5 Parsecs from home- Campaign start
I have been spending a lot of time messing around with rosters and QRS sheets convenient to use on my 13" laptop while playing 5 Parsecs. I don't have a printer you see. Unfortunately, in the heat of...
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The Spaceport at game start.Campaign turn 2.After an uncomfortable beginning, Dash, Toros and Mackie all head into town looking for a Patron (Sending 3 crew members is an auto-success with this...
View Article5 Parsecs- Boarded!
After the sad death of Dash and Jella's departure, the crew of the Rampart set about finding some new members. Jann Silman put them in touch with some old explorer associates of his. "Kilo", an...
View ArticleThe 6 Month Mountain Reduction & Painting Challenge
I recently agreed to take part in the 6 month mountain reduction and painting challenge set by Chris, from Chris' miniature woes blog.As I'm sure most readers know, Mountain in this case is nerd slang...
View ArticleThe Prang
Here are the Prang from 15mm.co.uk that I tried using coffee grounds as basing material on last post. I worked the white armour up from grey, giving them a fair bit of depth... Although it doesn't show...
View ArticleVornid Support
It's been a long while again, real life etc. etc. On to the good stuff: New Vornid models from Khurasan miniatures, the very best miniatures for weirdness in 15mm scale!Vornid WalkerVorhoundsTogether...
View ArticleSupplies Secured
It's been a long time coming, but my budget finally allowed me to shore up my increasingly scrappy paint collection. I just need some cheap grey hobby acrylic to use as primer and I'm all set.I chose...
View ArticleJungle Terrain
After years of putting it off, I've finally built some jungle/forest terrain. Why the wait? In the distant past I have made several different types of forest base, usually for GW gaming. I was never...
View ArticleRe-basing frenzy
Planning is always a good idea.My mind continually re-assess my terrain collection. It's almost a sickness. As I have moved so many times in the last couple of years (Back to Australia, Back to the UK,...
View ArticleMail Call!
I made a small order from Armies Army recently to clear out some PayPal funds. Keith kindly threw in some very cool freebies and I'll be painting them up this week. I've been a fan of AA models from...
View ArticleArmies Army- Russian Empire
I finished the first 8 figures from Armies Army Russian Empire range yesterday. I love these sculpts, they paint up very easily, striking the perfect balance of interest and simplicity to keep plowing...
View ArticleMore Cork Terrain
As part of my campaign to refresh and unify my terrain collection, I decided to turn my old stepped hills into rocky outcrops, as they were really too shallow to be very useful. I recently bought some...
View ArticleMore Armies Army figures
Enemy Unknown!Here are the Armies Army Enemy Unknown all done. I had real trouble deciding on a colour scheme for these and almost did them (space)Wolf grey. I went with this scheme with modern video...
View ArticleSpace Knights
Left to right: Warrior, Elf, Paladin, RogueEdited April 13 2015Some nice minis from 15mm.co.uk I just finished. The dual wielding fellows are conversions (done last year!) pictured below.When I posted...
View ArticleFrostgrave setup for £10
I’m back again with a little post about a frugal gaming project that got me painting again. Frostgrave is a little game published by Osprey that has crept onto my radar largely due to Instagram. When I...
View ArticleFrostgrave Warbands
I'm almost ready for a game of Frostgrave now that I have 2 warbands painted! One is made up of Copplestone castings Barbarians and Nothmen, the other is Orcs and goblins from the Blood Dawn range. All...
View ArticleInsurgents
Mysterious freebies!InsurgentsWelcome back! I recently ordered Osprey's Black Ops rules from Amazon and ordered some insurgent forces from Armies Army miniatures to use with them (1 squad and a command...
View ArticleClearhorizon Omega Squad
Mr. Harold sent me these a while ago, and I finally got around to painting them. The delay was mainly that the neck length bothered me, so it took a while to get around to converting them. All I did...
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