Von

Educating Shiny: Cruel And Unusual Punishment

We decided to skip terrain making this week, in favour of actually playing some games (especially since Shiny's damn near finished his battlegroup: it looks SMASHING, as good as one would expect from a Proper Artist, and I'm going to make him take some decent photos of it sooner or later). There'd be proper ... 

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Von

Been Building: Battlefield Basics

So, instead of Educating Shiny this week, we enlisted him to help out while we started our battlefield. He took most of the photos (because he's camera-shy, bless him).He also made me wear my hat while I was sketching out the roof for a factory building and the bases for our trees. I ... 

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Von

Stuff In The Post

A few things turned up in the post during the Crisis of Infinite Vons.First thing: the Litko tokens. I'm quite pleased with these.They're quite chunky - chunkier than I was expecting and chunkier than really fits in with the WarCogs, but they should cover the rather specialist token requirements of my Cryx very nicely.Second thing: ... 

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Von

Meta Gaming: Why I Started Caring When I Lose

Back when I did my formative (WFB) gaming before I went away to university, the games I played had a narrative context. I used to play regularly against the same four or so people, and we worked out a backstory to our regular games which was advanced in one side or another's favour when a ... 

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Von

Been Painting: Gorman di Wulfe, Renegade, Hexeris

Gorman di Wulfe. Actually this is more Been (Re)Painting: I've owned Gorman for years, more or less since I started playing, but I was never really happy with his dark and boring ninety-per-cent black colour scheme. It struck me that the unnaturally vivid Citadel Foundation paints might be the solution to my problem, ... 

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Jon

Warmachine: Educating Shiny: Units Make Me Play Like A Moose

It's looking like Thursday night is Educating Shiny night from here 'til Yuletide, since Citizen Von here has had his day off restored by a kind and loving education system. We decided to celebrate with a spot of swimming (we're both fat buggers and determined to be less fat buggers by the end of ... 

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Jon

eBizzle fo’shizzle.

A sentence I have never used before and hopefully never will again.Anyway, I just made sixty-two quid on eBay. Yay. I have also spent twelve of those, pretty much instantaneously, on some tokens from Litko. Yes, the job could probably have been done with paper or card home-made ones, but I sort ... 

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Jon

Warmachine: Been Painting: Magnus’ Agenda

I'm disproportionately proud of these. They're not brilliant, but they're the first models I've done where the grime and battle damage has come out looking all right, and my painting-ten-Trenchers-in-an-afternoon method appears to have worked all right (basecoat carefully, slap the inks on and hope for the best).

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Jon

Warmachine: ‘Educating Shiny’: From Little Acorns…

So, I recently made the dubious choice to move three hundred miles away from all the people I play Warmachine with and relocate to a small provincial city where games that aren't produced by Games Workshop tend to be of the old-school historical variety and scare me slightly. Did I despair? Well, yes, I did, for ... 

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