Xander's Wargaming Musings

From the left: HLBS, HLBS, GI, HLBS, GI Conversion, HLBS.  All Graven  Images figures were removed  from their internal bases, but general...

I recently got lucky on eBay, and managed to pick up a lot of second hand amera buildings, some of which had been a bit beaten about in thei...

Another 'diecast and 40mm' update - this time with a Russian model of a BTR 40 apc. Although the magazine the model comes with is a ...

I picked up a 1/43rd diecast Ural 4x4 truck from eBay.  No idea on the manufacturer (the box was all in Cyrillic!) At first I thought th...

My quest for compatible figures continues, although I may have found the motherload... Irregular miniatures do a wide range of 42mm figures,...

As promised - a size comparison between the Dust Tactics IS-48, the Kitech T-72 (same dimensions as their T-80 and T-90) and the Die-cast T-...

I have a strange love of the Soviet IS-3 (AKA JS-3) heavy tank. I don't know why, as despite being rushed out for the very very end of W...

More size comparisons tonight - this time a 1/43rd 'Russian diecast' UAZ (I think it came with a magazine originally) but lots of th...

A few people have mentioned this model over the last few years - it's a cheap diecast T55 tank, advertised as being 1/43rd (apparently c...

My quest for compatible figures continues - this time using the Dust Tactics 1/48th scale figures. I managed to pick up a single figure from...

Just a few snaps of some of the stuff floating around  my desk at the moment.  The models are (in no particular order) a RAFM USX drone, a k...

I have been looking for potential sources of additional figures to bolster my forces, such as the Dust figures or the Graven Images rang...

Just a very quick update, using an old post I discovered lurking in draft form - a size comparison for the Eureka Tyrolean Rebel figures, a...

Here's the latest work - It's a real hodge-podge of stuff, including the Elhiem tasters, and a couple that Rolf at Liberation ( htt...