Author: Alex

  • The Hobby Kanban: Agile for Dads – Tackling the Pile of Shame One Sticky Note at a Time

    The State of the Spare room after a 6 month hiatus. As I sit surrounded by Navara, KR cases and a selection of random re-purposed delivery boxes of partially packed miniatures, the stack of untouched Space Wolves GW plastic in its cellophane, 2 army boxes, and the stack of Necron models (again still in shrink…

  • Terrain ‘Tub’ round up

    So unlike some of the far more organised individuals that I game with whose terrain is carefully stored in boxes designed for each part, carefully protecting the individual parts (very jealous) my current terrain setup is a single tub (disappointingly not even a Really Useful Box) of chaos that includes parts in every state of…

  • The Hunting Pack

    The first of the premium deliveries for the magazine set was the Brutalis Dreadnought. Having not built any dreadnoughts since 3rd(?) edition the design has changed significantly, and the kit has got drastically more complex compared to the old fashioned Box noughts. I decided to make life even harder a magnetise the ‘claws’, wrist covers/bolters…

  • Rats, Rats everywhere

    Some of the many minis and general plastic / resin stuff that comes off the printer are 28mm (ish) scale WW2 miniatures. The aim behind these was to play bolt action or chain of command inspired in this case by stumbling upon the Little Wars TV YouTube channel. In particular this video (link) they did…

  • Jagdpanther Juni after-action

    So to layout to the rules of the game (sourced from here jagdpanther-juni-begins) the challenge ran throughout June and was designed to clear some backlog of vehicles and ‘monsters’ from the local groups collective piles of shame. One of the key points was that no building / painting based stress was to be generated, is…

  • Various unfinished tasks and a few finished ones!

    So I fall into the same camp as most miniature wargamers in that I have a ‘pile’ of shame. Mine is actually quite small, on a shelf and that’s in part because I spent a long time hiding from anything that might be considered ‘Geeky’ or brand me a ‘Nerd’ and although I cant pinpoint…

  • Long form text, Not my strong suit…

    I will let you speculate how many times this was re-written (its in the double digits…) as it evolved from a Wiki factual listing of what I’ve done to high fantasy story writing about great deeds (if the pen is mightier than the sword where does the paint brush rank?) its ended up on something…