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Alternate History & Imagi-Nation Blogs
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Cops and Rugers - In my previous post, *The Long Firearm of the Law*, I gave a brief overview of the use of firearms by UK Police forces in 1979. I thought it would be inte...
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Mecha For VSF Gaming - Just a quick post, I ran across these over at my local gamestore but didn't pick them up. But they would be perfect for VSF wargaming! Originally they...
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Merijny Christnovsky - * Merijny Christnovsky abnij alle aza Criziz inj Alcovnisk* * * *Cheerjski Morodny *
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My Blog List
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Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler - I know books are not good for me. Good historical fiction is really bad for me. I enjoyed Andy Johnson's book Seelowe Nord so much that I just had to warg...
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A Touch of Green - FA's Teddy Bear Tan and Holly Leaf Green punch up the terrain pieces. I still can not get some of the crevices to fill with paint. I even tried mixing in g...
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New Releases From The Scene - The Scene has decided to deluge use with a bunch of fun stuff this month and there is something for just about anyone. First off are some new alien offerin...
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Hammer Time (part 3) - As previously detailed here and here, a project for me this month has been painting some Hammer's Slammers 28mm blowers from Old Crow. When last I left th...
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It Came from Beyond the Still - Print Version Out Soon! - The print version should be out within the month of March. It will contain all current supplements including Weapons Closet and Men in Plaid and those othe...12 hours ago
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Feeling Good - So I've gotten some of my 25/28mm painting practice figures done or near-done, and I'm feeling pretty good about them - sometimes I need to remember to "tr...
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Untimately's 20 Questions - and my answers - I've had a glass or two of wine tonight so I thought I'd have a go at the twenty questions to be found here. These answers all relate to my current Team Adve...14 hours ago
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Frank Chadwick's Space:1889: Ship Design Worksheet From Savage Troll - Frank Chadwick's Space:1889: Ship Design Worksheet From Savage Troll: The Savage troll has a free download available -- an Excel ship design spreadsheet fo...16 hours ago
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Open Friday: 'Zines - One of the many, many positive results of the old school renaissance over the last few years has been the rediscovery -- and re-invigoration -- of old form...21 hours ago
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Issue 4 of Wisdom From the Wastelands Released - Issue 4 of Wisdom From the Wastelands, the new weekly missive from Skirmisher Publishing, has been released. This issue's theme is "New Races," which intro...
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Fire and Fury Thursday - That pretty much says it all. Initial set-up Union Line advances Rebs charge right up the middle. The fight for one of the towns begins. A view of the ri...
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Classic GW Snakeman - I've had a handful of these classic Games Workshop Snakemen in my collection for years, a gift from my friend Lou some time ago. I decided to paint them up...
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Welcome to Friday Rucht Hour - Hello all! You'll notice that this is not your regularly scheduled blog post. But do not worry. We are in control and all of that. This is Rucht Lilavi...
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TRASH BASH 2012 - part four - This morning I e-mailed my entry to the Trash Bash 2012 modelling competition, see; this link for full details.The competition rules state that work-in-p...
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Wargames Illustrated 293 - The March Issue of Wargames Illustrated arrived on my doorstep last week and I'd almost forgotten to write about it because I have been so absorbed with t...
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Martian Civil War - 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 w...
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Retribution of Scyrah - As I've mentioned in the past, I'm a bit of a miniature painter as well as a traditional role playing fool. One of the games I own a lot of figures for bu...
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D&D ochres, oozes and slimes - No D&D game would be complete without an ochre jelly, gray ooze and green slime. These were easy to make. I used a bit of Sculpey to bulk out the "body" o...
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Moldvay - Everything is balanced. - In this section, Moldvay says: "The DM should try to maintain the "balance of play". The treasures should be balanced by the dangers. Some groups prefer ad...1 day ago
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Coming Attractions: GALAXINA (1980) - The theatrical trailer for the 1980 Crown-International (alleged) comedy, * Galaxina*, starring the late *Dorothy Stratten*.
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A to Z Preview - As I did last year, I will be participating in the A to Z Challenge in April. However, rather than a Hodge-podge of random posts, this year I have a theme!...
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A fist full of Plastic: Summer Anti Nod Offensive Pt. 3. - A fist full of Plastic: Summer Anti Nod Offensive Pt. 3.: On the other side of Dun Masud, the HNG advance was going very well. Due to a misunderstandin...
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Wisdom from the Wastelands Issue 4 Released! - Wisdom from the Wastelands Issue #4 is Now Available! "This issue of Wisdom from the Wastelands contains seven new “races” for players and GMs to use in t...
