Paint All The Minis Paint Ramble

This episode I talk to Forrest Harris about his personal history and story, plus also his miniature company Knuckleduster. Getting to know Forrest was a great experience for me, finding out about him and the reasons behind Knuckleduster along with a little bit about his research process and sculpting ethos. Knuckleduster are probably most renowned for their wild west range of miniatures, their gam...

This episode is one that has been kicking about in the PATM vault for a few months as I have waited for the project to show up on Kickstarter. I chatted with Luke, the creator of Upzone. Upzone is a range of car pop up terrain for tabletop wargaming. I dont know how I saw it, but I did and I was instantly interested in the story and genesis of it. Make sure you check out the link even just to appr...

This episode I speak to Scott Pyle, the brains behind 4 color studio. Scott has created a number of games, most of which hang off his Goal System set of rules which share common themes. Super heroes, to Sci Fi, to Fantasy Dungeon Delves, there seems to be something there for everyone. We take time in the show to chew the fat about his ethos, games, and intent. PATM and Scott seem to share the same...

This episode I speak to David Thompson a second time. I spoke to David about himself and also Sniper Elite, the hidden movement game back in episode 181 and I asked him to come back onto the show and we have a chin wag about the things that he feels make a good game. Its a wide ranging chat from nicknames, to game length, to intent, card mechanics, I even get a couple of sauce references in there...

This episode I speak once again to Mike Tuñez of Firelock Games. Firelock Games are most renowned for their historical skirmish games set in the 1600-1700's, thats the age of privateers, pirates, and freebooters to you and me. As this show is live Firelock are in the midst of a new Kickstarter campaign designed to produce a giant section of all their minis in plastic. I am a huge plastic fan, most...

This episode I speak to a stalwart member of the   PATM team and discord server, Mal. Mal is a huge positive presence in our discord community and consistently gives to our group, inspiring and empowering as he goes. We shared an hour and a bit of our time together and talked a lot about people. Our hobby involved, and therefore revolves around people and what they choose to do, not do, and how th...

This episode I speak to Richard of Folded Space. Folded space create a range of storage and game organization aids for board games, a number of which contain minis. I personally bought their Mansions of Madness insert recently and it has been fantastic. It was cheaper & lighter than other inserts I had seen. This makes shipping cheaper and also. Plus it was pretty logical to put together and becau...

This episode I speak to the awesome Dan Warner, a nerd just like us who is also a big presence in the background of PATM.   Dan has a set of twins under one years old and se we naturally talk about how your hobby takes a bit of a back seat when being a dad, and also in lots of other settings no doubt, its not limited to parenting. But yeah, we talk about his journey, his ideas around online conten...

This episode I talk to Ben Galbraith of Blacksite Studio. Blacksite Studio produce pre painted laser cut MDF terrain for a number of tabletop war-game genres, from modern to historical & fantasy. Recently Ben and Connor pushed into model design in a line of sci fi resin minis, and even more recently they decided to put together the whole Jean Luc Package and give us a terrain, minis, rule set expe...

This episode I talk once again to Alex Davy, the creator of, amongst lots of other notable things, the Star Wars Legion tabletop battle game, published by Fantasy Flight. I really enjoy both talking to Alex and Star Wars Legion. The word that I use in this show is fresh. Star Wars Legion to me is a fresh look at tabletop battle from what I had seen and played previously. I enjoy its innovations an...

This episode was the first ever fully live, with live guest and also people listening into the stream live. We spoke during the Paint All The Minis Sunday evening hangout. I chat to Ravis and we go podcast old school and reprise the questions from the original 10 podcasts I recorded way back when. We also go right over to a fully live post ramble ramble with not only Ravis but also some of the peo...

This episode I have a hugely enjoyable chat with Mr Brent Spivey. Brent doesnt get anywhere near as much credit as he should. We had a chat to Dewi Clough in ep173 where he tonked the enthusiasm bongos for one of Brent's games, Mayhem. Dewi's enthusiasm made me want to reach out to Brent and I am so glad I did, he was such a welcoming and enthusiastic guy. We waffle on about a wide range of things...

