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Episode 16: Hobby Love – an Interview with BenSquig from Rad_heim!
This week I’ve gone all the way down under to chat with a gentleman about a table. Not just any table and not just any gentleman. He goes by BenSquig on Instagram and his gaming group is rad_heim – also on Instagram. And rad_heim is how I first discovered these guys and their crazy gaming table which when I encountered it was all about pirates and tropical island plateaus with jagged cliffs, half-submerged buildings, rope bridges everywhere and gibbets, tons of gibbets. Oh and skulls! A skull for every boy and girl I think. I mean, there’s a lot of skulls on this board. The pirate theme really caught my eye and the vast scale of what these guys do was just so inspiring! But once I started talking with Ben it became apparent pretty quickly that there was a lot more to their gaming and terrain and warbands than I initially thought – and even to the spokesman himself! Turns out he worked on White Dwarf for a while, the hobby magazine produced by Games Workshop! There’s lots of surprises in this one!
Bookmarks00:00:00 – Opening (News & Sundries)00:06:18 – Interview 01:02:28 – Hobby Progress01:06:13 – Section Charlie
In Section Charlie, where I highlight something or someone cool I’ve come across on the internet I shout out an Instagram account not necessarily directly inline with our tabletop stuff. It is directly associated with another interest of mine and maybe yours – it’s an instagram account belonging to a German college student who is bizarrely good at Lego creations! Seriously, just to feel good, grab a breath of fresh air and get out from under all the finely sculpted and cast plastic and resin and metal miniatures and other gaming stuff, head over to Instagram and check out the account jonaskramm. This guy designs all kinds of things in Lego, he recently designed a purchasable custom set for Bricklink.com – it’s an old west saloon and it’s wonderful – and he’s currently doing some kind of series of small vignettes all centered around Jurassic Park. He did some downright amazing MOCs inspired by Game Of Thrones and – you just have to go see his work, just go. It’s awesome. One of the things I really like about his stuff is that most of his MOCs are not too big and many of them are exquisitely small. His creativity makes me want to dig out the Lego we’ve got stashed all around the apartment in containers shoved under tables and desks and couches … https://www.instagram.com/jonaskramm/
SHOW NOTES
Rad_heim on InstagramBenSquig on InstagramRad_heim on YouTube
Victoria MiniaturesVictoria Lamb on Instagram
Connect with me on Instagram, discover more content on Patreon and watch the YouTube versions of the podcast episodes which contain time-lapse footage of working at the paint desk!
Watch the YouTube version of the podcast which contains time-lapse footage of working at the paint desk!
Show Transcript (not including actual interview)
Welcome to CryinMo’s Tabletop Alchemy! This is episode 16 and today I want to remind everyone that the color Magenta does not exist! Ponder that and consider what it means for our perspectives and philosophy on life and living!
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By CryinMoThis week I’ve gone all the way down under to chat with a gentleman about a table. Not just any table and not just any gentleman. He goes by BenSquig on Instagram and his gaming group is rad_heim – also on Instagram. And rad_heim is how I first discovered these guys and their crazy gaming table which when I encountered it was all about pirates and tropical island plateaus with jagged cliffs, half-submerged buildings, rope bridges everywhere and gibbets, tons of gibbets. Oh and skulls! A skull for every boy and girl I think. I mean, there’s a lot of skulls on this board. The pirate theme really caught my eye and the vast scale of what these guys do was just so inspiring! But once I started talking with Ben it became apparent pretty quickly that there was a lot more to their gaming and terrain and warbands than I initially thought – and even to the spokesman himself! Turns out he worked on White Dwarf for a while, the hobby magazine produced by Games Workshop! There’s lots of surprises in this one!
Bookmarks00:00:00 – Opening (News & Sundries)00:06:18 – Interview 01:02:28 – Hobby Progress01:06:13 – Section Charlie
In Section Charlie, where I highlight something or someone cool I’ve come across on the internet I shout out an Instagram account not necessarily directly inline with our tabletop stuff. It is directly associated with another interest of mine and maybe yours – it’s an instagram account belonging to a German college student who is bizarrely good at Lego creations! Seriously, just to feel good, grab a breath of fresh air and get out from under all the finely sculpted and cast plastic and resin and metal miniatures and other gaming stuff, head over to Instagram and check out the account jonaskramm. This guy designs all kinds of things in Lego, he recently designed a purchasable custom set for Bricklink.com – it’s an old west saloon and it’s wonderful – and he’s currently doing some kind of series of small vignettes all centered around Jurassic Park. He did some downright amazing MOCs inspired by Game Of Thrones and – you just have to go see his work, just go. It’s awesome. One of the things I really like about his stuff is that most of his MOCs are not too big and many of them are exquisitely small. His creativity makes me want to dig out the Lego we’ve got stashed all around the apartment in containers shoved under tables and desks and couches … https://www.instagram.com/jonaskramm/
SHOW NOTES
Rad_heim on InstagramBenSquig on InstagramRad_heim on YouTube
Victoria MiniaturesVictoria Lamb on Instagram
Connect with me on Instagram, discover more content on Patreon and watch the YouTube versions of the podcast episodes which contain time-lapse footage of working at the paint desk!
Watch the YouTube version of the podcast which contains time-lapse footage of working at the paint desk!
Show Transcript (not including actual interview)
Welcome to CryinMo’s Tabletop Alchemy! This is episode 16 and today I want to remind everyone that the color Magenta does not exist! Ponder that and consider what it means for our perspectives and philosophy on life and living!