Excitement abounds in Lard Island Broadcasting House as the lights are lit, the cameras rolling and the make up artists working overtime as Lard TV launched with its first game play-through unveiled last week. Ever since the birth of Lard...
I had originally intended to just put the following in a postscript to the last article on Lard Island News, but on reflection I thought it might be of some interest, when linked in with the last Oddcast, to just...
I really think so! Well, not me if I am honest, but my Jump Off Points. Playing a rather spiffing game set in Malaya last night, our third playtest for the Far East, I was somewhat embarrassed not to have...
As part of the build project for the Far East, I recently put together a very nice Sarissa Colonial bungalow which will sit on the outskirts of my fictional outpost of Palang Karang. However, I did feel that the poor...
As some readers of Lard Island News may know, Dave Brown has been ensconced in Schloss Reisswitz working away producing his new World War 2 rules system. Now that playtesting is at an advanced stage, Lard Island News sent one...
Some things, they say, are worth celebrating and for us on Lard Island there can be no greater reason for popping the odd cork than winning two of the hobby’s most coveted awards; the wargames Illustrated Award for the...
Things have been a bit quiet here recently, suggesting (possibly) that I have been lagging behind with the Jungle build project. In fact nothing could be further from the truth; we have been ploughing on but some steps in the...
With the big jungle bits done, the bamboo complete, some native residencies finished and the low level jungle on the way, my thoughts turned to the next phase of the project, where I want to make some colonial buildings for...
There are some aspects of terrain modelling that come as a surprise; sometimes for good reason, sometime for bad. I usually find this occurs when I am over confident, I rush things and they go wrong. But sometimes stuff you...
Well, it is done. At least the first tranche of my jungle is complete. Since the last post when I got the undergrowth in place I have added all of the low standing vegetation. When everything was in place I...
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