Leftover terrain = zone mortalis
Arbitor Ian has taken a break from his usual lore videos to show us how he created a space hulk/ zone mortalis board for skirmishes in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. … Continue reading
Building vogen City – 02 — mandollies.com
Of the land-dwelling inhabitants of Khai-Zhan, most serve as menials in the massive industrial districts of Vogen and Ashshore, working for one of the powerful family cartels. The life of … Continue reading
Another record year for tabletop games on Kickstarter
Kickstarter had another record year for tabletop games funding, as reported on Medium. The appearance of Gamefound (which I only discovered via the recent Ravaged Star project) didn’t stop 2021 … Continue reading
Terrain from packaging
This video on making terrain from packaging material pooped up in my feed the other day. Obviously this isn’t a new concept and YouTube has plenty of videos on this … Continue reading
HellGate – Part 9 – The Bell Tower and the Dust Settlers Sanctum — IRO aka Imperial Rebel Ork
I love world building… I want you to imagine, for a moment, a place where the sun is so intense, for most months of the year, that paint blisters, tin … Continue reading
Numinous Occulum
If you’re familiar with the strangely-named terrain set from games Workshop, you would notice that this isn’t the full set: I had a hard time assembling this one. In fact … Continue reading
Arcane Ruins update 1
The Arcane Ruins was a terrain kit from Games Workshop. From memory (which may be faulty) it was released in the late 1990s. Maybe early 2000s. Either way, this set … Continue reading
Deadzone Battlezone: Outpost 31 — The Other One’s Vault of the Undead
With some extra time on my hands over the Easter weekend, I was able to lay out all my painted Deadzone terrain for the first time; my six by four … Continue reading
10 years of crowdfunding
The creators of the crowdfunding website Kickstarter didn’t set out to revolutionise tabletop games production. Their ‘creative’ focus was more in other areas – theatre, film, music. However the site … Continue reading
Terrain… building?
When it comes to wargames terrain I have been a terrain buyer and a terrain assembler, but never really a terrain builder. A couple of Epic bunkers from plans published … Continue reading
Rampart Kickstarter
I’m a sucker for some good looking tabletop terrain, so naturally my eye was drawn to the Rampart Kickstarter project. This project if for highly detailed plastic terrain, which currently … Continue reading
Tabletop terrain: dead trees
Games Workshop’s trees are still on of my favourite terrain pieces. So characterful and they give you plenty of options as a modeller. I’ve completed three, which is one box’s … Continue reading
Tabletop games earn $137 million on Kickstarter in 2017
Polygon has the article, but tabletop games are storming through the Kickstarter dollars right now. Polygon has chosen to compare tabletop with videogames. Clearly the tabletop hobby is not 10 … Continue reading
Warlayer 3D tabletop terrain
The 3D printer continues its quiet revolutionising of the tabletop. While you won’t see sharply detailed plastic figures emerge form those devices this decade, what we are seeing is a … Continue reading
My gamer’s journey
It all began with Battlecars, a very old board game by Games Workshop. I’d played other games before of course, the usual chess, draughts, Monopoly. I was already a gamer, … Continue reading
Tools of the Trade
Tabletop Minions recently compiled a video where they interviewed a number of professional miniature painters and asked each of the them the same questions. The answers are as interesting as … Continue reading
5 Musts when running a tabletop games league
Whether it is for card games, board games, or miniatures games, a league can be an effective way to getting players to gather, meet one another, and play lots of … Continue reading
Kickstarter panel at PAX AUS 2015
The Kickstarter panel of day 3 of PAX AUS this year was excellent. The panel members had all successfully run Kickstarters for their tabletop games, and this was the focus. … Continue reading
Kingdom Death preorder special
The Kingdom Death Kickstarter project closed some time ago. Originally scheduled to deliver in late 2013, the project is on the cusp of delivery now. This project is a great … Continue reading
Desert Tablescapes complete
I have now completed all 16 desert-theme tablescape boards. Together they make a single 4′ x 4′ table. I will let the images speak for themsevels. I put the tiles … Continue reading
Scent of a Gamer 
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