NewsToys/Models
Why your genre toy industry is dying (video).
Michael is here to explain why the toy market for science fiction, fantasy, and horror is on its last legs – especially in…
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Games
Computer and board games.
May 2021
NewsGames
Airship Academy steampunk computer game (news).
There’s a new steampunk fantasy computer game coming out from Steam in 2022 called Airship Academy which involves a nice bit of airship…
NewsKit
More Power Loader : an article by: GF Willmetts
Since showing my building of the Halcyon model kit of the Power Loader in February, it suffered two falls and a couple more…
April 2021
NewsGames
Iron Harvest steampunk/dieselpunk strategy game gets an American-themed expansion – Operation Eagle (game news).
If you like your real-time strategy games with a dieselpunk and steampunk twist, then you are going to like the new Operation Eagle…
NewsSteampunk
Brickpunk, the new steampunk range from Hornby (model kit news).
Hornby – best known for their model railways – is launching a new range of steampunk-themed brick model kits from their Bassett-Lowke sub-brand.…
NewsStar Wars
Stormtrooper vs. Nexu model diorama tutorial (video).
Mark brings us a fine tutorial on building a 1:12 scale diorama of a scrap between an Imperial Stormtrooper and a Nexu from…
March 2021
NewsToys/Models
The toymaker’s tale: working as an indie toy-maker in the 21st century (video).
Here’s the WonderCon panel with various indie action figure and toy creators, examining subjects such as release strategies, sculpting, manufacturing, painting, crowdfunding, and…
ReviewFantasy
Beowulf: Age Of Heroes by Jon Hodgson, David Rea and Jacob Rodgers (RPG review).
‘Beowulf: Age Of Heroes’ is an expansion to ‘Dungeons And Dragons 5e’ and so it assumes you have access to the basic Player’s…
ReviewBooks
Virtual Cities: An Atlas & Exploration of Video Game Cities by Konstantinos Dimopoulos (book review).
Subtitled ‘An Atlas And Exploration Of Video Game Cities’, ‘Virtual Cities’ is a chunky hardback explores 45 iconic or just plain interesting cities…
TrailerScifi
Aliens: Fireteam (computer game: trailer).
A day in the Corps is like a day on the farm… so it must be time to bring in the harvest, again,…
February 2021
NewsStar Wars
Jabba’s Palace diorama: a model-maker’s masterclass (video).
In this model-maker’s masterclass, it’s time to build a realistic 1:700 scale Jabba’s Palace (or should that be Boba’s Palace as of now?).…
January 2021
NewsToys/Models
Halcyon Power Loader Model: a model-building exercise article by: GF Willmetts.
Introduction A couple years back, moving in a new bookcase into my front room, I hadn’t anticipated the whoopf! of air pressure putting…