Classic Story Book Witches 2016 updated in 2019

Bought these 4 classic 28mm Storybook Witches from West Wind's Vampire Wars range in October 2016.

Picture below is not my paint job, but it is sort of what I am aiming for.

Classic  Story Book Witches 
painted by Chal

These witches above were painted by Chal and are part of his collection.  You can see more about them on his blog Miniatures of Wrath

https://miniwrath.blogspot.com/search?q=witches
 
Thanks for the inspiration Chal, and the idea of using Payne's Grey (being a very dark bluish grey) as the base coat.  Read on to see how my witches turned out.

Planned 6mm D-Day game 6mm

For many years I have been planning to run a 6mm, 1/285 scale D-Day game featuring the Juno Beach landing.  Perhaps it was the D-Day diorama at the old Canadian War Museum (CWM) on Sussex Drive in Ottawa that first inspired me to do this as well as some Spearhead players in the UK and the U.S.   I have accumulated all the materials I require and just need to paint some additional resin defensive fortification by Leva Production and D-Day specific miniatures like DD tanks. 

D-Day beach, work in progress

Hopefully this will be the year I get it done, as 2019 is the 75th anniversary.   I have played D-day games in 15mm but I think 6mm gives me the ability to represent much more of the battle.

A List of Great War Spearhead First World War games I have played.

Great War Spearhead (GWSH) games by Shawn Taylor including an April 2017 Battle of Vimy Ridge 1/300 scale reproduction of the battlefield, by the author at the Canadian War Museum (CWM) and earlier games I ran.

GWSH in 6mm: Battle of Vimy Ridge
by Shawn Taylor at the CWM 2017

A list of some of the Second World War Micro Armor Games I have played since 2004.

  Second World War in 1/285 or 6mm scale (Micro Armor) was my primary game / genre from 1978 to 2007 originally using WRG rules and now using mainly Spearhead (SH) or Micro Armor the Game (MATG).  It was the genre for my annual Cangames game from the 1980s up to 2007.  It has now taken a back seat to some other games but is still in the mix of my top 10 games. Games below set in either North Africa, the Russian front or the Western Europe. 

Canadian advance under fire in 1944 in Normandy,  using SH 2012

Second World War in 15mm a Recap of previus games since 2007

  Second World War in 15mm which supplanted 6mm and 20mm in my geographic area as the most popular scale for this time period.  I have used  various rules including: Micro Armor the Game (MATG), Flames of War (FoW I, II or III), Battlefront (2017) or Battlegroup in 20mm (November 2018). I am planning to play in a 15mm Stalingrad campaign in early 2019.

Eastern Front game mid-war  Soviets  FoW 2007

The History of the Doctor Who Games I Have Run.

This  is a list  with pictures of most of the 28mm Doctor Who Games I have run using Doctor Who the Miniatures Game (DWMG) by Graeme Dawson, the first edition of which was published in 2006 and the second edition came out in late 2008. But first some background.

The first Doctor game I ever ran was in December of 2006 and with a different set of rules.  This  was the result of my old high school friend Lee visiting from Ireland in July of 2007 and kindly bringing me a copy of a set of rules entitled "Doctor Who Skirmish Wargames" he picked up in a shop in Ireland. He had no idea of the seed he had just planted!  The rule book had no author, date or publisher listed, a bit of a mystery.

My first set of  Doctor Who rules

These rules weren't very good and only really covered the 1970s but they inspired me to try a Doctor Who based miniature game as Doctor Who was one of my favourite TV Science Fiction shows that I had first started watching on TV Ontario (Public Television) in the 1970s beginning with the Third Doctor - Jon Pertwee.