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Taking a break from blogging. Having no motivation for the hobby at all. Despite having 30 blog posts ready as drafts... I don't feel like posting stuff. 

Thanks for checking in. New stuff might come at some point. But for now the blog will be off. 

"So what's the the making a statement about? Really? It's a bit ... drama?". Not really. It's to hold myself to it, because I've been thinking it for awhile.

Terrain: Torture Chamber

 After finishing some of my dungeon tiles, I had to get ready for some Rangers of Shadow Deep. For that I needed a torture chamber. 

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Torture Chamber

I went into the garage and dug out all manner of bit from my 'terrain crate' box - also having other kinds of bits. I gave a good amount of different torture chamber bits to use. Let's check them out.

A necromancer and a guard working at a table. Took one of my terrain crate tables and added bits from the bits box. A hand from a zombie kit, a bunch of knives from somewhere. There's a bag with a hand (think it's from FG cultists or Mantic zombies). Also used the doctors bag from Dunkeldorf and added a small candle, don't know where that is from.

A couple of reaper bones bits I got donated. Added a renedra base to the coal basket. The faun is from Admiralty Miniatures. 

An old HeroQuest bench, a prisoner from Terrain Crate and a Reaper Bones iron maiden. 

A couple more pieces from Reaper Bones. Painted up the bear trap to work in the torture chamber as well. The dwarven prisoner is from Admiralty Miniatures.

For this torture chamber and prison setup, I still need to build some cages. I think I'll be doing one and casting it a couple of times with plaster. 

Let's Play: Hardwired - Radar Station Data Exfiltration

Took my Hardwired agents into the badlands. An old military outpost has been hit by a chemical attack and abandoned. The agents have been hired to get into the area, exfiltrate some sensitive data and avoid getting shot to pieces.  

Setup

Used some different pieces form the collection, to build a small military base.

Let's play

Here's a video with the game, roughly an hour. Hardwired is such a nice quick game to play. Perfect for one or two games in an evening, easy to make up scenarios for it. 

Sarissa Precision: Tower, bridge and windmill

Slowly I'm trying to build up a bunch of generic, western Europe inspired fantasy terrain. All the stuff I've had so far has been ruined and frozen for Frostgrave. As I don't play RPGs, I haven't had much reason to do these pieces. But after making the small Renedra huts for Rangers of Shadow Deep, I really wanted to expand on that fantasy board. 

And with Nightwatch and Rangers there's a chance I'll actually use the pieces. 

Sarissa Prescision have a lot of small cheop kits, easy to put together. Before looking and writing about the individual kits. Check out this little video of me flying over the current fantasy terrain collection. 

Wind mill

A classic fantasy town needs a wind mill. This is a huge kit, towers about the entire town. And it looks even more impressive standing on a hill. 

The painting of this kit was done after assembly - something I rarely do. Mostly done with spray paint. Brown, grey and red. After that the brown areas got a drybrush with another couple of browns - cheap acryllics. Then the entire thing was brown wash.

Square bases look off on terrain, so I rounded the corners on the base. Added sand, grass, moss, stones and a small tree. Give it some life and look more organic than a square base. 

Bridge

I needed a stone bridge for a specific RoSD scenario - The Bridge Guards. And it's a nice little piece for other setups, using the Tiny Wargames rivers I have. There're some etched detail in the bridge and thin card detail as part of the kit. I cut out small rectangles from cereal boxes and glued some extra stone work here and there. Painted grey and drybrush. Just a small amount of stones will break up the flat mdf with no work at all. 

Painted the boards on the bridge brown as wood. Then added sand at the edge and in the middle. Dropped dirt with grass here and there. Figure wheels and use would keep the bridge cleaner in two tracks. 

I think that the bridge and river really add a lot of charm and fairy tale to the fantasy setup - and that's exactly what I'm aiming for. Nothing dark in this setting. 

Guard Tower

The small villages need a tower. Not a castle or anything. Just a small tower for a small garrison of guards. I've bought a Roman fort, it's a nice little kit. I was surprised at the size, it's smaller than I thought. 

The tower is a small pieces, comes apart and has a single interior floor. As with the bridge I've added some stone work with cardboard on each side, breaking up the flat surfaces. Grey spray paint, dry brushing in other greys and a layer of brown wash.

As with the windmill I've rounded the corners, as much as the small base allowed. Added moss as growing plants on the watch tower.

A beacon fire using the Mantic Games terrain crate kit.

And the entire fantasy terrain collection setup as a 6'x2,5' board. Need a bit more pieces to proper fill out a 4'x6', but I lots of plans. 

Besides the things below I have Renedra fences and four huts, a church and plans for some more fields (door mat). 

Unboxing: CP Models

 CP Models have a ton of stuff, the webstore is huge and the price on most models is excellent. Recently I found myself needing some Vapor Snakes for Frostgrave and decided to get some from CP models. And while doing that ordering myself a bunch of other models. 

Found some for cyberpunk, scifi and through the wastes Rangers of Shadowdeep. 

Anyway: I turned on the camera while unpacking the models and filmed an unboxing. 

You can check out all my different preview / review / unboxings here.