I never heard, or even knew of, the Solomon Grundy nursery rhyme as a child. I think perhaps this is a more common nursery rhyme overseas than here in the States. It wasn’t until I got older, fell in love with Celtic music and started listening to the Pogues that I heard it for the first […]
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Buried on a Sunday…Born on a Monday…
Posted by The Angry Piper on June 29th, 2019
Posted in Miniatures, Super Heroes, Zombies 
Tags: Knight Models, Super Mission Force 
Comments Off on Buried on a Sunday…Born on a Monday…Forgotten Heroes 2019: Viva La Bandera!
Posted by The Angry Piper on June 22nd, 2019
I must thank my friend Carrion Crow for coming up with Forgotten Heroes. It is a challenge in more ways than one. For example, last year I converted my very own Wundarr the Aquarian, who I consider to be one of the worst Marvel characters ever. Even though my results weren’t great, I was pretty […]
Posted in Conversions, Miniatures, Painting Challenges, Repaints, Super Heroes Tags: Forgotten Heroes, HeroClix, Super Mission Force 6 Comments »My Name is Mud!
Posted by The Angry Piper on June 17th, 2019
A local comic shop had a pretty spectacular sale on gaming items recently, and I was pleasantly surprised to see they had a few of the original metal Knight Models Batman figures on the shelf. I couldn’t resist picking up a few (at a deep discount), and so I present…Clayface! At last count, there are […]
Forgotten Heroes 2019: “I AM THE RED CYCLONE!”
Posted by The Angry Piper on June 3rd, 2019
It’s June, which means it’s time for Forgotten Heroes. This year is a bit different from what has come before. This year, the theme is “Patriot Games”; all submissions must be “patriotically” themed, i.e. wearing a costume that reflects their country of origin. With that in mind, I have decided to make a miniature for […]
Posted in Conversions, Miniatures, Painting Challenges Tags: Forgotten Heroes, HeroClix, Street Fighter 6 Comments »A Hound, A Mound, and a…uh… a Carrion Crawler
Posted by The Angry Piper on May 29th, 2019
Monster month was a bit underwhelming this year. The first half of the month was taken up with work problems that, to put it bluntly, fucked up my hobby focus. After that, I took a much-needed week off, during which you would think I would double down on my painting. However, when I paint, my […]
Posted in Fantasy, Miniatures, Painting Challenges Tags: AD&D, Monster Month, Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures, Reaper 4 Comments »Behold! The Eye-Beast!
Posted by The Angry Piper on May 16th, 2019
May is Monster Month, and I’m getting a bit of a late start because I’ve had a hellish few weeks at work. (I had to finish painting some more cowboys, too.) But enough about that. I bring you…the hideous BEHO-uh…the EYE BEAST! Ah, who am I kidding? Anyone with even a passing familiarity with Dungeons […]
Posted in Fantasy, Miniatures, Painting Challenges Tags: AD&D, Bones, Monster Month, Reaper 2 Comments »Yeoman Rand
Posted by The Angry Piper on May 1st, 2019
One of the characters I missed in the Modiphius TOS Crew set was Yeoman Janice Rand. Although she only appeared in eight episodes of TOS, I always felt like the character had a lot of potential beyond what she was allowed to do, which was mostly be “eye candy”. Sadly, Grace Lee Whitney, the actress […]
Classic Dragon Lords Dwarfs
Posted by The Angry Piper on April 16th, 2019
In keeping with my 2019 Resolutions, I recently painted more old school miniatures! This time, it’s a classic Grenadier Dragon Lords boxed set: Dwarves of the Gold Mountain. As anyone even casually familiar with me or this blog knows, I have a disturbing obsession with all things dwarfish. These stocky fellows were sculpted by Nick […]
“Oh, Frabjous Day!”
Posted by The Angry Piper on March 17th, 2019
It’s been a while since I did a Heroclix repaint, and this time it’s another of Batman’s rogues gallery: Jervis Tetch, aka the Mad Hatter. From DC FanDOM: Jervis Tetch, formerly a research scientist, is completely smitten with the works of Lewis Carroll. As his criminal name indicates, he takes the appearance of the Mad […]
Posted in Miniatures, Repaints, Super Heroes Tags: HeroClix, Lucid Eye, Super Mission Force, Supersystem 3 4 Comments »“Kirk to Enterprise…”
Posted by The Angry Piper on February 28th, 2019
I finally finished my three sets of Modiphius Star Trek miniatures with The Original Series (TOS) bridge crew. This is my favorite set, hands-down. Good sculpts, all (even Scotty, questionable “run-for-zee-hills” pose aside). I’ve been binge-watching TOS lately, and I’ve noticed a couple of things. First, Captain Kirk is damn rude. He rarely lets anyone […]
