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Welcome to the Arcane Scenery Blog

Its our intention to post at least one article a week. Its more of a personal blog covering our journey through the hobby of wargaming. You should find battle reports, painting articles, visits to battlefields and shows, modelling tips and hints, conversing and much more.

Don’t worry, there’s no hard selling, in fact we may well cover subjects or items that we don’t sell. We just hope you enjoy the articles and they help to enthuse you.

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Make History!

Home History

Making Medieval Tents!

Arrow Barrow and more!

Stokes Field- The Prequel

Never Mind The Bill Hooks Scenery

Painting WW2 British Infantry

Ramblings from the work bench

Samurai Scenery.

Never Mind the Bill Hooks Update

BEF Section and Vickers VIb completed

Vickers VIB Light Tank

The BEF force is growing.

Whats on the Workbench? 02/07/20

Dont Panic Mr Mainwaring!

3/1 Royal Scots Battalion Completed

How Many Wellingtons does it take......?

A Hard Contest part 2

War Of the Roses Army Progress

Social Isolation and all that

War of The Roses Light Cavalry - part two

Lecourbes Defence of France June 1815

War of the Roses Light Cavalry Part one

Arise King Richard III!

Prussian Jaeger - Bingham Napoleonic days

Cry Wolf! A workbench round up.

Painting War Of the Roses Artillery

Never mind the Bill Hooks - New Battle Report

Work bench update. Mary Rose and Billmen

A bit of Flitting does you good!

Good year - Bad Year?

Tattershall Castle

Nevermind the Billhooks!

Pikemen and the Caribbean.

What's on the Workbench - WOTR and Napoleonics

Painting DeeZee Cavemen

DeeZee Cavemen!

A Weekend of Wargaming!

War Of The Roses Crossbowmen

Black Seas - Age of Sail Battle Game

The Black Watch

John Rattenbury, Sir John Savage and other distractions!

The Other Partizan

DeeZee Woolly Rhino and Cavemen

Warlord Open Day - Salt Peter Demo Game

The Battle of Pea Ridge Arkansas 1862

Portuguese Artillery - Part 2

Portuguese Artillery Part 1

Don't Just Do It.....B&Q it, again!

Rain interupts painting!

Perry Miniatures Mounted Men At Arms

Never mind the Billhooks

WOTR - Project Update

Get them when they are young!

King Richard III Visitor Centre.

Cry God for Harry!

Painters Block - Goal setting!

War Of The Roses

A Blast From The Past

Bingham Napoleonic Days

Combat at Foz d'Arouce

Ready for the Weekend?

Whats on the work bench? 21/02/19

The First Bull Run

Rocket Man - Part Two

Mining The Lead Pile and Finding Fun!

Bitting and Bobbing!

Happy New Year and a Cautionary Tale!

The Blue and the Grey

Paintvember - The Painting Challenge

Taming the Tartan Terrors!

From Spartans to Tartans

Mortal Gods - Play Testing

Forward, the 79th!

Artillery, Greeks and Highlanders!

June 15th, Jumet - a Black Powder Battle Report

Hussey and Vanity Fair

Artillery Autumn - Jumping the traces...

Battling with Black Powder

Limbering up...

50 Shades of Grey - and a Touch of Blue?

Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

What a Distraction!

They think it's all over.....

Genesis of a Terror Bird

French Sailors in the Caribbean - some conversions

Daimyo's Retinue - Progress?

Daimyos Retinue is on the Work Bench!

Napoleonic Zombies!

There's always time....

More for Test of Honour - Scenery & Musashi!

Painting the Nassau-Usingen Battalion. Part two, Batch paint

Painting the Nassau-Usingen Battalion. Part one, the plan....

The Battle For Papelotte

Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks!

Papelotte in progress

Pauper Paint Job

Pauper Soldiers

Samurai Cavalry

Does Size Matter?

Another year over, A new one has begun

Merry Christmas!

Exciting times at Lucid eye!

Whats on the workbench?

Desert Island Discs

Napoleonic War in the Caribbean

All Square - part two

Victorious Miniatures

Test Of Honour New Scenario - Battle Report

Jonas Jones Part 3 - Napoleons Foot Guides

Backwards to go Forwards

Scenery for Samurai

The Last Samurai

Tankfest at Bovington part 2

Tankfest 2017 Bovington

Wars Of the Roses Part 2 - Stokes Field

Wars of the Roses Part 1 - Warwick Castle

The joys of sprue stretching

New British Heavy Cavalry from Warlord!

