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. […]
Ah, the gentle buzz of flying insects on a summer’s day. The coolness of freshly made lemonade, sipped in comfort on the porch while the kids play on the lawn. The roar of engines as the National Guard race past in their half-tracks, on their way to fight a new outbreak of giant bugs. Atomic […]
One of my favourite vehicles, the ubiquitous Hanomag. The workhorse of the German war machine, this vehicle saw service on every front throughout the war. Produced in great numbers and myriad variants, the vehicle I have here is the basic version, used principally as an armoured personnel carrier. The model is from Die Waffenkammer, a […]
I just took delivery of an order from Artizan Designs for several 28mm Afrika Korps figures. Riflemen, NCOs, LMG teams, a mortar team and a MMG team – enough for 3 squads, a command unit and two heavy support teams when added to some old Black Tree Design figures I’ve had collecting dust in the […]
Ok, not much to see at the moment, it’s early days yet. And, being fair, it may go the way of many other projects of mine… languishing in a box in the corner of the shed, waiting for the day that it will seem shiny and new to me again (a bit like Toy Story […]