One Page Rules Demo Day

       I ran a One Page Rules - Firefight demo at our community room, The Spot, at one of our malls. It is only available on Sundays and I given time off parents to spend the afternoon there. 

      I was able to run two demo games. One was with Jon who helps run The Spot. The other was with Matt, who ran a Blood Bowl league that I played in when I first returned to this fine hobby of ours. 

       A handful of people came to check out the tabletop games being played. I was able to give my 1 minute pitch about OPR and how easy it is to get into the hobby. I was hoping for more players as I had prepared to run a four player game. 

       I will try to get more demo events over the next year. My goal is to show off indie games (though, I don't think OPR is that indie anymore), and grow the community with terrain/ kit bashing opportunities. I think this might be an either/or situation as the terrain bashing didn't get any focus while I was demoing.

      Enjoy my one picture from the event. Note the Terminator on the walkway, which should have been more menacing then he was.

       I would tell the bystanders that the terrain was a printer, to which they assumed, 3D Printed. Please, you give me too much credit, I am not that fancy.

       Talking with my friend about the event, I realized I forgot to add pictures of some of the terrain I had finished. So here it is, my disassembled printer terrain.

My favourite side

Garbage hill

Next on the hobby desk

      I have small projects on the desk, most are 80% completed to get stuff flowing off quicker.

Warcry - Heart of Ghur terrain

    Here it is! The large terrain pieces out of the Heart of Ghur second edition of Warcry, as well as bamboo bridges to connect them together. Since the last post, I added more vegetation to add a jungle feeling to these pieces. 

    There are still 6 scatter terrain features to paint up. I was thinking of adding them to small bases and add more jungle elements to them, as I want to use these in Ghost Archipelago as well.

    I painted up some wandering monsters as well, 2 Sailbacks, a Snapping Turtle and a Crocodile. I had to paint them as washes didn't like the plastic all that much, no surprise with the cheap plastics these toys are made of. Expect more in the future as I'll need a decent pool of them for some of the scenarios.

   

Wandering monsters enjoying the swamp

    I have signed up to do a demo for One Page Rules Firefight at our mall's community gaming area. My thought process for events like this always seem to lead me to trying to make it grandiose. Of course, you want people to enjoy the game, but packing too much into just a demo could push potential players away from the system. 

    My original plan was to set it on my death world, painting up a bunch of new models and terrain for the event, but realistically, as it's at the end of the month, I should use terrain and models that I already have finished. So now I will run something smaller in scope, zooming in on a hive and having chaos worshippers attempting to summon daemons. That way I could add some kitbashed models and wandering monsters that I create as well, this will help if there are more players that want to pop in. I also want to print out pamphlets to hand out with simple points for playing OPR and how to get into wargaming cheaply, where to buy models, etc. 

 

     I also wanted to focus on junk terrain making and kitbashing, but running the demo should keep me busy enough and I didn't want to have any of the three aspects to falter so why not focus on the demo itself. Learning and fun first!

Next on the Hobby Desk

   I have start a few pieces of terrain for the OPR event and went through some of my bits to get kit bashing. The problem with that is that I mostly have fantasy miniatures (every model is a necromunda mini, right?) and sorting out fodder for kitbashing would go a long way. So next up on my blog, ORGANIZING! Wait? where are you going? Please! come back, I swear I'll have something more fun!

Season of Scenery 2025

                               To start, let's go with the short list of terrain/ vehicles that I have completed. 

Crimson Typhoon

    Another Pacific Rim action figured based for Mech Attack, his head was lost when our cat, Hubbie, started his own version of Mech Attack. I believe I know where it might be, just need to move a lot of stuff around.

Crimson Typhoon with previous year's, Gypsy Danger

Heart of Ghurr scatter terrain added to swamp base.

    Hope you enjoyed my lack of work this year. Okay, I know, I am giving myself a hard time, summer is always super busy with vacation and the like. I also made good progress on a bunch of my terrain, I was just hoping to have the Heart of Ghurr terrain off my desk by now.

The four largest pieces in the HoG box

    And here in no real order, the "in progress" terrain. First up are corridors I was experiment making out of cold coffee containers. Was thinking to use it for Space Hulk

    I picked up some cassettes (like over 100) for this terrain that Iron hands made for his Gundam models. I hope to use these for Battletech if my brother lets me without hexes. 

    

A quick Mordheim building? This was very rough, "eyeballed" the windows and only measured 3 inches for each level. I might use a template for my next building. That concludes my slideshow of terrain I have been experimenting with. Some more successful then others. 

Next on the Hobby Desk!

    As with the years previous, I get into building and painting terrain, so I will probably continue my Season of Scenery into September. Who's going to stop me? Dave? Well... he might...

