Author: phinmagic

Phineus : Magician for Hire is the brainchild of creator Barry Linck. Phineus was created in 1987, of then a high school senior after reading too much of Matt Wagner's "Mage", too much Dungeon's and Dragon's and watching too much of John Carpenter's "Big trouble in LittleChina". Over the interviening years Phineus changed from angellic savior, to reluctant hero, to art student who finds he is a mage, until, in 1991, for a comic class at Edinboro University, he became part of a Husband and Wife paranormal investigations team, with Phineus' sidekick and wife Sara. Barry produced and self published from 1993 to the present 33 comics with our erstwhile heroes, garnering a small but rabid fan following.

Missing her

I miss her all the time. I miss her sense of humor. I miss her warmth. I miss my best friend.

My heart breaks all over again, when I wake up in our bed and remember she’s gone.

I love you, Sweetie. Merry Christmas.

Inquisition

The only thing keeping me sane, right now, is Warhammer. I try to draw and I get stuck… I can work on models and I’ve started playing 40k again after 20 years.

I’ve got a cool store to play at, and they have an Oldhammer group. I’ve played a handful or 10th edition games and I have a Prohammer game (an amalgamation of 3rd-7th editions) on Friday, where I’ll be fielding my Daemonhunters.

Here’s some new and old pics of the growing army.

Here are some in game pics of my Agents fighting heretics.

Absence

Please forgive my silence, as I try and piece together my shattered life, after the loss of my wife. I’m broken and lost.I’ll be back as soon as I can.

Drawing, again

So, the last 9 months have sucked to say the least. My father got sick and eventually passed. I had a number of illnesses and eventually a heart attack. My beloved wife Chrissie just passed away 3 weeks ago.

I haven’t been able to muster any kind of artistic mojo through all this. I have pencilled a couple pages and a few sketches, but nothing lasting.

I went to DJ Coffman’s Drawn Together drink and draw last night, in the hopes of kick starting my artistic drive. It was fun, I drew, we talked and we commiserated. I’m going to try and draw more and get back to creating. It’s NOT easy, especially after losing Chrissie, but I’m gonna try.

Tragedy

It is with the heaviest of hearts i have to say goodbye to the most beautiful, lovely soul mate one could have. My dearest wife, Chrissie Linck passed away today.

Our hero and family rock, after losing her life, gave the gift of life by donating her organs to several people in desperate need.

My heart is shattered, my life feels over. I will never stop loving and missing the love of my life.

Rest in Peace Sweetie.

Apocalypse Child

Phin and Sara are coping with the aftermath of the battle with Kali and her forces. Phin is given new responsibilities and strange disappearances are occurring around Pittsburgh.

Chimera 2 scratchbuild tutorial

I made a second Chimera, and I think Improved on it. These templates have a lot of fiddly bits to cut out by hand, but the detail looks good when all finished!

I’m pretty happy with all three, now.

Heart Attack

Sorry, guys. Another setback in a very bad last few months. I had a heart attack on Monday morning.Luckily, my wife Chrissie took me straight to the hospital to get care.

It turns out, my Widowmaker Artery was 98% clogged. My doctor Dr Azuz did a heart catheter, cleared out all the gunk and put in 2 stents. My heart otherwise seems to be in pretty good shape, but thank God I got care so fast. Monday could’ve turned out so much worse.

I have a lot of healing, a change of lifestyle and work to do to get healthy.

When speaking to longtime collaborator and friends, Brian Babyok and Glenn Csonka about my plight and the both mentioned to above comic where I gave Phineus a heart attack. I should bounce back a little better than he did.

Apologies, friends.

Barry

One Page Rules Infected Colonies/ BOM Cthulhu Cult Papercraft Minis

OPR Template Cthulhu Infected Colonies Complete Download

Here is the completed sheets for you to download and print. They can be used for my RPG or as the Infected Colonies for One Page Rules. I worked briefly with OPR on these, but they wandered away from 2D minis. They were fun, though.

Phineus the RPG can be purchased HERE.

Scratchbuilt Chimera

The hull, made of chipboard, glued together with Heavy Bolter bit and Autocannon made from plastic tubing fro a hobby shop.

I love the Inquisition in Warhammer 40k. I have several warbands of them in my collection. As they ally with my many armies, I need specialized transports for them. I already showed you my paperhammer rhino, so here is my paperhammer Chimera. (rhino shown for scale & upgrades I did on it)

Chimeras are extremely difficult to build, with all their weird angles and compartments. Hard but fun!

Next up will be an Inquistorial Mk1 landraider. It’ll be my third landraider to scratchbuild. After that, some sort of flyer for the Inquisition. So much fun.

Scratch building a Rhino

Modeling has been consuming my brain, as of late. I WILL get back to drawing, but I am having fun with this, again.

And I can’t just buy a tank kit and build it, I need to build it from scratch with cardboard, because, reasons. Well, the reasons are it’s more challenging, more fun (to me) and costs next to nothing.

Edit: I reworked the whole model after years and glowed it up. So much better!!

I’ve found some templates online and have fankensteined them together, with glue and spare bits. I’m quite happy with the process. I was able to print on chipboard as a guide, but all that will get painted over.

Here is a template I used as a base.

Here is another I have:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17H1rIQzF6P7tChMvHzhXGT52VhaaFo-e/view?usp=sharing

And here is a template sheet I used to make it a MK 1. I also added leftover bits from various kits.

I aim to make a few of these to act as rhinos for my inquisition, whirlwind for my Spacemarines and chimera proxies for my Imperial Guard (part because I love the rhino chassis and part because I hate the chimera chassis & because rhinos are infinitely easier to build than chimera).

I have some weapons rigs worked up that I can swap out. Keeping weapons choices similar to chimera, the characteristics and stats are virtually the same rules wise in 8th edition. My core of Imperial Guards is RT era figures, and they ride in rhinos back then, so it fits!

As I whip up a few more,I’ll try and take more progress picks as I go and update here with them.

These are fun.

Sons of Fenris

Here’s a bonus story that I haven’t posted, yet. Just to tide you over till I’m back up to speed!

I’m still reeling from the loss of my father, it’s been rough and I my head is just not right, yet.

Rogue Trader Imperial Guard

Working on glowing up my ooooold school Imperial Guardsmen. They will work in conjuction with my Imperial Agents.

I have most of my Rogue Trader Imperial Guard done. I just need to base them all. Here is all my infantry, save my Storm Troopers, which I’ve kit-bashed to look like the 2nd ed. versions with the berets. I also have a lot of tanks.

New Kid in Town

This was the debut issue of Cole Beam.

Valentine’s Day Sex Drive 2025

Here are sketch cards I did a while back for Cult Stuff cards. You know, drawing boobs and stuff.

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Valentine’s Day Sex Drive 2025

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The History of Phineus: The Color Of Magic

I like to use color to indicate a type of magic that is used. The colors equate to a school of magic. It’s an amalgamation of Matt Wagner’s Mage and lightsaber color from Star Wars.

Maynard and Grimm

The very first Maynard and Grimm story. Way before they showed up in the Phineus comics. Just two of my backwaters characters I decided to throw together in a comic.

Ordo Xenos

And with Inquisitor Quinn, my radical Xenos warband is complete.

I have a bunch of monsters to paint up, next.

New Minis

Alot of these bew minis are from Reaper. I’ll use them as PCs and NPCs for RPGs and some as Radical Ordo Xenos agents. These guys are nice and cheap and very cool to paint up.

The Thing in the Basement

This was the first story I did for Teen Wizard when I had launched it on it’s own site. It’s based on the Phineus issues characters from “Zombie Rat Uprising”.