Category: Making
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Orktober 2026: Prelude
Every October I engage in some kind of mad project to build some Ork models. Orks being the Mad Max adjacent green muscle bound cockney lads in Games Workshop’s 40k setting. The net result of if football hooligans were into illicit body modification and scrapheap challenge. Last year I built, heavily converted, and painted an…
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Year of the Bigature: Part Three – In Strange Moods
October has, for as long as I’ve been back in the hobby, been Orktober, the ceremonial month in which Ork/Orc/Orruck players simultaniously celebrate the wide array of ways in which they enjoy and embody their chosen faction, and also lament their apparent abandonment by Games Workshop. Many other hobbyists, myself included, take October as an…
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A Sprue, a Runner and a Gate
Plastic is fantastic. High impact polystyrene and ABS are wonderful materials for making miniatures from. They are lightweight, flexible and elastic enough to be resistant to light bending, but hard enough to be easily cut and shaped with hand tools. It’s also cheap. If you buy a box of hard plastic miniatures today, the box…