I’m back from Historicon 2019. This is the premier historical gaming event on the east coast of the US. Attendees can find tons of games to play, presentations to listen to, sit…
Category: Hobby
tips and pictures of miniatures.
Can’t see the forest for the trees… (Part I)
I finally got off my rear and started working on putting together tree bases for my various gaming periods and scales. In the past, I tended to use single mounted trees on…
The Boring Stuff….
I am currently working on making excel spreadsheets for Victory at Sea, a project I have been putting off for quite a few years. My friend sent me the sheets he put…
Safari Toob Toy for Pulp Snakes.
As I have been steadily adding to my pulp adventures terrain and miniature collection, I have been looking for relatively large numbers of similar miniatures to represent hazards and traps in my…
Pulp Figures Melanesian Island Warriors.
If you have been following this blog, you will have noticed that I have been bitten by the Pulp fiction bug. Slowly, I have been collecting and painting figures and terrain to…
Alligators, Crocodiles, oh my….
During the last Historicon, I went through the various vendor booths and picked up pretty much every alligator and crocodile miniature I could find. I had a desire to have a lot…
The Wachtmeister goes to Pickett’s Lard
I attended Pickett’s Lard in Gettysburg the first weekend of May. This event was organized by the members of Lard USA a club dedicated to all things Lardy, i.e. the games put…
North Star Mule.
I had a few minutes and some half completed miniatures laying around that I decided to finish (my usual situation….). The first was four mules from the Northstar Congo line of miniatures….
Lord of the Rings Teant Army
I have been slowly working to update and repair my old Warhammer Wood Elves army for use with the 9th Age rules. While going through my rebasing, I needed to make a…
The Doughnut Shop
A few years ago a company whose name I don’t remember came to Historicon with a new product. (I think it was pre-Fredericksburg but I can’t be sure.) The company sold ceramic…