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A Rat By Any Other Name...Part III
Heartbreaker Miniatures In 1991, U.S. Senior Manager Bob Watts left Games Workshop after Bryan Ansel sold the company, starting Heartbreaker with a mind to compete with GW. There were a few hobby...
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A Rat By Any Other Name...Part IV
Harlequin Miniatures In 1994 Dean Edwards, veteran of Grenadier, Games Workshop, Marauder Miniatures and Fantasy Forge , started Harlequin Miniatures with his brother Vaughan. Much like Heartbreaker,...
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A Rat By Any Other Name...Part V
Some Random Rats Irregular Miniatures was established in the UK in 1981, and continue on to this day with a small but comprehensive range. Their contribution to the rat pack is "F62 Ratman Running!":...
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A Rat By Any Other Name...Part VI
Alternative Armies came on to the hobby scene in 1991, a Scottish company producing a wide range of 15mm and 28mm figures. One of their most popular lines focuses around the game of Flintloque, a...
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A Rat By Any Other Name...Part VII
The concept of Nezumi, Japanese Ratmen, entered into gaming parlance in the late 90s. Whether largely inspired by Clan Eshin or Splinter from the Ninja Turtles (probably a bit of both), its hard to...
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A Rat By Any Other Name...Part VIII
Blood Bowl, a spoof on American football featuring the fantasy races of Warhammer's Old World, premiered in 1986 and has had a pretty steady fanbase ever since. After being semi-abandoned by GW in the...
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A Rat By Any Other Name...Part IX
Schrödinger's SkavenThis post is actually a combination of the latest segment of the Rat By Any Other Name... series and an article that's been gestating for a while covering Skaven in boxed/board...
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A Rat By Any Other (SIZE)...Part X
25-28mm has always dominated the fantasy miniatures market. Its a good size for wargaming; small enough to practically field armies on a 6'x 4' table, but large enough to hold a decent amount of...
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A Rat By Any Other Name...Part XI
Reaper! No, not that one...In many ways, Reaper Miniatures fulfills the spot held by Ral Partha and Grenadier in the 80s. No other miniatures company currently offers the volume and variety of Reaper....
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A Rat By Any Other Name...Part XII
Avatars of War was created by sculptor Felix Paniagua in 2007, offering alternative models to Games Workshop. They've since aligned themselves with "The 9th Age". So far they offer only a single Ratmen...
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A Rat By Any Other Name...Part XIII
Before I get into this post, since last writing I've come across a few new Rat miniatures that I wasn't previously aware of, as it so happens. I've updated three of my previous posts to include new...
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Oldhammer Lit 101
In doing the research for my A Rat By Any Other Name Series..., I came across the following article by Stephen Baxter for Vector Magazine via the Internet Wayback Machine. It's long since disappeared...
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The Skaven Army
Over 6 editions of Warhammer Fantasy, since their introduction in 1986, the society and armies of the Skaven have been fleshed out in a variety of sources but no single armybook or roster has provided...
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Secret Origins of The Horned Rat
PREFACEPlease be forewarned, in the interest of calling a spade a shovel, that the following post is mostly pure fanwank. I am going to present a theory and support for that theory that is not only non...
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Perils of the Paintbrush Part I
Occasionally I get asked about my actual painting of miniatures, admittedly something thats been curiously in short supply on this blog in comparison to most miniature-related endeavours. There's a...
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Perils of the Paintbrush Part II
Since becoming entangled in the Oldhammer movement, I've had several fancies, some of which have led to the accumulation of whole armies of out of print models, others passing as rationality overtook...
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Perils of the Paintbrush Part III
So, this post was hard to write, mainly as I don’t have much in the way of accompanying pictures for reasons I’ve touched on. I’m currently in the process of setting up a small studio in my new office,...
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Thunderbolt Mountain is Falling Down
The thread title belies my sad fondness of puns so comes across as a little hyperbolic perhaps, but I'm writing this to point out that at the end of the year Thunderbolt Mountain Miniatures is closing...
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An update on Claymore
Its funny how much things change with experience.It was around a year ago I conceived of the Claymore project (I think, I haven't gone back and checked the exact time frame). In the time since I have...
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A Rat By Any Other Name Update 2018 Part I
My original 13 part Rat by Any Other Name series covered a lot of ground, but a few figures managed to slip through the cracks that have since come to my attention. And as time marches on numerous new...
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