Smoke & Flame!
Doing some shopping last week, I found a batch of LED tea candles for sale, 6 for $5.95. I’ve been meaning to pick some up to play with them for ages, as I’ve seen some neat stuff done with flickering...
View ArticleLost Luggage Turns Up!
More months ago than I care to admit, I bought some really neat pulp-era 28mm luggage in resin from Slug Industries. I prepped and primed the first batch of the stuff, got some paint on it, then it sat...
View ArticleStonework & A New BB Scoreboard
A while ago via Google Plus, I stumbled over the Terrain Wench and her work, specifically the nicely done Lizardman spawning pool she had created. She’d taken the trouble to do a really well-done video...
View ArticleNew Bloodbowl Scoreboard, Part Two
Followup from yesterday afternoon’s post, I got the Milliput out and did a first pass on the piece. As well as patching a couple of seams between blocks of styrofoam and rebuilding one stone I’d...
View ArticleBB Scoreboard Temple, Part Three
Bits and pieces of detailed putty-pushing this evening, mostly. I finished the last three icons for the weather indicator – Blazing Heat (fire), Snow (snowflake) and another Nice Weather (quarter sun)....
View ArticleDugouts & Dice Towers For Bloodbowl
When I finished the new BB scoreboard temple back in May I mentioned that when I got back from Europe I was going to be building a new set of Bloodbowl sideline terrain to match the new scoreboard....
View ArticleBloodbowl Dugout Temple Decoration
IN the local Bloodbowl league I’m currently involved in, there’s a pair of Lizardman teams, one using the regular GW figures for the team and my crocodile dudes from Impact Miniatures. Our League...
View ArticleStencil Test for a Blood Bowl Pitch
I’ve got a felt Blood Bowl pitch that I have marked the standard grid on (15×29 30mm squares) but after months of using it I hadn’t gotten any further than that in transforming it from a useful but...
View ArticleMy Blood Bowl Stadium All Laid Out
Still loads of things to finish on the project, but after doing the crocodile head logo in the centre of the pitch this evening I just had to lay everything out on the dining room table and see it all...
View ArticleBB Scoreboard Temple Part Five – Finished!
Three coats of gloss varnish on the water, flock around the edges of the base, and the two score indicators and weather indicator all finished – the temple is done! Currently it’s 2-1 in the Very Sunny...
View ArticleUrban Scatter Terrain for Infinity
So I’ve been persuaded (OK, it didn’t take much…) to get into Infinity, the fast and lethal science fiction skirmish game from Corvus Belli. I’ve been vaguely interested in Infinity for years, both by...
View ArticleA Building For Infinity
I’ve previously shown my urban scatter terrain for Infinity, and after getting that assembled I decided to tackle something more challenging and larger. Quite a bit larger, actually. It’s a two-storey...
View ArticleSci-Fi Warehouse for Infinity
After building the first building to use on Infinity tables, which turned out to be a complex shape and two storeys plus roof, I decided the next building needed to be simpler and quicker to build, but...
View ArticleNecromancer Beer – a Blood Bowl Sideline Ad
Something quick and silly to break the month-long dry spell in posting! On our local Blood Bowl league’s Facebook page one of the guys made a joke about “Necromancer Beer – one taste will revive you”...
View ArticleBillboard Ads for Infinity
While building another piece of scenery for our Infinity tables I built a roof that didn’t turn out; it just wasn’t working out physically the way I’d pictured it in my head. Turning the partially...
View ArticleAntennas for Infinity
A number of the stock scenarios in Infinity need some sort of antenna or console for the troops to interact with/hack/seize/blow up/etc. You can use basic tokens on the tabletop, but real scenery looks...
View ArticleTaking The Summer Off?
Apparently I’ve basically taken most of the summer off from blogging and doing wargame-related things I felt the need to blog about… last post was June 10th! I’ve been playing a lot of Infinity and...
View ArticlePost-Labour Day Update
Last post was in June, I’m getting really lousy at keeping this poor blog from getting dusty and neglected. It’s been a busy summer for things like bike holidays and being out in the real world, not so...
View ArticleIn Which Things Get Primered
We have an Infinity weekend event coming up in just over a month (Facebook event link, if you’re in the area and interested) and I want to have both all my current buildings basically finished and the...
View ArticleAnother Infinity Ad: Travel to Varuna
I’m home with a stubborn cold that won’t go away, so decided to kick GIMP and Inkscape to life and create another couple of billboard-sized ads for my Infinity terrain. Here’s one advertising the PanO...
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