This is not an Ikea joke but a way of making a cheap, fast and nice looking coulisse - or flat - for photos.

16 ”good men” were chosen to protect the rebellion's young leader.

Here’s how I made this diorama of two dueling samurais inside a glass jar for my fathers birthday.

When Gustav Vasa marched into Stockholm in 1523 he had just turned 27 years old - how did the king look as a young man?

Here is a quick and easy way to make a Roman classic - the testudo - from Warlord Games plastic legionnaires.

A fairly quick method of painting dark age miniatures with a lot of colour variation.

Armed with Perry miniatures medievals, some sculpting putty and all the crossbows I could get my hands on I started cutting and gluing.

Badly sculpted horses is a common issue for me but these plastic equines might solve my problem.

The Ptolemaic army was only a shadow of its former self in 47 BC but still proved to be a match for Caesars legions in Alexandria.

This is the beginning of a project to build both peasant musters and royal forces for the conflicts of late medieval Sweden.

An easy way to touch up these mdf-buildings from Sarissa Precision’s “Streets of Rome” range.

The Siege of Alexandria isn’t Caesar’s most famous battle but it was exciting, diverse and probably one of his hardest fights.

This is a quick guide on how I made two versatile houses to use as scenery in photos.

A closer look at this new-ish 28mm range of metal Republican Roman miniatures from Lycid Eye.