Happy Independence Day

A Very Merry Christmas

A Very Merry Christmas


May All Your Wars
Be In Miniature And
All Your Battles End
In Camaraderie And
A Hearty Hand Shake.

Pirates! - Abney Park - Airship Pirate

Why Do We Celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day and Other Fake Holidays?

Got plans for September 19, 2019? You do now: It's International Talk Like a Pirate Day! So prepare your timbers to be shivered and wait… what? Is this seriously a holiday? What is this all about? And why, exactly, is there a formal holiday for not just pirates but for talking like pirates? You have questions. We have (weird) answers.

Talk Like A Pirate

No Longer All Quiet on the Martian Front! Interview with David Pearce

FUBAR Wargames

The FUBAR Wargames blog is dedicated to publishing free, simple, brief and clear rules for wargames.

Many of the sets featured here are the products of a collaboration between Craig Cartmell and a group of stalwart and imaginative wargamers who are called collectively The Forge of War Development Group.

The group’s golden rule is credit where credit is due. Thus each person who contributes to a game is credited for that contribution in the ruleset.

Craig has been designing and publishing free sets of rules for over twenty years, and gaming for a lot longer than that. Recently he hit pay dirt co-authoring the In Her Majesty’s Name series of wargames rules for Osprey with his old friend Charles Murton. This led him to not working on FUBAR and other projects, something that will now change with the creation of this blog.

Craig Cartmell, is a little strange and likes to talk about himself in the third person.

FUBAR Home Page

Forge Of War FB Page

Captain Darling's Miniatures Emporium

Captain Darling's extraordinary exploits and fearless feats of daring do during the Victorian Era of colonial expansion are legendary! This blog interweaves his fantastic tales of adventure in an alternate late Victorian history with 28mm table top gaming

Captain Darling's Miniatures Emporium

Happy New Year!

GZG 2017 CHRISTMAS SPECIALS

UPDATE - TUESDAY 28th NOVEMBER 2017:
2017 CHRISTMAS SPECIALS ARE NOW ON!
Please pop over to the webstore (www.gzg.com) and read the full details of the Christmas Offers for this year, which are NOW RUNNING as of Noon today.

Sorry the offer details are up a day later than promised, I hadn't reckoned on how long it would take me to finish this quarter's VAT accounts!

As soon as I've done today's mailings I will get on to putting the recent WARFARE new releases up on the store, so please check back for these later today or tomorrow morning.

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Christmas dispatch times and ordering dates, and Christmas/New Year break:
Throughout the pre- and post-Christmas period, I will be trying to keep as much up to date with order dispatches as possible - but please understand that things can get VERY busy and some orders may well take a few days longer than normal to be shipped out. If there are any serious delays then I will try to let you know where possible.
Obviously we are all at the mercy of the postal services as to delivery times - but we would strongly recommend that international orders (especially for Australia, NZ etc) are placed no later than the first week of December if you want any real hope of them arriving before Christmas. With some larger orders it is possible to ship them via parcel courier (UPS etc) rather than by airmail, the couriers are faster and with much better online tracking - if you want me to do this, or just want more details on this shipping option, please ask when you place the order.
I will continue to dispatch orders up to Friday 22nd of December - after that date we will be CLOSED for the Christmas/New Year break, re-opening on Tuesday 2nd January 2018. The online webstore will remain "open" throughout the Christmas period so you can still place orders, but no orders will be processed and dispatched until after the 2nd of January.
Thanks to you all for your support and valued custom through 2017 - it's been a much better year all round than 2016 was, and I hope we can tempt you with even more new and exciting things in 2018!
Wishing you all a great Christmas (or whatever other seasonal festival you choose to celebrate around this time of year) and a safe, happy and gaming-filled New Year!
All the best,
Jon (GZG),  28th Nov 2017.

 

www.gzg.com

HAPPY THANKSGIVING From GZG

HAPPY THANKSGIVING and a heads-up on our CHRISTMAS OFFERS!
A (slightly late) HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all our many customers in the US - hope you are all having a great day with family and friends!

