Afternoon folks, bit late to the game this week but loving what everyones been working on already 🙂
@mage some interesting questions:
- don’t really do historical, but I’ve got some stuff for Black Scorpions Tombstone for some high-noon antics, but as a lapsed student of archaeology and folklore I utterly dig Mierce Miniatures Darklands setting. How can you not love Vikings who bring with them trolls and raven-men, shapeshifting Anglo-Saxons who were-out, Welsh who have access to dragons & dragon-kin bound by ancient oaths, Fomoriic hordes, an insane pleasure cult, Necromantic Jutes, Byazntine legions seeking to reclaim the ruins of the Western Empire with the aid of demonic pacts and Antlanteans who bring with them an army of bronze automata (including Talos of Jason & the Argonauts fame). I have been tempted by Bolt action and Konflict ’47 though….
- I love both, but SF normally takes the top spot in my heart. Mainly because I enjoy seeing how writers can extrapolate where humanity can go – authors like Alistair Reynolds, Peter F Hamilton, Richard Morgan, Ann Leckie and Justina Robson, amongst others, and when I was younger I just devoured Arthur C Clarkes works. Which is all quite ironic given how much of my hobbytime at the moment is spent amongst the Grim Darkness of the yaddayaddayadda 😉 .
- Harry Potter. Now bear in mind during the peak of Potter-mania and the films coming out I worked for the now-defunct book retailer Borders, and I just found it so ****ing hard to show an interest in this franchise. and I don’t knock the fans as so many people have gotten into genre fiction by way of this series, but man did I bounce off it hard.
- At the moment it’s a split between Citadel and Army Painter, but I’m enjoying trying out the brands that come in from Asset Drop
- One PC game i still adore to this day and wish was more well known – Hostile Waters: Anteus Rising. it’s an early 2000’s riff on Carrier Command with a hefty dash of Rogue Trooper with bio-chips containing your old crews personalities that can take control of the various vehicles you can build, and oh do they like to talk , complaining if you put them in a vehicle they don’t like, complimenting and berating each other, offering witty bon mots as they engage the enemy. All this with a superb script by comics ace Warren Ellis and narration by Tom Baker. here, check out the intro:
oh yeah, and I got my Knights built! I’ve left off most of the armour plates as for my colour scheme these are going to be reds & yellows with gold trim so I want them primed in a brown to give a warm base. The torso armour is going to be black anyway so gluing the main shell into place saves a bit of hassle later….
