Humanities Professor

Another long-owned-but-never-painted figure, this one was either a birthday or Christmas present and has sat untouched for a long time. I had intended for him to be an Indiana Jones-esque academic, so obviously he needed a hat. The selection on the Perry Civil War soldier sprue proved to be close enough in scale - I …

The Laden Traveller

I have had this chap sitting in my to-do pile for a good while now - he was part of my first order from Hasslefree Miniatures, all the way back in October 2013. He has been given a range of different right arms, from his original pistol to cricket bats, before I finally settled upon …

More rebasings

Sleeping, database management, travelling on public transport - all these things are made more unpleasant with this heat (honest, Great Western Railways, where are your trains with functioning air conditioning?). To this list I add painting. No matter how wet my palette, the paint dries on the brush and the miniature before I can spread …

Warehouse Personnel

Some speedy jobs (as in, they only took days rather than weeks...) to cover some plot points in future Pulp Alley games. The middle gent is a Hasslfree miniature I did a year ago or so when I was putting together a zompocalypse collection, and I felt he was generic enough to transfer across. He …

Some more heavily green folk

I really like these two miniatures. They're wonderful sculpts, plenty of character but - like the wizard and dwarf earlier - not overwhelmingly detailed. First up is an APEX investigator from Fenris Games, sourced through Bad Squiddo Games, who I'll be using as Dr. Elaine Darrow in an upcoming Pulp Alley campaign (yup, another gamer …

A Private Army

Not a lot of effort has gone into painting these minis well. I cannot abide uniforms, especially in groups of more than four. I far preferred converting some of them to hold more modern weapons. Otherwise they've been basecoated and then washed down with Quickshade. The only one who has seen any further paint is …

Reworking the Lord of the Rings

I remember wading through my 6th edition Warhammer Fantasy Battles rulebook - the first I tried - and boy, that was a slog! Compared to the Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game set of rules, it stumbled around under the weight of special rules and exceptions and dependency upon knowing all the rules to …

The Beginnings of a Pulp Adventure

I have been keen to try Pulp Alley – a wonderfully flexible and unique ruleset – for a long time. I have bought and read all the rulebooks, but up until now have not had the miniatures to have a proper game (even with the rules’ very low minimum requirement). Until I can steer the …