The Campaigner: Issue 18 out now

Issue 18 of The Campaigner (and therefore the latest Terrain Crusade) is out now. And there's also an exciting new announcement about the future. Although that announcement will be made in the future. Tomorrow apparently. Those of you reading after tomorrow can rest assured that the exciting announcement about the future is now in the past. Which will do wonders for the tension of waiting for it.
Here's a link anyway.

TFH Warmachine Terrain now on sale at Get Geeked.

Today I have (among other things) been putting the finishing touches on a set of Warmachine buildings for Get Geeked, Wonthaggi's finest gaming emporium! These pieces will be put to good use on the shop's three tables, and will also be available for sale.

Fig one: A farm.

Fig two: the same farm, from the rear.

Fig. three: The same farm, yet again. Possibly they grow figs. I know not.

And now; a cottage. This uses a new technique which I will demonstrate at some point. Demonstrably. About the same time I remember to install the chimney pots.

I've also been mucking around with painting glowing yellow windows instead of black or blue for that welcoming lamplit ambience so essential to all games about giant magical robots beating each other up.

Yup. It's got pipes. Nothing says steampunk like pipes.

 

And now for a townhouse.

I found some wanted posters and recruiting posters online and used them instead of making my own like I usually do.

Sinnbeck's is a reference to the owner of Get Geeked. I like to include little advertisements for whoever comissions terrain on the pieces where I can, and let's face it, 'Get Geeked' just does not sound like the name of a Cygnaran games emporium. Khadoran maybe.

Oooo... chimney. Still no pots I see...

Some sort of unexplained industrial structure.

Unexplained industrial structures are fun, because they often have unexplained additions added later which can make them look very oddly shaped and chaotic. I like this.

You know it's a Warmachine Unexplained Industrial Structure when it has a boiler sticking out one end. Well known fact.

And here's the whole set.

So, if you are in Wonthaggi and at a lose end, drop in on Get Geeked at 149 Graham Street for a game of Warmachine! It's not hard to miss - the shop's hot pink, there is a friendly man with an enormous beard and untold hordes of teens playing card games.

Ishoo Wun-Oh-For: Abyssal Lava Tower

Welcome once more Hippo Fans! Before you all flip out and call shenanigans, yes, this WAS meant to be the people's choice ishoo on Necrotite Rigs. I have postponed it for a very good reason. Really. It's totes legit.
Next Sunday is the AxeMaster 2016 tournament, once a mighty bastion of the Warhammer tourney calendar, now a mighty bastion of the Kings of War tourney celendar due to... well, if you don't know why we've all moved on from Warhammer, then you surely have only just discovered the internet, in which case, what are you doing here? You should be looking at pictures of cats.
Ahem.
Anyway, I have been asked to provide a table worth of terrain for AxeMaster, which will be awarded as a prize (to the best newcomer I believe) (Correction: The TO tells me it's for Best Presented Army). So I figured it would be a good idea to post the pics of this project BEFORE AxeMaster so everyone could see how cool the prize is and throw money at the organisers and demand to be allowed to enter.
But what manner of table is this table which is to be awarded? Well, it's an Abyssal hell scape basically. And basically how hard can an Abyssal hell scape basically be to build? Basically so easy a hippo could do it. Cue the Abyssal Grot!

And there, once more, you have it hippo fans! 

Why not come to AxeMaster, demonstrate your master of axes, and try to win this terrain set? You know you want to.

Next ishoo really will be the Necrotite rig. Trust me. I'm going to work on it right now.