A new board game café opens in Leicester
Friday night is gaming night. Well, one of several to be honest, but Friday nights I get to game with my son Josh, which is always a bit special. We usually go to Battlefield [...]
Articles by Neil Shuck
Painting Tally – November 2018
November was something of a non-event on the painting front Painted: 0 Nothing. Not a sausage. I did start a couple of things, but nothing completed. Purchased: 7 The sum [...]
Meeples & Miniatures welcomes a new sponsor
We are very pleased to announce that our website and podcast has a brand new sponsor – Firestorm Games. If you are unaware of Firestorm Games, here are their details [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 256 – View from a Twisted Pinnacle
Download Episode 256 Neil Shuck & Mike Hobbs are joined by a guest presenter in the shape of Patreon backer James Aldridge for this episode of the podcast. 00:00 – [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 255 – Tales of Tabletop Gaming #1
Download Episode 255 Neil Shuck & Mike Hobbs are joined by guest presenter Dave Hickman for this episode of the podcast. 00:00 – Introduction – We start the [...]
Deep Madness – First Impressions
Deep Madness is a new boardgame from Diemension Games, originally funded via a Kickstarter project in November 2016 and delivered – admittedly almost a year late [...]
New Patreon exclusive podcast published
I have just published a new episode of the ‘Musings from the Bunker’ podcast, which is available to all Patreon supporters who back at the $3 level. In this show, [...]
Painting Tally: October 2018
October turned out to be another somewhat frugal month on the painting table… Painted: 10 I did manage to get the two Gangs of Rome mobs that I needed for the [...]
Radio Dish Dash running Kickstarter campaign for Ultracombat
Radio Dish Dash – authors of the Skirmish Sangin modern rules – are no stranger to gaming modern warfare. They are currently running a kickstarter to help fund [...]
Oathsworn running new Burrows & Badgers kickstarter
The latest much-anticipated Burrows & Badgers kickstarter is now live! Following the release of the rules by Osprey earlier this year, Michael Lovejoy has finally got [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 254 – The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game
Download Episode 254 Neil Shuck & Mike Hobbs are joined by guest presenter Josh Langley-Shuck for this episode of the podcast. 00:00 – Introduction – We start [...]
7TV Apocalypse – new skirmish rule box set from Crooked Dice
Crooked Dice are currently running a Kickstarter to fund a new box set for their popular 7TV miniatures skirmish game. Whilst the original box set explores the world of [...]
Bad Squiddo Games launches more Onna-Bugeisha on Kickstarter
Bad Squiddo Games has launched a new Kickstarter project, aiming to release additions to the existing Onna-Bugeisha range. There are sixteen new miniatures in the range, from [...]
The Heresy Dragon – it’s back!
It’s probably the best dragon ever made, but most people aren’t aware of it. Back in 2008, Andy from Heresy Miniatures decided that he wanted to make a dragon [...]
Battleground Fantasy Warfare reprint on Kickstarter
On a recent Musings from the Bunker podcast, I was talking about the fact that you didn’t necessarily require miniatures to play miniature wargames, and quoted [...]
28mm Russian & Chechen Miniatures from Tiny Terrain Models
You may remember back on episode 198 of the podcast we spoke with Craig Thompson of Tiny Terrain Models. Well, Craig is currently running a new Kickstarter campaign – a [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 253 – Adeptus Titanicus
Download Episode 253 Neil Shuck & Mike Hobbs are joined by guest presenter Teras Cassidy of Geek Nation Tours for this episode of the podcast. 00:00 – Introduction [...]
Through the round window
As part of my preparation for scratch building several houses for Burrows and Badgers, I have been looking for any sources of round window frames in MDF. Round windows seem [...]
Patreon exclusive Q&A for September is now available
If you support the Meeples & Miniatures podcast on Patreon, you get access to an exclusive Q&A session every month. The Q&A for September has just been posted [...]
Napoleonic Terrain Making book on Pre-Order with Pen & Sword Books
OK, spoiler alert for the next Meeples & Miniatures Podcast episode. Mike Hobbs recommended a book to me whilst recording the show, and I’ve subsequently [...]
