Do You Remeber These?

I found the data sheet for these miniature Bottles and Jars. They are available from Scale Structures.

When searching for this page I came across a mention of Bottles and Jars so I am going to create a "Bottles and Jars" label.

Ancient Libraires

Mentions many ancient libraries. Why are we so afraid of knowledge?

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I have created a new label or collection : libraires where I will feaure videos and links to articles on libraires and links to libraires of note..

Four Sub-collection Directories

Here are three sub-collections that perhaps I should have created a lables for:

1. Dreams
These posts are either fictional recorded dreams or posts that mention dreams.

2. A Host of Characters
These posts represent descriptions for charcters in role playing games.

3. Magic
These posts are fictional magic spells or rather mention magic.

4. Libraries

Allan Quatermain: The Zulu Trilogy - H. Rider Haggard

As I slowly transition to the plans I have for the New Year I am pulling together another reading list, this will be my early and mid-winters reading list. I have wanted to get back the character of Allan Quatermain and will add these three novels to this list.

These three novels-Marie, Child of Storm, and Finished-form the Zulu Trilogy in which the Zulu wizard, Zikali, gains his revenge on the Zulu nation and its king, Cetawayo.

P.S. I realize that images have been rather scarce in this month posts and I do have some that could be posted, but then I must first write a corresponding post. It has lately been a bit difficult to get this done.

Blog Posts and News

I was browsing Ebay the other day and found a metal HO gauge shack with a stove. I purchased the piece and will make my first post on a new series “Found, 10 Structures for Under $10 a piece”. I was surprised to find many of these economical priced models available. I am under no illusion; many of these structures will need some serious, kit-bashing, distressing and detailing to bring them up to par. It ought to be a fun exercise. Although finding structures in other scales and sizes for this price may be a bit of a stretch I may include structures of other scales and sizes.

I am getting bored with my current postings and I thought about getting back to some micro-miniatures posts.

I don’t really want to accumulate any more toys, but I did see two new play-sets recently at a local Dollar Tree. One of the play sets has a decent looking tank and the other with a very nice horse and covered wagon.

In addition, I still need small collection metal zombies to replace the card board ones that came with a board game that I purchased some time ago. These are on order along with a few micro-sized ships for war-gaming.

My Goals for 2016

For the New Year 2016, I will keep my list of goals to minimum.

Games, Game Rules, and Miniatures

I have already taken in two new games in which I will be making posts very soon. One of the games features Zombies. The game contains a set of paper zombies and defenders.

I need to create properties and characteristics to my Hobbit and the monster miniatures I am in the process of completing.

More Images

In the past I have been accused of not providing enough images with my posts. I would like to answer this complaint and provide more media, of all types, to my posts.

Pirate, Pulp, and Zombie Miniatures

Some of the game rules that I have obtained or plan to obtain make use of such characters. I do have a few Pulp figures, but would like to add rocket-men to my collection for I like the characteristics they may bring into game play. I would also like to take in some pirate and perhaps a few Wild/Weird West miniatures.

The Zombie game mentioned above is supplied with paper zombies and survivors that could be replaced with miniatures of the same type.

Supplies

I am in much need supplies, like a set of paint brushes and color ink for my Ink Jet Printer.

More Scenes

Take the miniatures I already have on hand and combine them into interesting scenes.

Toy Monsters

Start to collect a few small plastic toys as they make come available. I am especially interested in small monster toys.

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New Post Idea-Create a Series

I have thought of running a series of posts on a particular topic or subject before, but haven’t been able to implement this in a fashion I am happy with. One topic would be covered exclusively over the course of a month. Material for the month would have to be completed a month in advance. That would mean a good 15 to 20 posts on one topic and would need to be ready to go before the start of the month or at least the majority of the months material would have to be ready to post.

I don’t know when I might get to implement a month long series, but I could conceivable sun short sets of series over the course of a few days or even a week. My first attempt will take place during the second week of January.

New Collection: Disembodied Spirits

"A mad world, my masters. A crazy world! But the end is not!"

