“…’Fear not, till Birnam wood do come to Dunsinane:’ and now a wood comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out!…”
– Macbeth, Macbeth 5.5
A page to collect all the terrain & terrain projects, past and future.
Where does it go? Painted board edges for Sellswords (and other games)
Sellswords & Spellslingers, like a lot of similar games, often has bad guys (foes in Sellsword parlance) appear at random locations or randomly…
Naval Scenery Articles To Date
Here's all of my posts on 1/1200 coastal naval scenery so far... I'll try to remember to add to this post as I create future articles! Sandbars,…
Small Scale Islands
To round out the current run of small scale scenery for coastal naval games I decided on a trio of islands, one of them with a lighthouse. As with…
Rocks vs Boats
After doing a pair of new sandbanks, I wanted to do something slightly different but still on the theme of "stuff to crash boats and ships into" and…
Sandbars for Naval Gaming
As mentioned in the last post, I recently made a pair of new sandbars to give our boats and ships more stuff to run into during our games. I've done…
Remembrance Day Weekend, November 2022
Went to our local municipal Remembrance Day ceremony in person this year, after two years of live streamed ceremonies watched from my computer, which…
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…
Links of Interest, 9 January 2022
First LoI post of the new year! Just a couple of things, mostly to get the BSC link out while entries are still open! On the scenery front, this…
Fire, Explosion, and Wreckage Markers for Tiny Boats
Sometime earlier in the pandemic I ordered a batch of 1/1200 3d printed stuff from Shapeways, who use some sort of resin printing to get incredible…
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…
Build Something Contest 2021
Quiet here the last week or so because I've been thoroughly distracted by Lead Adventure Forum's Build Something Contest 2021!Lots of cool entries in…
Over a Barrel, Gaslands Edition
Corey has a 3d printer, as has featured here many times, and a little while ago he cranked out half a dozen barrels in Gaslands-ish scale. His…
Gates for Gaslands, Part Five
Up next was the "GATE" lettering and giant numbers for the three numbered gates. Mid-project roundup. Rust basecoat on the big numbers, front…
Gates for Gaslands, Part Four
When we last saw our gates they were basecoated but stalled due to missing 3d printed parts. Those arrived, thanks to my brother's 3d printer, and I…
Cold Waters Ocean Mat Review
For my naval gaming I knew I needed a proper mat eventually; I thought about doing up a sheet of grey felt with spraypaint and such, but then I found…
Gates For Gaslands, Part Three
Kind of slow on the gaming front around here; we are still in COVID lockdown so no in-person gaming is permitted, but Thursday evening Gaslands by…
Gates for Gaslands, Part Two
Got the base gate towers primed, and cut out the huge numbers that will go on each gate. Primed gate towers. I forgot to add damage and scuffing…
Gates for Gaslands Racing, Part One
The Death Race scenario for Gaslands calls for at least three or four gates, for start/finish line (which might not be the same gate) and a couple…
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,…
Gaslands Jump Ramps
Reading through the rules, I realized that Gaslands Refuelled has rules for jump ramps and jumping, so naturally I had to scratchbuild a pair of…
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…
Esquimalt Thunderdome – a Gaslands race track
I love a big terrain project and a few of us here got into Gaslands recently. So I decided to create a racetrack. A big one, at 5' by 3'. So off I…
Links of Interest, 4 Sept 2020
Quiet around here for the last couple weeks on account of me being busy getting married and going off on a short honeymoon, as well as various…
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,…
Fifty (or so) Tiny Buildings
I've finished painting the last buildings of my first Brigade Models Small Scale Scenics order, before I start in on painting the buildings and…
Links of Interest, 1 July 2020
For this Canada Day in a time of pestilence abroad in the land, the usual mix of individual links and items that don't quite warrant an entire…
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…
Star Shell & Moon Markers for Naval Games
Both Narrow Seas and Coastal Patrol (and probably other naval games, I'm guessing) include rules for the moon being full or partial in their sighting…
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…
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…
Coastline Complete
The first coastline segments are done, barring a tiny amount of touchup here and there. Overview of the coastline and other bits. Click for…
A Headland for Tiny Ships
Cranked out a headland for my coastal terrain, so we can have the coastline end on-table without looking super-weird. It's designed to go on either…
Small Buildings & Tiny Ships, Part Three
A green and miniature land! The first two coastal modules are finished, except that I'm still mucking about with forest canopy solutions, so those…
Small Buildings & Tiny Ships, Part Two
Painting up the Brigade Models tiny English buildings turned out to be ridiculously fun. They've got all sorts of great detail and really reward a…
Small Buildings & Tiny Ships
