Maidstone Wargames Society

Stephen takes us on a starry-eyed journey to the, er, stars… It turned out that a club meeting fell on February 14th this year. Valentine’s Day. There was only one thing for it – a suitably themed game of Stargrave. Beneath the twin stars of Romeo and Juliet is the planet Romance. The major space port on Romance is the city of Verona. But the city is riven by two competing families: the Montagues and Capulets. One member of the Montague family, Tony, is due to marry his beloved – an Angel from…

Work in Progress Wednesday is back after a short break to showcase other things we get up to at the society. We start this week with a scratch building theme, and a pen holder piece of plastic that I’ve turned into some sort of refinery, I didn’t have to do anything other than paint it and use a bit of stuffing material as smoke. Next up and Peter M has been converting more Star Wars toys as various vessels for his Ships of Mars game. And sticking with Mars, Marcus W has used the lid from a…

With all of the Society’s blog editors at Salute, Stephen steps up to the plate with a short report on the games played at the Society meeting last weekend. At the club today we had four games. Since it was also the day of Salute, club meetings tend to have fewer attending due to the … Continue reading "Society Meeting 11/04/2026"

Last Saturday a contingent from the Society attended Salute 53 to run Marcus’s The Labyrinths of Mars Game, a mash up of John Carter of Mars and the board game Labyrinth. Above we see Marcus giving a last minute briefing to Chairman Mark and Alan. Here are a couple of shots of the  Labyrinth before … Continue reading "The Labyrinths of Mars at Salute 53"

There are only 4 days to go before the big wargaming show Salute 53 this Saturday 11th April. The society will be there with this years show game ‘The Labyrinths of Mars‘, we are at stand GD10 so if you are at the show come and have a game. To set the scene the games … Continue reading "The Labyrinths of Mars coming to Salute 53"

We had an Aprils fools clich so let’s post this one again! It’s Work in Progress Wednesday time and we start with mark J who has returned to painting more WW2 German infanty. Next up and Marcus W has been busy painting some additions for the current society show game The Labyrinths of Mars for … Continue reading "Work in Progress Wednesday (1st April repost)"

Andy presents a photo round up of this weekend’s games. Peter M put on a multiplayer 25mm skirmish game set in the Indian Mutiny, 1857 ‘Don’t Lucknow’ No scenery in this game, the grey areas are roads and alleys, white are buildings. Stephen & Andy started a Barons War mini campaign, “A Most Ignoble Feud.” … Continue reading "Society Meeting 28/03/2026"

It’s Wednesday and we start this week with Mark J and some progress on his WW2 British infantry. I think there’s still quite a few to go to match the number of German infantry already completed. Moving on and I’ve finished the sci-fi base in a crater terrain piece I was making. As I was … Continue reading "Work in Progress Wednesday"

A very delayed pictorial roundup of the last Society meeting of February 2026, due to some IT issues at one of the editors home. David P ran a General d’Armee 2nd edition  game of French vs Russians in 1813 Tony P ran a mixed scale  FoG Ancients game (both scales use the same base sizes)

Welcome to another Work in Progress Wednesday post, we start this week with Chris St and some 20mm German armoured cars, not sure if this was on a whim or part of a larger force. Wil definitely be in good company with the amount of 20mm WW2 miniatures owned by the members. Sticking with the … Continue reading "Work in Progress Wednesday"