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After 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 […]
Continue ReadingI mentioned in an earlier post that I had ordered 13 paints from Wayland on Monday. That post was made on Wednesday and I had a bit of a moan that they’d not been dispatched. I’ve been checking fairly regularly to see when they were likely to be dispatched as I really wanted them so […]
Continue ReadingEver since I was a child, I’ve always enjoyed taking photographs. My first camera was a little disk camera where the film was on a wheel. Obviously to anybody reading this today the concept of having only a dozen and a half shots and you had to take the film to a shop to get […]
Continue ReadingAcross the UK, Sunday 23rd September heralded almost 8000 hobbyists across the country head to the National Exhibition Centre for before 10am. Many of them with carefully packed miniatures and amazingly painted display pieces or with hopes of gleaning some snippet of unknown information. I was up around 6am and after doing some last minute […]
Continue ReadingThe Forge World seminars are always a wonderful source of information and pleasure. Because Forge World are a smaller team, much of their work is planned months in advance and they’re not bound to the same ‘tight lipped’ secrecy that has become synonymous with Games Workshop. I think some of this is because Forge World […]
Continue ReadingIt’s been a little time coming, but I’ve begun to make a few odd changes and a clean and polish, in an attempt to liven up the blog a little bit. Scarily I’ve been posting bits up for the past three years and although there have been odd hiatuses on the whole it’s been quite […]
Continue ReadingAs I mentioned in a previous post, I’m itching to do some ‘traditional’ painting – i.e. using a brush and not airbrush and weathering techniques. To this end I have in my possession one of the lovely plastic Chaos Lord models from the Dark Vengeance boxed set. I picked this up for the bargain price […]
Continue ReadingWell despite my best efforts and spending many hours and late nights, I didn’t even make first cut. Although I knew my model would never take home a demon I’m a little annoyed that I didn’t even get a green sticker. It didn’t help that the stewards were telling people there wasn’t an early entry […]
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