A lesson in white balance. Or, more acutely, why a camera's auto white balance can, sometimes, make no sense. Then again, I may just be bad at taking photos. These pieces are all icy. And it's all for a game that happens in Antarctica. Which is also icy. So, I try to take good photos... Continue Reading →
I haven't posted about the Beneath the Mountains of Madness project in a little while so I should probably get back to that. Really, it's just posting about the project that I've been skipping. The work in the background proceeds at a reasonable pace, and most of the work is already done for the early... Continue Reading →
A few months back I picked up the rules for Hairfoot Jousting from Amazon. I had a gift card, there was a sale, and what is there to buy from Amazon, really. It would be rude to use my gift card to buy practical things like soap or a power tool. So Hairfoot Jousting it... Continue Reading →
Building the first board for Beneath the Mountains of Madness means making a lot of ice. Not real ice, that would be unhelpful. On the game board. In my beverage, sure, it's a good thing. But that is not worthy of a blog post. Here I need to make ice ridges and shelfs. And quite... Continue Reading →
Or, alternate title, my wife thinks they would all be too cold. I had a small pile of unpainted lead from the Kickstater to sort out to get these heroes ready. Some of them are pretty obvious for who they are. Some too a bit more research. But, I had all of the characters I... Continue Reading →
This past weekend (really now as I'm writing this) there was a bit of a winter storm hitting the East Coast of the US. Very seasonal. Somewhat pretty, in its own way. A pain in the back. But it does help to put one in the right mindset to work on a game with an... Continue Reading →
Boy did I get cocky. Figured I had a plan for these penguins, easy job, make them just creepy enough and they would be done. No problem. Stupid. If you haven't read Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness," then you don't know why I am painting penguins for the BtMoM project. In the original story,... Continue Reading →
It's time to clear the work table before starting on the Beneath the Mountains of Madness project. Get rid of all of the other stuff and focus better on the BtMoM minis and terrain. When painting the Star Schlock I gathered a lot of my random and scattered sci-fi minis and decided to get those... Continue Reading →
What to do, what to do? I'm being doing yearly projects since 2021, it looks like. First it was HeroQuest. Most recently it was Dracula. But how have they really gone? They work well for me. It's a way to keep things focused and provide a motivation to paint or build specific things. I could... Continue Reading →
New year, new projects. Not that this counts as my project for this year. I still haven't figured out what the project will be, but it's not what you will see below in this post. To back up a bit, I found myself with some free time around Christmas. The 7TV Dracula project from 2025... Continue Reading →
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