I’m trying to get three submissions in for the Forgotten Heroes challenge this month, and here is number two. If you found Water Wizard to be a bit of a tool, well, congratulations. You’re a great judge of character. But Water Wizard lives life like a boss compared to this guy: Behold! The Plant Man! Samuel Smithers was […]
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Forgotten Heroes 2018, Submission 1: The Water Wizard!
Posted by The Angry Piper on June 5th, 2018
It’s June, which means it’s time for Forgotten Heroes! Last year my fellow miniatures enthusiast Carrion Crow invited me to take part in the Forgotten Heroes challenge. I played hard to get at first, but then when I saw how much fun it was going to be, I begged him to let me take part. […]
Posted in Conversions, Miniatures, Painting Challenges, Repaints, Super Heroes 
Tags: Forgotten Heroes, HeroClix, Super Mission Force 
4 Comments »Monster Month Holdouts: Displacer Beasts and Classic Balrog
Posted by The Angry Piper on June 4th, 2018
There’s always a someone who’s late for the train. My orc warlord on wyvern took a bit longer than I anticipated, so these miniatures weren’t done in time to make it into Monster Month. First up, some iconic AD&D monsters: Displacer Beasts! (Every time I speak the name of this monster out loud, I say it […]
Posted in Fantasy, Miniatures Tags: AD&D, Grenadier, Monster Month, Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures, Old School Miniatures 2 Comments »Varg Bonebreaka: Orc Warlord on War Wyvern
Posted by The Angry Piper on May 30th, 2018
To finish off Monster Month, I present a monster miniature that is finally seeing paint after almost THIRTY YEARS in my “to-do pile”! It’s an old Warhammer Orc Shaman on War Wyvern, circa 1990 or thereabouts. I got him on the secondary market sometime in the mid-nineties. Originally, he was to be for use with […]
Posted in Conversions, Fantasy, Miniatures Tags: Armies of Yesteryear, Games Workshop, Monster Month, Old School Miniatures, Warhammer 4 Comments »Griffon and Land Shark
Posted by The Angry Piper on May 14th, 2018
My latest two “monster month” projects have arrived! Presenting: the Griffon and the Bulette (Land Shark). (Astute observers may notice that the model in the middle of these two monsters has changed since the last post. That’s because I couldn’t seem to find that human fighter who found himself between an Umber Hulk and a […]
Posted in Fantasy, Miniatures Tags: AD&D, Bones, Monster Month, Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures, Reaper 6 Comments »Basilisk and Troll
Posted by The Angry Piper on May 7th, 2018
Monster Month continues with a couple more beasties: the dreaded basilisk and the AD&D version of a classic monster: the troll! The troll is from Nolzur’s Marvelous Miniatures, and I am hard-pressed to recall seeing a finer version of the classic AD&D troll. I absolutely love this sculpt. If I have one criticism, it’s that […]
Posted in Fantasy, Miniatures Tags: AD&D, Bones, Monster Month, Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures 4 Comments »Umber Hulk and Purple Worm
Posted by The Angry Piper on May 4th, 2018
Monster Month kicks off with two classic AD&D monsters straight from the Monster Manual: the Umber Hulk and the Purple Worm—two very good reasons not to adventure underground. The Umber Hulk is from the Nolzur’s Marvelous Miniatures line, which is a new-ish Wizkids line of computer sculpted miniatures that are both inexpensive and impressive. Wizkids has […]
Posted in Fantasy, Miniatures Tags: AD&D, Bones, Monster Month, Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures 4 Comments »Monster Month (and Getting My Shit Together)
Posted by The Angry Piper on May 1st, 2018
First up, the good news: May is Monster Month! Now that my Gaslands project is (somewhat) complete, I’ve decided to get back to my first love: fantasy miniatures. And to that end, I have decided it’s high time I got around to painting some good old-fashioned monsters! With the arrival of Reaper Bones and other […]
Aryllus Thenra
Posted by The Angry Piper on April 17th, 2018
A brief intermission, if you will permit me, from all things Gaslands. If you’re a longtime role-playing gamer like me, then you probably have a character or two somewhere that you would have liked to play more often than you were able to. This is one of mine. When my friend Chris decided he wanted to […]
Poison Ivy
Posted by The Angry Piper on March 27th, 2018
Poison Ivy has become one of my favorite Batman villains, although it wasn’t always so. (Take the movie Batman and Robin, for example; like Arnold Shwarzenegger’s Mister Freeze, the less said about Uma Thurman’s portrayal of Ivy, the better.) I didn’t really start to like her until the Batman: The Animated Series episode “Harley and Ivy”, […]
Posted in Miniatures, Repaints, Sci-Fi, Super Heroes Tags: Bones, HeroClix, Hydra Miniatures, Reaper, Super Mission Force 4 Comments »