Cataloguing the Collection (10)

The next drawer to be indexed is my small collection of spaceships. These all date back to the nineties, and I haven't back-identified (i.e. identifying the original manufacturer) yet for all models.

This collection is very much a retro-collection for me. I first played a game of Full Thrust in 1992 (IIRC), at EuroGencon in Camber Sands. I have been a Full Thrust fan ever since, although it has been many years since I played a decent game. We played most games during the mid-nineties, in the gameshop in my hometown Leuven.

At one point I also had a large collection of plastic MicroMachines of various Star Trek and Star Wars ships, but I sold them at one point. The current collection are all metal models acquired during the nineties, with a significant presence by Games Workshop (Space Fleet), GDW (Traveller New Era) and FASA (Star Trek). The fighter stands are scratch-built, with counters printed and then mounted on a flight stand.

The purple shapes you see in the top-right corner are my attempt at scratch-building a space-floating alien, modeled after the planet killer in Star Trek.

Still unidentified;

•  all the green ships on the left-hand side.
• the red ships in the middle. They are Tholian ships (Star Trek), but haven't been to identify them properly. Probably FASA?
• the round and solid starbase (with 3 red griffons) in the top-right corner.

Cataloguing the collection (9)

I resumed my efforts of indexing my collection of miniatures. Next up in my figure drawers were the "Animals" and "Skaven".

How to paint a horse?

I reported before that my magazine index was very useful for looking up horse colouring patterns.

Here's another horse colour chart. Very useful!

Wild West house rules

Back in the nineties, we ran quite a lot of Wild West games, both in 54mm and 28mm. We used a little ruleset called "Shootist" (Bunblebee games), and adapted the rules over the years. Everything is now collected on the Wild West House Rules page.

54mm gunslingers in action.

Wet Paint: forest troll

Just a quick post to show the completed forest troll from before. Here he (it) is in finished glory: