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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?…

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…

01 Jul

Rogue Raider (Part 2)

HobbyHorus Heresy, Retro

When I left you several months ago, it was with the promise of a few weeks of Land Raider-related content. Sometimes life (laziness) gets in the way, but finally I have returned to continue the saga of acquiring, building and painting a 1988 Rogue Trader-era Land Raider. First, a quick recap. By the end of Part 1, the tank was built, gap-filled, and primed, ready for the Iron Warriors’ legion serfs to start applying their livery. This time, I’ll walk you through the painting process, which will also serve as a bit of an insight into how I paint the…

28 Jun

Hobby Roundup: June 2021

Hobby, Hobby Roundup

Welcome to the Hobby Roundup for June, a look at the hobby that our Tiny Plastic People contributors have been doing. It’s been a bit of a quiet month for most of us this time, so this will be a briefer article than most - but that’s alright, isn’t it? There are no prizes for this hobby. Unless you enter a contest I guess, but then that’s true for everything. Tom F (LeSwordfish) @LeSwordfish So I didn’t go as deep into vampires as I was worried last time round, just picking up a single unit of Blood Knights - they’re…

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…

28 May

Stargrave Crews You Might Know Already

Articles, Gaming, HobbyStargrave

Sci-fi skirmish game Stargrave has arrived and the rules contain a wide range of pop sci-fi themes for the playable crews and adversaries. The game is loosely set in a lawless galaxy after an apocalyptic war where independent spaceship crews eke out a perilous existence among the stars, and it’s these crews that you play as. But space is a big place and, my god, it is full of recognisable archetypes from TV, film and books! So it seems natural to ask... how would your favourite spaceship crews from other fiction fare? Stargrave Mercenaries from North Star Military Figures The…

26 May

Hobby Roundup: May 2021

Hobby, Hobby Roundup

Welcome to the May edition of the Hobby Roundup, a look at the hobby being done by our contributors in the Tiny Plastic People bunker. There’s no bunker, that’s just how White Dwarf always used to describe their offices. I’ve never visited where White Dwarf was printed, but they set it up in the early eighties when Reagan was restarting the Cold War, so who knows - maybe they felt a bunker was the safest place? Also here at TPP we don’t even have offices, just our respective devices, but that’s one of the challenges facing new media: a lack of…