Category: Games

The Muse’s Miniature Musings: The Tools for Mini Painting Success!

This is a multi-part series which will cover the basics of miniature painting from the materials to techniques to finishing. So you’ve decided to take up painting small plastic or metal heroes or villains of the realm? Excellent! Welcome to one of the greatest and arguably most supportive communities around.… Read More»

Rebels & Patriots – Wargaming Recon #244

Jonathan and Adrian are together to review Rebels & Patriots & Song of Drums and Tomahawks, thoughts on hobby hoarding, feature another Lumber Mill segment, provide a Kickstarter update, reveal upcoming guests, and ponder why the Purple Shirted Eye Stabber isn’t more prevalent in gaming.

Goals, motivation, and progress: The road to 350.

January is seeing some slow but steady progress on my goal of 350 painted miniatures this year. I’ve prepped a bunch of Ground Zero Games old school 25mm Star Grunt minis and started painting a squad while waiting for some 6mm Battletech minis to dry between paints and washes. I’m… Read More»

Deciding what to do next…

I have a lot of minis available to me. At some point, I’ve bought them because I’ve got excited about painting them. Then, I’ve bought more minis because I also got excited. Now, I have many unpainted minis and sometimes I’ve actually forgotten they exist. Other times I’ve been so… Read More»

Rebels and Patriots: A wargamer’s review.

Rebels and Patriots Author: Michael Leck & Daniel Mersey Publisher: Osprey Games MSRP: $20.00 US ($13.66 on Amazon via our affiliate link) Period/Setting: North America: Colonies to Civil War. Generally 1754-1877 Scale: scale-neutral. Rules advise 15mm-28mm. Other scales can be used, but you might have to make a few changes… Read More»