"Enviro Games" are here now, but are the minis any good? I painted ALL the models from Novus Malum!

I think it's a really cool idea to put environmental responsibility at the core of a game company's identity. Enviro Games seems to be off to a good start! enviro-games.com/ After they saw my first instagram post, they made a discount code for us... apparently "Goob1" is good for 5% off?

I wish more companies would pack stuff in paper and cardboard. I can just throw that into my compost pile, and never have to worry about the "forever" plastic.

Last couple of months, I've been focussing on buying my 'new' models second-hand. There's no reason to buy factory-new minis when there's tons of the same kit still on-sprue available second hand, often for cheaper!

Thank you so much for this video, Brent! We really love what you did with the minis; the contrast between the orange of the Knomes and the green of the dwarves looks ace. We hope you can find somebody to give the game a whirl with soon. Feedback is such an important means to help us improve. It's great to see so many comments (thank you, all!) and we will be reading them with interest! We have some new video content coming soon to show off the game system for those who are interested. If anybody has any questions, please get in touch! -The Enviro Games Team.

Those are some very nicely painted, cool minis. I like how the video gives the impression of Brent being entirely surrounded by cats.

It should have been Knomes and Twarves IMHO.

Would be interesting to see data how these products go with eco-friendlyness when compared to home-printing the same minis.

I have great luck with using 'gun cleaning' cotton swabs - they are wound tighter and leave no lint. I think this companies idea of recycling the sprues before sending the miniatures is brilliant. I hope they can scale that with deserved success.

So happy to see you covering this Brent and I love your Knomes and Dwarves. Thanks for spreading the word about cool stuff that tries to do right!

Painting minis and petting cats. That's a worthy time spent well, I have three of these fuzzy muses annoying and meowing at me. <3

Those are some cool looking minis and I like that a company is taking steps to be more responsible, hopefully it spreads. I love nerd/geek culture as I'm sure everyone who watches your videos does. But there's one aspect that's always bothered me and that's that geek culture is VERY consumerist. There's always new toys, collectibles, books, action figures, minis, cards, etc. constantly being churned out and sold. I suspect that's part of the reason geek culture has become mainstream in the last two decades... geeks are great customers to have! I think it'd be nice if geeks would start focusing on doing more with less. In the miniature world, I thought Gaslands was a good example of this, because you can take some old Hot Wheels, glue some leftover bits and plastic scraps to them, and have a cool mini that fits in the game world. Scratch-bashing is also a really creative way to flip literal garbage into cool miniatures. Ultimately this is a bigger issue outside of geekdom, but it'd be nice to see some change.

My reuse strategy is - if I get cheap food in a plastic container, clean it out afterwards, and use it for ongoing/unfinished projects. Great for keeping all of the bits together until I do finish especially if I get distracted by the new hotness and it's six months until I get back to a project having all of the pieces in one place is great, it keeps the cats out, and reuse is always better than recycle. I also save my wooden chopsticks, wash them and they can be great for terrain, stirring paint/resin, and all sorts of other hobby uses.

Nothing commercial nowadays doesn't have some environmental impact. However, it does look like that they have done everything they can to prioritise recycling packaging and using less damaging materials. If it is still a good game and maybe a slight premium for being environmentally aware then well done to them. Good review too.

I am very happy to hear about companies being environmentally responsible. Yes, we should all be doing our part. I just find that the dialogue surrounding the subject is too often skewed towards putting all the responsibility on the consumers, while huge companies get away with producing 10 times the amount of waste and pollutants than all the households in a country combined.

It strikes me that painting one's pile of shame before being new minis or games is probably more environmentally friendly than buying the new game, no matter how much effort has gone into making that new game environmentally friendly. Also, buying second-hand minis etc on ebay is generally more environmentally friendly than buying a box of brand-new minis. It does sound like this has had a lot of thought and effort put in to reducing its impact, so good for them, and more environmentally friendly new games is a good thing for the hobby. It is just that buying a new thing by definition uses more resources and produces more waste than using something that already exists.

I think the biggest impact the hobby has on the environment is shipping. Most of it is going by sea between large countries and distributed over existing product networks but the delivery emissions for a space marine are probably way higher than whatever they wasted in plastic wrap and sprue

Happy Goober Sunday All! ❤

“Driving around in an SUV to go shopping for a new set of curtains” is definitely a Normal People thing. 😂

I always worry about my footprint regarding miniature painting (considering everything uses plastic), so I do find some solace knowing that others care and do their part to help. Thanks, Brent ♥️

From my own estimates, $0.50 to $1.00 worth of airbrush paint gets you about as far as a full sized spraycan. So yeah, I'd say that's way less resources if you paint a lot.