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I am happily afflicted with that mysterious hobby of wargaming. This site is a reflection of that affliction. Have a look around and enjoy ... and perhaps even be a little inspired. There sure are worse ways to spend your leisure time. And I’m hardly biased at all!

The main areas available for your investigational pleasure are immediately available courtesy of a mere "click" at the top of the screen. They are ... drum roll please ...

                               Home: here be there

                              Army Inspections: some thoughts, information and images of my assorted miniature armies and figures

                              Dawn Parades: occasional reviews

                              Military Obstacles: an area to flaunt my terrain pieces

                              Post-mortems: glorious and otherwise game memoires

                              Reconnaissance: various items of potential interest including wargames shows and places of interest

                              The son & heirs: random reportage on The son & heirs modelling adventures

                              Links: favoured sites

And then there is one very important link not (currently?!) available at the top of each screen. Orders of the Day is my longish running Blog. Being a Blog it will normally be updated more often as a news and chatty locale. Conversely it is intended that this site will be used as an orderly quasi archive. Updates to this site that are considered significant - whatever that means! - will be notified on the Orders of the Day Blog. We shall see how this all works out in practice.

This website of von Peter himself is in continual expansion ... or at least it is meant to be!

Please visit the blog of von Peter himself - Orders of the Day - for day to day shenanigans

15 March 2024

L 'Hotel de Hercé has a new website address so it seemed appropriate to update the link in the Links page.

You're welcome.

7 September 2024

The links and information for Front Rank Figurines on the Links page has been updated. As has been the case for a while now these figures are to be sourced from Gripping Beast. The original Front Rank Figurines site is now well and truly a thing of the past.

14 September 2024

The Links page expands yet again. A link added for mogsymakes, a web presence of James Morris. Over and out.

12 January 2025

Apparently Mike Lewis of Black Hat Miniatures has retired and as part of that process he sold the Coat d'Arms paint range to Battlezone Miniatures. Hence the link for Coat d'Arms paint in the Links page has required updating. And now finally it has.

17 January 2025

Oberst von Brause and his staff have arrived to take command of the 1st Brigade of the 24th (Saxon) Division. You can see a little more and read a little more on the Napoleonic Saxon Army Inspection page.

1 February 2025

A link to another inspirational wargamer's site - Wargames Workshop - added. Also a link to The Yarkshire Gamer's YouTube channel.

Additionally a note added that the sites With Pyjamas through a whiff of grapeshot and With Pyjamas through the Desert are no longer available. Nostalgia and the hope that they will be resurrected in some form prevents their removal at this stage.

Details in the Links page.