Taking Your Dinosaurs from 0/10 to a solid 5.5/10

You should never put yourself down hobby wise, however some times you don’t want three layers of highlights, and when I’m looking for a way of putting my dinosaurs into action fast, I don’t want to be spending hours painting… I mean look at this treasure trove… As previously mentioned I’d hatched a scheme utilising […]

Bible Bashers Playtest

I was playing with dinosaurs all afternoon and the realised I’d never taken my Biblical Skirmish rules for a spin, my poor Abramites and Elamites had been looking at each other in the bottom of a box and never managed to get their hands dirty! Unfortunately the terrain I used made it hard to get […]

Everybody Do The Dinosaur

I was up for some simple gaming last night, so I grabbed some wooden discs I had to hand, a tin of green spray paint, superglue and eight small dinosaur figures and produced what you can see above. The dinosaurs effectively come pre-painted, all that would be required is picking out eyes, claws, teeth and […]

A bedroom floor, socks and airfix figures

Fancy terrain and well painted figures aside, you can still have fun rolling dice and moving little men around. It ain’t pretty, smells kinda funky, but it does give me an appreciation for 20th century tactics, plus there’s a certain nostalgia in it for me. At this point I called the German retreat, no use […]

Giants!

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown. Genesis 6:4 Bible scholars may debate the meaning of this […]

Elamites

So I finished painting my Elamite warband this morning. Again, as with the Abramites from my previous post, there is a lot of artistic license with these figures. The reason being that much of the reference images you may see online for Elamites or in Osprey books are a good few hundred years later than […]

Bible Bashers: Biblical Skirmish Wargaming

‘Biblical skirmish wargaming’ is not a phrase you often hear thrown around. In fact if you put it into google as I did recently the top result I received was a blog with a single post made by me some years ago. http://bible-bashers.blogspot.com/?m=1 In reference to that post on that dusty old blog I can’t […]

Do You Have a Flag?

In the interest of world building, and also because apparently I’m a bit of a flag nerd, I thought I’d put some flags together after I watched a TedTalk on Vexillology. Here’s the specific video, although I’ll be listing the main points below if you haven’t got twenty minutes. The main points of flag design […]

An Eclectic 15mm Miniatures Selection

A package arrived in the post today from Irregular Miniatures. One of my favourite Miniatures sites to browse, but I’ve rarely purchased anything due to the fact that it was one of those sites you had to send an email list of the bits you wanted to and wait for the PayPal invoice in a […]

Rice Fleets

Anyone really can afford this… I started by cutting tongue depressors into squares. I then went on to texture my wooden squares with bicarbonate of soda and super glue. At this point I got carried away. Glue a grain of rice to each base and paint accordingly. I used the smaller grains for destroyers, cruisers […]

Army Soldiers

Here’s today’s purchase despite protests from the wife of ‘Don’t you have enough army men?’ You’ve probably seen these Matchbox copies before on other blogs or in stores so I’m not breaking any new ground here, other than to say the marked price of £6 (a bit pricey I admit) once I had reached the […]

Tales From The Portable Gaming Case: Gladiators

So I take four of the ‘trees’ (tin foil glued to washers and flocked) put them in a square to create a rough representation of a 3×3 grid. I then flip over the top card of the deck, the card shows an arrow moving from one grid square to another. First the figures in the […]

Tales From The Portable Gaming Case: Colonial

The Mrs and I are moving house, which means most evenings are spent packing things up, or finding old projects and getting distracted by them. One such projects was my portable gaming case, found stashed away on a bookshelf. Contained within are figures for various periods, and small bits of scenery to play around with. […]

Knights for my own Little Wars

I remembered while reading H.G. Well’s Little Wars that he struggled to come up with quick and easy rules for simulating musketry, I thought if you go back before muskets, and have say knights fighting each other with ballistas and catapults or trebuchets instead of cannons, problem solved eh? Well, no… for some reason I […]

Dino-Team Photo

So after a long period of play testing I think it’s time I had a dino break. As you can see my collection of dinosaurs has boomed somewhat in recent weeks. My goal now however is to refocus back on Deathzap, and a little project I think could be a real game changer.

Discount Dino Conversions

A regular dino you’ll find in bags of cheap dinosaurs is Pachycephalosaurus. You know the one with the bony head that likes ramming into things. Unfortunately the real dinosaur bears little resemblance to the two I have… one of which is below: My first step was to swap heads with another toy. I forgot to […]

Dino Thoughts From a Lizard Brain

I played a game today trailing some new dinosaurs and a new objective – the gargantuan. The idea being that there’s something big and nasty and the first side to bring it down gets an objective point. I played the game mostly for fun (oh the horror!) so I didn’t take too many pictures, all […]

Painting Discount Dinosaurs

So you can fork out a large amount of money to get Papo or Schleich dinosaurs for your prehistoric gaming, but since the popularity of the Jurassic Park films… or maybe before… I’m not old enough to remember, you can readily find cheap dinosaur toys to game with. All it takes is a little paint, […]

Organised Chaos

In my bid to post on this blog most days I here submit the following. The shame of it. In the top photo you can see my hobby space, perched on the edge of the sofa… formerly used for sitting, now used to display my own brand of hobby madness. I’m currently painting up another […]

Carnival of Carnivores – Battle Report

So I tried playing my carnivores against each other this evening. Instead of putting down two herbivore, two carnivore I instead decided to go with predictably four carnivore feeding points. The objectives were ‘Infiltrate’ which meant getting half your force into your opponents deployment zone, ‘Destruction’ which means wiping out half of your opponents force, […]

Roasted Rex – Battle Report

So a little more play-testing this evening, changes from the previous edition of the rules (last nights rules to be exact) include two slight tweaks to make combat more bloody (yum yum!) and also there have been some tweaks to objectives. Below you can see deployment, T-Rex, Giganotosaurus, Utahraptor and Allosaurus, take on Stegosaurus, […]

The Jendari Rangers

In the interest of adding special forces to my games of Deathzap, I’ve produced the following: Milliput backpacks and map pin heads differentiate these guys from their usual Poundland counterparts. I’m hoping to paint the heads up like those old school sci if spherical helmets. I’ve also added a Parasaurolophus to my line up of […]

Dinosaurs, dinosaurs everywhere…

From left to right Therezinosaurus, Allosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Styrachosaurus, another Allosaurus, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, T-Rex, Carnotaurus and Spinosaurus. I’ve got rules in the making to use with these fellas, hopefully to be posted here soon. Also I should mention in the menu tab at the top of the page you can find the rules for Deathzap. Thanks […]

Cowboys

Thanks again to the poundstoreplasticwarriors blog I have found myself with a bit of a western obsession. I’ll hopefully be putting together a solo campaign for these fellas, some Indians that came with them and some Mexican bandits!

An afternoon’s work…

I purchased some Italeri Crusaders and Saracens today in the hope of doing some medieval era skirmishing with my imagi-nations. The paint scheme I went for may be nostalgic for some. They certainly bring back warm fuzzy feelings for me since I had a rather good Britains Deetail collection as a kid. https://goo.gl/images/tA3Lsu https://goo.gl/images/n7S16T They’re […]