Pics of new Xyston Spanish and casualties

Xyston have sent me a few samples of their latest releases - an ancient Spanish range and some Greek hoplite casualties. As usual the figures have the cleanly cast, angular look of Xyston's typical style, but in a new innovation (to me) some of the Spanish have been cast with separate arms to allow greater variety in sword poses

The figures are not as huge as some Xyston ranges - maybe a concession to compatibility with other ranges, but the Spanish would still struggle to mix well with Corvus Belli's market-leading set.

It will be interesting to see if the casualty figures are a one-off, or whether Xyston will be building a range to compete with Donningtons large range of dead guys - but starting with hoplites must be a good idea, as I;ve always found that protected spearmen get disrupted very easily!

Cheap FoG & WAB Books, Warlord Games Plastic Figures

Iain Hicken has closed his UK wargames business, The Hobbybox

Badcon Match 4 -The End !

The 4th and final match from Badcon 2010 finally makes it to the site. See Al'Shearers comment on his Fatimids vs the Early Hungarians.

Badcon Match 3

Match 3 in the Badcon series now posted as the Fatimid Egyptians take on the Scots Irish

Legio Heroica Pics

The Arab and Crusader ranges from Legio Heroica have now all been added to the Ancients Photo Gallery, and the 2nd match report from Badcon is now also posted

Legio Heroica

The Feudal and Swiss ranges from Legio Heroica have been added to the Ancients Photo Gallery - their Crusades ranges will be added soon. They also have a "sale" on until 10th March, with up to 10 Euro's worth of free postage on all their ranges - enough to get you free postage for most orders across most of Europe.

 

Varnish

New Auction listing now added to the site for Matt Varnish and Army Painter Quickshade. Not that exciting really, unless you want to buy some matt varnish.

First Video Report From Badcon

First match report from Badcon now posted. Includes the Al Shearer Infantry making an appearance.

Lists from badcon now on the site

900AP FoG lists from Badcon 2010 now on the site including Early Hungarian, Feudal Aragonese, Scots Isles & Highlands, Nikephorians and our own Fatimid Egyptians.

New Mirliton Swiss in the Photo Gallery

New photos of recently painted 15mm Swiss now on display

Match Reports from Usk 2010

See James Mason, The Emperor of Korea, take on all comers in full Technicolour, With new Battle Chronicler maps as well !

Come and get some !!

Army Lists from Usk now published

Lists for Koryo Korean , Indo Skythian, , Rajputs and Zhou Chinese now in the Wiki.

Belgrade Army Museum

A handful of photos from Belgrade now make their way into the Museums Photo Gallery. They have been lurking elsewhere on the site before, but the should now be more accessible - ideal for fans of obscure WW2 armour!

DBM Lists pages back up and running

Having been inaccessible for ages, I've sorted out the problem with all the the DBM Army Lists - they are now accessible again.

Fire & Sword Miniatures

New Polish manufacturer of nice-looking Crimean Tatars and Cossack (as well as Renaissance Polish and Ottomans) now added to the 15mm Suppliers Directory

Mick Yarrow Miniatures

Pictures from Mick Yarrow Miniatures ranges now added to the 15mm Suppliers Directory and the 15mm Photo Gallery (with the permission of Mick!).  If you are a manufacturer and would like me to copy your photos (and link back to your site from each one!) just let me know via the email link above..!

Warlord Games 28mm Plastics

28mm firelock man. Experimental paint job. Photo taken on, and uploaded from my new camera phone. Whaddya reckon ? If you are American, you can always read..Essential Histories 58: The English Civil Wars 1642-1651

Hannibal wishes you all Happy Christmas

..although of course, he would have cooked the turkey far better than you managed to do..

(the site webstats say nearly 500 page views today so far as well!)

It's Nearly Over!

The epic struggle to buy all 7,657 FoG Army List Supplements is nearly over, with just one more book to be released in early January. Before you realise how much you spent over Christmas make sure to get in an early order and finish your FoG epic quest with The Lost Scrolls...
Lost Scrolls: Amazon US

PBI Battle Reports / Photos

Some great WW2 photos - battle reports are a bit sketchy, as PBI is often so fast paced, and also I didn't want to spoil the photos as some are really quite nice!

Match Reports from Warfare

Late Republican Romans in action in my Warfare Match Reports - now all posted, with lots of pretty good quality pics too.

Thanks for Visiting Madaxeman.com!

This site has had 93,910 individual visitors in the past 12 months according to monitoring from Google Analytics, who made 534,745 individual page views, and stayed on the site for an average of 5 minutes, 33 seconds. Nearly 1/3 of you have been here once a month over the last year.

The Wiki is the most popular section, closely followed by the 15mm & 10mm Galleries and Match Reports - but the 15mm Suppliers Page has been accessed over 16,000 times in the last year !!

Wow!

Thanks for visiting....

6mm auction listings added

UK  and US  6mm eBay auction listings now added. If there is a category you'd like to be able to access on this site, just drop me a mail with your requests!

Kennington added to the 15mm Suppliers Directory

Kennington have a range of 38 Ming, Yuan and Mongol figures in 15mm, sold by SHQ Miniatures. The range includes wheelbarrow-mounted artillery! They are now listed in the 15mm Suppliers Directory.

(Armoured Hand-lanched Rocketeers)

Mine and my opponents list from Warfare Posted

Lists for Gallic, Later Seleucid,, Early Sarmatian and Late Republican Roman (mine and my opponent's) now all in the Wiki.

(Old Glory LRR Legionaries)

Camelot Games figures now in the Photo Directory

I've added some photos of figures from Camelot Games to the 15mm photo directory. I'm not entirely sure if they are still selling them as they have a brand new website which goes beyond my limited ability to translate Italian via Google, but they are nice figures. Fighting 15s sell them in the UK. The pics are also a good illustration of the transformative power of Windsor & Newton Peat Brown Ink on a basic paint job!
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Christmas Shopping

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Roll Call Reports now published

See the Free Company army in action, and get Hannibals views on Medieval Combat:

Portbury Tomorrow

Off to Portbury Knights tomorrow for another Peter Pig's PBI WW2 competition.

Comedy Russians will be in action complete with the bonkers T35 !!

Tillamook Air Museum

Another trawl through the photo archive throws up this odd collection of aircraft... and in a place named after cheese as well ! Tillamook is also allegedly the worlds largest wooden building.