Fantasy Modeling Issue #4

Hi everyone! Here's another issue of the mighty Fantasy Modeling magazine from way back in 1981. This is a special issue for me since number four was the first issue of FM that I ever saw. It was laying in a pile of other mags in the back room of the Game Preserve when it was still in Glendale. From the Zaku model on the front to the serious way that the MPC Empire Strikes Back kits were treated it grabbed my attention and I've been a fan ever since. And dig the odd little miniatures by an equally odd little miniature company called Citadel, Tom Meyer looking like he's 15, and Martin Bowers kind of creepy "cool guy" picture.

Enjoy!

Contents:

Editorial
Willy Whitten's Wizardry
Model Girl
The ESB Snow Walker
The ESB Snow Speeder
Ral Partha Exposed
Role Playing Games
Aerial Photography and Rockets
America's Premiere Competition
Collectables
Book Reviews
Odds and Ends


Fantasy Modeling Magazine No. 4 -

Grave Yard John Now for Sale!

I now have castings of the new Nameless Design Miniature, the despicable freelance gravedigger Graveyard John. This miniature comes with a body bag, pick-axe, and shovel lantern combination and it includes a black resin base. For a limited time each miniature will include one free random gravestone from Miss Minis.

Price is 8.00 USD plus shipping and handling. S&H for The US and Canada is 2.00 USD and International is 4.00 USD. Please click on the Paypal Button to pay with Paypal or a credit card. Email me at hellbox45@hotmail.com with any questions.

Miniature+Shipping

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First Look at Graveyard John.

"He shambled out from behind a decaying headstone like a clumsy ghost, a man of dubious industry who always seemed to appear after a funeral or before somebody was about to die. He glared beneath a soiled top hat with eyes as cold as a snapping turtle and stood crouched over as bowlegged as a gandy dancer. There was a bag on his back bigger than him that was lumpy and stained with who knows what. And all the people of Mortimer's Corners wanted to know, did he put people into the ground or take them out?"

This miniature will be available soon.

Giant Deep One Now For Sale

The first miniature from Nameless Design Miniatures is now available! The Giant Deep One is a massive monster from the depths, certain to frighten the most stout of heart adventurers or investigators. The miniature comes in three parts and includes a 40mm round base.

ScaleStick by Mississinewa Miniatures

Price is 8.00 USD plus shipping and handling. S&H for The US is 2.00 USD and International is 4.00 USD. Please click on the Paypal Button to pay with Paypal or a credit card. Email me at hellbox45@hotmail.com with any questions.

Miniature+Shipping

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Quick Mortis Dreadnought Conversion.

Calling this a conversion is probably too kind. It's really just adding a big skull from the Arcane Ruins set to a Dark Reach dreadnought and then adding four lascannons to the arms. I threw a couple of Imperial Aquila around to further brand it. Aluminum targeter eyes with putty lenses. I might still add more icons and purity seals.

Although I will probably never play Warhammer 40K ever again I still like bashing stuff together and painting it. The plastics make converting so easy and I always seem to have lots of bits left over from painting miniatures for other people. I think this will look much better once it's painted, right now it's too cute. Like a big baby with lascannon arms. Humm, now there's an idea.

I also made up a base for the little fellow using a bunch of leftover vehicle bits, some cast metal conduit, plant roots, and a zombie arm. I think sometimes that I build models just to get to make bases to put them on.

Deep One Miniature Crawls to the Surface.

Here's my first complete miniature in quite some time. I'm getting back into sculpting and decided to finish some of the half-finished minis lurking in my storage crypts. A great jedi once told me that you learn more from finishing one miniature than you do from starting twenty.

I've always seen deep ones as much larger than most current sculpts. Maybe it comes from having seen Humanoids From The Deep at too early an age or maybe I like my monsters to look like guys in rubber suits. Either way this deep one is about 40mm tall (he'd be taller if he was a Posture Pal), comes in three pieces and includes a separate base. I'm having some cast and will have price and shipping date set soon.

Now where did all of my sardines go?!

Fantasy Modeling Issue #3

Well after too long of a hiatus I'm finally back with another issue of the awesome Fantasy Modeling magazine. Finally getting caught up with our comics coloring and design work so now I get to do some geeky fun stuff. And I wanted to get this posted so Tom can put down the Thorazine darts.

This issue features an in-depth interview with one of the founding fathers of modern fantasy miniatures, Tom Loback. Mr. Lobacks's company Dragontooth Miniatures released some of the most purely creative miniatures of the 1980s and really set the stage for massed combat fantasy miniature gaming.

This issue also begins the series Odds and Ends which shows how to use common items that might usually be thrown away to create and convert science fiction miniatures. Many of these ideas are still useful and this series really inspired me as a kid to "trash-bash" my own creations.

An interview with artist Dave Cockrum, model rocketry, spaceship scratchbuilding,and tons of other goodies.

Enjoy!

P.S. And I know the Martian Metals ad is upside down. Just like in the magazine.

Contents:
Editorial
Plastic's Modeler Dave Cockrum
The Atlanta Military Miniature Exhibit
The Return of The Backyard Spaceship
Conan Reconsidered
An Interview with Tom Loback
Role Playing in a Future "Universe"
From The Natural to The Supernatural
Scratchbuilding Spaceship Miniatures for Film
Fleets
Collectables
What Kit is That?
Outerspace Odds and Ends
Adventure Gaming
Book Reviews


Fantasy Modeling #3 -