Knucklebones Miniatures and Bestiarum Miniatures nail the grimdark fantasy aesthetic really well. Love seeing both their models on the table! I just used up the last of my strong tone wash so I think now is the perfect time to give Streaking Grime a try :)

Humbled to get an award from Adam for Killsampleprocess. Thank you so much

If you enjoyed the Warlord M4 kit, I would definitely recommend trying a kit from Rubicon Models - they are awesome. Current favourite hobby podcast is The Painting Phase, Peachy opens up his Contacts list and gets them in to talk about wargames design, process and history in really engaging manner. Bob Naismith and Trish Carden about sculpting, James Hewitt about games design and the fella who was leading the product design team were real highlights.

Knucklebones minis are great. I purchased a bunch for This Is Not A Test and really enjoyed painting them. They have tons of character and just this odd, quirky aesthetic that I love. Kill Sample Process is also great. The whole Forbidden Psalm line is just really fun.

Look forward to seeing you do some judge dread and cyberpunk red battle reports. Those are two of my most played skirmish games for this year.

It's nice to see Warlord Games getting some love. They're consistantly high quality games and minis at very reasonable (at least here in the UK) prices. I'd say Grey For Now games is my pick for the year, a one man company that produces the most interesting skirmish rulesets that are ideal for historical games but great too for Sci Fi. Happy New Year to all!

I think TM should get the TMA Peoples Choice award for the best constructed informative channel for minis ! We really appreciate your effort and commitment to the hobby, thankyou Sir.

I have Kill Sample Process on my wishlist, I just love the look of all those books. Picked up those fidget poppers the first time you talked about them. One for my paint desk and one for my wife to use as intended. Knuckle bones and Bestiarum are two of my favorite sculptors. Lord of the Print churns out great stuff on the other end of the spectrum too.

Congrats to Hive Scum. Such a great podcast and group of fellas. Highly deserving winners

For my 2023 hobby enjoyment, my top pick has to be the new Bambu Lab P1S 3d printer with AMS. More affordable than their flagship X1 Carbon, but still very high quality core x/y FDM prints. And the AMS helps with multicolor prints, but my main use of it is production printing, just load it up with 4 spools of the same color and when one spool runs out, it jumps to the next spool and keeps going. Fantastic for modern wargaming vehicles in 15mm and all your terrain needs.

Good list, worthy winners. Since you asked, my favourite new game of 2023 was Xenos Rampant, but the games I played the most were 5 Parsecs and Alphastrike. Honourable mention to Majestic 13 for best looking rule book, I'll finally be playing it in 2024! Metallic speedpaints are my hobby product winners, super smooth and interesting colours. Too many minis to pick an individual figure winner but Wargames Atlantic have been making lots of cool stuff so I'll stick with them.

Nice one. I'll certainly be checking out the silicone fidget widget. My pick in terms of rules was "Never mind the billhooks: deluxe" . This is a ruleset originally published as a pamphlet in Wargames Illustrated for battles in the Wars of the Roses. The expanded version which shipped in late '22 now covers a lot more ground, giving rules for all sorts of wars in the late 15th-early 16th centuries. One of the barriers to entry to a lot of medieval wargames is "I have to paint all those figures" and "they are all in metal, it's too expensive with the shipping". Billhooks gets you around that in that the scale is designed to work with around 2 boxes of the Perry Miniatures plastic minis which are lovely figures, all interchangeable between ranges in terms of bits and very affordable.. The production quality on the book is just gorgeous as well, with very detailed painting/kitbashing appendices at the end of the book.

Honestly, Mordheim has always been on the top of my personal favourites list. The esthetic, the rules, the campaign rules. With the Old World coming back, perhaps GW could find room to provide support so it will be easier to find new people and models to inject into the scene.

I recently got majorly into Verrotwood. An eldritch horror skirmish game of different cults fighting each other in a vast forest.

You know he's been around for a while when he still has a zine. Haven't heard that word in close to 20 years. That's Awesome.

