Thinking Outside the Box

I'm a little later than I'd planned to be in writing this particular entry.  As I mentioned previously I wasn't able to attend the show in 2011, so I was quite looking forward to this year's expo.  William and I met up shortly after lunchtime on Friday and headed down to the grounds around 2pm.  Parking was no problem as we were quite early, but the line inside was already a substantial one! I stood in line while he went off to find out how the volunteer stuff he'd been signed up for was going to work.  While waiting for his return the doors opened and I was able to make my way in with JR and his group of fellow nerdlings.  Once inside we found a table to sit at and I looked through the schedule to determine where I needed to go to get some items signed.  I had figured that Friday would be a good day to acquire signatures as the attendance would be lighter than Saturday or Sunday.  This hypothesis would later prove correct. Once the convention offi...

Well I ended up buying a few more miniatures for Strange Aeons last week, but I haven't actually painted any of it yet.  I've cleaned them all up and based them all, so they're ready for painting sometime soon.  But in order to actually play a game, I needed some terrain for my agents and lurkers to fight over.  So I made some. I've always wanted to make my own terrain, but didn't really know where to start.  When I started playing 40k a few years ago the starter box came with a bunch of pieces of a crashed spacecraft.  That stuff looked pretty good when it was all painted up, so I bought the "How to Make Wargame Terrain" book and read it through.  Then I picked up a few small scenery kits but never bothered to do anything with them; they just sat collecting dust on my shelf.  Last week I was digging through my box of scenery bits looking for things I could use for a Strange Aeons game and found the rock making kit I had and thought, "what the hell,...