Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Wednesday Workbench: Crocotaurs.

The past couple of days, I've begun the long process of changing River Trolls into the Crocs that I'll be using to stand in for Minotaurs in my Beast Kings army.

Originally, I'd intended to simply use the Beloved of Sobek minis from Crocodile Games' Wargods of Aegyptus line but ran into several issues shortly in:

First, they're metal which makes modifying them nearly impossible and I'm dead set on not having 'duplicate' figures in my army. This would mean either much Dremeling or much recasting and I'm not a big fan of either of those options.

Second, they're expensive. Collecting them in the number I'd need would quickly get cost-prohibitive.

Monday, March 18, 2013

The Return of the Geek.

While the intermission probably has extended beyond what I'm legitimately able to call 'brief,' I think that the dust around our house has finally settled to the point that I'm able to get back into hobbying with some semblance of regularity.

There will still be interruptions here and there for house projects and honey-do lists and such, but I think that, with a bit of luck, we can now officially return to our regularly scheduled programming ...