Scrum in Miniature

I will not pretend to have enough readers that anybody would notice, but my posting pace has slackened this year. I'll offer the same confessional apologia that opens countless hobby blogs I read: I aspire to do better. I hope to catch up on a number of posts waiting in the wings, particularly those devoted to some of the recent Scrum Club games we held earlier this year. There are hundreds of photos from those games, the best of which I'm excited to eventually share. To help catch up with the backlog, I'll try over the next few posts to curtail some of my long-winded discussions and give the focus over to the photos, the sharing of which is mostly my motivation for even starting this blog. Jebodiah's Shack After my recent foray into painting a box full of 1/72nd scale lizard men, I deliberately went back to my comfort zone of painting larger terrain pieces. I had this piece in the pile for a year or more, picking it up when I discovered some of the cool piece...

A few months ago I backed the Lost Islands Kickstarter by Printable Scenery. It allowed me to pick up the STL files to print the "Port of Winterdale" set of buildings, and as an "add on" I received a discount on the earlier set of Winterdale buildings for the rest of the town. The lighthouse: One of the several cool buildings in the Port of Winterdale set of 3d printable files. After finishing my brutal fall production cycle at work, I finally had some hobby time again. I hadn't had much chance to print anything since last summer's pieces for my "Beyond the Black River" adaptation that I prepared and ran at Historicon last July, so I was excited to turn my attention to the files I had received in this Kickstarter. I chose the War Cottage (below) from their first Winterdale set because it was a more substantial printing project than anything I had tried up to this point (15 separate pieces), and because I knew I would get a laugh out o...