HI Uncle Atom I've been following your channel for a while now, and I must say, it's a breath of fresh air in the world of art channels. What stands out the most for me is the authenticity and realness that you bring to every video. One of the best aspects is the focus on the artistic process rather than unnecessary drama or gossip. It's clear that you value the craft and want viewers, especially hobbyists like myself, to understand the intricacies of painting. The content consistently provides insights into techniques and approaches, making it a valuable resource for anyone interested in the art of painting. What I appreciate the most is the variety in content. The channel doesn't stick to a rigid format but rather explores different aspects of painting. Whether it's trying out new mediums, showcasing unique styles, or sharing personal experiences, the variety keeps the content engaging and informative. Moreover, despite the channel's success, you have managed to stay grounded. There's no hint of arrogance or self-importance. It's evident that the passion for art and the desire to share knowledge with the audience are the driving forces behind the channel. In an era where many content creators get caught up in controversies or repetitive content, this channel is a shining example of staying true to one's roots. The genuine approach and commitment to delivering quality content make it a go-to for anyone wanting an authentic and enriching art experience. Highly recommended! thank you Paul Anderson aka i_like_to_paint_minis @i_like_to_paint_minis

Thanks to you, and you mentioning Knucklebones on your Friday stream, I grabbed a bunch of their stls half off on their Black Friday sale. Also glad to see Warlord getting some love. They make amazing games with some great sculpts and engineering.

Need to check out that podcast, thanks for another great show, Happy New Year's

..."is that a pouch or is he just happy to see me?" Really, those Knucklebones sculpts are awesome and I will check them out. So many minis these days look like the mannequin from Blender that they tugged on for a while. Thanks for the suggestion!

Thank you for the video! Will check out the Hivescum podcast, always up for new audio. Happy new year, Uncle Adam!

This is why I enjoy your videos, I usually learn about something I have never heard of: Kill Sample Process. I will be checking this out. Keep up the good work.

After your video about them, I picked up a grey silicon fidget popper at 5 Below (a Narwhal one). It’s now a conversation starter when people are in my game room.

Congrats on being on the Factory Team.

Some interesting winners in there - I'm off to order a silicone fidget popper! I also like having something on in the background and a podcast that I came across this year is 'Rule of Carnage', two miniature games designers talking through all the different aspects of games design; it's also on YT and is well worth a listen. My miniatures award would go to 'Bloody Miniatures' who produce beautiful figures for the English Civil War. This has never been a period that captured my attention but these figures have changed all that - they are intended for low-level skirmish actions and are full of animation, character and detail. My next award would be the two backdrop books produced by John Hodgson of Handiwork Games. These are A4 books of colour backdrops for use when photographing your miniatures - one is aimed at Sci-fi and the other is more generic. They are dead easy to use, include a guide on taking photos of miniatures, and really elevate the visual appeal and interest of any photos you take. Finally, although I have never played RPGs, I would like to put a shout out for three RPG systems - Beowulf, Age of Heroes; The One Ring and Ironsworn. The first two really capture the look and feel of a particular place, setting and 'period', which has added a huge amount of depth to my miniatures games, as well as generating lots of ideas for scenarios and campaigns. Ironsworn is a system for playing solo RPGs and as a mostly solo wargamer, this has got a stack of ideas that readily transfer across. And the pdf is free to download! Thanks for another year of great content and all the best for 2024!

I don't know much about the game but you should really check out the new ABC Warriors models from Warlord games. They look amazing! A ton of potential for use in other games

Thanks for the great content and year. The Hive Scum Podcast is really nice.

I'm putting together and painting my Tomb Kings army in prep for the Old World and needed new bases. I found Proxie Models which is a one-man shop who makes bases here in the USA. They have competitive prices and were a treat to work with. The bases are flat bottomed and slightly shorter than GW ones which is nice for adding a strip of kitchen magnet to. I bought a bunch of 25mm square and 30x60mm for cav. My second mention would be Kill Team: Ashes of Faith, what a great box. Too bad GW didn't make nearly enough of them and they sold out pretty quickly. Honorable mention: Wargame Atlantic. These guys just keep coming out with more and more 28mm sets and introduced a digital marketplace for STLs as well. I plan on picking up a few boxes of their Skeleton Chariots when they release in early 2024.

