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Terrain Without Color

On November 13, 2016

In General, Technique, The Walking Dead: All Out War

This week I worked a bit more on my Walking Dead terrain, specifically the game board. As I discussed in my paper terrain post, I prefer terrain that is quick, usable, and easily stored. Taking my Walking Dead game into the monochromatic world of black and white (b/w) makes printable paper terrain even easier. Also, painting a full game board in b/w seems too tedious for me. It can be done to great effect, however. Just check out this thread on coolminiornot.com and or this one on lead-adventures.de.

from user vikotnik on lead-adventures.de

Slowing things down

By Christian

On November 6, 2016

In General

My Walking Dead miniatures game didn’t arrive this week so I decided to take a break from some of my ongoing projects and focus on a little side project I’ve been wanting to wrap up. I’ve been fascinated with slow motion option on my iPhone for a while now and after messing around with Pretzel Games‘ Flick ’em Up!, I found a great subject to try out this feature.

Initially, I tried out a little sample video but quickly realized I had a big issue: light flicker.

The Walking Dead is shipping!

By Christian

On October 30, 2016

In General, Technique, The Walking Dead: All Out War

I’ve been pretty excited for The Walking Dead: All Out War miniatures game from Mantic for some time now and as of late last week, the first wave of Kickstarter pledges are shipping. Mantic being UK based, I’m not likely to receive my pledge for another week or so but I decided to celebrate by test painting one of the free promo Walkers I picked up at Gen Con.

primed and ready

Dropzone Carnage

By Christian

On October 19, 2016

In Dropzone Commander, Session Report

We were able to get to our first 1500 point army build in a Dropzone Commander game last weekend.

It was great to see all the new units I built up over the last couple of weeks hit the table.

Laws of Attraction

By Christian

On October 17, 2016

In Dropzone Commander, General, Technique

So with all the Dropzone Commander priming I did last week and the upcoming game that was to take place this weekend, I got the itch to get some of my models ready for the table. I did forget about one thing: magnetizing.

Prime Time!

By Christian

On October 9, 2016

In Dropzone Commander, General, Technique

Fall is here in Colorado and minis painters know that can only mean one thing: Winter is coming. More importantly, spray paint-killing cold weather is coming. So like most minis painters that don’t have an indoor vent box, I’m doing my fall priming to get models ready for painting during the longer winter months.

Before I can even prime models though, I have to clean them. I’m working on getting through my current Dropzone Commander backlog so today I’m working on Hawk Wargames miniatures. Hawk produces some pretty clean models and I’ve only encountered one set out of all my purchases that had enough flash on the sprues to make life difficult. Seeing how I’ve bought at least 20 different little model sets from them, I’d say that is pretty good.

Storage Wars

By Christian

On October 2, 2016

In Dropzone Commander, General, Resources

I picked up some pluck foam the other day so that I could finally properly store my Dropzone Commander minis and it got me thinking of game storage solutions and where we are in the industry.

Big Doins

By Christian

On September 25, 2016

In General, Technique, X-wing Miniatures Game

No, not “doyns,” “do-INZ.” Big stuff is brewing. I teased this photo back when I was exploring The Cave:

If You’ve Only Got a Moustache

By Christian

On September 12, 2016

In General, Technique

update January 1, 2016: I’ve revised this technique here: Mustaches, version 2.0

I’ve been exploring more of Flick ’em Up! from Pretzel Games recently and wanted to add a little flair to those great little cowboy minis. According to Stephen Foster (or Seth MacFarlane), what these fine gents need is a mustache. This seemed pretty simple so I sketched out some concepts to see if it would work out.