Gaming, Painting & Modelling Hobby Blog

This blog is showcasing some of the amazing painting done by Hanno Barker on some of the ACP164 Albedo Miniatures game models.

Hanno has a great depth of artistic knowledge that he has used to bring these models to life using an acrylic base coat which then is built upon using oil paints in the manner of the Renaisance Masters.

If you would like to learn how Hanno has acheived these rich tones, he has posted a very useful article on the Albedo Patrol Forums, click here to take a look.

On Sunday I started working on some terrain for gaming set in the Arctic inspired by movies such as 'Ice Station Zebra.

The project is going to consist of enought 1' square terrain boards to cover a 6' x 4' table. These will have features on them such as thin ice, pressure ridges, rubble ic and crevaces.

Features will include an arctic research station on stilts, some Jamesway huts, an ice-bound ship and a submarine conning tower breaking through ice,

Submarine Conning Tower

This is the image that I used for inspiration. I wanted the conning tower 'bridge' to be big enough to take 3 miniatures mounted on 25mm bases and I wanted an open door with a gangplank.

I started off by designing a frame which was cut from 3mm MDF.

Two pieces of thin card are then glued in place to make the steel plate skin.

The rivet, plate and ladder detail was then added using self adhesive, textured 3-Decals which are made by N-FX.

The conning tower has been given a quick base coat of grey household emulsion. Eventually the masts, periscopes and other details will be added as resin castings and the model will have a decal for ID number.

To give an idea of scale it is photographed with some miniatures that have been sculpted by Mark Fuller. These will be available as part of Sally 4th Classic Movie range later this year.

Jamesway Hut

The second piece to be modelled was the iconic Jamesway Hut. These look very much like the Nissan or Quonset hut but they are not covered with corrugated sheeting. Jamesway huts are always covered with a rot proof and vermin proof fabric that holds insulation in place.

This model is of the smallest version of this hut. I've modelled the hut with its internal frame so that it can also be depicted as a hut being built or a ruin with fragments of fabric left attached.

Ice-bound Ship

OK, I did not do all of this on Sunday! When we develop a model kit, one gets built as I design the kit. Once it is completed and fretted out, we need to make another model from scratch to photograph for the instruction leaflet, so I had a spareTramp Steamer kit, 95% assembled that had been gathering dust on the shelves for a year, so I decided to use that to model a ship stuck in the ice.

The terrain that I am building is based on 12" square terra-former modular terrain kits, sometimes terrain features like this do not fit into a 12" square so I combine 2 sides from a 2' square tile kit with two sides from a 1' square tile kit to make a 2'x1' tile.

It was very easy to draw around the hull with a whiteboard marker and then remove a hull shaped cavity with a cheap hobby knife.

I've then used some Sculptamold (paper reinforced plaster to add a bit of texture to the tile and fix the ship in place.

Arctic Terrain Tiles

The other progress for this weekend was to assemble enough 12" square Terra-Former tiles to make an initial 4' x 4' area. This will later be extended to 4'x6'.

Terraformers are MDF modular terrain frames with embedded rare earth magnets to hold them closely together.

.... To be continued over the coming weeks as Iwork on the project!

D&D has got to be one of my favourite games of all time. I started playing at school at about 15, around the time of the Red Box edition and just before AD&D was released and those early campaigns such as Against the Giants and Expedition to the Barrier Peaks and Tomb of Horrors still create a wave of nostalgia. I played a lot of AD&D at college and then it tailed of a bit due to lack of enough players to get together at any one time. A couple of years ago I started playing 5th Edition, and had a fantastic campaign that lasted about a year before scheduling became an issue. At the moment our RPG group is playing a campaign using Fate set in the world of Harn, which is a whole lot of fun.  Nick & I have often talked about the feasability of using D&D as a 2 player skirmish system, so that we can enjoy the richness of the game system and build up familiarity with the core rules at times when we can't get four or five playres together for a game.

A couple of weeks ago, we gave the concept a trial, it worked well and was a whole lot of fun. We used one of the encounters from the first module from Defiance in Phan, The Goblins Lair.

