Earlier this year I ran a 4th Edition D&D session with members of my family and it was great fun. This was the first time since the mid 1980s that I had played the game and it rekindled the flame of enthusiasm for role playing games within me. My origins with D&D date right back […]
After extensive research touring the hamlets and villages of Yorkshire (via Google Street View), I’ve come up with a design that I feel meets all of the criteria for Malton’s Angel Inn (see my previous posts). I started by using SketchUp as the key step in the design process. It is a very easy-to-use 3D […]
I just received a model of the ‘Velocitas’ in the post today from my good friends at Eureka Miniatures. I have to say, this is the oddest vehicle I’ve ever seen. Only Eureka would ever dream of producing such a model and I take my hat off to them for their initiative, their adventurous spirit […]
Been doing a bit of research on the (now demolished) Angel Inn at Malton, and I think it’s safe to say there’s 2/3 of sod all info out there. This is what I know: It was built in 1711 and torn down in 1880 Situated on the corner of Saville Street and Yorkersgate, the main […]
I’ve been commissioned to make a building facade by my friend Nic Robson (Eureka Miniatures), to go with his pet project. The building is of a Georgian pub in a little Yorkshire village called Malton – the pub is called the Angel Inn (actually, it became known as the New Angle Inn since there was […]
More for my own benefit than for any passers-by, today’s entry is a review of what I have achieved in Gaming this year and what I need to get happening!!! Run Little Wars Adelaide. Done! And done very successfully I might add. It was exhausting and consumed most of my conscious thought for a few […]
A while ago I watched a film starring John Mills and Richard Attenborough simply called Dunkirk. Despite being made in the 50s it still stands up today as a well made and story-driven film that illustrates what happened during the retreat and evacuation of the BEF and French forces in May and June of 1940. […]
There has been a resurgence of interest in this game here at Casa del Dagorlad. I have copies of almost every edition of D&D since I first picked up the orignal back in 1978, but it’s been around 30 years since I played the game. It’s the game that got me into the hobby of […]
It’s early days yet, but I’ve started work on my most ambitious terrain piece yet. If I finish this, it will be a miracle. Rivendell, in all it’s 28mm scale glory! I am doing this because I know that not many people in the past have attempted it and even fewer have done it justice. […]
I finally got around to doing a scenic base for my giant scorpion (see my previous post), the first mini in my collection for Atomic Sunset. I chose to place him on an urban roadway, partially to set the scene for a bug invasion, and partially to give a sense of scale to the model. […]