About
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My Tale of Woe.
One night in 2019, a masked demon tricked me into buying Warhammer.
What started as an innocent return to a childhood hobby soon spiralled into obsession. My fate was sealed when I stumbled upon the ‘28’ community: miniature makers hand-crafting each character to tell sad, strange and darkly comic tales on the tabletop. I was hooked.
Will Thomas: the grinning fool behind Weird Witticism.
Six years later I’m a professional miniatures artist.
These days I sculpt, kitbash and paint custom miniatures from my home studio in South Wales, sending out tiny parcels of doom to clients around the world. If you’d like to support this strange endeavour, consider subscribing by email, following me on Instagram, or commissioning a custom nightmare of your own.
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My Twisted Works.
Each miniature I make is a unique piece, built and painted by hand.
I use the forbidden powers of sculpting, kitbashing and painting to transform mass-produced modelling kits into one-of-a-kind monstrosities. My designs are always trying to channel the stranger sides of scifi and fantasy art, casting heroes and monsters alike as battered, bizarre and darkly comic figures.
Take a look at my process below.
Sculpting:
A form of witchcraft that shapes mere clay into miniatures.
All my pieces feature some level of sculpting, whether it’s building whole new miniatures from scratch, or simply adding fine details to tie a kitbash together. I sculpt by hand using a two-part epoxy putty, known as ‘Green Stuff’ - the green you’ll see in my WIP photos.
Aedric, the Accursed: hand-sculpting new elements (green) onto a lightly kitbashed plastic miniature (grey).
Kitbashing:
The noble art of chopping up mass-produced miniature kits.
Kitbashing can be as simple as swapping the head of one miniature onto another, or as complex as wiring together dozens of individual components. With a creative eye (“could that pistol be a robot’s head…?”) kitbashing can generate surprising results.
The Holy Undevoured: applying a bright, playful colour scheme in a weathered, ‘grimdark’ style.
Painting:
The honoured tradition of covering miniatures in colourful slop.
My style comes from combining bold, bright colours with the depth and weathering of ‘grimdark’ miniature painting. I typically start with base layers in acrylic, add depth with oils and pigment powders, then move between the methods for details, variation and weathering.
My goal is to create miniatures that visually ‘pop’ on the tabletop while still evoking a darkly strange atmosphere.
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