Solo Tabletop

It's intended as Rohan terrain for Lord of the Rings, but it also works for pretty much any generic medieval setting.

The Good side of the Pelennor Fields box is almost finished!

"We're On An Express Elevator To Hell, Goin' Down!"

Let's look at the terrain pieces that originally got me into Warcry First Edition

Blood for the Blood God and all that.

The GW release schedule is faster than my wallet can handle, so here are some 'old' 1st edition Warcry minis instead.

"I see shapes of Men and of horses, and pale banners like shreds of cloud, and spears like winter-thickets on a misty night. The Dead are following."

In need of table-ready minis that will only survive a few rounds? Slap Chop to the rescue!

Arise, arise, riders of Rohan! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered! A sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride to Gondor!

An eye-catching centerpiece perfect for any science fiction table.

The next scenario for my Five Parsecs from Home Campaign takes place in an industrial zone, so I took the opportunity to paint some more terrain.

The Rangers of Shadow Deep campaign has a few scenarios that call for gnoll enemies. Initially I was going to replace them with orcs as I didn't have any fitting minis. Then I saw the sprues of the  Frostgrave Gnolls  kit from Northstar Miniatures - which wasn't easy to find, as practically every store page (except the one I linked) only showed the front cover of the box. I really dislike how it isn't standard practice yet to show the box content (and if possible every sprue) on the store page. I want to know what I am buying, and the box art, while beautiful, doesn't help me at all. As the Frostgrave kits are very modular and mostly interchangeable, I used the opportunity as an excuse to buy a few of the other multipart kits as well. I now have a nice selection of different bits that I can use for future projects. I also decided to challenge myself a bit and practice my batch painting. Usually I only paint 5 miniatures at a time when I work on larger groups or regiment...

Another one of my older projects, and this one is especially important to share because there were a few points where it looked like a failure. In the end, it taught me a lot of valuable lessons and still left me with usable terrain pieces. Am I'm proud of them? No, not really. Can I use them for my games? Yes, of course.

This project was done over a year ago, but it's still fun to share, so here we go.

This is a project I did last year, and the rest of my Battle Company projects would sadly have to take a backseat to other things in my life. I hesitated in posting these minis on here because I'm not really proud of the result. The models are small, mono-pose, and riddled with manufacturing defects. I wasn't looking forward to painting them, and it shows in the rushed end result. It was one of those "Just get it done and table-ready" kind of projects. After giving it some thought, I  especially  want to post these kinds of projects in the future. Mistakes and unsatisfying results are part of the hobby, and I want to present my (relatively) unfiltered hobby experiences on this blog. Moria Starting Battle Company

This is a project I did last year, and the rest of my Battle Company projects would sadly have to take a backseat to other things in my life. The Lord of the Rings is by far the most influential franchise of my childhood. The books absolutely blew my mind as a child and made me realize how incredible reading can be. The movie trilogy is still my favorite to this day, and I regularly rewatch them each year. It's no wonder then that 'The Two Towers' box for the Lord of the Rings miniatures game was my entry into the tabletop hobby. I vividly remember standing in front of my (tiny) local Games Workshop and staring at the Uruk-Hai and Rohan miniatures in the window display. The box was insanely expensive for me at the time, but it was more than worth it, for it opened the door to this beautiful hobby. I wasn't yet aware that I was colorblind, so I didn't realize that it wasn't normal to not see the difference of the Scorched Brown Uruk-Hai skin on the Chaos Black pr...

This is another project I did roughly two years ago. I was playing through the core book campaign of Rangers of Shadow Deep  and needed a flesh golem for one of the scenarios. I had a few options in my pile of shame, but I chose this one since it was already primed and ready to go. It's also quite big and fits the theme really well. The fly-arm is probably one of the giant flies that the warband will encounter in a later scenario and I like to imagine that the gnoll shaman just stitched random parts together to see if it would work. I also got a better photo setup by buying a really cheap lightbox. The difference is enormous. Look at this lovingly disgusting model. It's one of the Gellerpox Infected from the  Kill Team Rogue Trader  box set from Games Workshop, and I absolutely love it. It has great details like the maggots and flies in the wounds, and the exaggerated features were a joy to paint. I've always been quite intimidated by large areas of skin. Stark highl...

This is a project I did over two years ago, but I recently stumbled upon the images and thought it would be a good project to share as it is easy to replicate. At the time, I was playing through the early Rangers of the Shadow Deep  core book campaign and I wanted a medium terrain piece with height difference and a bit of line of sight blocking. This all happened before I decided to create this blog, so I sadly took no pictures from the scenarios itself and only mediocre ones of the hill building process. Looking through my available materials, I decided upon a simple hill with a cliff. Cork bark for the cliff, expanded polystyrene (eps) as the basic structure, and thick cardstock as the base. I cut the eps in the rough shape of a hill and hotglued everything on to the base. I then covered everything but the cork bark with filler and tried to hide the rough angles and transitions. In hindsight, I should have cut the structure a bit less blocky, as the filler didn't have the mass I ...

Preface Over my years in this hobby, I have spent countless hours creating homebrew settings for various games and different groups of people. Never have I sat down and actually dedicated myself to creating a cohesive setting that was only focused on my personal interests. There were always considerations to be had about the quirks of the other players because that's what traditional multiplayer RPGs are designed for. It's a cooperative adventure and everyone should be equally involved. Don't get me wrong, I love these multiplayer sessions and will continue to run them because I really like to see the players and their characters interact with the world I present them (be it homebrew or official). Obviously, many GMs spend a lot of additional time on worldbuilding, but the reality is that most of it will never come up during the game or the players just simply won't care about it. Solo play allows me the freedom to ignore all those considerations and only focus on the t...