6 Pictures from the Tactica 2022

This is me playing Saga at the Tactica in Hamburg last year. I look tired because the night before, in a Portuguese restaurant, I had talked for hours with Krüger and Jörg about Tolkien and Brecht. Don’t ask me why …

The first game we played was presented by the club Kurpfalz Feldherren. They used the ruleset Pikeman’s Lament and had a very beautiful table of a port.

A picture of Krüger playing Warmaster. High elves vs dwarves. It was the first time I saw a Warmaster game. To my surprise troop movement was very fast and there were strong domino effects. A lot more action on the table than I had expected.

Mario Cart. This table looked like so much fun. Unfortunately I couldn’t try it, but I hope the game will be presented at another convention.

Der Schnitter von Hanau. A vampire game presented by two members of the Tabletop Club Rhein Main. They used the rule set The Silver Bayonet and created such a great atmosphere that I believed for a second that the two game masters actually were vampires …

Mould Lines

I'm working on six Surprise Egg terror birds at the moment.

After undercoating them I noticed that they had thick mould lines which I couldn't remove with a scalpel because the terror birds are partly made out of soft plastic.

I covered the mould lines with green stuff which was fun but took a bit longer than planned ...

Happy New Year!

I went to a photo booth to take a picture for this art vs artist collage which is popular on Instagram at the moment. I tried to look friendly, but 2022 was another stressful year on many levels. Anyway …

Hobby-wise I met a lot of interesting, friendly people, played Dingstown, Saga and The Silver Bayonet at gaming conventions and Dragon Rampant and Das Schwarze Auge with my kids.

I finally finished all my old painting and sculpting projects, this was my New Year’s resolution for 2020, and I started a funny army, consisting of surprise egg toy animals and scratch built bamboo men. I will continue painting these in 2023.

I would like to thank you for taking the time to read my posts, look at all the pictures and for your kind and inspiring comments.

(By the way, one of the images is AI-generated.)

Have a wonderful 2023!

Karl

Merry Christmas!

Some tin soldiers I home cast many years ago around this time of the year.

Merry Christmas!

Space Marine Lina

I found an old drawing book I did with my daughter when she was about four.

I think this is a space marine.

3 Bamboo Men

I just finished painting these three scratch built bamboo men. They still need a layer of matt varnish and some grass on the base.

10 Years

I started this blog ten years ago, in September 2012, shortly after my youngest son was born.

For about a year I wrote blog posts without getting any comment, not even from the friends I gamed with, and then, when I got my first comment, I read it over and over, but didn’t know how to respond, and when I finally did, after nine days, I didn’t know if Tim from Saskatoon who had been so kind to leave the first comment, also got my answer.

The truth is I didn’t know how to communicate well in the internet when I started this blog.

Now, after ten years, I feel more comfortable to be part of an online gaming community, which inspires my every day and even helped me get through the first years of the pandemic.

If I could give my younger self any advice about blogging, it would be this: don’t try so hard, be patient, friendly, be curious about other people’s work, about their thoughts, and learn as much as you can about how blogging works on a technical level, but never behave like a machine. And yes. I almost forgot. Enjoy yourself. It’s a hobby blog after all.

Ok. I sound like a pathetic old man now. Sorry.

What have you learned about blogging over the years? And what would you consider your biggest mistakes?

By the way the pictures are just some old pictures I found going through Herr Zinnlings Arbeitszimmer. This is one of the things I enjoy a lot about blogging: taking pictures of miniatures.