Madame la Guillotine! This piece is part of Eureka’s magnificent “War’s of the French Revolution” range, sculpted by Alan Marsh. It started off as a guillotine and prisoner, plus some guards and a number of onlookers. It has grown to include a second prisoner and guard, two victims and their heads, a wagon, driver and […]
I picked up this model from a friend who was clearing out a load of old stuff from his office. It’s an AMT model kit titled “Gigantics – Rampaging Scorpion Diorama” and is a little hard to find these days. They still pop up from time to time on eBay though, so if you see […]
Just received two of these behemoths in the post from Eureka. The Ankylosaurus itself is actually a Schleich model and surprisingly well detailed. All it needs is a good paint job and it will do very nicely. Naturally though, I can’t leave it alone so I’ll add a little putty on the club tail and […]
My latest project – building a small section of Venice for an upcoming demo game. Andrew and I are going to run a game based on the world of Solomon Kane (one of Robert E Howard’s pulp heroes) at a future Little Wars, probably in 2013, but it depends on how distracted we (I) get […]
Welcome, action fans, to the next instalment in the amazing adventures of Doc Halloway and Polly… A few friends and I are planning a weekend getaway of Pulp Action gaming sometime next year (2013), with rugged heroes, sinister spies, exotic beauties and unscrupulous gangsters, all duking it out to achieve the ultimate prize (whatever that […]
The stairs shown in the previous post need to sit raised above the level of the river as it cascades down the mountain side. In order to do this I have cut a base out of some 25mm styrofoam and clamped it to an MDF base. I base everything with wood these days, as styrofoam […]
Belegost, Gabilgathol in the Dwarvish tongue, the name means “Great Fortress.” The city was one of two founded in the First Age in the eastern side of the Ered Luin (Blue Mountains). At the height of the War of Wrath, the land of Beleriand was rent asunder and the sea consumed all that lay before […]
My good friends at the Group North Historical Wargaming Society are celebrating their 40th anniversary this October and are putting on an extra special Open Day to commemorate the occasion. http://www.groupnorth.biz One of the oldest wargaming clubs in Australia, possibly the oldest, Group North have been a fixture in this state for as long as […]
The thing with blogs is that you’re supposed to update them regularly. I keep forgetting. Does that make me a bad net-citizen? No, just a guy with too many things on his plate and a crappy computer that takes hours to warm up enough to be usable. I’ve been working over the past few months […]
The first set for the “A Cast of Thousands” game is nearly finished. I just need to paint some of the Saloon and finish off two of the windows on the ground floor and it’s done. Dressed with a few barrels and crates, it should look very nice and suitably weather worn. The following picture […]