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"Epic" Pike and Shotte for One Hour Wargames	9	27 Mar 2024 3:56 p.m. PST
The appearance of Covenanters	16	19 Mar 2024 1:23 a.m. PST
French Gendarmes for the Italian Wars	7	18 Nov 2023 10:50 p.m. PST
Thirty Years War - Saxon "uniforms" color?	6	04 Oct 2023 7:37 a.m. PST
How I Painted my Landsknechts	9	14 Sep 2023 4:19 a.m. PST
King Philip's War 28mm figures - what's the look?	16	19 Jul 2023 6:24 a.m. PST
Where to start wargaming pike and shotte Epically	9	16 Mar 2023 7:54 a.m. PST
First thoughts on painting Warlord P&S Epic	20	08 Mar 2023 10:45 a.m. PST
Guide to Livery at the Battle of Bosworth	6	07 Dec 2022 2:55 a.m. PST
Russeted armour	6	08 Nov 2022 3:27 a.m. PST
Cuirassiers with blackened armour	11	24 Oct 2022 6:20 p.m. PST
Source for 28mm Transylvanian/Croat Flags	8	18 Aug 2022 4:19 a.m. PST
Flags for TYW Croats	3	05 Aug 2022 12:16 p.m. PST
French and Spanish Flags	2	04 Jun 2022 6:00 a.m. PST
Uniform guides for the Austro-Turkish War 1663-1664	4	13 May 2022 1:03 a.m. PST
Painting Yellows How To	8	12 Apr 2022 7:49 a.m. PST
Painting plastic Fire and Sword horses	4	17 Dec 2021 3:24 a.m. PST
Gonzalo Cordoba, Coat of Arms for Cerignola 1503 Campaign?	10	18 Oct 2021 1:07 p.m. PST
Pike and Shotte Command WIP #1	5	23 Sep 2021 1:22 p.m. PST
Tupi Warpaint	3	05 Sep 2021 3:50 p.m. PST
Mesoamericans and Spanish by HeresyBrush 15mm	8	25 Jul 2021 4:49 a.m. PST
Speedpainting two 15mm League of Augsburg Armies In 2x24 hrs	6	23 May 2021 1:39 a.m. PST
Landsknecht Hand Gunners	7	27 Apr 2021 12:18 p.m. PST
Keep a Journal!	25	20 Apr 2021 11:10 p.m. PST
Landsknechts Outfits 1545-1570	6	01 Mar 2021 6:47 a.m. PST
Standard-Bearer of the Zaporozhian Host	6	13 Jan 2021 11:54 a.m. PST
Renaissance Spanish...	5	10 Jan 2021 3:47 p.m. PST
Bernese Standard Bearer	3	30 Dec 2020 12:11 p.m. PST
How do paint landsknechts ?	19	21 Dec 2020 10:50 p.m. PST
Samurai Banners	2	17 Dec 2020 5:15 a.m. PST
French commanders at Pavia	8	06 Dec 2020 7:39 a.m. PST
Painting Poles and Cossacks for the Deluge	31	05 Oct 2020 10:43 a.m. PST
Band of Brothers. Old Swiss Confederacy	2	19 Jun 2020 11:58 a.m. PST
30YW Swedish gun carriage color?	2	27 Apr 2020 1:51 a.m. PST
Bethlen Gabor's TYW Transylvanians - Painting Tips?	9	02 Apr 2020 2:06 a.m. PST
Swedish NCO Uniforms - Scanian War	1	28 Mar 2020 11:17 a.m. PST
Milanese pike block	1	01 Mar 2020 3:52 p.m. PST
Painting Perry Miniatures Men at Arms- Step by Step	9	06 Feb 2020 4:06 p.m. PST
War Of The Roses Artillery Piece	3	04 Feb 2020 2:35 p.m. PST
Citadel Contrast Paint System, good for Historicals?	16	28 Jan 2020 2:31 a.m. PST
Elizabethan English standards	9	14 Jan 2020 3:48 a.m. PST
WSS query - uniforms/flags	21	26 Dec 2019 9:24 p.m. PST
Rajput & Mughal Indian images	3	04 Nov 2019 11:00 a.m. PST
How to paint Italian Wars artillery (1494-1559)	3	14 Oct 2019 11:28 a.m. PST
Standards, Banners and Liveries at the Battle of Ravenna	19	14 Oct 2019 3:46 a.m. PST
Como pintar artillería de las Guerras de Italia (1494-1559)	3	14 Sep 2019 9:42 p.m. PST
Eureka Minatures Italian Duelists	14	10 Sep 2019 4:52 p.m. PST
Aztecs, Mayas and Spanish	8	04 Sep 2019 3:31 p.m. PST
28mm Landesknechts with (gasp!) Contrast Paints!	4	08 Aug 2019 7:09 p.m. PST
