Chris and Chimp avoid falling down a vampire hole just long enough to fall into a different, deeper hole: Age of Sigmar’s new edition and the many sweeping changes that it has visited upon our favourite game. Featuring a varied month (ish) of hobby, ruminations upon special characters, drumming out the big beats of Age [...]

The Crate & Crowbar Miniatures Podcast 003: Underneath The Battle Gazebo

The podcast formerly known as Miniatures Sometimes returns! Chris and Chimp discuss Age of Sigmar’s imminent new edition as well as its assorted golden people and the gribbles whom they skewer. Then: at least an hour of mild opinions on Soulblight Gravelords, or your money back!* Thanks, Mannfred. Thanks, Skaven. Thanks, Jasper. *This podcast is, [...]

The Crate & Crowbar Miniatures Podcast 002: It’s A Wonderful Day In The End Times And You Are A Horrible Mannfred

To new listeners: hello! To veteran listeners: we’re back! Welcome to the new incarnation of our Miniatures Monthly podcast, in which we enthuse about our latest hobby escapades in the world of mini painting and wargaming. We’ve rebooted the pod with a looser format – expect a rotating cast of Tom, Chris, and Chimp (and [...]

The Crate & Crowbar Miniatures Podcast 001: Vagrant Swamp Gargant

Tom, Chris, and special guest Matt “Chimp” Ward – not that Matt Ward – discuss a plethora of minis news, the community’s endeavors at the Brotherhood team Age of Sigmar event, and their own months in spilling things on various surfaces. Plus: meditations on the son of Dhorgar, immediately out of date Tzeentch book hot [...]

Miniatures Monthly 025: Mutalith Therapy Beast

Chris and Tom return, having boldly reinterpreted the word ‘monthly’. After catching up on a year of life, house moves and hobby, we discuss Contrast, Warcry, and the latest fashions coming out of the Varanspire. Plus: the many journeys a horse can go on, the Gagain Meat-Dress of Ghur, the vagiaries of Archaon’s eight-pointed lazy [...]

Miniatures Monthly 024: The Dark Pizzazz

Tom and Chris discuss a month of very exciting Warhammer developments, pit updated Khorne against Stormcast, and ruminate on Blackstone Fortress, paint flavours, and hobby lulls. Since we recorded this episode, Looncurse has been formally announced. It DOES have a boss on Cave Squig in it, after all! The 3D printed terrain that Chris has [...]

Miniatures Monthly 023: You Go To Magic Town, You Pay The Price

Chris and Tom chat Age of Sigmar and 40K news, Skaven, Flesh-Eater Courts, fatigues fatigue, the cheesy tang of a chemical dwarf, and the timeless lessons of the Necrons and Aeldari. We are very aware that immediately after recording this episode, Games Workshop announced both this phenomenal man and his horse and a game that [...]

Miniatures Monthly 022: Get Dat Biomass

Tom and Chris discuss a lot of Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40,000 news, explore dazzling new shame pile expansion excuses, and try out the new rules for Age of Sigmar Skirmish. Plus: thoughts on the new White Dwarf, rave goblins, and a night in with Sad Magnus. Follow Miniatures Monthly on Twitter @MinisMonthly for [...]

Miniatures Monthly 021: After Michael Stipe, It’s Xenomorphs Again

Tom and Chris return to discuss Blackstone Fortress, recent hobby happenings, and our first live event in Cardiff. Loads of pictures this week – enjoy! Many thanks to everybody who attended Miniatures Monthly Live and sent their pictures in. We’ll definitely look to do it all again in 2019! Follow Miniatures Monthly on Twitter @MinisMonthly [...]

Miniatures Monthly 020: The Doom Diver And The Ultimate Honk

Chris and Tom catch up on a month’s worth of hobby, from Battlefleet Gothic to X-Wing via Nightvault, Kill Team and Age of Sigmar. Then we stay up too late and get deep into the weeds on your questions. We’ve had a hobby-light but game-heavy month, so the structure of this month’s episode is a [...]

