Miniatures and Games

Wonky Dog’s Rules of Painting

These rules are not meant to be a detailed guide on how to paint, but rather a guide to the […]

List of ‘old-school’ fantasy miniature companies : Updated 04/09/23

Here is an ongoing list of FANTASY miniature producers that I hope should be useful. Historical list to come! […]

My Oldest Miniature

This miniature is not only one of the oldest miniatures I own in terms of when it was first released, […]

A One-Off

I don’t know how I acquired this chap… but he is the only Warhammer 40K miniature I own. I thought […]

Dungeon Dwellers

In order to do some dungeon exploring with my boys, I have been painting some miniatures with dungeon-style bases. My […]

Miniature figurines and the games they are used for have been a passion of mine since I was 11 years old. This section of my site is dedicated to this rather nerdy pasttime.

Sculpting

Relatively recently I started sculpting my own miniatures. On a whim I tried to sculpt a little dog. Pleased with my effort, I posted a picture of him on a sculpting forum on Facebook and the sculpt was snapped up by a miniatures company. Sculpting is also where, slowly, my interests are starting to flow together. I am starting to pay a lot more attention to the anatomy and body forms that I sort of took for granted when doing photography.

Painting

Painting miniatures was my entry into this hobby. I had no idea what I was doing to begin with (and in fact, I am still learning and making mistakes even now) but loved the meditative process of painting little people and telling stories about them in my head – which is why I have written these stories down with the painted miniatures I display and given the miniatures stats to enable them to be used in my favourite rule systems.

Games

Using painted miniatures in a game is extremely satisfying. Their stories are spun a little further and (hopefully) lots of fun can be had by all involved. I have become interested in game mechanics too. What makes a game good?

What else?

There are plenty of other aspects to this hobby – from building terrain (I intend to build some backdrops to take photos of my own painted sculpts in a suitable setting) to history – historical research for historical miniatures and settings, and also discussing the general history of the hobby as well as my own personal history and musings.