• Fantasy

    Catching Up: Splintered Light

    The minis up next have been nagging at my conscience for years. Many, many birthdays ago, my two boys pitched in together to get me several sets of Splintered Light miniatures anthropomorphic animals. I painted a few, and then they…

  • Fantasy

    Catching Up: 54mm Fantasy

    These are recent acquisitions. Years back, someone online praised a set of 54mm fantasy miniatures available in a bucket from Toy R Us. By the time I got after them, they “unavailable” and then not too long after that Toys…

  • Fantasy,  Terrain,  Vintage

    Catching Up: Empires

    While immersed in my 15mm craze years ago, the Demonworld line of fantasy miniatures were customarily extolled. In researching them, I also discovered the Hobby Products campaign game Empires (a knockoff of GWs Mighty Empires). Anyway, I have yet to acquire…

  • Fantasy,  Naval

    Catching Up: Armada

    I’m endeavoring to share the fruits of the last few years’ labor. First up: Armada. As I regret that I wasn’t sufficiently solvent nor interested when GW’s Man O’ War was au courant, I vowed not to miss the next…

  • Colonial,  Fantasy,  Modern,  Pirates/Naval

    Bones Day

    Two Saturdays back (July 3) was “Bones Day” — I received my box of Bones miniatures from Reaper’s 5th Kickstarter. It took me almost a decade to learn, but I finally figured out how to work the Reaper Pledge manager.…