Vikings land in Newark!

Ahoy there matie!

You Need Personality

Jonas Jones Rides again!

Painting the Warband

Turning Japanese!

Basing the 28th North Gloucestershires

Block paint and Quickshade - Batch Painting the 28th

New Weapons for Saga

Down to business - Batch Painting the 28th - Assembly

Researching the Research - Batch painting the 28th Regt.

Why are you still playing Black Powder?

Hammerhead 2017

Belgium 1815: The Battle for the Crossroads

A Test of Will Power...

Cazadores follow up.

Bits and Pieces.

Cazadores Test Shot

Napoleonic Saga?

Take your Pict!

So, Where was I...?

Whoops! Santa got it wrong again...

A Review of the Year Part 2

A Review of the Year

O.C.D? - No, just organised.

Are you Napoleon or Wellington?

The Battle of the White Hart 1815

Stay Focused...Portuguse and Panzers

The Portuguese Project Progresses

Portuguese Men of War.

Doing Up The House.

Sons of Dana are ready for battle

What did the Romans ever do for us?

Beyond the Wall.

Yet more Irish!

The Boys are Back in Town!

The Retreat from Fort Josephine, St. Ailleurs 1810.

Rules for Old Wargamers with Short Attention Spans!

'Sharp Tomahawks!'

The Scenario is broken!

The saga continues.

And the Wooden Spoon Goes to....

Footsore Irish Slingers - Done!

A rest is as good as a change!

British Napoleonic Spare Wheel Wagon

Austrian Artillery Fusilier Battalion

Round Base, Square hole.

The New Partizan Venue and other ramblings...

The Campaign has started!

Maroons of the Caribbean

What are you reading then?

Bolsover Castle

Campaign General Completed!

Sir Sydney makes his debut.

32nd Foot ready for action!

Soap opera painting - The 32nd Regiment takes shape.

The 32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot

One by One - Done, done, it's on to the next one!

Trouble with Cavalry

Paper Soldiers!

The Retreat from Bitteburg 1816

To Battle with the 11th Light Dragoons.

Beth Shalom Holocaust Museum

British Light Dragoons - Perry Miniatures Plastic Boxed Set

Napoleons Coach - Finished?

An Ongoing Saga!

'Tis The Season To Be Jolly!

The Battle of Bitteburg Part 2

The Battle of Bitteburg 1816

Napoleons Carriage on the Workbench.

New Range of Scenery.

Painting flesh - Charles Baynon Style

Making the mountain into a molehill.

The Marines are coming - Part 2 - first batch arrived!

The Marines are coming!

Lion Rampant - The Nine Bastards!

There's something about a uniform....

Wheel Wagon, Pig and Partizan

The National Civil War Museum Newark

The Legend of the Hartlepool Monkey!

A Clear Work Bench!

Battle Report - Polish/Italians Vs British Napoleonics....

Muskets and Tomahawks - take the Fort!

Rain Starts Play!

A little knowledge....

Napoleonic Field Forge completed!

The Age of Simar - One mans meat.....

Summer madness....

Prussian Artillery Ready For Battle

Waterloo June 13th 2015!

Prussian Artillery 11 June 2015

Black Powder for Club Nights

Prussian Landwehr Cavalry 28th May 2015

Painting Horses - Prussian Landwehr Cavalry

Small is beautiful!

Scenarios for Black Powder

Muskets and Machetes!

Pikemen, Prussians and Pterodactyls

It's All About the Base......

Glyptodon and Mammoth clear the work bench!

Little Bingham Population Explosion!

The Imperial War Museum North

Climbing the Lead Mountain!

New from Lucid Eye - the Savage Core Range!

What Constitutes An Elite Unit?

Slow Progress with the conversions.....

Whats on the Workbench - More Hanoverians!

How to win the battles and lose the war...

Varnish trouble!

The retinue is ready!

Whats on the workbench 15 January 2015

More tales from the Jungle!

There's something happening in the Jungle!

The Somersetshires take shape!

What's the use of Bidowers?

Whats on the Workbench 20th November 2014

The Lion is Rampant - Again!

Whats on the Workbench 23 October 2014

Whats on the workbench 16th October

Whats on the Workbench 9th October - Neanderthals & Hanoverians!

The Lion Rampant!

Whats on the Workbench 25/9 & Deezee Miniatures

Collecting an Army......

