About Us

Back in the mid-1970s there was a little model and hobby shop in the town where I lived. Most of what it sold was Hornby trains, but tucked away on the counter was a cardboard box filled with 1:300 scale lead tanks. I spent what was left of my pocket money and bought the lot, then took them home.

With that and a copy of Grant’s Practical Wargaming, I was hooked.

At the time Games Workshop sold a wide range of products from all sorts of suppliers, and you could even buy miniatures from the Virgin Megastore in Birmingham. How times have changed.

I soon moved on to Airfix plastic figures and started picking up Avalon Hill boxed games, joining a local club in Stourbridge and causing havoc on a Friday night. One week it might be roleplaying or Squad Leader, the next 1:300 scale ultramoderns or 20mm WW2.

It was during those years that I began tinkering with rules of my own. Nothing ever saw official publication, but plenty of in-house rulesets came together over the long summer holidays and led to some brilliant games.

Then home computers arrived and gaming shifted from the tabletop into the digital world. A lack of space meant I drifted away from the hobby for a while, though I still found time for the odd bit of painting and modelling.

Fast forward to 2011 and, after helping to co-found our local wargaming club, I was fully back into the swing of it.

I’ve been gaming, constructing and painting ever since.

It’s been fascinating to see the hobby change over the years, but at its heart it remains a community of dedicated people who love to create, to play, and to roll dice.

So let’s keep gaming!

Si