Many months back I made a set of 3D printed terrain for earthy cave's and lairs using the excellent terrain tiles from Dungeonworks. I tried out a new approach to painting the tiles. They were all given my usual terrain undercoat of Sandtex Chocolate Brown. I then used real earth from my garden for colouring and texture. The earth was prepared by drying out on a baking tray in the oven and then sieving through a fine sieve to remove stones, twigs and larger particles. The dryed and sterilised soil was then mixed 4 parts soil to one part chocolate brown tile grout.  The terrain pieces were then painted with pva glue and the earth mixture was sieved on to it. When it had dried I then sprayed watered down PVA glue and Isoproponyl to seal the finish. Rocks and tree stumps were then drybrushed up from black. I'm very pleased with the results, as you can't really get anything that looks more like earth and soil than real soil!

Our group of adventurers enter the lair. The party consists of an Elven Mage, a Dwarf Fighter a Human Fighter and a Halfling Rogue.

The sneaky Goblins have some hidden arrow slits that they use to open fire on the party. The mage hurls a fireball at the wall, hoping to catch the goblins through the slits. The 3/4 cover save however saved them from any harm.

The Dwarf makes it through the passage way and charges the goblin archers.

The party set of a trap in the entrance way. Although it did not cause any harm to the party, it did alert the rest of the Goblins to intruders. Two Goblins head off to charge the intruders, while the third heads to the wolf cages to unleash there fiercesome pets.

The two wolves charge the Mage and bring him to the ground unconsciouse. Unfortunately he fails two death saving throws before the Halfling is in a position to attempt first aid, which he failed and the Mage passed away.

The Dward fighter, heavily outnumbered holds his own long enough for the rest of his party to coome to his assistance. Eventualy the Goblins are dispatched and the three remaining companions, bloody and weary push forwards down a narrow corridor towards the waiting Bugbear and his minions.

This worked very well and we are looking forward to playing some more.

Links for further information.

The Dungeon Tiles are 3D printed from designs from Dungeonworks

The Bugbear is from Otherworld Miniatures

The clear bases are Sally 4th Clear Bases

The Dwarf & Elf Mage are miniatures from Mantic Games Dungeon Saga

The Human Fighter is made from Gripping Beast Saga Plastic pieces

The Goblins are from Games Workshops Middle Earth range

The Wolves are from North Star Miniatures

The next fantasy miniatures gaming article that I am planning to write will be a first try out of Saga - Age of Magic, the eagerly awaited swords and sorcery supplement for the well established Saga game from Studio Tomahawk. We've got our pre-order in so hoping that we will have a copy by the end of next week.

Albedo Combat Patrol:ACP164.

The Defence of Science Station Z1430.

A couple of weeks ago, my good friend Patrick had an unexpected free afternoon so we decided to have a go at the introductory ACP164 scenario - Defence of the Science Station.

Set on a planet, many light years away from Arras Chankra an ILR Planetary Invasion Fleet has recently landed and plan to annex Ralon186 to the Republic,

Taken by surprise, the planetary HomeGuard were quickly overthrown at the starport and main population centres, however there are many pockets of resistance that need to be cleared before the ILR can claim a complete victory.

Science Station Z1430 was a biological research station, engaged in valuable research to determine if cultivated plants could be used to supplement the critters mainly synthesized diet. A single section of 8 HomeGuard had been tasked with its defence, however the platoon HQ was also located in the building and an additional section were close enough to support if reinforcement was neccessary.

The left flank was secured by a fast flowing stream and number of dirt tracks led to the science station.

The EDF split there section in to two fireteams. Alpha Fireteam positioned themselves behind the sturdt walls of the plazza.

The LMG from platoon HQ was set up on the roof of the research building with a commanding field of fire.

The defenders did not have to wait long for the first wave of planetary assault troops to advance through the light woods and move towards the cover of broken ground to the left of the building.

Long range fire, particularly from the defenders LMG thinned out the attackers, but did not prevent them from making it to cover.

The HomeGuards Bravo Fireteam had positioned themselves amongst some rocky outcrops to the right of the research station. It was not long before they had multiple targets to engage.

Although the ILR took heavy fire, and lost some good rabbits that day, it was not long before a second quad joined them to consolidate there position.

Eventually a second squad of HomeGuard arrived as reinforcements and started to move forwards.

Alpha Fireteam had born the brunt of the ILR assault for many turns, casualties were mounting and cohesion was beginning to break down. Here we see a critter failing a morale test and heading for the next piece of cover...inside the building.

