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Relax, it’s not a Patreon call. These ten support columns are cheap found items glued to washers. They are called wooden dowel pins, and you can find them online or at any local hardware store. In the hands of a woodworker, they would be used to pin wood joints...
Dungeon Dressing – Bits and Bobs
The two simple beds now have plain spun sheets and rather harsh looking pillows. The sheets are facial tissue stiffened with watered down white glue, and the pillows are simple squares of cardstock. Easy peasy A few more accutrements for the wizard’s amusement. The not-a-palantir-honest on the left is...
Dungeon Dressing – Barriers to Entry
My dungeon corridors are really wide. At 2.5 inches from wall to wall, that equates to 12.5 feet using the scale in common use today. What to do when you want to force characters to march single file? Making separate tiles for bottlenecks doesn’t appeal, so instead I...
Ye Olde Danke Library
No wizard’s workshop would be complete without plenty of quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore. There’s some jars of unguents, spices, and weird skin creams mixed in with arcane copper devices and scroll tubes. The dribs and drabs of hot glue that clung to the shelves despite my best...
Table for Four, Take Two
Couple more pieces of furniture ready for the movers. Another boring table for four, this one a bit smaller than the last, and pretty sweet wizard’s work table. The base of that table on the left looks pretty blah. I’ll have to gray it up a bit to lower...
Table For Four, Take One
To make sure that the first batch of dungeon furniture would paint up right, I did a quick paint job on the big table and four benches… Yeah…this is going to work out just fine....
New Yan’qui Craftsman
The dungeon just got in a big shipment from Fantasy Ikea. Frankly, I’m doing everything I can to avoid building doors. Still haven’t found a technique that I like yet. Sci-fi figure for scale. Everything you see here was made with popsicle sticks and hot glue. Click to...
A Wargamer Christmas – The Lead Pile Groweth
For wargamers, the past few weeks have seen all those figures you ordered from overseas over the Christmas break start showing up in your mailbox. For me that consists of four packs of Ral Partha’s Blighthaven line, and a pack of 15mm.co.uk’s skeletons and adventurers with some demi-humans for...
Never Paint Alone – A Podcast Recommendation
In The Garage The best time for painting – at least for middle-aged family men for whom this hobby is at the bottom of a long, long list of things to do – is that magic hour between seeing the kids off to bed and when days tribulations finally...
Dungeon Construction – Paint on the Walls
Watching Guy Ritchie’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was a fun, if trying*, way to pass time while slapping paint around on the tiles for Castle Meatgrinder. The tiles were spraypainted earlier in the day, with some trepidation. *Fun spy flick, but a mistake to put on a movie with...