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Episode 33: Keeping in the spookies

Episode 33: Keeping in the spookies

November 10, 2024
Episode 32: Two big thumbs up from Ayn Rand

Episode 32: Two big thumbs up from Ayn Rand

October 23, 2024
Enter The Age of Sigmar Fourth Edition Takes Zone

Enter The Age of Sigmar Fourth Edition Takes Zone

September 29, 2024

Bitz a Wonderful Life
06 Mar

Bitz a Wonderful Life

Hobby, Tutorials, ,
Converting, Kitbashing, and Why It Might Be For You! A quick safety note: some of the tips here involve chopping and hacking your miniatures in ways that weren’t intended by the designers. Be careful when using sharp tools! There are a raft of valid and understandable apprehensions over kitbashing; the worry of putting valuable plastic at risk, concerns of “ruining” a model, uncertainty over costs, fear of failure, and plenty more. I’d love to say that they’re all unfounded but honestly, I’ve experienced every one of them during my time in the hobby. But that needn’t stop you! So why…
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The Month In Miniatures: February 2021
05 Mar

The Month In Miniatures: February 2021

News
Welcome to February’s issue of the Month in Miniatures, the regular news roundup from Tiny Plastic People. My goal here is to write a monthly summary of all the things happening in Games Workshop’s miniatures ranges, to let you keep up with the new and interesting things that have been revealed or released, without needing to check all the blogs every day. February gave us a videogame trailer, two Age of Sigmar army books, and a whole reveals stream dedicated to AoS, which means there’s a whole mess of cool stuff to see this time. Total War: Warhammer Right back…
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Founding Felstad (Part 2)
03 Mar

Founding Felstad (Part 2)

Articles, Gaming, Hobby, Terrain, Tutorials, ,
When I last left you, I’d made a whole bunch of single storey scatter terrain. This was a good start but I really needed some larger pieces, and especially some elevation, to make the table more varied and fun.  The first thing I did was grab a couple of bits from Gale Force 9’s Battlefield in a Box range.  These are nice pieces and if you’ve played any games at a games store you’ve probably seen them, as they’re made of resin so are nice and robust, and they come pre-painted.  Of course I needed them to match the rest…
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My Changing Relationship With the Lore
01 Mar

My Changing Relationship With the Lore

Articles, Gaming
From holy text to source of inspiration There is a shelf in my house that holds one of my proudest possessions. It bends under the weight of it, such that I sometimes wonder if the only reason it is still intact is the supporting structure of further books below, rather than the fine quality Swedish engineering of the bookcase itself. It has moved with me several times, from my childhood home in the English Midlands, to a coastal university in Wales, then to a rented flat and finally to a home I own for myself in the North East. To…
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Cult of Personality
27 Feb

Cult of Personality

Articles, Hobby,
Hello. My name is James, and I returned to hobby about eighteen months ago after a very, very, very long break. In the early noughties, post-uni, I ran out of disposable income and had to start paying rent and adding to my pile of debt instead of my pile of shame. Today, older, wiser (not wiser, this article will be a testament to that), a bit of disposable income again, and with a slightly larger flat that can accommodate a small hobby area perhaps the time was right to revisit my old stomping grounds? Oh, and I should probably mention…
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Neonheim Build (Part 4)
25 Feb

Neonheim Build (Part 4)

Terrain, ,
With a lot of the initial board structure built, I moved over to the less complete right-hand side. While adding the previously fabricated cardboard I-beam walkways, I also added some plain foam panelling down the wall for some visual interest. Whilst the walkways looked pretty unsupported there, I had planned to add some vertical pipes for support: to add a bit of cover for games, and also increase the feeling that this area of the board was more of a maintenance space for the original builders of the district. One thing worth covering is that I deliberately staggered these new…
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Why I Love: Hedonites of Slaanesh
23 Feb

Why I Love: Hedonites of Slaanesh

Articles, Hobby, ,
A Hedonite host marches to battle against their arch-rivals, the followers of Khorne.Image credit: Warhammer Community Of the four Chaos Gods, Slaanesh has always been my favourite. I find the idea of corruption through the pursuit of perfection, vanity and obsession a really cool hook for a faction. With the recent release of the new Slaanesh Battletome and an expanded range of mortals, I thought it might be a good idea to dive into what makes the Hedonites of Slaanesh my favourite faction in Age of Sigmar. First, a quick note: Slaanesh themself is referred to with different pronouns in…
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Getting Into: The Horus Heresy
22 Feb

Getting Into: The Horus Heresy

Articles, Gaming, , , ,
So, you’re thinking about the Horus Heresy Miniatures game? I think an important question to ask yourself, when thinking about delving into what amounts to a Historical Wargame set in the Warhammer 40,0000 (40k) universe, is “will this be worth it to me?”. It’s no secret that playing Horus Heresy: Age of Darkness (sometimes called Warhammer 30,000, 30k or just Horus Heresy) - is a potentially daunting prospect. The models are expensive, you need separate (often impractically fancy) books to the current 40k range of rules, and the model range is largely only available in hard-to-work-with resin, from limited suppliers,…
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Welcome to Tiny Plastic People
18 Feb

Welcome to Tiny Plastic People

Articles, News
Hello! Welcome to Tiny Plastic People! This little website is a project that a few of us have had on the backburner for a while now. The genesis of the idea came to our community after we realised there weren't really many websites that were covering Warhammer and tabletop gaming in a way that matched with our attitudes. After a lot of prevaricating, we eventually decided to give it a go ourselves. Two years of false starts later, we finally knuckled down and got something running. For the past month we've been putting a lot of free time into getting…
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My Favourite Tool: Proxxon Thermocut
18 Feb

My Favourite Tool: Proxxon Thermocut

Hobby, Tutorials
A fly-by look at one tool in the hobby-space - what it's for and why it’s good. This time: the Proxxon Thermocut Hot Wire Cutter Got foam that needs cutting? Want to make a large amount of terrain, very quickly? You might consider a hot wire cutter! The proxxon thermocut The elephant in the room, is this an expensive tool? Yes, it's not cheap, about as expensive as a larger Games Workshop kit, but I will tell you now, if you have anything beyond a passing interest in terrain building: you want this in your life*. With no exaggeration, you…
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