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Hello! This will be the blog where I post about various wargaming things that I get up to. At the moment I'm juggling three projects, all in 28mm:

  1. The Boshin War of 1868-9, also known as the Japanese Civil War;
  2. An 1860s British force for alternate history scenarios relating to the above; and
  3. Feudal Japanese forces.
These are helpfully quite interlinked, but chances are something completely different will start intruding soon enough.

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