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About Nick

Who & Where? Me… sorry that doesn’t help! My name is Nick Brigg and i’m a gaming enthusiast in the Edinburgh area playing a variety of Wargames, Boardgames, Roleplay & LARPs on a regular basis. Currently I attend Edinburgh League of Gamers [elg] to get my weekly wargaming fix: http://elgamers.org/ What & Why? This blog is for me to share my enthusiam for the hobby, and in particular share my knowledge and experience of making wargames terrain and boards with the community. Hopefully improving the terrain which your playing on and making wargaming a prettier and more enjoyable experience.

Brown & Cake…

So I’ve been progressing the texturing and some detailing on the bolt action/flames of war demo board. Also this evening had spare time, eggs & a tin of fruit more than would fit in the cupboard and voila pineapple upside … Continue reading

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Larp Props – 2nd Batch – Finished

So following a two week holiday in Canada I’ve now managed to get back and finish the batch of props off in time for this Sunday’s Fool and Heros larp in Edinburgh (where I can deliver some of these beauties … Continue reading

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Larp Props – Red & White…

So the batch has now been brown’d up (i.e. i’ve done the first 6-8 coats of latex on everything) and i’m now at the painting stage of colouring the liquid latex with artists acrylic paints and making the props look … Continue reading

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Larp Props – 2nd Batch – Pt 2

So a few more of the weapons are now ‘foam finished’, just working on the last one a “post apocalyptic staff, reinforced with a ‘stop’ sign for extra oomf”… still scratching my head about how to wrap the sign around one … Continue reading

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Larp Props – 2nd Batch

So for the last few weeks I’ve been working on making and refurbishing some LARP weapons for myself and for some players at Fools and Heroes: Edinburgh branch. Due to FnH having different weapon size rules than other Larp’s I’ve … Continue reading

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Bolt Action/Flames of War – Intro Board

So as 6s2hit seems to have become my new patron I’ve been making them a new introduction board. However as Jason threw me some resin flames of war buildings, as well as Kenny giving me some of Warlord’s plastic ‘Ruined … Continue reading

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Bottling up some ‘Wedding Wine’…

It’s taken a good few evenings but our wedding present for Emma & Kit is now ready :) below are some pics of the production line. The gooseberry came out as a tart medium wine & the blackberry a fuller … Continue reading

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Necro-fun-da – Part 8 (complete;)

And some pictures of the terrain set at its new home, 6s2hit HQ: Cheers Nick

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Necro-fun-da – Part 7

Had a bit of a productive couple of evenings and the rest of the smaller buildings are now complete, just the really small scatter terrain to go, anyhoo photo’s: Hope this amuses! Nick

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Necro-fun-da – Part 6 …and BBQ baking!

So finally back to the blog after the wedding & post wedding shenanigans. Haven’t really made much progress on terrain :( but have attended some Larp’s, built some garden wall & today have done ‘some’ baking of cake, cookies, flat … Continue reading

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