Progress on my naval project, last seen in November's A Naval Diversion post. My buildings from Brigade Model's Small Scale Scenics range and British…
Links of Interest, 12 December 2019
If you're interested in terrain building but not sure where to start, or you already craft terrain but want to step your game up, there's a bunch of…
Improving Old Terrain
TerranScapes has a good video on using gloss gel for water, and I also found a video on using gloss gel medium for ship wakes, so naturally I had to…
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…
A 17th Century Bastion, Part One
Several of the scenarios in Pikeman's Lament ask for a bastion or earthwork to be attacked or defended, but at a maximum area of 9"x9" it isn't going…
A Graveyard (Much Delayed)
File this one under "long neglected projects finally finished", I guess. I've finally based, painted, and finished the last of the Renedra…
Savannah Terrain
This is diorama-level scenery building, but almost everything he does in this video is applicable to wargamer-proof terrain too and the final result…
Stable Genius
After finishing the three little cottages on Saturday, I decided to do something slightly different on Sunday and made a building that could serve as…
Hovels & Gardens
With the clock running on toward Trumpeter Salute 2018, I need to get serious about producing the new scenery the linked pair of games I'm running…
Modular River, Part Seven: Resin Complete!
Hope everyone had a good Labour Day long weekend, if that's a thing for you, and a good return to school, if that's a thing for you and your…
Modular River, Part Six: Resin Water Photos
Gradual progress on pouring resin into the river segments, doing one segment every night. I work on an old plastic cafeteria tray and cover the tray…
Modular River, Part Five: Resin Water Effects
I had used basic hardware store 5-minute epoxy glue for the swampy pond test piece, and had more or less intended to just keep doing that for all ten…
Modular River, Part Four: More Paint
Quick update on the river project! I've been taking a lot of summer holiday time recently, including all of last week away, so not a lot of progress…
Swampy Pond Resin Water Test
I started a pond as a test piece just before starting the whole river section project, and it's been progressing one or two steps ahead of the rest…
Modular River, Part Three: Paint & Sand
Last time we saw the river modules, they were bare white plastic with clay banks. I'm happy to report that progress has been made! Sand and paint…
Modular River, Part Two: The Bridge Begun
Realized I forgot to include the photo of the river modules with the air drying clay banks in place, so let's start off with that! I rolled clay…
Modular River, Part One
A relatively large modular river setup has been on my Things I Want To Build list for years. I went through the excellent set of scenarios that come…
Warbases Skirmish Movement Trays
I picked up a batch of simple lasercut MDF trays sized for 25mm bases on one of my recent Warbases order. Pikeman's Lament uses either six or twelve…
Links of Interest, 22 June 2017
A handful of links I thought were worth sharing this week. Historical Enterprises, Inc are a historical reenactors garb/costuming company with all…
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…
Alien Dog Monsters!
A few days ago Corvus Belli, the company behind Infinity, had a tweet and FB post asking their fans which of two alien "werewolf" varieties they…
Warbases Church, Part Two
More progress on detailing the lasercut MDF church from Warbases that I started previously. Stonework & Doors Buttresses and a double row…
Review: Warbases MDF Vehicles
Warbases started doing vehicles in lasercut MDF and cardboard (greyboard) a few years ago and I was intrigued right away; a lot of 28mm vehicles are…
Warbases Church In Progress
Not much activity on the wargaming front in the last couple weeks, for a variety of mostly-irritating reasons, but I have made a bit of progress on…
Stone Outbuilding Finished
Glued down the towel thatching, slapped a coat of paint over the small stone building, added the door, and declared it done! The towel got cut…
Links of Interest, 16 May 2017
A semi-random collection of links that have caught my eye recently! Swamp grass from cheap paintbrushes via Rob Hawkin's awesome blog. Hmm, I just…
Stone Outbuilding/Hovel
With the farmhouse and dovecote progressing well, I wanted to move on to a few smaller buildings to the mix. This little stone outbuilding is the…
Half-Timber ECW Buildings, 11 May
I've been painting the dovecote and farmhouse together, so rather than separate updates I'll just do combined "state of the ECW scenery" update…
Half-Timber Farmhouse, Part One
After getting the dovecote constructed (although not yet painted) I decided the next building would be a bit more substantial, and that a farmhouse…
Half-Timber Dovecote, Part Two
When we last saw the dovecote, the halftimber detailing on the walls was done, the roof was just started, and it lacked paint. Here's the current…
A Quick And Simple Pond
I've been wanting do some more area terrain - mostly flat pieces to serve as rough ground, forested areas, and the like - for a while now. With the…
Half-Timber Dovecote, Dampfpanzerwagon Style: Part One
As I mentioned in my last post about the things I brought home from Trumpeter Salute, one of them was a copy of Issue #87 of Wargames, Soldiers, and…
The Trumpeter Salute 2017 Loot Haul!
