Thanks to my work with Wargames Illustrated, I’ve had the opportunity to visit numerous wargame shows in the UK over the years, and have been able to see the very best that our hobby has to offer. I’d like to thank all those wargamers and modelmakers who have demonstrated their amazing talent and skills to inspire us, a very small percentage of whose masterpieces appear within the pages of this book. I have tried extremely hard to correctly credit all the photographs, but sincere apologies for any errors or omissions, which are of course totally down to me.
I’d also like to express my thanks to those wargamers who patiently stopped their games to allow me to take my photographs, and to the show organisers who have, without exception, always made me feel welcome at their events.
But our hobby is not just about the wargamers. We are fortunate to have some excellent manufacturers and traders around, many of whom are also wargamers. Because of their efforts, enthusiasm, and more recently the Kickstarter concept, it becomes increasingly difficult to find a wargame subject – be it historical, fantasy or sci-fi – for which figures are not available. Several manufacturers have been particularly helpful by donating products to help in the production of this book, and I’d like to make a point of thanking:
• Heroics & Ros Miniatures
• Magister Militum
• Perry Miniatures
• Spartan Games
• Warlord Games
Many of the photographs of the completed terrain and scenery in this book would have been impossible without the generosity of my friends at the Minehead Wargames Club: Mark, Roger, Dan and Nik, who were more than happy to make their figures available to me, so a special thank you to all of them.
Finally, last but definitely not least, I must thank my wife Joanne and son Sebastian for putting up with the chaos associated with creating this book. As the deadline for submitting the manuscript approached (and which I missed, sorry Phil), there was hardly a room in our house that didn’t have it’s share of partially completed models or scenery, as well as scraps of balsa, card, cork tile, pins and even in some cases a fine coating of foam dust. I’ll try to be a lot tidier when I write the next one … honest.