This Blue and Pleasant Land

All of these trees set me back by a dollar.  That’s one dollar for the whole lot.  Don’t you just love wargamer swap meets.  Shame they only happen twice a year around these parts. Normally, these are glued together to form four tall trees suitable for 28mm figures.  What...

Another Reason I Don’t Play 40k…

That bastard Nurgle just won’t leave me alone, and the Emperor doesn’t seem to be doing squat to protect me.  Three weekends in a row I’ve been laid low by some dumb cold or flu or Warp-Pox, too sick to paint and that’s really saying something. Still and all,...

Rooftop Scatter

Before we get to today’s scatter terrain, let’s review, shall we?  Your humble editor has been whiny about how ‘dark’ his tabletop looks.  For once, he decided to run a test paint job before getting too deep into painting the small city’s worth.  Here’s how that worked out: Still...

Barrels – The Quintessential Scatter Terrain

It just wouldn’t be a miniature wargame without a few barrels on the table.  Check that one off the list: Nothing too novel here.  Those are all electronic doo-hickeys ripped out of an old and irritating childrens’ electronic piano.  They are glued to a base for added weight and...

Brightening Up the Place

Getting out of the GW all-dark-and-gothy-look is proving harder than anticipated.  I’m just so used a dark palette that my work keeps ending up not nearly as bright as anticipated.  There is one way to brighten up the table though – lights.  These look like streetlights, don’t they.  I...

The Old Park

In retrospect, this park isn’t very pulpy.  At some point, that statue of a long forgotten hero of the DPRG will have to come down for a nice art-deco style sculpture.  For now, though, a finished terrain piece is worth two in the “someday” column. The real reason that...

Two Dollar Jungle Templates

At long last, the Abox clan can rumble in the jungle.  The local craft store chain is selling some sort of plastic plant doo-hickeys for about a buck, and two of them are enough to make a slew of jungle stands.  In this case, I’ve mounted the plants themselves...

Pocket Battlefield

Calling this roughly 2-foot by 3-foot mat “pocket” stretches the definition, but it surely is portable. Nothing really special here, just a heavy canvas bolt of cloth dusted with three different dark colors of spray paint.  Although, I’d be remiss if I didn’t give a lot of credit to...

Most Boring Gang Yet

Rebel Mini’s BioHazard Zombie Hunters are great sculpts with a lot of potential, and at $6.50 for a full 12-man gang, too hard a temptation to resist.  As it stands, this pack gives me a shooter force in body suits armed with only a couple of pistols (can you say...

Lock Up Your Sons

Meet the Electric Knights, my daughter’s Not-romunda “gang”.  She picked the colors, the font for the bases, and named them all. While trimming the old leader’s pistol down, things went south, and I had to make a new one.  So I pressed a Laserburn crew member with a law...