Skeleton horde and more

       Whelp! I should probably show an update for all the miniatures I have acquired over the summer. In July, we visited Sentry Box, I mean Rachel's half brother, in Strathmore. The night before going to the game store, I went through their catalog of reaper miniatures and sent Rachel and Rosie to pick them out while I looked through their wide array of RPG, tabletop games, etc. Most of their stock is not carried by our local store in Regina. I might grow a second beard looking through their stock, but we were on a time line with supper looming over our heads after a fun day at heritage park.

    From top left they are:

• Unicorn, Young Ice Dragon (both for my daughter)
• Dwarf Cleric, Corinna, Dwarf Master of the Hunt
• Zombie Pirates, Gloom Stalker, Ticks, Troll King

    I also picked up two Ghost of Archipelago supplements, Gods of Fire, which adds tribal warbands, small boat mechanics and notable beasts like a kraken! and Lost Colossus adds a campaign mostly.

    I picked up Battletech Alpha Strike from Dragon's Den in Saskatoon, which adds another 13 mechs to my already expanded collection.

    Though it is the Season of Scenery over one Wargames Terrain Workshop, I haven't been in much of a paint mode for the Heart of Ghurr terrain that I have started. Especially when I had these Conan mummies and skeletons on the hobby desk. I did a quick wet blending for the whole body before picking out small amounts of metal with some silver. Good enough for undead fodder. I did miss one skeleton that was hiding out in the game's box. I'll get around to it after the challenge.

Next on the Hobby Desk!

    

    Time to reveal all the terrain I was building and not finishing with any sort of paint!

Prime Day!

 No, I'm not talking about Amazon. Today I sprayed all my terrain from my Warcry Heart of Ghur box in anticipation for Season of Scenery 2025 challenge. The wargaming sculptor, Dave, requires as much line of sight blocking terrain as humanly possible to be painting throughout July 1st to August 31st. Terrain can be fresh, at "the ugly phase" or 90% completed as long as you get the last blobs of paint on between those days. If you'd like to participate,  comment on here.

Over the last week, Rachel and I have been watching "The Residence", which was a good time to build all my terrain from Warcry Heart of Ghur. I will say, these trees were a bit of a pain to assemble as if you glued anything slightly off, it built off the previous piece so I had some bad gaps. Which I didn't worry too much, wax from baby bell cheese was used as filler.  

       I primed yesterday in the beautiful weather we are having here. Seems to have turned out well. Though I did notice how top heavy a lot of the pieces are, bases will be a must. 

         I picked up Blood and Plunder earlier this month from Sentry Box as my co-worker was able to pick it up in Calgary. I have heard good things about the game, and I was going to use the boats for Ghost Archipelago as well. Opening the box last night revealed that I had a missing sprue of Robert Maynard. Emailed firelock games, hope it will be resolved soon. Luckily, all the ships are here and will be assembled shortly.

Next on the Hobby Desk

    Probably assemble the boats and get them primed. I have a megablok skeleton pirate ship that I am debating if I should paint it with more ghostly colours or touch it up how it is.

Trash Terrain

    Quick update, I need to get better at posting my finished works, this has probably finished for about a month now. Besides the small ladder, all of this terrain was made with trash, looking up techniques on YouTube. I hope to build enough to play a skirmish game on it with multiple levels of height. 

    My garage is where I pick away at these projects. Here is what is currently on my workbench. This particular build prominently features parts from a printer I dismantled. It's tempting to pick up more printers for scraps as they are usually free and there are so many good details on them. This one printer has given me a lot to work with already.

Next on the Hobby Desk

    I have some more Conan miniatures on the painting desk that should be finished soon. I have also started to assemble the terrain from the second edition of Warcry starter box. This terrain is a pain as there is usually small contact points and multiple interconnecting pieces that don't always fit perfectly. They do look good once assembled, just might be a lot of cursing the terrain designers at GW.

Monster Mayhem Challenge 2025

    While I wasn't as motivated in sitting the hobby room this month, I did get a few things done for the Monster Mayhem Challenge.

    First up, and I am not sure how much these would count, but these five hyenas from the Conan board game. Judging from the size they look more like dire hyenas, towering over the NPC character, Yselda. This seems to be a common theme with my monsters this year, super sized animals/ dead humans. Giant Snake for example. With these enemies painted, I can now play the first scenario with all painted enemies that is, still have the heroes to work on. 

Focus!

    One model that has loitered on, near, around the hobby desk for far too long is my Colossal Skeleton from reaper miniatures. Purchasing the metal figure for way too much money, double the bones version and probably half the headache. It was one of the monsters I was going to paint in 2024, but with a bent base and a snapped arm, I found every excuse to set it down for anything else! I am going to call it a Ogre or Hill Giant Skeleton, which makes it sound more monstrous. I am also going to call it done!

    Last but not least, while out searching Value Village, I found a megabloks set with a large scorpion. The limbs were ball joins that swiveled around which I removes to glue them right to the body with some green stuff for support.

    It was not my intension to paint up monsters that all could fit into Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago, but it is a nice happy accident. 

Next on the Hobby Desk!

    I finished painting my trash terrain, time to post it. Also a glimpse of my next garbage build.