I discovered the Hive Scum pod a few months back. It's great! I'm in New England but up in Maine, which those guys seem to think is the is the darkest depths of a haunted forest.😅

Congrats on being selected to represent the new Fanatical line of Army Painter. If it's 1/2 as good as the hype I'm excited. But I'm going to push back a bit on your choice of Warlord games products. And I'm saying this knowing it is just me and my experience and not the norm but... Went to my first gaming con in over 20 years this year, Gen-con. had an absolute blast for most of it. Played some Battletech, Blood Bowl, did some shopping, won some auctions for old old mini's, took a painting class on wet blending, got to hang out with a friend I hadn't seen in 20 yrs. Almost every part of that trip was positive, even the vendor area where I was able to dodge "oversized back packs" and other traps. But I signed up to try the Dredd Demo. Saturday night , 7pm on the Field floor. showed up 15 min prior. watched and waited for the previous demo to finish. took a seat and waited. Someone in a Warlords vest came by, got my ticket, and politely said your demo host will be here soon. Waited 45 min. No one ever showed up. plenty of Warlord reps looked in my direction, made eye contact, mumbled to their coworker but never approached me. I'm not mad about the $8 for the ticket. I understand that I was the only person who signed up for the demo that showed up. But to just ignore me sitting there (they were running a couple other games that were full so it's not like I could just switch over to another demo) They just left a sour taste for what was otherwise one of the best experiences of my life.

Thanks for a great 2023! The TMAs are always my favorite video of the year 🎉

Dredd is a super solid game that does the IP justice. (see what I did there?!?) Happy 2024, looking forward to more videos!

Thanks for another year of good content. I also need to listen to something while I build or paint otherwise it feels weird. In the old days I used to love the UK Warmachine podcast called Boosted Damage. Ideally I like to have a podcast playing that feels like I am an invited guest to a general hobby discussion.

Really like the Tabletop Minion Awards! Thanks for compiling this.

Thanks for the video! Some products I will be checking out, and I love the silicone idea for paints!

The Barbie Movie was robbed.

My tabletop game award of the year goes to Space Station Zero!! (Even though I know it’s over a year old now 😅) I played a run with a powerful but ultimately ill-fated pirate Brute ladies. First time playing a single-player game and I had a blast. I’ve never been sadder when a mini died. Thanks to you and Vince for bringing it into the world!!

As you say, there wasn't necessarily anything to loudly shout about that came out of 2023 for me either, but some things that brought me nothing but joy in 2023 are - 1. Stargrave (Loved the idea and the openness of what kind of sci-fi you want it to be from Star Wars to Star Trek, from Firefly to even WH 40k itself) 2.Diehard Mini's (Absolutely awesome metal mini's for both Sci-fi & Fantasy that really pile on the nostalgia in a modern way) 3. Mantic (Specifically their terrain ranges - they have allowed me to construct everything from modern day cities to fallout wastes, necromunda hives, exotic alien planets, the inside of starships, etc, etc this past year) 4. Anvil Industries (They have really stepped up their offerings this past year, making more of their models accessible) 5.Northstar Military Figures (Off the back of stargrave, I love their Stargrave dedicated range & I've had some brialliant interactions with them this past year).

I'm going to add another vote for The Painting Phase, phenomenal podcast (and videos) and they've had some really interesting guests this year

Cool first award to the STLs. Sculpting in VR is really rough using voxels. Makes sense why they look green stuffy.

Oh cool fine fun stuff here. Looking forward to that podcast

It's awesome that the Hive Scum podcast made the list! Also, based on your recommendation, I now have a fidget popper and two Warlord M4 Shermans waiting to be built once NEMO's finished.

