Winter 2016-2017

It has been over a year since the last post - I just haven't finished much of anything, too distracted by work and actual gaming.

Since that last post there have been plenty of miniature games, the top ones for us have been

Infinity
Bolt Action
Dragon Rampant

This winter we'll be seeing campaigns for both Dragon Rampant and En Garde as well as some demo games of Bolt Action and the first of my laser cut terrain designs.

Bolt Action is starting to pick up steam finally, looks like there will be a couple of demo games at Miscon and four or five serious players and the same number of peripheral players here in town by then as well.

So I have set a goal of one piece of terrain and two miniatures a week. For starters I have been working on an old barn for Normandy games.

I am looking for one of these models from the Alkemy Khlamite starter box. Anyone have one to spare?

Old West for Trade

More Infinity

So this summer's attempts to get Infinity off the ground here have met with all of our usual distractions, half attempts, and false starts. Still progress is being made - as proof here are some WIP shots of the latest conversion I picked up, a 1:55 fire truck from Disney's Cars line.

I cut away the plastic ladder on top, added an old plastic Rhino end to the back, and covered the mouth on the lower front with a door from an old Rhino. For the other I cut rear doors from plasticard.

The tops are too large and open to leave bare, but I haven't decided what to put up there yet, probably a couple of vents made from aerator parts, some stowage, maybe a winch or mechanical arm from an old mech warrior.

I am going to leave these as civilian vehicles, so probably a white paint job with some sort of color accent.

Prepping for Infinity

Every year it seems Miscon gets a few of us excited about some old game that hasn't made it to the backwoods here.

This year it was Infinity - it's not like it hasn't been all over the net for years, but getting the impetus going locally has been hard. This year Mike U's great set up finally got the ball rolling. No problem for me, I had already started on the road to building 28mm Tomorrow's War so this coincides with that.

First part is putting together scenery and to that end I am soliciting opinions before I 3D print these. Are the square windows too Modern versus the Octagonal ones, or in other terms, insufficiently SCI FI? Square is more practical to build and for real world applications, but I wonder if they won't look futuristic enough?


Anyway,  input please.

Option 1           Square Windows

Over all layout

Option 2          Octagonal Windows
 

Combat Cards for Bloody Fields, Petty Kings

Despite the rather unassuming and unoriginal name these have worked quite well, so I have used the Magic Set Editor program to do up some better looking cards. So far there are twenty some different ones, the deck we used for today's  game had two of each plus a dozen of the Attack cards for 66 total.

I want to add some more as we play, ending up with 46 unique cards and 14 Attack cards.

While the above cards have fairly old artwork, most of these have art cheerfully purloined from the net so I won't post them but if anyone wants the working file let me know.