Elven Village On the Cheap
With a full backlog and modest pile of opportunity, I often find myself wondering what project deserves next place in the queue. At times like these, I go to The Joy of Wargaming viewers. It’s cheap market research, and it hasn’t failed me yet. An elven village, you say? We...
Undead Terrain
If your undead table lacks a certain j’nais skull quoi, then you should look at herpetaraium terrain. I picked up the two skulls you see on the table here – one T-Rex and one giant sabertooth skull – from the local Wal-Market. They retail for somewhere around twelve to...
Little Big Guns
Every table a masterpiece. It took the littlest figures around to get me to appreciate the majesty and spectacle of Napoleonic Wargaming. There’s just something far more satisfying about shoving brigades or divisions of 50-100 figures around, even if they are a lot smaller, than there is in shoving...
Clever Scenario Design
Wargaming videos make a fine soundtrack for painting sessions, and every once in a while you stumble across a bit of genius you can’t wait to steal. This wonderful battle report from House of Hengist Comics Wargaming Channel struck me as a novel sort of game, and one of...
2×2 Napoleonics : A Bit of Eye Candy
More black powder gaming using a neat little trick for roads and streams… Simple yarn. It’s just the right scale for 2mm figures, and you can nudge it all about to make just the right curves. Placed down on a fleece battlemat and it works a treat....
In The Shadow of Giants
Banged out a quick weekend project recently, with mixed results. These towering trees look okay, but the roots are nil, and they are way too fragile for regular use. Classic construction method consisting of paper towel cardboard tubes covered with tissue, and the tissue is held in place with...
Utility Terrain
Final shots of some utilitarian terrain. The lumber here is coffee stirrers liberated from the local coffee shop eating on a bed of popsicle sticks and lies. ...
Modern Conflicts Call for Modern Solutions
Starting to amass a little ultra-modern warfare collection for use with Black Ops. To date, I’ve only ever played that game using sci-fi figures, but for the first time in a long time, I’m starting to get a handle on how modern warfare can be wargamed. More on that...
Scattered Shots and Thoughts
Time to make a scene! Can’t fight for the throne of the Trossian Empire if you don’t have a continent of Tros to fight on. So let’s take a look at some of that scatter This is all 2mm terrain from either Irregular Miniatures or PicoArmor. Irregular trees on...
A Big 2mm Update
The big hoopty for 2020 here at Chez Inabox has been the move to integrate 2mm scale gaming into the mix. Not only that, but we determined that a move into the new frontier of mass battle black powder gaming was in order. We like to zig when the...