00 In a top secret factory on the outskirts of New Jersey, the ‘swing shift’ has just clocked on. The production lines begin to roll as Rosie O’Leary puts on her gloves and grabs her welding gear. The factory is making M-300X Rocket packs, the latest gizmo to add to the already incredible arsenal of […]
00 Been busy doing some graphics for the JR sourcebook (in between other projects) and have designed some unit badges for the various forces included in the book. The idea is that these will eventually be available for sale as sew-on (or iron-on) badges and even as custom dice, once the book is out. The […]
00 I recently picked up a copy of Dust Tactics – a miniatures board game set during WWII where the Germans have used alien tech to create massive mecha walkers and the Allies have followed suit. It’s a very tactical game that is quick to learn but takes quite a bit to master the subtleties […]
00 It’s been a month or so since I updated my progress on the pirate island for Strange Seas. I’ve been working on it (and other things), but I never seem to be near my camera for some reason. Ho hum, (“oh well, what the hell” to quote Joseph Heller). Here’s a few shots of […]
00 I picked up the ‘Battleframe 5000’ box on Wednesday and unpacked it. For a 4 x 6 table, there are over 200 pieces of timber inside the box and around that number of magnets too, all for about $170AU. When you look at what you have and the flexibility it provides, it’s not bad […]
00 I went out to the Back2Base-IX workshops today and had a really great chat with the guys out there. I meant to just drop in and grab some stuff, but I was there for over an hour and talked to them about all sorts of things, including their long-term plans for the future and […]
00 I finished off the second of the four objective markers the other day, as well as doing another palm tree. I finally got around to photographing them today. I go out to Back2Base-IX tomorrow to pick up the base boards, woo hoo! So I’ll be up to my eyeballs in terrain modules for the […]
00 Decent looking palm trees in 28mm scale are difficult to come by. The stuff they sell in model railway stores is generally over-priced, too small, and not especially accurate. And is not really robust enough to withstand heavy gaming use anyway, so I decided to try to make my own. I took several strands […]
00 For many years, I have been meaning to build a hilltop for my model of Weathertop, but just never got around to it. Like most projects of mine, they remain almost finished yet abandoned, for many years. So I found enough 75mm high density styrofoam to build a decent sized hill and set about […]
00 Updates are coming along thick and fast now (heh, won’t last). Here’s another objective marker – an abandoned campfire, in the lee of an ancient moss-covered ruin. The ruins are made from offcuts of blue foam, painted with a variety of greys and sand colours. The moss is a blend of two or three […]