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BSC 2018: PANG print layout
I finally got around to laying out the 1956 PANG for the first printing. As you can see from the pictures below, I am trying to remove the need for supports which will mark the surface of the final...
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BSC 2018: First print of 1956 PANG
The new printer board for my 3D printer finally showed up, so I got to printing the first print of my 1956 PANG. It was less than a full success. As you can see in the pictures below, I have a bunch of...
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BSC 2018: Correcting some too thin errors
As I am fairly new to 3D printing, I am learning a tonne about what not to do. One of the biggest issues I have discovered is that things that look good in CAD can look absolutely terrible once...
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Stable Genius
After finishing the three little cottages on Saturday, I decided to do something slightly different on Sunday and made a building that could serve as a stable or other outbuilding for a manor farm on...
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A Graveyard (Much Delayed)
File this one under “long neglected projects finally finished”, I guess. I’ve finally based, painted, and finished the last of the Renedra gravestones I started way back in February 2013, which were...
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A 17th Century Bastion, Part One
Several of the scenarios in Pikeman’s Lament ask for a bastion or earthwork to be attacked or defended, but at a maximum area of 9″x9″ it isn’t going to be some grand fortification or anything. I...
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Fenris Games Runestones
I picked up a few things from Fenris Games back in June or July, and the first pieces are finally getting completed and onto the gaming table! Two Viking Runestones from Fenris Games. Click for larger....
View ArticleA Naval Diversion
At BottosCon 2019 earlier in November I got the chance to play Warlord Games’ new Cruel Seas coastal naval game, British vs German speedboats in the Second World War. It’s not a bad game, but it’s...
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Small Buildings & Tiny Ships
Progress on my naval project, last seen in November’s A Naval Diversion post. My buildings from Brigade Model’s Small Scale Scenics range and British & German ships from Last Square’s Figurehead...
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Small Buildings & Tiny Ships, Part Two
Painting up the Brigade Models tiny English buildings turned out to be ridiculously fun. They’ve got all sorts of great detail and really reward a little bit of extra effort beyond a basecoat and...
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Small Buildings & Tiny Ships, Part Three
A green and miniature land! The first two coastal modules are finished, except that I’m still mucking about with forest canopy solutions, so those aren’t done yet either. There is also the chance of me...
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A Headland for Tiny Ships
Cranked out a headland for my coastal terrain, so we can have the coastline end on-table without looking super-weird. It’s designed to go on either end of the modules, so that constrained the design...
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Coastline Complete
The first coastline segments are done, barring a tiny amount of touchup here and there. Overview of the coastline and other bits. Click for larger. The sandbank off the headland still needs some paint...
View ArticleLinks of Interest, 27 January 2020
First links of interest of the new year – and the new decade, come to that! Dana Howl has a fairly new YouTube channel that I discovered via Twitter. She’s a great antidote to the shouty beardy death...
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Tiny Ships Painted!
I finally have painted ships (well, boats, mostly) to go with the coastal terrain I’ve been showing off! All my 1:1200 naval stuff so far is from Last Square, the Figurehead range. Last Square are very...
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An Actual Game of Tiny Ships!
This afternoon we actually got the tiny ships onto the table and had a game using the Narrow Seas rules. First, of course, I had to use blue-tac and scrap card to base up my tiny ships. The Brits and...
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Tiny Ships: A Game of Coastal Patrol
As mentioned last weekend after our game of Narrow Seas, we also wanted to try out Coastal Patrol, available in the Summer 2011 Special from TooFatLardies. I managed not to take a single photo during...
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Star Shell & Moon Markers for Naval Games
Both Narrow Seas and Coastal Patrol (and probably other naval games, I’m guessing) include rules for the moon being full or partial in their sighting and visibility rules, and a difference if your...
View ArticleLinks of Interest, 14 June 2020
Wargames Designs is partly a webstore, with some good looking historical wargaming flags in a variety of scales, among other things, but they also have this listing of English Civil War coat colours...
View ArticleLinks of Interest, 1 July 2020
For this Canada Day in a time of pestilence abroad in the land, the usual mix of individual links and items that don’t quite warrant an entire freestanding post, as is an irregular feature of this...
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