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Miniature converter and painter hailing from the Grim North of West Yorkshire, with a particular love of everything Warhammer, Grimdark and Blanchitsu

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Bitter Old Painters

- My Iron Warriors Kill Team - The Lords of Skaduhapaamunden (Counts as Angels of Death) I wanted an AoD Kill Team - I already have an old intercessor KT, ...
In A World of Paint

Three More Yokels - A quick post as - very gradually - I chip into the mountain of unpainted stuff (probably just prior to buying some more). Here are a few more citizens o...
Tale of Painters

Showcase: Stahly’s own Aeldari miniature (inc. painting guides) - Together with sculptor Elfhead, I've turned a dream into reality: my very own miniature. The small bust depicts my avatar, myself wearing my YouTube-famo...
Aiee! Run From Kelvin's Brainsplurge!

Mince Pie Fest 2024: Tesco Finest - I honestly thought we'd found an early winner. The pastry has a lovely texture, just the right balance between soft and firm, with a nice crumble and a lig...
LEADPLAGUE

Trench Crusade Observer - Hey all, It seems like painting one model at the time, although very unlike me, is proving to be quite efficient for me ! With some of the mercenaries fr...
Tower of the Archmage

Fuck Trump - It's been a week, and I'm still not over the stupidity of my fellow Americans. To be clear, I'm not surprised by the people who voted for him, but I'm disa...
Death of a Rubricist

+ inload: Red Fish and Reavers – painting in progress + - + What's this? Painting? + + WIP, but getting there + + Oof. It's been *months* since I've managed to put brush to model, and what better way to come back...
Propnomicon

LARP Bowie Knife - It's crazy how realistic this LARP-safe foam Bowie knife from El Marques LARP Shop looks. I think it's the faux antler handle that really sells it.
DansE MacabrE

Warsztat: Budowa stołu modułowego 'Ruiny Mordheim', część 104.Workshop: Construction of the 'Ruins of Mordheim' modular table, part 104. - Po przerwie na malowanie figurek wracam do pracy nad stołem z ruinami *Mordheim *do *Warheim FS*. Wyposażyłem ruiny młyna w okiennice, drzwi i boazerię z ...
Dyson's Dodecahedron

Griffon Tower Dungeons - The dungeons beneath Griffon Tower are a bit of a task to get to, as there are no ground floor … Continue reading →
Give'em Lead

Fallschirmjager Anti-Tank Rifle Finnish Lahti 39 - Moawr Blud »
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Capitalism: A Horror Story - To be fair and spell out one of my biases at the outset of this post on my thoughts about Jon Greenaway's *Capitalism: A Horror Story*, I've long been sk...
Convert or Die

Brutal vs Kunnin’ - Many wise men have found themselves pondering the question; which is better – orcs with muscles on their muscles and less brains than the average rock, or ...
Improved Initiative

Consider Removing Doors From Your Dungeons (Dungeon Design Tips) - We've all had that moment in a dungeon crawl where we find ourselves at a door, asking whether or not to open it. After all, doors represent the possibilit...
ars ludi

Playing Games In Times of Darkness - When the night is dark and the future seems darker, sometimes the best thing you can do is spend time with people you care about and make beautiful things ...
Venger's old school gaming blog

Vindication - Unburdened By What Has Been - Remember my last blog post about the OSR (and all traditional, conservative, based RPG hobbyists) supporting President Donald J. Trump? Well, it happe...
Hekatoncheires

Cities of Sigmar Misthåvn - At last the infantry for my Cities of Sigmar army is complete. This group hails from the city that captured my imagination when the revamped Cities were...
heresy of us

I Death Company I - Being a long time fan of the Space Vampires I was over joyed with the release of the some of the new models for the Blood Angel range, especially Astorath ...
THE WORK OF SHAITAN

Citadel Undead Diorama Remake - Completed - Well, after the best part of a year, with a four month break during the summer, my diorama remake is finally complete. I have to admit, the last mont...
Mike's Random Wargame Meanderings Blog

A Red Sun Rises? - Painting time has been nearly non-existent over the past couple of weeks but a unit that missed this blog are 10 Khorne Bloodletters that I bought fro...
Carmen's Fun Painty Time

More Little boats: Poleacre and America's - A polacca through it's first stages before basing, priming, and painting. A little houy. I finished assembling and rigging a few more ships including a lit...
The Responsible One's Wargaming Blog

Setting up for November success - In a gap in the weather, I managed to get these Conquest Games miniatures undercoated so they're ready to paint. I've gotten a lot of my half finished a...
The Beard Bunker

The 31st Nightfall Ranger Regiment: An Imperial Guard Love Letter - For the first of the Beard Bunker’s temporarily monthly offerings, I thought I’d write about something dear to my hobbyist’s heart: The Imperial Guard. ...
Goblin Lee's Miniatures Blog.

