by Avicenna | Dec 7, 2012
At the end of November I posted about a new website called Putty and Paint. It is still early days for them and registration is currently controlled and invitation only, but after my post I got an invite to join them (woohoo).I really recommend that anyone interested...
by Avicenna | Dec 5, 2012
Do you remember back in the day, White Dwarf ran a series of articles which basically amounted to painting a certain amount of models a month to slowly build up an army? It was called the "Tale of Four Gamers", and is a really great challenge for people like Toosh and...
by Avicenna | Nov 29, 2012
Yup, you read correctly, 'tabletop standard'...The bunch of guys Toosh and I paint with are all recovering wargamerholics and I have been spending a lot of time recently coveting their beautifully painted armies. The one thing I struggle to do these days is paint...
by Avicenna | Nov 27, 2012
Cool Mini or Not has been a staple for mini painters for ten years now, and for me was the first step outside of Wargames and into miniature painting as a recreational hobby of its very own. They are well known for their 'hot or not' scoring system where people get to...
by Avicenna | Nov 27, 2012
Kickstarters seem to be all the rage at the moment and, for miniatures at least, there seems to be a couple of different ways they are used.One is by larger companies as a convenient, hip and 'modern' way of taking pre-orders. This is a bit of a twisting of the idea...