I managed to escape from Trumpeter Salute 2017 at the start of April without buying a single actual figure, but I brought home a batch of scenery…
Half-Timber Barn, Finally Finished!
Way back in June of 2011, I started a fairly small half-timber barn for 28mm, for either my ECW/TYW stuff or early 20th C pulp gaming. I'd gotten…
Links of Interest, 24 Feb 2017
Last time I mentioned a couple of YouTube painters that had good series of to-the-point, well-edited painting videos. Victor Ques is another I should…
More Jungle To Rumble In
Scored another big paper towel roll from our recycling bin, so I decided to make a fallen tree instead of another upright one. Like the other…
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…
In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle…
Several years ago now I did a whole banker's box full of jungle terrain, but it was all fairly low-lying stuff, thickets and bushes and that sort of…
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…
Tables From Last Weekend’s Infinity Tournament
We had another one-day, three round Infinity tournament this last weekend, our first of 2017. We had two players come over from Vancouver on the…
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…
Hab Module LV4-26 Finished
First of all, Happy New Year, everyone! Hope your 2017 is full of excellent gaming, good friends, and completed projects! On the "completed…
Merry Christmas! (with an airlock!)
Between the Christmas season and what appears to be the worst cold I've had in many, many years there's not been a lot of wargaming activity here at…
Papercraft Spacecraft!
I've been calling my Infinity space station table project a space station since I started planning it, but really it's been a collection of big walls…
Hab Module LV4-26, Part One
This shop front/apartment facade for my ongoing Infinity space station project has been inspired mostly by the depiction of some of the habitat…
More Space Station Pieces
One of the big wall modules I built for my Infinity space station tabletop set has a door three inches off the ground, intended to connect to…
Adding Detail To The Space Station
I've been using my big space station walls and the associated scatter terrain for over a year now, and while all the wall modules are fully painted…
Links of Interest, 15 September 2016
I've been spending some more time on YouTube recently, rummaging around the wargaming-related channels. I don't have the time or the patience for the…
Crashed Shuttle, Part One
Doing a bit of cleaning up in my boxes of wargaming supplies I rediscovered a shuttle I built at least ten years ago. It was nominally for 15mm…
Yet Another Hill
I mentioned in the last post that I've been working on a third large hill, with a roughly 12"x15" footprint, that being the maximum interior size of…
A Pair of Hills, Part Two
I've finished the first two hills I started a while back, and built a third large hill to finish up the set for now. After the first coat of…
A Pair of Hills
Still quiet around here this summer, but wargaming has been taking place, as has figure painting, and finally, just for a change, a bit of scenery…
The Workbench This Weekend, 7 May 2016
My girlfriend is out of town with friends so I've had a bachelor/wargamer weekend and gotten a lot done on my Infinity figures. The planters…
Bring Me… A Shrubbery!
