Miniatures Monthly at The Crate and Crowbar

Chris and Chimp avoid falling down a vampire hole just long enough to fall into a different, deeper hole: Age of Sigmar’s new edition and the many sweeping changes that it has visited upon our favourite game. Featuring a varied month (ish) of hobby, ruminations upon special characters, drumming out the big beats of Age [...]

The podcast formerly known as Miniatures Sometimes returns! Chris and Chimp discuss Age of Sigmar’s imminent new edition as well as its assorted golden people and the gribbles whom they skewer. Then: at least an hour of mild opinions on Soulblight Gravelords, or your money back!* Thanks, Mannfred. Thanks, Skaven. Thanks, Jasper. *This podcast is, [...]

To new listeners: hello! To veteran listeners: we’re back! Welcome to the new incarnation of our Miniatures Monthly podcast, in which we enthuse about our latest hobby escapades in the world of mini painting and wargaming. We’ve rebooted the pod with a looser format – expect a rotating cast of Tom, Chris, and Chimp (and [...]

Tom, Chris, and special guest Matt “Chimp” Ward – not that Matt Ward – discuss a plethora of minis news, the community’s endeavors at the Brotherhood team Age of Sigmar event, and their own months in spilling things on various surfaces. Plus: meditations on the son of Dhorgar, immediately out of date Tzeentch book hot [...]

Chris and Tom return, having boldly reinterpreted the word ‘monthly’. After catching up on a year of life, house moves and hobby, we discuss Contrast, Warcry, and the latest fashions coming out of the Varanspire. Plus: the many journeys a horse can go on, the Gagain Meat-Dress of Ghur, the vagiaries of Archaon’s eight-pointed lazy [...]

Tom and Chris discuss a month of very exciting Warhammer developments, pit updated Khorne against Stormcast, and ruminate on Blackstone Fortress, paint flavours, and hobby lulls. Since we recorded this episode, Looncurse has been formally announced. It DOES have a boss on Cave Squig in it, after all! The 3D printed terrain that Chris has [...]

Chris and Tom chat Age of Sigmar and 40K news, Skaven, Flesh-Eater Courts, fatigues fatigue, the cheesy tang of a chemical dwarf, and the timeless lessons of the Necrons and Aeldari. We are very aware that immediately after recording this episode, Games Workshop announced both this phenomenal man and his horse and a game that [...]

Tom and Chris discuss a lot of Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40,000 news, explore dazzling new shame pile expansion excuses, and try out the new rules for Age of Sigmar Skirmish. Plus: thoughts on the new White Dwarf, rave goblins, and a night in with Sad Magnus. Follow Miniatures Monthly on Twitter @MinisMonthly for [...]

Tom and Chris return to discuss Blackstone Fortress, recent hobby happenings, and our first live event in Cardiff. Loads of pictures this week – enjoy! Many thanks to everybody who attended Miniatures Monthly Live and sent their pictures in. We’ll definitely look to do it all again in 2019! Follow Miniatures Monthly on Twitter @MinisMonthly [...]

Chris and Tom catch up on a month’s worth of hobby, from Battlefleet Gothic to X-Wing via Nightvault, Kill Team and Age of Sigmar. Then we stay up too late and get deep into the weeds on your questions. We’ve had a hobby-light but game-heavy month, so the structure of this month’s episode is a [...]

Chris and Tom return to discuss a big pile of news, a slow summer of hobby, our latest Age of Sigmar battle and loads of questions. Follow Miniatures Monthly on Twitter @MinisMonthly for more pics of our projects. Otherwise, can find Chris on Twitter at @CThursten and Instagram as Exitwarp. Tom’s on Twitter at @PCGLudo [...]

Oh no! Another set of delays has pushed the already-late episode 18 deeper into September. In the meantime here’s Chris, by himself, with information about our upcoming real-life event and some thoughts on overcoming hobby slumps. Follow Miniatures Monthly on Twitter @MinisMonthly for more pics of our projects. Otherwise, can find Chris on Twitter at [...]

Chris and Tom dig deep into Age of Sigmar’s Second Edition and begin a new narrative campaign as our Stormcast and Tzeentch forces clash over an erratic magical ball. Note: we recorded the bulk of podcast separately from the battle report, and for various reasons we had to use our old podcasting gear for the [...]

Chris and Tom discuss a month’s worth of Age of Sigmar reveals, their own plans for second edition, batch painting, non metallic metals, and more. Since we recorded this episode last weekend, Games Workshop have helpfully taken the lid off the Stormcast and Nighthaunt Battletomes, two sets of new heroes, Stormcast-specific Endless Spells, and so [...]

Chris and Tom yank back the curtain on X-Wing 2.0, Adeptus Titanicus, Age of Sigmar 2nd Edition, our month in horses, LondonGT, and more. See below for discussion timestamps! 00:01:35 X-Wing 2.0 00:26:30 Adeptus Titanicus 00:32:40 Age of Sigmar 2nd Edition 01:38:20 This month’s hobby 02:02:00 Chris at London GT 02:50:45 Learning from Best Painted [...]

Chris and Tom dig into the Idoneth Deepkin, play an awful lot of Age of Sigmar, discuss the process by which anybody can be transformed into Mark Strong, and catch up on #stardrakewatch2018. Follow Miniatures Monthly on Twitter @MinisMonthly for more pics of our projects. Otherwise, can find Chris on Twitter at @CThursten and Instagram [...]

Tom and Chris discuss a huge pile of Warhammer news and then detail their own busy hobby months. Then, we take a sharp left turn to get Tom’s first impressions of Star Wars: Legion. A disclaimer from me, Chris: as I’ve mentioned on the podcast before, I did some work on the marketing campaign for [...]

Tom and Chris dig into new Shadespire warbands, lots of new Age of Sigmar lore, and begin a new era of Tzeentch-Stormcast hostilities in the age of Malign Portents. Here’s Kieron Gillen‘s take on Skaven in Age of Sigmar, and the Horned Rat’s place in the Chaos pantheon. This is the Golden Demon-winning Magnus that [...]

Tom and Chris discuss a vast amount of news across both Warhammer 40,000 and Age of Sigmar. Plus: a meditation on shame piles, speedpainting tips, colour theory, Shadespire theory, Skirmish drama and loads more. A little more information about Malign Portents (in particular, the contents of the book) has come out since we recorded this [...]

Chris and Tom discuss the changing art of GW miniatures design, hopes for the next year of Age of Sigmar, and report back from both Skirmish and 40K. We apologise for the terrifying sound of a phantom horse that occurs in the background around 1:52:45. We don’t know where it came from, or where it [...]

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 [...]