For about the last year I have been using trade-me quite a bit. It is a New Zealand Ebay equivalent I guess you could say. Last week I got two items I am pretty stoked about. Item one is a Monst...
Last week I made headway on a space board to use for X-Wing. However to make it playable I had to mark out a 3 by 3 square. As it was already three foot wide I just had to divide up the length....
http://50mmgameroom.blogspot.com/2014/08/x-wing-table-complete.html
A new post so soon? It was kind of an emergency as this morning Fantasy Flight released info on the new B-wing spaceship in the rebel aces expansion pack. I guess I am pretty excited as I genuin...
http://50mmgameroom.blogspot.com/2014/07/rebel-aces-b-wing.html
Well it has been a while! I finally decided it is time to get back into the blogging world again! First off I better give a shout out to Paul from Dog of War for nominating us for a Liebster a...
http://50mmgameroom.blogspot.com/2014/07/hello-world-and-diy-x-wing-space-table.html
I have been in a bit of a protracted hobby funk recently. I have struggled to get motivated to pick up a paint brush, let alone blog about it. Steve has been carrying the blog for some time n...
http://50mmgameroom.blogspot.com/2014/03/german-recon-platoon.html
Thats right folks, Dungeons and Dragons are making a game utilising the FlighPath game system seen in such games as Star Wars X-Wing which I have blogged about now and then. The game will be ca...
Another games club, another Flames of War game. This time I am using the 3rd US armoured division which are confident trained rather than confident veterans. I was doing my research and as the A...
http://50mmgameroom.blogspot.com/2014/03/fow-free-for-all-aar-part-one.html
You may recall about a week ago a post about stripping my Flames of War Thunderbolt because I was unhappy with the paint job (you can read the post here ). Well now I have finished my second att...
http://50mmgameroom.blogspot.com/2014/03/p-47-thunderbolt.html
I'm feeling pretty chuffed. After years of playing games on the kitchen table I now have a dedicated gaming table. We decided a month or two back to get a bed for the spare room which is a king ...
http://50mmgameroom.blogspot.com/2014/03/first-gaming-table.html
Steve's American Armoured Company saw its first action last week. Work commitments (otherwise known as four days of fishing in Golden Bay) have got in the way of this being posted, so my apolog...
http://50mmgameroom.blogspot.com/2014/02/hell-on-wheels-gets-its-first-outing.html
That was as raunchy I could make that title sound. As you probably guessed this post is about paint stripping my battlefront P-47 thunderbolt. After multiple attempts of trying to paint the pane...
http://50mmgameroom.blogspot.com/2014/02/stripping-thunderbolt.html
In preparation for my Hell on Wheels companies first outing this Wednesday I have whipped up a couple of objective markers. I had a spark of creativity, 'I know lets use newspaper to make it loo...
http://50mmgameroom.blogspot.com/2014/02/hell-on-wheels-objective-markers.html
Finally after much procrastination I have finished my American armoured rifle platoon. A few weeks back I completed the infantry and now I have completed their rides! Without more to do here ...
http://50mmgameroom.blogspot.com/2014/02/m3-half-tracks.html
More recently I have been trying to add board games to my collection which are more accessible to a wider audience. I have finally come to the conclusion that not all wish to sit down for a 3 ho...
When I was a kid I believe I first got into 'serious' board gaming when I was introduced to the classic world domination game Risk . I was especially drawn in as I won my first game. I remember ...
http://50mmgameroom.blogspot.com/2014/02/coup-and-brief-journey-through-childhood.html
I have been meaning to do a post about Betrayal at House on the Hill since the blog began all those years ago, err well months is more accurate. Unfortunately it is really a bit cruel because in...
http://50mmgameroom.blogspot.com/2014/02/betrayal-at-house-on-hill.html
It is fair to say that I have been in a bit of a hobby funk recently. I have been away on holiday, reading books and the like, and well one's spare time can change some what so instead of pick...
http://50mmgameroom.blogspot.com/2014/02/fallschirmjager-mortar-platoon-finished.html
More than a few months back I began working on my Flames of War American armoured rifle platoon. After a 6 month holiday in Europe, working on some Empire of the Dead bobbies and plenty of procr...
http://50mmgameroom.blogspot.com/2014/01/armoured-rifle-platoon-infantry-finally.html
Not but a moment ago I won an auction on trade me (kinda like New Zealand Ebay) for Twilight Imperium 3. The auction was for a 80NZD buy now, however I went for the reserve price of 25NZD to see...
http://50mmgameroom.blogspot.com/2014/01/twilight-imperium-steal.html
Getting ready for another Flames of War game this week Dan and I stepped into the games room and this is what we found... The thoughts of finishing last weeks game were crushed as Dans dau...
Over the christmas break I traveled up to Matamata or as my ex boss liked to call it Matamatamata (don't know why but calling it Matamatamata got stuck in my head). While Peter Jackson was trave...
The last month has been on the busy side, family celebrations, moving houses and still working all but the statutory days. Is that an excuse for not doing much painting? Not really. Part of this...
http://50mmgameroom.blogspot.com/2014/01/motivation-test-fow-battle-report.html
It has been a small while since I last wrote a post and I had planned to upload a post about a FOW game Dan and I had yesterday however somethings must come first, and the FOW post tomorrow.... ...
http://50mmgameroom.blogspot.com/2014/01/stephen-fry-miniature-short-interlude.html
I have now finished Gandalf, the last unpainted model from the Escape from Goblin Town set, which I had resolved to get done before the end of the year. I used the Tale of Painters tutorial, b...
http://50mmgameroom.blogspot.com/2013/12/gandalf-and-escape-from-goblin-town.html
When I went into my gaming room this morning I got rather a fright. There was a rather large spider impaled on Aragorn's sword! Three possibilities presented themselves: 1) Said spider jumped...
http://50mmgameroom.blogspot.com/2013/12/aragorn-kills-spider.html