Category: Modelmaking
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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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Year of the Bigature: Interlude – What isn’t a Bigature
In the first interlude, I explained that the key to a bigature is that it must be a model of something large relative to a person, and also be physically big. The 1:1 version of a bigature should have a sense of scale to it already, but then the scale model should be large and…
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Year of the Bigature: Part Two – A Vi Machinae Divinae Interfici
The Reaver Titan was, when I was young, the largest of the titans Forgeworld made. And as a young child with limited means, it was forever out of reach. I am now an adult with a good job and for the last couple of years, I have had both the means and desire to purchase…
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Year of the Bigature: Interlude – What is a Bigature
A bigature is a big miniature. As a term, I first heard it on the making of featurette on the Matrix Reloaded, talking about the miniature set for the Zion docks, and later in various ILM and Weta making-of features for stuff like the Lord of the Rings. I’m not quite in the space to…
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Year of the Bigature: Part One – Once more into the (resin) gates
At the end of 2024 I came to a realisation: the thing I love most in my minaitures hobbying is building big miniatures. Bigatures, if you will. And I committed myself to building a number of them this year. This post is about the first of these projects, the Forgeworld Legion Mastodon. I am not…
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2024 Recap!
2024 has been a good year. I write this, bundled in a nest of blankets, in my new house, between festivities. It feels like a good time to look back at the year and make plans for the new year to come. First, a few highlights: And now a brief recap of the year: January…