I recently received a copy of HeroQuest from a friend of mine, and it made me feel quite a bit of nostalgia for what it was like to be a young gamer. When I look back at the things that really got me in to gaming, aside from the fact that my parents role-played, I think of four games in particular: HeroQuest, Dragon Strike, Talisman, and Key to the Kingdom.
Continue reading Fantasy Gaming in the 80s and 90s – Part 1: The What
If you haven’t read Step 1 of this series, you might want to do that now, however, it’s not necessary. In this post, I want to go over the goals and method I used to create the template which I would eventually use to cut out the cards. This is the part where I felt that a bit of design would go a long way, and is typically the part that I work on the most between projects.
Continue reading Building up a Card Deck – Step 2: Creating a Template
This post is the first in a short series I would like to do on putting together a custom made card deck. My goal is to include sufficient pictures and information that one could use the information here to recreate the custom components I have created (for Arkham Horror or otherwise).
To start, I do an initial conversion or export from the distribution format into an image format that I can use.
Continue reading Building up a Card Deck – Step 1: Gathering the Artwork
Last week, I finally finished putting together the third Arkham Horror Spanish League cards. For me, this is a big project, because it was something that I put together almost from start to finish. While I’ll make no claim to the idea or the text that went down, this was something that I translated, created the card images, made the deck, printed out, and constructed as actual physical cards. It’s pretty cool to have put something together end-to-end like that! Pictures and how it fits into the rest of the box follows.
I’ve finally completed the first four Arkham Horror Leagues! I’m currently working on translating the third Spanish league with Jessa, so that may be a bit away, but the production of components for Arkham Horror leagues one and two, as well as Spanish Leagues one and two are complete. Images and a small side project after the jump.
I’ve been putting a lot of time into creating custom components for Arkham Horror. On the one hand, this is an end to itself, on the other, it’s a really nice test case for putting together components for the Dune board game. Along the way, I found that I needed a light table to align the front and back of cards, so I built one.
Last week I posted about my EVE Intel project. It’s nowhere near complete, but here is the state that it’s in, if you want to take a look and see what I was working toward:
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Those of you in the EVE Online community have probably heard of the various things going on with licensing. As a result, I’m temporarily dropping my EVE Intel project off of my list of to-dos. More details below.
One of the projects I’ve been working on for a while is a model for Egil Iron Wolf – one of the wolf lords mentioned in the Space Wolf codex. A while back I posted pictures of the model, but I have also recently finished painting him. Pictures after the jump.
I have recently completed the final datasheet for Leeman Russ, complete with pictures of all the units.
Here’s the full PDF. Comments welcome.