The Land of Mist, Arthur Conan Doyle

The addition to my ever growing list of labels is my Disembodied Spirits collection. The collection will encompass textual descriptions of disembodied spirits, images of ghosts and spirits, and the added characteristics and properties for spirit miniatures. For a starting point I will go back and pick-out occurrences from within the following texts:

• House on the Border Land
• Ghost Pirates
• The Land of Mist
• The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"
• The Phantom Ship

So far I have identified two sources of spirit miniatures:

1. Reaper has a few spirit miniatures to choose from
2. Brigade Games has one, a female spirit

Halloween 2015

Halloween has its beginnings in the ancient Celtic festival of the dead. The Celtics carved Jack O' Lanterns out of turnips or beets and were carved to stave off unwanted visitors.

Here is a set of pumpkins that have set out well beyond their time adding to their dubious aspects.

This concludes my horror and otherwise themed month. Perhaps I will have other months with themed posts.

Posts for the Month of October

To celebrate the run-up to Halloween I have decided to make the month of October a theme month and will feature posts dedicated to all things creepy, horrifying and gruesome. I will be revisiting some of my earlier posts on these topics and will be making some new posts featuring monsters, horror, dragons, dudgeon crawl, and pumpkins.

A Revisit to My New Year’s Resolutions

It has been six months since I set my New Year’s Resolutions for 2015 and I thought it best to go back and assess how well I have been doing. First let’s take a look at what those resolutions were:

1. Back at least one KickStarter project. I will be looking to sponsor one new game this year.

2. Go through my labels to find topics I might want to expound on, delete labels and or posts that have become stagnate.

 a. Some topics I would like to give more "air-time" to:

  i. Dungeon crawl

  ii. Monsters

  iii. Reaper familiars

  iv. Evil toys

3. Games, game rules, and miniatures

4. Scenery and Scenic Pieces

5. Spend more time on forums

6. Learn more about the art of painting miniatures

Now let’s assess:

1. Back at least one KickStarter project. I will be looking to sponsor one new game this year.

I don’t know whether I will get to this resolution this year, unless of course I come into some wind fall.

2. Go through my labels to find topics I might want to expound on, delete labels and or posts that have become stagnate.

One change you might have noticed is that I have changed the name of this section from labels to collections. I thought collections better defined what I am trying to achieve through this blog. It may seem like I haven’t gotten too far in the way removing stagnate “labels”, but in fact I have removed a few labels. However, I have probably added twice as many “labels” to replace those that I removed.

 a. Some topics I would like to give more "air-time" to:

  i. Dungeon crawl

  ii. Monsters

  iii. Reaper familiars

  iv. Evil toys

Reaper familiars is the only collection that has been added to, so far, but I still do have plans on adding to “Monsters” and “Evil Toys”.

3. Games, game rules, and miniatures
I have added a few new games to our collection of board and card games.

4. Scenery and Scenic Pieces

Although I have made some head way here, I am still looking for more of these pieces to work into my inventory of “To complete a scene” props.

5. Spend more time on forums

I have completely forgotten about this one; shame on me.

6. Learn more about the art of painting miniatures

Although I have watched a couple of videos I have been very neglectful here.

In a Slump but Still…

As we approach the start of the third quarter of this year I am still in somewhat of slump. Having lost a good chunk of my income because of a provision in the Affordable Care Act my energies are being spent earning enough to pay the bills. There has been very little left for the non-essentials, however little, there may be, there will be something left to spend frivolously on my hobby desires in the upcoming quarter.

In the mean time I do have plenty to work on. Boxes and boxes of stuff to keep me busy until the end of my days, no doubt. Lately, I have had a spark of enthusiasm and a hankering to get back to some painting. I have few pieces that need to be completed; there are games, videos and readings to be reviewed, so I will continue to make posts, however not on par as month’s pasts. Just to keep my hand in, I should be able to make at least fifteen posts per month.

In a Slump

I don't know how much I will be contributing to my blog this month or for the months to come. There are a few projects, in my real life that need my immediate attention and I feel, perhaps that I need a break away from this Blog.

New Blog Policy

Although there might some exceptions from time to time, I will endeavor not to use a name of a supplier for a label. I have too many labels already and am trying to trim these down a bit. To often these posts wind up being the only post mentioning this supplier.

Blog Maintenance-Backstage

Some of you might have noticed that I have changed the name of Links page; it sits to the right of Home, it was changed from Links to Backstage. I haven’t got around to it yet, but this page is going to be repurposed.

