Steamfrost is a painting desk, a dice tray, and roughly thirty years of never quite settling on one game.
I've been gaming and painting miniatures since the early '90s — long enough to have strong opinions about brush care I don't follow and a lead pile that predates most of the systems currently on my shelf. If it involves polyhedral dice, a tape measure, or a paintbrush, I've probably tried it, loved it for six months, and then wandered off to the next one. I've got a bad case of gamer's ADD — an incurable weakness for character creation and army lists, and a matching allergy to finishing one campaign before starting the next.
That restlessness has a flip side, though: somebody has to run the games. I've been the eternal Game Master across more systems than I can honestly list, which is most of why this site ended up hosting a small fleet of campaign trackers instead of just one.
What actually happens here
- Painting logs — technique notes, colour recipes, and the honest version of how many attempts something actually took.
- Battle reports — how the games actually went, not how they were supposed to go.
- Homebrew and worldbuilding — house rules, faction fluff, and the occasional theory that only makes sense at 11pm.
- Campaign trackers — because keeping half a dozen ongoing games straight on paper stopped working a while ago.
Commissions
I also take miniature painting commissions — tabletop-ready or a fair bit further, depending on what the model deserves and what you're after. Got a warband that needs a unified scheme, a shelf of villains, or a single centrepiece model you don't trust yourself to highlight? Send over what you've got in mind.
Nothing here is sponsored, reviewed-for-a-free-product, or trying to sell a course. It's a hobby log that happens to be public, mostly so future-me can find the paint recipe again without digging through old photos.