Excited about the Beowulf RPG (hopefully) coming out at the end of the year, I decided a good project would be to make some sort of Heorot/Valhalla/mead hall building. In my mind it would also be useful for Oathmark, Middle Earth, and at a pinch the Dark Ages. First up some research to get inspiration. I've always like the look of the Mead Hall from Zen Terrain (not the price), but I imagine it must be a pretty cold hall without a fire. Perhaps not the outside, but the interior looks nice and cosy. A bit closer to what I had in mind, rough and ready but still elegant. The size makes you imagine the hold of a local lord, not some imperial palace. An interesting cross section, this hall looks like it could be constructed from an upturned boat. A couple of grades above my current modelling ability, but some nice details. These three are all similar in that the construction is two concentric sets of beams. The middle ‘box’ supporting the roof, and the oute...
In both my campaigns, I'm rapidly approaching the point where I'm going to need something to represent the tower of Tor Varden for the penultimate scenario in the Beacon Tower mission. The tower is described as 3 rooms, each 1.5' square, with the entrance door opening to room A, a door between room A and room B, and a door between room B and room C. In room C there is the start of a staircase leading to the upper level. So how to create something that's not going to take an age, but is going to look half decent. I've been quite happy with how my tables have looked in the first mission, so it would be a shame to let my quality slip just as the scenarios are starting to get more meaty. My first thought was dungeon tiles, Black Magic Craft makes some nifty looking ones on his channel link . But I want my miniatures to look like they're really there when I photograph them, and not just floating on some 2-dimensional astral plane. Ok so I'm going to end up making...
Been away for a while, but I'm finally back after some mamoth painting of all the miniatures I got a Salute. Here are some pictures of a wargame I played today using my new Yugoslav wars figures (being a mixture of Liberation Miniatures, ESCI warsaw pact, Orion Modern Russians and Ceaser Miniatures modern urba resistors). The aim of the game was for the VRS (Bosnian Serb Army) player to keep the main highway clear in order for reinforcements to be brought up to the frontline. However Bosnian Militia and paramilitaries have set up roadblocks along the highway and are gathering in strength in the town. The VRS first objective is to clear the roadblock in order too get supplies and troops to the front. Secondly they must establish the strength of the Bosnian units in the area and if possible route them out from the town in order to negate the threat to military traffic. In turn 1 the VRS troops leapfrog toward the nearest buildings, taking it in turn to cover each others advance. Bos...
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