Trash Terrain: GENCORP Tower

Legitimate businessman, pillar of the community and all-round swell guy Bugsy Capone indulges the local media while his small and discreet cadre of bodyguards stand watch...

Everything and everyone seems to be about Cyberpunk at the moment, and I'm no exception, loving the combination of neon glare, shiny chrome cybernetics and grimy cityscapes for it all to play out against. There's also some amazing MDF terrain out there that adds a wonderful Brutalist aspect to the whole scene too and the mere sight of it makes my palms go sweaty.

Trash Terrain: Spaceport Landing Pad

Agents of a Rogue Trader rendevous with a pilot returning from an advance scouting mission atop a remote landing pad...

 A couple of months ago, my neighbour (who keeps on seeing my various projects being put out to dry in our shared back yard) asked me if I could use a circular metal tray that had been inside of his cooker and was now destined for the bin. I immediately thought of the landing pads that I had seen on sale from various companies and for various different prices, and wondered if it could be the basis of something similar.

Far Corfe: Marines Penitent

A squad of Marines Penitent shows no qualms when it comes to using extreme force to suppress civil unrest and gang violence in Far Corfe...

Everyone in the hobby that's flirted with GW has gone through their Space Marine phase, and some people never come out of it. But I thought I'd well and truly gotten over mine a couple of years back when I started to be more interested in smaller and more grimy areas of the Grimdark. But the exception seems to be old-school Marines, as there's just something so wonky and charming about them when compared t something like a modern Primaris. So when the chance to get my hands on an entirely new sculpt came along, I was champing at the bit to put my name down. 

Far Corfe: Whacky Races

After eating their complimentary buffet from Rat Burger, the official sponsors of the event, the competitors in the annual Windy 500 tear through downtown Far Corfe...

Vehicles always help to make a gameboard pop and add to the effect of the buildings and minis that you use them, and when Axiom over at Magpie & Old Lead posted a wasteland trader with a large saurian carrying his wares, it made me get off my arse and finish my own, as well as realise just how many different vehicles I've worked on over the past couple of years.

Ramshackle Games - The Pilgrimage of Rust (aka The Tetanus Tribe)

 

The Pilgrimage of Rust picks its way through a landscape of decaying metal...

We live in an age for the hobby where we're spoiled for choice when it comes to minis, there are a myriad companies, large and small, that are producing a stunningly diverse range of models that are more detailed than anything that I've seen in the past. But that's not to say that there aren't people out there making stuff that harks back to the more old-school feel of minis that I remember from back in the day.

eBay Rescue: £3 'Zerker/Chem Brute

A security patrol walks into the middle of a private discussion, and things suddenly take a turn for the worse...

I'm sure we all have things that we're constantly searching eBay for, and at the moment it seems to be the larger minis that are capturing my own interest. I also keep looking at the miniatures for the game Guildball, which I have no interest in playing for its own sake, but does have an interesting range of models available.

Trash Terrain: Cyberpunk Nightclub - "The Chibified Assassin"

Andre & Engels were known to moonlight as bouncers in the downtown sprawl when tag matches were scarce...

A little while back I dropped a quite popular blog post about some Hostile Environment Hab Pods that proved quite popular (and which you can read here) and so, as I'd always intended to do more builds in a similar vein, I kept my eyes open for something similar the next time I was in the shop where I found the original materials.

Trash Terrain: Garage/Lockup/Hideout...

 

Cops mount a night raid on the Punks at what they thought was a secure location...

A while back I posted about a garage that I made from a Star Wars Micro Machines Action Fleet pod-racer playset, which seemed to be quite well received. Even at the time I was on the lookout for more stuff from the same range in order to make similar terrain pieces. I landed a couple, but for some reason they sat on the to do pile for a couple of months before I found the time and motivation to finish one of them off.

Far Corfe: Old School Chaos Warband

 

One thing I've always had the urge to do is create a bunch of chaotic rabble and unleash them on a gaming table somewhere. I think it comes from having one of the old Realms of Chaos books when I was younger and messing around with the Byzantine charts supposed to enable the reader to roll up a unique warband.

Trash Terrain: Nerf Cooling Tower

Urban Explorers encounter Rad-Zombies within the Exclusion Zone

Nerf guns were never something that I personally owned, probably because I became old and fossilised by the time they were doing the rounds. Sure, I picked a couple up in charity shops at times and had a go at painting them up to look like something that you might find on the set of a Sci-Fi TV show. But I never actually set out to buy one, let alone amass an armoury of the things either.

Battle Report: "Double Tap" from One Page Rules

 

Double Tap - the battleground, the gangs and the opponent...

I got a message from a fellow gamer and friend a week or so back, letting me know that it was his birthday coming up and asking if I was free to host a quick game on the actual day, and seeing as how my schedule was pretty flexible that week, I said yes and began to haul out some terrain in anticipation of his arrival.