Editorials

With the immense success of Star Wars X-Wing it was only a matter of time before the flip side of nerd coin would get its own mini game. That’s right boys and girls, Star Trek takes it first walk into the space combat miniatures game (least I hope so cause if I’m wrong I’m so […]

Starting out in the miniature painting business is no easy feat . . . Dear Reader:What follows is a conversion between myself and the owner of a new prospective painting service called Terran Commissions.  The painter contacted me a few weeks ago for help with developing their painting service, establishing rates, and how to reach out to the community. […]

Syko wargamer here, and I don’t know about you, but for me the book missions in Warhammer 40,000 tend to get a little stale after a while. Also, the concept that both forces are after the same objectives seems a bit off to me and knowing exactly what your enemy’s goal is is neither realistic […]

Sup Spikeybits, it’s JStove, and while everything is on sale, let’s pick over Rob’s stock and see what he’s got hanging around. Keep in mind I don’t actually work for Rob, I just write for him. He pays me in… Well, he doesn’t actually pay me. He just gives me a company discount. Which reminds […]

Do you know where your brush has been?Greetings fellow wargamers!  Caleb with White Metal Games here!You can’t paint a miniature without hear about the  quality of the kolinsky-sable line of brushes.  Generally speaking these are thought of as a Roles Royce of painting brushes.  But then I began to ask myself . . . why is that […]

This is a repost of an article I wrote about a year ago. Looks like the portents have come true…It looks like GW is looking to switch out from Finecast to something better- like maybe those awesome plastic character packs they’ve been coming out with as of late for Fantasy and 40k (Chaos Aspiring Champion). […]

Is this the future? 3D Printing comes to the tabletop! Hey guys!  Caleb with White Metal Games here.  We’ve all heard rumors about the revolution that 3D printing will bring to the table.  But will the rumors match our expectations?I sat down with Allen Clark and Tristan Morris, co-owners of Proxy Army, a games design company that […]

Did anyone else notice the second straight release from Games Workshop has lacked the possibly essential staple product of a Battleforce / Battalion?Battleforce’s were in the past a fast and easy way for new players to get into the hobby at a natural discount over buying the individual kits themselves. They took up less space […]

Well, it finally happened, I got to attend my first convention as a vendor.And I finally understand what all the hub-bub is about.  There’s a visceral energy at even a small con and it’s worth discussing. Greetings fellow wargamers, this is Caleb with White Metal Games and I attended my first show as a dealer recently. A […]

Anyone else notice the lack of Finecast with the most recent Space Marines, and Dark Elf releases? It seems pretty unheard of for two releases to go by (three if you count part two of the Dark Elves for Nov), one of which was HUGE sales wise (Marines) and neither had any Finecast included. Has […]

Hey internet, Jstove here and everyone drop what you’re doing.Open the door, get on the floor, chaos players shelf your dinosaurs. In case you don’t have your eyeballs glued to the Forgeworld website or Bell of Lost Souls, allow me to point something out to you. Forgeworld has released the rules for the Legion Fire […]

That is the question.  So . . . what’s the answer? Greetings fellow wargamers!  Caleb with White Metal Games here. Recently I was sent a Stormeagle by a client with the desired goal to magnetize all the options available.  No problem. As as studio, I have to be willing to magnetize options for clients.  It’s […]

Dear Internet it’s Jstove, and I’m here to talk to you today about being a penny-pinching cheapskate with your hobby, because I’m pretty much the beggar king of budgethammer.This is going to be a long one, so unless you’re interested in saving money and lots of hobby talk, just scroll right past and go click on […]

So over the weekend yet another Kickstarter popped up for funding and I just kinda sighed… Mantic’s got a new Kickstarter called Mars Attacks…..??! Whoopie guess we won’t be carrying that when it hits… sucks to cause it looked kinda cool I thought to myself. I’ve said my bit about how I feel when it […]

I was at every US Games Day held in Maryland starting with the first US Games Day ever back in 1993. So I can tell you that Games Day events of the past few years are quite a different thing than they were several years ago. A recent article on Pins Of War stirred old […]

Hey internet, it’s Jstove here, reminding you that I’m still alive. It’s ok, I know you don’t care. But there’s important things to discuss. First, for reference, check out this article Reece over at Frontline recently had up on BoLS. Now, even better, let’s go back to a month ago when he FORETOLD THE FUTURE. […]

Ladies and Gentlemen of the court!  I object!Greetings fellow wargamers! Caleb with White Metal Games here. So I was chatting with my buddy the other day . . . well, truth be told I was losing to my buddy the other day . . when he brought up the centurion, spec. the devastators.  You know, the model […]

Hello Internet, its Jstove here, and we can’t shut up about Space Marines.The good news is, the Nids are starting to trickle in on the rumor front, so we’ll only be riding this space marine gravy train for… Oh, I don’t know, the rest of eternity? This new 6e SM codex is objectively a pretty sweet […]