My gaming remains almost entirely online these days, so crafting projects are sporadic at best. There’s little drive to create terrain and paint minis when there are no concrete plans to actually use them in the near-ish future. But the urge to build something is still there, lurking in the background, and on occasion I’m […]
Non Mini Painter Painting… Umm… Non Minis Read More »
I’ve been meaning to post this for quite a while – since sometime around October, I think? But with the problems the site was having I didn’t bother at the time… and then I, er… sort of just forgot. But now that I’ve had time to rebuild the site, I wanted to actually post something
Non Mini Painter Painting Another Mini Read More »
After putting together some papercraft buildings to jump-start a small collection of modern terrain pieces, I wanted to try my hand at some custom ones to add more variety. My Mighty Protectors Campaign takes place in and around the likely mecca of super-heroic activity that is northern Delaware. This part of the state is basically
A Shopping Experience Like No Other Read More »
I’m an inexperienced photographer using a simple mobile phone camera to take photos for this site in spaces that really aren’t properly lit, so the images that have appeared here have been… let’s say… hit-or-miss in terms of quality. Many have been taken outside and washed-out from bright sunlight; most others have been shot under
A Ten Minute Light Box Build Read More »
With my city boards completed and some extra parking-lot tiles in progress to stack on top of them, I was still missing an obvious feature of towns and cities: buildings. I usually start off a project by looking around for existing examples for inspiration. On the many crafting sites and YouTube channels I browse regularly,
We built this city! We built this city on… foam… and… er… paper. Read More »
Over the last week or so, a meme started showing up on D&D related Facebook groups: … and I immediately needed to know if this sculpt was available as an STL so I could 3D print one. I didn’t see information on the original sculptor, but I did find that someone had made a close
Me want ALL the cookies! Read More »
With my modular city boards finally built (more on that saga here and here), it was time to start coming up with some stuff to put on them. An upcoming scene in my Mighty Protectors campaign will feature a mutated and temporarily paranoid-delusional person angrily lobbing cars around a parking lot, so some parking “tiles”
Paving the way to adventure? Read More »
So my first go at making city tiles went badly, but I was determined to adjust my methods and try again. I was also, I decided, not going to compromise the size I’d originally intended to make the boards – they were going to fit on my table in a 4×4 configuration without poking anyone!
And when that city sank into the swamp, we built another! (Part 2) Read More »
In which I waste a lot of money but at least end up with something useful I’ve built up a good collection of fantasy terrain, but it’s of limited use in my MIghty Protectors Campaign that takes place in a modern setting and most often occurs in the streets of local towns and cities. I’ve
And when that city sank into the swamp, we built another! (Part 1) Read More »
During the lull while waiting for a static grass applicator for my ongoing bookshelf diorama project, I had an urge to work on something simpler to knock out one of the many, many items on my “to craft” list. Back when I first got into this hobby, one of my early builds included some very
Simple and generic and I only messed it up a little bit Read More »