Bob Olley Iron Claw/Essex Miniatures Undead. - Something ghostly for Halloween: Undead. These undead were sculpted in the 1980s by Bob Olley, and are from his time at both Essex Miniatures (this ran...
WarbossKurgan

The Ravaged Coast, part 1 - *The Ravaged Coast* is a new narrative Warcry campaign, set in Aqshy, published in White Dwarf #504 (September 2024). The full text has also been publishe...
Demi Morgana - hobby log

Deathripper (Cryx) - It's the end of October and yet I've managed save another model from the pit of oblivion! Woo-hoo! 🥳 Surprisingly it's another plastic model from Warma...
Old School Workshop

The (final?) touches - It's been quite a long way until we've reached here, but I think I can say that I declare myself satisfied with the results. You got to see essentially ...
Somewhere the Tea's getting cold...

A Tide of Mucus - Ugh - over a whole month without posting! The daft thing is I've no end of things to post about and I think this will be my excuse this time!! I had been...
Lasgunpacker

GeG Swap meet - The FLGs had the fall swap meet this Sunday, and despite shopping there for something like 24 years this was the first time I actually attended. All of t...
Erny's place.

Happy Orctober - The Blood Snortas : The Blood Snortas were born for trouble. Ridin' their ill-tempered boars through mud, dust, and worse, they’d roared their way ou...
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

Awful Green Things In The Dungeon - After many months of being like Oh man I gotta do that, my friend recently dug up the copy of *Awful Green Things From Outer Space *that he first played...
eternalhunt

Murders & Acquisitions, pt. 2 - Aw, man, I've let this blog lapse once again -- I am so sorry, guys! But hey, at least I do have something to share with you, even if it's just a small pro...
The Realm of Zhu

Rise of the Khaös Deth Swordwraiths - Khaös Deth Swordwraiths - ancient daemonic blades that have enslaved disembodied cursed, rag shrouded souls to wield them. Izn-Rvn - a curse of undeath ins...
The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor

Troll Country - Battle of the Barrows - *Date:* Weds 23rd October *Table Size:* 8x6 *Rules:* Hail Caesar *Context: *Following the (marginally) successful landing of his army, Orc warlord Bor...
Crucium Giger's Miniatures Blog

Forge Fathers Reinforcements - I've been slowly making my way through some more old school Forge Father minis, this time the full metal minis which came out after the metal upgrade kit f...
sho3box

Deadzone 3.0 Terrain - I prepped and painted some hi-tech/lowlife Deadzone 3rd edition terrain. To keep things simple, I built the set to pretty closely match the layout on the b...
Kings Minis

Bosch Bosch Bosch loadsaminis - *NOTE: the BLogger app has shat itself and no longer posts images, apparently. Yeah this site is dying slowly. aaaanyway.... I shall fill in the picture...
Magpie and Old Lead

Psyker Killers - Confrontation Gang Final Additions - As I'm closing in on the end of the Confrontation project, I've decided to do some gap filling. This essentially means finishing off any WIP figures and ...
Goldmunds Welt

Adeptus Custodes in true scale - my new 40k army - After several months of dedicated work, my new Warhammer 40k army is finally coming together: the Adeptus Custodes! A significant part of the project in...
Oldhammer 40k

Some More Flesh Tearers Reivers - Finally here is my second full squad of Flesh Tearers Primaris Reivers completed and ready for deployment the battlefield!! These fellas are equipped wi...
Tales From Farpoint

Imagi-Nation Wargaming - Hi! As per usual, I find myself run off my feet with work with precious little time for anything else but something I've been pondering for a bit is to ...
Distopus

-][-NTERROGATOR Warhammer plus tv show - Finally got around to watching the interragator series on warhammer plus, getting somne strong ages of Darthur vibes especially the 5th age. https://distop...
MASSIVE VOODOO

Musica -
Sproket's Small World

Aeldari Voidscarred Corsair, Part Two - Painting the Felarch As the first model of this project, the Felarch sets the overall colour palette and character for the rest of the models in the Corsa...
SHADOWKINGS

Phantom Creeps Robot by Mike Tongue - As many of you who know me I love the old pulp series and the weird the better. The Robot from the Phantom Creeps serial has always struck me as one cool...
Mr Saturday's Mumblings

Undead - Vampire Knight - Today we have a miniature I've been slowly ticking over in between other projects. It's taken months of five minutes here and ten minutes there to comple...
Hobby Horse

Cave trolls - Deep in the darkest, dankest caverns and caves, they live. Their eyes are almost useless after decades of darkness, their skin has almost calcified in the ...
Realms of Chaos

Realm of Chaos Campaign : Battle reports - Hi, two weeks ago with Slaanesh_Child and I, we played the four last battles of the campaign started in February this year. A great campaign finish with ...
LotFP: RPG

The Weird Crushers that will Accompany the Imminent Releases! - The next upcoming LotFP releases will be delivered from the printer THIS WEEK! Leading up to the big new releases... here are the FIVE new Weird Crusher...
The Lost and the Damned

