@brennon Approaching Middle Age Man appears on camera with his “Sensible Comfortable Corded Sweater™”. Fallen Empires was an interesting set of busts. I don’t regret not getting their special base from the KS but I still have one of their busts sitting around somewhere. As far as shirking the loinclothes of your barbarian rabble, you have no sympathy from the peanut gallery. @avernos Darksword Miniatures and the work they do for the Elmore Masterworks collection is a toss up for the detail. With Jen, Harvester of Souls on my shelf I will say they have some fiddly metal sculpts that… Read more »

Feckin’ beezer show

I think Armstrong in 82 was the peak for ne

We’re all with you @brennon

It all reminds me of the old GW (?) Adventurer carrying everything including the kitchen sink

Happy Sunday! Not sure I entirely agree with Ben on this one. I do get that if you are painting a horde of 50 skeletons then painting in all of the details can be a proper grind, and one that may put you off starting. But I would say that if you are painting a horde of 50 skeletons, you don’t need to paint in all of those details. They will look just fine with the small details covered by the base coat, wash and drybrush that is on everything else. Might just be a case of reframing what you… Read more »

It always makes me laugh when sci-fi folk talk about realism. I’m like have you seen the tanks, guns and artillery for your game…lol..I’ve seen sci-fi guns where the magazine was near the muzzle but the firing mechanism was no where near the mag….🤣🤣🤣🤣

I’m not a grimdark player or ,since the glory goblin green days of the 90s, a games workshop customer but I have been enjoying the designs coming out of the necromunda team which I feel have lots of character. I’m also as a huge fan of warp miniatures which pack in the character better than anyone right now in my opinion. In terms of historic perry and foundary are still a turn to while perry plastics and wargames Atlantic kits are full of lovely detail. If I didn’t feel I had too many projects demanding attention and had more coinage… Read more »

You’ve reminded me of painting my Saga army. The Gripping Beast metal Welshies aren’t the best but heck I could smash through them. One batch one shade of brown and red accents, another with woad and off-white or whatever, the army actually got finished(!) I have little time or energy to paint these days. I’m 100% for simpler minis.

Dave and I had a bloody good moan about this on at least one stream. It was great to see Ben do such a great job of pulling ‘the evidence’ together, that we couldn’t be arsed to.
As a paint to play guy, I hate this trend.

Happy Sunday.
I love North Stars Frostgrave range. They paint up very well indeed. My kind of miniature.

Happy Shayday! 00:00 Answer: YES! They are. Next! 02:15 Internet went blargh 02:45 Self love is important! 04:50 Spending hobby money to keep the economy happy! 06:45 Build to order. Nice. 07:55 Crisping is now happy. 10:05 But wait! There is more! 12:55 they put effort into it 14:20 and it’s sold out! 17:00 Zöööömbies 18:55 Who calls? 19:01 they are still on backorder and I will do that bloody comparison video!11!!! 20:25 Crispin now extra happy 22:55 Do them all? Madness! 25:00 Eat your greens? 27:00 Horse doesn’t take good 28:30 stabby stabby blood! 30:45 Lies! Deception! Every day… Read more »

on ebay the farm is £85 plus 99p postage

Happy Sunday……oh yes and Friday weekender..

Great show as always, and thank you for the Golden Button.

I think there’s difference between ‘detail’ and ‘clutter’. Look at an AB Figures 18mm Napoleonic sculpt, and it is incredibly detailed figure, but not cluttered with unnecessary things. Figures in a similar size range to AB are less detailed (like Xan for example), and I really like that there are these differences. I can pick a more simple sculpt like Xan to work through bulk loads of line infantry more likely, but go for AB for key figures like characters and cavalry and embrace the detail. I dislike overly cluttered models, when there’s just an overabundance of ‘things’. As mentioned… Read more »

I do so love starting my Sunday with strong coffee and the Cult of Games XLBS. Imagine my surprise to hear my “name” mentioned during the Community Spotlight for my Reaper Bones blog. Very flattered you like my work, especially as the Bones pieces are often experiments. Thanks so much for the Golden Button!

Great to see EM4 Miniatures get a shout out.

This was brilliant and I very much agree with Ben. I think some of the newer overly detailed miniatures lack… soul? I see a miniature as a story by itself. With too many details in there, you just get lost.

Then again, I’m also closing in on middle age and might be shouting at clouds.

I have recently painted a bunch of C’Tan for my Necrons commission .

The two old ones are very cool, the two newer designs are awful. Like someone just found digital sculpting and tried to see how far it could go, regardless of the end result. Awful to paint, too.

https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1910433/

I agree with Ben. I think there is a wider point about good and bad design and sculpting here too. Models can have detail if it makes sense in the context not only of the setting but the game design too. If you are designing rank and file for a massed battle game then the extra gubbins isn’t needed and is irritating. If your setting is gribbly (e.g. Trench Crusade) and your model count is low then go for it with extra bits for sure but do it sensibly and stick them on an extras sprue so the modellers out… Read more »