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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.

Easter Monday…

Posted on 22/04/2014 by Nick

As it turned out I had a bit of unexpected free time on Monday, so I designed and built a wine rack in the cupboard under the stairs… Also bottled up three demijohns (two wines & one alcopop) and started … Continue reading →

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Tyranid Army (multipurpose add-ons)

Posted on 12/04/2014 by Nick

Just in case you haven’t noticed yet MAGNETs are your friend if you are building GW mini’s on a budget. So what I’ve been upto for the past month is building and converting…. Hive tyrant with removable wings & 7 … Continue reading →

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Homebrew Mead…

Posted on 11/04/2014 by Nick

Sainsburys Basics Honey… Mmmm tasty! So that’s the whole first batch bottled up and we now have on the go: Cyser (Apple & Honey), Raspberry & Apple Wine, Blackcurrant Ribena Wine, Acacia Mead & Raspberry-Ade (aiming for a 5.5% alcopop … Continue reading →

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Furry Sisters Homebrew

Posted on 01/04/2014 by Nick

Hey hey so finished the first three demijohns of wine and made a home brewing label for ourselves in honour of our kitties. I’ve also been working on some additions to my Tyranid army which I will show you shortly, … Continue reading →

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Home Brewing Experiment…

Posted on 08/03/2014 by Nick

Hmm this home brewing hobby may be getting a bit out of hand ;P On the plus side however we have started a Blackberry Wine demijohn, a second Mead demijohn and a Copella Apple & Elderflower Wine demijohn.

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Abandoned Gothic City

Posted on 02/03/2014 by Nick

Okay after a slight brewing hobby distraction I’ve managed to get back on track and get the roughing out of these buildings done: So now onto detailing like roof’s, tiled floors, roughed battle damage and all the inserts for the … Continue reading →

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And now my lounge goes gloop

Posted on 27/02/2014 by Nick

Following a conversation with Jen last week we have started a homebrewing experiment with two demijohn’s borrowed from Duncan. The one on the left will hopefully produce sweet mead and the right strawberry wine. Mmm sweet sweet booze. Nick

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Lazy Sunday…

Posted on 23/02/2014 by Nick

Okay so I wasn’t planning on this to be my first terrain post, but as my network hard drive with all my photo’s on won’t connect to the network (grr tech!) and the expansion models to my Tyranid army and … Continue reading →

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My what a desolate place this is…

Posted on 17/02/2014 by Nick

Ok so this blog doesn’t look pretty yet and there is a distinct lack of pages, photo’s and well content… so plenty to work on, but bear with me and it’ll be looking the mutts nuts in no time. However in the … Continue reading →

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Here we go…

Posted on 17/02/2014 by Nick

*TAP TAP* testing testing 1 2 1 2… okay here we go. So after a number of years posting my thoughts, in progress work and finished terrain on a number of forums and [elg]’s blog i’ve finally bit the bullet … Continue reading →

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