When you read The Shadow Over Innsmouth (and you should) you will find references to the Marsh Refinery. It's not clear how the Refinery stays in business or what they even refine. The main character simply accepts what information is provided to him. The reader, however, is left with a clear sense that something is... Continue Reading →
While still waiting to finish the board for Episode 1, I decided to start on Episode 2. Those pesky train cars are still missing and I need to figure out what I plan to do for them. More plotting and planning, less buying MDF train models. Good time to start looking at the board for... Continue Reading →
It was getting obvious that there was a problem. My boards. My boards are flat and boring. My buildings are good, but there is too much open space. I was in desperate (relatively) need of more clutter. Clutter I got. To paint! My clutter comes from a previous Kickstarter from Terrain Crate. I highly recommend... Continue Reading →
Continuing with the Lurkers builds, I see the the factory in Episode 1 has a gantry that characters can climb to. My factory... no gantry. So, I make a gantry. Why? Good question. It's not like the players will ever climb there. I have found in my exhaustive research that players rarely think three-dimensionally and... Continue Reading →
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 →
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