World's Edge Wargaming

Hi, had an unfortunate break to the start of my new blog as I was travelling for two weeks. First for work in Northern Finland and then for leisure in Rome and Tuscany. Quite a world's apart experience, and not just for the 30 degrees difference in the temperature. Which also is the theme of this post. I'm one of those (few?) longer time Warhammer players that had lost the interest to the game almost completely and then got it renewed with AoS, as it turned out to be actually quite a good wargame. After playing with my old Lizardmen, I retrofitted my old 40k Daemons to a complete Slaanesh army, which was also perfect reason to paint up some of my all time favourite GW models, back from the Hordes of Chaos release in 6th edition. Espcially Archaon and the knights. This is however not about them, but the fantasy projects that followed the Chaos army. Actually, of all the possibilities, the Chaos army also led me to finally start playing Lord of the Rings SBG, as I got some Har...

I recently started a new project of building armies for 30 Years War with 15mm models. I bought a bunch of Totentanz models in June and after listening an audiobook of Zacharias Topelius's classic books "Välskärin kertomuksia", a story written in 1853-1867 about two Finnish families ranging from the 30 years war to somewhere around 1800? (I haven't listened it to the end yet), I got inspired on painting the models. They were fun change after having painted a lot of 28mm arabs. I painted all 64 in a week in single batch. I undercoated them zenithally with airbrush and added also some browns and blues at the same time. Then I first painted the bright colours, then the muted colours, then the armour and boots, gave a wash of dark brown with some preussian blue mixed in and then finished with the skin and refined some details after which I gave an nice warm burnt umber ink wash to the skin and select parts. Finally I painted the pikes with airbrush by sticking them to a ...

Hello, this is my first blog post. I have been thinking about starting a miniature game blog for some time now mainly to use as sort of hobby diary, but also to share back to the community which has been a great inspiration for me. Short introduction I'm Jaakko (also known as Jamopower in the dark depths of the internet), a soon 34 years old chemical process engineer from Finland. I have played miniature games since the year 1999, when we started playing Warhammer 5th edition with some friends with whom we had been playing role playing games for a while. It was love at first sight and I was seriously hooked on tin and plastic. After that it was mostly Warhammer of both varieties until I moved to Helsinki in year 2011 and found the local wargaming club, where I started getting influences of many other games. Also of course it helped that I started working full time around then and had bit better resources for all sorts of different games. First I started playing Infinity,...