tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596177306336170032024-03-05T22:12:46.599-08:00Tales From the Big BoardMouse's Wargaming and Hobby Page.
Because I have too much time on my hands, apparently.Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.comBlogger238125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-57927068985750381872023-11-27T22:38:00.000-08:002023-12-02T19:45:21.817-08:00Canadian Campaigns : The Great North West Rebellion Part 1: Metis Fighters and the 90th Winnipeg RiflesYears ago I became interested in the Military History of 19th century Canada. No idea why. Maybe just because it was a rather obscure subject about which I knew nothing, aside from the events of the War of 1812. However, the turbulence of the USA's great Civil War and her conflicts with the culture of the Great Plains did seem to spill over the Canadian border in the form of a Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-52378496490723573582023-07-31T17:35:00.003-07:002023-08-01T19:33:39.834-07:00The Warband of Kuld the Witch King A New Army for Dragon RampantOut of the cold North he rides, at the head of a haggard host. Kuld, Witch King of the Long Lost Kingdom of the Northern realm. Long centuries ago, Kuld overthrew the King of that land and plunged it into everlasting darkness. Now this foul lord rules over a dead land. Often in the Autumn of a year he leads his armies south to raid and ravage the remaining Kingdoms of Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-67133259165341956652023-04-23T19:24:00.000-07:002023-11-27T23:06:48.997-08:00Cowboys and IndiansLast year at Enfilade I bought a pocketful of 25/28mm Old West Gunfighters from Monday Knight productions. I added two packs of RAFM Plains warriors that have been sitting in the closet for a few years and painted them all up together, creating a decent little group for Skirmish games.I also made up some cactus patch terrain using stuff I found at Hobby Lobby so they would have something toMousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-50741503935060751692023-01-31T20:44:00.001-08:002023-03-17T13:27:10.846-07:00Little Cairo: The Little Cairo Constabulary The Little Cairo Constabulary - guardians of Law and Order (of a sort) within their er...most beloved and beautiful city. You see my friend? See how they labor tirelessly to suppress the wicked Cthulhu cult! (Until the cultists payMousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-83280258806241530622022-12-27T21:45:00.002-08:002022-12-27T21:47:14.331-08:00Little Cairo Part 3 of Many: Horrors From the Tombs!Little Cairo is a haunted city. Two-fisted adventurers, sinister spies and corrupt bureaucrats share the city with the remnants of dying races, agents of Eldritch powers and the restless dead.Malign spirits haunt the shadows of shunned alleys, cellars and crypts......striking down the curious and the foolhardy with horrid crushing strength or with pure terror..."Marian, Don't Look at it!"Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-88714051835816907592022-12-13T00:12:00.002-08:002022-12-13T00:12:36.792-08:00Warhammer Ancients Chariot Wars: Egyptian Royal Guard RegimentThe last three years or so have been a time of mighty upheaval and convulsion for me, not that I'm complaining or anything. Things are what they are. At times there has no breath of leisure in which I could pursue my old painting and gaming hobby. In other moments the time was there, but the inclination was not. After a time I just about gave up on my blog, but now that Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-32570058232141312462021-06-20T10:21:00.001-07:002021-06-20T10:21:22.345-07:00Selling More Stuff Hi Friends! I am clearing out a bunch of ebay stock this week to raise some extra funds for other stuff. I've got over a hundred auctions up in my Ebay store right now, mostly old school Oldhammery & D&D goodness from the 80s and 90s. Some historical and sci fi stuff too. Some new in the original packaging, some loose. There will likely be more stuff inMousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-29476387048987751222021-06-10T16:10:00.000-07:002021-06-12T21:17:20.154-07:00Old School Ral Partha D&D Dungeon Party #3Another band of bold adventurers set off from The Keep on the Borderlands or Hommlet or Salt Marsh in search of the Caves of Chaos or the Temple or the Lizard Man Mound or wherever. Again, they are all old Ral Partha sculpts and at least mostly Tom Meier...A very Nordic looking fighter and a female thief make up the first two members of our intrepid band...Stalwart