Adepticon Golden Demon 2025
Well this is an exciting piece of news as a New Year treat! We not only have the official announcement of Golden Demon at Adepticon this year, but also some changes to the categories and award format.
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Category: Golden Demon
AI in Miniature Painting
Golden Demon is never one to shy away from controversy and the Adepticon 2024 Golden Demon has been no exception. The Aeldari Exodite entry that won Gold in the Warhammer 40,000 Single Miniature has caused quite a stir with it’s AI generated backdrop and in this post I go over my own views on this […]
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Golden Demon 2024 – No UK Demon?
I know controversy and the wargaming hobby go hand in hand, but it feels that we can’t even have a month go by without something making headlines. In this case it’s the most recent announcement by Games Workshop about Golden Demon 2024, in this post I chew the cud and give my views.
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Adepticon Golden Demon 2024
Though expected, it’s always nice when you get official confirmation of Golden Demon. Once again the 2024 season will be kicked off at Adepticon.
Continue ReadingAn update on the last crazy five months!
Thought I was well overdue to do a catch-up post on what a crazy five months I’ve had since the last time I wrote anything. Without a doubt, this year has been one of the best hobby years I’ve had in over 25 years and I’ve achieved things that I wouldn’t have even believed possible. […]
Continue ReadingGames Day 2013
Well the past month has once again flown past in a flurry of rather dull real life interferences. It was however Games Day and Golden Demon 2013 on the 29th September and I spent the Friday evening and Saturday prior to the day rebuilding the base of the Contemptor Dreadnought I painted for last year […]
Continue ReadingForge World Seminar 2012 – Horus Heresy Roundup
The 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 ReadingI Came, I Saw, I… Oh fail cakes
Well 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 […]
Continue ReadingThe Best Laid Plans…
Unsurprisingly my “perfect weekend of painting” ended up not so perfect. Due to numerous phone calls, chores and other interruptions I lost around 7 hours worth of painting time. I also managed to balls up the application of the larger custom decals – I should have gone with my gut instinct and gloss varnished first. […]
Continue ReadingCustom Decals
For some reason I woke up this morning at 6.10am. It’s not a time I’m particularly fond of as it means that I should be asleep for another 35 ~ 60 minutes. However as I lay in my small 1/5th of the bed (it’s a ladies prerogative to utilise 80% of a mattress regardless of […]
Continue ReadingMaroon Red
Well the Dreadnought has progressed quite significantly since my last post. Pretty much all of the main airbrush work has been completely (with the exception of a few touch ups) and I’m fully onto brush work now. True to form this isn’t going as quickly as I would like although some of that can be […]
Continue ReadingRusty Pipes
Due to a long weekend at a LARP event (Thursday to Monday), I’ve not got as much done as if I were home, however quite a bit of progress was made early last week. All of the Dreadnought (including knees, elbows and arms) have received the base colour. The red knee pad has been base […]
Continue ReadingNew Drybrush Paint & Base Progress
As forecast, this weekend saw a decent amount of progress on my miniature. As you may be able to see from my Flickr Pool, the base has had quite a bit of work done on it and I’ve finally pulled my finger out and got some more of the cloak done (though there is 60% […]
Continue ReadingProgress & Shadow Pics Taken
During the past week I’ve managed to make some substantial progress on my entry, though not as much as I’d hoped I would as I got less done during the weekend than I’d planned (but more during last week). The base and body have now both been finished from a modelling perspective and both have […]
Continue ReadingT-Minus-Seven
Where has the last month gone 🙁 In fairness I can actually answer that for a change – insulating and stud walling the garage (and slicing my finger open with a stanley knife), tidying the house for visitors (and them visiting for a weekend) and going away this past weekend to a LARP event. Although […]
Continue ReadingFurred Cloak
Well this weekend I made a really good amount of progress. The Kheres Assault Cannon has been glued together and with the exception of a little filling and gluing the gun onto the shoulder, is now finished. The claw arm now has an appropriate genestealer head and I’m trying to bid on a Space Hulk […]
Continue ReadingSteel & Colours
I’ve done a little bit of research in preparation for painting the Dreadnought as I like to spend a good chunk of time working out what I’m painting and how. The first decision to make is what colours to paint the dreadnought. In principal he’ll be the stereotypical blue grey colour that is universally recognised […]
Continue ReadingKheres Assault Cannon, fixing & 100th post!
My 100th blog entry! *queue a fanfair and confetti* Well as expected the new arms for my Contemptor arrived last week. For reference, the Contemptor Claw arm actually comes with a normal set of “fingers”, but a different ranged weapon – a Graviton Gun and Plasma Blaster (which the rules are only in Imperial Armour […]
Continue ReadingExtravagant Armage!
I’ve finally relented and just ordered myself a new set of arms for my Contemptor – a Kheres Assault Cannon and Close Combat Claw. As I mentioned in a previous post, I wasn’t very impressed with the range of movement that was available from the Heavy Bolter arm and after spotting one of the heavy […]
Continue ReadingMiserable Summer So Far
Where have the last 3 weeks gone to? It seems completely unreal that I’m sat here, typing this and it’s the middle of June – especially considering the awful weather the UK has (and still is) having. With the exception of ten days or so of lovely weather at the beginning of May, it’s been […]
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