Hi, folks.

What a month. Is summer nearly over yet?

It’s been the usual marathon of holidays, interlinked with the kids running amok at the summer break. Goes on forever, unfortunately. I have mostly been editing my friend’s novel (as well as my own, when I have time), and found a little time to put some models together.

I’ve been trying to up my terrain game for a little while, though it isn’t the cheapest aspect of the tabletop hobby. I have found some good deals over at Artificers Forge, which specialises in various scif-fi, fantasy, and zombie apocalypse stuff, among others. One of the pieces I’d wanted for a while was the radar installation, which I thought would look good in games of Fallout, as well as Five Parsecs from Home. I primed the whole model in black, then wetbrushed with silver, before a wash of black, brown, and then dabbing some rust on with a sponge.

I love old buildings, old structures, Second World War installations, old towers and radar stations, you name it. This model gave me a little piece of that for my battlefields, and a central point for any games, or an objective point. Pictured a few pics below is a couple of Institute synths for an idea of the scale of this piece.

Since the beginning of July, I have also been interested in writing up some rules for a custom tabletop game, incorporating all the units that I loved growing up as a fantasy fan in the mid to late ’90s. I was able to get a hold of some Chaos Dwarves on Etsy recently, intending on using these minis as proxies for one of the factions, the hill-dwelling, corpse-grinding dwarven butchers of Dartswell Bluff. I have since the ’90s lost many of my own Chaos Dwarf miniatures, so it was exciting to see so many of the classic units recreated online.

Again, another shout to Artificers Forge for the pieces of terrain (above). The hangman’s tree and Elven shrine are to be big parts of the gameboard for my tabletop game, for which I am currently ironing out the rules and lore. Should hopefully see these appear in a future post, but for the time being, these are primed and awaiting painting.

Thanks again for reading, and I hope your summers are going well.

Cheers