In this episode I speak to Guy who is the editor of the War-games, Soldiers, and Strategy magazine. WSS, as it is often called, is a bi monthly magazine thats focuses on historical tabletop games and how to play them, and not just historical content and settings you can get from other sources. Throughout August WSS run their Great Wargaming Survey where they ask the community what they have been u...

This episode I get my fan boy hat on and talk to a game designer who I have a great deal of excitement towards, Mr David Thompson. David designed two of the games that I have been setting about with reckless abandon over the last 5 or 6 months, Undaunted Normandy and Undaunted North Africa both WW2 skirmish games with deck management aspects. Although they dont contain minis out the box, conversio...

This episode I catch up with Joe McCullough and we talk through the reasoning behind and the tweaks involved in Frostgrave 2nd Edition. Frostgrave was one of my first delves into narrative wargaming once I began to branch out from Warhammer 40k. I found the stories that could be created, the time I spent thinking up narrative, and the memories of the games to be a massive benefit to the hobby for...

This episode I speak to Rob Saunders about his eclectic hobby and work life. Rob is a jack of many trades working in a board game cafe, being a stand up comedian, member of bands, and also the purveyor of podcast treats in the form of the men with two brains & death nerve podcast (about horror movies). We sit and chat about his personal journey into the hobby and his life decision to chase things...

In this episode I speak to Charlotte who is not only a big fan of the hobby like you and me, but she also works for Steam Forged Games as part of their PR team. I wanted to talk to her for a number of reasons and in the show we talk about her own hobby background, gender portrayal, and also a little about the world of PR and how she goes about her job on a day to day basis.   It was a fun chat and...

In this episode I speak to Dave Taylor who has completed more projects in the hobby industry than we've had hot dinners! This is a marathon podcast clocking in at over 2 hours and thats simply down to the diverse and interesting journey that Dave has been on during his hobby life time. From discovering the hobby, to working within it, to moving countries because of it Dave has had an amazing ride...

In this episode I speak to Colin of Battle Systems. Battle Systems are a company who produce high quality card terrain along with the brilliant Core Space 28mm sci fi skirmish game. Core space is a wham bam, one game in a can game with all you need including all of the high quality card terrain AND a neoprene mat too. Its a really good game in my opinion and one I love to play.   It was fun talkin...

This episode Carl T and I talk about some wee updates to his Contact Front rule set and also ALL of the reasons why we love Richard Borg's amazing game Memoir 44.     

This episode I speak once again to Joe Veltre of Gods Eye Games and we talk about his upcoming western skirmish game Gunslingers Paradise. Joe needs no introduction, he's a jabroni that I dont seem able to shake off so when I feel I need a charity photo call to stay fresh and stay down with the hillbilly community then its always good to have Joe on. I hope you enjoy the chat we have, its always f...

Hey! This week Hendrik M is a guest pre/post ramble leader! It was great to hear him strut his stuff on the ramble! In the show Dewi talks about all the of the reasons why he loves the 6mm fantasy battle game Mayhem by Brent Spivey.  I hope you enjoy the show! 

This episode I speak to Chris Birch of Modiphius Entertainment. Modiphius are best known to me for their Fallout and Elder Scrolls skirmish games. They have taken two brilliant video game IP's and turned them into tabletop skirmish games. Fallout works with resin minis but The Elder Scrolls games has introduced a line of plastic fantasy minis which although I found a little fiddly to put together,...

Hey All, Zach 'Ken Tucky' Tackett takes over the pre/post ramble ramble this week, I enjoyed seeing where he took it, thanks Zach I hope you enjoyed the experience.  In the show Wee Matty and I talk about our thoughts on the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VTsIju1dLI&t=662s We talk about how it may relate to our hobby and especially with sharing on social media. We aren't qualifi...

This episode I speak to Mr Lon Weiss of Brigade Games. Brigade games offer a wide variety of minis both from their own commissioned ranges to other notable companies in one place. There is a heavy focus on the Black Powder era and they have a current kickstarter campaign to fund a French Indian War range of models sculpted by the talented   Mr Paul Hick's who PATM are fortunate to count as a frien...