Category: Making

  • Year of the Bigature: Part Three – In Strange Moods

    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…

  • 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…