, A PETTYGREE WESTERN ACT 1 - Recently a thrilling adventure featuring profound dilemmas, cruelty and heroism came to my attention. Thinking you will find its dramatic intensity ente...
2 weeks ago
Scrivsland

Prussian reinforcements (1) - Fresh from the inspiration of last weeks game I've been working on some more Prussians for the 6mm Napoleonic collection. All the miniatures are from ...
3 weeks ago
Not just old school wargaming

Cotswold Wargames Day 2024 , thriving in Cirencester - Another year passes and we are indebted to Keith Flint for leading a South-central England/ West Country eclectic wargaming community to hold another day ...
3 weeks ago
Saxon Dog

Seven Years War at Partizan - Sorry for the lack of posts this last few weeks! I have been very busy getting the, Seven Years War, demonstration game ready for the 2nd Partizan show ...
5 weeks ago
Miniature Minions

1er Régiment de Chevau-Légers Lancier de la Garde impériale (Polonais) - At long last I give you the... 1er Régiment de Chevau-Légers Lancier de la Garde Impériale (Polonais). The official start date for the painting on these w...
5 weeks ago
BigRedBatCave

"Lust for Glory" at Colours - Here are a few shots of the first test game of the "horse and musket" rules I've been working on, tentatively named "Lust for Glory." This was the fir...
2 months ago
Pushing Tin

A Rollicking good time at Rolica - It's been a while since we've pushed some tin around, yesterday the stars finally aligned and we were able to get something on the table, trying out m...
2 months ago
Band of Wargame Brothers

French Ordonnance vs Maximilian Imperials - I've been lucky to get four or five games in over the last few months and this might be the last one for a while- so it was gonna be a good one.Ross's ear...
2 months ago
Roundwood's World

"When the Last Sword is Drawn": Bringing a game idea to life - ******** "*Something terrible has happened at the small mountain monastery of Ikoto. The monastery is under the protection of the House of Akiyama, and i...
3 months ago
Small Italian Wars

4 KSLI Carrier Platoon Part 2 - Of course I also needed a dismounted version of the carrier platoon. In 'O' Group this is represented as three infantry sections, the same as a normal ri...
3 months ago
Shed Wars

Battle of Chaeronea (338BC) - A 28mm Wargame - Afternoon All Following my last post which focussed on my completed Macedonian/Successor army (HERE) , it was about time that this force saw some action...
3 months ago
Bunker Hill

ACW Command Stands - Finally got around to adding some command stands for my ACW armies although to be honest I've had these done for a few weeks already. Although I haven...
4 months ago
Association - Les Riflemen

VAE VICTIS! - *VAE VICTIS!* *SALVE!* *Quelques photos de notre dernière partie antique, * *Malheur aux vaincus dans ce IIIème siècle tourmenté et propice aux combat...
5 months ago
Wargaming Girl

Salute 2024 - The Games (Lots..and lots...and lots of pics) - As promised yesterday, here are the photos I took of all* the games. * I may have missed some I will apologise in advance for the quality of some of the ...
7 months ago
Stuart Insch Wargames

A Sad Update - Hello Everybody, It's Stuart's son here. I'm very sorry to let you all know that Dad passed away yesterday, in the hospital with my mum beside him. He...
8 months ago
Legatus' Wargames Armies

A slightly disappointing vist to Salute... - I was very excited to go to Salute again today as the last one I attended was, thanks to the Chinese, four years ago. I hadn't even been on the London ...
1 year ago
Wargaming with Silver Whistle

QUATRE BRAS in 28mm - Well, you may think I have been quiet on the hobby front with no posts on this blog for over 9 months but you would be wrong. I have been busy working ...
1 year ago
The Anderson Collection

Aztecs - The book Eagle Knight warriors Conquistadors All painted by DJ These figures are a cross over from the Malta collection. Still a fair bit of this to see.
2 years ago
Crann Tara Miniatures

CRANN TARA MINIATURES HAS A NEW OWNER - You will all be aware from previous comments that the success of Crann Tara has brought with it it's own problems for me, mainly the increasing demands ...
3 years ago
Project Auldearn 1645

Wargaming Montrose's Campaign (1644-45) - Montrose’s 1644-45 campaign offers plenty of scope for the war-gamer. The numbers in the forces involved are fairly small, the battles varied in scope and ...
4 years ago
Henry's Wargaming

Sittangbad and Mollwitz for Partizan In The Cloud - Today would have been the Partizan show at Newark Showground. But of course, whilst we are in lockdown and social distancing conditions due to the Coronavi...
4 years ago
Black Powder Games

Eagles of Empire Miniatures wishes you all a Happy New Year! - *A sneak peak at what's to come in 2018Zouaves and Turcos* Dear fellow wargamers and Franco-Prussian enthusiasts, as 2017 is fast coming to an end, it’s...
6 years ago
Bronze 'n steel (Big battle DBA & HOTT 28mm)

Knights of the Cleansing Flame - *The Story of the Cleansing Flame* From the ashes of the old are born the new, and the fire shall have cleansed them, and they shall be free of evil.' Chron...
7 years ago
Fuerte el Diablo

The demo game at Partizan 2016 - My thanks to Jack Glanville for helping me with the game at the show. We had a great day and I was pleased with the games first outing as a collection.
8 years ago
Mud Blood And Steel

-

Show 10 Show All

Guests

Total Pageviews

Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.

Where to buy from

Wednesday, 24 December 2014

Nadolig Llawen (Happy Christmas)

No comments:

Post a Comment

Total Pageviews