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Well I’ve been trying to finish off a post for the past week but just don’t seem to have found the time – sorry! The fact that the blog ate all of the entry on Tuesday didn’t help… I have however managed to get a bit painting in. My second Death Guard tester went really […]
Continue Reading2012 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 […]
Continue ReadingI 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 […]
Continue ReadingWell Forge World have really done a good job on the pre-Christmas delivery and I have a rather large box of resin sat next to me at work. Considering I ordered this last Friday, it’s arrived in less than three working days which is actually faster than I’ve ever received an order previously. Although I’ve […]
Continue ReadingEvery 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 […]
Continue ReadingI don’t specifically mean December either, the past month has been utterly awful in the way of “hobby time”. I’ll admit, that makes me sound like a complete diva, considering the last week of November I had a weeks holiday and went away! But the week before was busy with getting things ready & housework […]
Continue ReadingAs hoped I managed to get a bit of painting done last night. I didn’t start quite as early as I wanted but I did get a reasonable amount of time on them. I’m still working on the reds and brass colours currently and I’ve not really started on edge highlights, shading, silver metallics or […]
Continue ReadingAfter over 3 weeks gap I managed to get a few hours painting in last night and finally making progress on the eight Grey Hunters I started. I’m quite enjoying the flexibility that having multiple similar miniatures give you – you can paint some red until it’s been used up and then flick over to […]
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First off one thing that I’ve realised is White Dwarf no longer promote an issue number and have instead gone for a calendar month as the issue identifier. This is likely to make it easier to manage internally – I know it’s the reason we do so where I work. This issue follows a similar […]
Continue ReadingWell the past two weekends have been insanely busy. The only time I’ve picked up my paints has be to pop my painting station into it’s home on the top of a cupboard. Next week bodes slightly better as I’ve not got quite as much on – only Monday and Tuesday currently so hopefully I’ll […]
Continue ReadingThe beginning of this year, Forge World released a set of experimental rules called “Zone Mortalis”. These rules can be used to simulate close quarter battles in places such as underground bunkers, underhives, mine works and space hulks. Zone Mortalis games are intended to be played with lots of separating walls and such like and […]
Continue ReadingThere comes a time in a paint brush’s life where your tip just isn’t pointed any more, your bristles splay like a cat’s whiskers and you’ve got more paint in your ferrule than on the palette. It’s times like this where your owner will have to make a serious decision try and rescue the brush […]
Continue ReadingWell the eight Space Wolves I’ve been painting are progressing nicely despite not having much time over the past week, in fact last night was the first time I picked up a brush since Sunday. As I was airbrushing on Friday I had this horrible feeling that I would get different results from Space Wolves […]
Continue ReadingI’ve just been reading quite an interesting post on Bell of Lost Souls. It would appear that there is a fairly solid rumour abound that Games Workshop are revamping a large portion of their Space Marine plastic miniatures. This includes brand new Tactical and Assault squads. These are seriously overdue in fairness as the quality […]
Continue ReadingThose of you who know me from here or CMoN will know that I’m a bit of a Space Wolves nut. It was the first army that I came across in 40k (back in the late 80’s) and I’ve been collecting an army on and off ever since. When the 5th edition Codex came out […]
Continue ReadingThis weekend I was away visiting friends and spent quite a bit of time discussing the new Horus Heresy campaign that Forge World are producing and how we both intend to collect a Legion – Death Guard for me and Sons of Horus for him. The end result is that we’re going to try and […]
Continue ReadingLast night was very productive but not on a modelling front. I got home late as I loitered around due to an un-forecast rain deluge and grabbed some meatballs and minced beef. When I got home I did the washing up, cooked tea and prepared a chilli con carne in the slow cooker for dinner […]
Continue ReadingSeptember saw the official release of the Warhammer 40k 6th Edition Rules starter set. This set called “Dark Vengeance” comes in the usual sized box that we’re all used to from Games Workshop. There was a limited edition variant produced that included a limited edition plastic miniature. Read the full review below
Continue ReadingThe Dark Vengeance boxed set contains some of the nicest Chaos miniatures that Games Workshop have produced (at least in my opinion). The Chaos Chosen and Lord are ‘spiky’ but hold true to their original Space Marine form and the spikes are more ‘warped’ than just poked on decorations. The poses also make them appear […]
Continue ReadingThis weekend I spent quite a bit of time painting up the Chaos Lord miniature from the Dark Vengeance 40k boxed set. This miniature is the first for quite a while that has actually “inspired” me to do some proper painting using a brush rather than an airbrush and fancy pigments. For those modellers who […]
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