Ishoo Forty For: Crashed Spaceship

Greetings hippo fans! One of the iconic images of Sci Fi is the spaceship, and when you have enormous weapons if deadly death going off, you're sure to end up with crashed spaceships! A ship wreck is always a great centre piece for the table, and makes a fine objective. What's more, it's not exactly hard to build one either!

Take it away, Grot!

And there you have it, Hippo Fans! Of course, this is only a part of the ship, you can easily use the same techniques to built other parts - like the missing front end, or possibly some cargo pods!

Well, that about wraps it up for Post Apocalypse Month - our next ishoo will be going back to Fantasy.

Tournaments For Hippos

It's Cancon this weekend, and practically all of my club mates are making the annual pilgrimage to Canberra to participate. Not only are they going to play, but somehow they've wound up organising it. How does a Melbourne club end up running a tournament in Canberra?

Anyway, I thought I'd better take this opportunity to wish them all luck, and present a few tips on how to win tournaments. For hippos.

And now you know why I never win tournaments! Good luck and may the dice gods smile upon you!

HeroQuest Figures

Well, there they are, the figures from the HeroQuest set which I found at an opshop in Wonthaggi for $3.

This is the complete set, all mugging furiously for their group photo.

Here are all four heroes. Although they are all painted in very different colours, I ensured that they all had some grey on them as a way of linking them.

The wise and powerful wizard duels with the sinster and trecherous chaos mage (who seems to spend a lot of time in the quest book being proxied in as every other character who doesn't have a figure)

The magnificent muscles of the barbarian are more than a match for these scrofulous skeletons.

The Dwarf's enormous nose is so magnificent the Goblins fear to even approach it!

The foul and flatulent fimir suprises the Elf in the library...

Further photographs of all the figures can be found at the Gentlemens Wargames Parlour.