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Packing Away the Year
This one has been a mess for so many. I feel fortunate to have remained healthy, employed, and amongst family. I hope the new year brings better things to everyone. Here is a good bit of my painting progress of…
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Thrifting in NC
Here are the fruits of several recent sojourns to new thrift / antique / junque stores in my corner of North Carolina. The first find was a pair of pairs of Native American Indians. 54mm, metal, old-lookin’, but with no…
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Autumnal Splendour
Though working from home, I’m still working — and thus my poor hobby blog has suffered. One consequence of spending so much time à la maison is that the flora about the place has been pampered. Featured above are marigolds,…
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Painting Progress
Here are my latest figures to go into the “completed” column: An admittedly odd pair — a Blitz Bowl / Blood Bowl orc and a 3D-printed owlbear-skin rug from Fat Dragon Games. Continuing with fantasy, we have two well-armed lasses…
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Colonial, Fantasy, Funny Little Wars, Isla Victoria, Old West, Paint Table Saturday, Painting, Pirates/Naval, VSF, Warhammer
A bit of a jag
Even before the recent “sheltering in place,” I seem to have gone on a bit of a painting jag — (the term is, apparently, an Americanism: a bout of unrestrained activity or emotion, especially drinking, crying, or laughing). There is…
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The GULP
The very first minis I purchased in my adulthood were a passel of western figures from Monday Knight Productions. They turned out to be a mixture of 25 and 28mm, as I really didn’t know the difference then, and the site doesn’t seem…
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Hexographer
Hexographer is the thoroughly wonderful program I used to create the map in my header. It comes from the mind of Joe Wetzel at Inkwell Ideas, who also has programs for mapping dungeons (Dungeonographer) and, thanks to one of those successful…
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Microtactix
Microtactix was on the leading edge of creating terrain for wargames and RPGs that you could download immediately and print on cardstock. The company has been quiet for some time (viz. the moribund Microtactix website), but a plethora of products…
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Whitewash City
In addition to all of the wonderful products that Eric Hotz has offered to the gaming community, his Whitewash City: Links page is the sine qua non of online Old West gaming resources. If you’re looking for miniatures, scenery, rules……
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Plains War by Pendraken
Pendraken Miniatures has a Plains Wars line which will no doubt be of interest to 10mm Old West gamers.
