“…half the places I have been to, never were. Half the things I say are there cannot be found…I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good, by accident and happenstance.”
— from James Thurber’s novel Thirteen Clocks
15mm fantasy wargaming using Chipco’s Fantasy Rules! 2nd & 3rd Edition, and WRG’s Hordes of the Things (HOTT), as well as 28mm fantasy skirmish with one of several rulesets.
Cliffside monastery of Sheksha-kah on Halite #galaxy23
Today we find ourselves on Halite, the namesake planet of the Halite Commonwealth and homeworld of two separate intelligent species - the related…
Folk Horror Miniatures
I tripped over this little Kickstarter earlier in 2022 for a dozen figures inspired by European folklore, Folk Horrors by Ana Polanšćak. They're…
The Workbench This Week, 28 Feb 2022
Plague and megalomaniac idiot dictators waging unprovoked war on democracies and idiots honking in stupid pickup trucks... let us distract ourselves…
A Trash Bash Tower
A few days into January I had a fall that destroyed my glasses and injured my shoulder, both of which combined to cut down the amount of time I was…
An entry for Lead Adventure’s Build Something Competition 2022 – a farm!
Each year Lead Adventure forum runs a Build Something Competition, each with a theme. Brian and I have participated 5 times at various points in the…
Bring Out Your Dead
These dead might be able to take themselves out, actually. Basing still to be determined but painting finished on my first fifteen figures of…
An End to 2021 At Last!
Personally and hobbywise, it's not been a terrible year, although it's been a bit low on the number of blog posts, overall. But for the rest...…
Deer God? Dear God!
I've been on a kick of assembling and basing figures in batches the last little while, and also (as you can tell) not been doing much of the ol'…
Necromancer necro-d, a Sellswords & Spellslingers adventure
We've been playing a fair amount of Sellswords and Spellslingers, a fairly light coop fantasy skirmish game. I picked it up on a lark, as I wanted…
Links of Interest, 11 August 2021
Quiet around here as I'm not doing a lot of gaming, painting, or terrain building this summer. Too busy with other things! I did have a couple of…
BCS 2021 & A Blog Update
Well, "a few weeks" in my last update apparently turned into two months of radio silence here. Oops.Build Something Contest 2021 over on LAF had the…
2020 In Review
Well, that was quite a year, wasn't it? No conventions, no in-person gaming at all for a good part of the year thanks to our local COVID…
Resin Bases and Bits from Rain City Hobbies
I've talked up Rain City Hobbies on this blog before, but only for their very nice grass and flower tufts. They also do a huge range of resin bases,…
Mad Mushroom Jungles
From the excellent people running Dark Fantastic Mills I purchased this Doomcap Shrooms Bundle earlier in the year. If you want to run fantasy games,…
More Weird Fantasy Terrain
Back in June, roughly 20,000 years ago in the Early COVID Summer Era, I built a stone portal/archway/summoning gate thing, showed off photos of it…
Weird Fantasy Terrain
If you're going to do fantasy battles, why restrict yourself to normal-looking trees and such? If you want to fight a battle in a pine forest, go do…
The Workbench This week, 30 October 2020
No posts for a month? Sorry! The irony is that I've been gaming more regularly than ever, as our little COVID-compliant pod of gamers are now meeting…
More Small Scale Scenery Inspiration
There aren't a lot of small scale scenery tutorials out there, either as videos or traditional blog post writeups. Viv on RubbishInRubbishOut,…
A Fantasy Portal, Part One
Decided to crank out another piece of fantasy terrain this weekend. I'd been thinking of gateways, portals, and fantastic archways off and on for a…
A Standing Stone
Nice simple bit of terrain I recently cranked out. I realized that the mushroom ring I built recently was nowhere near gamer-proof; it started…
Links of Interest, 14 June 2020
Wargames Designs is partly a webstore, with some good looking historical wargaming flags in a variety of scales, among other things, but they also…
A Tree for Forestgrave