Warlord Hanoverian Infantry

If You Go Down To The Woods.....

What's on the Workbench 28 August 2014

History surrounds us.

Free Postage until the end of August

Batch Painting Prussians - Part Two of Two

Batch Painting Prussians! Part one of two

It's too darned hot!

What's on the Work Bench 26th June 2014

Battle Report - Waterloo 2014

What's on the Workbench 14th June 2014

The Heroic Stand of The Inniskilling, 27th Regiment of Foot

What's on the workbench 8 June 2014

Battlefield Visit - La Haie Sainte - Waterloo

Whats on the Workbench 29th May

What's on the Workbench 22 May 2014

What's on the Workbench 15th May 2014

What's on the workbench? 8th May 2014

Blitzkrieg tanks - What scale do I choose!!

Bolt Action Tanks!

Spotlight on Zvezda - new in this week!

MiniArt Models - New Releases

News This week!

Chasseurs Ste. Domingue - Carribean part 3!

New in this week. Airfix, Zvezda & Italeri New releases!

Caribbean modelling project - Part 2, Basing

New in this week!

Caribbean modelling project

Picking a tonne of trouble

Monday Round up

Blitzkrieg tank bop

The History Books on the Shelf are always Repeating Themselves

Monday round up

Personal Projects: Rob's rats...

The day before they won

Supplement: Women in Wargaming

Monday round up

The Heroines of Wargaming

Monday round up

Ebob and the Viking Ship

A Grievously Savage Race

Monday Round up

Ebob and Fray Bentos

Its good knight from him, and good knight from them...

Monday Round up

Canteena and Bank

"Disease is war with the laws of our being, and all war, as a great general has said, is hell"

Monday Round Up

And the last known survivor, Stalks his prey in the night

Monday round up

Guest Post: Black Powder

Lets go round again

Monday gaming post

Friday Round Up

The end of the age of civilisation

Friday round up

Never kick a man when he's down, he may get back up again.

Friday Round Up

Boxes of ticky tacky

Hussar Part 3 [Now with Words!]

Good Friday Egg Up

Style is the image of character

Friday Round Up

Its all in the name

Friday Round Up

The king is helpless

Monday Neighbourly Tour

Friday Round Up

Mind the (missile) gap

Friday Round Up

Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot

Hussar...part 2

Friday Round Up

I'm watching you...

Hussar! (Part 1)

Friday Round Up

Angola of attack

Napoleonic Farmstead by Pete Harris

Friday Round Up

Why sir is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?

Off with His Head Part 2

Friday Round Up

What colour red is your parachute? aka Korea planning for the future

Friday Round Up

“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.” Aldous Huxley

A horse is a horse of course, of course

Reader's Tables: Kevin, from Texas

Friday Round Up

This week long ago: Quit when you are [with] ahead

File me to the Moon (or Oooh Stick You)

Friday Round Up

Another putty history post

Friday Update.....or not

This Year in now: and your then

Friday square up

This week long ago: the week a town went down

Notre ami en France

Friday round up

This week in history: The Dreyfus Affair

Arcane Interviews a purple monster

Friday Round Up....

The week long ago: 4隻の船が航行すしド来る (4 ships came sailing by...)

Sentries have come in from the hills, Mr. Arcane, sir...The sentries report Zulus to the south west. Thousands of them...

This week in history: Birth of a Nation

Edam good figures

Friday Round Up

This week long ago: Go Go Guano

The Romans march on...

Friday round up

This week long ago: Buckineer...It's pirates

Friday Round Up

This week long ago: Arcola

Derby Show Highlights: Kevin Stevenson

Derby Show highlights: Evil Trev and Nice John

Friday Round Up

This week long undead: Samahain Strife

Friday Round Up

On this day long ago: Y'all ain't from around here boy...

Derby Show highlights: the Boondock Saints

Friday Round Up

This week long ago: Death of King John

Derby show highlights: Like A Stonewall

Friday Round Up

This week long ago: Please may I have some Moor please sir?

Friday Round up

Derby Show roundup

Historical Books

Interview with Great Escape Games

Friday Round Up

This week long ago....

STOP PRESS...New in!

Friday Round up

This week in the past : Battle of St. Matthew's Day

L'eau de Steve's Wagon

Friday Round Up

Is it a bit drafty?

