http://www.tabletop-terrain.com War Gaming and Modeling for Pulp, Warhammer, Mordheim and Flames of War Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:14:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Once again it's been a slow month here hobby wise. Largely because we have a teething baby in the house and I've been looking for a new job. At any rate, here's another base of 15mm Spear men for my DBA Carthaginian army. These chaps have been given red ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2008/10/09/881/ * 28% (99) - No. * 23% (81) - Yes, a little. * 21% (74) - Yes, moderately. * 27% (96) - Yes, a lot. Total Votes: ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2008/09/19/880/ As it's been over six months since I last did any work on the Hirst Arts Cathedral, it's probably time for an update. Particularly since I'm supposed to be finishing this project! If you're a regular visitor you may have noticed I haven't got a lot of hobby work done ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2008/09/12/879/ An article appeared on Tabletop Gaming News recently highlighting One Monk Miniatures' latest release. I've haven't stumbled across this company before (they seem new) but they do a nice cheap range of printable 30mm printable paper Fantasy and Sci Fi armies. There's also a free sample PDF of 30mm ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2008/09/07/878/ I've painted two more bases of Infantry for my DBA Carthaginian force. This time it's the first of three Corvus Belli Liby-Phonecian Spearmen, and the single base of Numidian Auxilia. As I mentioned in my last Ancients post, these figures were all painted separately and then glued to their base ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2008/08/26/875/ As a (presumably mildly) costly promo stunt for Dawn of War II, THQ are converting an APC into a life-size 40k Space Marine Rhino over the next four weeks. They've only just started, but there's a Flickr gallery up that I for one will be keeping a regular eye ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2008/08/21/874/ I'm still painting my 15mm Corvus Belli Carthaginian army for DBA. This weekend I completed two more elements to bring the army to the half way point of six painted elements. First up is the Carthaginian War Elephant which was an amusing unit to paint. Hard to believe the ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2008/08/11/873/ It's been a wet and wild month in New Zealand, with the country encountering an almost record amount of rainfall for July. A month of awful weather has inspired me to get some painting done, and a desire to try some DBA means I'm focused on painting my two ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2008/08/05/872/ Eventide, the expansion block to Shadowmoor for Magic the Gathering is officially released later this week and as usual I imagine my gaming friends and I will be picking up a few random boosters. Generally I don't purchase boosters these days, preferring to buy individual cards from King of ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2008/07/20/869/ Eureka Miniatures recently released a new line of 18mm Fantasy Elves and Tabletop Gaming News posted about the release which was where I stumbled upon it. I was interested to see Eureka are an Australian manufacturer and actually do a whole line of 18mm Fantasy armies, from Orcs to ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2008/07/15/868/ I recently borrowed a copy of Wings of War: Famous Aces from my mate Griff because I was curious to see if my four year old son CJ would be interested in playing it. As CJ will happily play a number of the Cranium range of board games ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2008/06/28/867/ I watched 'Outpost' over the weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it. Given the cover art and the tag line of 'You can't kill what's already dead' I don't imagine I'm giving away a lot when I mention Outpost may or may not involve WWII zombies! I thought it was nicely executed ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2008/06/10/866/ It's June already! Time I posted about the three month painting challenge we kicked off in February then. No, your addition isn't wrong, this challenge was supposed to finish at the end of April which was over a month ago. However for a variety of reasons much of late ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2008/06/05/864/ Did I miss this news or not? I noticed a story posted on Tabletop Gaming News just yesterday so I'm assuming it is fairly short notice of a price increase? Battlefront are increasing their prices on average 11% across their range of figures and vehicles in one week. Rulebooks and gaming ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2008/06/01/863/ I recently ordered some 28mm sci fi weapons from Hasslefree Miniatures on a whim. The vague plan is to use them to try scratch building a Necromunda Scavvie warband, and maybe just random sci-fi figures in general, which was the same reason I lalso picked up some sci-fi heads ... http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/archives/2008/05/23/861/