The ottoman was a piece of furniture in my grandparents’ home. I could best describe it as a sort of upholstered bench with storage inside. My brother and I regularly used it to “play at coffins”. It’s a tenuous link to Warlord’s new Ottoman range, but at least I’ve got us in the door, eh?
And before we leave the realm of grandparents’ furniture in the 1990s and move on to more relevant hobby matters, I also want to give a quick shout-out to the pouffe. The pouffe was a small cushioned stool, and I spent many a happy afternoon upon it, reading my latest copy of White Dwarf.
I hope this week’s newsletter finds you in such a happy place, even if only for a few minutes…
- “Here, how about that fiver you owe me?” Teynne the Usurper is a cracking new model from Mantic. I love the paint job, too.
- Mtd Captain John Stiffman is ready for your Dead Man’s Hand (and other such gunslinger) games. And that’s a topper of a name, to boot!
- The Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy announced a price increase for their Two Thin Coats range. “Unfortunately and completely out of our control, the paint supplier and manufacturer, after five years, is having to increase the price of the paint bottles by a small amount.”
- Sarissa Precision do some fantastic full-colour MDF kits. I like the look of these new ruined buildings, and they’d be perfect for adding some layers and levels to your skirmish battlefields.
- Though if you’re gaming pre-apocalypse, how about creating a Victorian terraced street with this Pendraken range?
- I’d never usually put a Kickstarter in the newsletter, but this is John Blanche we’re talking about. En Garde – Vanguard is his upcoming 54mm duelling game, and it seems to be doing pretty well on there!
- Is this the best miniature we ever could have wished for?
- For the bearded amongst you, some lovely new Dwarf Warriors on Ral Partha via Wombat Wargames/Shadows of Centralis.
- Have you seen the price of a pint in Dublin? These lads have.
- The Perrys have added some new 8mm metals to their Travelbattle range. “They are fairly generic and designed to cover, roughly, the 1730’s-1770’s, although some are more specific.” Travelbattle is marketed as “The Complete Tabletop Wargame in a Box” and was released back in 2017. Not anywhere on the same level, but I once had a go at making a rudimentary ‘wargame in a tin’ – Space Saverz.
On the Podcast: Building the Army of Your Childhood Dreams
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On the Hobby Desk
A massive thanks to podcast listener Mark, who offered to send me his copies of Hero Kids and rpgKids after hearing me talk about Amazing Tales on a recent episode. These adventure packs are designed for kids aged 4-7, and I’m really looking forward to trying them out with my daughter. Thanks again, Mark!