Well illness has taken me away from hobby stuff for a while now ( no posts on here for a couple of weeks!! ) but as I have started to get better, I have managed to get in a few hours at my PC over the last couple of days. And I decided to design some 3D sci-fi scenery to use with my new rules [Read more...]
Well I have been able to put together some of my Salute 50 haul, and on the whole I am fairly pleased with them. A good mix of models which made the build fun, this time I will be searching through all my old decals to try and find numbering and letters etc. to add to the models after painting, [Read more...]
Well I am sitting here aching from head to foot from lots of walking at Salute 50 on Friday and Saturday, my old bones are suffering! It felt really strange and very hard for me to be there this year and not to be at the reins like I have been for the past thirteen or fourteen years, knowing that [Read more...]
I ran a game of my new rules last night at the club, four players sat down and didn’t have a clue what to expect… this would be the first time anyone other than me had played the game, so I was a little apprehensive 😱 Well they had got the basics of the rules by the end of turn one!! [Read more...]
Well it has been a strange week, I have not had any chance to do much actual hobby stuff, all I have really managed to do is write more rules!! I have finally worked out a few issues with the Zombie rules, I think I have managed to get the activation sequence sorted, hopefully I will get a chance [Read more...]
Work continues on my new rules, I spent most of two days getting all the weapons, troops and vehicles sorted and pointed up so now it was time to point up some troops and see how they work. I now have about forty weapons for infantry, vehicles, tanks, fliers and support units, so I thought that I [Read more...]
Yep something new on the tabletop and I don’t mean the figures or the scenery, what’s new is the rules! I was playing a first playtest of some new rules I have been working on, this time I am trying something different, not Spaceships, not Ironclads and not cars, this time I am doing a complete [Read more...]
A while back after a clear out at the club ( and a lucky raffle ticket!! ) I ended up with some of my club’s old scenery and it has sat in a box collecting dust ever since, but I have finally got some of it out to try and do something with it. The scenery is some old river sections made of some [Read more...]
Well after sliding down my stairs like a drunken downhill skier and hurting my neck and back I found I had a little time to do some relaxing painting, I should have seen that dog’s toy on the stairs!! 😣 What I needed was something to paint… Luckily I had been mucking around with a new [Read more...]
Well I spent a few hours the other night painting the rest of my Ground Zero Games Crusty Aliens, and I am very pleased with their finished look, these will be pointed up and used for my games of USE ME 15mm sci-fi rules. I used the same set of colours as the first unit I did, this meant it was [Read more...]