AAR- Exploring 8th Edition 40K
I’ve been a fan of Warhammer 40k for a few years now, and was a very active player in previous editions. I’ve played in a tournament and even made the trek to the MiniWargaming studios in Canada to film some battle reports. So when the new edition was announced, I was thrilled. Age of Sigmar ... Read more
Review- Ancient Chinese Sacred Building by Watchful-I-Studio
While at Little Wars this year, I picked up the Ancient Chinese Sacred Building kit made by Watchful-I-Studio. They are a Chicago area miniatures company specializing in historical and fantasy Asian themed miniatures. This was an interesting kit, consisting of some very large resin pieces, as well as laser cut MDF and some thinner materials. ... Read more
AAR- Trying out Warhammer 40,000 8th edition
Recently, I got a chance to try Warhammer 40k with Frank and his group of friends who have been playing 40k since Rogue Trader. It was a 1500 point game between two teams controlling Slaanesh Chaos Space Marines versus a vehicle heavy force of Imperial Guard. We used a scenario from the rulebook, cities of ... Read more
CSW Hobby Night
Mike, Mattias, and I got together for one of our semi-regular hobby nights. It was a productive evening all around! Look how happy they are! Mike made a lot of progress on some ships. In his own words: Last night I painted decks and detail work on US warships that date from 1890 to around ... Read more
Konflikt ’47 British Army Starter set. A Brief Unboxering…
After that awful title pun perhaps I should make an additional joke about the dangers of going Commando but this is a family friendly blog so I digress… Anyway, the club has pretty much gone all-in for Konflikt ’47. Two weeks ago Josh introduced the game to Tim and a couple days ago they introduced ... Read more
Tutorial- Ridiculously Fast Terrain From Toys
I ran a little experiment yesterday to see just how quickly and easily I could complete some reasonably good tabletop-quality terrain. On the block were two items from my “Bin of Lost Toys”. With nearly all my terrain coming from used resale shop toys, I inevitably end up with some extras that don’t exactly fit ... Read more
AAR Konflikt ’47- Pincer Attack/Protect The Base
US forces heard rumors of an abandoned German military base deep in the Białowieża Forest. German scientists had apparently been performing rift experiments on bison local to the area. As their forces got spread thin due to the ongoing war, they were forced to abandon the base. As this was right near their borders, Soviet forces ... Read more
Fully Painted- Konflikt ’47 US troops
I recently finished painting US Army troops for Konflikt ’47, by Warlord Games. I had 2 goals with this project; To get them quickly painted and on the table, and to work with decals for the first time. Because of my first goal, I did base coats and washes, but skipped some of the finer ... Read more
3D Printed Objective Markers by Mack the Maker
Our friend Mack makes articles and videos on 3D modeling and printing. He kindly gave some samples of his work to CSW members. some members received jersey barriers and dragons teeth, but I picked a set of objective markers. Here they are as they came, with some wisps of extra material. My understanding is that ... Read more
Vettweiss-Froitzheim Dice Tower Replica from Ironheart Artisans
One of the things I was able to pick up at Adepticon was this laser cut dice tower made by Ironheart Artisans. It is a wooden reproduction of a fifth century original made of copper alloy sheet. From my limited reading on the topic, the original is the most complete of a very few roman ... Read more