A Long Overdue Update....

So... Its been a while...

When I started this blog, I had the best of intentions, I would post at least once a fortnight, I would suppress my hobby butterfly tendencies and see projects through to the end. Yeah sure, nobody would read it, and it took me an age to write posts I was happy with, but that was OK - It was my little corner of the internet, my creative outlet.

but of course, circumstances changed, interests shifted, life interfered. Weeks turned to months turned to a feeling of 'I've left it too long now' and slowly but surely Devil Made Work became the latest in a long line of forgotten Projects.

That was December 2016...

Fast forward to 3 days ago. For the first time in an age the blog comes up in conversation and a friends asks "why did you stop?". I didn't have a great answer and it got me thinking - why not give blogging another shot?

What have I been up to Since December 2016?

It’s been a hell of a few years on the Hobby front its almost difficult to know where to start.

My Frost Grave Summoner warband took to the streets of Felstad only once, a friendly game against my long-time buddy Tim.  I got utterly hammered... Nothing went right, I don't think I got a single spell off the entire game and my warband was pretty much slain to a man. 

Shortly after this harrowing experience my pals and I got into Age of Sigmar in a big way and my wargaming attentions shifted to skeletal hordes and spectral battalions. 

A unit of 20 Chainwrasps.... BOO!!

Dem bones, Dem bones

Whilst they may not have seen much table time in games of Frostgrave, The Cult of the All-Mother lived on, becoming a hated antagonistic faction in my Dungeons and Dragons campaign!

3 turns later and every last cultist had been brutally stomped. good times. 

My terrain collection expanded significantly, eventually growing into densely packed 4x4 gaming table (which, ironically, would have been pretty much perfect for Frostgrave...). I kept true to the creepy forest theme throughout but expanded to add multi-tiered ruins to represent a long-abandoned city. 

Rubbish photo but it gives you a sense of the scale at least....

I even dabbled with water effects and clear resin, albeit to mixed results (still haven’t gotten the resin stink out of the games room). 

I may do a whole post on this terrain piece. it was a learning experience. 

Overall, I'd say the table and the terrain is perhaps my personal favourite hobby accomplishment over the last few years - finally attaining my goal of a fully matching set of themed terrain! The board has seen a lot of use for 1000pt games of Age of Sigmar & Age of Sigmar: Skirmish (which I personally am particularly fond of).

My Ghostly warband facing off against Joe's Twigs and Tim's Iron Jaws.

It’s a real treat to play games with fully painted armies on a fully painted thematic table - I've even hosted mini tournaments with my friends which is great fun!   

In an unusual but enjoyable twist I completed some small commission work, scratch building a simple miniature of a Martian style landscape, complete with cave, to be used in a Promotional film for my buddy Mike’s Kickstarter 'Scavvers' (a sci-fi board game which you can learn more about here).

This was a fun little project. I got paid in terrain kits (Cheers Mike)!

This was my first time using High density foam for rocks and hills & I'm eager to apply what I've learned to more terrain projects (Perhaps some hills for the 4x4?).

Why Return to the Blog?

Ok, so why I am I posting again? Great question. It’s not like many people ever read the blog, or commented, why come back to it now? The simple answer is; I'm not 100% sure, it just kind of feels right... Ya know?

Since I last posted back in 2016 I've completed a bunch of hobby projects, my painting has improved & I've got a few interesting ideas in the works that I'd quite like to share here - who knows perhaps other people will find them interesting?

Watch this space, folks!