I grew up around model trains, specifically the ones belonging to my step-grandfather Rodney – and I mean that fairly literally. His train table (more of a full-room set of connected tables and shelves) was a frequent hangout spot for me starting a bit before I learned how to walk. For reasons I genuinely don’t… Read More The Shelf
I’ve never seen anything closer to “Escape Velocity the board game” than Xia: Legends of a Drift System and I very much doubt I ever will. In Xia there are so many paths to victory that at any given time it’s quite rare for any two players to be pursuing the same goal, which leads… Read More Customizing Xia: Legends of a Drift System
Heart of Glorm is a story about a glow-worm who loved a slug, both of whom had a terrible time because of the events of the first book. The glow-worm, Glorm, was a specimen captured by Maginos that gained magical powers brought forth by Vanestra’s hair when Collin and his friends were transformed into mice.… Read More Painting Mice & Mystics: Heart of Glorm
Shifting Realms, a game by Soaring Rhino (a team-up between veteran designer Craig Van Ness – the creator of Heroscape and Battleship Galaxies – and his brother Jeff), is in a nutshell a strategy board game heavily inspired by typical RTS video games including worker and warrior units and resource-producing buildings as major mechanics. The… Read More Painting Shifting Realms’ Dragon
Mice & Mystics is published by Plaid Hat Games, designed by Jerry Hawthorne, and sculpted by Chad Hoverter. It’s the first in their growing line of Adventure Book games, in which there is an ongoing narrative between sessions. They’re generally family-oriented and the concepts for them are consistently very cute and fun – see also… Read More Painting the Mice & Mystics Core Set
A couple of months ago, I was wandering around a local Barnes & Noble and discovered that a significant part of their stock and floor space had changed since the last time I’d stopped in. I admit it had been a while, but seriously what happened at Barnes & Noble headquarters??? They’ve apparently rebranded as…… Read More Earthree Gundam Repaint
In the murky and distant past of 2013, my spouse went to Thailand on a (partially) college-sponsored trip. Knowing that I’m, well, me, they brought back as many photos of railroads as possible, which I of course found delightful. A few years passed and an idea percolated at the back of my mind: what if… Read More Building an N Scale Thai Railroad Diorama
I recently completed a commissioned repaint of an Advanced PET toy, as you can see above. Unfortunately I don’t have terribly many progress photos but I’ll do my best to put together a coherent tutorial on my process as I’ve had requested a few times. Note as we go through these steps that this is… Read More How to make your own PET!
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