Scrum in Miniature

My desire for a miniature castle with which to stage battles and play out stories of derring-do goes back to childhood, like so many things wargaming related. I remember playing with some Marx Co. viking and knight toy soldiers my best pal Jerry Bell had when we were young kids in Ohio. But finding more toy soldiers from that historical period seemed nearly impossible in the 1970s, while WWII and Vietnam-era army men were ubiquitous and could be bought by the bagful literally at the local grocery store. It made sense that we switched instead to accumulating large armies of those plastic green army men, and they entertained us for years. My pal Jerry must have lost or never inherited the castle and other pieces that accompanied this set because all we had were the vikings and knights themselves and none of the scenery. Jump ahead about four decades, and while attending  my first Fall In convention I played a game in which I had to help defend a castle from besiegers. It was a great...

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...