Dungeon Floor Planners

 I treated myself to a Christmas present which arrived on the 24th December luckily.

I had these as a youth, but fancied another look at them. That wonderful period when Warhammer still thought of itself as a role-playing game, and there were no boundaries to world building.

Each comes with a map that join together. An excellent resource for a campaign. The text within is all by Albie Fiore, so has that early D&D flavour of his excellent scenarios The Licheway and The Halls of Tizun Thane. 

Covers by Gary Chalk and Iain McCaig...chefs kiss.

Re-posting Missing pictures

 A Happy New Year to you all. Hopefully 2026 will be moderately less crap than 2025 ( or the preceding 10 years).

I'm just re-posting a bunch of pictures of a Joe Dever battle which had vanished from my blog and the original site they were posted on. Happily a kind Lone Wolf enthusiast in the USA sent me them as they are still visible on that side of the pond.

One day I'll recreate this battle. I've got all the figures now.

Flocking Bases

 I'm in the midst of flocking all the 17c figures and terrain I've done over the past 18 months ( and failed to catalogue for this blog).  It really is a bit of a slog, but I'm just glad I finally decided on how to base them.

A coating of Vallejo Brown Mud texture dry brushed with Vallejo Saddle Brown. Originally I chose this to represent the distinctive Mendip soil for my Robin of Sherwood figures ( ROS was filmed mainly in North Somerset), but I like the contrast with the green foliage it gives so decided to use it for my 17c projects. 

( This Essex figure looks like my brother).

Once dry, I apply patches of PVA and then add the odd tuft from my tuft library, and a clump here and there.

I try to stick to shades if green and brown, natural colours rather than the neon flowerbeds some figures are forced to inhabit. After the tufts are pressed in , I dip in a tub of mixed fine foam from The Model Tree Shop. 

I blended 3 colours and happily they came out exactly as I hoped.

The infantry are based on pennies, but I can get more creative with the cavalry bases.

and here are some finished infantry.

The project is coming together and I just placed a second order with TAG for more musketeers.

Once dry, I apply patches of PVA, and then press the odd tuft in here and there.

Roadside Shrine

 I picked this little shrine up from Bicorne Miniatures on Saturday and got it painted yesterday. A nice piece of scatter for 17c European tables.

Photodump of 17c Encampments

 All taken from the book on Pieter Snayers by Sennewald.

I'm just collating them here as a reference.

 

 

Another Batch Finished ( almost)

 I've just added the Vallejo mud to the bases of another mixed batch of 17c infantry, so once that's dry I can start flocking the entire army.

A mix of Redoubt, TAG, Warlord, Captain General, Old Glory and Foundry.