 WARFARE went off very well last weekend, an excellent show as always, smooth and well organised - we sold a LOT of figures and starships, talked to loads of customers old and new, and generally had a very good time. Since getting back I've been working solidly on clearing the mailorders that didn't go before the show, they are all pretty much up to date now with just a last couple of them to go out tomorrow. Over the next few days I hope to get all the NEW RELEASES from the show up on to the store so they can be ordered, and on MONDAY (27th) I will be starting our usual CHRISTMAS SPECIALS, which will then run until we close up for the Christmas/New Year break. Full details of the offers will be posted over this weekend, so please check back here soon.......

 

Thanks for reading,

Jon (GZG), Thursday 23rd Nov 2017
www.gzg.com

Happy Tanksgiving!

Brought to you by the makers of fine Turkey Puree since 1911 　

Brigade Models Xmas Sale

Welcome once more to our Xmas sale. It's the same format as in previous years again. Basically, that's 15% off all of our models. Although there are a few exceptions^*, this isn't a '15% off selected items' or 'Up to 15% off' sale, it's a real '15% off everything' sale. The sale will run for a month from today, ending on Sunday December 17th.

So once again that's 15% off all of our models^* - Aeronef, starships, Celtos, Small Scale Scenery, Land Ironclads, 15mm and 6mm tanks and figures, 10mm buildings, Squadron Commander, WWI Belgians, Magpies ... and the newly added Hammer's Slammers 15mm models are in there too.

And that's it - no minimum or maximum orders, just a blanket discount which runs until Midnight GMT on December 17th (remember the time difference if you're overseas). And we'll give you plenty of warning before it ends. So what are you waiting for ? Go out there and shop !

PLEASE READ THIS BIT

The website will still show the full price of each item, but the price that goes into the PayPal shopping cart will be the discounted one.
In addition, because of the way that browsers keep hold of old versions of websites if you've previously visited them, you might want to refresh your browser (usually F5 or shift-F5 on Windows machines) to ensure that the new version of the shopping code is loaded with the discount in. If we get an order from which the discount has not been deducted then we will make a manual PayPal refund for the equivalent amount.
^* - There are a few exceptions and conditions, as you might expect ... shipping will still be charged at the full rate, since we were unable to persuade the post office to match our offers. The discount covers our metal and resin models - it doesn't apply to rulebooks, dice, bases, Shapeways or anything else that we don't manufacture ourselves, simply because the margins on those items are much tighter. However, starter packs with rules, dice or bases in are covered. Even with these limitations, we're sure you'll agree it's a mighty fine offer !

Brigade Models

Brazos Evil Empire: International Talk Like A Pirate Day

Brazos Evil Empire: International Talk Like A Pirate Day: September 19th (every year) is International Talk Like A Pirate Day http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

Hurricane Harvey

Well they named this one after my grandpa.......and he was one nasty tough old bird....not a good sign! Every one of my friends to the south of me here in Texas...hope you got the heck out of
the way of this beast! For those who follow this blog not to worry as I'm 5 hours drive in land,
and should only get a bit of rain!  All my hopes and prayers for first res ponders and National
Guards  and all effected.

Q&A pt1: 15mm Sci-fi Gaming Campaign

Published on 12 Feb 2017 by Mech Head studios.  This video is intended to begin the discussion of a possible summer gaming campaign for the 15mm Sci-fi Gaming group on Facebook. If you're a miniature wargamer please feel free to watch and voice your thoughts as well. Here's a link to the Facebook group:
15mm Sci-fi Gaming Campaign

15mm Sci-fi Gaming Summer Campaign Announcement!!

Published on 12 Feb 2017 by Mech Head studios.  This video is intended to begin the discussion of a possible summer gaming campaign for the 15mm Sci-fi Gaming group on Facebook. If you're a miniature wargamer please feel free to watch and voice your thoughts as well. Here's a link to the Facebook group:
15mm Sci-fi Gaming Campaign

Happy New Year!

All The Best To You And Yours This New Year!

Holiday Cheer

All The Best To You All This Christmas !

Happy Thanksgiving

Harvester Tripod

All Quiet on the Martian Front Harvester Tripod