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As you know, I love the strange and off the wall stuff, and I'm pretty surprised this one slipped past me entirely! Myconids are a race of Mushroom humanoid from the glory days of gaming, and one of my favourite fantasy races. There are a few good examples in miniature form, but they are few… Continue reading Crowdfunding Spotlight: Fun-Gi’s to be with: Myconids from Gloom Glade on Indiegogo
For those of you who like a little eastern take on your miniature wargaming, Kensei Miniatures have launched an Indiegogo campaign to get loads of great creatures into lead. I saw a few of the greens a while ago and was quite impressed with them, so it's nice to see them finally going down the… Continue reading Kensei Oriental Fantasy Creatures on Indiegogo.
Black cat bases Spotted this on TMP, Black cat bases are releasing packs of Penguins and seals, great for dioramas or inuit eskimo wargaming scenarios, either that or you could run some seal clubbing games, or Pingu related madness. Whatever you use them for, they are unique to say the least! Now all we… Continue reading Black Cat Bases release Penguins & Seals. Pingu wargaming anyone?
[TMP] Fanticide: Blood Tree Warband Arrives. I spotted this on TMP and was quite impressed actually. A tree/plant based army has always interested me for something quirky to collect, and this seems to add more fuel to my fire! I didn't want yet another project/collection for this year (Hell, I'm still painting Orcs and gobbos… Continue reading Fanticide Blood Trees have given me ideas…
Ok, lately I've been toying with some new concepts for creature design for a new alien race or two, for use in 15mm Sci-fi wargaming. Everytime I start this creative process, regardless of what the creature is going to be used for, a large sculpture or mask, an ornament or miniature, the brainstorm begins. This… Continue reading 15mm Miniature Creature Design basics
So I thought I would share my latest finished alien plant terrain piece, I regret, I wished had more time to spare between my projects, wargaming, sculpting and real life commitments. Usually I would have taken some WIP shots as I made the piece, but due to time constraints and not having my camera charged,… Continue reading More 15mm Alien plant terrain- Alien swamp
These days the humble 15mm miniature has seen something of a revival within the gaming world, I myself have always been a fan since I was a kid (My dad bought me my first mini at about the age of 7 or so) What stopped me from getting the 15mm bug full on, was the… Continue reading Ten 15mm miniature ranges nobody makes! (Possibly with good reason)
As you may have gathered, I tend to have many projects on the go most of the time. This time I'd like to share my part done castle interior, I plan on doing the outside later with some towers and such, so I can use it as a castle ruin on the battlefield as well… Continue reading Scratch Built 28mm Castle/Dungeon Interior WIP
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)
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