About

The name is Mato (pronounced like a British tomato, if you are wondering). Returned to most of the hobbies or creative interests of my childhood sometime between 2015-2020. First it was Gathering some Magic with old and new friends, which peaked with me playing – rather unsuccessfully – in local Legacy tournaments.

Once Covid hit, and we all hid inside, I had my troubles transitioning to the Discords of this world, which continued competitive MtG with webcams, so I moved into other crafty hobbies, tried some soldering and refurbishing some older hardware. Around that time, I found my roleplaying crew, for whom I quickly became their forever Game Master, which ended with us playing a 6-year-long campaign all the way through the pandemic. RPGs were (and still are to a large degree) my drug of choice.

Around 2022 the algorithm realised that I might have some ancient history with Warhammer Fantasy Battles. As a young teen I dumped every cent of my money into Dwarfs and Tomb Kings, never playing, only painting them and staring in awe at the evocative art of those old army books. As an adult it took me a year to understand how drastically things have changed since then, and – being chronically online – I discovered that there was also a whole other world out there, free of the restrictive rules and “official” lore of Games Workshop.

Everything around the 28mm scene, the blogosphere, the fascinating creativity of people kit-bashing and sculpting their own minis (and building entire worlds and games around them), the DIY-ethos and events that felt like a get-together of friends – I was hooked.

Since then I have lined up more games to play and more projects to finish and more events to visit than my lifetime might permit me, but aren’t we all just here for the ride.

One of my favourite themes within the wargaming hobby (and folklore / mythology in general) are “The Undead”, in any way, shape or form. So, within this blog you will often find my expanding war bands, minis and worlds I shape with this theme in mind.

This also explains the nickname – “grob” is a word that means in many slavic languages “grave, coffin, burial place.”

Now if that isn’t a lovely thought to end this intro with.

Hope to see you around.

Mato