A few weeks back, I posted my first effort at adding some stairs to my Mageknight dungeon tiles. I decided I could likely do better than these spirals so I pulled out some extra trap tiles to form the basis of stair case. I cut and layered on some floor tile and then did a quick paint job to approximate the pattern on the tiles.
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Saturday, April 27, 2024
Stairs
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Some 28mm terrain
I noticed I was a bit short on interior terrain when I laid out the Joker's lair awhile back. Specifically, I had no beds and few tables. After looking online and humming and hawing, I ordered a tavern pack of 3-D printed terrain.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Last of the Crimean!
And I've finally reached the end of the 28mm Crimean armies. Whew!
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Russian Dragoons
Second-last post on this Crimean project with a group of Russian dragoons.
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Hawkins Ford
Bruce popped over for a game this week. I was keen to get my War of 1812 plastics out for a spin so I dusted off Rebels and Patriots (part of the Osprey Rampant series). It looks like we'd last played these rules in 2019 with the Battles of Pork Rind and Baby Duck Ridge. I decided to play Hawkins Ford, which is a bit of a cheesie race scenario as the British defend a key river crossing against a superior American force.
Second, having played Xenos Rampant, really what the game needs is to bolt-on the newer Xenos mechanics to create more differentiated units and more interesting choices and caused units to fight more like they did historically. So I think that's what I'm going to work on next. It should be a pretty easy adaptation. That also streamlines the kind of clunky morale tracking, I think.
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Hussar Lancers
Just a quick update today with these six Russian Hussar Lancers from Foundry's 28mm Crimea range.
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Mixed bag of painting
I finished a random assortment of things today. When I was using my Mageknight dungeon tiles recently, I realized I had no stairs. I had two idea to deal with this. The first was to take some of the "trap" tiles that had a centre cut out and use them to make spiral stair cases. This is one with the centre piece pulled out, a wedge of the piece cut as a step and the rest of descending steps painted in. This looks better in person than in this picture. I did two of these.
I also did the reverse to build stairs going up, basically taking centre pieces and cutting them to give the impression of stairs. Not playable in any way but a reasonable enough representation. The other approach is straight stairs that sit on tiles. I'll start these this week.
I got this random sci-fi guy in a job lot. I had no idea what to do with him. His gun looked suitably impractical that he could stand in a Mr. Freeze in my super hero games.
Craig also kindly mailed me a couple of Heroclix figures over the holiday. On the left is Ra's alh Ghul' daughter (but will do as a generic gunslinger). On the right is the Ventriloquist from the campy 1960s/70s Bat comics but who could be a very dark villain if you wanted.
Up next: Some Russian Crimean Hussar Lancers are almost done.