Saturday, November 5, 2022

Fall In - 2022 Tables of Interest - Friday Afternoon

Quick, one day jaunt to Lancaster. Fun to return to the ol Host Resort - now the Wyndham Lancaster Resort & Convention Center. This early 20th century/Pulp port city was certainly an eye catcher.

 I undoubtedly missed stuff this time around due to my time constraints but the WW2 folks seemed to have pulled off the best displays that I saw in the few hours I was there. Here are the tables that caught my eye, in no particular order: 







 




I do love these simple tournament boards - this for Flames of War

... and this for LOTR

On the way to the ballroom, Distelfink, one is greeted with:


Somewhere in Peking













Pretty sure this wasn't even set up but as far as I was concerned, it is done - ready to go!



Love this old West Wind Gothic horror range!

Uh, safe to say this castle has an infestation problem.

Setting up a well disguised ambush isn't their strength.

A couple years ago, nuns with beards would have been hilarious. What is safe to say about this today? (I have these figures around somewhere.)

More West Wind figures in here





This is all one great big gothic horror table - looks like fun for a ton of players.

This WW2 Eastern Theater table is probably my favorite of the lot.






Fabulous table!



These buildings in particular are really, really nice!



Dien Bien Phu - you don't see these every day!




On the the HAWKS room




Silver Bayonet!


In the dealer hall





I love these little rows of thorny brambles in the lower left corner - from Terrain Essentials from "Castnplay" https://www.castnplay.games/terrain-essentials


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Friday, October 28, 2022

Friday, October 7, 2022

I'd Buy That! #3

Adolph von Menzel's "Uninvited Guest"

 Someone should make a line of Victorian/Edwardian era skeletons in civilian clothing. I spose I could make them myself but then no one else would ever benefit from the idea.

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

25/28mm Armorcast - Terraform - Quarried Stone Walls

Yes, yet another entry of stone walls - You know you like it! 

The literary minded, or one bent like an amateur psychoanalyst, will conclude these walls stand in for my inability to paint actual soldiers - they are both a literal and figurative barrier to accomplishing something that could enable the occurrence of an actual game. It'd be a stretch, but I can see how you could get there.


I tell this story all the time. One Historicon many years ago, one of the clerks at this Armorcast booth, plucked one of their buildings out of my hand and threw it to the floor. He beamed as he picked it up to show me they were virtually indestructible. Sold! And I remain attached to those turn of the century prices. These are really great products that are now, I believe, OOP. (please be wrong)

Tan primed, then wet-brushed with Vallejo Stone. Then I picked out odd colored stones for variety.

Over this I added a new wash with no green, and very little black - just shades of brown inks. Still too dark though for my tastes. I wish I had another set that read tan or sandstone instead of this gray stone they become.

Couple progressively light stages of dry-brushing and la! Finished walls.

Cigar Box - European Fields (no roads) seen underneath.

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