Book 2
Enemy of God
Excalibur
Roman Military Equipment, by Mike Bishop.
Weapons of the Romans, by Michael Feugere.
Roman Legionary, 58 BC - AD 69, by Ross Cowan
Roman Army Talk
Expert forum for the armies of Rome and her enemies
Butser Ancient farm
Iron Age demonstration farm
Bede's World
Anglo Saxon demonstration farm and museum
Regia Anglorum
Anglo Saxon and Viking Britain
DBLCHM - 1/72 Forum
Michigan Toy Soldier Co.
-My favorite 1/72 vendor
Linka World
-plaster molds for
1/72 buildings
Silfor Mini Nature
-fake grass and foliage
Viking Settlement
-1/72 paper buildings
Medieval Town
-1/72 paper buildings
Marakishi's Tea House
-cork tile building tutorials
Ultima VI Project a modern remake of the 1990 U6 (a work in progress)
Exult - play Ultima VII on your Mac or PC. (email me if you need any files!)


Three guys from the Late Roman Missile Troops box.
The above British noble is a slightly modified Hat Gothic Cavalryman. I added putty to the cloak edges for fur trim, and covered his knees to turn his odd shorts into full trousers. Hat has some armored Late Roman cavalrymen in the works, but it will be a while before they are available.
Have you seen the online short film, The Hunt of Gollum? It's brilliant. It was a fan-made piece, but obviously they have alot of funding and skill. I had trouble with the volume, but I solved that by listening with headphones.
I'm back from a camping trip into the Rocky Mountains. Fun stuff! Of course, it would have been more fun if I didn't have a cold the whole time (or was it really bad allergies?) Anyway, upon my return I was happy to find my mail box contained a small package from Mega Miniatures. Mostly I got a bunch of animals and skeletons, but I also ordered one of their new Orc Villagers.
I gave my Muster the Minis coeval project another try, and doubled the participants (previously, it was just me)! This time around my friend, Jasper, joined in. The theme was artillery. I painted the above models from Hat's 1/72 Late Roman Missile troops. This scorpion is almost the same model as appeared in their older Roman Catapults box. The new set offers a choice of pieces for the forward torsion frame. I glued on the open metal frame. The other option is the wooden box-like frame from the original Hat catapult. I based these guys on plastic slotta bases to give them greater presence on the table (compared to the thinner sheet styrene I've been using).
Page 24 of Ancient Warfare magazine's recent special issue on the Varian Disaster was meant to include my illustrated map. Unfortunately, a temporary sketch was accidentally printed in Duncan Campbell's "Secrets from the Soil" article. With the rush to get this issue out, I can understand how this rare error occurred. I would still like to share my work, so I have posted it here. What do you think? Duncan had the nice idea for the dagger compass. 

As I mentioned in a previous post, Hat's 1/72 Late Roman Heavy Infantry set is a bit smaller than their Medium Infantry. Their shield sizes also differ. I am including a heavy inf. swordsman in my Song of Arthur and Merlin Romano-British warband (in-progress). The rest of the figs are Hat's medium infantry models. To compensate for the size difference I trimmed the edge of the large shield, moved the boss to the left, stacked a piece of styrene under the little guy, and added a little green stuff to his wimpy hand. I'll post a picture of the full warband when it is complete (in a few days).