Dice Men: Games Workshop 1975 to 1985 By Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson with Jamie Thomson A full colour, highly illustrated hardback 288 pages long, A4 (210mm x 297mm) printed on 140gsm gloss art stock, colour printed endpapers and bookmark ribbon Tuesday, 27 August 2019 Writing update Hi everyone, We started this book with a very clear idea of the story that we wanted to tell, ie how our fledgling games company was set on a road that would ultimately become the multi-national business that it is today with a market capitalisation of over £1 billion on the London Stock Exchange! We began our journey in 1975, and whilst the major events are easy to recall, the details require a lot of research and fact-checking. Since it is so important to tell the real story of the first years of Games Workshop, we have spent much more time than planned verifying our own recollections. We also wanted to share as many photos and images as possible and we have gone ...

It's a very rare occurrence when I paint something for myself, b ut as I am on my annual 3 week break and the weather has been rather unpleasant on week 1, I just completed this fantasy tower from Tabletop World. It's to form a backdrop for a big old school Warhammer 1st edition game that I have planned for the convention circuit. I'll be adding a doormat, bottles on the step and a house number after Partizan on Sunday. And as it's my birthday on the same day as Partizan, I intend to treat myself to something as yet undecided. TTFN

A couple of days ago, Martin Buck sent me the first pics of the new Great Gnoll / Great Goblin Boar Riders. The riders are essentially done and they are lovely... As with the first release of infantry, they are going to be multi-part castings and will be interchangeable with the other models in the range once mastered, meaning that just by using the 4 newest heads, the possible variants of infantry will increase by 50%. Later in the Autumn there's another set of heads coming, along with entire new ranges which Martin is working on right now. TTFN

As was pointed out to me this morning, it's been a good while since I updated this rambling stream of consciousness.  That's quite true, because I'm heading towards my Summer R&R session, a glorious  23 days of uninhibited culture, food and drink with a smattering of wargames shows. As my wife likes to try to take her break in line with Parliamentary recesses it means we work hard from January until the Summer, but I work doubly hard as I always like to keep current with my workload which, means some punishing hours at my desk and in the heat and humidity of late, this has been rather tiring. In fact, I have just awoken from an hour's snoozing, here at the top of Fackham Hall with my feet out of the studio window before I could muster the energy to pen this epistle to the wargaming apostles. I've been pondering of late, which of the Warhammer rule sets I prefer. It goes without saying that the minute that it got into the 'big box' era, I frankly di...