Matakishi's Tea House
A simple little site...
The Plan
The plan is to have a self-contained game about flying saucers, hillbillies and kidnapped cows that has the feel of a board game with miniatures. The number of figures involved will be relatively small (to begin with) and I hope to be able to make enough scenery for a 6ft x 4ft table, the main component of which will be a farm. Obviously I can use the farm for many different games so it will be a worthwhile building project.
To begin with I am using a hillbilly family and some girl campers from Britannia Miniatures' sister company Inkerman Castings, some small aliens from Black Cat Bases and some Mega Miniatures cows.
Here are the hilllbillies, well-armed camping girls and the cows.
Here is a photo showing how the Britannia figures size up against some other manufacturers' similar figures.
The first of the Hillbilles painted, these comprise the main family.
And their livestock:
How can you have Hillbillies and not have pigs? These fine specimens are from Irregular Miniatures.
Some more humans, the Hillbillies here are from Copplestone Castings.
and the first of the extra-terrestrial threats, spaceship stowaways. These little guys are from the Wargames Supply Dump.
Here is the first of several Alien Overlords that has come to claim Earth as his own. This charming fellow is Slug Eat Your Face from Thunderbolt Mountain. Slug Eat Your face was sculpted by Tom Meier and designed by his son Theo.
Here he is with his giant Space Slug minions from Fenris Games.
click on the picture for a bigger version
To add to everyone's troubles Bigfoot may pop along to see what all the noise is about. This particular Bigfoot is from Reaper Miniatures.
More nasties from the Wargames Supply Dump, this time evil Cyclopeans.
Interfering Kids. These are from Hasslefree Miniatures. The van is by Lledo.
These are from a train set.
Another alien menace, Gorilla Grodd, War Ape of the Simian Empire! (He's from Reaper Miniatures).
To begin with I am using a hillbilly family and some girl campers from Britannia Miniatures' sister company Inkerman Castings, some small aliens from Black Cat Bases and some Mega Miniatures cows.
Here are the hilllbillies, well-armed camping girls and the cows.
Here is a photo showing how the Britannia figures size up against some other manufacturers' similar figures.
The first of the Hillbilles painted, these comprise the main family.
And their livestock:
How can you have Hillbillies and not have pigs? These fine specimens are from Irregular Miniatures.
Some more humans, the Hillbillies here are from Copplestone Castings.
and the first of the extra-terrestrial threats, spaceship stowaways. These little guys are from the Wargames Supply Dump.
Here is the first of several Alien Overlords that has come to claim Earth as his own. This charming fellow is Slug Eat Your Face from Thunderbolt Mountain. Slug Eat Your face was sculpted by Tom Meier and designed by his son Theo.
Here he is with his giant Space Slug minions from Fenris Games.
click on the picture for a bigger version
To add to everyone's troubles Bigfoot may pop along to see what all the noise is about. This particular Bigfoot is from Reaper Miniatures.
More nasties from the Wargames Supply Dump, this time evil Cyclopeans.
Interfering Kids. These are from Hasslefree Miniatures. The van is by Lledo.
These are from a train set.
Another alien menace, Gorilla Grodd, War Ape of the Simian Empire! (He's from Reaper Miniatures).