Having moved at the start of this year I've been sorting and reorganizing gaming stuff, as one does, and working on actually using some of the…
Quick Infinity Terrain: Food Booths
One of the goals with the space station terrain set was to make the whole thing look like not just a collection of tactically interesting obstacles…
Space Station Wall Sections in Progress
Finally have all six of the big space station wall sections basically complete and primed. All the doors are installed (several sections have sliding…
Infinity Space Station Terrain First Outing
Got my in-progress space station setup for Infinity games out on the table today, as one of two tables set up for a very small (four players!) local…
Infinity Space Station Hangar Walls
I've posted a test print of some printed space station walls previously but after finding a nice batch of Sintra (1/8th foamed PVC plastic board) in…
Review: Impudent Mortal Near Future Elevators
I picked up a pack of Impudent Mortal's Near Future Elevator Set, as mentioned in a previous post, and thought I'd put a few pictures up and do a bit…
Space Station Walls for Infinity
I've been kicking around ideas for an interior table setup for Infinity for several months now - that is, a table that instead of being buildings and…
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...)…
Giant Billboard Tower for Infinity
I've previously shown off big (5" tall by 3" wide) advertising graphics intended for use on an Infinity table - Weyland-Yutani, a travel poster, and…
Infinity in the Jungle
Somewhere along the way the default tabletop setting for a game of Infinity became "futuristic urban/quasi-urban environment", which is as true of…
Infinity Ad: A Bit Off-Colour
Yeah, so this one is based on a very, very juvenile joke. I'd apologize but I wouldn't mean it! It's also smaller than some of my other recent…
Infinity Ad: Making Better Worlds
Everyone's favourite terraforming/engineering/evilevilevil megacorp needs a giant billboard ad too! Third and (for now) last of my big 3" wide by 5"…
Infinity Ad: Blue Sun
Borrowing from another popular science fiction universe to provide some graphical fodder for Infinity terrain, here's another big (5" high by 3"…
Another Infinity Ad: Travel to Varuna
I'm home with a stubborn cold that won't go away, so decided to kick GIMP and Inkscape to life and create another couple of billboard-sized ads for…
In Which Things Get Primered
We have an Infinity weekend event coming up in just over a month (Facebook event link, if you're in the area and interested) and I want to have both…
Post-Labour Day Update
Last post was in June, I'm getting really lousy at keeping this poor blog from getting dusty and neglected. It's been a busy summer for things like…
Taking The Summer Off?
Apparently I've basically taken most of the summer off from blogging and doing wargame-related things I felt the need to blog about... last post was…
Antennas for Infinity
A number of the stock scenarios in Infinity need some sort of antenna or console for the troops to interact with/hack/seize/blow up/etc. You can use…
Billboard Ads for Infinity
While building another piece of scenery for our Infinity tables I built a roof that didn't turn out; it just wasn't working out physically the way…
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…
Sci-Fi Warehouse for Infinity
After building the first building to use on Infinity tables, which turned out to be a complex shape and two storeys plus roof, I decided the next…
A Building For Infinity
I've previously shown my urban scatter terrain for Infinity, and after getting that assembled I decided to tackle something more challenging and…
Links of Interest, 4 March 2015
Another handful of links of interest! James Ernest of Cheapass Games has a short video on three ways to make cards. Nothing earthshaking, but a…
Urban Scatter Terrain for Infinity
So I've been persuaded (OK, it didn't take much...) to get into Infinity, the fast and lethal science fiction skirmish game from Corvus Belli. I've…
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…
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 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.…
Lost Luggage Turns Up!
More months ago than I care to admit, I bought some really neat pulp-era 28mm luggage in resin from Slug Industries. I prepped and primed the first…
Smoke & Flame!
