Alan Bligh's Blog

I was very saddened to hear of the recent passing of one of the early giants of the British fantasy gaming explosion of the 80’s; Joe Dever. Responsible for the Lone Wolf series of adventure game books which I loved as a kid and were I have no doubt hugely influential in populating my imagination […]

I put more paint on models (tracking which was one of the reason I started this blog at anyway!) Over the last couple of weeks & a surge to the finish line today, I went forth and ploughed through in concerted effort to try and get my mixed 30k mech/ad mech proto-army to roughly the […]

The gluing together of a random assortment of robots, two headed hyenas and killer steam locos… Well, after a day that has largely featured this ‘adulting’ nonsense and getting utterly soaked in a July downpour, I kind of went ‘to hell with it’ and spend much of the evening assembling a typically (for me) odd […]

Well, as the sun is bright and the pollen is high, I naturally shunned the outside world as much as possible this afternoon, and also taking a Sunday off from various works (especially as all of my next weekend will be swallowed up by my day-job commitments), I actually got some miniatures painting done! Rather […]

On no less an auspicious date that Walpurgis Eve my backer copies of the Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition bundle arrived! Making me very happy and luxurious things of wonder they are too! Call is not only one of my favourite RPGs, but his version happens, by the vagaries of fate, to be largely the […]

One of the many things I love, is dinosaurs (and other prehistoric animals), so spotting this one on the news feed made me go ‘OOoo’ -missing link in Tyrannosaur evolution found…nice. Timurlengia http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-env...

…Or, a Night of Role-Playing was had I ran an RPG for the first time in positively ages last night and had a bloody good time as well! It was something of a fraught day owing to strangers putting things in my eyes for the purposes of medical testing, not being able to see afterwards […]

Well as I have nothing more apt to do on Valentines this year, I spent the early evening building a resin space marine tank in a darkened room while listening to the soundtrack to Manhunter….this does not make me a serial killer, honest …but a lot of cutting was involved.

This time a brand new Horus Heresy Volume, produced by myself and my able confederates Mr Niel Wylie and Mr Andy Hoare on the writing side of things and all the fine and uber talented folks of the Forge World graphic artist and design team! http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/The...

One of my ‘not-quite-resolutions-but-things-I-rather-ought-to-get-round-to-doing’ things at the moment is to get some paint on models I’ve had hanging around the painting table and its environs for ages but never finished (or got much past started for that matter.) Mostly this is because I usually paint with a larger project in mind -gaming oriented- rather than […]