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about a week or so ago i finished up several fantasy miniatures before i begin my Paint What You Got challenge with my MotU Evil Horde and Great Rebellion figures. hopefully with weather permitting next month i can get all of them if not the majority of them done before Feb. 26th deadline. continuing painting up more miniatures from the Wildspire plastic miniature set i bought off of Amazon. i picked out some of the more interesting and well noticeable figures i could use in my D&D games and also other fantasy based table-top games i have. female dwarf cleric female human druid and a monk who is blind. i didn't realize until i painted him that he had a blindfold on his face. i thought that was kinda cool and surprising. a male elf bard. female dragonborn spellcaster and a female tiefling rogue.

i watched a video on Youtube maybe over a year ago and it was about playing as a necromancer and controlling a band of the undead. and i thought that was kind of interesting but i never acted on it or what-not. until like a few days ago i was on Wargames Vault.com and remembered the necromancer game and went to re-watch a few more videos to see if it would be something i would like to get into. i bought the pdf and accidentally the pdf file of game cards, but i'll make use of them. took a day or two and read over the basic rules and created a band of undead minions. once i got my warband created, i went back to YouTube and watched some more game play videos to get a good grasp on the rules, which is how i learn better than reading a book cover to cover. i watched quite a bit of videos from the channel The Tabletop Engineer Plays and he goes through a nice campaign of his own for solo play, which i basically got this game for. the main thing about this game i truly like is that i ge...

awhile back i got a few 3D prints made of some characters for my MotU collection. unfortunately the shop i got my first sets of prints from, ModestMiniStudio must have gone under or just pulled out because they are not on Etsy anymore. which i was kind of sad, they had great figures. i went on Etsy and found a nice shop called NaHminiatures. click here to visit. i really like how these prints i am finding on Etsy are scaling nicely with the CMON miniatures i have been acquiring for some time.   this time around i got Sk-Klone and Dragstor made. Sy-Klone. i wasn't a fan of him having his shield on top of his wrist like that but what can you do? i was happy that this print had the red fan decor on his back. i've seen a few Sy-Klones with and without it and in my opinion it looks cool with it. Dragstor. when i got this character printed the Etsy shop also had another pose to offer and i could not pass it up because it would be nice to look on the table-top. i just wish he had a be...

after getting away from the giant frog monster, Puckett and company continued cautiously towards the Whateley's homestead. William Loomis told the others the stories he has heard about the Whateley family, and most of it was not good to hear. stories ranging from the many "miscarriages" the poor daughter had to a deformed son that was eventually born and is rarely seen during the day. other stories were told about the countless dead cattle littered across their pasture and how most of the help around the farm is "unfortunate." the episode is the Whateley's. (this scenario is from the rulebook.) the objectives are: Kill the Master, Get Evidence, and Tell Us What You Know. the perils in the game are: Creeping Horror, Putrid Stench, and the Horde. which all were randomly generated. i tried to arrange the terrain to make it seem like the party was approaching the farm house closer than the last game. starting the game with the threat level at a four i rethought ...

several months ago i purchased a few wild west gaming items and when i got this idea to create a western theme Perilous Tales campaign i needed something that would resemble the Whateley family from the lore of H.P. Lovecraft. i was not sure where to find such an obscure collection of figures, especially for a western theme but i looked high and low. i looked at other game systems and found that Dracula's America had a great selection of horror themed miniatures that i wasn't even aware of. so i got the box set of the Church of Dagon miniatures, which basically screams Lovecraft in the name. after looking over what the set had i knew this was perfect for what i needed for Perilous Tales. the old father, the mysterious daughter, the deformed son, and even some not so well looking fellows. all i needed was the "Dunwich Horror" but i had a spare alien figure from my discarded Zombicide Invaders board game. several of the followers of Old Whateley. Old Whateley and Lavini...

once again the Paint What You Got challenge has been thrown out and since i had fun doing it last year i figured i would join up and do it again. Dave over at Wargames Terrain Workshop has issued the next challenge once again . the challenge runs from December 26th, 2025 to February 26, 2026 and basically you paint whatever you have. and since i always have stuff to paint i use the challenge to paint specific miniatures that i have been dragging my feet on for some time now. last year i used this challenge to get the majority of my western figures completed, because i was just anxious to get them on to the table-top and play with them. and by the time i joined the challenge the area i live in was getting hit by horrible cold weather and just couldn't get outside to spray anything. so basically i was coming down to the wire and getting what i wanted done for the challenge completed. this time around for the PWYG challenge I figured I would up the ante and get two major projects don...