WhamBadger – Tiny Plastic People

01 Sep

Blood Brothers

Articles, Hobby#AgeofSigmar, #hobby

What’s better than 1 giant hell demon model in an army? Well, 4 giant hell demon models of course. But what sort of mad fool would do that, and why? Those of you that heard my hobby plans for 2022 on the Christmas Tiny Plastic People Pod (and if you don’t, you really should listen to the pods) may remember me unconvincingly stating the first half of 2022 was all about the backlog. Who needs new models? Me. I do. I must own all the plastic crack. So barely a couple of weeks had passed since making that comment, than…

31 May

Getting Into: Warcry Warcry! Huh! What is it good for? Absolutely Skirmish.

ArticlesAge of Sigmar, Warcry

Hi, welcome to a feature on getting into Warcry. If you’re looking at this, chances are, you’re at least a bit Warcry curious. I’m going to discuss the game in terms of what it’s good for, how it may fit into your hobby space, and options on how to get started.A note, prices are listed in UK pounds based on Games Workshop pricing and may vary in your region, or be available through another retailer cheaper! The original starter set (Credit: Games Workshop) What is it? Warcry is an alternating activation skirmish game system based in Warhammer Age of Sigmar,…

09 Aug

I made a Warcry board – A guide to what I learnt not to do – Part 5 – The Finished? Product and What I Learnt

Hobby, TerrainStep by Step, Terrain, Warcry

Hi, welcome to the fifth and final part of my guide to teach you what not to do when you make a board, so you can learn from my mistakes. If you missed them, the previous parts are here: Part 1 - Inspiration Part 2 - The Base Itself Part 3 - Modular Bases Part 4 - The Lost Chapter, and Buying My Way to Success So, the finished product looks like this: …plus this: ..plus this: I think it’s probably gotten me to an extremely high number of permutations of arrangement. Not infinite, but a high value. I am…

02 Aug

I made a Warcry board – A guide to what I learnt not to do – Part 4 – The Lost Chapter, and Buying My Way to Success

Hobby, Terrain

Hi, welcome to the fourth part of my guide to teach you what not to do when you make a board, so you can learn from my mistakes. If you missed them, the previous parts are here: Part 1 - Inspiration Part 2 - The Base Itself Part 3 - Modular Bases This section of the build has no pictures. Sorry. This is where all the failures happened, and as I wasn’t planning on talking about it at the time, I had no reason to take any photos of all the stuff that went wrong. Now that the base was…

29 Jul

The Audacity

Articles, Hobby, Tutorialspainting, Tentpole

Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Paint a Tentpole Mini I would describe myself as a slightly below mediocre army painter at skill level. It’s hard to tell given the sheer volume of amazing minis you see on the web, and I tend to only see a few other people's minis in real life, so in my head that’s where I sit. A recent mini for skill level. The point of the above is that it created a fear in me. I didn’t mind paying £25 for a hero character and not having it painted particularly well, but…

26 Jul

I made a Warcry board – A guide to what I learnt not to do – Part 3 – Modular Bases

Hobby, Terrain

Hi, welcome to the third part of my guide to teach you what not to do when you make a board, so you can learn from my mistakes. If you missed them, the previous parts are here: Part 1 - Inspiration Part 2 - The Base Itself I knew that I wanted a modular floor, but the Warcry board size is a bit tricky, 22” by 30”. I decided that having it split down the middle, I could do six sections, four would be 11” by 11”, and then two 8” by 11”, but what to make them out of?…

20 Jul

I made a Warcry board – A guide to what I learnt not to do – Part 2 – The Base Itself

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Hi, welcome to the second part of my guide to teach you what not to do when you make a board, so you can learn from my mistakes. If you missed it, part one was here, where I talked about my inspiration and made some plans. Basic plan made, I started 2 types of research. The first was the inevitable poring over any news on how Warcry Catacombs would play, most of which I wouldn’t discover until the game launched. The second was on how to make boards. For large 6x4 foot boards people would make wooden supports and two-part…

19 Jul

I made a Warcry board – A guide to what I learnt not to do – Part 1 – Inspiration

Hobby, TerrainAge of Sigmar, Terrain, Warcry

Before I get started on what I did, I am going to preamble a bit as to why I wanted to make a board for Warcry specifically. Like many people, I was into the hobby as a teenager, left for a number of years, and returned to it a few years ago on the vague premise that one of my children may also enjoy it - to which the answer is not really - despite my best attempts. The first part however is important. Heroquest aside, my teenage starting point was Epic. Gigantic battles of armies clashing across floors or…

16 Jun

My Favourite Tool: A Cutting Mat

Hobby

A fly-by look at one tool in the hobby-space – what it’s for and why it’s good. This time: A Cutting Board Up until writing this, I’d probably have said my favourite tool was my mouldline remover, but I’ll save that one for another day. My cutting board is my actual favourite tool however, as it’s the most versatile tool I have. Firstly, it’s a cutting board. So it gets used when I’m building miniatures, or otherwise messing around with hobby knives or glue. Secondly, it doubles as a quick access palette when painting, if I’m just doing a quick…