Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Gothic Shrine – Intact/Ruined/Destroyed versions

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Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Gothic Shrine - Intact

Another post of paid-for STL buildings from Wargame Forge on MyMiniFactory today. Today it’s the Gothic Shrine, as usual including the Damaged and Ruined versions as well.

Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Gothic Shrine - Intact

I’ve gone for the verdigris-inspired turquiose for the domed roof again. I think it works nicely with the sandstone-ish yellowed buildings, so expect to see it continue whenever I have more of these. Not sure yet how I’ll do these domes when I’m painting grey versions of the buildings, but that’s a tomorrow problem! Thanks to Marouda for doing the tedious job of masking the dome off as well!

Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Gothic Shrine - Ruined

Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Gothic Shrine - Ruined

The damaged version of the model looks pretty good to me as well. Lots of space for infantry to hang around and shoot out of that exposed upper level.

Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Gothic Shrine - Destroyed

Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Gothic Shrine - Destroyed

Of course, hanging about in the upper floors of a recently damaged building might not always be the best plan as the next stage might have the building flattened with you taking a rapid fall with it! This one also has the look of somewhat-cleared ruins to it, as I’m not sure how much of the floor you’d rightfully expect to see once a multi-storey shrine with a big blue roof came down, but as always – gameplay abstraction!

Wargame Forge 3D Prints: Gothic Shrine - Intact/Ruined/Destroyed versions

Once again – scale shot for the win here. Still haven’t managed to play Alpha Strike. It might have even happened today if not for the 2 hours on the phone getting the internet issues sorted out. Turns out we have a dead Modem/Router and a new one will take a few days to get here, so it’s phone hotspot-a-go-go for a little while. I’m sure setting up the new one will be completely smooth with no issues or unforseen technical problems!

Why Not Everything Sucks!

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This morning I’ve been reading a well-written post by Sevy over on the Tiny Painted Heroes blog on the topic of “Why Does Everything Suck?” The post largely deals with hobby content on YouTube, and the majority of comments are by people in our little gang – go read the post now if you haven’t yet – then come back here! I also attempted to add a comment but WordPress decided to eat both my comment and then my attempt to rewrite it. So I’m turning it into a little bonus post here.

I personally watch a lot of YouTube. Like, a LOT. When I’m pottering around on my PC – which is a lot of the time, I’ve often got a video running on my second monitor. I watch stuff from a wide variety of content types, but the relevent stuff for this post is the gaming hobby stuff, so I’m just going to discuss that here.

The thing I find with YouTube specifically, is that it’s actually pretty easy to curate your feed. Despite how annoying it is to hear it from every content creator all of the time, clicking like and even a subscribe not only helps their channels, but it also means you’re more likely to be fed more of their stuff as well as stuff YT thinks is like their stuff – which doesn’t mean “they liked a Star Wars Legion video – feed them Warhammer” – the algorithm also looks at what people who liked that video also liked. So yes, you’ll obviously still inevitably get Warhammer fed to you, but you’ll also get more stuff of whatever niche you’ve been looking at.

So in order to cull the stuff you’re not enjoying, a thumbs-down – especially without watching the whole thing apparently works well. Another thing that helps a lot is something that appears to only work when using YouTube on a computer web browser – the “Don’t Recommend Channel” button found via the “three dots” menu.

Below you’ll find some great channels worth your time to at least check out. Some often have a GW focus but a lot are for other games or wider. This is aside from the “painting tutorial” channels like Duncan, Sorastro, Vince Venturella and Sonic Sledgehammer (which can have interesting videos as well, but aren’t really in the “hobby news/discussion” genre – or hobby-adjacent modelling channels like Night Shift.

So while TPH definitely isn’t wrong that there’s a ton of negative content out there farming angry clicks (because that’s how making money on social media works) – I’m not going to bother doing a name-and-shame here of negative channels or the ones that piss me off – they’re easy to find and this post is wanting to be a bit more positive here –

Here’s a bunch of links here that you might find interesting to dip in and out of and hopefully improve some YouTube feeds out there. Obviously not an exhaustive list, and while you’ve probably heard of a couple of these channels, they’re mostly smaller and/or niche channels that deal with more than GW/Warhammer (not Auspex, though!) I’m sure I’ve even missed a bunch of channels I personally enjoy here:

https://www.youtube.com/@The.Game.Cave.

https://www.youtube.com/@MSPaints

https://www.youtube.com/@Miniscape-wh40k

https://www.youtube.com/@OldenDemon

https://www.youtube.com/@SnipeandWib

https://www.youtube.com/@PeachyTips

https://www.youtube.com/@EonsOfBattle

https://www.youtube.com/@AllMiniaturesGreatandSmall

https://www.youtube.com/@graysquadrongaming8670

https://www.youtube.com/@ArbitorIan

https://www.youtube.com/@GuerrillaMiniatureGames

https://www.youtube.com/@LittleWarsTV

https://www.youtube.com/@ModellingforAdvantage

https://www.youtube.com/@auspextactics

https://www.youtube.com/@tabletopminions

https://www.youtube.com/@TheLegionCantina

https://www.youtube.com/@Crabbok

https://www.youtube.com/@Ninjon

https://www.youtube.com/@stahly_taleofpainters

Anyway, check out some of the channels above and see if any interest you and hopefully some of them can help to improve your hobby feed!

Did I miss any positive hobby channels that you guys recommend? If so, feel free to drop them in the comments and I’ll potentially check them out myself.