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Hello Everybody I’m new to this hobby of modelling castle sieges and am thinking about setting up a siege scenario with Hordes and Heroes Historical miniatures. I would like to base my siege games on actual historical battles and would appreciate your help. There are lots of historical sieges as lis...

Hello Everybody! I thought I would start a thread on my battle of Agincourt to be played out soon - Henry V v Constable Charles d'Albret (Friday 25th October 1415 - St Crispins Day) [That makes it the 600 year anniversary next year 2015] I am currently building some Hordes and Heroes miniatures and ...

Hello everybody! Today I have been having my first attempt at creating some background scenery for my kallistra. I have found an image, blown it up in a drawing package to fit on 5 A4 sheets. Laminated it in three parts using A3 laminating sleeves, selotaped the pieces together and then stuck some c...

Nessie the Loch Ness Monster has been seen in a "Kallistra" castle moat!

Another unexplained mystery solved!

Hello, Thanks for the post. Yes putting a cloth on top of kallistra is a really good idea to create the land forms if you don't use hex rules and measure the distances. The photos are really impressive and seeing the hexes underneath high lights the thought that has gone into creating an accurate to...

Hello, Thanks for your post. Yes there are a good range of varnishes available that could give some interesting effects for model water. In the last couple of days, I have purchased vallejo water texture and applied it with a brush to my frozen rivers. It is a white, fairly thin acrylic gel that goe...

Hope they had a nice time away and a smooth trip home. Look forward to them all
being back at work!

Best wishes

Graham

Hello again! Just doing a post to discuss model water. I have painted some of my rivers a lighter shade of blue and they have lost that nice shiny glaze that kallistra adds when manufacturing them. I am considering adding a glaze of model water on top - clear and still. I note that there are several...

Hello Everybody! For pictures of large battles - Kallistras Facebook page has some really great photos - i've just discovered them! :D (Please excuse me for being a bit behind but i'm just getting into social media) A couple of particularly large "EPIC" ones are: The exhibition display &qu...

Hello again, While on the subject of modelling castles I thought I would do a post on my castle with a moat created with single marsh / swamp hexes and some single green flocked hexes. It is suggested in the H and H booklet that a castle can be raised above the level of a surrounding moat. Also that...