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Gates For Gaslands, Part Three
Kind of slow on the gaming front around here; we are still in COVID lockdown so no in-person gaming is permitted, but Thursday evening Gaslands by webcam is still going strong – we’ve had six players...
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Cold Waters Ocean Mat Review
For my naval gaming I knew I needed a proper mat eventually; I thought about doing up a sheet of grey felt with spraypaint and such, but then I found the Cold Waters mat from Cigar Box Battles and...
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Gates for Gaslands, Part Four
When we last saw our gates they were basecoated but stalled due to missing 3d printed parts. Those arrived, thanks to my brother’s 3d printer, and I was able to move on with the project. I didn’t want...
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Gates for Gaslands, Part Five
Up next was the “GATE” lettering and giant numbers for the three numbered gates. Mid-project roundup. Rust basecoat on the big numbers, front centre; GATE lettering primed on the right, and the gate...
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Over a Barrel, Gaslands Edition
Corey has a 3d printer, as has featured here many times, and a little while ago he cranked out half a dozen barrels in Gaslands-ish scale. His printer was being temperamental, however, and they wound...
View ArticleBuild Something Contest 2021
Quiet here the last week or so because I’ve been thoroughly distracted by Lead Adventure Forum’s Build Something Contest 2021!Lots of cool entries in progress over on the BSC subforum of LAF. Posting...
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BCS 2021 & A Blog Update
Well, “a few weeks” in my last update apparently turned into two months of radio silence here. Oops.Build Something Contest 2021 over on LAF had the end date pushed back by two weeks due to the...
View ArticleLinks of Interest, 11 August 2021
Quiet around here as I’m not doing a lot of gaming, painting, or terrain building this summer. Too busy with other things! I did have a couple of fantastic games of WW2 coastal forces earlier in...
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Fire, Explosion, and Wreckage Markers for Tiny Boats
Sometime earlier in the pandemic I ordered a batch of 1/1200 3d printed stuff from Shapeways, who use some sort of resin printing to get incredible detail on their prints. I keep meaning to write up...
View ArticleLinks of Interest, 9 January 2022
First LoI post of the new year! Just a couple of things, mostly to get the BSC link out while entries are still open! On the scenery front, this trio of useful little bridges with a neat construction...
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An entry for Lead Adventure’s Build Something Competition 2022 – a farm!
Each year Lead Adventure forum runs a Build Something Competition, each with a theme. Brian and I have participated 5 times at various points in the past years. So with 2022 here, I figured it was my...
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A Trash Bash Tower
A few days into January I had a fall that destroyed my glasses and injured my shoulder, both of which combined to cut down the amount of time I was able to spend on the computer. The upside of this,...
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Remembrance Day Weekend, November 2022
Went to our local municipal Remembrance Day ceremony in person this year, after two years of live streamed ceremonies watched from my computer, which was nice. Also making time for some hobby this...
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Sandbars for Naval Gaming
As mentioned in the last post, I recently made a pair of new sandbars to give our boats and ships more stuff to run into during our games. I’ve done some before but this time I actually managed to get...
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Rocks vs Boats
After doing a pair of new sandbanks, I wanted to do something slightly different but still on the theme of “stuff to crash boats and ships into” and decided on a trio of rocky reef pieces. As with the...
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Small Scale Islands
To round out the current run of small scale scenery for coastal naval games I decided on a trio of islands, one of them with a lighthouse. As with the rest of these small scale naval terrain pieces...
View ArticleNaval Scenery Articles To Date
Here’s all of my posts on 1/1200 coastal naval scenery so far… I’ll try to remember to add to this post as I create future articles! Sandbars, Sandbanks, etc Rocks vs Boats Actual Islands …and from...
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Where does it go? Painted board edges for Sellswords (and other games)
Sellswords & Spellslingers, like a lot of similar games, often has bad guys (foes in Sellsword parlance) appear at random locations or randomly along the board edge. This process can slow down the...
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Another Coastal Module
I’ve finally finished another module for my 1/1200 scale coastal naval terrain. This is another 12″ long by 4″ deep piece with part of a reasonable size town on it, and has been sitting around for two...
View ArticleLinks of Interest, 4 January 2024
First Links of Interest of 2024! Messing about with photo-etch (PE) parts? A bender seems like a useful thing, and happily there’s a Youtube build of a home-made PE parts bender from fairly common...
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