While I was in Melbourne last weekend, I managed to pick up one of Eureka’s biggest and most spectacular models to date – the Turtle Tank! This is a behemoth in 28mm scale. Nine turtle crew members riding in a howda atop a massive turtle (tortoise?) armed with bamboo pikes and two cannons, the model […]
I went to Melbourne on Saturday to have a meeting with a great bunch of guys in an old pub in Abbortsford. The pub was where they used to film scenes from The Sullivans, a very popular soap set during the Second World War – very nice inside and decent food. We sat and drank […]
I just can’t wait to get on the road again! Genuinely excited about a trip to Melbourne this weekend where I will be meeting several people to talk about developing a number of gaming products for commercial sale over the next couple of years. Rulebooks, boxed games, miniature figures and terrain models are all on […]
I have just spent almost the entire weekend trying to upgrade the One Ring to use phpBB3. What a nightmare! The new forum software provides a very good conversion utility that seems to work extremely well, except for one fatal flaw – it is so memory and cpu-intensive that it would drag our server’s performance […]
While projects like “Atomic Sunset” and the “History of the Runestaff” might have been a little inactive in recent weeks, I have actually been busy helping to bring a new game to completion. A friend of mine has been feverishly producing a ‘pulp-era’ skirmish game based on the matinee serials and dime-store novels of the […]
… it came from outer space, and this is how the message ran. Just put the finishing touches on a scratch-built flying saucer model and it’s now ready for invading Planet Earth. I bought enough bits for 4 of these vessels (my youngest has already claimed one of them) at the princely sum of $35. […]
Just finished mocking-up this newspaper headline about an alien invasion in 1953 to include as artwork in Atomic Sunset. Nothing like a bit of sensationalist press to set the scene!
Well, not a poster as such. More of a magazine advert really. I drew inspiration for this image from the old Green Army Men ads you used to get on the backs of comic books of the 50s and 60s. I was pretty happy with the end result. It will most likely feature in the […]
I think this version is better – it tells a story and lets the kids know that hitting giant ants with a baseball bat is A-OK! Click to embiggen the image.
In between meeting deadlines at work and watching football well into the early mornings, I have been thinking a lot about the Atomic Sunset game concept and where I want to take it. Andrew and Greg have been helping me build a clearer picture of the idea in my mind and define the sorts of […]