Blog posts tagged with 'guest post'

One of my favourite wargaming genres is modern or ultramodern, as it is also called. Since I also like heist films very much, I was very happy about the Kickstarter project from Anvil. Especially that there is the possibility to assemble the STL kits in Blender the way I like it best before printing. The variations seem endless, especially because almost all designs can be combined with each other, even with existing ranges, so the only limit is your own imagination.

Guest blog post writer Ekkehard Rolfs builds Majestic-13 operatives inspired by our studio teams!

Guest Blog post writer Mirko makes and paints a Last of Us inspired horde by combining our Modern Zombies with other 3D offerings

Instagram's Krieghobby is back with another guest post - this time, his take on our Daughters of the Burning Rose War Engine!

This is my Rutherford team for Gaslands, made with Anvil Industry parts. It was an unexpected collaboration between me buying cool cars on eBay, Bob Long doing the conversions to a spec and Gary Lynn painting them. So you have the creativity of 3 people on these, which is probably why they look so amazing.

A few years back I adopted the mantra of ‘finished, not perfect’ to help me clear my backlog of projects. It was through gritted teeth I hissed those optimistic words as I realised I would have to paint both of my least favourite things for this project: fire and flags. Curse you, past me! I would need to have recipes ready for candles, flames, glow effects and a design for the flag, likely involving some custom heraldry. I resigned myself to my fate, poured myself a tumbler of ‘19 Lahmian Medium, and picked up the brush.

The 39th pioneer corps was intended as a modelling project, specifically based around using Anvil's Regiments figures at its core… who else? As the theme of the 39th is a sapper/engineer regiment set in a dieselpunk European-war trench-warfare setting I went straight to Anvil’s trencher range of minis. Although I had previously used parts of their ranges to modify existing models I had decided that it was past time I put Anvil's minis front and centre, with other parts used hither and yon where appropriate.

A few weeks ago Anvil Industry sent me a message asking if I would be interested in creating some tutorials to help other painters achieve the glow effect I had been posting on social media using their products. If I am being upfront about it all, it is just an OSL technique using types of paint that many might not even know exist. My secret weapon is white ink and fluo (fluorescent) paints. And yes, they both exist. And yes, there are brands that make them for miniature painting.

I love Necromunda. I could gush about its campaign dynamics and larger-than-life characters, its ease of entry or relative low cost to play, but I’ll spare you the character count and cut to the chase. I love its Guild delegations. These Guild delegations are presented in the books with very specific head counts, equipment and skills, but barely any of them have been released and there are only one or two bits of concept art to indicate what they might look like. The solution? Make your own!

A guest post by Instagram's Krieghobby, showing off some gruesome conversions using a mix of the Anvil Industry Renegade parts and our iconic Greatcoats to make a terrifying unit of elite killers.