I haven’t seen any activity on a few of the blogs under my Blog List for a while. I don’t want to remove them completely from my blog and have decided to add them to what I am calling the Backstage.

There are so many blogs that start out wonderfully and run for a few months or even a few years and then are neglected. The information they provide is often outstanding and at the least interesting, so I want to keep them alive on this site by offering links to this bygone content, just not on my home page.

Here is a list of those that will get the first cut:

RPG Free List

Sofie's Paint Blog

Steampunk Miniatures Review

Steel on Sand Blog

MeepleSpeak

Extraordinary Gentlemen’s Journal

What’s New for 2015-Resolution #2

1. Back at least one KickStarter project. I will be looking to sponsor one new game this year.

2. Go through my labels to find topics I might want to expound on, delete labels and or posts that have become stagnate.

 a. Some topics I would like to give more "air-time" to:

  i. Dungeon crawl

  ii. Monsters

  iii. Reaper familiars

  iv. Evil toys

3. Games, game rules, and miniatures

4. Scenery and Scenic Pieces

5. Spend more time on forums

6. Learn more about the art of painting miniatures

This effort will ongoing throughout the year. If I have a post with a label that hasn’t been used for some time and I have no intention of doing so any time soon, the label gets deleted.

I have also decided not to use book titles as labels, except when the title might see some future made to it. See the Redwall label for instance of a title that got some use, while Defiance at Sea hasn’t got any “air-time” (I might leave this one because of my original plans to feature some of the battles mentioned in this book) .

The labels that will receive more “air-time” are those topics and miniatures I have an interest in at this time. Miniatures relative to these topics will be ordered over the next few months.

What’s New for 2015

Happy New Year!

I wanted to take this time to thank all the thousands who have visited this blog last year and I especially want to thank those who left comments.

This is my first post for the New Year, oh boy! I usually have something in mind for the New Year, but rarely do a stick to my plans.  Looking back of over last year's goals I noticed that I only achieved one of my three of my recorded goals. However, I will endeavor to see my plans for this year come to fruition this year. Here we go:

1. Back at least one KickStarter project. I will be looking to sponsor one new game this year.
2. Go through my labels to find topics I might want to expound on, delete labels and or posts that have become stagnate. 
a. Some topics I would like to give more "air-time" to:
i. Dungeon crawl
ii. Monsters
iii. Reaper familiars
iv. Evil toys
3. Games, game rules, and miniatures
4. Scenery and Scenic Pieces
5. Spend more time on forums 
6. Learn more about the art of painting miniatures

I will be making additional posts to expound on these individual goals. In addition, I will be revisiting these goals at the end of the second quarter of this year to assess my progress.

Print and Play Games

This post is being made to institute a new policy concerning my Print and Play label. In the past I have used this label to identify games ranging from print and play board games to RPG games. RPG’s will no longer be identified as print and play games, unless that RPG includes printable game tokens or some other types of components for the RPG.

28mm Bretonnian Horse

My Games Works 28mm Bretonnian Horse is complete. I still do not have a place for this miniature, but eventually it will be used in some scene. This miniature went together easily.

Recently, I went back through a few of my earlier posts and added a “horse” label. It really is a lot easier to add the appropriate labels as you go, but sometimes I don’t have enough foresight as to the needs of posts in the future.

Blog Management and Updates

I have been weeding through my list of labels and blog posts recently and have gotten rid of a few posts and label topics that I don’t see myself ever adding to. In addition, where I had duplicate entries because of misspelled or mistyped label names I corrected these entries. I am sorry for any inconvenience this might cause.

Ancients

A few weeks ago I relabeled a post I had made about a couple of horse drawn wagons I wanted to build in 2104. At that time I had used one label called ancient Rome. Since then I have decided to use a label Ancients as it will better suit my needs.

I had no intention, at first, to model ancients, but with the Roman Nobelman's Chariot and am planning on purchasing a Macedonian War Elephant. I felt these models would be fun to build. Why else would purchase a particular model?

In addition, I just received a set of Persians from the Wargame Factory. Wargame Factory is offering a set of six sprue with a total of twelve 28mm Persians with assorted equipment, ETC; more about these plastic figures in an upcoming post. Who knows what other interests might perk my curiosity and add to my miniature collection?