I decided that I needed some “beat cops”, some “thin blue line” for my upcoming games.
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With two gothic horror vampire themed gaming opportunites due later this year, I figured that I would would play dolls house with my stuff in anticipation, and take some goofy photos… just to get the blood flowing.
7TV Dracula promises some heavily themed, genre-savvy, fourth-wall smashing games…
…and The Carpathians: Castle Fier is a Silver Bayonet expansion that will put some UV-sensitive, blood-sensitive, generally-over-sensitive types in the path of Napoleonic BPRD style special forces.
There is something very satisfying about setting up miniatures and little bits of furniture and (poorly) photographing them. Even better is using a really cleverly designed set of boxes to stand the little scamps around in.
I had not come across the Tenfold Dungeon range before a couple of weeks ago. It is intended for primary use with role playing games, but I am hopeful that The Castle set above will work for some of the scenarios due in both of the above releases.
The 20 second video below explains how it works nice and quickly.
I couldn’t resist taking these photos with a Vlad & Izzy and a few bits of Mantic Terrain Crate furniture. That is because in another dimension, not very far removed from this one, I spent my life mucking around with dolls houses, rather than toy soldiers and Star Wars figure.
And no, this isn’t a shill. I paid for the set above (and a few more) and think that it is great. I’m itching to play a game or ten on it.
Filed under: Miniatures, Terrain | Tagged: 2023, 7TV, Dracula, Fantasy, Horror, Napoleonic, Silver Bayonet, Undead, Vampire, Warhammer | 10 Comments »
Six of us got together for a pirate themed post-Covid gaming session a few months ago, me hearties
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2022, Fantasy, Frostgrave, Ghost Archipelago, Pirates, Underworld Gaming | 32 Comments »
Interview With the Vampire (1994) +
Warhammer Fantasy Battle (4th edition, 1992) +
The Addams Family (1991) +
Married With Children (1987 – 1997) =
Dark, ostentatious majesty / camp, sit-com horror =
Ultimate 1990s =
Two of my favourite GW miniatures, now finally painted, 29 years later.
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2022, Fantasy, Gary Morley, Undead, Vampire, Warhammer | 21 Comments »
After finishing the Castle Grayskull Wasteland terrain from the Masters of the Universe: Battleground set, it was time for one of the figures.
I reckoned that Trap Jaw was one of the grooviest MotU character designs back in the mid-eighties.
It turns out that over 35 years of life experience hasn’t changed how I feel about blue/green cyborgs with modular weapon arms, grotesque facial bionics and vague pirate themes one iota, so I figured that I would start with TJ.
Like a lot of similar media, the MotU franchise tends to have various different takes on the origins of the characters, and Trap Jaw has a few. My favourite is the one above.
In summary, Skeletor hit “Kronis” so hard that parts of him still havent landed, and Tri-Klops built Trap Jaw out of the bits that did.
Those illustrations – from the – Icons of Evil: Trap Jaw comic from 2003 – tell the story better than I ever could.
Anyway, like Morten Harket and your mum, Trap Jaw has had a few different visual iterations since “We Built This City” was number one.
Initially the 1980s Trap Jaw toy was pretty much what I was interested in referencing. The thing is, many of the physical details on the original toy were lost back then, due to the minimal paint deco.
As I wasn’t going to slavishly ignore details that would make for a better figure on the table, simply to match a mass produced toy run from almost forty years ago, I looked at the toy that the Archon sculpt referenced.
As “Masters of the Universe: Battleground is a fantasy miniature game based on the beloved ‘Classics’ toy series” it made sense to paint TJ to match that rendition of the character. As the “Classics” series was an adult collector range supposed to take the memory that you have of the character and update it, without taking away what you liked about it back then, it made sense.
Giving some extra attention to the physical details on the sculpt that are in some cases not even present on the original toy but were added in the Classics version was the obvious way to go.
So thats what I did, ending up with the finished verion of the miniature shown in the iffy photo at the top of this post, looking a fair bit like the beautiful illustration above.
I didn’t record the paints that I used, I just looked at various images of the character and decided what paints I had that I thought best represented him and got stuck in… and I loved every minute of it.
Until next time!
Filed under: Boardgame, Miniatures | Tagged: Archon Studio, Boardgame, Eighties, Evil Warriors, Fantasy, He-Man, Masters of the Universe, Mattel, Miniatures, MotU, MotU Battleground, Post Apocalyptic, Sci-fi, Terrain | Tagged: 2022 | 15 Comments »
Do you have it?
Well do you? What do you have?
Say it. You know what I’m talking about.
Say it. Nobody is listening, and you will be glad that you did, I promise.
Filed under: Boardgame, Miniatures, Terrain | Tagged: 2022, Archon Studio, Eighties, Fantasy, He-Man, Masters of the Universe, Mattel, MotU, MotU Battleground, Post Apocalyptic, Sci-fi | 28 Comments »
I painted some Celtic barbarian miniatures from a comic that I love, and then spent an afternoon having them run around hitting the Celtic barbarian miniatures of a friend.
Good times.
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2000AD, 2022, Celts, Comics, Fantasy, Slaine Kiss My Axe, Sláine, Warlord Games | 13 Comments »
Forbidden Psalm is a miniatures game set in the Mörk Borg universe.
These are some toy soldiers that I prepared for Forbidden Psalm and Mörk Borg.
Whether you regard seeing these toys as the final push you needed to embrace a demonic cult, is entirely up to you.
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2022, Adventure Wargames, Blameless Gutterborn, Citadel, Fantasy, Fireforge, Forbidden Psalm, Great Escape Games, Mantic, Mork Borg, North Star Military Figures, RPG, Wargames Factory | 26 Comments »
I painted some lovely pieces of Fogou post-apocalyptic terrain, and took some photos.
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My gaming opportunities have been thin on the ground for the last few years, for multiple macro and micro reasons. “Nightwatch” was one of the games that I definitely did not want to fall through the cracks.
Nightwatch is a co-op miniature wargame, with a flowchart AI approach to the waves of bad guys that attack a small group of PCs. If there was a miniatures game of the Vermintide video game series (itself almost a reskin of the Left 4 Dead series) then it would probably look a lot like Nightwatch.
Continue readingFiled under: Games in Progress | Tagged: 2021, Batinburg, Bazpaz, Fantasy, Mourning Wood, Nightwatch, Sylvaneth, The Bazpaz, Witch Hunter | 15 Comments »
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