[Sponsored review] Redgrass new xl caps holder & corks addons

 Hellooo

It's that time again where redgrass is full steam on a new kickstarters which shouldn't send you straight in debt for a change.

So the new xl caps are here including cork,This is something I was really keen to test as one little regret with the original iteration was I could pin my mini on the holder.
If you follow me on instagram you probably saw that I pin 90% or what I paint, so you can imagine how useful this could be! 
Redgrass was kind enough to send me a sample to test them!

So what's new and what's "old" :

The holder "definitive edition" itself is still the same one nothing new on that front it's still really confortable and as a massively clumsy person, the magnet at the bottom is pretty useful to avoid it falling on the side, I love the metal sticker to put them on top on my wet palette as resting place between painting session

Kickstarter package

Standard cap, nothing new again still the same smooth operator but you can also stick the new cork insert on this one more on that later. As said before my little hiccup with this one is if you use just the top it can be hard to pick them up if you have big fingers.

New on the bock is the xl cap and this one is perfect, it's taller at the top, allowing you to place a 40mm flat on it, you still have the same crease as the standard allowing you to use putty or the cork insert.
Even on it's own, the cap work really well and is easy to pick up. 
Clever enginering with a little hole in the middle to allow you to "secure" the pinned piece inside, very clever, you need to be wary of the size as the hole is rather small so if you are using big pin like for bust you may want to enlarge the hole yourself with a drill to suit your need.


One thing to note is the texture is slighty different from the handle a bit more matt and grippier 

A set of 4 caps will set you down 6euros, which seem quite reasonnable 

pin and putty, it works 

Nothing more on this, it's really useful and I've been reaching for them instead of the standard cap since I received them !

Now the new cork insert, this may seem like a small addons, but if you pin little parts, like heads it's probably the most interesting one. You'll receive 4 in a pack, each one is sized to fit flush on the standard cap or have a little way on the xl one (I don't know the reason honestly but it's a bit strange), the bottom has tape to allow you to glue it to the cap.
I don't know the price for this pack though, I'll edit this post if I found out

Just pin your piece inside and your ready to go! Simple but it work and they do look nice 

So there it is, another tools from redgrass where form meet function but always keeping the design in mind.

The locking hole in the middle works really well

The project will go live on kickstarter on the 14 of March !
Link:  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redgrass/rgg-360-painting-handle-for-miniature-painting

2024 Update and how to lose interest in a project

Hello dear reader(s?)!

Little update here, I'm not dead 2023 has been quite the ride and I'm hoping for a more interesting 2024.

I don't blog as much as I used to for different reasons, first being a dad it's my greatest pride to be able to take care of my kid, second, some sort of boom of tutorials and patreon all over the place where people can learn to paint/build/whatever by people who are much more interested in creating contents with an higher quality than what I can do.

This mostly mean I don't really see the point on doing tutorial when much better content is already available! And I don't mean that in a bad way as it's great to see so many people happy to share their knowledge.

I'm still hoping to have the motivation to do smaller tutorial or run down of paints used when I publish something as that's still the recurring question 

2023 saw my participation in "slow grow" horus heresy campaign, which left me buzzing with motivation to do more custodes with the orion as the latest centrepiece, I also finally painted AND finished a bust, what a time to be alive ! Which also make it the biggest army I own with more than 4000 pts and growing. Fun fact, that's only 32 minis... 

I will do a more focused article on them when I can as I received so many requests for the paints used and try to get a group shot at the same time

I received and painted a blood bowl amazon team, this make it the fastest project from reception to finished.

Since I'm going to leave my little office/painting room to the second baby, I also took the opportunity to get rid of a lot of stuff that hasn't seen the light of day in weeks, months, years for some. Also looking to create a little portable painting station somewhere, tbd!

Some frustration during the year at work transformed to a spree of different project which were quickly abandoned then sold, I'm trying to not go down the rabbit hole again, but on notable note, instead of buying full armies I did order some very nice busts to paint and put in the cabinet and 75mm minis !

I started again AND sold again Titanicus as I can't play too many games, now the focus is completing the custodes and waiting for gw to finally release more sisters of silence as I really love them.
And age of sigmar to play with buddies at home mostly, I'm not too interested in competitive play and HH story driven play is much more in line with my motivation to play.
Though even that is not enough to motivate myself to paint 50 marines to actually paint a legion, go figure 😅

Latest from the chopping block is the seraphon as I come to the realisation, I really don't like painting scales and drybrush (except for bases). Which is a shame as the slann was really fun if a lot of work!

Anyway, I'm still hoping to publish more articles during this year if everything goes according to plan (spoiler, it usually doesn't work like that).

My amazon team which is a kinda speed painted but at the same time not really, a fun exercise in darker skin tones. The game was fun but not exactly what I expected though.

And a wonderful little bust from pedro fernandez, fully painted by hand for a change

Alright, that's enough rambles for today and thank you for reading !

Take care 

David