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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.

Abandoned Gothic City – pt3 & Like painting with chocolate sauce

So the extra plastic plants arrived! They’ve been stripped of their stalks & bagged, and the stalks been used to fill out the remaining terrain pieces. With this done I’ve managed to crack on with sand texturing, then ‘browning’ the … Continue reading

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Sunday – Weapon Making & Cake

So had a slightly surreal Sunday today flitting between drying contact adhesive for Larp weapons, and baking a dark chocolate layered torte (that’s what the recipe called it anyway! I’d just call it cake;) I’m kinda happy with how both … Continue reading

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And now for something completely different…

As the post office continues to taunt me with a lack of plastic plants :( I decided to nip along to Skian Mhor to pickup supplies for larp weapon making and get to work. So far I’ve started on a … Continue reading

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Abandoned Gothic City – pt 2

So I’ve finally managed to get back to this terrain set, since the last update I have: Roughed up all of the cut edges with a pair o plastic snips Floors have been tiled with cereal box cardboard cut to … Continue reading

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Bolt Action Terrain Commission – Pt 4

Finished! Well almost anyway, just waiting for the water effect on the lake/pond to dry clear. The 4Ground buildings came out great (as always!) and I’m particularly happy with how the hedge/fences came out giving a nice mix of the … Continue reading

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Sunday Baking

I find baking on a Sunday morning relaxing, it’s kinda like terrain making but you can eat them ;) so for childish fun today we made Honey & Chocolate Butterfly’s. Nick

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Bolt Action Terrain Commission – Pt 3

Update! Due to the recent clement weather here i’ve mostly been building real walls in my garden, but here are some in progress shot of the small amount of progress that i’ve made. And along with them (to pad the post out … Continue reading

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Bolt Action Terrain Commission – Pt 2

So the 4Ground buildings arrived about a week ago, but in meantime I’ve textured up an brown’d all of the other terrain that’s on the construction list. Hopefully should get a start made on these buildings over the weekend. Nick  

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Fantasy Terrain Commission – pt3

So here are the finished buildings, apologies for the poorly lit photo’s we’ve had a lack of sunny days here and they are being delivered tommorow so no more time. Anyhoo hope these amuse! Nick

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Bolt Action Terrain Commission – Pt 1

So I’ve taken on a new terrain commission… only slightly before finishing the previous commission. It’s nice being wanted :P but should probably show more restraint in future. Anyhoo so I’ll be supplying most of the basics (trees, hills, roads, … Continue reading

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