Recently found this PS2 Slim bundle for €20 and I’m really happy to add it to the collection. I don’t have the right cables yet to hook it up to a modern TV, so for now it’s sitting nicely on the shelf while I look into modding options. Even just as an object, the PS2 Slim design is still so clean and beautiful.
Found this bundle second-hand for €50, and everything is in great condition. I’m especially happy with the Guitar Hero: Metallica guitar — had to hunt down the USB dongle for it, and I still haven’t found the actual Guitar Hero game yet, but I’m ridiculously excited anyway. I even 3D printed a wall mount for the guitar, so now it has a proper place next to the setup.
This is a 54mm figure from the Russian toy manufacturer Tehnolog, mostly known for very cheap plastic sets and some great terrain kits like their chemical plant. The scale is awkward for regular gaming miniatures, but it works perfectly for statues and monuments. The whole build and paintjob took less than an hour, and now I have a quick piece of scatter terrain for an Imperial table.
Painted this wonderfully disgusting lad in about an hour during a paint night at work. I’ve been watching Roman Lappat’s speedpainting streams, and the main takeaway was simple: paint fast, keep moving, and don’t overthink the exact paints or tools. I slapped layers over still-wet basecoats, mixed colours directly on the miniature, and ended up pretty happy with it. It’s still a WIP, and already a great base for picking out details later — plus, messy Nurgle models feel perfect for chipping away at the grey pile of shame.
I’ve been making these little bead bots from beads, plastic scraps, bits of packaging, and whatever weird shapes I can find on the desk. Bill Making Stuff was a big inspiration, and I honestly didn’t expect the process to feel this relaxing. There’s something very soothing about giving random junk tiny robot personalities.
A modular terrain I built about 10 years ago — a small restless boneyard. The modularity doesn't add a ton in practice; mostly it lets me split the whole thing into standalone objectives or use the pieces as scatter. But the build itself was a fun one.
The layout and concept aren't mine — I basically copied a scheme from a Russian-speaking crafter back in the day. I tried to track down his blog to credit him and couldn't remember the handle, so on the off chance he sees this: thanks, and I hope it makes you smile.
Construction is pretty simple. Foamboard base, XPS bricks, and the coffins in the dug-out graves are made from wooden sticks. The skeleton in one of them is a rough, cheap epoxy resin cast a friend used to supply me with (same friend who hooked me up with homemade sawdust flock).
I wasn't nearly as fussy about painting and detail 10 years ago, but keeping it on the same color scheme as my table means it still reads well from normal eye level.
Pretty quick build — XPS foam and a cheap chaos star brooch off Temu. I weathered the brooch down but left the gem in the center untouched, and honestly it reads like it's actually glowing, so I'm calling that a happy accident.
Sketched out a few altar concepts first before committing. Not thrilled with the rock shape — it came out looking a bit like a clothes iron — but this was my first time using a hot-wire cutter on XPS, so I'm cutting myself some slack.
Painted up a Thunder Warrior from a HeroicScale sculpt ( u/Weary_Ad_3942). Wonderfully old-school, kind of gloriously kitschy model — I loved it.
Went for weathered bronze with the classic crimson, and put him on a pile of techno-barbarian dead because, well, that's the job. Figured MK1 not being sealed just gives the blood more places to get in.
Poor bastard doesn't know Ararat is on the schedule.
Finally got the core of my New Antioch warband done. The big armored lads are my favorites — really leaned into the rust and grime on those.
Honestly the weathering I'm happiest with came out almost by accident. Whenever I really try to control it, it ends up looking forced; when I just sponge/stipple stuff on and let it be messy, it works way better. The shield door pretty much painted itself.
Still need to tidy up a few bases, but wanted to share. First my proper warband for TC.
Scratch-built sci-fi set, almost entirely trash and packaging.
The gantry on the right is a cheap Gundam display stand off Temu. Everything else is bin salvage — plastic containers for the domes, sprue offcuts, spare bits, and the general pile of stuff that builds up on every hobby desk. Static grass and moss to tie it together, a lot of oranges and rust over the teal to age it.
Built for a challenge in the RU-speaking hobby scene a little under a year ago. Three evenings start to finish.
The mini is a HeroicScale sculpt ( u/Weary_Ad_3942 )
Bit of backstory I wrote for it:
Arbor IV met the Helios expedition's shuttle with a hard crash into the jungle, scattering wreckage across the plateau. Pilot 317 kept trying to raise help on the relay, climbing to the top of his makeshift dish every day. A shelter grew up around the antenna over time, part despair and part stubbornness. Days turned into years. No one came. He understood, eventually, that no one would.
To survive he started trading with the locals — wary things, waist-high, curious-eyed, armed at about a medieval level. They called him the Iron Man, the square-headed being with numbers on his chest, and feared his hidden magic. His homeworld faded from memory, but every evening he climbed back to the antenna, watching the sky and muttering the same line: "317 calling Helios. If anyone's out there — I'm still here."
Very quick repaint of a little MDF house I found in a local cheap seasonal-goods store. It cost me around €5 and was originally sold as a Halloween decoration.
The greenery is mostly cheap vine plants from Temu, cut-up aquarium plants, random leftovers, and general hobby trash from the bits box. Nothing fancy — just a fast repaint, some weathering, and a lot of plant clutter to make it feel like an abandoned overgrown building.
Pretty happy with how much terrain value came out of a very cheap seasonal children toy.
I've been building a solo wargame for a while now and figured this is the right crowd to share it with, even with the catch I'll get to.
It's called Wizzard Tower. You play a wizard, but not the wise-old-mentor kind — more of a broke upstart who's claimed a half-ruined tower over a thin trickle of magic and decided that's enough to start an empire. From there it's part skirmish game, part light RPG, part management: you grow a ragtag retinue, learn spells, and fend off whatever the region sends at you. The wizard, the followers, the tower, and the threat hunting you are all generated from tables and your own decisions, so every campaign is a different story.
The tower sits at the centre of it. It's a model on the table that grows over the campaign: you build it out, upgrade it, and eventually defend it when the threat reaches your door. By the end the terrain is the part carrying a history, not the warband.
Combat is 2d10, hit and damage off one roll, alternating activation, light enemy AI, about half an hour a fight. Mini-agnostic, 28mm. Touchstones are 5 Leagues from the Borderlands, X-COM, Battle Brothers and the usual roguelikes.
Now the catch: it's Russian-only right now. The build up on itch is the jam version — that's where this started, and it pulled in enough good feedback that I decided to take it all the way. Fair warning on that build: the presentation uses AI graphics, since it was a jam and I was the only one on it. For the real release I've got an illustrator now and we're doing all the art by hand, leaning into a MÖRK BORG / OSR look — grimy, high-contrast, heavy ink. A solid core group has formed around the game in the RU community, and I'm using their feedback to lock down the final rules before putting out a proper printed book in Russian. English is on the list, just realistically behind that.
I'm posting mainly to share the process, not to pitch anything (it's free, and you can't even read it yet). If there's interest I'll start posting the hand-drawn WIP art and design notes as we work toward the book. Happy to talk mechanics in the comments.
Surrounded, outnumbered, still the only one I'd actually take on a flight.
The PSP-2008 is the only dead one in this pile. It's waiting on a screen (holding out for the IPS kits or a clean donor), a battery, and a trigger. Meanwhile every Nintendo in the photo still turns on like nothing ever happened. The Anbernic rides in my bag instead, because I won't lose sleep if it breaks and the screen is bright enough to play anywhere.
