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My Kind of Scum - Jabba the Hutt, Dewback Riders and more...
The new figure packs for Star Wars Imperial Assault are a rich harvest. I've already shared some pictures of Luke Skywalker, and now I want to share the others: Jabba the Hutt, Captain Terro, the...
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Imperial Assault Conversions for Jabba's Realm
In order to spice up the miniatures for Jabba's Realm, I created some new conversions and home-brews, including Mutant Weequay Pirates and a miniature for Salacious Crumb, Jabba's court jester.I wanted...
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Imperial Assault - Diala Passil variant miniature
Diala Passil, an aspiring Jedi from the Twi'lek race, is one of the original heroes from Star Wars Imperial Assault. She's also one of my favourite characters from the game. Like Mohammad Ali, her...
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Fear and Loathing in Unknown Kadath
We were somewhere around Celephaïs on the Cerenerian Sea when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should steer. …” And suddenly there was...
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The Discrete Charm of Speed-Painting for Mansions of Madness
As a miniature painter, every once in a while, it's fun to gird your loins, drop your standards, and get ready for some CRANKHEAD SPEED PAINTING. Enter the arena of complete shamelessness. If you find...
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Investigators for Under the Pyramids
The strangest episode in H.P. Lovecraft's real life literary career was when he ghost-wrote a story for Harry Houdini. "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" (1924) was an allegedly true account told in the...
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Nucleus of a Vacuum: the Investigators for Signs of Carcosa
Welcome to another batch of Cthulhu investigators! These are heroes for Signs of Carcosa, a small expansion for Fantasy Flight Games' excellent Lovecraftian adventure game, Eldritch Horror. Chronic...
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Painted Vikings for Saga
Behold the warband of Gaukur Trandilsson! This is a 4-point Viking army that I painted for Saga, the Dark Age skirmish war game. These are 25 mean, nasty, ugly-looking people on the bench there. Mother...
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More Painted Vikings for Saga
Here's the second half of my Viking warband for the skirmish game, Saga. Last week we looked at the rank-and-file warriors ("Bondi"), and today features their warlord, Gaukur Trandilsson, with his...
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Saga Revenants - zombies invade the Dark Ages
Saga Revenants was a limited edition set that Gripping Beast produced in 2015 for its skirmish game, Saga. It introduces zombies as a playable faction, letting them battle alongside Anglo-Danish...
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The Investigators of Mansions of Madness
A couple weeks ago, I rolled around in the shame and disgrace of shoddily painting all the monsters from Mansions of Madness 2nd edition, the Cthulhu-themed dungeon crawl game. This week, in order to...
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The Day the Vomit Died - an adventure in Mordheim
I just played my first game of Mordheim! Travis, the proprietor of the superb video blog Hot Dice Miniatures, invited me to his lair to film a battle for this classic fantasy skirmish game. Travis just...
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Jawa Scavenger, Hera, Chopper, 0-0-0 and BT-1... the new Imperial Assault...
Here are my painted versions of the new miniatures for Star Wars Imperial Assault: the Jawa Scanvenger (from A New Hope); Hera Syndulla with C1-10P "Chopper" (from the Rebels TV show); and 0-0-0 and...
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Vikings versus Zombies - a Saga Battle Report
"Malevolent eyes watched the Northmen fill their ship with stolen gold. They had come from the frozen North, these reavers and raiders, slaughtering the priests of the Nailed God. What they couldn't...
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Zombie Bosses - Abominations for Zombicide Black Plague
We all have bad days, but can you imagine waking up every day as a morbidly obese zombie? They way people judge your eating habits? The dietary imperatives? The stigma? These were my thoughts as I...
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Complete Imperial Assault Galleries
After almost 3 years of painting and writing about miniatures for Star Wars Imperial Assault, I've decided to compile all my galleries, battle-reports and assorted debris so that other fans of the game...
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Oldenhammer-in-Toronto in Germany... or They Gave me Hand-Cheese and I Gave...
I just got back from Germany - 10 days hiking up the Rhine valley and then a short stay in Berlin. It was a fantastic trip, and one that transformed the way I look at war-gaming and especially...
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The Battle of Wretched Heathen Peoples - a Saga Battle Report
Welcome to another battle report for Saga, once again pitting a Viking warband against the zombies from the limited-edition Revenants expansion. My friend Lawrence took command of the Vikings and...
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Guest Post: Arbaal the Undefeated... a stopover in Oldenhammer
My friend Travis, proprietor of Hot Dice Miniatures and miniature painter extraordinaire, has written a guest post for Oldenhammer in Toronto. I'm happy to be able to showcase his superb work...Matthew...
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Don't You Dare Play an Evil Character in Advanced Dungeons and Dragons
A controversy charred the pages of Dragon Magazine in the summer of 1984. In issue #89, author and contributing editor Katharine Kerr wrote a long opinion piece on the evil of running "evil campaigns"...
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