At this point, the Republics finest decide to settle the issue by close assault

The ILR win the melee after two turns of bitter fighting.

Charlie Fireteam, part of the reinforcing section counterattacks, but they are also overcome by the aggresive ILR Troopers,(who are quiet handy at close quarters).

Delta Fireteam move forwards, but are too late to prevent the science station falling into enemy hands.

As always, an exciting game of Albedo. The scenario was pretty well balanced with a platoon attacking a reinforced section. Up until the last turn I had felt that I would get my reinforcements into the battle and that they would make a difference, but it was not to be and Patrick and the ILR won a well deserved victory.

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Albedo ACP164 miniatures

Sally 4th Clear Bases

Terra-Former 12" square modular terrain board kits.

Last year we added a number of packs of miniatures to our Classic Movie Miniatures range based on favourite films and TV shows. These were figures which we felt would work particularly well with Pulp miniature games such as Pulp Alley and 7TV. One of my favourite packs is 'Everything but the Goose' based on Tales of the Gold Monkey. The pack was named as it had all of the main characters, even a model of the Gold Monkey to use as a plot point but was lacking the main star of the show, 'Cutters Goose'

Cutters Goose was the Gruman Seaplane operated by Jake Cutter to run a cargo delivery service around the Pacific Islands.

On Monday I had a day off as compensation for working the weekend at Salute, so finally got around to building the kit that my good friend Buck Surdu had kindly brought over for me from the States when he visited us last year.

The kit went together very easily, the pieces were a good fit. I have given the model a basic paint job which is inspired by the 'Goose' from the show rather than a direct copy.

I think that at this point it is good enough to use in a game, so I now just need to put some character cards together for a Pulp Alley league based on Jake, Corky, Sarah and Jack.

I am planning to make some decals at the weekend for the registration number and the 'Cutters Goose' logo, and hopefully will be posting a games report based on 'Tales of the Gold Monkey' in my hobby blog very soon.

Further Information:

The Goose Kit is the Lindberg OA9 Goose Kit

The Miniatures are 'Classic Movie Miniatures' Everything but the Goose pack

The Terrain is built using Terraformer 12" terrain tile kits

The clear bases are Sally 4th Clear Bases

The Pier is the Terraformer Quayside Pier kit

On Monday, as a bit of a change the Ripon RPG group came round for a miniatures based fantasy skirmish game. We normally play 'Fate' set in a Harn setting as a narrative game without the distraction of miniatures or other props. I've been playing Pulp Alley for the last five years in the 'Pulp Era' setting but also for a huge variety of other periods and genres including WW2, Pirates, Western, Judge Dredd, Star Wars, HP Lovecroft themed Horror, Post Apocalypse, Zombies, Scooby Doo, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and many more. One of the genres that I had not tried to date was Swords & Sorcery themed fantasy.

Over the last couple of months I have been busily working away converting a wide range of miniatures from Frostgrave, Perry Miniatures, Wargames Foundry and many more manufacturers to anthropomorphic fantasy miniatures using the heads and tails Critter Conversion Kits from Albedo Miniatures. I created enought characters for four leagues using the Pulp Fantasy rules from the Pulp Alley Rulebook and some renaming of abilities to make them fit better with the genre, so for example the 4th level ability 'Inspiring' became the 'Bless' spell and the 2nd level 'Burst Fire' ability became 'Fireball'.

The scenario that we played was 'The Four Faces of Dr Fang'. I've played it a couple of time now in different settings and it is always fun. The city, Kingsport is being plauged by a run of gruesome murders and the adventuers, being outsiders are under suspicion. There mission is to solve the plot to uncover who or what is behind the murders to clear there names.

The investigation is represented by solving the first four plot points. Each plot points gives the league a clue token (The Means, The Suspect, The Connection and the Motive). The investigation is hampered by the attentions of the City Watch'. These were represented by 5 spear armed rat soldiers in blue and white quatered livery. Until the suspect was revealed these acted as semi-randomly moving perilous areas.

If a character activated within three inches of a City Watchmen they had to overcome a 'Peril', if they failed they could not act that turn. If they took a wound and went 'Down' they were arrested by the WAtch and taken off the table into custody.

