Odds and Ends (Feb2023)
Last week, I was all over the place and without accomplishing any single big project, I still got a lot done.Imagi-AfricaRegarding the 15mm African houses, I've got nothing new to show yet, I lost a...
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15mm African Buildings Serviceable
Well, I'm not sure that I can call them done, but they are complete enough to go into service. It is just a matter of them holding up the show, and I want to play some games.Adding rust to the roofs...
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More Preperations for Barbarossa
This past couple of weeks, I've been moving along with my Barbarossa campaign preparations, adapting the GDW Barbaroosa 25 campaign for my own use.The Barbarossa 25 campaign book includes roster sheets...
View ArticleFour Months in: "The Plan"
As readers may know, I keep a list of miniatures gaming projects noting the status of projects with a list of steps and check boxes for each. I find that this process helps me stay motivated and...
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Great Weekends, Tiring Weekdays
The last couple of weekends have been very productive. I finished painting 62 stands of 6mm Soviet infantry; assembled and primed 103 6mm Soviet, German, and French vehicles; got paint on about 70 of...
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A Few Bumps... and Counters
Yes, it seems that I've hit a few bumps in the road. I was checking the statis of my Russian infantry order for Barbarossa earlier this week, when I realized that four packs of figs are missing from...
View ArticleThings Really Slowing Down
The last few weeks have been busy outside of gaming, and the busy has finally blead over into my weekends, so hobby progress has really slowed down. I did finish up some Russian tanks and trucks over...
View ArticleSquirrel!
Over my hobby hiatus during the last couple of weeks, in the evening hours, when I'm too pooped to do anything hobbying, I've been watching "The Rise of Empires: Ottoman" on Netflix and rather enjoying...
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General Update
This past week has seen me get back to hobby business. I finally finished the painting of my 6mm WWII Soviet infantry stands, over 400 of them, as I decided to build infantry four different Brigade...
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A Few Additional Terrain Bits
Over the last week or so, I've been working on a few more cliff sections, needing more pieces that permit movement up or down the cliffs. Additionally, I added some more small rock formations and...
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The Comms Station (28mm Post Apoc)
Panky briefed us on the mission. One of the other scouts had found somethin' called a "comms station". Seen it up on some mountain somewhere, and the boss decided to send out a team to check it out....
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The Comms Station: The Descent (part 2)
After the fightin' ended, we took care of the wounded, and the tech guys did their job. I didn't go in the building, but looked inside one time, it was just a little room, stuffed full of gray...
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The Comms Station: The Journey Home (part 3)
The next morning, the situation kind of hit us. Three days home just turned into weeks, on foot, across the wastes. We had maybe three days supplies, didn't know the land real well, and had three...
View ArticleFuture Games: Africa and WWIII-1958
Over the last four weeks, my hobby has consisted only of gaming on weekends and writing up game reports for my blog. I haven't lifted a finger for research, painting, or building. With games on the...
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AAR-39: Hunting the Lion (African Imagi-Nations)
They called him "Simba", "The Lion", maybe because of his full beard which framed his face as if it were a mane, or maybe because of his wisdom and tenacity in fighting the French in his younger days....
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Ever Notice How Things Never Seem to Go As Planned?
My next game is going to be a WWIII-1958 battle, but I need to make a single terrain tile for a small town with the right road layout to connect to the rest of my modular terrain, a fairly simple...
View ArticleTo Go Where No Game Has Gone Before
Well, on my game table, anyway.As regular readers might know, I am still fan of Star Fleet Battles, a game inspired by the original Star Trek and animated series. If you look around the internet,...
View ArticleRevisiting My Hobby Plan for Future Gaming (The 10-Plan)
Back in September of last year, I presented a plan to narrow my hobby focus a little, to ten of the thirty-some periods and settings in which I do or would like to game. The process of executing that...
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Doing Some Terrain Work
Last week, in addition to exploring early period Star trek games, I decided to take care of another task in preperation for my Barbarossa campaign later this year. I still have a bunch (maybe 150...
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Finally Completed My Terrain Work
After almost three weeks, I've completed the re-flocking of all of my "green terrain' 1' square foam tiles, an utterly unrewarding project from the motivational side of things. The process would have...
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