Showing posts with label Fighting Fantasy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fighting Fantasy. Show all posts

Friday, March 20, 2026

Output of One

Keep Painting 


Work continues to take up loads of time, but I have been making slow progress and managed to finish off another high elf and started on the Eru-Kin (Slann) warchief. 


And I have continued to map out the City of Thieves and up to 250 out of 400. So, well over halfway. But now I am going to have to find a printer big enough to print it!




Right, now on to other important matters.


Rob 

Saturday, March 14, 2026

Side Quest

 & Goblins Done


Managed to finish off the last couple of goblins for the goblin unit. Which brings them up to twenty and this completes the ones I had sitting on the paint bench. The last two were one of the classic hobgoblins from Oakbound and a repaint of the Citadel 80's Giak from their Lone wolf range. 



I then went onto a bit of a side project. Which is to start map out the entire book of the City of Thieves from Fighting Fantasy. To be honest I have tried to do this a couple of times already (most notably during lockdown in the UK) but I have never managed to finish it*

*Now up to 166 out of 400.  

Yep, this is the battered and well read original from 1984

This is the book that really kick started my fantasy hobby journey. I had already read the Hobbit by this stage but this is the true starting point my collecting of Citadel minis back in 1984 (?). After a mate at school showed me a copy and I was hooked. 

I played this book obsessively trying to defeat Zanbar Bone until I finally realised I had taken the wrong turn whilst in the City of Thieves and missed getting one of the vital ingredients to defeat him. After that many other gamebooks followed and just a few Citadel minis... 

So I suppose the question, why do this now? Well one of the challenges (a much younger me) had when I was playing these gamebooks is that is was easy to miss a vital choice because you can't see it all mapped out and I thought it would be good finally see it all in one go. And as I have already found, Ian Livingstone did not make easy even if they were supposed to be for kids!

Rob