Unlike many scenarios for Pulp Alley a plot point stayed in play once it had been resolved to allow other leagues to attempt it. The first league to resolve it got the reward and a clue token but every league that subsequently resolved it also got a clue token. Once a league had solved four clues the last plot point became 'The Catch'.

As the adventuring leagues were under suspicion and the city watch were patrolling and paying particular attention to them blatent acts of aggression on other leagues such as combat were not allowed, how ever we allowed leagues to use other less tracable means such as playing Fortune cards to hinder the competitions progress or even the odd 'Spell' that was not tracable!

As this was the first time that the playres had tried Pulp Alley, there was a learning curve around considerations for plot point placement and subsequent league deployment. Some plot points were placed in difficult and perilous areas which made them very difficult to reach.

In fact, one player decided that looking for clues was going to be difficult so elected for his league to surround the last plot point, that was going to be the catch and to then link arms to prevent anyone else getting into contact with it.

Once a challenge had been revealed for a plot point, it remained the challenge for the whole game, but the peril that had to be overcome first was revealed by a card draw from the Fortune Deck and was a new threat for every attempt.

On the top of the ruins surrounding the sorcerors tower, the last clue is solved and the culprit is revealed. From the sewer grate in front of the ancient shrine a green vapour formed and took shape, revealing a foul many tentacled beast from the abyss.

This was a little disturbing for the characters who had linked arms around the shrine. The horror rules came into play, so any character of level 3 or below needed to take a horror check before activating. Many allies & followers fled screaming. However, in the end it was not as difficult as expected to dispatch the beast. Although tough in melee, a few well placed 'Fireballs' were played, The creature failed the associated peril and subsequent health checks. This weakened it, reducing it's health to D6. A number of Fortune cards were then played to add complications to the wound before it was finished off by a volley of bow fire.

It was an exciting game. I think everyone enjoyed it and are looking forward to playing another scenario with the same leagues in April.

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The terrain boards were constructed from Terra-Former modular terrain tile kits.

Figures were converted using Albedo Miniatures Critter Conversion Kits from original Miniatures from Copplestone Castings, Frostgrave, Perry Miniatures, Gripping Beast and Oathmark.

The rules used were Pulp Alley

Yesterday Ann & I visited Lewis at University across in Hull, after catching up on news and going for a walk we settled down for a really enjoyable game of Pulp Alley.

As we had received printers proofs of the new 2nd edition Pulp Alley rules a couple of weeks ago, we decided to use them and to play one of last years 'Scenario's of the Month', 'The 11th Guest'.

The 11th Guest finds visitors stranded in a creepy hotel in a thunderstorm while all manner of unpleasant events unfold. The central area represented the hotel, The area 12" in from the edges was an area of difficult terrain, so no problem walking up to 6" per turn, but if you ran over 6" you needed to pass a random peril. We used a Fothrington Hall kit to represent the hotel.

Each player controlled one level three (Sidekick) character and a scenario event deck was used to drive the storyline along. The game duration is 6 turns and the player with the most clues at the end of turn 6 is the winner. Some of the event cards such as old photographs and press cuttings gave a single clue, but most clues were saved as a reward for solving plot points. Plot points were various bodies, of guests who had come to a grizzly end at the hands of the 11th guest. One card is entitled 'Unexpected Twist' if you drew this card you were the murderer and the other guests could then attack you.

On the 2nd turn, Ann drew the 'Unexpected Twist' card, and her character, Beths secret was out. Knowing that she was now a target she hurried outside to try to destroy any evidence left on the bodies.

My character Baron WIlfred hurried out in pursuit and a protracted cat and mouse shoot out developed,, however, Beth somehow always seemd to find time between shooting to rediscover her victims and destroy any evidence remaining (i.e solve the plot point and take the clues).

As we were playing at Lewis's uni digs, we had to bring everything with us so we did not have our usual range of plot points and accesories, hence these Lord of the Rings Petrified Hobbits had to stand in for 'Drowned Lawyers' and other murdered guest plot points.

Lewis's character 'Davidson' had initially had some success nunting for clues at the back of the Hotel, but once he had heard the gun shots at the front he rushed round to try to help aprehend the murderer.

