Grinning Skull Miniatures Released Today!!

24 May

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So, the day has come for my very own miniatures range, Grinning Skull Miniatures to be available on general release!

It’s been a long journey to get them from their humble beginnings to the fully fledged range as they are, and I’m really glad that this project has bore fruit! The excellent team at 15mm.co.uk have done an excellent job in turning my little piggies (and aliens) into great looking miniatures for everyone to enjoy!

Priced at just £1 each, or get all the first wave set of 24 for £22, they are more than a match for many a fighting force on the battlefield! The Oggam are big meaty, mean MoFo’s who mean business!

I feel a great relief that finally I achieved what I set out to do (with help of course!) and bring them from my imagination into war gaming reality. Even so that sort of sounds as if that’s it from my end, well you couldn’t be more further from the truth. This set of Grinning Skull Miniatures is just the first set of releases you’ll see in the line. It won’t be the last that you’ll see of the Oggam (or Oggum if you prefer!) as even more of my war pigs setting will be expanded upon to include everything that’s included in the Book of the Oggam (Available to download from here or on the 15mm.co.uk website) and lots more that aren’t! These will even include fearsome Oggam war beasts and handlers like the psychotic Mugal minotaur, psionic giant intestinal worms called Stingworm, and the chemically resurrected  remains of fallen oggam known as “Zoggom”!!

There will be more troops and specials for the other races like the Kize, Reptiloids and the Pliim, as well as new alien types such as the Volpurgi, Draxxion, Charcodonians and the forces of OAM Corp meat farmers. There will be native alien flora and fauna, and lots of other interesting stuff too, you might even see a few mutant zombies and killer clowns as well!

I’ll be putting up any previews, concept stuff and greens here on the blog, as well as additional background and art, so please pop in from time to time to see what’s new!!

I do hope that you the end user, that I have served you well, after all, all these figures were created and brought to reality with you lot in mind, so that you’ll get a kick out of using them in your own games and to have fun with. Thank you!!

If you have any suggestions, questions or feedback on the range, please feel free to get in touch and let me know! (Don’t forget to fill in the survey at the side of the page to help influence the future of Grinning Skull Miniatures!!)

Peace out

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Amazon call time on Zombieland TV series.

23 May
Zombie design for Zombieland, in a scene from ...

Zombie design for Zombieland, in a scene from the film’s climax. Characterized by tousled hair, blood markings on the face, and ragged clothing, the makeup was used to maintain a balance between comedy and horror. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Just a quick post to tell you that if you enjoyed the Zombieland TV pilot from Amazon, well sad news is it’s been cancelled.

It seems they will not be carrying on with the series, which is a shame, but not something any of us should loose sleep over. It was OK, but like I said it was lacking on that spark that was in the original movie.

Too bad for zombie media, but with all undead, there will be others to rise up and take its place…

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Grinning Skull Reviews: Triples 2013 photos!

23 May

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What I can say, is that it was a great day, and my thanks to the guys there for making me and my kids very welcome for the duration of our stay! My kids loved it, as did I and I managed to get myself a few choice bits off my shopping list (more about them later) There were some great games on display and plenty of folks to chat to, no doubt if your there next year, I may see you there!!

Well, I’ll let some pics speak for themselves.

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The 1/16th scale R/C tanks…

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Again a big thanks to the guys for putting up with us for the day!!

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The disturbing world of Thimo Graef on Indiegogo

23 May

As with the last post I made, concerning the recent British cannibal study, it leads me to post about the subject again.

This time I’d like to draw your attention to several active Indiegogo campaigns. This however is not my usual crowdfunding spotlight (as i wouldn’t want to garner this person any positive exposure) but, an example of the kind of strange underground concerning 21st century cannibalism that is rumoured about on the net.

I have to say, if you take a look at the page I’m directing you to, you’ll find a list of active projects by Thimo Graef, a german cannibal in the making from what it seems. Putting my forensic psychology and criminology hat on, I would say that this guy is somewhat obsessed with eating people, and seems to get off on it too. Just take a look at the themes going on with the different projects, and you’ll find that there’s a definite cannibal fetish going on, with both the sexes (It seems that as long as they are human, he has no preference!) There’s something clearly amiss with all this, and this is what I was talking about in the last post. This seems like a guy who’s heading toward killing someone! Just read the bit about the film he wants to make, with the cannibal killer even getting away with the murder (and feast) without any recourse.

This to me sends warning signals of a person on the edge, existing in the fringes of modern society, influenced by other would be flesh eaters across the globe, brought together by a shared sick fantasy over the world wide web.

For as much good to humanity the web has brought us, so too has it brought darkness and sickness. I really am surprised that Indiegogo has let him put up the projects. Surely I can’t be the only one thinking something isn’t right with this?

Ok, so now your going to tell me, well Will, you go on about strange stuff, zombies and monsters, so isn’t it like pot calling the kettle and so forth? Why are YOU even disturbed when you come out with all this shite?

I say this, While I do love the horror and the monsters, gore and carnage, I know that it’s not real, there’s no blurring of the lines, nor should there ever be. I don’t get a hard on thinking about zombies, nor any other ficticious horror scenario I may see or read elsewhere. I may be a bit ecentric, but I’m not a total crazy.

So, yes, ok this guy might be normal (ahem…I did say might…) and he can distinguish fantasy and reality, but he just keeps reminding me of the recent trend I mentioned to keep this whole cannibal culture popping up over the media. I fear for the future. My kids future.

Go and have a look, and tell me what you think and leave me your thoughts, am I just imagining this or not…

Thimo Graef | Indiegogo.

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It’s Official, Britain is a nation of cannibals!

21 May

Yes, it’s official folks, Great Britain is a nation of human flesheaters! It must be true, it was in the Daily Star!

But on a serious note, it does make one wonder, that really how many people around us can actually admit to thinking the same as a few of the questions posed in the report? Yeah, I have had loads of conversations over the years about this subject, but that kind of jabber would hardly brand me as a cannabal! As I’m pretty sure that of the folks in the study.

However things like this have always made me wonder if within our societies, we have a dark sector of twisted individuals who really do practice these things in secret. We already know there are suggestions of underground sicko sites that allow people with a cannibal fetish/fantasy to message each other over the web, and of people  actually willing to be eaten! Maybe I watch too many real crime things on TV and read the oddest news on the net, it kind of stops me from having faith in other human beings, with the evil stuff that seemingly normal people do each week really does astound me.

Note to self: to stop watching horror movies and try comedies instead!

I do feel as though the media has a recent trend in pushing the once taboo subject of cannabalism on the mainstream, and maybe thats a side effect of the new 24 hour news generation, and its new agenda of pursuing the human condition as far as it can, however and whatever the subject may be.

All I can say is be prepared for more news like this.

Daily Star: Simply The Best 7 Days A Week :: News :: New report shows that Britain is a nation of cannibals.

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