Homemade Saga Dice

With the nice (and expensive) engraved Saga Dice being sold out everywhere, I figured I'd try and make my own dice. Using a sheet of clear decal paper, some blank d6's, and a bit of time, I have dice for my Viking army. We'll see how durable they are though, I'm hoping a spray of some gloss clear will help to prevent the decal from flaking off over time. They should be fine for at least the first couple games.

Progress on the Wild West Frontier Board

A quick post to show some progress on the Wild West terrain. Decided to add some Rocky bases to scatter around the table for cover.

Easy to make. Cut some 1/8 inch MDF into rounded triangles and squares. Stack some broken up pieces of cork tile, some directly to the mdf and some on top of small hills made out of foam to get some height. After applying thinned white glue to the bases around the cork pieces, scatter some smaller cork pieces to represent rock fall, then apply some medium ballast (on top of the cork rock fall) and finally fine ballast all over. Applying the ground work by going biggest to smallest helps to blend in the large pieces. The cacti are from the plastic Pegasus Hobbies set and the little bushes are The Army Painter battlefield tufts. How easy? I did these pieces in one night while watching my buddies play Malifaux.

Kirai Starter Box

A buddy of mine picked up a Kirai Box set but has been out of the hobby a while and didn't have the tools to put together his miniatures. So I told him I'd put it together for him, my brother did the miniature clean-up while I concentrated on the bases.

The bamboo walkways were made with evergreen rod cut to length and glued down. The straps that hold them together are sculpted from green stuff (kneadatite). The bamboo shoots were made by melting the ends of plastic rod and gluing them together using a plastic liquid cement. The mushrooms on Kirai and Datsu-Ba's base are plastic rod mushroomed on one end with a lighter.