What ever we did, Beth stayed two steps ahead off us, dodging bullets and solving plot points. At the end of turn 6 Ann's character has a significant lead with 7 clues to Lewises 5 and my 2!

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Click here to take a look at Fothrington Hall kit

While I was at Hammerhead last month I got chatting with the guys over at Pig Iron Productions, they have some great stuff in their range and they are another independent 28mm Sci-Fi manufacturer based like us in North Yorkshire.

I had shown Alex some conversions that I had done a while back using Albedo ILR bodies and Frostgrave Barbarian heads to make some Sci-Fi freedom fighters and we got to wondering how the Albedo bodies and weapon systems would match up with Pig Iron Heads.

I went home with two packets of different Pig Iron heads, and promised to put some conversions together and take some photographs.

The top three miniatures are built using EDF Heavy Infantry bodies armed with LAKW 1-56 Assault Rifle, MAKW 3-60 Light Machine Gun, and Officer Data Pad arms together with Pig Iron System Hunter heads.

The Albedo range contains four sci-fi / near future AFV's (2 x light tank / 2 x APC ).

The optional vehicle crew set contains single piece resin castings of hatch with crew shoulders allowing and head to be glued in place to customise the vehicle.

I used a set of Pig Iron System Commando heads to convert the Albedo AV8B APC.

Here we have a converted Heavy Weapons team using Pig Iron System Commando heads and Albedo ILR bodies together with ILR Light Machine Gun and Loader arms.

Click here to take a look at Albedo bodies and arms.

Click here to take a look at Pig Iron heads

On Monday, Doug and I played the 4th scenario in our Lord of the Rings narrative campaign.

This is based on the Games Workshop Fellowship of the Ring Campaign book. This was a great publication, now sadly out of print that combined scenarios based on events from one of the films with some great painting and modelling articles to help you construct the terrain for the game.

Strictly speaking, the Fog on the Barrow Downs scenario is based on events from the Fellowship of the Ring book rather than the film, as I don't believe that the Barrow Downs and Tom Bombadil ever made it into the movie.

The four hobbits are lost (again) stunling around in the fog on the edge of the Old Forest where the lands open up into rolling hillside and valleys where the cold grey stone of ancient barrows mark the landscape. The good player fields Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin with the hope that Tom Bombadil will apear on a D6 roll of 6. The evil player fields four barrow wights who start in base contact with there respective barrow. As usual we played the scenario twice, both taking turns to play good and evil. In the first play through I played the luck less hobbits.

Evil won the first priority roll, and of course the wights moved 6" and the hobbits 4" so they soon caught up with the hobbits, initially focussing on Frodo. For evil to win they had to either kill Frodo or paralyse any two hobbits, drag them back to there barrows and sacrafice them in there evil ritual.

Once the first wight had paralysed Frodo the rest of the hobbits headed pack to attempt to resue him. If a hobbit started there turn within 6" of a wight they could roll a D6 and on a 6, the alarm would be raised and Tom Bombadil would come to there assistance. We must have rolled over a dozen times during the game and that '6' just was no where to be found.

While the barrow wights are within 6" of there barrows they can expend a point of 'Will' for free which is very useful for casting paralyse spells.

The hobbits put up a brave fight, on a number of occasions they charge the wights (they need to pass a courage test to do this), they even win the melee when they manage to get two hobbits fighting a single wight, but fail to do any damage as the relative difference between there strength of the hobbits (2) and the defence of the wights (7) meant that they then needed a 6 followed by a 4+ to wound... which was a big ask and just did not happen either.

Once the wights had dragged there victims to there barrows they needed to roll a 4+ to sacrifice them. On the last turn, 3 hobbits were paralysed and the wights managed to sacrifice two of them for an evil victory.

When we swapped sides and I played evil, a similar result was obtained, although at a different barrow with a different mix of victims.

The game was fun to play, and looked good but the scenario was very difficult for the good player to win if Tom Bombadil did not turn up to help the hobbits.

Over the last couple of weeks I have been making some new trees for my terrain collection and I got them finished just in time for this game. The trunks are 3D printed from a design by Printable Scenery. Once they have been painted foliage was added made by spraying some rubberised horse hair with brown paint and then gluing some Woodland Scenic foliage on top off it.

The terrain boards are made using Sally 4th Terra-Former kits. These are kits with standard profiles for hills, roads, rivers, streams etc that build 12" square modular terrain tiles with embedded rare earth magnets to hold them together.