For our Forestgrave games I wanted some decidedly weird scenery, stuff from the other side of reality that doesn't quite look like it obeys physics…
Forge of Ice Serpent Idol
Painted this guy up fairly quickly over a couple of days, after getting it a few weeks ago from Forge of Ice. I wasn't sure if I wanted to do the…
The Beast on the Moor
Rummaging through one of my boxes of random figures last week (as one does...) I came across one of the random Reaper fantasy figures I'd picked up…
Forestgrave
Locally our COVID-19 situation is such that we're allowed to expand our pandemic pods slightly starting a few weeks ago, so myself, my brother Corey,…
Quick Fantasy Scenery
We had our first game of Frostgrave last night, for which I used a few of my 17th C/ECW figures, because why not? As usual, I managed not to get a…
Loot from Forge of Ice
Forge of Ice is one of those one-person companies that makes all sorts of cool stuff, and after knowing about them for several years I finally got…
Loot From Bad Squiddo
Ordered a few things from the excellent and varied ranges of Bad Squiddo Games back in March; things took longer to get from the UK to here than I'm…
Dogs & Cats Living Together
(Or, The Workbench This Week, 12 April 2020, also known as the 43rd of Marprilay, Blursday the Somethingth of Pandemic) Strange times, faithful…
Dogs With Guns
OK, technically dog-men or gnolls with guns. Firelocks, if we want to be really technical. I started with Frostgrave Gnolls from North Star…
Tell the Bartender Your Troubles
Way back in December 2018 on Twitter, Bears Head Miniatures showed off pictures of their new Beholder-alike floating eye beastie, Narthoks the…
Extremely Bad Dogs, Almost Finished
Most of the painting is finished on the various Reaper dogs last seen a few weeks ago, and they've painted up so nicely I'm going to show them off…
Fenris Games Runestones
I picked up a few things from Fenris Games back in June or July, and the first pieces are finally getting completed and onto the gaming…
Extremely Bad Dogs
Every culture has dog/wolf demon things in their folklore. The UK is thick with them, it seems like every county has three or four varieties, and…
The Trumpeter Salute 2019 Haul
Trumpeter Salute 2019 has come and gone. This was the first Trumpeter in many years where I didn't run a game which felt kind of strange, but that…
A Small Stone Circle
Not every stone circle is a gigantic trilithon monument like Stonehenge. Some of them might be barely recognizable as stone circles, in fact, until…
LANtasy 2017 Photos!
Our local "big" convention, LANtasy, was a couple weeks ago now. I participated in the Blood Bowl & Infinity tournaments all weekend, and my Infinity…
BS2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 8
Blomping along... Primer! Got the gondola spray-primed grey and the balloon envelope brush-primed black. The LAF Build Something 2017…
BS2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 7
Greenstuff all over the place this time! I've started on the heavy leather harness that the troll uses to tow the Blomp along, as well as…
BS2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 6
Progress, the purpose of the troll revealed, and IT FLIES. Well, sort of! I got most of the structural parts of the base done today, barring…
BS2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 5
Progress! Greenstuff! An incompletely explained troll! I broke out the greenstuff and went at the gondola this evening. I filled in under all the…
BS2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 4
Good progress on the Blomp gondola this weekend, with all the major structural assembly finished, skinning done in styrene sheet, and the start of…
BS2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 3
Blomping onward, in a classic goblin-engineering "make sh*t up as you go" fashion! The front half of the gondola has been skinned with styrene…
Build Something 2017: The Bloodyear Blomp, Part 2
Progress on my Lead Adventure Forum Build Something 2017 entry, the goblin-crewed Bloodyear Blomp! I'd said previously I was going to finish…
Build Something 2017: The Bloodyear Blomp
Every year or so over on Lead Adventure Forum they hold a friendly Build Something competition. There's a theme that imposes some restrictions; one…
A Christmas Tree?
