A Rambling Look Through My Hobby Drawers

A rambling look through my hobby drawers full of past and present wargaming projects…

Survival Horror Gangs with The Worst Figures!

The Vanguardians VS The Darkanites

SKIRMASHED SET UP The game is played on a 2’x2’ board for 1-5 figures aside, and a 4’x2’ board for 6-10. Deploy forces within 3” of opposite edges (long edges on a 4’x2’). All dice are D10s (unless stated otherwise). Figures have six stats, ‘Manoeuvre’, ‘Firepower’, ‘Boom’, ‘Fight’, ‘Hack’, and ‘Stamina’. Stats can be any […]

The Futility of Man… In Wargaming

Here’s something I’ve been pondering for a little while. As I burn through ideas, new ideas, old ideas, all half baked, I began wondering why things (at least in my brain) are like this. Why start a project, become intensely focused on it for a short time and then flit to another? Maybe it’s just […]

Hobby Update-ish

It’s been a little bit of a bonkers weekend. I turned a little older, and then experienced Remembrance Sunday. It’s an odd quirk of being born early November, your Birthday weekend often lines up with a rather somber and thoughtful occasion. Anywho… another quirk of having a Birthday is being inundated with gift cards, which […]

How I Painted My Axis Force For Konflikt 47

Faithzap 3

Being away this week visiting family means no physical hobby for me, but I still love to engage in the mental – writing lore and rules. And despite being on the back burner I had promised to produce a few religious to add flavour to my own Deathzap setting. So here you go: Cyclism Religious […]

An attempt at a YouTube video on the Sprue Board

Hopefully this works! Here’s also a link just in case: https://youtu.be/So3RgDWgf9I?si=4YEu1C2mBAU19XaN Gremlins in the system!

Greebles Galore

After playing a few games with my strange gangs, I felt the terrain wasn’t really matching the vibes of the figures. Considering that the terrain in question was supposed to be my generic, one set fits all games terrain I didn’t want to change it. So that meant making some new stuff. Terrain is actually […]

Mantaurs vs Pirates

In the mad world of finding things to replace the heads of army men with, at some point I landed on the idea of just smaller army men. I previously showed off my initial Mantaur: The problem I found in the lab, was what with each further iteration of the Mantaur, their cognitive abilities decreased […]

Odd Gangs 2: Eclectic Boogaloo

Things very quickly got out of hand. Much superglue has been consumed, much stuff thrown at walls to see what sticks. The Cubeheads were something I knew would work, as I’ve seen similar things before: A hobbyist called ‘Ben Has Hobbies’ has a game based entirely around the cube headed concept. https://youtu.be/Z8aqkhYBqg0?si=UPjRFZZqcNIYjGPR Chucking the pink […]

Odd Gangs

When the fingers hover over the ‘add to cart’ ‘checkout’ and ‘buy now’ buttons on various Wargaming sites, despite you being knee deep in already existing projects, I recommend having a little look around for that odd little itch scratcher before you take the plunge. Digging through drawers in my desk I found some bags […]

Irregular Space

Sometimes projects come out of nowhere. I think this one in particular has existed in the forbidden section of my brain for quite some time, and as I seem to be amassing projects right now I thought ‘why not?’ The project in question is to produce a set of rules specifically for Irregular Miniatures 15mm […]

My very easy method just keeps painting Japanese Infantry for Bolt Action

Put this down as a speed painting tutorial, with room to come back later if you want and add detail or tidy things up. I’m debating and all over was and drybrush, but I’m not sure this scheme needs it just yet. I got the idea from my older post here. When painting historical minis, […]

Meat Town

As sort of mentioned previously, I’m planning on making terrain and a gaming surface for my Ghost Legions project that differs from the table I use for Deathzap and the odd game of Bolt Action. I imagine the underworld is a bit ‘chunky’, where parts of the overworld or projections of it have been torn […]

Battle of the Crooked Wastes

Kassira’s Legions march towards one of the Underworld’s great pillars in an attempt to destroy death itself. The Death’s amass an equivalent defensive force! This was really an exercise in seeing how quickly a big battle like this could be resolved utilising Featherstone’s Chimera. I don’t think I’d want to play battles much larger than […]

Screw Yourself

Note: Screwing Yourself is my own term for playing a solo game with your screw based armies. The table is ready, the armies lined up, I’m full of piss and vinegar. Let’s go! But I’ve got no rules… nothing, nowt, zilch… no problem, let’s make ‘em up as we go! First problem is stats. I […]

Screw Wars – The Apocalytes

Rivals to the Royalist Star Forces of King Philip-Zed the 4th are the Apocalytes. The Apocalytes worship the ‘Great Bore’, is it a worm? Is it a maggot? No… it is the Great Bore! The hole in everything! The backbone of the force are the cultists, plentiful, poorly armed and under-armoured but they make up […]

Screw Wars

(I mean that literally but in two different ways.) I’ve long been inspired by Tony Adam’s woodscrew wargaming army: https://thewoodscrewminiaturearmy.blogspot.com/?m=1 Unfortunately Tony passed away two years ago. But the spirit of woodscrew wargaming lives on. The Man of Tin blog frequently references Tony’s army, and only the other day I spied some woodscrews being used […]

Ghost Legions Lore or Faithzap Part 2?

In my last Deathzap post, I mentioned that I’d be looking to build out the setting by adding in all the various Religions that theoretically would exist… across a few… roughly Earth sized planets… a quick google search tells you that Earth has over 4000 faiths. My Deathzap setting includes the habited planets of Kannis, […]

Grim Grinning Ghosts

With the lurgie going strong this week I mostly moved between a succession of naps and occasional snacking. However I did make some progress on the Ghost Legions front. Instead of going for my usual fluorescent ghost approach seen previously: I went down a more grimdark alley, inspired mostly by my small skirmish warbands seen […]

Featherstone’s Chimera in Action!

My bank holiday weekend of hobbying was hampered somewhat by a rather nasty cold. I managed very little in terms of painting or playing, but I did do a lot of napping. But desperate to do something, I dosed myself up on cold and flu capsules and hit the table with some Italeri figures. Roughly […]

Featherstone’s Chimera

I’ve been thinking Ghost Legions again, and in that regard something quick and easy. I still want to be able to grab a box of Italeri figures and have the rules to pitch it against any other box. Sort of like what Games Workshop do with their Combat Patrol and Spearhead games. For those not […]

Cambar Border Attack

Jed Stedder grit his teeth, and stared off into the distance as the Tigers marched over the horizon. He had hoped for the simple life of a farmer after decades of fighting in the Oltra Campaign, but the Rin Empire had different plans, and now him and his workers were forced into defending their homes. […]

Faithzap

This past week I’ve been away at a Church Camp with my Church’s Youth Group, so as you can imagine there’s been a lack of hobbying. Corralling teenagers takes up a lot of time. I did have pondering time though, and with the religious atmosphere, I’ve been considering how religion functions in my own Deathzap […]