Lair of the Uber Geek

  Well I've managed to clean out the Terrain Workshop.  Sadly, the bulk of the "debris" consisted of various shipping boxes that were retained for storage or to use in building terrain.  Of ...

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  The Painting desk clean up is complete.  I added some paint racks that I got from Gamecraft Miniatures to organize my paints and try to keep them off the work space.  We'll see how long t...

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  My Hobby area has become an organizational disaster - this is how it looks AFTER a massive clean up.  It's just not as functional and tidy as it should be and I find my work space shrinking...

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  Things have been a little quite on the blog lately, but not that quite in real life.  We’ve added a new member to our household - a puppy who has been named Augustus.  Now this is pretty...

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  The garden is doing really well this year - heres a picture of what we pulled out of it on Saturday - and this picture doesn't have the peppers Lots of tomatoes - there have been rumors...

http://lairoftheubergeek.blogspot.com/2021/07/garden-fun.html

  Please take a look at the Austerlitz game video trailer.  The full game video drops on July 20th. This game was one of my favorite Little Wars TV projects to work on and we used a slightl...

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  Some more experimentation with 3D printing - in this case a 1/600 scale model of the USS Minnesota from the ACW. I purchased the stl files from a designer on the Wargaming 3D marketplace ca...

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Week 2 of my foray into 3D resin printing continues to show real promise.  Despite the the build volume being small (3.1 inches wide, 5 inches long and 6 inches high), one can cram a good bit o...

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 There is a great article on 3D Resin printing for Historical gamers over on the No Dice No Glory blog.  You can find it HERE I’m referencing the blog post as it’s likely a better write-...

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The Elegoo Mars Pro 2 printer has been set up in a temporary location (the card table in the game room) so I could start to learn how to use it.  Long term, I'll make some room in the shop. ...

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  It looks like I'll be delving into the world of 3D resin printing as my Father's Day gift is a Elegoo Mars 2 Pro 3D Resin printer (on the right) and it's associated cleaning and curing stati...

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It was a rainy and unseasonably cold Saturday morning so I decide to break out an old gem of a solitaire game "The Hunters" for a little diversion.  The Hunters is a fun little game where the p...

http://lairoftheubergeek.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-hunters-u-boat-solitaire-game.html

  My personal vanity project of writing a set of wargaming rules continues on.  One of the goals of using hex-based terrain is speed of play (no measuring) for large participation games.  An...

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  Last Monday night at the club Tom ran a 100 Years War game using 10mm miniatures from Tony and Greg's collections. We refought the Battle of Poitiers - with Greg and I taking the French and...

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  With work of refitting the basement pretty much done, time has been freed up to return to more important tasks - painting miniatures. Next up in the queue are some 15mm US Vietnam forces fo...

http://lairoftheubergeek.blogspot.com/2021/04/project-work-has-resumed.html

  The venerable game table has a new top and some sporty wheels.  The old table was really beat up after 11+ years of gaming and high school robotics teams and just didn't look that good. ...

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Last night up at the club, I we ran a third test game for Stalingrad.  For a change we used the Southern end of the board so this was the first time that section has seen in "action".  This...

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  Saturday afternoon and then Sunday morning was an epic basing session for both the Soviet and German Stalingrad armies.  The figures were purchased from GAJO Miniatures and look way better ...

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With the flooring done, the next project is to revamp the gaming table.  I've removed the old top, which was really, really beat up and am working on a nicer looking replacement I want to redu...

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  The basement re-flooring project is now complete.  Well the flooring is now all down.  I still have to attach the shoe moulding around all the trim but that's on order as it appears are mo...

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  Hex terrain has the wonderful aspect of modularity - you can assemble them in all sorts of ways to make just about any battlefield one wants.  It does take a little planning in design to en...

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  The Historical Miniatures Gaming Society (HMGS) announced yesterday that their summer convention, Historicon'21, can not be held given the continuing restrictions in place for COVID-19 and t...

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Tuesday afternoon presented a rare opportunity to game up at the club and Greg ran a game of new version of Lasalle with his 15mm figures.  We refought the Battle of Elchingen, with Steve co...

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  The 11th version of the Analogues Hobbies Painting Challenge (creatively named XI) is now complete.  I had a blast and enjoyed every minute of it (as usual). I am very pleased to report t...

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  My last submission for the 11th iteration of the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge has been submitted - it was a 80 or so "countryside hexes" and were a nice change of pace from the grind...

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