Cherries and Candies

I’m starting to enjoy this 52 week challenge!  Week 3’s targets have been comfortably achieved and I’ve done a few other bits to boot! Firstly I’ve created myself a Twitter account.  Although I’m generally against “personal” Twitter accounts where people post up the fact they’ve just made a sandwich or gone to the toilet, I […]

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New Resolution

I know January isn’t for another 3 weeks, but I’ve been exceptionally rubbish at putting new things onto this blog, despite having done quite a bit of modelling and painting, and there being various “big news” releases over the past 6 months.  So I’m resolving to identify that and try and get something up new every […]

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Making good progress

In comparison to how long it normally takes me to paint, my first squad of Death Guard are progressing really quickly.  As you can see from the above picture, I have got the airbrushing, initial details and varnish done on the first fifteen.  I’ve done the washing on four and done the first metallic highlight […]

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Happy New Year!

2012 is now firmly behind us and overall was pretty crap.  That said I am on the whole an optimistic person and I did manage to get two very significant projects completed (the Stormlord Tank and Space Wolves Contemptor) and ended the year with enough cash in my hobby pot to collect most of a […]

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Washing!

I took the first of my Forge World miniatures home last night and washed the first ten marines whilst my other half was doing some baking.  This is the first time I’ve properly inspected any of the miniatures and overall they’re not too bad.  There are some bits that will need to be green stuffed […]

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Deathshroud are here

Every year Forge World do a Christmas jigsaw puzzle of one of the releases for the early part of next year.  There’s been some discussion about what it is, but they’ve just released the last piece and it’s Mortarion’s favoured – The Deathshroud.  And they’re lovely miniatures too, absolutely full of character and uniqueness.  They’re […]

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