Various Reaper Bones figures for Blood Bowl, including a really massive feral treeman! Click for slightly larger. I'm going to be moving between…
Blood Bowl Sideline Ads, Sheet The First
Finally got a sheet done with most of my Blood Bowl sideline ads to date, arranged in strips and sized for 1"x3", which is a good height for…
Goblin Dugout Started
Simple dugout for the goblin-themed Blood Bowl pitch-side set I'm doing; there will be another dugout similar to this for the other team, and the…
A Goblin Scoreboard, Part Two
The base of the new Blood Bowl scoreboard is now covered in sand, painted, and flocked. I might still add some additional foliage or other details to…
A Goblin Scoreboard, Part One
Decided that my Blood Bowl Goblin team, currently glorying in the name of T.U.R.D. (what that stands for changes every single game they play...)…
The Workbench This Week, 4 November 2015
Quick and dirty late night snapshot of my workbench! Front and centre is a Reaper Bones troll (in white plastic still, hence kind of blown out…
Necromancer Beer – a Blood Bowl Sideline Ad
Something quick and silly to break the month-long dry spell in posting! On our local Blood Bowl league's Facebook page one of the guys made a joke…
Quiet Except For Goblins…
A month between posts... I managed more updates that that from a hotel room in far northern Alberta while working 70 hour weeks! I have been doing…
Sculpting Skulls
The LED tea light candle I started sculpting into a burning altar piece has been seen in previous recent posts on my sculpting adventures. Over on…
Sculpting In Exile III: Hands, Faces & Skulls
They have hands! Well, hands are in progress, in any rate. I used thin wire superglued to the forearm or wrist of each figure, then built the fingers…
Sculpting in Exile Progress Pics
A gallery post of work-in-progress cellphone photos from Project Hotelroom Treemen! Many of these were taken late at night under a desk lamp and…
Sculpting in Exile
I'm away from home in northern Alberta for four to six weeks helping run a field project for the company I work for. It's hard but fascinating work…
Reaper Minis Customer Service is Awesome
Looking to assemble unique teams for Blood Bowl without spending a lot of money, I've been poking around the Reaper Bones collection - Reaper's…
Paint on Blood Bowl Temples
Finally getting paint onto all the Blood Bowl sideline buildings, which means it's worth pointing a camera at them again - neither bare pink…
Lines & Logos on a Blood Bowl Pitch
It's been a quiet stretch here mostly because I was away from home for just over a week housesitting for a family member on the other side of town,…
My Blood Bowl Stadium All Laid Out
Still loads of things to finish on the project, but after doing the crocodile head logo in the centre of the pitch this evening I just had to lay…
Stencil Test for a Blood Bowl Pitch
I've got a felt Blood Bowl pitch that I have marked the standard grid on (15x29 30mm squares) but after months of using it I hadn't gotten any…
Bloodbowl Dugout Temple Decoration
In the local Bloodbowl league I'm currently involved in, there's a pair of Lizardman teams, one using the regular GW figures for the team and my…
Dugouts & Dice Towers For Bloodbowl
When I finished the new BB scoreboard temple back in May I mentioned that when I got back from Europe I was going to be building a new set of…
The Saltwater Slaughter (BB Roster)
Posting this mostly for the other folks in the local V-Nuffle Blood Bowl League that has just started it's fourth season; I've got a Lizardman team…
Off for a While!
I'm off to Europe first thing tomorrow (Tuesday) morning, heading to Vienna to join a group riding all the way to Nantes, France. That's roughly…
BB Scoreboard Temple Part Five – Finished!
Three coats of gloss varnish on the water, flock around the edges of the base, and the two score indicators and weather indicator all finished - the…
BB Scoreboard Temple, Part Four: Paint!
The Blood Bowl scoreboard temple now has paint on it and is largely finished except for some gloss varnish over the two pools for a water look and…
BB Scoreboard Temple, Part Three
Bits and pieces of detailed putty-pushing this evening, mostly. I finished the last three icons for the weather indicator - Blazing Heat (fire), Snow…
New Bloodbowl Scoreboard, Part Two
Followup from yesterday afternoon's post, I got the Milliput out and did a first pass on the piece. As well as patching a couple of seams between…
Stonework & A New BB Scoreboard
A while ago via Google Plus, I stumbled over the Terrain Wench and her work, specifically the nicely done Lizardman spawning pool she had created.…
Blood Bowl Action!
I posted way back in early December about the Blood Bowl pitch and scenery I was working on, and it's been in use regularly in the months since, but…
Crocodilian Logos with Inkscape
I decided that my primary Blood Bowl team, made up of Impact Miniatures Sarcos crocodiles (run as Lizardmen in BB) needed a team logo. I spent…
The Workbench This Week, 29 May 2014
Quick overhead snapshot of the painting bench recently. As you might have guessed from recent posts, I've been in a "clear the decks" sort of mood,…
Blood Bowl Markers
Not having the time or energy right now for larger projects, I've been bashing away at a few sets of markers for Blood Bowl teams, both my own and…
Lizards & Lunatics
Had two small orders come in last week. I have been saving money for an epic bike vacation to Europe in a few months (Vienna, Austria to Nantes,…
Blood Bowl Team Roster PDF
When I started this whole Blood Bowl thing back in December, part of the joke was "playing a GW game without giving GW a cent". Parts of this are…
Blood Bowl Tracking Sheet PDF
I'm in the middle of the five-week field assignment for work, so away from most of my usual gaming habits and my workbench. All is not lost, however,…
Blood Bowl Pitch, Part II
Finally got a can of green spraypaint at the local hardware place and laid my fabric BB pitch out to blotch green across it, just to break up the…
Happy (Belated!) New Year!
