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Well folks, you might have remembered my 15mm green sculpt of the Criat Mercenary I sent off for the SHM range at 15mm.co.uk. As you can see, he's been cast up in shiny white metal now, and from this pic of the master cast, he's looking fine and pretty much an identical match for the… Continue reading First Look: 15mm Criat Mercenary master cast!
THE GRINNING SKULL WARGAMES RESOURCES PAGE The Grinning skull now has a page dedicated to all the best free stuff available on the net, it is hoped that over time and with the help of fellow gaming enthusiasts we can build a great selection of wonderful freebies for everyone to use, but I would please… Continue reading New Wargaming Resources section now available on the Grinning Skull!!
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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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….
Latest sculpts from me, this time a set of 15mm scale mutant zombies, inspired by various video games, movies and so on, I like to call these: Dead 4 U. First up, a "not" Charger (inspired by Left 4 Dead video games) A "not" Tank mutant zombie, again inspired by the L4D franchise: My daughter… Continue reading Dead 4 U: 15mm “not” Charger and “not” Tank Mutant Zombies!
I finally got to sit down and finish my Irregular Miniatures 15mm US marines to go with my zombie game. This way I can add a few different scenarios to my campaigns. I guessed that if I just got enough for a decent squad for now, it made more sense than a whole load of them,… Continue reading 15mm US Marines to battle the zombie hordes…
I thought I'd show you the latest sculpts in 15mm I have been working on. As per usual it's the latest in my ever growing selection of Oggam Pig mutants that come first, adding to my second set of war pigs, so far there are four completed League of Anthracks troops, just six more to… Continue reading Latest 15mm Sculpts, Oggam and aliens….
Another great 15mm sci-fi kickstarter is live at the moment , this time it's the turn of Armies Army and their Greater Britannia commonwealth forces. It seems like a great near future faction for anyone who might need a sci-fi force in their 15mm wargames. This time I will be getting involved (I missed out… Continue reading ARMIES ARMY 15mm BRITANNIA KICKSTARTER LIVE!
Zombie Dawn Use Me 15mm rules Review Recently, I got hold of the zombie Dawn set of the Use Me rules by 15mm.co.uk. Up till then I had been using a homebrew ruleset based on the old Fighting fantasy system, but as we kept playing them I had to keep making up rules on the spot… Continue reading Zombie Dawn USE ME 15mm Rules Review
Hullo folks, after a brief internet hiatus due to various reasons, it's left me with an oppotunity to do a bit of gaming, painting and making. This time I wanna talk about a really great set of miniatures for those on a budget, and with a love of insectoid B-movies. Yes I'm talking about giant… Continue reading Attack of the 15mm Giant B-Movie Spiders and Ants from Poundland!!
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