Looking good! I've been playing with the teddy bear fur it for awhile now, here is how my church roof came out - I'm rather pleased with it: http://tasmancave.blogspot.com/2011/06/saxon-church-finished.html
Vasseth Strike Tank at Loud Ninja Games 15mm range
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Our partners at Alternative Armies just posted an update on the excellent
Chuhuac Vasseth Strike Tank.
In the month plus since the temporary retiring of t...
Why does Alcovia use non-Russian Vehicles?
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The real answer is model availability. Most miniatures ranges have yet to
catch up to even the 90s. So I filled in blanks with hardware from other
n...
Croatia Under Ante Pavelic
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This book has been sitting in my reading pile for a while. A book I should
read, but anything to do with the UstaĊĦe is bound to be a grim read. Robert
M...
The Caves of Chaos! Session 1
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Back in June at a work retreat I ran a couple of evening sessions of B/X
D&D for my coworkers. At the end of July we picked back up again, and I’ve
been ...
12mm WW1 Austro-Hungarian Cavalry
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Austro-Hungarian WW1 Dragoons in early-war uniforms. 12mm metal figures
from Kallistra.
The early-WW1 12 project continues to rumble along the hobby desk....
Queen Angella of Brightmoon
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Queen Angella, the last of my forces of the Rebellion is finished.
King Randor of Eternia meets with Queen Angela of Brightmoon
We must rally our forces!...
Retrospective: Pitfall!
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When my daughter was around eight or nine years old, she really enjoyed
playing one of those rhythm games that made use of motion controllers. The
game w...
War of the Roses Basing
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The men of Lord Hastings' Retinue struggle through the mud of Tewkesbury.
Vallejo thick mud was the perfect solution for the grim battle conditions
of th...
Battle for the Trading Outpost: Part 2
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A roar of aerial and ironclad artillery signalled the commencement of the
French attack upon the Martian Trading Outpost, and the dying on both sides
beg...
Change how you paint
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Do you have your own painting style, honed over many years and stuck to
rigidly, or do you enjoy experimenting with new techniques and products as
I do?
...
Miniature Wargames issue 500 - Windmill
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The latest issue of *Miniature Wargames,* issue 500, December 2024 features
this scratch built windmill that was built and painted by me. It was
commissi...
Cossack War Wagons (WIP)
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Finished building 6 cossack war wagons for my 40mm collection (made from
cardboard, hibachi skewers and Lego wheels). Finished off with mounts for
swivel...
More Little boats: Poleacre and America's
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A polacca through it's first stages before basing, priming, and painting.
A little houy.
I finished assembling and rigging a few more ships including a lit...
The Mutant Epoch Expansion Rules
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* Long time followers of this blog will know that I am a big fan of
William McAusland's RPG The Mutant Epoch. He recently released the
long-awaited...
Grandpa Gruesome's Weird War Stories
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It's that time of year again! The veil between the living and dead is at
it's thinnest. Time for the World Revenent Hunting Social Club to meet once
aga...
James Raggi and The Albatross?
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Yah, its weird to me to be making a post regarding LOTFP stuff two times in
a row, but I saw something that got my goat a bit and got me thinking.
Lik...
Another vein in the mythical underworld
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Here's another rich seam of OSR material my mining of the old school blogs
has turned up. I suppose I should sort all of these links and ideas into a
st...
Conan vs Barbarianism
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One of the themes that Robert E. Howard returns to again and again in his
Conan tales, is the idea that civilization is a temporary thing that must
be w...
The Dead Rise in Warhammer Quest 95!
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Welcome back Adventurers,
Its been a while since I last posted, but had an interesting few months
with lots of stuff going on around the home. But earlie...
A Bevy of Beyond the Supernatural Sheets
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I don't know if anyone out there is still playing *Beyond the Supernatural*
("BtS"), Palladium's fun* little game of proto-super heroes hunting the
para...
Field fortifications
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In September of this year, one dozen scenarios were designed and tested for
a mid-17th century map-less campaign. Scenarios are randomly selected with
ob...
15mm Terminator: Junkyard Dogs
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I’ve started work on sourcing and painting up some scenic elements and
terrain for the 15mm Terminator project, and am kicking things off with
some wr...
