It's been a while since I updated you on my fantasy model railroad. If you haven't been following along, I'm a train nut, and it was actually model railroading that got me into wargaming. I got my first sheet of 4x8 plywood in the garage when I was 8 years old, so when I caught…
I know what you're thinking: what is a site about wargaming doing talking about model railroading--your first model railroad. And it's a fair question. I've talked on this site before, here and here, about my recent foray into the passion that drove me into miniature wargaming in the first place--model railroading. Being able to build…
I've got a case of hobby paralysis, and I'm trying to break out of it.
The problem is that I simply have too many projects to work on and none of them really have a due date attached to them. They're all projects that I've been wanting to paint or build, but they also aren't…
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…
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…