Doing some shopping last week, I found a batch of LED tea candles for sale, 6 for $5.95. I've been meaning to pick some up to play with them for…
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…
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…
A Motor Yacht, Part Four
Just to prove that there really is progress being made around here, despite the relative quiet on the blogging front, here's a fairly bad late night…
A Motor Yacht, Part Three
Slow but steady progress on the 28mm pulp motor yacht. I hit it with a light coat of grey primer, to better show the seams and bits that needed…
A Motor Yacht, Part Two
Part One is here, for those of you just joining in. The project is a small 28mm motor yacht for pulp gaming, based loosely on real motor yachts from…
A Long-Neglected Project Gets Dusted Off
Back in the long-lost days of mid-2009 (OK, four years back...) a contest called "Build Something" was held over on the excellent Lead Adventure…
Sarissa CityBlock Buildings, Finished
Finally have the Sarissa CityBlock 28mm lasercut MDF buildings to a table-ready state, including another hand-painted advertising sign on the side of…
Sarissa CityBlock Buildings, Part The Third
Progress continues on my seven Sarissa Precision buildings, albeit at a slower pace than I'd intended! Basecoat and drybrushing is done on all…
Sarissa CityBlock Buildings, Part The Second
Having assembled my new Sarrisa Precision lasercut buildings, it was time to consider adding some extra details to really make these buildings "pop"…
Sarissa CityBlock Buildings, Part The First
In my last post (two+ weeks ago!) I mentioned I'd bought a bundle of Sarissa Precision's lasercut 28mm CityBlock buildings to bring our pulp gaming…
Wagons from Frikkin’ Lasers
Got a nice box from J&M Miniatures earlier this week, and even before I cut the tape on the box I could smell the future... oddly enough, the…
28mm Pulp Baggage Review
Phil of Slug Industries (and Adventures in Wargaming, his personal blog) has recently released a set of 28mm pulp luggage. Cast in resin, you get six…
Wargamers With Frickin’ Lasers, Part II
Exactly seven days after I ordered some Orthodox crosses and a few other laser-cut bits from Archeotech, a small padded envelope arrived from the UK.…
All Flocked Up
I've been housesitting a relative's place since last week, which explains the lack of posts here, but we (my brother and I) have also taken advantage…
Wargamers With Frickin’ Lasers
Over on Lead Adventure, in a thread about some nifty laser-cut bits someone had commissioned, I randomly commented that I wanted a dozen or so…
New Scatter Terrain, Part Two (Finished!)
Finished up the new pieces of scatter terrain I started last week. Mostly, I've spent a lot of time the last four days or so waiting for glue to dry!…
New Scatter Terrain, Part One
Having done hedgerows and fields, I wanted some rougher, more overgrown terrain, and I also wanted to start experimenting with tree creation, as…
4Ground Cart Review
As part of an order that arrived this week from Brigade Games I picked up one of 4Ground's neat looking laser-cut carts. This one is "28-CAW-303…
Renedra Gravestones WIP
Quick photo of my work-in-progress Renedra gravestones, purchased over Christmas from J&M Miniatures. The bases are leftovers from my…
Best Time To Begin A Project…
... is 40-some hours before a convention starts, right? No? Fortunately, this is actually a small and achievable project. Earlier this evening…
Plowed Fields with Hot Glue
As a break from painting up Russians, last night I broke out the scenery supplies and started in on a new set of plowed field pieces. I like fields…
Ainsty Crates
Painted up the first bits from my December Ainsty order, the rifle crates and tea crates. The rifle crates are really nice pieces, with well…
Renedra Tents Painted
As a diversion from painting Russians, I've painted up the first part of my recent Renedra plastics order from J&M Miniatures. I ordered two…
An Ainsty Resin Order
In some ways, this smallish order of Ainsty resin scenery bits has been a decade in the making; I discovered Ainsty sometime in the very late 1990s…
Links of Interest, 7 June 2012
Been a bit quiet around here recently; blame a very strange and fractured work schedule for that, mostly, as well as the fact that I've got a whole…
Half-Timber & Rural British Architecture
The English Civil War has become a definite back-burner project around here, but it is still around, along with ambitions to make some more Western…
Towel Thatch, A Photo Tutorial
A few people on the Lead Adventure Forum and elsewhere have asked how the thatch on my various Russian buildings was done, and I"ve been promising…
A Russian Plank-Roofed Hut
Inspired by Tony's plank-roof hut tutorial that I linked to in my recent links of interest post, I sat down with stir sticks and my Xacto knives to…
Scenery and Terrain Vids on Youtube
I don't spend a lot of time rummaging around on Youtube, so up until recently I'd missed the immense amount of wargaming material there, especially…
Fairly Quick Hedges, A Photo Tutorial
