SCARY BISCUITS STUDIOS

On Friday, my son Theo and I played a test game for Dreadnought. We each had a dreadnought, battlecruiser, and a light cruiser in our fleets

Ok, ok, ok... I know Kurt Vonnegut never designed games (to the best of my knowledge, anyway). But he was an exceptional author who knew how to craft an ente...

Exactly 105 years ago, on 8 December 1914, Graf von Spee's German East Asian Squadron sailed to the Falkland Islands...

A few months ago I randomly bought a bag of second-hand pieces from the classic boardgame, Battleship. I wasn't quite sure to do with it...

After reading E. Keble Chatterton's The Sea Raiders, I found myself wanting to add some civilian merchant ships to my scratch-built navy.

I found this fantastic 1923 recreation of the famous 1918 raid on Zeebrugge.

By the time of the Great War, the seven Bremen light cruisers were already a decade old. However, they saw action across the globe...

One of the more difficult things about my Jutland project was knowing that the "Destroyer Problem" was lurking just under the surface...

After posting my tutorial on building my 1:1500 scale ships, I got a request to quickly go over the tools that I used...

Its probably a bad idea to keep experimenting with mast solutions still half-way through the Jutland project...

Once the scratch build ships for my Jutland project are built, it's time to throw some paint on them...

Strictly speaking 2017 ended in a bad place for me. The game project I was working on collapsed and the studio was dissolved just a few days before Christmas...

For most wargamers, metal and resin models are the way to go. But for me, the journey of making my own ships out of wood is worth the effort