Castle Grayskull Wasteland – Masters of the Universe: Battleground #1

Do you have it? Well do you? What do you have? Say it. You know what I’m talking about. Say it. Nobody is listening, and you will be glad that you did, I promise.

Fort Grayskull Part 6 (Final)

Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. With Fort Grayskull finally finished I thought that I would put up shots of the finished elements.  The photos could be better (there is a bit of fish eye going on because I forgot to change the macro setting on the camera), but they should illustrate adequately.

Fort Grayskull Part 5

Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4. The last thing that I needed to do to finish the project was to add doors to the gates.

Fort Grayskull Part 4

Continued from parts 1, 2 and 3. After the quite time consuming process of sticking all of that stuff to the castle sections the last time, I set about painting them. Anything made from silver plastic (the Hexagon stuff and the sprues) just got a load of black emulsion paint slopped onto it which I […]

Fort Grayskull Part 3

Parts 1 and 2. After the previous days extended session, the following day I was lucky enough to have nothing terribly grown up to attend to (the first time for ages).  So I settled down for a nice long glue filled afternoon stint.

Fort Grayskull Part 2

Continued from Part 1. I am going to attempt to give some post-apocalyptic va-va-voom to toy castle components that look like those above.  Left to right is a tower, a wall, another tower and a gate section.   In total I have four gate sections, twelve wall sections and sixteen towers. All of the pieces […]

Fort Grayskull Part 1

I bought a toy castle in 1995 or so because I thought that it would be suitable for use in 28mm gaming.  I liked both its modular nature and its low price so much that I then went back and bought three more castles, just so that I could make one huge castle at some […]

Vlad and Isabella Von Carstein

Interview With the Vampire (1994) + Warhammer Fantasy Battle (4th edition, 1992) + The Addams Family (1991) + Married With Children (1987 – 1997) = Dark, ostentatious majesty / camp, sit-com horror = Ultimate 1990s = Two of my favourite GW miniatures, now finally painted, 29 years later.

Trap Jaw – Masters of the Universe: Battleground #2

After finishing the Castle Grayskull Wasteland terrain from the Masters of the Universe: Battleground set, it was time for one of the figures. I reckoned that Trap Jaw was one of the grooviest MotU character designs back in the mid-eighties. It turns out that over 35 years of life experience hasn’t changed how I feel […]

2011 So Far

I have been preoccupied with a number of non-toy soldier related issues for the last couple of months.  Some of the distractions have been dull real life things but others (like a holiday in the US and various Xbox things) have been very pleasant.  The downside of course is that the hobby stuff suffers. In […]