This past weekend in beautiful and historic Williamsburg, Va, the Old Dominion Military Society held it's annual Muster. Three days of gaming and shopping along with the requisite drinking and catching up with old friends. Not nearly as big as other US conventions, Historicon with it's thousands and GenCon with tens of thousands, the Muster... Continue Reading →
I have all of the miniatures painted and ready, I hope, for Crooked Dice's "Lurkers From The Deep" Feature Pack for 7TV. Now it's time to turn my attention to the terrain. The buildings, vehicles, and other filler fill two vital roles when playing wargames. First, these terrain features break up the game play area. Buildings block line... Continue Reading →
In the first episode of Lurkers from the Deep, the villains are producing and packaging some vile and corrupting beverage at their creepy factory. The source of the problem is the Incubator, a strange alien-looking growth that provides the key ingredients for Fiske's Old Peculiar. The heroes have come to stop production of the cure-all that is slowly... Continue Reading →
Shoggoths, or protoplasmic terrors, or whatever. The Episodes require a few of them and I have none. Time to fire up the ole 3D printer and see what I can make. Thinigverse has some interesting options. Being the cheap bastard that I am, free sounds good to me. Just need to search for the right thing. There are a few... Continue Reading →
For the past two years I've selected a specific gaming project to start. First year was painting the original set of HeroQuest, which turned out very well. Second year was the 7TV Feature Pack "Vlad's Army" complete with miniatures and all terrain. That was a major undertaking, but with only 3 episodes in the pack it didn't take... Continue Reading →
There were a lot of miniatures I painted in 2023, either as distractions or as focused efforts, that never got their own blog post. Typical thing, painting is more fun than typing so much goes unblogged. The biggest set of miniatures I painted in 2023 that haven't been shown here started as a joke. In the past... Continue Reading →
I clearly didn't post a lot in 2023. Though I did paint and make a good deal of stuff. The project I chose for the year, Vlad's Army, was successfully completed and played, though it's ready for more action. I worked on some commission buildings for a friend. But what else was completed? Sticking with the buildings, I made... Continue Reading →
Along with the Not a Santa for 2023, I decided to paint up a few holiday colored cultists. These cultists are Frostgrave Cultists from North Star Military Figures. This box has provided many great bits for WWII zombies and Napoleon era shambling dead. But the actual cultists are great, too. Christmas colors of red, green, and white work... Continue Reading →
I have the miniatures for a lot of pulp action but no police officers. Many pulp games require police and I had a glaring lack thereof. Easy to fix. There are a number of different police miniatures out there to chose from. As no one was kind enough to sell any dirt cheap at a flea market, swap... Continue Reading →
Son2 and I played through this Episode back in June or July. Pictures were taken, fun was had, but some of the details of the game are a little fuzzy these months after. No matter. The pictures are the interesting part, right? After working hard the first half of 2023 to get the terrain ready, the board was... Continue Reading →
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