Painting miniatures while traveling has been something that I have been experimenting with since the lockdown began and I started the Hobby Streak. I am now nearing day 590 of the Hobby Streak, but I also have had a trip planned to go to Scotland--first time ever--in the works for two and a half years.…
I have indulged my 9 year old self and gotten into model railroading--but I'm doing it with a wargaming twist. Everything in my model railroad is leaning somewhat on wargaming: I have my trains running around a hill on which a D&D miniature frog monster is fighting Flames of War tanks, and I have Redcoats…
I've talked before about how I very often will sell my wargaming models. I do this for a couple of reasons. First, my primary enjoyment of models is in the painting of them and I buy way more models than I could collect for an army. Second, because I buy so many models, I kinda…
Brandon Sanderson, the huge bestselling author of the Stormlight Archive and Mistborn series, is involved in two projects related to miniatures. Both of them are very cool, but they are both very different.
Brandon Sanderson and I have been friends for more than 20 years. I was in Brandon's writing group (along with my brother,…
Yes, I know this is a wargame website, but I am venturing into a new project and it is: getting started in model railroading.
Now let's get one thing straight right up front: I'm still a wargamer, and that's still always going to be my primary hobby. But the truth is (as I've written about…
I have been in the wargaming hobby for (I think) 35 years now. I got into it when I was nine and somehow got my hands on a copy of Wargames Illustrated, and I never looked back.
Well, that’s not true at all. Over the course of those 35 years I have looked back plenty,…
If you've been paying attention to The Wargame Explorer this month, you'll have noticed that there's been a drop off in posts. It hasn't been because I haven't had enough to write about, and it hasn't been because I haven't had enough to paint. I've just been in a rut. For a while it seemed…
So you'll recall from my previous diorama that I have created a world in which the Mayflower was attacked by sea monsters and that the Pilgrims have become expert sea monster hunters. They have also built most of their structures from the remains of their wrecked vessels.
Also, the Indians that the Pilgrims meet, and…
So this flies in the face of the last article I wrote about Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings models, which basically said that the models were very large, giving me a little breathing room to paint them with shaky hands. And yes, I like that. But as I've tried to make my way through…