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Tunnels & Trolls Computer Game - Thanks to DosBoxMom for doing these videos! I've never actually played the T&T computer game from 1990 but it's cool to see it in action here! If you ca...
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The Red Coats Are Coming!.. - You can't beat a good bit of red coat reference. These guys were at Living history day last year. It was nice to see some Light inf...
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Wednesday Covers: Frazetta's JONGOR - *The Return Of Jongor**Jongor Fights Back* As I mentioned here not long ago, I recently purchased the three Popular Press paperback editions of *Robert Moo...
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Opal Island - This is a relic from the fall of 1998, my first semester at college (Tulane University). I was not actively gaming at the time but I still created game ma...
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Boskone 49: A Few Sci-Fi Convention Observations - I attended the Saturday and Sunday sessions of Boskone 49 this past weekend. For those of you who don't know, Boskone is a literary-focused (but less so o...3 days ago
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Dr Grordbort and the Deadliest Game! - Dr Grordbort Presents: The Deadliest Game from Media Design School on Vimeo.4 days ago
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Warmachine: Mercs in the mud - Here's a few Warmachine Mercs I painted up for a commission. The models reminded me of something WWI, so I went with that... which meant of course, lot...
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Um Yeah - Sorry, but with all the "Stuff" going on IRL the hobby has taken kind of a back seat. Though last weekend we did play the third game of our ongoing Klingon...4 days ago
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Bumper Crop of Cthulhu minis - I really don’t do a lot of shopping for figures lately. The other year I bought a few cheap batches of great, prepainted plastic minis from Ebay, and...
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Clearing the Nile of Mahdi - Sudan 1885 - You can never have enough sand in your pants.......Long time between drinks have up load a few images from the Sudan game Leroy and I had this afternoon. I...
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How much campaign do you need? - You see it all over the place: coming up with a campaign is a lot of work, some would-be DMs toil for considerable lenghts of time and never reach a point ...6 days ago
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Sharpe’s Rifles, an unexpected encounter - Hi, it's time for a new battle report! This time I decided to play some of Sharpe's famous adventures and bundled them in some sort of mini campaign based ...
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Sarissa Precision Laser Cut MDF Inn - Continuing on with the Sarissa Precision buildings project, here is the second completed building. I turned this large storefront into a rural French Inn. ...
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"The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time. - Well, Tomorrow Gathering in the Desert 2012 kicks off at 5:00pm with the March to Mount Doom. But for me and the staff, we will be getting a start on movin...
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The Wanderin' Elvii of Carcosa Want You! - I have mapped 2 levels of my forthcoming "Jale House Rock" Carcosa adventure (starring the Wandering Elvii). The main level is a small keep, with a dungeo...
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The Old Town 2 - Down town old Asmara finally taking shape, after posting the original design sketches in January 2010, how can it be that long ago? well they do say tim...
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The Battle of Roundway Down - With no sign of the Royalist infantry coming up from Devizes, Wilmot and Byron decide to take the intiative and attack. Wilmot sent Smith forward with a 'f...
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When The Concept Mattered More Then The Rendering - This isn't an exotically armored Dragonborn Controller Battlemind (???), nor is it some scantily chainmail bikini clad barbarian woman facing some bizarre...
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15mm Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel - In the Fallout video game the basic Brotherhood of steel Power Armor looks like this. While it looks cool in game, in 15mm scale on a gaming table, frankly...
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What maps inspired you as a kid? - The Awl has a great post Maps We Wandered Into as Kids that explores fantasy maps that inspired readers growing up. I had many, but one that totally blew m...
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So long since signs of life were present, but yes, it lives again! - I herald my long long long overdue blogging return with an apology for my absence - words have just looked foul and ugly to me for an extended period, but ...
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Gift Quar - [image: Image and video hosting by TinyPic] I painted this small scene for a Friend for Christmas, he had liked the lone daisy in the short Quar film so I ...
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Chickasaw Fort Complete - Front view. I used Woodland Scenics Deciduous foliage and their clump bushes. I also added coarse turf in places. Affixed with Woodland Scenics Hob e Tac....
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Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention - I can't say this post is an actual book review. I haven't actually seen Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention in person, but I thought you guys wou...
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Space Demons and Garn and Felids oh my! - Well, just imagine how pleased we were to find out, accidentally, that the readers of *The Miniatures Page* had nominated *three* of our ranges for Best ...
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New Scots figures - These images are already buzzing around the virtual wargames world, so I hope that Dave Imrie won't mind me sharing them here too. Dave and figure-painter...