Norseman, Axe in hand, Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-36424208083209395152021-04-17T18:59:00.003-07:002021-04-17T18:59:27.898-07:00Rogue Trader: Gretchin Horde!At long last, I've supplied my Roguehammer Space Ork Commanders with some Gretchin Squads! ...one squad of close combat Gretchin......and another of blunderbusiers! Either squad makes a fine meat shield for the regular Ork boys to advance behind! "Ere we come!"Sneaky git advances with blunderbuss......Veteran Gretchies!My Rogue Trader Ork horde is very nearly complete Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-14149774886323831392021-03-28T01:34:00.002-07:002021-03-28T01:37:20.295-07:00Ral Partha Classics: Tom Meier's Lord of ChaosHeavy hoofbeats on a the gloomy forest path. a cloaked figure, mighty of frame...His Face hidden by a sinister helmet......The Lord of Chaos!Some say he is the child of a mortal woman and a demon, others that he is the right arm of the devil himself....Frightened rumors say he has risen again after years of sleep and is recruiting a warband from amoung the forest horrors which he will soon lead Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-9570214010285935292021-03-19T23:33:00.001-07:002021-03-19T23:33:28.457-07:00Death Korps of Krieg Grenadier Squad I bought these guys in 2007. I only know that because I know I bought them in the middle of my Iraq deployment. I naturally would have liked a whole army of them. Such a venture was too expensive for me, but I allowed myself one squad for my Inquisition army, which consisted of a weird and wild retinue of arco-flagellants, Sisters of Battle, half man, half machine Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-13395585897066451522021-03-13T08:11:00.003-08:002021-04-22T16:41:41.740-07:00Little Cairo Part 2 of Many: NPCs!Any game setting needs a splash of local color running around doing their day to day business. Most of that business would naturally be mundane, but a good deal of it would undoubtedly be nefarious, especially in a nest of adders like Little Cairo. Take William S. Burroughs' fantastical Tangiers, stir in a real life Cairo of the 1930s, smouldering with espionage and revolution, add a Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-91242543853649943362021-03-06T12:58:00.002-08:002021-03-06T12:58:29.336-08:00Grenadier Forest GiantWell, that was a helluva posting gap! So much going on the last few months that hobby time sort of flew out the window for most of it. Lots of changes going on in Mouse's life. Fortunately they are mostly changes for the better and I should have plenty of time coming up for painting and posting. Meanwhile, meet Mr. Forest giant.Mr. Forest Giant is an alumni of Grenadier's Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-24764714347420882332020-10-07T13:35:00.000-07:002020-10-07T13:35:59.971-07:00C is for Cockatrice!An entirely inappropriate admixture of fowl, reptile and other, perhaps entirely unearthly elements, the Cockatrice frequents dismal bogs, moors and stony hill-crests, flapping about noisily and laying low prey items with their lethal gaze.Bu-Caw! The one I call the hen, here, came out pretty good, I think.Though not as mangy and hideous as, say, an urban Pigeon, the Cockatrice is still an Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-83059073039172554042020-09-27T17:12:00.004-07:002020-09-27T17:20:21.393-07:00Dead Men Space Marines Assault Squad A new squad for my Rogue Trader Space Marine fore, which is getting pretty close to being finished now. 11 mighty champions of the Emperor, ready to dive upon the unrighteous with wailing chainswords and buzzing power axes. Heretics, beware! The Squad Leader, Big Sarge and some friends...Oh my God! Big Sarge, what happened to your face?! One eye appears to be Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-80329998128934970042020-09-13T04:05:00.004-07:002020-09-13T04:05:50.942-07:00Pulp: The Rat River BoysThe story of Albert Johnson is one of the strangest and most fascinating episodes of Canadian history and was undoubtedly the inspiration for this pack of grizzled maniacs from Bob Murch's Pulp line, "The Mad Trappers of Rat River". My Lieutenant told me the story of Albert Johnson the last time I was in Afghanistan and I sought out Dick North's book on the subject, read it and Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-70543647003326200032020-09-07T13:57:00.002-07:002020-09-07T13:57:31.271-07:00M is for Mummy! Mummies! Some deep-dwelling dungeon denizens to strike terror into the hearts of some of my D&D adventures.Groping along