-
Oz, Two Ways
When my lads were young, my wife read them all of L. Frank Baum’s original Oz stories. For many years, though fadingly now, Oz enjoyed a mythical status in the family. A particular favorite character of mine was Tik-Tok, absolutely…
-
Catching Up: Super Dungeon Explore
Perhaps it was because people were posting examples of their lovingly-crafted 3D versions of the game boards … I don’t otherwise know what would have possessed me to purchase Super Dungeon Explore back when it came out — Board…
-
Catching Up: Junque Store Finds
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
At Long Last …
Whoops! There went a year. I was busy painting but not posting for the entire duration of 2022. I do hope to motivate myself to share some of my progress in 2023. I shall begin with a major accomplishment —…
-
Welcome, 2022
More time has passed than I would have wished. It seems I was more affected by my return to in-person teaching than I had anticipated. And, alas, my wife and I rang in this new year harboring an unwelcome omicronian…
-
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.…