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The Obligatory SOPA/PIPA Blackout Post - Take steps to secure free speech on the internet Stop SOPA/PIPA5 weeks ago
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Congregation of Wizards - Hello! I'm well and stuff. Took a long break from blogging in order to play more. To amuse you here's a picture of three deans of some polish universities a...1 month ago
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Miniature Modeling and 3D Printing With Minecraft and Mineways - Minecraft players! Have you ever thought to yourself how cool it would be if you could export your creations into a 3d physical model to share with your pe...1 month ago
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The Long Walk - + Just finished this up and I'm loving it. Used 2.35x1 aspect ratio to get that big epic film feel. It's hard fighting the temptation to crop tighter and sh...
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Comments closed - Although this blog will stay up for the sake of posterity I am turning of the comments option as I am fed up fending off loads of spam comments. I hope peo...1 month ago
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Fleet Scale Sci-Fi: Star Trek WIP sneak peek! - Just to prove that I haven't disappeared up my own Warp Core over the festive break, thought I'd post a couple of work in progress pics on the various Sta...
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Going, going, gone.... - I started my love affair with miniatures as early as my fifth year of life. After my mom gave me a pack full of plastic army men, there was no going back. ...1 month ago
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Storm over the Nile - Storm over the Nile is a multi-player campaign involving three major powers; the Kingdom of Fung, the Sultanate of Sennar, the Ottomans and three nomadic B...
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Closing Today - 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 ...1 month ago
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TRAVELLERcon Miniatures Round Up - It's amazing what you'll find when you go through the pictures folder on your laptop. Here are some piccies I snapped at TravellerCon-USA this past Octobe...1 month ago
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HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY, BONGOLESIA BLOG!!!! - Wow...the time sure flies when you are having fun... And this blog marks it's fifth birthday today... 102 posts, 72 followers, 25K + page views... And the ...
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Borogrovia - A Country Awaits Destiny - 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...
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Weird World War 2: POINT BLANK! - WEIRD WORLD WAR 2 I recently came across some archival footage of some Weird War actions using a modified version of Iron Ivan Games's Point Blank Skirmish...
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Martian Theological Clash - Yes, after several months of calm the Martian landscape erupts once more with conflict, thankfully! Everyone had always known that it was only a matter of t...
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RASSLIN'!!!! - So several weeks back my good buddy Doctor Merkury convinced me to go see a live Pro Wrestling event that was put on by an independent promotion called the...
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And now for something completely different... - Heya Folks, Well, no posts for over two years. As I'm sure you may have surmised my 15mm Flash Gordon project now sits on a metaphorical shelf with a mul...6 months ago
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Savage Worlds at RockCon - I"m going to be attending Rock-Con in Rockford, IL November 4th-6th and there are Savage things afoot. I'm going to be running a game of *Space 1889: Red S...6 months ago
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Odds and Ends pt.1 - I am going through my big three ring binder full of crap from my Mutant Future campaign today. I pulled out a few of the gems to share with y'all in a ser...
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Cemetery Chapel - During my visit to Salute I acquired some scenery to create a cemetery , including the new plastic gravestones from Renedra, as well some from Westwind, Ha...
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The Dungeon of Random OSR Evilness - I have been thinking about a little project for a while now. I want to build a dungeon using just the B/X rulebooks and the free materials provided by the ...
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flotsam and jetsom - Months have passed since my last post but I haven't been entirely bone idle and to prove it here are some new bits and bobs for my Fifth Frontier War proje...
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The Uniqueness of Things - One pronounced philosophical trend I have seen in OSR circles is a general attitude in favor of what I would call the uniqueness of things. By this I mean ...1 year ago
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www.jcfigures.com is LIVE! - 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...1 year ago
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The Moving Van is Coming! - I am going to be moving this blog. Actually, I am combining blogs. The new site will be The Scattergun Gamer, and it will ahve all sorts of gaming stuff on...1 year ago
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Building completion. - 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...
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Torgon Needs Vril! - 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 (...2 years ago
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Gaelcon 09 - I will be running a participation game of Ambush Alley over this weekend at Gaelcon at the D4 Hotel in Dublin if anyone fancies a game. I will be there on ...2 years ago
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Marlborough - 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...
2 years ago
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These are great!
ReplyDeleteHm, since Reaper has their Mouslings, are we going to see some 15mm Gobblers anytime soon ;-)
Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving! The nearest thing we'll have is our Independence Day 6th Dec.
Bravegizzard?
ReplyDeleteNice pic! :)
The puns are getting worse......
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