In this video, I walk through how I made some piling fortifications for my American Civil War naval wargame battlefields using resin...

In this video, I walk through my method for making miniature flags from scratch for my 1/600 American Civil War ships and boats. I've...

Last month I talked about making small-scale trees for my riverine battlefield table. This month, I've added some hazards that I can add...

When I set about to create some battle reports for Dawn of Iron, I realized quickly that I don't have a lot of terrain to use with 3-6mm...

I've had a few requests for a quick tutorial on how I paint the wooden decks of my ships. I should note that, as usual, this is my method...

The American Civil War produced some of the strangest ship designs I've ever seen. Among the most odd were the river gunboats known...

One of the interesting little innovations of the US Navy during the Civil War was the mortar boats (sometimes called rafts). These were...

A big part of my inspiration to finally make Lonely Cairn came from my little scratchbuild project to make HMS Erebus and Terror. After...

When developing Dreadnought, I became fascinated by splashes...

Adding flags and banners is a big part of making ships or rank-and-file troops look the part on the battlefield. Not only do these add...

After the City-class ironclads, I moved on to the Ellet rams. These were a bit tricky to build. Owing to the civilian origins of Ellet's...

SBS embarks on a new naval wargame project...

After reading E. Keble Chatterton's The Sea Raiders, I found myself wanting to add some civilian merchant ships to my scratch-built navy.

One of the more difficult things about my Jutland project was knowing that the "Destroyer Problem" was lurking just under the surface...

After posting my tutorial on building my 1:1500 scale ships, I got a request to quickly go over the tools that I used...

Its probably a bad idea to keep experimenting with mast solutions still half-way through the Jutland project...

Once the scratch build ships for my Jutland project are built, it's time to throw some paint on them...

For most wargamers, metal and resin models are the way to go. But for me, the journey of making my own ships out of wood is worth the effort