Today’s visual inspiration on our Cakes of Death DIY figures and gaming blog theme strand are these Tiger.com high street stores palm trees.
Why pay expensive hobby prices for palm trees, when you can get all these for a pound?
What to do with a dozen or so pink flamingoes?
How many pink flamingo paint stirrers do you need?
Alternatively decorate a model lawn with them.
Or even better for a gaming blog with DIY figures made from silicon cake mould figures and Polymer Clay Fimo, why not create some handy edible desert islands?
Hello I'm Mark Mr MIN, Man of TIN. Based in S.W. Britain, I'm a lifelong collector of "tiny men" and old toy soldiers, whether tin, lead or childhood vintage 1960s and 1970s plastic figures.
I randomly collect all scales and periods and "imagi-nations" as well as lead civilians, farm and zoo animals. I enjoy the paint possibilities of cheap poundstore plastic figures as much as the patina of vintage metal figures.
Befuddled by the maths of complex boardgames and wargames, I prefer the small scale skirmish simplicity of very early Donald Featherstone rules.
To relax, I usually play solo games, often using hex boards. Gaming takes second place to making or convert my own gaming figures from polymer clay (Fimo), home-cast metal figures of many scales or plastic paint conversions. I also collect and game with vintage Peter Laing 15mm metal figures, wishing like many others that I had bought more in the 1980s ...
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