Friday round up

Exploding Chelonia

Beginners Guide to Painting British Napoleonic Infantry (part 2)

Friday Round Up

Beginners Guide to Painting British Napoleonic Infantry

Battle of Winchelsea 29 August 1350

Friday round up

Battle of Bagradas River

Raindrops on rifles and musket wielding kittens...these are a few of our favourite links

Friday round up

American fortnight: Siege of Los Angeles

American fortnight: Fort Dearborn

Rolling again...

American fortnight: Battle of Wilson's Creek

American fortnight: Product Highlights

Friday Round Up

Battle of Castiglione

Arcane Scenery's House Move

Didn't we 'ave a loverly time the day Napoleon went to Torquay (with apologies to the lovely Bangor)

Friday Round Up

Off With His Head (#1 of a short and occasional series. How short? Well a head short at least!)

The Only Wargamer in the Village

Friday Round Up

Turkish Week: Battle of Ankara

Turkish Week: Steve went on holiday...

Friday Round Up

Battle of Bazentin Ridge

Do just do it and B&Q it! A guide to making a war games table.

Friday Round Up

Battle of Smolensk

Not Friday Round Up...

Wednesday history post

Steve's Advert Break

Not a Friday round up...

Battle of Carabobo

Battle Report...Sharp Practice

Friday round up...

"No Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold,...

Guest modeller of the week: Chris Kirk

Friday Round Up...

Caribbean Week: Haitian Rebellion

Caribbean Week Part 1: Pirates of the Caribbean

Friday round up...

Arcane People...

Friday Round Up

Tuesday Roundup...

Guest Modeller of the Week: Bernard Lewis

How to shop with Arcane Scenery: the eBay store

Arcane Scenery's little secret

Friday round up...

Friday round up

Welcome Back WarGames Factory

Friday Round Up

Friday round up part one...

Hail Caesar Review

Sharp Practice – My first major skirmish!

Just in from Pegasus - French Infantry

New Challenger from Revell!

The Blog is back!

POSTAGE AT CHRISTMAS

It's Snowing.....Yippee!

Where did a month go.....

Stock Updates - New into the shop this week

The latest sets from Italeri

Albion Alloys at Arcane Scenery

Napoleonic Flank Companies!

New releases from Zvezda - Great War Germans

New 1/32 Scale German Mountain Troops

New Saxons Sets - Thegns & Fyrd from Wargames Factory

My First Napoleonic Skirmish!

Bolt Action Waffen-SS

German Imperial Guard!

Plastic German Infantry from Bolt Action - sprue shots

I owe Clive Owen an apology

Even more new releases...Pegasus Models

And More...this time from Mantic

And there's more....from Italeri

New releases, New releases, New Releases!

First Choose your weapons

History, it's the future....

New Unseen Lerker & Trees......

More Goodies from Airfix! New Resin Scenery.

New From Airfix....Well nearly......

THE VIKINGS ARE COMING!

Hurrah for Hussars! New in from the Perrys

NEW! Victrix British Napoleonic Foot Artillery 28mm

New In From Italeri.. German Paras in Tropical uniforms

Super glue is great....but there are other adhesives!

Coming soon from Italeri.....

New From Mantic! Skeletons and more!

NECRON APOCALYPSE!

A Review of the year - My Top Ten, Part Two!

A Review of the Year-My Top Ten

Happy New Year! Resolutions & Predictions.......

Merry Christmas from the Necrons!

What's in the Box: Victrix 54mm Napoleonics

Losing a Battle isn't all bad.

From Timpo to Victrix...54mm scale figures

Royal Mail: Britain's worst company.....Actually it's not...it's very good

How to strip paint from Plastic Models safely.

Necron Genesis or How I Built My Necron Army part 2

James May is Spitfiretastic!

New In From Zvezda - Polish Uhlans.

Mantic Games Launch Kings of War Elves!

Getting the best from Spray Paints

New 1/32 scale Figures from Airfix

Wraith Wing conquers again!

NEW FRENCH CAVALRY FROM THE PERRY'S

New From Italeri...

Douglas Bader tactics work for Necrons too!

What's in the Box? - Gothic City Buildings

More from Mantic! Kings of War Elves.

Pic & Mix Dice!

Necron Genesis or how I built my Necron Army Part 1!

Trade Gossip & News

NEW ARCANE SCENERY SCENERY!

New High Elves from a New Company!

45 years of kit making!

Weird Boys & Immortals

We are up and running!

Huston, we have lift off.......nearly!

This Day In History

November
1876 Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.

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