MY MINI FACTORY: Crowdfunding Campaign: Colossal Dungeon - Dungeon Blocks XL

Hail Mighty Readers and Painters with the Calloused Fingers, 

Our friends at Dungeon Blocks have a campaign currently running on My Mini Factory where you can sign up for the following:

THE COLOSSAL DUNGEON Pledge contains :

• +170 STL Files!

• You have ALL YOUR FILES - NOW - instantly in your Myminifactory LIBRARY

• +160 High Detailled BLOCKS of "Colossal Dungeon"

• Infinite Stairs, Giant Columns, Ancient Statues, ..."

• Pre-Build Maps

• EXCLUSIVE Access to DUNGEON BLOCKS BUILDER

• Access to Add-Ons Discount

• 10% OFF for the Next Campaign

• NO MILESTONE, YOU can START to PRINT NOW!

• NO glue, NO magnets, NO Openlock

• JUST PRINT & PLAY

• FREE supports for FDM and Supported and hollowed for Resin

This is absolutely mega, it assembles easily, and at the end of the day, as part of their ongoing releases, interacts and is fully compatible with previous releases.  Just look at this fab Video:

Sign up quickly as the campaign ends in 28 days.

ThunderMouser

GAMEFOUND CAMPAIGN: Starcraft: Miniatures Game - Archon Studio and Blizzard Entertainment

Our friends over at Archon Studio's have realised a dream and are currently running a Gamefound Campaign for StarCraft: Tabletop Miniatures Game.

Designed for 2 players aged 14 and over this game will take between 60 and 120 minutes to play bringing the RTS Game by Blizzard Entertainment to the tabletop.

With three armies to choose from, Terran Armies, Protos Forces or Zerg Swarms there's something for everyone.  

Currently, with the campaign you can get in on the ground floor as one of the Founders with an exclusive starter set only available during this initial run.

If you're interested please sign up using the linky above.

Thundermouser

WARGAME NEWS: Half-Distance Mode Now Available on Army Forge! - One Page Rules

 

We love to play wargames and at times space can become really tight and you feel that you can't get a game in at home.

What One Page Rules announced today, means that things can be a little different and you can have a ton of fun at home without worrying about not having the table space.  Here's what they had to say:

Sometimes it' s difficult to find one of the recommended 6’x4’ or 4’x4’ tables to play on. But with the newly released Half-Distance Mode in Army Forge, you can move your minis from the game table to the kitchen table, living room table, or more! Using the salt and pepper shakers for terrain, however, remains optional. 

Originally released as Kitchen Table Games in the Advanced Rulebooks, Half-Distance mode lets you play on smaller tables by simply halving all the distances used in the game. Movement is 3 inches by default instead of 6 inches, all ranges are halved, and all distances in every special ability is also halved. The OPR Team uses this mode of play frequently, including at our most recent all team meeting in Lisbon last year.

But we found that having to do all the math in your head, while easy to do, often slowed the game down or was sometimes forgotten in the heat of the moment! With the option now built into Army  Forge, our free web app that supports all of our games, playing on a tiny table will be a breeze! 

All you have to do is turn on the option in the Game Settings menu and all the math on your units will be halved automatically!

KICKSTARTER ENDING SOON: Dungeon of Despair: Chamber of the Mad Mage - Crippled God Foundry

Our friends at Crippled God Foundry, have asked us to let you know that we're into the final 24 hours of their epic  new kickstarter for STL's for their adventure Dungeon of Despair: Chamber of the Mad Mage which is written for D&D 5e.  

With over 300 STL files within, their pack also comes with:

Modular 3D printable dungeon tiles

Themed accessories & props

Monsters, NPCs, and bosses

A full dungeon-crawl adventure (PDF)

In this update we just wanted to let you know about the extras, that have been unlocked and in case you weren't aware, the fabulous discount offer is still in place and of course with your pledge you get so much additional materials.  Now is the last chance to pledge and get this complete bundle of miniatures, terrain, props and Dungeon Crawl adventure PDF at an exclusive discounted price!

