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Over the last few weeks, I have had the privilege to be able to test print and paint some of the beautiful models from my good friend, Iain Lovecraft's new terrain and miniatures Kickstarter, Frost 2. This lovely plaster and timber building with a wood tiled roof...
On Friday Doug, John and I got together to play a Wars of Ozz skirmish game using Pulp Alley. The game was set in a semi submerged area of post apocalyptic ruins, where rumour had it that there was an ancient treasure hidden, waiting to be claimed by who ever could...
With a few days left to run on the WaterSpire Kickstarter which completes on Friday 19th, I am trying to put together a quick and easy painting guide to get 'gaming quality' miniatures on the table in double quick time. This morning I have painted 'The Clown'. After...
The Deep Ones are one of the most iconic HP Lovecraft adversaries so I was delighted that Iain Lovecraft agreed to sculpt a set of them for the WaterSpire Kickstarter. The WaterSpire campaign contains buildings, canals, gondolas, statues, bridges, and scatter terrain...
I am a huge fan of 02 Hundred Hours, the game of night time raids in WW2. The games innovative mechanisms do a great job at representing the difficult choices and risks associated with creeping around at night in close proximity to the enemy. It was a lucky...
Recovering the plans had been complicated. Special Agent Hinks had not expected the British Agent, Bond to at the Cathedral rendezvous. They had been compromised. That is when the fun really started. A fast Carlson was in position, keys in the ignition to take them to...
For the last five or six months a significant amount of my hobby time has been spent painting model buildings inspired by the architecture of Venice, the floating city. It all started around a year ago. I was talking with my good friend, Iain Lovecraft about how I...
This morning Mike and I have been enjoying an excellent game of 7TV on the Venetian inspired WaterSpire 3D Printed terrain. Our game is inspired by Dr Who and uses 30 point casts. My cast is based around The Dr (Unearthly Traveller), his plucky assistant (Plucky...
Sally4th Viking Saga Shieldmaiden (right) crosses sword with a Gripping Beast Saxon Warrior (left). We have had quiet a few gamers write to us to ask how the new range of Sally 4th Viking Legends match up size wise with other ranges, so I have put this page together...
A long time ago, in a far off and whimsical land, the evil Pi-Rat Baron Cluny the Invincible heard of a beautiful and prosperous coastal city, WaterSpire. A city of deep murky canals and elegant souring spires and the home of the industrious town mice and repository...
Last week Mike and I got together to play the Pulp Alley Scenario - The Four Faces of Dr Fang from the Pulp Alley Scenario's Book. This is one of my favourite scenarios, I've played it multiple times, set in different genres and it is always a lot of fun. I...
Harlot's Den is the latest Sally 4th Kickstarter. The miniatures are sculpted by the hugely talented Iain Lovecraft and are available to either 3D print at home, or as top quality physical miniatures, cast in plastic. The set contains eight ladies and six gents...
Last weekend Lewis & I were play testing one of the four participation games that we are going to be running on Sunday 5th February at Vapnartak Wargames Show at York Racecourse. Our games feature the Viking Town / Seaport (click here for earlier blog with details...
Over the last couple of weeks, hobby time has been focussed on finishing off terrain and figures and play testing scenarios for our participation game at the Vapnartak Wargames Show, hosted by York Wargames Club at York Racecourse on Sunday 5th February. We will be...
Last weekend Lewis and I went for a weekend away at Centre Parcs. This is an annual family get together, with 30+ of us meeting up. It is always a lot of fun, and I normally take a couple of board games to play some time over the weekend. I have over the last few...
Last week Lewis and I got together to have a first game of 0200 Hundred Hours, Night Raids in World War Two. 0200 Hours is published by Grey for Now Games and focuses on night time raids with 5 - 20 models per side. The starter set comes includes the rulebook, cards,...
This blog is going to be used to document the miniatures painted in 2023. Total 28mm Miniatures Painted: 164 & 2 Chariots Updated 26th July 2023 July 2023 28mm Cthulhu Investigators x 4, 3D printed from designs by Enigmatic World and painted using Army Painter...
Sally 4th Swashbuckling Adventure's range compared to Blood & Plunder miniatures One of the questions that I see coming up continually in our emails and on Facebook and other forums is 'how do your figures compare with 'x' and do you have any comparison...
Hobby blog covering getting started, collecting, painting miniatures, making terrain and playing Carnevale, the miniatures game set in a fantasy renaissance Venice
A few weeks ago Doug, John and Keith came over for a four player game of Pulp Alley. We were trying out something a little different, a Pulp Alley Dungeon Crawl with hidden terrain. At the start of the game all areas apart from the four starting areas were covered up...
The Battle of Prestonpans was the first battle of the last Jacobite Rising. It took place on 20-21 September 1745. The Jacobite army led by Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) achieved a stunning and unexpectedly one-sided victory over the Government forces...
Infamy, Infamy is a 'super skirmish' set of Ancients rules, published by Too Fat Lardies, that cover the wars between Rome and her barbarian enemies between 60BC to AD100. Figures are mounted individually but fight as part of units that are deployed on movement trays...
Little & Large - Same figures - different scales. Welcome to week six of my getting started with tabletop gaming on a budget blog. If you’ve not read the first weeks blog, it’s worth catching up on as it explains the parameters or rationale, and the thoughts...
Mike and I got together for a great game of Gangs of the Undercity. Gangs of the Undercity is our own 'fan variant' of Gangs of Rome, that allows you to play a Gang themed skirmish in any medieval / fantasy themed city. We have produced a set of Gangs of the Undercity...
