Tabletop Gaming News is a website devoted to publishing news, review and articles about all facets of the tabletop gaming hobby. The aim of the site is to provide a wide ranging source of news and to focus solely on providing news and reviews.

Tabletop Gaming News was started in 2005 as a way to gather and publish news and reviews for a wide range of gaming interests. Many news and community site tend to have a limited focus, often driven by the interests of the site’s owners or maintainers, but most gamers themselves have, in our experience, wider interests.

With many sites focused on a narrow range of games or gaming periods its often difficult for gamers to get an news or information about the wealth of hobby options available to them. And so Tabletop Gaming News was created to help provide a wider, independent scope to the news presented to gamers. In the short time it has been in operation the site has quickly outgrown two different hosting solutions and has now moved to its own dedicated domain with a new software backend that will provide a more flexible foundation on which to grow and expand the site.

We hope that you like the new site and look forward to providing you a wide range of news and reviews about this hobby that we all love.

About the writers at TGN

Zac Belado (editor)

Zac has been involved in wargaming for close to twenty years. His first wargaming experience was with the, then, newly released Rogue Trader rules from Games Workshop. Since that time he has, like many gamers, acquired miniatures for a wide range of games and periods. His current gaming favourites are the new Warmaster Ancients rules using Baccuss 6mm figures and the Confrontation Third edition rules.

Prior to starting TGN, Zac was the founder, developer and chief editor for Director-Online.com. Zac brings this experience with building online communities and news websites to the wargaming community.

Grant Hill

Grant joined a wargames club in his early teens and has been hooked on the scene ever since. He was introduced to the hobby by the Games Workshop/MB Games Heroquest and Space Crusade board games, but since then has played a massive range of games from glitzy boxed sets to home grown rules held together with paperclips. He’s currently a fan of skirmish games, with favourites including Confrontation and Infinity. Grant is a UKCORD (UK based Rackham Federation) staff and demo team member, and is also the webmaster for that group’s gallery of painted miniatures.

Bob Barnetson

Bob has been gaming since 1983, when a school teacher brought out some 1/72 Esci tanks and a set of homebrew rules. Bob’s interests lie mostly with historical miniatures.

Based in Edmonton, Canada, Bob games with the Edmonton Wargame Group. He has a penchant for 6mm figures with large ancients, AWI and WW2 collections.

Bob regularly contributes articles to wargaming magazines and recently took the pledge to buy no more figures until he’s painted what he’s got.

Judith Northwood
Judith Northwood is a self-taught artist, working almost exclusively in a small scale for her 2D equine art, which made it a natural thing to start painting minis again when she dropped by a game store to look at D&D Third Edition and saw how far the sculptures had come from the simple figures she remembered painting very badly back in the 80s.

She has been thoroughly bitten by the figmentia bug since then, volunteering to teach painting at the Origins Paint-n-Take long enough to be a senior volunteer there, teaching classes at Gen Con since 2006, adding historical wargaming conventions in 2007, and helping out at every local event she can around her schedule as a Ph.D. student in the history of medicine.

Her first minis were done in oils, which she still thinks have advantages over acrylics. Speed isn’t one of them, though, so she switched to acrylics in 2002. She has won quite a few store competitions early and one of her major goals for the near future is to decide on a piece and enter one of the major competitions. Another is to paint more for sale. She does do commissions when she can and is available to teach at other events.

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