Finally for every backer there is a top notch set of free mini's that would also make cool lead characters for your players or as cracking NPC's.  All in, with the time running out.  You'll have to act quickly so to do so please visit their kickstarter and get your pledge in quickly otherwise you'll miss out and from the look of it all, we can see a fair few tears flowing then its discovered.

All the best,

Thundermouser

MINIATURES STL RELEASES: Sisters of the Eternal Mercy: Unending Pilgrimage 2 - Heroes Infinite

 

Hail Mighty Readers and Mini Painting Officionado's,
Our friends at Heroes Infinite, the STL Subscription Service from Raging Heroes, have asked us to let people know about the Sovereign Tier that they introduced a few months ago and have now released an up to date vid of exactly what is in this months tier exclusive from the other releases.  

Whilst this original vid (above) covers everything, the one below is the Sovereign Tier exclusives.  We include it for your viewing pleasure.

If you want to get these, whilst you can get them any time after this month, its only available for the month of February at the special subscription price of $24.

All the best,

Thundermouser

REVIEW and ADVICE: TESTING A BASIC AIRBRUSH and Future Goals and Recommendations - Harder and Steenbeck, The AIrbrush Company

OK, so we were lucky enough to get some good advice about airbrushes from not only Harder and Steenbeck but also from Lisa, at the Airbrush Company in the UK. 

Now whilst we are going to have to look at a more advanced kit for ourselves, we started with a very basic, extremely cheap one (as you can see left) so that we wouldn't be too much out of pocket if we didn't like it.  

Now whilst the one we used is OK and gave us a good taste (with the advice followed about how you water down your paints to help them through the needle), what we found was that the battery power didn't last too long, so much so that we had to have it plugged in for most of the time we used it as it was just easier to keep it going.  Now it was easy to strip and clean, it was easy to have on hand to do spraying, however the key problem was that it sprayed a little higher than expected and with the miniature size, I found that I had to have it on a lower setting allowed you to dial it in a bit better.  The other key problem and that for me, a 40mm nozzle was a bit too big for what I wanted and whilst it would be ideal for bigger mini's like vehicles or bigger miniatures like 75mm, I was wanting something smaller, like a 20mm nozzle that would have allowed me the smaller spray area for finer detail to make sure the paint went exactly where I wanted.

Sparmax ARISM Compressor with automatic on/off switch capable of providing 25 – 35 psi (includes a hose)

Sparmax MAX-4 Airbrush with 0.4mm nozzle and needle combination

Sparmax Silver Bullet Moisture Trap designed to remove water before it reaches your airbrush – and includes a bleed valve for you to adjust the pressure by bleeding out the air

Sparmax Cleaning Pot with built in airbrush holder

Which works out to: £295 inc.VAT

Although if you want a better compressor the recommended one is the Sparmax 610H Compressor. 

At the end of the day, it sadly is a case of you get what you pay for and if you are going to be using an airbrush for a lot of your hobby needs over a brush (just makes it a lot quicker) then this is something you might want to look into.  

We hope that this helps,

Thundermouser.

KICKSTARTER: Death X Tiles: Spaceship - CastnPlay

Here at Totally Pawsome we are majorly in love with not just mini's but scenery.  Whilst we love a lot of the new games, we also love to revisit some of the older one that we had a ton of fun with, and thought that this latest kickstarter from our friends at CastnPlay, would be ideal for anyone wanting to make a 3d Space Hulk board or even a spaceship for some futuristic TTRPG's.

If you act now you can get on the Early Bird offering (the whole set is only $7 this week) and we can't wait to see what people come up with.

As usual these are STL files so you will need a 3d Printer to create them or have a friend who can print them for you.  These files are FDM as well as Resin friendly.  To get these kickstarter files, sign up here:
Death X Tiles: Starship Mini Set

Here is the latest trailer:

If you do get them, please tag us with your creations, we'd love to see what you create.

ThunderMouser.