These are only fairly quick if you ignore the fact that they sat around for about four months half-finished before I got bored of them taking up…
New Russian Buildings
I've been house- and cat-sitting for a relative in town the last ten days, so not a lot of action here on the blog, but I did take advantage of…
Onion Domes, Finished
It seems to be a week for belated followup reports to earlier posts here on the Warbard. Ah, well. I finished up the Russian church at the end of…
Onion Domes, Part One
Finally made it up to the local branch of Micheal's craft store after work Wednesday to hunt down material for the two domes of the Russian church. I…
Small Russian Church WiP
A quick pair of photos of the small Russian church I'm building for Russian Civil War gaming in 28mm. Earlier in January I discussed some planning…
Russian Huts Finished
It's been a bit of a slow ten days or so on the wargaming front around here; I wish I could say there was a proper reason, but I just haven't spent…
The Next Building Project
I don't usually like to talk about plans and ideas before there's at least some progress to show off, but while I was away over the New Year I had…
Second Russian House WiP
Started another Russian farmhouse on Boxing Day evening, this one slightly bigger than the first at 4"x2". I mentioned in the previous article…
Night Before the Night Before…
... and over at my place, I was hiding out, enjoying the last evening of solitary, productive peace and quiet I"ll have for a while, as the holiday…
Small Tools of Great Use
2oz spray bottle. Useful little thing. Here's something I bought largely on a whim from a local craft store that has proven unexpectedly useful.…
Half-Timber Barn WiP Part II: Thatched Roof
Picked up a cheap towel to use as thatching. Here it is in a quickie late-night photograph, glue still wet on the roof of the half-timber…
Half-Timber Barn WiP
Something for the English Civil War/Thirty Years War table, as well as for pulp games set in the quainter parts of the UK or Europe! All those crops…
Scenery: Plowed Fields
First scenery project in quite a while, I've done lots of figure painting over the winter and spring but no scenery. I pulled the top layer of…
Shoreline Part 2 (Sort of…)
Found, buried in my harddrive, another couple of forgotten work-in-progress shots from the first round of shoreline/riverbank construction back in…
Shoreline or River Bank Terrain Pieces
Two feet of riverbank/shoreline, the original two from summer 2009. On the right, a 28mm hunter and a 28mm sabre-tooth tiger on a 20mm by 40mm base.…
Gallery: Shipyard Photos for Inspiration
Another revival from the old Brian's Wargame Pages version of the site, and one that I should have brought forward ages ago! You can see the…
Sci-fi Signage
Note: These signs are Brian's work from the old Warbard. One day they may be recreated in Inkscape and SVG — Corey This zip file contains…
Dirt Roads from Caulking
A graphic tutorial I whomped up for the heck of it, as usual in the incomparable Inkscape. Caulk Roads Graphic Tutorial 1 of 4 Caulk Roads…
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 …
Mesa we will see you again?
Large terrain pieces are the lifeblood of any good gaming table and in a fit of boredom late one night at my old job (after my work was done for the…
Palm Trees
I think I'll have to try this - I have a few plastic palm trees, but more is never a bad thing: Pipe cleaner palm trees (via…
Old Signs for your Pulp Gaming
Old Signs for Pulp Gaming Inspired by my brother's Fake Pulp Adverts post, I thought I would share one of my projects. Over the past few weeks I…
Random Pulp Fake Adverts.
I've posted these on various forums, but never collected them into one place before. For your amusement, a batch of fake 1930s ads - grab the full…
Repainting Commercial Stone Walls
Pegasus produce a range of prepainted plastic 28mm wargaming scenery; all the stuff I've seen has been well cast but mostly badly painted. The stone…
Building A 28mm Tent
There's been previous versions of this tutorial posted on Lead Adventure and the Speakeasy, but I figured it's worth reposting here. After killing…
Scenery: Cardboard 15mm Cargo Containers & Crates
More refugees from the old site; I still like the graphic work I did on these shipping containers & crates. I might eventually do some more. No…
Gradient Backgrounds for Photography
I've created a number of simple colour gradient backgrounds that I've printed out for use in miniature photography, and recently decided to bundle…
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…
Pizza Box 25mm Skirmish Scenery
PIZZA BOX SCENERY: This 25mm science fiction scenery was inspired by a 25mm pirate tavern from a now-vanished webpage. That one was designed for a…
Two CD Terrain Tutorials
Two photo tutorials I did a while back, both on CD-based terrain. Full-sized (fully readable!) original on Flickr. Full-sized (fully…
Basic Scenery & Terrain Ideas
Good, basic techniques, nothing fancy. We'll be doing more specific terrain ideas and techniques in the future, but for now, a long catch-all…