the inky passages of his antediluvian tomb for all eternity, this snuffling, shuffling fellow should put the fear of the Gods into the Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-17080193519441780772020-08-30T13:28:00.002-07:002020-08-30T13:49:45.501-07:00Staff and Clientele at the Mos Eisley Cantina"Ey! We don't serve your kind here!"It's been a very long time since I added anything new to my Star Wars collection. That's almost certainly because the new movies sucked a lot of the joy out of it for me. Eventually I'll have to wade into them and try to find things about them that I can bear because my little one likes them and to have something I loved so much in my own Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-10030476743774789822020-08-18T15:19:00.003-07:002021-06-12T21:19:19.792-07:00Old School Ral Partha D&D Dungeon Party # 2 Another gang of Fortune seekers soon to be eaten by Bugbears, most likely. Not nearly as happy with this group as I was with the last one, somehow they just didn't come out as well but whatever. They are as finished as they are ever going to get...The Cleric. Saintly looking fellow. Probably spends a lot of his time casting healing spells on the knuckle headed glory Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-76244082375510966562020-07-31T15:17:00.002-07:002020-07-31T15:26:28.046-07:00Pulp: Little Cairo Part 1 of Many: Intrepid Archaeologists!Deep into the desert we go in search of great mysteries and maybe, just maybe...great fame and fortune as well! These minis are the very first in another big project I'm calling Little Cairo, which I'll finish God knows when. These are, of course, from Bob Murch's Pulp Figures line and they were a joy to paint. Nice clean lines and very easy on the eyes. Little Cairo is a Pulp Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-4133267497295445152020-07-27T12:26:00.001-07:002020-07-27T16:38:53.291-07:00Rogue Trader: Scout Section and Sanctioned Psyker, 3rd Company, 9th Nepenthe Imperial Guard Regiment
Nothing too exciting tonight....just a squad of scouts and an onion headed Psyker for my Old School
Imperial Guard Army. I think they came out ok for the most part, but once again the eyes were my nemesis. Oh well. Time to move on to the next thing. Mayhap at some point I will find the strength to try and revisit the eyes.
The Rogue trader era Imperial Guard armyMousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-92131231046176581182020-07-16T16:40:00.003-07:002021-06-12T21:21:28.646-07:00Old School Ral Partha D&D Dungeon Party #1
Swords Against Darkness! Having just met at the local tavern, a party of adventurers decide to set out for The Caverns of Chaos or The Caves of the Unknown or The Palace of the Silver Princess or The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth...
...or wherever. Let's wish them luck. I've been wanting to build parties of adventurers for skirmishy, dungeon crawl games for a long time. Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-64234618305664906542020-06-29T13:21:00.000-07:002020-06-29T23:09:35.974-07:00Citizens of Skummburg Part 1 of 3
When I started the Skummburg project I knew I wanted crowds of funny folk wandering around in it. You know, to get caught in crossfires, maybe join up in gun battles and bar fights or to interact with characters in games that have more of a role playing slant to them. Here is the first wave of them...
Some shady characters...wanderers in the twisted lanes of Skummburg and the Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-41153872436650892492020-06-15T13:20:00.002-07:002020-06-17T03:24:04.113-07:00More Space Scum!
Avast, ye swabs! Here be a crew of space dogs that might fit in with any rabble of bandit trash or crew of pirate scum...
Human debris cast up on the stony shores of war and poverty...desperate men with nothing left to lose and a galaxy to gain! Only thing standing between them and the plunder of the Spaceways be the accursed Dead Men Space Marines!
I have a Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59617730633617003.post-76997201581836874302020-05-31T12:43:00.001-07:002020-06-15T13:22:58.512-07:00Alien Fauna
I'm preparing a crowd of civilian NPC types who can wander around Skummburg and add some color to the place, but I thought I'd like to have some of the local wildlife too. These critters were all giveaways with the latest Colony 87 kickstarter.
Slush Puppy. Native to mud holes and landfills through out the Wailing Reach. When cleaned up and raised from pups they Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com8