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bit more than i intended to get but it s fine i can just be more restrained at salute tomorrow right posted by the responsible one at 21 24 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bretonnians events infinity oldhammer rpg warhammer the old world wednesday 8 april 2026 lead and steel 2026 painting competition i took a few photos of the lead and steel painting competition early in the day that did mean that i didn t catch all the entries as some arrived later and i didn t take any sensible notes about who won what either this unit entry of a pirate crew is a mix of manufacturers i can identify the foundry fish men but who made the frog man and the human my photo doesn t do justice to this undead blood bowl team s colour scheme i love this sort of desaturated look on these ork boys but i ve never been able to work out the art of getting this sort of look a good pun name for a blood bowl team is essential another great frogman and the colours were really vibrant i believe this technobarbarian was one of the previous year s show miniatures another lovely desaturated paint scheme does anyone know who this nurgle inspired miniature is made by a nod from lord of the rings with this radagast this old goblin boss really evokes his era not only is it beautifully painted but the details on the base manage to add to the whole impression without drowning out the miniature an excellent weird lil guy a classic ghazghkull painted up really nicely this is an ontos space dwarf biker painted in a slightly more modern scheme than the box art ones a really clean old school evil sun ork warbike an alpha legion rhino with all the weathering i think this big lad is a warmachine sculpt posted by the responsible one at 19 00 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels events oldhammer painting monday 6 april 2026 lead and steel 2026 event report saturday was lead and steel 2026 a small oldhammer focused convention in sheffield it s held in the hall of a social club and had a good mix of vendors participation games demos and people playing their own games the event was free and came with a pretty substantial goodie bag i ve split out the painting competition the bits and bobs i picked up and a demo game i had for separate posts so this doesn t run too long as i walked through the door i was immediately directed to the oldhammer pick n mix a fund raiser for cancer research uk you could pick up five models for 5 i had failed to bring any cash but a friend who will stay anonymous so other people don t hit them up for money chipped in for the bits i was after i ve since been told this effort raised 741 for charity which is excellent going i went around early on and took a few photographs of some of the games going on this is far corfe a huge participation game which uses original necromunda rules as the basis for its rules you could make a gang and turn up on the day it was a big chaotic event with loads of random things happening it looked like everyone involved was having a blast the warmachine demo table that was at chillcon also made a return appearance it s not quite oldhammer but its rules haven t changed much since it started so it gets an honorary mention i meant to get a demo of this and failed to manage my time properly i really must not mess this up a third time if i see this demo table again one of the games where some folk were just playing each other was a game of warhammer 40 000 3rd edition seeing the old models books and cards gave me a major shot of nostalgia also being played was a game of warhammer fantasy i m pretty sure it was somewhere between fourth and sixth edition but i didn t want to interrupt to ask meanwhile on the participation side of things someone had brought along man o war along with a few squadrons that people could play with i d absolutely intended to give this a go as i hadn t played since my childhood but time got away from me i did walk past someone trying to explain the wind direction rules at one point also available for participation was this game of the original adeptus titanicus this is way before my time but it looked really nice all in all this was probably my favourite wargaming event i ve been to in years it was very relaxed with a good mix of playing and shopping there was a nice goodie bag the charity pick n mix was amazing the vendors were all small indie folk who are great and there were several games i d be up for trying next year now i know what to expect i believe it s happening again in 2027 and its probably my top priority for planning events next year posted by the responsible one at 19 00 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels adeptus titanicus events man o war necromunda oldhammer war machine warhammer 40k warhammer fantasy battle monday 30 march 2026 cleanliness is next to sunday is a travel day for me so i just had saturday to put some time into hobbying and it turned out that what that really turned into was a big ol tidy it seems the reason i ve not been hobbying is that i d let the hobby room get into a bit of a state so it wasn t easy to pick up and do a little some of my club mentioned spending 45 minutes each morning doing a little painting and that s something i might try after i spend the easter weekend setting up so that s possible pictured by the way is my new infinity mat that i picked up from deep cut studios via wayland games it took a little while to get in but i got it and a nice carry bag for it that made me do a little happy dance around the room when i put it all away i did get a little hobby done in that i washed a few resin bits and pieces i had lying around the idea had been to get some of them undercoated once they d dried but it was really windy where we live so that ended up not happening just yet here we have a bit of rubble city from fenris games and a critter and some scenery from mammoth miniatures the fenris games piece i bought to use to put models on for miniature photography while the mammoth games models were bought at a little show as a nice easy project then the smaller pieces on the right a krakon games miniature from the same show as the mammoth miniatures pieces on the right three guinea pig witches from bad squiddo games as a note pathfinder 2nd edition has rules for both a witch class and an ancestry called awakened animal so they could be a legitimate player character with no homebrewing at all it s very tempting posted by the responsible one at 19 00 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels this week to do monday 23 march 2026 a trip to chillcon this weekend i went to chillcon this is a convention in sheffield which has been going a few years now this was i think their first attempt at a two day convention there was a slightly weird arrangement where you couldn t buy a ticket on the day until 11am when doors for pre ordered tickets opened at 10am we somewhat dodged this as we were helping people set up from about 9am the show is held in a college so there s plenty of space and toilets due to the nature of the available facilities the show was spread throughout several rooms over three floors there were seminars a board game space a quiet room food trucks a tuck shop a painting competition and a whole bunch of vendors there weren t quite enough food trucks but otherwise everything seemed quite well