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Old Stuff Day 2012

2012-03-02T08:00:00.000-08:00

It's Old Stuff Day - it's just like shopping at thrift store, which I've done in the past because I had no money in law school, not because I'm a hipster... Anyways, not like one inch warriors has been super productive since Old Stuff Day 2011, but I've combed through the archives to give you some links to awesomeness. First, my best post from the last 12 months was about painting wooden weapon

A Note on Painting Wooden Weapon Shafts

2012-02-16T20:45:00.000-08:00

I've always been a bit beguiled when it comes to painting weapon shafts - you know, spears, flails, etc. It's easy to do a simple highlight but with that large amount of blank, cylindrical space, I always felt that a wood grain texture gives the model more life. The problem I've had is finding a way to paint such for a 20+ figure unit in way that looks good and is efficient - the latter of

Where the bleep did one inch warriors go?

2012-01-22T09:41:00.000-08:00

What MacArthur said about old soldiers is also true about blogs - they don't die, they just slowly fade away. For a while I was content to let one inch warriors fade away into the depths of the blog rolls, never to see site traffic again... although apparently I've still been getting tons of hits from bizarre Google searches, but that's probably a result of the images I've poached to spice up

Saurus Unit Filler WIP & Other Odds and Ends

2011-09-12T18:58:00.000-07:00

I like to be frugal, whether I'm shopping for groceries, pet supplies or hobby goodies. This is why unit fillers in WFB appeals to me. My two Saurus units presently have 20 models each, but I want to expand the units up to 24. Inexpensive solution, take the 8 unpainted models I have and turn them into unit fillers. After sketching out some crude diagrams on post-it notes, I've assembled the

2011 Golden Skulls Painting Challenge

2011-08-28T20:25:00.000-07:00

This weekend the L.A. Battle Bunker held a "Hobby-Pocalypse" - a non-stop 33 hour event filled with painting competitions, mega-battles and mini-tournaments. The festivities included their 2nd annual Gold Skulls Painting Challenge, the store's own version of the Golden Deamon. Last year my Slann won 1st place for Fantasy Large Model and my Saurus hero won 3rd place for single fantasy figure.

New Plastic Saurus Hero Picture

2011-08-25T09:29:00.000-07:00

I'm usually not in the business of posting about new and upcoming releases (yes, I did it for the Tomb Kings, but that was to prove a point about the direction 8th edition is going) but for the first time in a long time, we're getting a new Lizardmen model: Courtesy of BoLS The new plastic characters that we've been seeing over the past few months are very exciting, even if they lack any

A Quick and Dirty Finecast Review

2011-08-19T08:33:00.000-07:00

Prior to our last big game of Warhammer Fantasy, my friend Justin picked up a Citadel Finecast Rock Lobba to add to his goblin army. He just bought it the night before and he needed to assemble it before we headed down to the Battle Bunker to, um, do battle. I haven't bought a Finecast model myself so I was interested to check out the assembly process. Assembly Pricing and quality control

Night Goblin Theory-Hammer: the Many Layers of the Onion

2011-08-15T22:08:00.000-07:00

My best-warhammer-buddy Justin's Night Goblins and my Lizardmen have been seeing a lot of each other on the tabletop. We've also been discussing ways to make the goblins more effective. His army is not intended to be a super competitive face smasher, but it still needs to function well. The army is primarily composed of big blocks of night goblins with fanatics, lead by Skarsnik. In support

one year of one inch warriors!

2011-07-27T18:14:00.000-07:00

Well loyal readers, my little blog has managed to make it past the one year mark. I have no super spectacular clip-show style post planned as a celebration, so I'll leave you with a picture of something random I pulled out of the good old storage cabinet in the garage. Enjoy yourself.

Consumer or Fan - How Does GW See You?

2011-07-18T10:35:00.000-07:00

Rough times for Mr. McCourt Major League Baseball's All-Star Game has passed, the second half of the season is underway and I've had baseball on my mind. For residents of the greater Los Angeles area, including myself, this season has been full of off-the-field drama up in Dodger-town. At this point, Dodger owner Frank McCourt is persona non grata to most Blue-Crew faithful. When he first

FoW Tropic Lightning: Personal Reactions

2011-06-22T08:51:00.000-07:00

I was considering writing a post about the upcoming Storm of Magic WFB supplement after pictures from July's White Dwarf have were leaked last week and no one really seems to have given much thought to it. Instead, I feel more compelled to talk about Battlefront's (somewhat) new Vietnam supplement "Tropic Lightning" - a preview of which you can see at Bell of Lost Souls. It's not really that

Salamanders and Stuff

2011-06-08T19:00:00.000-07:00

... the kind that spit fire, for Lizardmen, not the green-armored space-dudes. I had to explain this to several GW staffers when I was trying to find these models. No, I'm not looking for Forge World Rhino doors, dammit. Anyways... These were a fairly straightforward paint job. The tough part was that there is not much space between the Salamanders' underside and the base, making it

Painting Plastic Palm Trees

2011-05-11T15:42:00.000-07:00

Long time no post, but sometimes life gives you lemons and you waste a bunch time jerking around trying to make lemonade instead of painting silly plastic men and blogging about it. Anyways, a few weeks back I painted up one of those nifty plastic palm trees I found at a craft store, but I just got around to snapping some pictures. The whole process was rather simple, since the palm fronds

Great Find at the Local Craft Store - Palm Trees

2011-04-10T20:59:00.000-07:00

I was out running errands with the misses this weekend and she needed to stop by the local craft store. While wandering around I found the display for the California Missions model kits. When I was growing up, if you went to a public school in California you spent a good chunk of the 4th grade learning about the Spanish missions. At the end of the year you had to make a model of one of the

Tomb Kings Leaked & Gazing into the Future

2011-04-05T16:00:00.000-07:00