Monday, January 31, 2022

Bible Bashing

FOR quite some time I have been pondering a biblical wargaming project on rather an ambitious scale.
To that end I paid a visit to Hannants' store in Colindale, North London, and bought a box of Ancient Egyptian Infantry by Zvezda.
The box

The contents
It led to my first time in many years painting 20mm plastic figures, and I felt I was getting on quite well.
Coming along nicely
But it became increasingly clear I was going to have problems sourcing many of the figures I needed, and at the back of my mind was always the fact I have limited space to field wargames armies.
So I have started again, this time ordering a goodly selection of 10mm metal Egyptians from Magister Militum.
My latest recruits

Thursday, January 06, 2022

Recent Reading

I HAVE, to say the least, neglected this blog lately, but below is a photo of some of my recent reading materials, including re-reading classic works of Herodotus and Xenophon.
Classics old and new
I had forgotten how great a read Xenophon in particular is, but then Simon Elliott's Old Testament Warriors is also riveting stuff.