Carnevale: Street Combat in 18th Century Venice

Carnevale is a set of rules for a very interesting setting: 18th Century Venice. The game has the ubiquitious stat lines and a dice pool mechanism. Its worth taking a look, even if 18th century Venice isn’t your thing

Making Small Hills

Here’s a post on making small hills from corkboard. What I want to do is to make a series of terrain tiles from cork. I just need to find a relatively cheap supply of 1 foot square cork tiles.

Painting Skeletons

The Spellscape blog has a couple of good tutorials on painting skeletons. They look absolutely terrific.

Eye Candy: Sudan Campaign

Lonely Gamers has some terrific photos of a Sudan engagement. Photos like these always make me want to start a new period.

Making Stepped Judean Hills

The Legends and Legions blog has a set of instructions for making a nice set of stepped hills for a Judean campaign. I’m interested in this because I have Judean, Assyrian and Philistine armies in 28mm.