00 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 […]
00 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 […]
00 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 […]
00 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 […]
00 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 […]
00 At this year’s Little Wars in Melbourne (http://www.littlewarsmelbourne.com), I am involved in two games – presenting one and providing the terrain for a second. the first game is the Charge of the Ice Brigade (see the Armoured Train entries below) while the second is called ‘A Cast of Thousands.’ This game concept is the […]
00 This project has been on my to-do list for ages – more pieces to go with my wooden palisade and gatehouse. I plan on making a small village to use with either Anglo-Saxons or Rohirrim, consisting of a number of thatched houses, a stable, an armoury and a long hall. Looking at historical recreations […]
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 […]