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…to create a decent Thunderhawk Gunship for a sensible price using regularly available components? The last weekend I visited friends in Cheltenham and have subsequently been invited along for a few 40k games with my Space Wolves should I fancy it. It also seems that they play fairly large (as in Apocolypse sized) games which […]
Continue ReadingI’ve recently been painting a GW Shrine of the Aquila 40K building. Well when I say painting I actually mean airbrushing. I’ve now managed to do a nice mottled blue on the outside of the building and a mottled creamy colour inside. Doing something on this scale really teaches you airbrush control and repeatability, as […]
Continue ReadingQuite a nice, free online magazine that’s available from the WAMP website. Worth a read for certain! Click here for Portal Magazine number 6
Continue ReadingYes, ignore the fact that it’s actually the 14th January! The past couple of months have flown by as they have a tendancy to do around the Christmas period. I have actually done quite a bit of painting during that time too. Not as much as I would have liked, but enough to say that […]
Continue ReadingDespite my last post being in August and saying that I’ve almost got my office/modelling area finished, I’m only now coming close (yes it’s December next week). I’ve got sliding shelves in one of the cupboards now and have almost brought over most of the stuff from Mum’s. It’s just down to random bits and […]
Continue ReadingAnd yet another month has flown past without me touching any modelling or painting. My office has almost come together and I just need to fit some sliding shelves into one of the cuboards and put the doors on and all will be pretty much done. I’ve largely resigned myself to the fact that I’m […]
Continue ReadingThis weekend I finally got round to moving most of the ‘desk based’ items from my Mum’s house over to mine, so I potentially could actually start painting and modelling. I also shifted across the Dreadnought that I did as last years GD entry and had a weird thought – how about having another go […]
Continue ReadingYup, over eight months since my last post and boy have things changed in my life. I have recently just bought (and moved into) my first house which has consumed bags of time and money – but worth it without a doubt. I have a three bedroom semi-detached place with garden and garage. I’ve just […]
Continue ReadingGreat, just when I was getting into the swing of things again I go and injure myself. I’ve somehow managed to end up with an inflamed lung lining, this was absolute agony yesterday. So I am now on a short course of anti-inflamatories, hopefully it sorts itself out by the weekend as I’m meant to […]
Continue ReadingThe weekend allowed me to make good progress on the Wolf Guard Terminator that I’m painting. The armour has come out OK, not as smooth as I’d like, but it has been a learning curve without a doubt. The key thing I’ve learned is that I need to ensure that my highlights are thin enough […]
Continue ReadingI borrowed the Tomb King Warhammer Army book off my brother yesterday, although it’s quite sparse on artwork there are some key elements that I could use for a possible entry for GD2010. There is a really quite cool map/article that describes lots of traps encountered in a small pyramid. One thing that is interesting […]
Continue ReadingI can’t believe that there has been 10 days since my last post, it’s true that the closer to the festive period you get the faster the time seems to fly past. I have however managed to get some painting squeezed into this last week and a half, so I’m thankfully not having large gaps […]
Continue ReadingWell the weekend went quite well, especially considering I didn’t actually do lots in the way of modelling. I did however get all 14 Blood Claws assembled & based and also finished off the Scouts and based those as well (yes two dozen bases). So all I have left to do is the 6 Long […]
Continue ReadingThis idea is probably the first that I actually feel genuine enthusiasm towards. As I may have mentioned, I feel that a lot of the recent diorama’s that have won at Golden Demon have been small and don’t have much in the way of ‘battle’ in them – they are however brilliant on technical and […]
Continue ReadingI may be mad, but I’ve had a bit of a thought for a GD2010 project – a scratch build Thunderhawk Gunship. Although you can actually purchase a Forgeworld model and GW have produced a metal one in the past (yes I remember that one – it came in a velvet lined oak box), it […]
Continue ReadingI can’t believe that almost two weeks have passed since any kind of post. In my defense I’ve not actually done much in the way of modelling due to other commitments – yes mostly social 🙂 I always find at this time of year that November seems to be more busy than December as many […]
Continue ReadingIt took me less time than I originally thought and I now have eighteen nicely based marines. Five Skyclaws, a pack of five Grey Hunters and another pack of eight Grey Hunters. Overall I’m very happy with how they’ve come out, the bases add 2 to 3 mm onto the height of each marine and […]
Continue ReadingI must admit that I’ve had a fantastic weekend modelling and getting my Space Wolves army together. It’s not been constant (which is a good thing as my brain would likely have melted) and I’ve got a chunk of the army ready. All of the torso’s have been tidied up and gaps filled with green […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been having a serious think about how to go about ‘labelling’ up my Space Wolf army and have decided to (sadly) take a change. I really would like to do an army themed around Egil Iron Wolf’s Great Company, however the standard decal sheet doesn’t have his company symbol on it. I could create […]
Continue ReadingThe handful of bits I ordered over the weekend from Games Workshop arrived yesterday, but due to various reasons I didn’t actually get a chance to open them until tonight. The techmarine and his servitor retinue are actually quite nice models, though quite fiddly. To make him suitably Space Wolfy is going to be a […]
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