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  • Colonial,  Old West,  Other Hobbies,  Terrain,  Travel

    Catching Up: Junque Store Finds

    January 21, 2023 / No Comments

    These were some lovely “junque store” finds — some little wooden buildings, clearly hand made, possibly for wargaming, “dust collector” display shelves, or folk art? The first set was meant to be mine. I saw them at the serendipitously-named CIRCA…

  • Fantasy,  Horror,  Old West,  Paint Table Saturday,  Painting,  Terrain

    Packing Away the Year

    December 31, 2020 / No Comments

    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…

  • Colonial,  Old West,  WWI

    Thrifting in NC

    October 11, 2020 / 4 Comments

    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…

  • Colonial,  Fantasy,  Old West,  Paint Table Saturday,  Sci-Fi

    Autumnal Splendour

    October 10, 2020 / No Comments

    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,…

  • 3D Printing,  Ascaria,  Fantasy,  Imagi-Nation,  Old West,  Paint Table Saturday,  Warhammer

    Painting Progress

    August 3, 2020 / No Comments

    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…

  • Colonial,  Fantasy,  Funny Little Wars,  Isla Victoria,  Old West,  Paint Table Saturday,  Painting,  Pirates/Naval,  VSF,  Warhammer

    A bit of a jag

    April 1, 2020 / 2 Comments

    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…

  • Colonial,  Craftees,  Old West,  Pirates/Naval,  Post-Apocolyptic,  VSF

    The GULP

    January 4, 2015 / 3 Comments

    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…

  • Cartography,  Fantasy,  Horror,  Modern,  Old West,  Pirates/Naval,  Post-Apocolyptic,  Pulp,  VSF

    Hexographer

    October 3, 2012 / No Comments

    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…

  • Fantasy,  Horror,  Modern,  Old West,  Pulp,  VSF

    Microtactix

    October 3, 2012 / No Comments

    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…

  • Old West

    Whitewash City

    October 3, 2012 / No Comments

    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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