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So, tonight thus far I have had two bottles of Vodka, several shots and a load of beers, and with that I have to bid you all a great new year, before I forget to!! (To be honest, I have had a great deal of drinks, so may forget tommorrow to wish you all my… Continue reading Happy new year from the Grinning Skull!!
Every time I walk past the HQ model of the Black dog building I made, I get the urge to start expanding the scenery how I had intended to originally. I do then, realise that this kind of thing needs time devoted to it. Yesterday, I had a couple of hours spare to get something… Continue reading Black Dog HQ landing pad scenic WIP
ZombieU Gameplay! 10 Min ! - YouTube. You might have heard of Nintendo's new console gaming system that has just been launched, the WiiU. Launched along with the console is a brand new zombie gaming experience: ZombieU. For zombie fans with a perchant for computer gaming, this is going to be a good one down… Continue reading ZombieU, a new way to experience the undead!
The thing that had attracted me to Hawk Wargames “Dropship Commander” in the first place were the excellent looking buildings, but it seems the resin scenics crazy prices are another step too far for sensible wargamers. I think I’ll pass….
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If you listened to episode 97 of the podcast, you will have heard Mike & I giving Dropzone Commander a reasonably positive review – the rules are pretty good, but I have some reservations on figure pricing.
And indeed, it’s about pricing that I wanted to write about in this post.
After the initial product launch, there has not been a great deal of new material released from Hawk Wargames until a few weeks ago, when they finally released the resin buildings that they had been promising for several months. I first heard about this on the Shell Case blog when they posted a new item on the new buildings.
I read it and was flabbergasted. I went to the Hawk Wargames website and was doubly flabbergasted.
The prices of Hawk’s resin buildings almost defy belief. They start at £35 for the cheapest building, which is a 95 piece kit, and this…
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Turn to 400 - The Fighting Fantasy documentary film by Sean Riley — Kickstarter. Well, it's a shame this great documentary didn't make the grade. Like a lot of good ideas, sometimes crowdfunding fails to deliver the goods in terms of getting the cash one needs to make something a reality. I would have really… Continue reading Turn to 400 Kickstarter fails to get funded.
Museum of Dungeons & Dragons | Indiegogo. Dungeons and Dragons is probably one of the most famous RPGs, mainly due to it being the ancestor of most modern role playing games and it having introduced countless waves of people to the hobby. Its influences have been manifold in pop culture, films, TV, books, comics and… Continue reading Indiegogo: Do you want to help build a D&D museum?
So, off my workbench I have another bunch of new sculpts of 15mm sci-fi goodness, the latest Oggam and a few other odds and sods. First up the Ogs, the latest in the League of Anthracks troops, an Oggam Storm trooper, which I would love a few units of these alone, painted with star wars… Continue reading More 15mm sculpts for your perusal….
I remember how eagerly I waited to spend my pocket money as a kid on choose your own adventure books, especially Fighting Fantasy books. I'm sure that it''s not just me when I say that they were a big part of growing up and some of my inspiration in the hobby. This Kickstarter by Sean… Continue reading Turn to 400 – The Fighting Fantasy documentary film by Sean Riley — Kickstarter
As promised, our friends at Learning never stops have a great article on Derren Brown‘s Apocolypse with both episodes attached so you can watch for yourselves!!
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One of the UK’s most famous magician/TV personality, Derren Brown has teamed up with Channel 4 to create one of the most entertaining two-part shows I have ever seen, named Derren Brown’s Apocalypse. In this series, Derren and his team led Steven Brosnan to believe that the world is about to end. Steven was fed false information about a meteor that was about to strike the world through tweets, news coverage and TV advertisements- all manufactured by Derren Brown and his team, with the help of Steven’s family (the show reminded me of The Truman Show- trailer below). Steven then rode a bus with his brother- also one of Brown’s accomplice- with the belief that he was going to a gig by The Killers. The bus stopped due to some problems and they witnessed explosion after explosion. After being hypnotized by Brown, Steven woke up in what looked like a…
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So, did you see the conclusion to the two part Apocolypse? I watched eager to laugh at this weeks episode, but alas there were not as many this week. Sure the poor lad was heartbroken when he failed to get airlifted out of the compound, call me cruel, but that was funny, it just was… Continue reading Derren Brown’s Anticlimactic Apocolypse…
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