Neil Shuck

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Trick-Taking Game Travel from the Shire and overcome every obstacle as a team.

Played The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Trick-Taking Game 3 times today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Tiny Epic Pirates Pirates take to the high-seas for fame and fortune!

Played Tiny Epic Pirates today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Well… It Had to Be a Dragon If you’ve been following the blog, you’ll know that I’ve been building a High Elf army, primarily based around the Oathmark Elf range, since August 2024. While there have been several interruptions…

Finished painting my Elf Army Commander over the weekend - wrote a blog post on how I did it and why this is the inspiration of my Elf Army colour scheme

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Kreel Manor: The Dungeon Crawl Card Game Manage your abilities to defeat threats and hunt the source of the Gloom of Kilforth

Played Kreel Manor: The Dungeon Crawl Card Game today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Finished these Great Eagles from GW. Lovely models that were really nice to paint.

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Finished painting my latest unit for my Elf Army.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Trick-Taking Game Travel from the Shire and overcome every obstacle as a team.

Played The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Trick-Taking Game 5 times today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Everdell Duo Use resources to play cards and create your own woodland city.

Played Everdell Duo today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Reorganising my hobby desk In my previous post about having too many paints (which can be found here) I mentioned that I’d started to rethink how my hobby paint collection was organised. Since then, I’ve gone on to reorganis…

Spent a couple of weeks at the start of the year reorganising my paint collection and my hobby desk.

Hopefully this makes it more conducive to getting more hobby done this year

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Painting Progress for My Elf Army in January 2026 January 2026 has been, from a UK weather point of view, decidedly cold and wet — perfect weather for staying indoors and huddling around a warm painting table. It’s fortunate, then, that the start …

Just posted a blog update detailing my painting progress for January - 44 infantry and two artillery pieces!

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Aliens: Bug Hunt Work together with your fellow marines to dice your way past the xenomorphs.

Played Aliens: Bug Hunt today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

I found the game box whilst looking for something else - had almost forgotten that I owned it.
The game mechanics are very similar to Lord of the Rings:The Card Game.
It's quite fun. The fact that no other campaigns exist show that the game never took off as expected.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Use your Jedi powers to fight off the Separatist threat — Pandemic-style.

Played Star Wars: The Clone Wars today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth Heroes explore Middle-earth, working together to combat evil in an epic campaign.

Played The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/26... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Warhammer Quest: The Adventure Card Game Roll dice, pick skills, & smash vermin in a grim & dark narrative adventure.

Played Warhammer Quest: The Adventure Card Game today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Veilwraith: A Veil Odyssey Game Use your abilities to defeat threats while hunting for keys in the seared lands.

Played Veilwraith: A Veil Odyssey Game today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Istanbul: The Dice Game Roll worker dice to collect and trade resources to acquire shiny rubies!

Played Istanbul: The Dice Game 2 times today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/23... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Games I Played in 2025 (and What I Hope to Play in 2026) I know that this blog post is a little late, given that we’re already into the second week of the new year and it’s traditional for the typical “review of the year” post to appear just before the s…

A fashionably late look at the games I played last year

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Thunderbirds Never give in, at any cost! Coordinate your efforts to foil vile plots.

Played Thunderbirds today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/16... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Is It Possible I Have Too Much Paint? It may be possible that I have too much paint. That statement, in itself, feels like a potential betrayal of the hobby. How on earth is it possible for a gamer to have too much stuff? Surely such h…

Sharing a few thoughts having just decanted my hobby paints into dropper bottles...

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Red Alert: Space Fleet Warfare Deploy a fleet of starships to duke it out in space.

Played Red Alert: Space Fleet Warfare today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/25... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Tiny Epic Game of Thrones Assume the role of a mighty house of the Seven Kingdoms.

Played Tiny Epic Game of Thrones today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/40... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship As members of The Fellowship, embark on a journey to save—or doom—Middle-earth.

Played The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship As members of The Fellowship, embark on a journey to save—or doom—Middle-earth.

Played The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

War of the Worlds: The New Wave – Kickstarter Edtion Can humanity repel the Martian invasion or will Earth become a colony of Mars?

Played War of the Worlds: The New Wave – Kickstarter Edtion today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Lost Ruins of Arnak Explore an island to find resources and discover the lost ruins of Arnak.

Played Lost Ruins of Arnak today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

General Orders: Sengoku Jidai Vie for control of the battlefield as warlords in feudal Japan.

Played General Orders: Sengoku Jidai today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

A Few Acres of Snow Colonize and fight for domination in the 17th-18th Century French and Indian Wars.

Played A Few Acres of Snow today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/79... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Elves, Chaos, and Curry: The Perfect Oldhammer Weekend Last Saturday saw the fourth in what has become an annual gathering of friends for a mass battle day at Boards & Swords Hobbies in Derby. As in previous years, we were playing an Oldhammer game…

Last weekend saw a number of friends gather in Derby for a big game of Oldhammer - here is a report of part of the battle from the day.

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Converting and Painting a Unique Orc Wyvern Model A couple of weeks ago, I published a post about using ChatGPT as a sounding board for creating a painting scheme. This post shows the results of that discussion. The task was to paint a centrepiece…

Following on from my blog post about using ChatGPT in the creative process for deciding on a colour scheme for my Orc & Goblin Army mounted warlord, here is how I put theory into practice

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