This post is basically a plug for a mate but it’s also a hearty endorsement of an excellent new source of wonderfully gothic accoutrements for our hobby. Plus I just finished painting some skull-faced wildlife and that’s something everyone needs more of in their lives!
Followers of this blog will know I’m a long-standing fan of the blog Heresy of Us, especially Mark’s use of 3D printed components which he designs to include in his models. A new frontier has opened up in the hobby and, although I doubt that greenstuff is going anywhere, the arrival of a new creative medium is something to celebrate. Excitingly Mark now has a store, Black Edge 3D, where you can buy some of his designs, so I took the chance to get myself a set of his skullbirds as I’ve had my eye on them ever since I spotted them in pictures from the Chapel game last autumn.
They add a touch of the gothic to any 41st Millennium battlefield.
And of course they also look rather fitting in the darker corners of the Mortal Realms (or the Warhammer world if you’re old fashioned like me).
Of course, with birds like these, I wonder what the ornithologists look like? Food for some future creativity I suspect…
Convert or Die 
April 23rd, 2018 at 6:55 am
Very cool – I loved these when I saw them last year, and really must get around to picking some up! Mark is a clever little 3D ninja 🙂
April 25th, 2018 at 6:47 am
Isn’t he just? This whole 3d printing thing still seems like wizardry to me but anything that allows individual hobbyists to not only do their own thing but share that with others has to be a good thing. Plus as a friend of mine pointed out, it’s probably better than pouring hot lead in a small kitchen…
April 23rd, 2018 at 8:59 am
I used to love arch that English comedy called Birds Of A Feather with my Mum. Mark is going to set the world on fire with his awesome little hobby buys and bobs. I have yet to buy anything but certainly will be that’s for Dang sure. Love the birds!
April 25th, 2018 at 6:58 am
I don’t think I ever saw it, although the name rings a bell, if I recall correctly it was pretty popular when I was a kid. As for Mark’s stuff it’s really excellent – I’m just hopefully he gets the attention he deserves 🙂
April 25th, 2018 at 9:00 am
He will.
April 23rd, 2018 at 9:11 am
I love those little guys. Your ornithologist could be a messed-up version of pigeon lady from Home Alone 2.
April 25th, 2018 at 7:02 am
Wow, I’d forgotten about her until you said that. The funny thing is I actually work as an ornithologist and there’s quite a few colleagues I could 40k-ify to make a little warband. Who knows, what started out as a quip as I signed off the post is accreting ideas and growing by the moment 🙂
April 25th, 2018 at 10:26 am
Make it so!
April 23rd, 2018 at 12:13 pm
Good to see them painted my friend and I’m glad you like them. I’ve been away from the hobby for a while now due to a little something called marriage but I’m back on it now and looking for inspiration and from the looks of things I have a lot of blog reading to catch up on 🙂
April 25th, 2018 at 7:18 am
Congratulations mate! If there’s ever a good excuse for not hobby-ing that’s probably it 😀
April 23rd, 2018 at 9:03 pm
I still have a set of these guys sat on my hobby desk – I are very cool and I have been saving them to add to my Frostgrave terrain which I hope to make a start on soon.
April 25th, 2018 at 7:10 am
Get them painted mate – more terrain is always a must (says the man with almost no painted terrain to his name…)
April 25th, 2018 at 3:16 pm
Great looking scenic piece! 🙂
April 26th, 2018 at 5:39 am
Thank you! 🙂