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Well although I didn’t manage to hit my target of getting a unit of Blood Claws painted (it was quite a difficult challenge if I’m honest), I did get in a really good game of Warhammer 40k 6th Edition on Sunday. A bit of a learning curve (I lost) and still plenty of rules that […]
Continue ReadingMy plan of ploughing into my Space Wolves has worked quite well although I would have liked to have got further than I did. I believe that I’ve finally managed to work out a simple, effective and straight forward way of painting up a Space Wolf to a decent gaming standard. It does have more […]
Continue ReadingI cannot believe that it’s the middle of June and until a couple of days ago the only painting I had done was painting the kitchen! That said, the transfers on my Death Guard got done a few months ago and have turned out really nice, it’s worth taking the time to cut as much […]
Continue ReadingIn 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 […]
Continue ReadingWhere the hell has January gone? I can’t believe that four weeks ago today was New Years Eve and I was looking forward to a quieter year with more modelling opportunities crammed in… The last ten days have been really bizarre for me and a lot of the UK in general. My other half managed […]
Continue ReadingWell 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ReadingWell the Stormlord is very nearly finished, only a bit of drybrushing and painting of the shrine beside the engine pipes left to do and then I’ll call it a day. I’m not going to pretend that this is 100% perfect – or even 80% and I could happily tinker away at this for the […]
Continue ReadingJust thought I was overdue a picture of the latest progress of the Stormlord:
Continue ReadingWell last night saw me applying the rust elements to the body of the Stormlord. A process that was actually a lot more difficult than you would expect. The basic concept is you mix some rust coloured pigment (or in my case ground chalks) with some Burnt Umber oil paint and a little white spirit […]
Continue ReadingIt might be a few weeks since my last post but the Stormlord project is finally on the last road to completion. There is still a lot left to do, but I’ve got to the point where I can complete a step in an evening rather than having to spread it over a number of […]
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