http://www.tabletop-terrain.com War Gaming and Modeling for Pulp, Warhammer, Mordheim and Flames of War Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:10:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As a hobbyist you always hear Dremel tools recommended. Unfortunately in New Zealand the Dremel brand seems to attract quite large premium, so I've avoided them until now and made do with a $40 knock off 'hobby drill'. That was fine until I borrowed Chris's Dremel 300 and he pointed out ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2010/07/31/1041/dremel-tools-in-new-zealand/ I purchased this army four years ago, back in 2006, and I finally got the last base off my paint station a week ago. This is a DBA army and like all DBA armies, it consists of 12 bases of figures. That means I've painted this army at a ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2010/06/05/1027/ancients-15mm-dba-carthaginians-finished/ I've had this New Zealand 6pdr Portee unit half painted since July 2005, so felt it's time to finish it! You can spot the recently painted portee trucks in the foreground from their slightly different tone due to a flatter varnish, and five less years of aging in my ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2010/04/06/1013/fow-new-zealand-6pdr-portees/ This review is a little off topic, but I'll post anyway as it vaguely relates to war gaming, particularly if you've ever tried Brikwars! I've been aware of Brickarms for a while now. They're a US company that manufacture third party weapons for Lego Minifigs. I hadn't ordered from ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2010/02/19/1002/review-lego-minifig-brickarms/ A gaming friend of mine recently picked up a copy of Warhammer Historical: Legends of the Old West, which is a Wild West skirmish wargame. Reading the rules it's sort of a franken-game, combining the best features of Mordheim, Necromunda and the GW Lord of the Rings systems. ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2010/02/06/988/review-black-scorpion-tombstone-miniatures/ Here's the first seven Space Hulk Genestealers I've dip painted. That leaves me with 16 left, all of which are repeated figures except for the big nasty Brood Lord. The figures are nicely sculpted for a GW boxed board game. I particularly like the floor bursters, because they're a ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2010/01/16/979/space-hulk-dipped-genestealers-group/ A friend of mine bought the Space Hulk re-release last year and I volunteered to assemble and paint the figures. Assembling them took me about a week and a half, but they've been sitting in my garage since October last year waiting for paint. I've finally stopped playing XBox 360 ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2010/01/06/969/space-hulk-dipping-genestealers/ Yes, it's gone quiet here on the modelling front again. If you're wondering why it's because of several things. First I've started a new hobby and blog: physical computing with an Arduino board, which has been stealing some time from modelling. Secondly, it's because I've got a bunch of projects on ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/10/12/956/a-new-hobby/ I haven't posted for a while because pretty much all I've been doing is assembling Orcs and Goblins, basing them and priming them. So here they are: - The Orc General on foot, assembled from the $40nz Orc Warboss plastic boxed set. To be honest I found this set to ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/09/13/941/primer-madness-orc-edition/ I'm still assembling and painting Orcs, and have enough of them now that I'm sick of shuffling them around a game table manually. Instead of buying a set of GW movement trays and cutting them to size for the larger bases that Orcs use, I dusted off some old ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/08/17/932/plasticard-movement-trays-warhammer/ I've been assembling the Games Workshop plastic Giant I purchased recently and while admiring all the head and weapon options you have in the box I thought why should I have to pick just one? Fortunately I still have around 80 rare earth magnets left from my purchase from ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/07/19/918/magnetised-giant-warhammer/ I haven't posted for a while, because I've been slowly assembling the various bits and pieces from my Imperial Games Warhammer order, and while I enjoy making GW plastic figures, it doesn't make for very interesting blogging. To date I've built most of a Warhammer Giant, a box of ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/06/20/907/heat-forming-plastic-night-goblins-warhammer/ I've dipped another ten Zombies since I mixed my own green dip and I've added in the five Zombies I painted slowly years ago to create this small unit. Can you spot the hand painted vs the dipped Zombies? It's not that hard to do, but I'm happy to ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/06/04/906/dipped-zombie-unit-warhammer/ Now I've painted my Orc Border Patrol force, I'm looking to expand it to a full Orc and Goblin army. I was steeling myself to pay full retail prices, until Daniel pointed out Imperial Games sell Games Workshop below retail in New Zealand. To my knowledge that makes them ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/05/31/905/more-orcs-from-imperial-games-warhammer/ As dipping Orcs in off the shelf pre-stained wood varnish worked so well I thought I'd try some different coloured dip. Unfortunately Wattyl don't make a green all-in-one varnish product so following Dustan's advice again, I mixed my own. I picked up some Tamiya X-25 'Clear Green' enamel paint ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2009/05/21/904/dipped-zombies-warhammer/