organised i also missed the kit bashing and speed painting competition there was a cake shop who i am pretty sure are cozzmic cakes they probably ended up being the people we spent the most money on over the whole weekend they also had a small game where you could win cupcakes my abject failure was not getting any good photos of four score woodwork s stand he has an assortment of cool gaming accessories but also stocks bad squiddo tms brushes and an assortment of small producers things there were a few different demo games going on i was happy to see infinity getting shown off and it seemed like the table was usually busy when i went past there was also a great demo table for the latest edition of warmachine their core mechanics haven t changed all that much it seems and there s a good range of 3d prints and plastics coming out i won t have the time to actually play this but i remember getting a demo of an earlier edition back at grumpy old wargames con at wayland many many years ago so i do want to see it succeed a new discovery for me was greyhawk miniatures they re producing an assortment of fantasy miniatures at the moment in both 28mm and 54mm scale the ones that stood out to me most was an assortment of anthropmorphic fantasy medieval figures one of the things that stood out to me was that the sculptor hasn t just scaled a sculpt up and down to make the two variants once sculpted he s altered the details to better suit the scale so that they don t look out of place or have problems taking paint this is a great sign of someone who really understands what they re doing definitely one to watch in the future something that jumped out at me as i wandered past was brickskrieg a simple wargame using legally distinct building bricks compatible with lego it s very different to anything else i saw this weekend finally this lovely gaming table by natural twenty tables really jumped out at me definitely one for when we ve decided where too settle down they seem to be doing all the sensible things folk have come up with over the years for a proper grown up gaming table it was definitely a big day we got in ordered a big bag of chinese take out and nearly dozed off watching home renovation shows sunday has been a restful slow day to recover i don t think i d survive a two day event without a day off to recover these days but generally the vibes of the whole event were excellent and definitely one we ll be looking to go back to posted by the responsible one at 19 00 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels events sunday 15 march 2026 blowing dust off the blog oh it s um been a while since i posted here isn t it so it turns out i rather over committed myself in february as a result i ended up either not doing very much blog worthy or simply not having the time to write it up i went to the world premiere of a new set for the card game flesh and blood that i ve been getting more into it was excellent fun but i think i played more than 40 games of cards over the course of a long weekend i definitely needed some time to recover after that i ve played a couple of games of infinity one in person and one on tts i have another tts game in the coming week for my club s current campaign meanwhile assembling and painting models has taken a back seat while i do other things i ll get back to it but we re not quite there yet all in all i m not unhappy with how february and the first part of march went but i wouldn t want to get that busy too often i definitely needed a break after all the fun things posted by the responsible one at 12 47 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels flesh and blood this week monday 19 january 2026 wildspire miniatures a few years ago i backed a couple of gamefound campaigns by a company called blacklist games i backed for three sets of miniatures a horror set and two sets of fantasy miniatures unfortunately a series of delays occurred costs increased over the pandemic and blacklist ended up out of money and unable to fulfil a large number of crowdfunding projects they d organised i was relatively sanguine about the incident crowd funding is always a risk and many people are too used to treating it as a pre order instead blacklist had cut their margins to the bone to produce huge numbers of cheap board game quality miniatures for role players and when things changed they weren t able to continue a number of other backers definitely feel that blacklist crossed the line from poor judgement to being mis leading i would not back another blacklist project and leave it at that however in some good news a us company called wildspire miniatures purchased the rights to the miniatures and offered original backers an opportunity to buy the miniatures at cost and so several years later i now have two of the three sets of minis i originally ordered the horror set has been left to a later fulfilment this is what i got for how much is kind of difficult to say do i count the money lost to blacklist the money i paid wildspire in any event it s more miniatures than i needed there are a mix of hero characters and monsters with the smaller monsters having duplicates usually four of each i really don t like monopose models in rpgs where i can avoid it so there were plenty to clear out so i separated out three sets of useful monster minis and found an assortment of friends who wanted a set this still leaves me with plenty of useful figures to paint for rpgs but now my friends also have a slightly more achievable volume of cheap miniatures i also chose to get rid of some of the monsters some went to my friends others got lumped into an ebay sale a while back i got rid of cthulu because there s rarely a need for him in a campaign and he s too established in the pop culture to be of any use in horror games i didn t love the poses on the troll ogre or dire bear so off they went the demon lord also went as did the acid elemental the female giant was actually a difficult call in some ways i do quite like the sculpt but her being on a huge base rather than a large base really reduced her utility as the bigger giants in pathfinder don t share her general vibe and come it at much later levels meaning i d use her less often there were also a few little details that i just didn t love about the sculpt so when looking at a whole table of minis she ended up in the sell pile so everything remaining is now put away in boxes for later the time taken to sort these all out is why i am avoiding big bargain purchases now i have stuff on my to do list right away that i want to be getting on with and these have literally gotten in the way of that getting finished that said if i haven t started these by the end of the year i may seriously consider passing the rest on as well if i am interested in running in person rpgs in the future i need to commit my time to actually painting some of models i plan on using in them if i m just sitting on things dreaming of the future and not doing anything i can keep dreaming about it without a pile of boxes in my house posted by the responsible one at 19 00 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels d d pathfinder rpg to do wildspire miniatures monday 12 january 2026 infinity game white company vs next wave superiority as previously mentioned after christmas i managed to get in a game of infinity at war dollies collective my opponent is pretty ...