@zoidpinhead agreed, these are priced not unfairly accounting for inflation; I’m genuinely thinking of getting the lot of them from a nostalgia point of view…

I switched to watercolors many years ago, they are somewhat tricky at first because they do not set until you actually seal the miniature, so you are basically always painting  on a ‘wet palette’, but I really like their working characteristics, much better than acrylics. They never dry out like acrylics – Citadel pots being especially prone to…[Read more]

While I do try to paint each miniature – even Goblin spearman no.35 – to the highest possible standard, there does come a point when you have to say enough is enough, that’s the best I can do on this mini and send the little guy off to be sealed.

If the metal sets for Weathertop/Amon Hen were cheaper, I would have gone for them but they’re just too expensive for me at the moment. Alas.

Expensive for sure but not outrageous given the cumulative effect of inflation.  The range started appearing in 2001 and some of these sets were very early in the release schedule.  In the UK cumulative inflation in the last 25 years means 2026 prices are 85% more than they were in 2001.  I seem to remember that Amon Sul felt like it was very ex…[Read more]

Huh, now that is odd. I was going to revisit the last StarCraft post here

https://www.beastsofwar.com/scifi/starcraft-tabletop-miniatures-game-pre-orders-live-today

but I only get a 404. I wonder why that was taken down?

That’s a name that is a blast from the past for sure! I can picture the little logo for his channel. I was young and hopeful when I first saw his stuff… 👴🏻