Bosohurricane

Today is a little different, I want to talk about the secondary market. Because some friends of mine on discord were astonished at how much my empire units new in box cost and I want to elaborate more on making the best use of kits. Consider this part two of hobbying while being cheap and neurodivergent.

You should have a healthy bits box at all times. You can have several of them. There are a lot of eBay listings for just piles of bits and unfinished minis that you can use to make bespoke Warhammer minis out of just spare parts from multiple kits. Kitbashing is not a revelation, it even predates wargames as it’s a carry over from model railroad hobbyists. But you should buy listings of random bits because you can get some fantastic parts from kits you weren’t thinking of getting for incredible prices.

The re release of these old Warhammer kits comes with a lot of great bits for conversions, I think they really are worth more than people are thinking they are!

The main thing I want to talk about though is how to exploit the chud cycle to maximize your hobby hauls. I won’t get super political in this post because it’s not really what it’s about. But there is a cycle where really negative dudes get into the hobby through a video game like space marine 2 or a lore channel and buy a lot of minis. Then they get upset about how modern games workshop, a multi billion dollar company, has gone woke or whatever. Then they go farther back into earlier editions to try to escape whatever it is they don’t like, only to find that the satire is stronger the farther back they go. A lot of these guys putt around for a while and then give up and sell their armies for really cheap on eBay and Facebook marketplace. A lot of them are willing to haggle.

That isn’t political, it’s economical.

Neither is the satisfaction I get when these guys tell me I don’t belong in the hobby and I show them my armies I’ve painted over almost 30 years.

Take advantage of the deals!

Chaos War Mammoth that I painted a few years ago!

Continuing on basing minis while I catch up on YouTube videos. Here’s the 6th edition WHFB Ruglud’s Armoured Orcs. A unit of 20 Marauder Minis (the GW sub company founded by Aly Morrison, Trish Carden and Bryan Ansel) Orcs plus a couple extra command units and Ludruk from the original Ruglud’s Armoured Orcs.

Miao Ying the Storm Dragon by DifmanM

Here is my custom chaos champion on a dread eagle! I based him more off Moorcockian Chaos than Warhammer Chaos, but he is a champion of chaos nonetheless! I usually run him as a champion on manticore or chaos dragon if I feel like spending the points!

I insist that on pi day, March 14th, if you are going to eat a pizza to celebrate the day…. You should get a weird pizza. Don’t just get another trad pizza. Eat that weird pizza you’ve been wanting to try. Eat a weird pizza.

I’ve been taking a break from minis, I have been getting the house in order for some mold removal that’s coming up. Moisture was getting trapped in the crawlspace unfortunately, so that’s going to be expensive. I’ve been making baseball bats with saw blades in them instead for a while. Here is one of them on the porch outside with my dog Franky.