Frogs, Sir. Thousands of them.

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While striding the digital wasteland this past week it started … First I discovered Goblin Lee’s Miniatures Blog. Go. Bask. His trio of posts about Rogue Trader Slann are absolutely terrific. If you ever wanted to know about those glorious space frogs, he’s got you covered. And then I discovered the Rare Pepe Directory. It… Read more »

Viet Kong!

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Two great tastes that taste great together! And walking into the theatre I noticed this poster: Perfect. Do yourself a favour, go see it in IMAX. Soon, … soon, this guy’ll be striding the ruins of Seattle: He’s not Victor Kilo, but he is pretty cool. He’s a Heroclix colossal fig. See here (search for… Read more »

Well Played, Sirs!

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My congratulations to Messrs. Abnett and Eaglesham on this fine piece of work: It can be found in issue 1 of DC’s Kamandi Challenge ’17. Two Tigers, Great Caesar-approved: [Oh, OK, have some tanks: Click -> Königstiger ]

FUTURickA

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Given: Simpsorama; The Rick and Morty guest couch gag on the Simpsons (Mathlete’s Feat); and This scene (from same): I want this to be a thing: Ideally during the third season of Rick and Morty. Make it happen, wonks! [Edit: Upon further consideration, I realized it’s appropriate to give the show still running its due…. Read more »

ÇNAPSHOT-30 taking shape

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I wanted to play some straight SNAPSHOT scaled up to 25-32mm so I tracked down this pic of the counter sheet from the original game: You can find it here on Grognardia. Since I replace the Character counters with (mostly) 28mm figs in my games I was really only after the Targeting and Explosion tokens…. Read more »

SNAPSHOT SNIPPET

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I found pics of the two sides of the SNAPSHOT Chart. I also found the errata for the Chart. So I jacked the resolution of the images, corrected the tables with the errata and fixed a string of typos. Here you go: SNAPSHOT Chart front SNAPSHOT Chart back [Edit: You’re going to want a ruler… Read more »

ÇNAPSHOT takes shape

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I just got these: [Lulu. Here and here.] I’m now working on using the Cepheus Engine to drive Snapshot. Here’s an example of where I’m going: Skills in ÇNAPSHOT SNAPSHOT is a half-inch grid/15mm fig system. But, since I’m an exclusively 25-32mm guy I needed an appropriately scaled deck plan to play on. So I… Read more »

I thought I was pretty clever.

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Turns out I was fairly clever. Just forty years late. So, I had this idea about a week ago: Hey, what if there was a vampiric van? Like, a, Vanpire. Yeah! Right? Well. Meanwhile, back in the ’70s: And in case you wanted to build your own 1/24 scale bloodmobile: That’s a veritable nest of… Read more »