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Eli Arndt at Loud ninja games has just gone live with his kickstarter campaign to bring the Chuhuac Space raptors into production in 15mm mini form! These are going to be great little figures and I encourage anyone who is an avid 15mm sci-fi gamer or collector to get on board while the project is… Continue reading LOUD NINJA GAMES: 15mm SPACE RAPTOR Miniatures Kickstarter now Live!
So, I finally got the model finished. I can now tick it off on my "to do" list! I had thought it was a good idea to let everyone see what the end result looks like. I can take you through a few stages to completion, I do add that this is more for my… Continue reading The Black Dog Salvage Co. Finished at last!!
Today, we have a guest writer. Mick from Black Mouse games has done us a write up of the progress thus far on their Medieval 15mm wargame rules "Rex Bellator". I know that like myself, a lot of our readers enjoy historical stuff in 15mm(gods own scale!) and 28mm, and I must admit I think… Continue reading REX BELLATOR 15mm Medieval rules from Black Mouse Games
I know this article probably won't be as useful to some readers here, already well into the scratchbuilding bug like me, but I would hope that some of you that may have little or no experience in this subject will find some or all of it useful in some way. I intend to put up… Continue reading Grim’s Modelmaking Tips: My top 10 Cheap or Free materials for scratchbuilding
A while back on one of the tomb kings forums somewhere, there was a guy asking everyone what they thought of Twilight Creations Bag "O" Skeletons for use with one of its games midevil. They sold them separate in bags of 100 plastic 25mm skellies, well, he wondered what if he were to get a… Continue reading Twilight Creations Bag “o” Skeletons…So many uses…
This figure was an experiment and just messing about, I was short of riding beasts for my O&G army for WFB, so I decided to sculpt one to save on cash. The result was this strange squig type mount. I tried to keep the features orky, with its big stupid grin, I admit it could… Continue reading 28mm Orc Champion on Squog beast (Own sculpt)
CALLING ALL CREATIVE TYPES.... Would you like to guest write for the Grinning Skull? Do you have some cool diorama or terrain to show? Showcase your miniatures? or have a step by step tutorial about making terrain that you'd love to share, its up to you! It is my hope here to continue to offer… Continue reading Calling all creative types…..
So finally I can get the background of the Oggam factions down. I regret this hasn't been sooner but sometimes real life gets in the way! This presented here is a shortened version of the faction backgrounds, while the last part of the updated PDF, will go into more detail about them. Here I present… Continue reading OGGAM FACTIONS: THE GLORIOUS GOLDEN EMPIRE OF OG
Here is the finished model, I thought I would share the pics to show you how it's turned out. With a few rocks, flock and static grass and moss, I reckon it's a nice piece in the end! The skull were suggested to show that it had eaten previous, at first I was against the… Continue reading Finished Carnivorous Plant photos!
So, stage two, painted and drybrushed with with a few washes, billboard added and extra light on post. still plenty to do, but on the home stretch. Pics: Incidentally, the scrap in the scrap yard is made from a broken R/C mini helicopter as well as loads of bits from electronic stuff broken up,… Continue reading The black Dog Salvage company WIP shots, Stage 2
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