The Miniatures

"Where can I get the miniatures to play the game?"

1. Figure out how many miniatures you need (Probably around 12 to 20)

2. Go to your local corner shoppe, and buy that many beers. Ensure the beers are bottled, with bottle caps.

3. Open the beers and empty the contents. (sink, drain, or mouth - your preference).

4. Flatten the bottle caps with a hammer.

Hopefully you have purchased a diverse enough array of beer types that you have enough different logos to each represent a different wargame unit.

5. Add some dice. You now have everything you need. Maybe add a stick with notches. To measure.

If you want to put a different type of effort into this process, you can download our miniatures from any one of these fine internet locations:

www.Cults3D.com - www.Printables.com

We print our miniatures on a Bambu Lab A1 using the settings recommended by Reddit user HOHansen. What a great guy - did all the R&D and then gave his settings free to the world. Thank you HOHansen. You can download our config of his settings here. As of writing this, they are giving great results on our BambuStudio version 2.2.1.60.

We have also been lucky enough to have had AADog with North of the Greggs Line Studios print some of our miniatures on his Elegoo Mars 5 Ultra. Thank you AADog.

We have a rule of thumb when it comes to 3D printing. We ask ourselves: "Does it print better than you can paint?" If the answer is "Yes", then it is everything we need. Both of the abovementioned 3D printers achieve this, and we are grateful for it.

The image on the front cover of the website has had a filter applied by the Photoshop Express app to make it look all "olde-world-y", after making it black & white in the Lightroom app to "fit the theme". Other than that, it is unedited. All the miniatures in it have been printed on the Bambu Lab A1: Beast. Warband. Terrain. Board.

We are enjoying it. Hope you do too. [smiley face].

Jaw-Boss Thragga

The image on the right (or, above, if you are on a mobile) is completely unedited. Mostly because we haven't got the time. We got minis to print and beasties to slay. Dice to roll and tea to brew.

Bambu A1. Basic pink plastic PLA. Settings from HOHansen. Leopard print coaster.

[smiley face]

*Pro Tip*: If you scroll down to near the bottom of of home page you will see a completely unedited photo that contains 3D prints of a Mire Worm, Bog-Root Mauler, Bile Leper, Glass Clinker, Jacaré Emboscada and an Orangutan. Everything is made better by the addition of an Orangutan. The Bile Leper has braces. He's in his teenage years.

In the background you can see the game "Newmarket". Its our Nan's favourite game.

Painting The Eightpints

Wanna paint The Eightpints? So do we. We've put together the following 32-colo(u)r palette* which will enable miniatures of The Eightpints to be rendered in a very specific way. We won't give away too much just yet (this section is very much "in development", and in future will contain the term Trompe l'œil**) but what is exciting is that these colours enable you to "play" anywhere you fancy between the following (mostly) established styles, which many painters/players will tend towards in some way, shape or form anyhow:

Chalk Dream / Low-fi Ethereal
Grimdark / Blanchitsu / Realism
Dead Synthwave / Retro-Cyber
Industrial Horror / "Nige has grown a new arm and gets to put in an insurance claim"
Eldritch Forest / Cursed Naturalism

What this colour palette doesn't enable you to do is "paint the hero". In this world, "hero" is just multi-syllabic word for "corpse", and those are all covered in mud. Which this palette does wonderfully.

Moving on.

We have done some moderate*** research, and decided that the paints from AK Interactive suit The Eightpints very well. There are other brands that suit very well too, but we don't want to be verbose so we have copy & pasted the AK Interactive "Equivalences" images from their website here (Thank you AK Interactive!) so that anyone/everyone can see if their existing paint collection has something "in the same region".

In order to not discriminate and remain vaguely brand-agnostic, however, we have created our own swanky names for each of these paint colours, so that when we hire Ray Winstone to do some painting tutorials on our Youtube channel, normal**** people will know what the hell he is talking about when he says "Layer your Juice-Burn Bruise with some Lead-Pipe Logic then give it a highlight of Dockside Drizzle". We have aspirations.

There is going to a be a hell of a lot more going on on this topic in the coming months, but for now we are sure the main question you have is "Why haven't you used the pun "The Eightpaints""?

For the answer, see our guide to "hero" in the preceding text. Be a leader. Not a hero.

Enjoy!

*Google "Zorn Palette"
**Google "Trompe L'oeil"

***Our current painting guide "heap" is 151 pages

****"normal" people