Miniatures Monthly At The Crate And Crowbar

Tom and Chris round up the latest news and rumours, embark on a new Skirmish campaign, get deeper into Shadespire, and share bone and skintone tips. Plus: Khorne on the cob, uses for 480 points worth of dogs, Guilliman vs. snail, the most edible Primarchs, encouraging narrative play, and lots of nonsense besides. Follow Miniatures [...]

Tom and Chris discuss news, Chris’ changing relationship with X-Wing, Armies on Parade, and bring a year-spanning narrative campaign to a dramatic close. Plus: meditations on community management, our future plans for our Age of Sigmar armies, first impressions of the new wave of Age of Sigmar fiction, and loads more. You can find Michael [...]

Two Miniatures Monthlies… in a month? It’s possible! We celebrate the release of Shadespire, the new standalone Games Workshop combat game, with an hour and a bit of discussion about rules, lore, new models and so on. We’re really impressed with this one. There’s no need for extensive show notes for this episode, except that [...]

Chris and Tom gather in the month of Khorne to discuss news, Chris’ new understanding of Age of Sigmar, speed painting, Space Marine hot dates, and more. We’ve both been under some pretty strict time constraints in September, limiting both our hobby time and our playing and recording time. As a result, this episode is [...]

Chris and Tom discuss loads of news, from Age of Sigmar’s General’s Handbook 2017 to rules changes, new models, and Fantasy Flight’s Star Wars: Legion announcement. Plus: Iron Hands, painting a Lord of Change, and what happens when a Lord of Change meets a Celestant Prime. (Sort of.) Not much by way of show notes [...]

Tom and Chris discuss new Space Marines, the art of Open War, our first games of 8th edition and the start of a new Age of Sigmar campaign. Plus: the ongoing cabbage quandary as it pertains to flaming balls, Abaddon’s lack of chill, the joy of a big drybrush, matters of gamefeel, and loads – [...]

Tom and Chris go deep on the new edition of Warhammer 40,000, from lore to big space marines to the appeal of the grimdark and our future plans. Plus: a return to Prospero, which is still on fire; how we learned to stop worrying and love not painting the parts of miniatures you’ll never see; [...]

Tom and Chris discuss Warhammer Fest, the 8th edition of Warhammer 40,000, Golden Demon, Age of Sigmar Skirmish, and loads more. Plus: developing painting styles for different settings, the evolution of the Space Marine battle coffin, highlighting red, discovering your limits, and the ongoing doot debate. The Thousand Sons elites that Chris is trying to [...]

This month, Chris and Tom discuss… loads. From the new edition of Warhammer 40,000 to truescale space marines, Shadow War: Armageddon and getting into the Horus Heresy books, there is nowhere this circular space-thingy of swirling tangents cannot go. Plus: our initial impressions of Burning of Prospero, Chris’ initial impressions of Fantasy Flight’s Runewars, tournament [...]

Chris and Tom’s spinoff miniatures podcast returns! We discuss a gigantic amount of Age of Sigmar news, a little 40K, a little X-Wing, and our experience of hobby games over the last month or so. Painting tips return, as does the ongoing rivalry between Tom’s gilded relic hunters and Chris’ dastardly cabbage-wielding bird enthusiasts. Plus! [...]

In this debut episode of the Crate and Crowbar’s spinoff miniatures podcast, Chris and Tom discuss Age of Sigmar and how they returned to hobby gaming. We talk about what we’ve found valuable about building and painting tiny plastic people, the background to Age of Sigmar and our armies, and what we’ve enjoyed about telling [...]