Welcome (back) to your good self and to myself to the Roll a One blog. We have been inactive for some time but following some encouraging comments at the recent Salute event from people from back in the day and some people who has stumbled onto the site in the interim years and found it useful – I have decided to dust of the shelves and do a blog post every now and then.

Wargaming still plays an important role in my life, the Little One is now taller than I, I still love the 6mm scale but would not consider myself a one trick pony, but the most important thing for the hiatus is that I have been playing so much more the last few years – virtual RPG sessions and some amazing and frequent wargames and board games with the Shed of War crew – a loose collective of some great people I am proud to call my mates (check this out on Facebook if you are interested https://www.facebook.com/groups/1213707833867074 ). But more about that another time.

Have not decided yet how I want to approach this next step with the blog, but just wanted to publish something whilst I got that sorted out. In the interim I present you my two latest 6mm projects:

The Crossing of the Duna 1701 – the 2024 Project

I took the Crossing of the Duna to Joy of Six in 2024 and then to Salute in April this year, I am proud to say that it got the Small Scale Award at the Show and we got featured in the Wargames Illustrated (June 2025).

They also did a nice video of the game during the day (Link below).

LINK HERE https://www.facebook.com/WargamesIllustrated/videos/1405341810649268

The Battle of Gravelotte–St. Privat – the 2025 Project

The Battle of Gravelotte–St. Privat on the 18 August 1870 was the largest battle of the Franco-Prussian War. It was a tough nut for the German forces to crack, with the French taking advantage of the high ground and time to prepare some defensive position.

To give the battle justice and to be depicted at the right level on a 6 by 4 foot (1.5m X 1.2m) table using a groundscale at roughly 1:8000 (a foot representing 2.5km) and a figure scale at 1:300 we needed to make a few sacrifices to make it visually appealing without loosing flexibility to play a wargame on the board.

Anyway almost done, just a few details to complete. Next we need to finalise the Prussians, Wurttembergers, Saxons and French soldiers, detail the brown spots (some quarries) and some other details. Will take this to Joy of Six in Sheffield this year (13th July) and to Salute in London in the Spring next year.

Here a link to the Joy of Six event – https://www.joysofsix.co.uk/

More to come… that was an easier nut to crack than I thought.

/ Keep on toysoldiering!