The world of mini painting is incredible
Check out this AMAZING Slambo by Adam Wier at Between the Bolter and Me. So awesome. Those horns are freehand! No texture on them. Love it! Just a leathery old Chaos Warrior, down in the depths of a dungeon.
Re-Cursed City
It’s coming back! But you already knew that, the news has gone around the world and back. I’m glad to hear it. I even already have a copy, though I haven’t as of yet finished putting all the models together, so that means I haven’t given it a play yet either. It’ll happen. All in good time. No rushing something like this. Yeah. I’ll definitely do it.
Spindly vs Game Pieces
The 1990s are starting to be a long time ago now. That was my first run of interest in miniatures, wargaming, dungeon crawls and the like. Now with the pandemic still going, I’ve picked up the paintbrush again. I’ve definitely noticed a difference in miniatures, new miniatures are AMAZING. But as beautiful as new sculps are, I prefer the game-piece-iness of old models. Sure, new models are more proportionate, sculptural, etc. But these are game pieces! I’m looking a them from across a big table! And the spindlyness! I’ll really get into get-off-my-lawn territory there. So I guess what I’m getting at is that new minis are beautiful sculptures, but they make poor game pieces. The pictures below (not my paint jobs, clearly!), demonstrate robustness vs frailty. It is a bit funny though because I was getting out of the hobby by the time 1995 was rolling around. They were…
Coming Soon: My DIY Warhammer Quest
2D and 3D printed DIY Warhammer Quest is on it’s way!
Polar Warbear
Check this guy out! He’s part of the “Hold My Dwarf Kickstarter” available here.