What You’ll Need

An old CD

A small piece of card
Some air-drying clay
Some sand
PVA Glue
Flock
Paint
Black Spray
Modelling Knife

Making the Crater

Score the CD using the modelling knife and then glue a small piece of card over the centre hole.
Create a doughnut (or donut if you’re from the USA) of air-drying clay and place it on the CD. Smooth the [...]

The water tower and coal store terrain project distracted me a little and progress on the Commodore was slower than expected, but here it is now.
I received about 15 pirates (non-Privateer Press) from Ugo and they are fantastic sculpts. I’ve cleaned off a few Press Gangers and some of the models I received, so they [...]

After seeing this excellent video on the Iron Kingdoms at War blog I decided I’d dig up a few supplies and make my own water tower. With ‘jacks being used in everyday labour in the IK setting I decided a store of coal would also be useful.
The tube I used is wider than a Pringles [...]

Gesso? What’s that? It’s the stuff that painters often use to prepare a canvas before applying paints to it. It comes in a variety of different colours, well at least white, black and grey, and is itself a water soluble acrylic. So, why would you use this stuff and not a spray? One word – [...]

A saltier sea dog you won’t meet anywhere else…
I sculpted bases for the Commodore and its crew last night. I’ll clean off the miniatures and attach them today (hopefully). I got a text message from Ugo yesterday to say that he found twelve pirate miniatures (including a Goblin pirate!) during a Spring clean. He’s posting [...]

Here is Mr. Walls about 80% complete. The metals will be the final stage and I’m going to try to keep them quite bright to lighten the overall colour scheme for the miniature.
I picked up the Commodore today, so along with the Press Gangers that will round out 35pts of Privateers. I’ll probably tackle [...]

And just to prove I paint the backs too …
Mr. Walls is next on the painting bench.
Owen

Aiyana took longer than expected to complete – I haven’t gotten that much painting in recently. I didn’t want her to completely match Holt. Here outfit reflects the burgundy and light blue on Holt’s coat, but the bright red and brass are distinctive to Aiyana. On the tabletop it should be clear who is the [...]

Every war starts somewhere…
The chanting was what annoyed him the most. Let them worship however they choose, but the incessant murmur was what grated on him. The Menites were numerous as they approached this small Khadoran hamlet. It was typical of southern Khador, a homestead with fields of wheat. Irusk wondered how much of it [...]

Here are a couple of files that you might find useful if you plan to run an ANNIHILATION campaign -

ANNIHILATION v1.0 Campaign Rule (PDF) (as seen here and here)
ANNIHILATION Campaign Structure v1.0 (PPTX) to allow you to change the game structure and scenarios to suit your own campaign.

Feedback would be most appreciated.
Owen