Three weeks into the regular season of our staff XGL league and it has become a no-holds-barred brawl to see who can earn the most metal before the mid season tournament. Spurred on by victory over their hated rivals the Fisherbrook Finishers, the Nyshyr Nihilators crushed their way to a perfect regular season record thus far.

If you want to become a sculptor, you need reference books. I highly recommend picking up Modeling the Figure in Clay by Bruno Luchessi, which really helped me learn how to sculpt. A lot of beginning sculptors have a tendency to get lost in how people are put together and overlook what they actually look like, so stay away from pure anatomy references and pick up books with photos of people. You don’t want to make a figure that looks like it’s been flayed unless that’s what you’re trying to make.

As a member of Development, I often hear about some model or another being “too good” or “not good enough,” so I find it interesting to see what really happens when players from around the country meet up for a convention and throw down with their favorite WARMACHINE and HORDES armies.

March has been quite a month for me. I’m currently neck-deep in HORDES model entries, having just put to bed the last of my portions of Forces of WARMACHINE: Mercenaries. It’s a very satisfying relief to see the Merc book heading to press, since it represents the last of the initial wave of Mk II WARMACHINE books. A tremendous amount of blood, sweat, and tears have been poured into these books by everyone at Privateer, and the reaction we’ve had from our audience so far is very gratifying.

Matt DiPietro is the name, and painting miniatures is my game. My father built military models and model train sets as a hobby, and by the time I reached the age of six, he had taught me how to handle a hobby knife and keep from gluing my fingers together. I built lots of model kits but never got around to painting any of them, and many of their wrecks likely still litter the battlefield of my old back yard to this day. It wasn’t until the age of twelve when I bought a board game that showed off painted miniatures on the back of the box that I decided to try my hand at painting.

Hi, I’m Michael Faciane, Privateer Press developer and a heckuva great guy (at least my mom says so). I have a crazy love for games, and it’s a blessing that I’m a part of this superb game company.

My first look at Privateer Press products had me in awe—beautifully sculpted minis and solid, fun rules to match. “These guys produce some amazing stuff,” I thought. I was thrilled and surprised to hear of a job opening at Privateer Press for a fresh game designer and I jumped at the opportunity.

My name is Rob Hawkins and I’m the hobby manager for Privateer Press. I guess you could say I do a little bit of everything around here. Mainly, I head up the development of new products for our Formula P3 brand. One of my first duties after coming aboard with the company was putting together our range of hobby tools and brushes.

Welcome to the first of what I'm told will be a series of posts starring me, your friendly staff sculptor Brian Dugas. This is awesome because if there's one thing I love more than sculpting it's talking about myself.

Many of you may be building models, painting, or planning your next trip to yonder hobby store and thinking: "How could I get a job making the things I buy? How do I get a job that never requires that I wear a tie or shave on a regular basis?" Well, let me tell you how I did it.

I received a demo of WARMACHINE in the summer of 2003 in a small game shop in the suburbs of St. Louis, MO. When I got home that evening, I threw all sorts of other hobby gaming products into auctions to support my brand-new pewter habit. I started with a Cryx army starring Deneghra, but before Escalation hit the shelves, I was interested in every faction. I was hooked.