Excellent Atom. I hope 2024 is an awesome year for you sir.👍👍😉

I'm going to throw a positive comment in for Monster Fight Club. My son got their Borderlands Kickstarter and we all (family of 4 adults) love playing it! I dont even play the video game but the boardgame is fun. The gameplay is supposed to be similar to Cyberpunk Red Combat Zone. The minis are small but fun and interesting to paint. The basegame comes with tokens, dice and map tiles and all sorts of cards. It took us a couple of rounds to figure it all out but its a great gateway game, skirmish fights with a good AI and premade choose your own adventure type campaign. We have some of the expansion boxes that the Kickstarter was offering but not all of them. The extra vault hunters is a great addition. I look forward to seeing what they come out with next.

If you like building 28mm tanks, check out Rubicon models. A lot more vehicles to choose from, and higher quality too. You do need Tamiya Extra Thin to build them though, they're ABS and not all cements work on them.

Great awards! I somehow miss Moonstone on that list (they won some awards over in the UK this year). It's such an awesome game.

Fidget poppers are legit. I too have two tanks to build for Tanks for the Apocalypse.

I always look forward to the TMA's. It is such a good resource for discovering new things in the hobby. Thank you again Uncle Adam

Always a pleasure to listen to, hoping the Fanatic paints make your 2024 list! Have a wonderful New Year and all the best for the coming year!!! 🎨🍻

Great to include how to roll those multi wound on one wound models.

The Warlord Sherman kits are wonderful. I've built a number of them, and they build wonderfully. In general, Warlord's 28mm vehicles are top-notch. I prefer metal Artizan or Crusader minis for my 28mm WW2 figures, but for tanks? Warlord all the way.

Always look forward to the awards vid! Nice winners this year & I agree, despite some “big” releases it’s been a lacklustre year.

I’ve wanted a fidget popper palette since you first mentioned the idea but it seems to be impossible to find one in white. The ones in the link are in relatively muted ‘Scandinavian’ tones, but the lightest one is ‘blizzard’, an off-white, and it comes in a box with a dark grey one. They’re relatively expensive, too. I haven’t built a tank yet for Tanks for the Apocalypse because my kit-building skills are poor, as my collection of semi-built kits attests. I know if I try to build one I’ll lose something important - such as the turret or a set of running gear - but I have bought an assembled model on eBay that wasn’t identified. It turned out to be the Warlord resin kit of Oddball’s Sherman from Kelly’s Heroes, minus one crew member. It may require a special rule or two.

I really like the updated Vallejo Game Color paints. The additional colors added to the SC75 Artist series added some missing depth to that palette.

loved the award show! thanks for sharing your experiences from the year.

Excellent, as usual. All my praise to Offensive Miniatures - lovely WW2 realistic proportion sculpts. Don’t think it was mentioned that fidget popper can pop out dry paint and be reused over and again.

Ive been supporting knucklebones since day 1 all the models are amazing!

Lets us know how “I am the Law” is. Anyone else hear Anthrax shouting though their head?

Been watching your vids for a while, love that you focus on the more indie type games, can’t wait to see what you do with the JD minis, I have a whole drawer, almost everything released for the game so far, no paint on them yet. Hopefully I’ll get inspired after seeing what you do with them!👍

Dual use for the Cyberpunk figures as gangs for Judge Dredd? Happy New Year to you sir!

The latest Judge Dredd game is actually probably the third Dredd minis game. Mongoose used to publish one and I think there was another before that…

I'm looking forward to the mutant skirmish game from free league.. I backed the kickstarter. Its a low count miniatures skirmish game that comes with the terrain. So it just build and game.. Great starter entry for my kids. Then am I were curious about Slaine from the same company as Judge Dredd

I now have two silicone fidget popers! Well deserved award!

The Doomed would be on my list for game of the year. It has inspired me to paint and kitbash more than any other game. It is a surprisingly deep game for one with only 1 stat per model. It’s flavorful and has enough variety with the special skills that each character and monster have that nothing feels samey, which is my complaint for a lot of skirmish games I’ve tried

Knucklebones STLs are some of my favorite out of the 100s of creators out there

Have you played Moonstone yet?

