Castles of Tin

The Risorgimento or Italian wars of 1848-1866 have been of interest to me for several years now, since first reading about these battl...

    After an exceptionally long hiatus, I'm pleased to report that I'm painting again.  If there are actually any followers l...

Blog followers, you may have been wondering what’s going on with the lack of activity at Castles of Tin.  Indeed the blogosphere is stu...

  No doubt most of us started off playing board games. I was no exception.  My dad was bitten hard by the Avalon Hill wargaming bug in...

It's past time to put something new up here. I finished the paper model T-72 but haven't gotten around to  photographing it ye...

Here's a card model I built recently, Paper Forge's BMP-1.  The default scale is 1/48, a bit small relative to my troops which a...

Finally got around to painting the first casting from the modification of the Prince August cavalry figure.  Conversion on the left, ori...