Dungeon cave tiles

About year or so ago, I bought a bunch of old heroscape tiles, spray painted them green, and hoped to use them as modular hills for gaming.. They didn't prove as useful as I had expected (too small, easily pushed about). During the great hobby room cleaning, I got to thinking that they'd make pretty good floor tiles for a more cave-style dungeon or horror-setting caverns (basically their original use).

So out came the grey spray paint. I also drybrushed, washed, and dull coated them to get bit of variation in the colours. Overall, not a bad effect and this puts these tiles to better use then they were otherwise going to see. That the tiles also have neatly defined areas and are hexes simplifies movement and sight lines.

After experimenting with adapting Zenos Rampant to fantasy skirmish, I decided to just buy the fantasy rules based on a Fistful of Lead. These are en route. 

In the meantime, I'm continuing to paint the 28mm fantasy Chen gave me, which i what you'll see more of over the holidays.

Wereboars

I think? Or just wild boars? Or some creature from the monster manual that I no longer remember because I am now one of the ancient ones?

Pretty nice sculpts that took a wash, some detailing, and then some magic dip. Easiest figures I've done in a while!

Up next: Maybe some crypt-terrain?

Mummies!

 So more of the 28mm fantasy that I got from Chen. Today, band-aide brand horrors.

Nice, simple sculpts that painted up way easier than some of the metal mummies that I have. A combination of block painting, dry brushing and washes to get a stained look.

Up next: Wereboars? Thereboars!

Ghosts!

Or maybe some water elements? Hard to say. Chen very kindly swapped me some 28mm minis and the first ones I painted up were these folks. 

These were cast in a medium blue, translucent plastic, which gave a cool see-through effect but made it hard to see the details. I did a light set of dry brushes and then a wash.

Up next: More crypt-dwellers plus some crypt terrain!

One-off building

I spent much of early November renovating my gaming room so painting has been slow.

I did finish this single railway building. It has kind of haunted house or mad scientist vibe.

Up next: Not sure. Maybe some fantasy!

Some Gaming

I've been doing bit of afternoon gaming with Bruce lately.

We playtested a campaign mechanic for generating miniature battles for his 1920s gangsters. The mechanics entail tough decisions and should give players reasons to interact as well as fight.

We also play tested a grand strategy game called Swords Around the Throne. Basically point-to-point movement, 22 locations, card-driven, and super hard choices (made worse by only getting half of you card deck (at random) for the first half of each turn (a turn is a year and you have six actions per year). I would love to play this again now that I understand the rules!

25mm Star Wars Villain

Things are slow on the work bench right now. Awhile back, I had the idea to use up some old bits and extra WEG Star Wars figures by creating "hero" bases.

I grabbed an extra Boba Fett figure and some industrial debris. The lights seem to be washing out the washes I used to make the debris seem beat up and weathered. Bottom picture does a slightly better job at showing the open hatch.

Up next: Zero idea. Maybe some more HO-scale buildings. I'm rapidly reaching the bottom of the paint pile.