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Normandy... a wargamer's paradise
Last Monday I had a recurring thought: "This is one of the best days of my life". I was in Normandy, France with three friends and we were getting a tour of the D-Day battlefields from Colonel Oliver...
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Painted Battletech Infantry and Ground Forces
I've been fascinated by infantry in Battletech ever since 1986 when I bought the CityTech boxed set, which expanded the original game by introducing ground forces, buildings and urban combat. The image...
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Terror of the Lichemaster: Heinrich Kemler
Heinrich Kemler, the Lichemaster, is the most iconic villain from the golden age of Warhammer Fantasy Battle. He was invented by Rick Priestly for Terror of the Lichemaster(1986), a boxed scenario pack...
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Terror of the Lichemaster: Ranlac and Lord Krell
Welcome to my second post about the miniatures of The Terror of the Lichemaster, a Warhammer 2nd edition campaign released in 1986. My first post detailed the Lichemaster himself. Today I want to take...
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Terror of the Lichemaster: Gimbrin Finehelm
Terror of the Lichemaster, Part 3The Lichemaster has raised an army of undead. His opening move is to deploy Ranlac the Black and a phalanx of skeleton warriors to ambush a handful of prospectors...
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Monster Chiller Horror Theatre: Cthuloid Monsters!
It's Hallowe'en! And we've got a scary one for you this week, Kids! It's another in our fine line of horror classics: Doctor Tongue's 3d House of Cthuloid Monsters! We're going to look at examples from...
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Terror of the Lichemaster: Gimbrin's Dwarves
Terror of the Lichemaster, Part 4If you go by the flyers published by Games Workshop in 1986, Gimbrin Finehelm is the only dwarf that officially goes with the Terror of the Lichemasterscenario pack....
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Terror of the Lichemaster: Mikael Jacsen
Terror of the Lichemaster, Part 5In 1984, Michael Jackson's hair caught fire through an imprudent combination of hair spray and pyrotechnics. This was just a year after Jackson had released the...
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Citadel's Talisman Miniatures
About a year ago, I painted up the complete set of 70 miniatures released by Citadel for the board game Talisman 1st & 2nd edition. The primary sculptor for the Talisman miniatures was Aly Morrison...
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Terror of the Lichemaster: the Bogel Family
Terror of the Lichemaster, Part 6The Heinrich Kemler has sent his undead servant Mikeal Jacsen to destroy the isolated farmstead of the Bogel family in order to prevent them from warning the village of...
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Terror of the Lichemaster: Heroes of Frugelhofen
Terror of the Lichemaster, Part 7The third and final battle of the Terror of the Lichemaster is "The Defence of Frugelhofen". The previous scenarios ("the Assault on Gimbrin's Mine" and "the Attack on...
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Terror of the Lichemaster: Militia of Frugelhofen
Terror of the Lichemaster, Part 8A dog in the village begins to bay. But then commences to whine. Is that a wind scratching the dry grass? Or is something shuffling out there in the darkness? Disturbed...
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Terror of the Lichemaster: Archers of Frugelhofen
Terror of the Lichemaster: Part 9When the Lichemaster attacks the village of Frugelhofen, the best hope of the village lies with its archers. We have already met the militia, and they are not...
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A Rude Game of Talisman is All I Want for Christmas
The lead-up to Christmas always makes me nervous, so it was a pleasant diversion when some friends came over a few days ago and indulged me by asking to bust out my painted set of 2nd edition Talisman....
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Terror of the Lichemaster: Unlawful Things
Terror of the Lichemaster. Part 10Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,That sometime grew within this learned man...Whose fiendful fortune may...
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Painted Rancor for Imperial Assault
A rope of drool unspooled from my mouth when I opened Jabba's Realm, the latest expansion for Star Wars Imperial Assault. I knew it contained the Rancor, the reptilian monster from Return of the Jedi,...
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Ugly Town: the Heroes of Jabba's Realm
Coming at you are Vinto Hreeda, Shyla Varad and Onar Koma -- painted versions of the three main characters from Jabba's Realm, the latest expansion for Star Wars Imperial Assault (If you missed it,...
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Luke Skywalker Jedi Knight
I just wanted to share a couple pictures I just took of the new miniature for Luke Skywalker for Star Wars Imperial Assault. This is the first variant miniature that Fantasy Flight Games has produced...
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Painted Miniatures for Jabba's Realm
It's took six weeks, but I finally finished painting all the miniatures for Jabba's Realm, the latest expansion for Star Wars Imperial Assault. I've already posted pics of the alien heroes from the...
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Making a Desert Skiff for Imperial Assault
I've gotten some questions about the desert skiff that I used in pictures from my last post on Jabba's Realm, the new expansion for Star Wars Imperial Assault. So I thought I'd quickly post to explain...
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