LardEhs IV - October 28, 2023
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*When:* Saturday, October 28, 2023 (~9:30am-7pm)
*Where:* Royal Hamilton Light Infantry Hall, Hamilton (1353 Barton Street
East)
*What:* Two time ...
Spinward Marches Solutions, LLIC.
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*Art by Ian Stead, by commission.*
*Spinward Marches SolutionsRhylanor/2716 Spinward Marches*
*UCP: Im◄2444●23►LLPAR●Sec◄0466●56►*
Established at the en...
Etsy Store - Grognard Terrain (15mm Cyberpunk)
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Recently I launched an Etsy store (Grognard Terrain) which seems like
something that was bound to happen.
I've been a big fan of Lazy Forger's sculpting...
French Knights for Patay (IV)
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So I made some progress over the earlier summer months, to add more bases
of French knights for a future Patay game.
Here are some pics. They are pret...
Ogre Redux!
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So I love painting ogres - so sue me. I really do enjoy them, especially
the great Reaper Bones sculpts that you can get for cheap. That and the
fact tha...
The Brave Art of Running Away
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In last night's game, on two separate occasions the player characters
decided that discretion is often the better part of valor, and decided not
to fight...
Five Parsecs from Home
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Hello Mik's Minis viewers!
And if you're from the 'before times' a ...
Kids on Bikes - Roll20 Macro Work
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I am prepping for a Kids on Bikes RPG game coming up. We will play on
Roll20 and I like setting up macros. Some help the players and others are
just no...
Ancient / Medieval village church
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The finished small village church/chapel, made from poly board with the
outer covering of card mostly removed and the exposed foam scribed with
lines to ...
Grimy Green Ghostly Skeleton Revenants
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Kevin Dallimore wrote this fine article on a variant of painting undead
Revanants for Oathmark, and I wanted to try it out on my Triumph of Death
skel...
Hey, what's going on in here?
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It seems the Mad Scientist is working on something secret in his laboratory
of horrors... I wonder what it will be? Is it anything to do with Warrior...
GM's side of "Checkpoint Chester"...
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So it's been a while since I have done anything "Bongolesia wise", and as
explained in the 2020 update, there's just been so much going on lately in
my ...
326 BC The Battle of Hydaspes
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Just posting a few images from the game we played yesterday afternoon, The
Battle of Hydaspes, where Alexanders veteran army fought the Indian King
Porus...
The Broken Lands - The Undertemple of Arkon
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As part of our current online campaign, The Broken Lands, I used an
adventure called, "The Undertemple of Arkon" from The Dragon Horde Zine #1.
This isn't ...
The Map for my Current DnD Campaign
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So maybe two months ago, when we all realized that lockdown wasn't just
going to last a couple of weeks, a number of us agreed to try playing a
Dungeons an...
Standby for future content...
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I have decided to take up my tools and add to this project. 11 years ago I
sold the collection and still had one or two bits lined up to make. The
2020 cov...
Levithan
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I just picked up a copy of Scotia Grendel's Leviathan. This is a game I've
been meaning to get for years but thanks to the excellent Leviathan War
blog, ...
2019
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I haven't updated this blog in a long time. Hopefully, sometime in the
coming few months, I'll have my new *Atomic Pulp* website live with a blog
incorpor...
Review of 2017
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Well, it's that time of year again. For those of you still following, if
you haven't noticed a distinct downward trend over the past year or two,
I'm su...
Mountain Giant
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Converted a toy Hulk figure into a Hulking Mountain Giant.
Took this toy for $5 and made a Giant
Using some Green putty,copper BBs, jewelry chain,a shiel...
Grasping the nettle.
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*Well, it has been a while (understatement of the day so far...) Below is
my first faltering steps into what I hope/intend will be Europe's "back
story" (...
Horizon Wars - 2nd Game
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I'm surprised Google hasn't deleted this blog yet.
Anyway, I have been kicking around a lot of different rulesets lately,
trying to find something I like....
Adventures in the City of the Dead
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I am trying a new approach to dealing with sessions that multiple players
have to miss in my new Waterdeep campaign. If I know in advance that
multiple pl...
15mm Great Swamp Lizard
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We are very pleased to release our latest 15mm fantasy model -- the Great
Swamp Lizard. This towering beast can eat his way straight through entire
enemy ...
