{"id":2,"date":"2024-05-18T18:12:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T17:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-09-20T17:53:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T16:53:14","slug":"miniature-battles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/","title":{"rendered":"A Blog about Table top miniature wargaming and RPGs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/frostgrave-table-1024x657.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/frostgrave-table-1024x657.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/frostgrave-table-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/frostgrave-table-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/frostgrave-table-1536x986.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/frostgrave-table-2048x1315.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This blog has a few purposes (a huge amount of effort was spent not typing porpoises for some reason \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Its an  excuse for me to take lots of photos of miniatures. Generally speaking I&#8217;m the only person who sees the results of my painting and rather than bombard my Facebook with hundreds of miniature pictures I can use this as a sort of photo gallery.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> And hopefully get better at photographing miniatures. I am very much a hobbyist photographer.  I did study photography at college many years ago, back in the day before digital photography but I have more or less forgotten all of it and we concentrated on black and white as that is cheaper to develop and print by hand. I love macro photography and dabble in it from time to time finding the weird and wonderful that is only revealed by close up photography.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"894\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010404-1024x894.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010404-1024x894.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010404-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010404-768x670.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010404-1536x1341.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010404-2048x1788.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010404-676x590.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"749\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010398-1024x749.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010398-1024x749.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010398-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010398-768x562.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010398-1536x1123.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010398-2048x1498.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010398-676x494.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1002\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010394-1002x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010394-1002x1024.jpg 1002w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010394-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010394-768x785.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010394-1503x1536.jpg 1503w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010394-2004x2048.jpg 2004w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010394-676x691.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1002px) 100vw, 1002px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"857\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010403-1024x857.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010403-1024x857.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010403-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010403-768x643.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010403-1536x1285.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010403-2048x1714.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/P1010403-676x566.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Paint lots of minis (and hopefully get better at painting minis) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Write about the games I like and the hobby in general. I hope to be covering a range of games and maybe adding a few very basic tutorials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Making\/creating stuff is good for my mental health which needs a bit of help now and then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If anyone else enjoys the content that would be a huge bonus. I am an old fart who enjoys playing table top games with miniatures and painting toy soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you enjoy the blog please consider buying me a cuppa with the &#8220;Support me&#8221; link at the bottom of the page. I&#8217;m not sponsored  by anyone and buy all my minis and paints etc myself, so any support is very gratefully received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Latest Post<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/all-alone-in-felstad-pt4-5-frostgrave-battle-report-2nd-solo-scenario-revisited\/\">All Alone in Felstad Pt4.5 \u2013 Frostgrave Battle Report \u2013 2nd solo scenario &#8211; Revisited<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/kit-bashing-skeletal-hoplites-for-warriors-of-athena\/\">Kit Bashing Skeletal Hoplites for Warriors of Athena<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/all-alone-in-felstad-pt-4-a-bit-winter-festival\/\">All alone in Felstad pt 4 &amp; a Bit &#8211; Winter Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/kitbashing-skeletal-roman-legionaries-for-the-silver-bayonet-bones-of-albion\/\">Kitbashing Skeletal Roman Legionaries for The Silver Bayonet: Bones of Albion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/all-alone-in-space-part-1-stargrave-crew\/\">All Alone&#8230;In Space Part 1 &#8211; Stargrave Crew<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; This blog has a few purposes (a huge amount of effort was spent not typing porpoises for some reason \ud83d\ude42 ) 2. 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