The setting: An underground dungeon hidden beneath some zombie infested ruins! Last week I got together with my son Lewis, over Zoom to play some Pulp Alley, one of our long time favourite games. We have a second webcam mounted on the ceiling above the games table to...
Copplestone Castings - TM2 Half Orc Spearmen Welcome to week two of my getting started with tabletop gaming on a budget blog. If you've not read the first weeks blog, it's worth catching up on as it explains the parameters or rationale, and the thoughts behind the...
My hobby blog about gaming, painting and model making for Gangs of Rome. Gangs of Rome, is a skirmish miniatures game set in Ancient Rome where rival houses use gangs of thugs to gain advantage and influence.
An article about getting starting tabletop miniature gaming on a budget with restricted space and solo gaming potential.
The November issue of Miniature Wargames (Issue 475) contains a fantastic set of 3 scenarios for Robin Hood themed miniature gaming using the Feudal Patrol skirmish set of rules, (although the scenarios could be played with any good set of skirmish rules). The article...
So... how many Ferengi can you fit in the turbo-lift? Recently we have been playing the Star Trek Role Playing module "The Prize", set on Epsilon Alpha III. The crew of USS Cousteau answered a coded message from the research station alerting them of the discovery of...
The Spy Who Loved Me has always been one of my favourite vintage James Bond Movies. I have strong recollections of going to see it at the cinema with my Nan when it was released. As a gamer, the submarine breakout scene has always felt like it would translate...
Thanks to Mike Strong for this beautiful comic book rendition of yesterdays Pulp Alley game. The game was a huge amount of fun. Everything in the photos (miniatures, buildings & ships) apart from the Ice Troll and the modular terrain boards are from Iain...
Viking Village - 3D prints from Iain Lovecraft's Viking Saga This morning Mike came over for another exciting game of Pulp Alley, this time set in a Viking Village were the peace has been disturbed by the sudden appearance of 'Avalanche', a Snow Troll of monstrous...
John shuffles his action deck and surveys the developing situation. Born in 1965, I have been a life long fan of Star Trek. Other Sci-Fi has come along over the last 55 years, and much of that has been great too, but Star Trek has always had a special place in my...
The Ice Queens Army marches across the River of Ice On the 1st October, two new armies for Wars of Ozz go on pre-order for November shipping.. just in time for Christmas. The new forces are The Army of the Ice Queen and the Army of Yule. The Ice Queens Army includes...
Over the last few months I have been 3D printing and painting models to build a Dark Age Scandinavian Harbour. All of the ships, walls and buildings are from Iain Lovecraft's Viking Saga Kickstarter that launches on Tuesday 13th September. Before I started working on...
Over the last couple of months I have been building a Dark Age / Viking Village in 28mm scale using the buildings and other models that Iain Lovecraft has been designing for his Viking Saga Kickstarter which launches on 13th September. These models have all bee 3D...
Knarr heads to the open seas Over the last month I have been test printing and painting some of the beautiful models that are going to feature in my good friend, Iain Lovecraft's Viking Saga Kickstarter. I wrote a blog a few weeks ago about painting and rigging the...
An exciting battle report of a Peter Pan Pulp Alley game played using 28mm metal Peter Pan miniatures.
Last night I decided to assemble and paint an additional nine of these sci-fi warriors to use to represent Klingons in my Star Trek role playing and miniatures games. warriors with pistols The miniatures are cast with separate heads and arms meaning that they can be...
Over the last week I have been printing a copy of 'The Lighthouse' from Iain Lovecraft's 'Treasure Island' Kickstarter. Treasure Island was a Kickstarter, ran by Iain Lovecraft in February 2022. I was deeply honoured to be invited by Iain to test some of the new...
The USS Cousteau Captains Ready Room and Turbolift Over the last week or so I have been expanding my 28mm star trek model bridge to include the area immediately outside the bridge. I have added a section of 'three way corridor' to enable the bridge to be connected to...
Viking Saga 28mm Longboats designed by Iain Lovecraft Over the last couple of weeks I have been test printing and painting models that are going to feature in Iain Lovecraft's Viking Saga which launches on Tuesday 13th September. If you'd like to be notified on...
Last Friday, Doug and I got together to play a Robin Hood themed game of Pulp Alley. Rather than playing in the more familiar environment of Sherwood Forest, we were taken by the local legend of Robin in action in North Yorkshire. "An English ballad and legend tell a...
Over the last week I have been busy 3D printing and painting 28mm scale Viking buildings designed by Iain Lovecraft for his new Kickstarter which is scheduled to launch on 16th August. The additions since my last hobby blog have been the Jetty ready for visiting...
Stargrave Star Trek Conversions I have been a fan of 28mm Sci-Fi gaming for well over four decades now. Over the years I have played Star Trek, Albedo, Stargrave even a bit of Warhammer 40K back in the old days. One of the things that I have always struggled to find...
The War to save Yule as the latest development for the Wars of Ozz Mass Fantasy Battle System. Wars of Ozz is set inspired by (but not confined by) the many works of L. Franks Baums. The War to save Yule introduces to brand new factions to Ozz, the armies of the Ice...
28mm Robin Hood Miniatures game using Thus & Blunder rules
My hobby blog about building a 28mm scale Viking Settlement using models from Iain Lovecraft’s Viking Saga.
Last Wednesday Mike and I got together to play War of Orcs and Dwarves. Wars of Orcs and Dwarves is a mass Fantasy Battle Game. What we mean by this is that it is a game where unit represent several hundred troops and are represented by multiple bases (normally 4-6)...