Fungus Forest - Pay What You Want .PDF
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Fungus Forest - Pay What You Want
The Fungus Forest is available now as a Pay What You Want .PDF on
DriveThruRPG.com. Check it out and download now!
Th...
So we thought it was going to be a small game.
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Ever had one of those game events were you thought it was just going to be
a small 6 player gamer but turned into an 10 player event? Well that was
out Sat...
Modular Lego Dungeon in the Works
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I'm working on a modular Lego dungeon set for my kids and I to game with. I
had several castle sets as a kid, so I have lots of grey pieces to work
with. I...
We've Moved!
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A few months back I decided to consolidate all of my gaming blogs into one.
You can find all of the articles from here, as well as new Savage Worlds
conten...
Team Adventure - Fun and Fungus
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Alagon dived into the pool, using his ability to breathe underwater that he
had acquired in the Tomb of the Holy Avenger. Alurax joined him and they
invest...
Hail Mary .....of the LIVING DEAD!!!!
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So I somehow managed to knock out another 60-something zombies before this
baby arrives, nothing fancy here, I didn't even texture the bases. I
figured I ...
Superheroes don't get their due
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*It should come as a shock to no one that I'm a huge fan of superheroes.*
In fact, I've often thought about retooling this blog to be more of a
"spells and...
Meet the Party
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I'm back in Poland for a few days. Which means it's time to move my D&D
campaign a bit. I have little time left to the session, so just take a look
at the...
Steam Navvies
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Managed to spend a few hours on Sunday painting. Here are some figures I
painted some time ago but finished off yesterday with a very quick base job.
These ...
The Bookish Life
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I don't normally do this, but I'm going to plug our business. My wife and
I have been on Etsy for almost 7 years and have been doing arts and craft
shows...
So how many figures have you painted again?
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I always set a goal in each calendar year to paint a certain number of
figures. I'm always hoping to buy far fewer figures than I paint so I can
cut into ...
Bank Holiday Board Game Goodness!
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Well this Bank Holiday weekend was spent down in Pembrokeshire with my Mum.
Old films were watched, a zoo was visited and, hence it's mention on this
blog...
Touchdown
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Well, we finally did it. I managed to get my family relocated to Edmonton
in Canada. There's a zillion things we are catching up on and trying to do
so I c...
Martian Civil War
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My flyer was pulled out of the box for only the second time. It was fun to
run, and was a constant pain to the bad guys. After our last gathering,
plans...
Closing Today
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The Underdark Gazette will go Down, sometime after 11:00 PM, Central Time,
this evening. Please, if you would be so kind, update your links to my new
blog ...
Borogrovia - A Country Awaits Destiny
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Hradschanij is a city in a mood of turmoil, *writes* *William L Shirer. *The
scars of 1933 can be found on the streetcorners and doorways of the Old
Town a...
Black Hat 15 mm Feudals - Vexillia
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Something painted by yours truly for a change. Thanks to some spare time
I've painted and photographed some examples of the 15mm Medieval Peasants &
Gener...
www.jcfigures.com is LIVE!
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Check out my new website. It isn't that flashy, in fact it is pretty ghetto
among website standards, but I am doomed to the KISS principle. Please post
sug...
The Moving Van is Coming!
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I am going to be moving this blog.
Actually, I am combining blogs. The new site will be The Scattergun Gamer,
and it will have all sorts of gaming stuff on...
Building completion.
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It's been a while since my last post, but i've been enjoying many of the
other bloggs as people snap and type away.
This year i've decided to be a bit more...
Torgon Needs Vril!
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I've been brainstorming on the whole Henchman-for-Hire adventure idea. The
main elements (besides the PCs), as you may recall, are Torgon the
Eviscerator (...
Marlborough
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I brought Winston Churchill's biography of his most famous ancestor with me
to France in an effort to finally get through it.
I've managed to get most of t...
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Looking good, I'm really interested to see how the roofs turn out.
ReplyDeleteShaping up nicely!
ReplyDeleteLooking good! I've been playing with the teddy bear fur it for awhile now, here is how my church roof came out - I'm rather pleased with it:
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Looking great and it gives a hint for making a perfect home .
ReplyDeleteYour buildings look really great. Looking forward to seeing the finished version.
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