Category: 10mm figures

Long Distance Wargaming

The One (Acutally Four) Box (Actually Boxes) to Rule Them All has been blooded. Check out the Castalia House blog, the best dang fantasy and science fiction blog on this or any other internet, today for a full review of how you – yes, you! – can play miniature wargames across...

Wrap It, Stack It…

Smack it on the bing-bong!  The four fantasy boxes are done. Four mounted troops, three big bossmen, thirty-five infantry, and a cute little doggo.  If you can’t field a good four skirmish forces out of that mix, you’re in the wrong hobby, buddy. This aerial shot shows how well the...

Unleash the Hordes!

Been playing some Orcs Must Die! lately, so the painting slowed a bit.  My four year old loves watching those green waves get sliced and diced and hacked and whacked.  Big fan of floor spikes that one.  She better not expect these little guys to get chewed up, though. ...

Scale Mail

One of the things every wargamer wants to know prior to purchasing figures is, “How will these figures match with the ones I’ve already got.”  Some think that this question becomes more critical at the smaller scales, because a millimeter out of six or ten is a much bigger...

Make Gondolin Great Again

 The One box to Rule Them All continues apace.  Ten bucks netted me all these figures – four complete elven warbands.  The bright blue and yellow will help them stand out against other figures and the ground cover.  Note the dark green bases, which should help as well. ...

A Wargamer’s Life: A One Act Play

  Me:  I’m going to do more playing and less painting in 2018 Also Me:  I’m going to build four matched wargaming sets Me:  That’s not gaming, that’s still painting Also Me:  But it’s 10mm, that hardly counts Me:  It’s painting Also Me:  Have you seen these guys? Me: ...

Four by Twenty Figures

Last post I showed you my current project’s status.  For those new to Chateau Abox, I’m building four identical game sets, so that I can do some online wargaming with a tactical component.  If you ain’t pushing lead, you ain’t miniature wargaming, after all.  By using 10mm figures already in hand,...

AAR: The Necromancer’s End, Part 2

To recap:  Our humble and noble Necromancer was passing innocently through a pleasant wooded glade when he was viciously accosted by a troop of inbred and illiterate ogres.   The Necromancer, his assistant, and his skeletal party were heading south through the forest as shown here. The ugly ogres...

Sisterhood of the 10mm Pants

I’ve had these two archers languishing in my paint box for months.  They are the best I could do at finding female archers for characters in the long-on-hiatus D&D campaign for my kids and their friends.  Pendraken’s Amazons might work, but they’ll need a lot of green stuff before...

Monsters on the Prowl: Manticores

As we trundle along, merrily throwing alien after alien at the hapless human intruders, it’s always nice to pause and add a little sumpin sumpin to the lists of the fantasy dungeon.  Why not some twin manticores to spice things up? DN58 – Manticore  These ugly mugs can be...