Hobby | HalfNaked Ladies

Now that the unit of Stormcast Judicators is done and dusted, I needed something of a palette cleanser after that ordeal. Something simple with not a lot of details. So out came this sorceress, which is not the first elf sorceress I've painted this year. 

Review | Space Dinosaur Miniatures 2022 and a Look Forward to 2023

Another year gone by and here we are at the end, which means it's time for the annual Year In Review for the Space Dinosaur Miniatures. This has been a good year, with Covid waning allowing for more activities, but I still got a good amount of minis done. 

Hobby | Ebay Rescues Demigryph Knights and Direwolves

The world of miniature wargaming is an expensive place. GW is king of that world, an suitably so, they charge a hefty price for minis. I, however, cannot afford to pay that hefty price for every single mini. And so I turn to other places, mostly Ebay, to feed my addiction. Usually, I buy bulk lots for cheap that are either unpainted or badly painted, and I clean them up and get going from there. From time to time, there are some models that come painted juuuust well enough where I get a time savings and I give some models a new home. And that's how I ended up with these three Demigryph Knights and a unit of five "direwolves". 

Hobby Table: High Elf Swordmasters from Isle of Blood/Spire of Dawn

Get your brushes and clippers, and welcome to the Space Dinosaur Hobby Table, where I cover what I've completed recently in the Age of Sigmar hobby, along with a mini-review of the sculpts, how easy they're to paint, and any tips or tricks I can pass on to make your life easier. After what feels like an eternity, I've completed a unit of 10 Swordmasters from the now defunct Swifthawk Agents faction. 

Review: Space Dinosaur Miniatures 2021 and a Look Forward to 2022

Now that we're nearing the end of 2021 and we can see 2022 just off the horizon, it's time for the Space Dinosaur Minis 2021 year in review. Obviously, 2021 was another Covid year, but unlike 2020 I wasn't locked in my house the entire time, so this year there's a little bit less accomplished, but still, I think I made a good run of the year. 

Hobby Table: Converted Sorceress on "Black" Dragon

Get your brushes and clippers, and welcome to the Space Dinosaur Hobby Table, where I cover what I've completed recently in the Age of Sigmar hobby, along with my thoughts on the sculpts, how easy they're to paint, and any tips or tricks I can pass on to make your life easier. Today I have an old High Elf dragon I lightly converted to become a Sorceress on Black Dragon.

Hobby Table: Freeguild General on Griffon, Albrecht Grunewald

Get your brushes and clippers, and welcome to the Space Dinosaur Hobby Table, where I cover what I've completed recently in the Age of Sigmar hobby, along with my thoughts on the sculpts, how easy they're to paint, and any tips or tricks I can pass on to make your life easier. Today we're back to normal after a great Spooktober month, and we're kicking it off with a big ol' General on Griffon. 

Hobby Table: Cities of Sigmar Freeguild Guard and Bonus Volley Gun

Get your brushes and clippers, and welcome to the Space Dinosaur Hobby Table, where I cover what I've completed recently in the Age of Sigmar hobby, along with my thoughts on the sculpts, how easy they're to paint, and any tips or tricks I can pass on to make your life easier. Today's post will quickly cover some more Freeguild Guard that I've completed, this time of the sword wielding variety, plus a bonus Helblaster Volley Gun.

Space Din-O-Pinions: When a Hobby Project Takes too Damned Long

Welcome to Space Din-O-pinions where I ramble about my incoherent thoughts in the wargame hobby. Today's post will discuss something I'm sure a lot of you have faced: when that hobby project just starts dragging and never seems to end. The particular project I'm talking about is this unit of 5 Drakespawn Knights, whose pretty pictures now grace this article. In the literal months it took to finish this unit, which is far longer than it takes me on average to paint models such as these, it got me to thinking about why that happens and what you can do to fix it. 

Hobby Table: Heldenmarch Helblaster Volley Gun, The Copper Choir

Get your brushes and clippers, and welcome to the Space Dinosaur Hobby Table, where I cover what I finished painting or building recently for Age of Sigmar, as well as my thoughts on the sculpts, how easy they are to paint, and any tips or tricks I can pass on to make your life easier. Today's post will cover the first rendition of the Helblaster Volley Gun and its associated crew. 

Hobby Table: Heldenmarch Demigryph Knights, The Order of the Rooks

Get your brushes and clippers, and welcome to the Space Dinosaur Hobby Table, where I cover what I finished painting or building recently for Age of Sigmar, as well as my thoughts on the sculpts, how easy they are to paint, and any tips or tricks I can pass on to make your life easier. Today's post will cover Demigryph Knights from the Cities of Sigmar range. 

