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The End of the Frugal Year(s) (20th Dec 2011)
As you may have noticed I haven't been posting on the blog too much recently. This is, in part, to it's success; I've been playing too many games and getting too many models painted to actually blog about it!As I don't have as much time to dedicate ... Read More
V for Vondetta (7th Nov 2011)
Oi!This is the final week of the HoP Idol contest over at the ol' House of Paincakes: last week I managed to creep over the horizon by the skin of me wossnames and a similar performance this week will spell triumph, readership, modest acclaim and a cessat ... Read More
VOTE FOR VON (23rd Oct 2011)
I know, I know, I've been neglecting you. I've spent the last couple of months actually, y'know, being Frugal. It's the not having any money that does it. Most of the hobby I've done has been other people's, for money, although I did fin ... Read More
The Giant’s Lair (29th Sep 2011)
Rejoice, rejoice! Good news people, your prayers have been answered and the Gods havefinally smiled on the South West of England. This Saturday will see the grand opening in Plymouth of ‘The Giant’s Lair’ the South West’s Premier ... Read More
Haterz an Fanbois FTW. LOL!!!!!!1 B-) (22nd Sep 2011)
You can tell if a person is racist, they generally starttheir sentences with ‘I’m not a racist, but…’ before saying somethingracist. It was this thought thatstopped me from starting this post with ‘I’m not a GW hater, but…’.I would l ... Read More
Where I hide my Naughty Space Pixies … (16th Sep 2011)
‘Conan! What isbest in life?’ ‘To crush your enemies; see them driven before you, and tohear the lamentation of their women.’‘Conan! That’s great but you need to get your chores donefirst…’Ah yes, there are things we all enjoy, but ... Read More
Frugalnomics: Increasing Cost, Decreasing Value (6th Sep 2011)
Price rises, price rises, all I seem to hear about these days is price rises! Personally I think everything's more expensive these days, but Dethtron (first and second links) has a point when he establishes that GW's prices are in fact behind the ra ... Read More
Making Plastic from Milk? (30th Aug 2011)
I've just been searching the interweb and came across this hobby site. The article I had originally followed was for using pink and blue foam for terrain, but on the main site (http://www.stormthecastle.com/) this article and video caught eye - making pla ... Read More
The dreaded [War]-Jack Frost strikes again. (13th Aug 2011)
When the pictures of my new Space Marine Dreadnought were being taken, the model had not been varnished yet, due to a period of wet weather in up here in normally sunny Scotland (yeah, I know!). Finally I looked out of the window one breakfast time last w ... Read More
The Dreaded 6 month Review (15th Jul 2011)
Gosh, hasn't it been quiet around here lately. "It's that time of year again" as the saying goes. Obviously its always that time of year for something. In my case it's Summer time (or at least what optimistically passes as Summer in Scotland) which m ... Read More
Some Frugal Alternatives To Popular Spendy Games (28th Jun 2011)
Enough, I say! Enough!I wrote a post. It was about increasing prices and decreasing points values and the two-way gouge perpetrated by miniature wargame companies. It wasn't bad. I'm just sick to the back teeth of doing nothing but ... Read More
A gentle reminder... (22nd Jun 2011)
Hi guys, just a quick note to remind you that the 'Grand Battery' book draw finishes at midnight tomorrow. Get your entries in quick! ... Read More
Warmachine On The Cheap (17th Jun 2011)
A while ago now, arabianknight posted about his proxy Trenchers for Warmachine, and made a convincing case for the act of proxying the more generic-looking miniatures in a Warmahordes army.Now, Warmahordes is my tournament game, insofar as I have one at a ... Read More
Chronicles Of Blood - a review (16th Jun 2011)
Chronicles of Blood - Solo War GameFirst let me get something in the open. I never play massed army battle games (Warhammer, HotT, etc) so have nothing to really compare this game to, so bear that in mind whilst reading this. I picked up this game for a c ... Read More
It's finally come to an end... (15th Jun 2011)
After a couple of years of posting on the subject, I’ve decided to call an end to it. After hours spent blogging about it, I’m done. I’m finished. It’s all over. That’s right, I’ve finally completed my Orc and Goblin ar ... Read More
Tide of Iron review (12th Jun 2011)
After weeks of planning, phonecalls and emails it finally happened; I got three friends together for a full day and we sat down to play a game. The three friends were Paul, Neil and Andy… and the game was Tide of Iron.Tide of Iron is a World War 2 ... Read More
Grand Battery book review and competition (9th Jun 2011)
One of the things I love about wargaming is the idea of total immersion; not only learning the fluff, and spending hours painting the models; but playing a long game and getting deeply involved in every move, discussing the tactical aspect of potential mo ... Read More
EXPO-say: Von's Frugal Picks from the UK Games Expo (8th Jun 2011)
There's nothing quite like attending a gaming convention with no money to sharpen the old critical faculties and make you consider the value of the beautiful, shiny objects being paraded about before your eyes. I'd recommend it to anyone. Leav ... Read More
A Year of Open Accounting - May (with a bit of April) (6th Jun 2011)
How Frugal is this - 2 months for the price of one. You didn't even have to pay me for the first 10 months either to get the first one!The numbers:I missed the April report as it was a quiet month and I got carried away doing other things so didn't g ... Read More
You am an Winnar!!!! (2nd Jun 2011)
Well, after the debacle of me being recognised as ‘Not Too Bad at Blogging', by some other internetters last week, I was pleased to receive a number of compliments from others out there who admire my work and appreciate my award: An Internetter: Laugha ... Read More
Fraud, Babies, Excuses and Crowd-Sourcing (28th May 2011)
