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Storing the Fleets
When talking about masts on tiny ships recently I mentioned that my current storage solution for my fleets was, frankly, bad. This last weekend I sat…
Masts & Booms
More detailing on 1/1200 scale ships with plastic broom bristle. I've added cargo handling booms to the masts and kingposts of two of the Antics 3d…
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…
Links of Interest, 4 April 2021
Cement Saul is a fairly new YouTube channel that has been doing a bunch of interesting Gaslands-related videos. I especially like the video on…
A Paintbrush Rack from Scrap
I've always know that hanging paint brushes bristles down to dry was better for them, but never bothered doing anything about it. Recently my…
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…
How to run gaslands (or any game) by webcam
The second wave of COVID-19 is here and with it, new restrictions on in-person events like gaming. While in British Columbia we don't have a strict…
Links of Interest, 17 August 2020
Nice little sculpting tutorial on doing feathers in greenstuff from JuanHidalgo Miniatures. I really like short, approachable tutorials like this,…
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…
Colourful Cavalry, Part Two
Horses in colours other than brown! Armour in colours other than silver! Dogs and cats living together! Chaos and disorder! Well, something…
Colourful Cavalry: Armour as well as horses!
I've posted links to horse painting articles and tutorials before, including the exhaustive "horse of a different colour" series over at Trouble at…
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 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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
LInks of Interest, 5 Sept 2014
Just to prevent this place becoming all-Blood Bowl, all the time, some semi-random interesting links. Over on Lead Adventure Forum, I found the…
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.…
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…
Trying A Wet Palette
I'd heard of "wet palette painting" before, but for no particular reason hadn't sought out information on the technique or looked into it at all.…
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…
Look, Up In The Sky…
...it's a bird, it's a plane... well, actually, it's a flying stand to get my existing SPAD and Nieuport fighters onto the table properly! Flying…
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…
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…
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…
Transporting the SPAD
Almost all of my gaming is done away from home, at other houses, up at the university on the weekend (our local miniatures group takes over a…
Fiskars Circle Cutter Review, and Markers for M&B
Back one of the before-Christmas sales, I picked up a Fiskars circle cutter on deep discount from one of the local art supply stores. It's been on my…
Flags & Banners from Greenstuff
This is not really a new idea, but it's one that I only twigged to in mid-2011, so it's fairly new to me. The idea of using greenstuff for flags and…
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.…
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.…
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…
Pulp Design Tools & Resources, Part Three: Inspiration
A necessarily brief, personal and idiosyncratic tour through some websites with noteworthy archives of 1920s/30s posters, postcards, luggage tags and…
Pulp Design Tools & Resources, Part Two: Fonts
This is the second in a series of posts (three or more) aimed at introducing gamers to some of the resources out there they might not be aware of for…
Pulp Design Tools & Resources, Part One: Inkscape
Everytime Corey or I post player aids, faux-vintage ads, building signs, faux magazine covers or similar to forums or elsewhere, there's always…
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…
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…