Review: 3D Printing Miniatures with FDM Printers, Age of Sigmar Steam Tank Example

Welcome to another review here on the Space Dinosaur, where I'll take a deep dive into a product, game, or technique and offer my opinions and recommendations. Today's topic is 3D printing miniatures in plastic. This was my first foray into printing a miniature and not terrain, and in my opinion, the results are, well, mixed. 

Hobby Table: Heldenmarch Handgunners, 6th Edition WHFB Sculpts

Welcome to the first post of 2021 here on the Space Dinosaur Minis blog!

After the Cities of Sigmar barely scraped a lucky win in a 4 player free for all battle, it was time that they received some new painted models, new being relative. The models in question are handgunners from the 6th Edition Warhammer Fantasy Battles starter box, which was Empire vs Orcs. 

Paint Recipe: Cities of Sigmar Cogsmith

For today's Paint Recipe we have a short (hehe) post on the duardin Cogsmith, a hero for the Cities of Sigmar that buffs artillery pieces such as the Helblaster Volley Gun and Helstorm Rocket Battery. This is the first time that a duardin has appeared on the blog, unless you count this miniatures brief appearance in my 2020 review post. I will admit that I didn't really like painting this model, as the short stature of the model made it more difficult to reach some of the details (psht sub-assemblies...) which slowed down the process a bit. 

Hobby Table: Dreadlord on Black Dragon and Archmage

As I mentioned in my previous post, the Amber Fiefdoms have received two new units in the form of the Dreadlord on Blackdragon and an Archmage from the out of production Spire of Dawn boxset. This army had been giving me trouble as I was struggling to find any desire to paint them. But recently my wife mentioned that I should paint the big dragon sitting at the back of the shelf, and here we are. On top of that, Broken Realms: Morathi gave me a bit of motivation as well. More on that in a bit. 

Review: Space Dinosaur Miniatures 2020 and a Look Forward to 2021

While 2020 has been a wild year, what with the pandemic and wildfires and elections and all, but here on the Space Dinosaur Miniatures I've been having a great time. A large part of this has been the working from home, which has resulted in an explosion of hobby work. The blog has grown from 3 to 8 posts a year to breaking 50 posts in 2020. I've added a new army to the bunch, and several armies have grown a bit in size. So lets take a look back at 2020 to see what I got done, and then we'll look to 2021 and what I have in store for you dear reader. 

 

Gaming Table: Thanksgiving 4 Player Free-for-all

 Over the Thanksgiving weekend, I managed to squeeze in a game of Age of Sigmar with my three brothers. In the interest of time and to accommodate the younger players, each of us had a 500 point army, with no allegiance abilities, just the straight up warscroll rules. I was playing a mixed Skaven list, versus a Stormcast, Slaves to Darkness, and Cities of Sigmar armies. The objective was to be the last one standing. 

Paint Recipe: How to Paint Lothern Sea Guard, Amber Fiefdom Infantry

Thanks to vacation and work ramping back up to near pre-covid levels, this post is coming out later than I was hoping. Regardless, it covers the paints and techniques that I use for my Amber Fiefdom infantry. The models are Lothern Sea Guard from the Spire of Dawn starter kit, which unfortunately is now out of print. The unit of 10 took some time to paint due to the amount of detail on each model, but in the end it was worth it. 

Hobby Table: Heldenmarch Wizard and Helstorm Rocket Battery

A few posts back I covered the over-arching lore of Heldenmarch, and as I paint more units for the army I will include some snippets of lore on how they fit into the larger tale. I eventually intend to cover all of my models this way, but the big lore posts take a bit of time since I have to make a coherent background, draw maps, design backdrops and take nice photos, on top of painting the miniatures themselves. 

Narrative: The Kingdom of Heldenmarch - Lore and Rules for Play

Today's post is the first in a new series that covers the lore of one of my armies that I use to play in Age of Sigmar. I have done something similar in the past, but much of that lore has been developed in the years since, so now I can do the concept justice.  

Although the models are from Age of Sigmar, the lore has taken on a life of its own, with some liberties taken here and there. You could always consider the Silverlight Region to be a pocket realm in the grander Age of Sigmar scheme, which would help explain why some names carried over (cough Heldenmarch cough). I want the feeling of the Old World mixed with Age of Sigmar, so this is the result.