English Civil war uniforms	7	04 Aug 2019 7:35 a.m. PST
Turk and Malta Galleys	10	24 Jun 2019 9:14 a.m. PST
Easiest glue to work with attaching 15mm weapons to figures?	9	30 Apr 2019 8:22 a.m. PST
Pueblos army vs Conquistadores	3	27 Apr 2019 7:23 a.m. PST
Best way to paint Irish Saffron tunics in 15mm?	5	10 Apr 2019 10:50 a.m. PST
New Model Army Red	5	28 Mar 2019 2:47 p.m. PST
Color of medieval plaster?	16	09 Mar 2019 5:54 a.m. PST
Painting Covenanter Horse - Advice	11	22 Jan 2019 1:06 a.m. PST
Painting Italian Renaissance Gendarmes?	13	16 Jan 2019 9:28 a.m. PST
Elizabethan Irish Project so far.	5	06 Dec 2018 10:26 a.m. PST
Freehand Painting a War Elephant from Burmese-Siamese	6	20 Nov 2018 1:00 p.m. PST
Great Italian Wars Question- Italian Infantry	20	01 Nov 2018 2:02 p.m. PST
Louis XIV uniform ribbons	2	30 Oct 2018 2:23 p.m. PST
Mark Allen's articles on TYW dress in Wargames Illustrated	7	24 Oct 2018 4:54 p.m. PST
Let the Waaaagh begin....	7	24 Oct 2018 11:34 a.m. PST
C in C colours/standard Ireland	1	24 Oct 2018 6:56 a.m. PST
Bill Boyle MWAN TYW Uniforms article question	3	15 Oct 2018 9:52 a.m. PST
Late 19th century Spanish Tericos	2	06 Oct 2018 8:04 a.m. PST
Painting Swedish Troops	6	12 Sep 2018 5:06 p.m. PST
Covenanter dragoons	7	23 Aug 2018 9:56 a.m. PST
Inca army illustrations	5	01 Jul 2018 9:33 p.m. PST
Button Colors and Grenadier Cap Plates 1690's	6	15 May 2018 10:45 a.m. PST
New Model Army artillery uniforms	7	11 Apr 2018 9:49 a.m. PST
Scania War (1675-79) Danish grenadier cap badge	8	24 Mar 2018 1:37 p.m. PST
Scottish Pike Blocks 1500-1554	5	24 Mar 2018 10:35 a.m. PST
Hodden grey	10	21 Mar 2018 7:21 p.m. PST
German Reiter Headgear???	11	18 Mar 2018 9:13 p.m. PST
Set of reenactment photos of Hungarians 1632	4	03 Feb 2018 4:39 p.m. PST
Streltsi Officer's Uniform	1	30 Jan 2018 10:27 a.m. PST
1605 Swedish flags	2	09 Dec 2017 5:50 p.m. PST
What did Renaissance-era military horses look like?	3	14 Oct 2017 7:49 p.m. PST
15mm Italian knights helms	5	13 Oct 2017 3:57 a.m. PST
french wars of religion Catholic info	20	20 Sep 2017 5:13 a.m. PST
Saxons at Vienna 1683	1	25 Aug 2017 12:09 p.m. PST
French Aventuriers possible illustration	3	23 Jun 2017 2:23 a.m. PST
On-line sources for troops of Cologne and Salzburg c.1690?	10	13 Jun 2017 9:56 a.m. PST
Uniforms of Tangiers Garrison	6	17 May 2017 11:11 a.m. PST
Ottoman uniforms (?)	9	15 Mar 2017 11:30 p.m. PST
Black hat 15mm spanish Imp	3	15 Mar 2017 6:07 a.m. PST
Painted pike shafts	23	12 Mar 2017 3:46 a.m. PST
Triumph of Death: Skeleton Regiment WIP	7	09 Mar 2017 8:58 p.m. PST
A Few TYW Catholic League Army Questions	11	07 Feb 2017 10:34 a.m. PST
Deluge Swedish painting guide ?	2	04 Feb 2017 3:07 p.m. PST
Landsknecht Pike: Adventures in multibasing	13	31 Jan 2017 9:46 p.m. PST
LOA French cavalry uniforms	6	26 Jan 2017 5:28 a.m. PST
Triumph of Death "Late German" First castings	15	16 Jan 2017 4:25 p.m. PST
Matt varnish drying glossy - cure?	37	29 Dec 2016 5:08 p.m. PST
Italian Wars Mounted Crossbowmen	5	21 Nov 2016 9:05 p.m. PST
New Italian Wars Blog	13	15 Nov 2016 8:50 a.m. PST
Colour of Swedish gun carriages c.1630?	8	31 Oct 2016 3:52 p.m. PST
Transylvanian TYW Flag	6	30 Sep 2016 8:13 a.m. PST