It’s all been a bit quiet on the gaming front recently. I was going to have a terrific article going into more detail about planning terrain, but it’s a little too dull and rambling at the moment. I’ll probably have to edit, re-write, and maybe comp ... Read More
Termite Art, Branded Materials, and DIY in the hobby (24th May 2011)
Every so often, my blogging worlds (all this nonsense and Doctor Who fandom, in case you're keeping score) collide. It's been a while since the last one, in which I was chattering about the Doctor Who roleplaying game, and so this has probably been ... Read More
The Stylishly Frugal Blogger (23rd May 2011)
Blogging is a terrible job. All I do is put in a minimal amount of effort in every week or so and I get loads of positive feedback from complete strangers. I spend an hour or two every week jotting down rubbish and I have people coming up to m ... Read More
Fifty Ways To Leave Your Gaming Company (20th May 2011)
Okay, not fifty, but I'm sure Paul and I can manage a few.Imagine, for a moment, that you're a gamer. Shouldn't be too hard; you're reading this. Now imagine that you buy most of your gaming gear from one company, and that that company isn't n ... Read More
Free Reads (17th May 2011)
To keep you entertained whilst Dave is moving I thought I'd best chip in with a post - especially as I missed my April accounting update (quiet month anyway!)This week (already) has seen the release of two of my favourite free pdf publications.The first i ... Read More
Silent Running (17th May 2011)
Hello all, as some of you may have heard (via Twitter) I'm moving home this week. As a result; my internet connection, and therefore blog posts will be intermittent at best. Hopefully I should be posting again before too long and my brave co-w ... Read More
Making Rivets (and a Snotling Pumpwagon) (15th May 2011)
If you’re a regular reader (or even an irregular one) you’ll have seem some of my progress on building snotling pumpwagons for my Warhammer Orcs and Goblins army. They are now complete, fully painted and have seen admirable service on the gaming ... Read More
Vonnington, Vonnington, where have you been? (10th May 2011)
Or, as they say in the old country, "'ere bey, where you bin?"It's that time of year again: the time when actual gaming begins to edge out typing nonsense about gaming on the Internet. Life on the miniatures front has slowed down somewhat of late, s ... Read More
Exeter Legionary (8th May 2011)
As regular readers know, there’s nothing I like better than getting in a car and driving up a dual carriageway for an hour to spend all day in a cattle shed with like-minded gentlemen before driving home again. This weekend was no exception as I j ... Read More
The Frugal Lerker (29th Apr 2011)
If you listen to gaming podcasts such as Heelanhammer, Podhammer, and Bad Dice, you'll probably have heard of a Warhammer based magazine currently on the market called 'Unseen Lerker', after hearing a number of positive reviews I decided to give it a go.& ... Read More
Frugal Terrain for a Frugal Game – Necromunda Experiments (26th Apr 2011)
Excuse me for a minute while I ramble on a bit, to introduce a new project... My second frugal year is going extremely well so far, as I’ve managed to squeeze in a few games of Necromunda recently. Part of that is helped by (finally) being able to driv ... Read More
Losing with my army and then against it... (23rd Apr 2011)
Hello all,It's been a busy week! If you've been following me on twitter (you really should, I'm remarkably interesting), you'll have seen that I played some 40k (played twice, lost twice) and I've been working on completing my snotling pump wagons.T ... Read More
Don't get more games, get more gamers! (16th Apr 2011)
As regular readers know, I like to game. I like to paint, I like to model, I like to write my silly little blog, but in the past year I have made a conscious effort to play more games. Inevitably, like many other gamers, I have now started to ... Read More
Ch...ch...ch...changes... (10th Apr 2011)
Hello all, as you may have noticed, I've made a little change to the blog. Instead of being 'yearoffrugalgaming.blogspot.com', we're now at 'ayearoffrugalgaming.com'. Yeah, that's right, after a couple of years slumming it on blogspot, we're n ... Read More
A Year of Open Accounting - March (8th Apr 2011)
On the financial ins/outs this month it has been pretty quiet. As forecast I purchased the new Gladiator rules for Red Sand Blue Sky (still unplayed), and towards the end of the month there was the unexpected arrival of some old Rogue Trader Space marines ... Read More
Building a Talos in a Week - Day Six (6th Apr 2011)
At last it's done! The last lick of paint has gone on, the static grass has been added and even the talons are nice and neatly varnished. Yes, after six busy evenings of work, I have scratchbuilt and painted a Talos Pain Engine for my Dark Eld ... Read More
Building a Talos in a Week - Day Five (5th Apr 2011)
Only one more day to go! The model has got to be finished tomorrow, ready to go the gaming club on Thursday evening. I've shaded and highlighted, so all I need to do now is finish the detail and the base. I'd also like to do a bit more s ... Read More
Building a Talos in a Week - Day Four (4th Apr 2011)
Most of the time when I start a project, I struggle to get it finished. I know that the professional image that this blog puts across may make it look that I'm a perfectionist, but sometimes things don't go entirely to plan. However, the last ... Read More
Building a Talos in a Week - Day Three (3rd Apr 2011)
Okay, it's not perfect, but time is pressing! Here's my Talos at the end of Day Three. I'm planning to paint the greenstuff on the head and back as beaten bronze (to cover my terrible sculpting skills). Tomorrow will be priming and basecoating ... Read More
Building a Talos in a Week - Day Two (2nd Apr 2011)
More basic building today. I've made a start on the detail as well. My plan is to finish the detail tomorrow so that I can prime and basecoat it on Monday. I hope. Anyway, here's where I've got to today:See you again tomorrow ... Read More