Miniatures Monthly 019: They Always Gonna Get Yer Vegetables

Chris and Tom return to discuss a big pile of news, a slow summer of hobby, our latest Age of Sigmar battle and loads of questions. Follow Miniatures Monthly on Twitter @MinisMonthly for more pics of our projects. Otherwise, can find Chris on Twitter at @CThursten and Instagram as Exitwarp. Tom’s on Twitter at @PCGLudo [...]

Miniatures Monthly 018: Heresy We Go Again

Oh no! Another set of delays has pushed the already-late episode 18 deeper into September. In the meantime here’s Chris, by himself, with information about our upcoming real-life event and some thoughts on overcoming hobby slumps. Follow Miniatures Monthly on Twitter @MinisMonthly for more pics of our projects. Otherwise, can find Chris on Twitter at [...]

Miniatures Monthly: Intermission

Chris and Tom dig deep into Age of Sigmar’s Second Edition and begin a new narrative campaign as our Stormcast and Tzeentch forces clash over an erratic magical ball. Note: we recorded the bulk of podcast separately from the battle report, and for various reasons we had to use our old podcasting gear for the [...]

Miniatures Monthly Special: Age of Sigmar Second Edition

Chris and Tom discuss a month’s worth of Age of Sigmar reveals, their own plans for second edition, batch painting, non metallic metals, and more. Since we recorded this episode last weekend, Games Workshop have helpfully taken the lid off the Stormcast and Nighthaunt Battletomes, two sets of new heroes, Stormcast-specific Endless Spells, and so [...]

Miniatures Monthly 017: Grand Alliance Hmm vs. Grand Alliance Bleeerrg

Chris and Tom yank back the curtain on X-Wing 2.0, Adeptus Titanicus, Age of Sigmar 2nd Edition, our month in horses, LondonGT, and more. See below for discussion timestamps! 00:01:35 X-Wing 2.0 00:26:30 Adeptus Titanicus 00:32:40 Age of Sigmar 2nd Edition 01:38:20 This month’s hobby 02:02:00 Chris at London GT 02:50:45 Learning from Best Painted [...]

Miniatures Monthly 016: The Wink That Makes The Horse Ass Shine

Chris and Tom dig into the Idoneth Deepkin, play an awful lot of Age of Sigmar, discuss the process by which anybody can be transformed into Mark Strong, and catch up on #stardrakewatch2018. Follow Miniatures Monthly on Twitter @MinisMonthly for more pics of our projects. Otherwise, can find Chris on Twitter at @CThursten and Instagram [...]

Miniatures Monthly 015: It’s Starting To Look A Lot Like Doot-Mas

Tom and Chris discuss a huge pile of Warhammer news and then detail their own busy hobby months. Then, we take a sharp left turn to get Tom’s first impressions of Star Wars: Legion. A disclaimer from me, Chris: as I’ve mentioned on the podcast before, I did some work on the marketing campaign for [...]

Miniatures Monthly 014: Fresh Shades

Tom and Chris dig into new Shadespire warbands, lots of new Age of Sigmar lore, and begin a new era of Tzeentch-Stormcast hostilities in the age of Malign Portents. Here’s Kieron Gillen‘s take on Skaven in Age of Sigmar, and the Horned Rat’s place in the Chaos pantheon. This is the Golden Demon-winning Magnus that [...]

Miniatures Monthly 013: The God of What You Got

Tom and Chris discuss a vast amount of news across both Warhammer 40,000 and Age of Sigmar. Plus: a meditation on shame piles, speedpainting tips, colour theory, Shadespire theory, Skirmish drama and loads more. A little more information about Malign Portents (in particular, the contents of the book) has come out since we recorded this [...]

Miniatures Monthly 012: The Wonderwall of Nagash

Chris and Tom discuss the changing art of GW miniatures design, hopes for the next year of Age of Sigmar, and report back from both Skirmish and 40K. We apologise for the terrifying sound of a phantom horse that occurs in the background around 1:52:45. We don’t know where it came from, or where it [...]

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