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I thought I would put together a post about the terrain pieces I purchased at the Salute 2012  show in London This April.

I love wargaming, for years I pretty much exclusively played games workshop games, but  a few years ago I decided to branch out and look for other games systems. The thing that really caught my eye was Flames of war. A World War 2 15mm wargame made by Battlefront Miniatures. The thing that First drew me to the game was the terrain. I was so used to playing on pretty much a barren surface, with 3-4 buildings made from pringles tubes, yogurt pots and the odd games workshop building on it. That used to be fine, until I saw a FoW gaming table. It honestly blew me away. I had been living in my own little bubble for years, blindly thinking that “my” game was *best* and it didnt get any better than that. Oh how wrong I was.

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Hi,

I thought seen as I upgraded my mac mini’s RAM today I thought I would write a blog post about how to do it.

Many people look at computers, either mac or PC and seem to think the inside of them is made from some form of magic. This simply is not true!

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Hi there,

I’m a new Lightspeed user, from England (UK), Installed the demo and have been playing with it for a while now.
I just thought I would write about my POS journey, possibly blog about how I get on, hopefully this post (and any follow ups) will be of use/mildly interesting to some people who stumble upon it.

I’m sorry if this is more of a ramble than a short and sweet post, but hey, im a techy, not a writer…

A bit about our company:
I work for a company called Design-a-cake, We are a specialist sugarcraft retailer in the UK,
We currently have one retail outlet, and we sell online (shipping internationally), you can find out more about us at [url=http://www.design-a-cake.co.uk]Our Website[/url]

We are growing year on year, and are currently in our 15th year of trading, growing from two blokes in a small industrial unit to a company with 25 employees spread over two buildings, with plans to expand furthur still this year!

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Last night I attended my first meeting at the Supermondays group in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Supermondays is a group for IT enthusiasts, who hold monthly talks and socials which are of interest to the IT community.

I’ve recently began going to a few meetings like this, so far I’ve been to one of the @Designinterest group, who are a smaller group, more interested in design/development where the Supermondays group is a more general IT based crowd,

I’ve also attended one meeting for the  @uxnortheast where we discussed Seductive Interaction Design by Stephen P Anderson.

I thoroughly enjoyed all three events, and plan to attend all three groups again, and urge anyone who in works/is interested in the IT or design  industry to try out an event like this, I’ve already met some like minded people, and hopefully I can make some likeminded friends because of it (that sounds cheesy as fuck…)

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Hi!

Welcome to my blog,

This post is an After Action Report from a game of Flames of War I played at Morpeth Wargames club On tuesday night with three other guys (two of which I hadn’t met before).

The game wasn’t really planned, so we all just turned up with a 1750pts list, paired off and played a 2v2 game, which was a mismatch of British Para’s and Soviet Heavy armour facing A german Grenadier list and a German Panzer Lehr list.

I attempted to write down the highlights and take a few photos, this will be my first attempt at a proper flames of war AAR, so please bear with me!

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Rest In Peace Steve Jobs

Truly an inspiration to the world of Computing, technology business and Animation.

I’ve always been inspired by Apple products, who for years have driven forward technology in the consumer market place, and brought objects from Science fiction and made them a reality.

A true hero.

R.I.P Steve Jobs 1955-2011

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Hi, Thanks for checking out my site,

In this post I am going to show you how I made some terrain pieces, in particular I am going to show you my 15mm river sections.

First, a bit of background into how I got into 15mm wargaming, and terrain making in general, you can skip past this bit if you like!

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Hi, thanks for reading.

I’m currently making some terrain pieces for Flames of war, a 15mm world war 2 tabletop war game.

Unlike some lucky people, I’m limited for space, so all of the terrain I make is “modular” which means I can pack everything up into boxes for storage.
Modular terrain never looks as good as a static layout, which will always look more natural, and will flow a lot better.

This does however give the advantage that it can be repositioned into limitless layouts, which can be really handy for war games as every game is different, and playing on the same board would just get boring.

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Welcome to my second review!

This review will focus on one product from the Zvezda 15mm  range.

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Hi, Firstly, thanks for reading! I hope you enjoy this review, it’s just going to be my honest views about these products, I’m not entirely sure if I will be sticking to any kind of writing ‘style’, or whether this will be a particularly good review, it is after all my first ever real product review! But, here goes!

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