Last weekend, Ann & I finally managed to schedule in some time to play the second game in our Burrows and Badgers campaign. In our first game Ann's Warnand 'Ruffus' Roughcoats' had come of slightly worse than my 'Long March Patrol' as one of her Characters, Centus had managed to get himself captured and she did not have the funds to pay the ransom. I had my own problems following the first game as both of my archers had picked up arm injuries meaning the could no longer use a bow. I did however manage to pick up a new recruit at the Slave market, a likely looking young Shrew called Joseph.

We had a slight cheat, rather than roll for a scenario we choose one, as I wanted to play a game featuring this fine Inn model that I had recently 3D printed and painted.. The scenario choosen was 'Defend the Haul'. In this scenario a warband has discovered some treasure hidden in a building and are just about to make off with it when a rival warband turns up to challenge them for it. As Ruffus' Roughcoats had the lower warband rating (30 compared to my 45) they were the defender and got to set up first in, or within 6" of the building.

The attacking warband 'The Long March Patrol' set up within 2" of a table edge and could split up to deploy on multiple edges. I elected to split my warband with half led by Sur Davros du Long March attacking from the rear while the remaining members led by Red Claw the Otter, his able deputy attacked from the front. Both parties had an archer with them.

The 'Long March Patrol' pose for 'Critter of Fortune' magazine, prior to deployment. Front left we have Joseph the Shrew and Sur Davros sporting his ancestorial great sword. Rear rank, left to right we have Red Claw the Otter, Frances Downer the Fox, Hector the Hound and Tanotalos the Otter.

Ruffus' Roughcoats brought (from left to right) Winston and Rammus the Foxes, Rufus the Cat and Darley the Dog.

Ruffus deployed his full warband to the front of the Inn, but on seeing that he was being attacked from both sides, set off to defend the rear of the Inn himself accompanied by Rammus leaving Winston and Darley to defend the front of the building. Darley finds a gppd archery position by the beer barrels and starts to put down effective fire on the attackers. Joseph the Shrew moves up to the shelter of the dry stone wall and returns fire.

At the rear of the Inn Ruffus and Rammus have just got into position in time as Hector and Sur Davros approach under an effective barrage of arrows from Frances.

A serious scrap develops. Sur Davros suffered a serious head wound in the last encounter and is straining to keep contol and avoid flying off into a beserk rage.

Winston makes his way up the drive to have a go at Tanotalos with his double handed axe. Both opponents score hits on each other before Red Claw hurles himself forward and finishes off the fight.

Winston is on the ground, and out of todays action.  The Long March Patrol had drawn 'Loot' as a secondary objective so Tanotalos spends the next turn searching Winston and relieving him off any loose coin or trinkets.

The action at the rear, hots up and Hector the Hound is knocked to the ground. Frances drops his bow and draws his sword rushing forward to join the claw to claw combat.

Under Red Claws direction the patrol move forward to start searching the building.

Rammus, the Fox with a huge two handed hammer falls to the ground from a well aimed thrust of Frances longsword.. Ruffus steps forward and lands a blow on Sur Davros fulfilling his secondary objective of coming to grips with the enemy leader.

At the end of turn four The Long March Patrol had five critters in contact with the building, compared to three from Ruffus' Roughcoats giving them the victory. Both sides gained experiance and pennies. Ann's warband 'The Rouhcoats' earned enough with wanderings and a lucky session with there gambling den to be able to pay the ransom to have Centus returned to them.

We're looking after my Daughter and Son in Laws dog Sparkie at the moment. She thought it was a great game and wished she had a Great Sword like Sur Davros to play with!

The figures are all converted from Frostgrave Plastic Miniatures, apart from the Shrew who was converted from a Copplestone Castings Halfling using Albedo Miniatures Critter Conversion kits. These are packs of heads and tails that can be used to convert any miniature into an anthropomorphic figure.

The clear bases are 25mm diameter clear Perspex bases from Sally 4th and the terrain modules rae all built using Terra-Former terrain tile kits which are 12" square with embedded rare earth magnets to hold them together.

The Inn is the 'Winterdale Tavern' from Printable Scenery.

Check out this 3 minute video play through of game.