Cheers to successful 2023! May 2024 treat you even better.

Majestic 13 got robbed. Robbed!

Hey, I just seen the news from Army Painter. Most Excellent!

My hits The Doomed (ruleset) The Damned (HIPS miniatures kickstarter)

I had an excellent year in the dnd Hobby I painted a large Green dragon and I just finished an Orge Zomie. Our adventure Groupe looks to travel to Anigte city of Kryia to dystrophy the Spider queen Lolith.🎉

Have you considered battletech? Not the alpha strike but the original rules are really fun. The redone minis look great

My 2023 Tabletop Minions Award Winners: -TurboDorks Silicon Palettes: Same basic thing as the fidget popper Adam mentioned. -Jordan Sorcery: A great little KZfaq channel focusing on deep dives into the history of Warhammer and GW games. Of particular highlight are his histories of different editions of Warhammer fantasy battles, and interviews with giants of GW’s past like Rick Preistly. And last but certainly not least - Diesel: Because they were a good kitty and a big part of the Tabletop Minions community and deserves an award for all the joy he gave Adam over the years.

I bought a Rubicon M4 to play Tanks for the Apocalypse! I’ll check out the Warlord version….Konflikt ‘47 has caught my eye as well

You clean up nice in your black tie fancy-type garb.

It's a weirdly cool feeling to be surprised in finding a Judge Dredd fan out in the Internet Wilderness. Makes me want to move the board game from my wish list to the shopping cart, but I still have no-one here to play it with 😄. Thank you for the 2023 round up, really enjoyed it!

Best award show of the year. This award show deserves an EGOT.

Great stuff friend 👏 👍

Thanks, Brother Atom! I should be watching my pennies, but you are a bad influence. Lol I've been eyeballing Kill Sample Process since last year, and my lhs stocks Dredd. Where do you find the Hive Scum podcast?

Awesome selection, thanks for sharing!

it's cool when you show us your models :P

Kill Sample Process is a beautifully designed and realised game.

I had zero idea there's a J Dredd game. Let alone made by old g dubs peeps. Cheers

Moonstone by goblin king games...great models, fun game.

Hive Scum sounds interesting Yeah my hobby is all over the place rn

Does your AP factory team deal impact your Monument Hobbies brush set or will they have to rename it?

It was the same in my order!!! Barber in the order but too five def !!

You know that thing when a friend stands behind you and acts like your hands when you speak? That's how it looks when you talk and move your hands. It's facinating how disjointed your speech to handmovments are.

Love the shirt!

Ok, Adam. Now get Army Painter to release a silicone wet palette for us painters. Here in the EU we only seem to have the rainbow colored kids variants. 🤣🤣 And I'm a bit to proud to have that on my panting table.

I definitely think Majestic 13 should have been on the list. It's on mine and I've gotten more play out of that game than any other this year. But, I understand why you might've omitted that one.

I have the Block War Judge Dredd skirmish game, found when we moved. Great list Adam! Stay Healthy, Happy, and H of your choice.

Turnip28 v17 was this year!

Fridays never disappoint

you have missed to give an award to Snarl :D I LOVE IT! i appreciate that you still show love for Reign in Hell. This game is sooo awesome!

Man ive been waiting for this video. I love it. For me, it really wraps up the year

Both cyberpunk games sound interesting. Build and painted some miniatures for SR some time ago but Corona stalled the RPG project. 😢

Its a good day when the tux shirt comes out.

Uncle Adam how come you didn't mention Majestic 13? I picked your game up shortly after you featured it on your channel and have played it about twice a month since then. It's fantastic and I highly recommend it to everyone. Just wanted to thank you for your work on it cause it's honestly one of my favorites to play.

I'm surprised the new fanatic paints aren't on the list but maybe they'll be on for next year.

Streaking grime and streaking rust are my secret weapons. It's like nulin oils dirty cousin.