Been fairly quiet around here lately - blame all the usual holiday business - but the holiday season was a good one for gaming around here,…
Blood Bowl Crocs, Nearly Finished
Quick late night workbench photo of my Impact Miniatures Sarcos crocodile team for Blood Bowl. They're 99% done, with only the hook-hands of two and…
Starting A Blood Bowl Pitch
Being a completist, when I decided to get into Blood Bowl there was no way I'd just leave it at a team or two and nothing else! Besides, although…
Blood Bowl Crocs, Part Two
Work continues on the Impact Miniatures Sarcos crocodile team for Blood Bowl, and I finally got a photo in daylight before I went off to work this…
…And Now for Something Completely… Crocodilian!
This is something I never actually thought would happen in my wargaming life: I'm painting figures for one of GW's rulesets! Blood Bowl has been…
Lead Painters League 7, Round Six
Over to fantasy figures for the first time in this LPL for me, with a team of Reaper dwarves. Lovely figures loaded with detail, as you'd expect from…
What I’ve Been Up To Lately
Bit of a slow summer here on the Warbard, and in gaming in general for me. I haven't touched a paintbrush since June (or possibly May...) and while…
And Then the Golem Threw Another Stone…
Always interested in a new gaming system and being pen and paper roleplayers, Brian and I have been playing a little bit of Songs of Blades and…
An LPL3 Archive
As discussed in my last post on entering LAF's LPL5, here's all ten of the images from my 2009 LPL3 entries. I finished somewhere in the bottom third…
15mm castle
This is a repost of an old article from the original Warbard pages. - Corey I've built most of a smallish fortress/castle, finally got enough …
Terrain: 15mm Cardboard Fantasy Buildings
I put the first of these buildings - the Short Tower - up on the site sometime around 2000, and for ten years they've been consistently popular. I…
Photos from a Fantasy Rules! Battle
More old photos resurrected - this time a few from a Fantasy Rules! 2nd Edition game we played years ago. Human medieval knights & footmen vs…
Fantasy Gallery #1
15mm fantasy figures, based for Hordes of The Things (HOTT) or Fantasy Rules! (FR!). Many of the figures are long-out-of-production Ral Partha 15mm…
Links: Fantasy Wargaming
Chipco's Fantasy Rules! Links Chipco publish Fantasy Rules!. They've got a great set of FR! links.Lone Wolf Development makes the excellent…
Tony’s Undead FR! battle report
This is a battle report from the old Warbard - Corey Tony wrote this battle report after our most recent FR! game, the first in which his Undead…
Three-player FR! – Capture the Flag!
This is a battle report from the old Warbard - Corey This is a battle report from this summer - I wrote it up for the Chipco List, but just found…
Gladius & Axe: Roman Early Imperial Legions Vs. Dwarven Axedwarves
This is a battle report from the old Warbard - Corey Neil and I had a very interesting FR! battle on Sunday - 1000pts of Dwarves vs. 1000pts of…
Grashnek da Uruk on Unbolg’s big raid into ‘uman territ’ry
This is an old battle report from the original Warbard - Corey We had a Medieval Human vs Orc FR! fight Tuesday (April 27, 1999), and I've …
Battle #2: The Duchess of Southfold’s War on the Dwarves
This is an old battle report from the original Warbard - Corey 750pt Dwarves (Corey) vs. 750pt Medieval Humans (Brian). The Duchess of…
FR! Battle #1: Unbolg the Uruk Offends the Dwarves
This is an old battle report from the original Warbard - Corey 750pt Dwarven force (Joel commanding) vs 750pt Orc/goblin force (Brian…
HOTT Battle: The Second Part of the Grand Duke’ s War; or The Downfall of the Grand Duke.
This is a battle report from the old Warbard. The first part of the report is in The Duke of Erehwon' s War with the Dwarves post. -…
HOTT Battle: The Duke of Erehwon’s War with the Dwarves.
This is a battle report from the old Warbard. The second part of the report is in The Second Part of the Grand Duke' s War; or The Downfall of the…
HOTT battle report from a friend
This is a battle report from the old Warbard - Corey These two battles were fought between myself[Brian] & a friend; they were his first and…
HOTT Battle 3: Kzah Robad
This is a battle report from the old Warbard - Corey A millenium ago, Kzah Robad had been a great Dwarven provincal capital, massively built and…
HOTT Battle 2: Slow Grind
Advancing after their triumph at the Ketan River, Reorax's army moved deeper into human-occupied territory, their ultimate goal the Kzah Robad ruins,…
HOTT Battle 1: Head Shot…
This is a battle report from the old Warbard - Corey Dwarven warleader Reorax Thanak (the Witchkiller) surveyed his troops and the situation. The…