Author: Jon Hodgson

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Scots Portent Tables

It’s Burns Night tonight! In celebration of the Bard’s contribution to literature and song we present you our free Scots portent tables. 

Scots shares a root with the more commonly spoken English but recognised as its own language. It’s often mistaken for a dialect or accent, but this is not the case. 

UNESCO recognises Scots as a vulnerable language, and in gratitude for the home Handiwork Games has found in Scotland we’re happy to raise awareness of this much-misunderstood branch of language. 

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Unboxing Ghouls! Plus Back Drops Book 2

Jon unboxes his backer rewards from Bad Squiddo Games Ghouls Kickstarter. There’s some chat about how we’re heading back to Kickstarter on January 30th to raise funds for two new backdrops books, plus A3 versions of the original two books!

Backdrops 2 cliffs notes:
At launch there will be 2 new A4 books:
• Fantasy Ruins and Tunnels
• Scifi Ruins and Interiors

Plus
A3 versions of the books from the first campaign:
• Backdrops Book One (fantasy)
• Sci-fi Backdrops

You can sign up for that campaign here:

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Making a plinth for use with your Backdrops Book: Part Two

If you missed Part One you can catch up with it here.

And you can now download the whole walkthrough as a free PDF here on our webstore.

We’re starting part two with our full dry plinth and the modelling is all done. It’s now finishing time, and we’ll see this unlikely potato transformed into a useful and naturalistic looking plinth! Keep the faith!

Tools for Part Two

For the final steps we’ll need:

  • PVA glue
  • An old brush
  • Some basing supplies like flock and mini rocks.
  • Tufts
  • Paint for final finishing
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Unboxing the Lavender Box

“What’s in the box” quoth the reference-monger.

Jon got a box. what’s in it? Stuff that might be of interest to fans of Jon Hodgson Backdrop Books and Miniatures! That’s what!

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Cold City: Hot War Report Two is out!

The second Cold City/Hot War report is out now! These regular free PDF reports will bring you behind-the-scenes info, extra historical inspiration, and ideas on things to read to learn more about the Cold War period in the run up to the release of Cold City/Hot War Second Edition.
In Report Two author Malcolm Craig talks answers the question “Will there be any changes?” in the new edition. And the answer is yes. And in History Report Two, Malcolm has further reading recommendations on the topic of all history being provisional…

Get Report Two at DrivethruRPG
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Making a plinth for use with your Backdrops Book: Part One

(You can now download the whole walkthrough as a free PDF here on our webstore!)

In the Jon Hodgson Backdrops books we mention that there’s a guide to making a scenic plinth to use with your backdrops on our website. And here it is!

In all of our own shots we boost up the model on a small piece of scenery to more easily cut the bottom of the book out of shot. There’s a guide to setting up your shots here, which includes the use of just such a plinth.

In this article we’ll run through the initial steps of hand-making a plinth. We should say in advance there are many, many ways to make such a thing. This isn’t necessarily the very best, or quickest way – it’s just how we do it. And you are of course to alter any of these steps, replacing any you see fit, or doing things in a different order. We find this way works well for beginners and is quite inexpensive. It also makes a great project to try with younger gamers/modellers. It’s a very forgiving technique.

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