Making Cards for IHMN

   This was previously published (about two minutes ago!) on Victoria's Boys in Red, my VSF blog. So if you read it there, you needn't read any further. Otherwise, check this out!

  I downloaded a free Magic Card Editor program a few years ago. I don't play Magic: The Gathering any more, but the program is very useful for making reference cards for gaming. I have used it previously for GASLIGHT units, and now I am making a set of cards for In Her Majesty's Name.

This is a Talent card. It gives the rules and point costs for a Talent.

I have all the published Talents done.

This is a Beast card.

I am making one for each creature in the published Bestiaries.

A Character card.

I have finished Lord Curr's Company, the Servants of Ra, and

the Mechanickal Menace (Automatons).

Mystic Powers.

Phase, Range, Duration, Save, Effect, and points cost.

   If you like these, the program is free. You can get it here.

An Interesting Project

   Norm Smith on TMP began a new project back in January, to create a small scale gaming set for multiple eras. He is chronicling his progress on his blog, Battlefields and Warriors. It's a very interesting project, and his detailed explanations of what he has done and why make for some very interesting reading. This could be a template for anyone else who is considering a major gaming project. Very much worth your time, I believe, and so I have created links to each of the posts to date, below.

Introduction

29 January, 2014

First Month Update

20 February, 2014

Second Month Update 

23 March, 2014

   He has an artistic style at the top of the two monthly updates that I find quite attractive, to be sure. It's a photo of a terrain piece that has been somehow digitally (I assume) transformed into a Van Gogh-esque "painting." Below is the February example, so that you can see what I mean. I don't know how he did it, but I certainly like it.

   At any rate, I believe it is certainly worth the time to pop over and check it out. Encourage him to continue this interesting project in creating small scale gaming for a small scale living space.

"Battle in a Box": An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

Go here, to Take the High Ground, and read about this really cool project.

  Essentially, the fellow in charge of that blog is trying to make a complete game that you can carry about in a reasonably small box. His original goal was a cigar box, but that proved a bit too small. Now he is scaling it for one of those plastic art supply boxes.

   I am thinking I might be able to manage something a little larger for 6mm (he is using 2mm scale). The rules are really simple, as well. Which we like.

Problems Painting Resin

   I hate resin vehicles.

   No matter how many times I wash them, I can never get all the mold release off. So, when I spray them their base color, the paint does not adhere properly. Sometimes, not at all. Sometimes, you get this leprous effect.

   I just tried, again. I am using hot water and dish detergent with a toothbrush to scrub into the corners ans such. Washed twice. Rinsed under running hot water. Dried thoroughly. Spray with Army Painter desert armor color (Flames of War British vehicles). Paint starts to do that 'pooling away' thing.

   Grrrr.....

   So I tried shooting with my preferred undercoat for metals, black Krylon primer. And lo and behold, no problems. I think I have solved an old problem for me - hit it with the plastic approved Krylon primer and then go back with the real undercoat color. Once the black dries, I will go try it.

   Just thought I would share this tip.