My Tomb Kings Project

A quick video explaining my plans for getting into The Old World.

Faithzap 4

The previous 3 parts can be found here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. This week I’ve been considering the faith traditions of the Hegemony of Synthos. The Hegemony are an entirely synthetic people group. Initially appearing as extras in the Warsport Wars on the planet Ashnyr between the Legion of Kharthion and League of […]

Simple Toy Soldier… Fantasy Battles?

So after my successful return to my own Simple Toy Soldier system, I wondered how far that core mechanic could be stretched. So sensibly I went for what I thought would be the most difficult to adapt a 20th Century skirmish system to… fantasy battles (having said that Warlords of Erewhon is a thing). I […]

A Simple Toy Soldier Game Battle Report

I have a go at one of the oldest rulesets I ever wrote, the very first version of The Simple Toy Soldier Game, not previously featured on the blog.

Let’s have a ramble about female Custodes

I ramble about female Custodes for a bit, hopefully with something useful to contribute to the discourse…

The Great Western War

The first post of my Great Western War Project. Setting the stage for some historical Deathzap gaming!

One Hobby Goal Down – Bolt Action Japanese

A little post about my Japanese force for Bolt Action.

Speed Painting Adeptus Mechanicus

A quick guide on how I painted my AdMech army.

15mm Planetary Guard

A Quick Look at my 15mm Planetary Guard force for whichever sci-fi game you prefer in this scale.

So what did I get up to in 2025?

It always fun to look back over the blog and reminisce about projects past. Sometimes I’ve forgotten about projects entirely, sometimes looking back over the blog reignites the embers of a formerly dead project. In January I hit the ground running with Havok: Havok was a game from my childhood, dead now, but once put […]

Painting Blackshirts for Bolt Action

A quick guide to speed painting Italian Blackshirts for Bolt Action.

A Look at Some 15mm Irregular Sci-Fi Minis

A battle was fought shortly after where I worked out quite a few kinks in the rules I wrote. Much fun was had too. Two things that came out of this little playtest that I really enjoyed were somewhat unexpected. First was the lack of unit coherency. I mean I’m not exactly a fan of […]

Polishing Zombie Turds

Previous turds polished: https://deathzap.co.uk/2023/07/07/polishing-more-turds/ https://deathzap.co.uk/2021/08/15/polishing-a-turd/

Tamiya 1/35 Figures and WW2 Skirmishes

Mechanics Lab: Horror Skirmishing

A Rambling Look Through My Hobby Drawers

A rambling look through my hobby drawers full of past and present wargaming projects…

Survival Horror Gangs with The Worst Figures!

The Vanguardians VS The Darkanites

SKIRMASHED SET UP The game is played on a 2’x2’ board for 1-5 figures aside, and a 4’x2’ board for 6-10. Deploy forces within 3” of opposite edges (long edges on a 4’x2’). All dice are D10s (unless stated otherwise). Figures have six stats, ‘Manoeuvre’, ‘Firepower’, ‘Boom’, ‘Fight’, ‘Hack’, and ‘Stamina’. Stats can be any […]

The Futility of Man… In Wargaming

Here’s something I’ve been pondering for a little while. As I burn through ideas, new ideas, old ideas, all half baked, I began wondering why things (at least in my brain) are like this. Why start a project, become intensely focused on it for a short time and then flit to another? Maybe it’s just […]

Hobby Update-ish

It’s been a little bit of a bonkers weekend. I turned a little older, and then experienced Remembrance Sunday. It’s an odd quirk of being born early November, your Birthday weekend often lines up with a rather somber and thoughtful occasion. Anywho… another quirk of having a Birthday is being inundated with gift cards, which […]

How I Painted My Axis Force For Konflikt 47

Faithzap 3

Being away this week visiting family means no physical hobby for me, but I still love to engage in the mental – writing lore and rules. And despite being on the back burner I had promised to produce a few religious to add flavour to my own Deathzap setting. So here you go: Cyclism Religious […]

An attempt at a YouTube video on the Sprue Board

Hopefully this works! Here’s also a link just in case: https://youtu.be/So3RgDWgf9I?si=4YEu1C2mBAU19XaN Gremlins in the system!

Greebles Galore

After playing a few games with my strange gangs, I felt the terrain wasn’t really matching the vibes of the figures. Considering that the terrain in question was supposed to be my generic, one set fits all games terrain I didn’t want to change it. So that meant making some new stuff. Terrain is actually […]

Mantaurs vs Pirates

In the mad world of finding things to replace the heads of army men with, at some point I landed on the idea of just smaller army men. I previously showed off my initial Mantaur: The problem I found in the lab, was what with each further iteration of the Mantaur, their cognitive abilities decreased […]