Salute 2024 – World War 2 - Of course World War 2 was a popular topic for gaming tables at Salute 2024, and here are my favourites. In the Lard Zone, a section of rubble strewn Stalin...
Fantasy Miniatures and Adventure

Song of Blades and Heroes Solo Battle Report: Dark Ages on Fire! - Don your helmets and grab your battle axes, it's time for another Song of Blades and Heroes (SBH) battle report. Scenario: The situation is, a Viki...
the leadpile

Black Orcs get a Bath - Having been bitten by the Warhammer the Old World bug I decided I needed to move on from my two Chaos armies. I found myself coming up with more and mor...
Diary of a Lapsed Painter

Art Tribute - Bastien Lecouffe Deharme - Welcome! Some years ago I did a 'side-post' to show off some art from a mobile game I used to enjoy playing until the studio called it a day. That partic...
Iron Sleet

Cult of the Hollow Thorne - +++ The Cult of the Hollow Thorne is one of the oldest Cults of the Green Man. It has risen to great numbers recently, as the search for illumination, cure...
Scale Creep

Warhammer Underworlds VERSUS Time - * “Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire features arguably the best range of miniatures that Games Workshop/Citadel has *ever* produced in its decades long hi...
Papers and Pencils

Housekeeping 2024 - Coactus Illustration © Heather Gwinn. A gift she gave me in 2013 for an edition of Miscreated Creatures which I hope exists someday. Coloring by me. I am a...
Empire of Ghosts

Star Wars Legion A-A5 Speeder Truck - Latest build is complete (and finished just in time for FineScale Modeler Magazine's #BAMM contest) - a Star Wars Legion A-A5 Speeder Truck. I was real...
Recalcitrant Daze

IPMS Scale ModelWorld 2023 - Pictures from the IPMS Scale Modelworld show in Telford today. Read more »
The Empyrean

Grimdark Basing Tutorial: Building Bases (ft. Print Hub 3D) - Hi everyone! I've got lots of requests and comments surrounding my bases and how I construct them for my miniatures, so I thought I'd put together a step...
Xulutec

Instagram and Ebay sale - Some may have noticed - since last year i changed to display my lastest paintjobs on instagram instead of posting updates here. Instagram is a lot easier...
Realm of Citadel - Slave to the Lead

Rogue Trader Genestealer Cult #2 - A new addition to the Rogue Trader Genestealer Cult. The Dominator named Hulendar. These were the very first miniatures in the Tyranid / Genestealer ho...
Paints, Pencils and Plastics

Winged Blight - A Mörk Borg Monster - BZZZ! BZZZ! BZZZ! Can you hear it? The sweet sounds of the Cherubim? ...or is it?
Leave No Model Unconverted

Custom Blackstone Fortress Explorers - When you buy Blackstone Fortress on the cheap without the models, nothing left to do but make your own.
Port Imperiale

Back to the obscure: Rogue Trader 40k Minotaurs! - If you've followed my blog for any length of time, you'll know I'm probably one of the most pointlessly contrary gamers out there. I'm drawn to unloved a...
Colonel O'Truth's Miniature Issues

Undercrag City - Episode Five - Hi, All! Just a quick note to let you all know that episode five of me new YouTube venture is up and running! Click here: Episode Five In this...
Modern Synthesist

10th Edition Screamer Killer Conversion with Eric's Hobby Workshop - Though Games Workshop did not see fit to send me any advanced Tyranid models to support the Leviathan release, I was tremendously fortunate that anoth...
Deathworld Adventures

Blood Angels Revisited - Updating this blog is deffinately not my strong side these days. But as things happen I have once again entered a 40K 2nd Edtion Challenge at Dr. The Vikin...
Imitation of Life

Judge Whackins, Halfman of the future - *Lissen up perps, the LAW is here and he´s hangry for JUSTICE!* Judge Whackins is the latest version of my IOL Minis mascot, Bingo Whackins, who I first sc...
LAWHAMMER!

LAWhammer Live! - While I may no longer blog here often, I am still LAWhammering away, working on personal Warhammery projects that tickle my fancy. And if you want to joi...
FUNKY WENIS RODEO

Middenheimer Warband - Greetings vaqueros! Today we'll be looking at this Middenheimer warband I've made for games of Mordheim. Mordheim, as I may have mentioned previously ...
Aurelius Legion

Terrain - show case - I though I would share a few images of the completed set of terrain for the paper and card barn, trees and field. The set looks pretty good considering h...
Blue's Marauding Miniatures

Reiksguard Unit Complete!! - For my January submission to the Call of the Crown painting challenge I have produced a unit of 15 Reiksguard knights to act as the elite heavily armore...
Miniature darkness

My new home - This has been an erie, empty place these last few years. My blog was a great little home for years as I dove back into the hobby but now these pages are le...
Myth & Moor

Happy New Year - I've been away from Myth & Moor for rather a long time now. There's just been so much going on around here: hard grief after the loss of our beloved Tilly ...
Green Stuff Industries

More Figs! - Clearly, I'm not keeping up as well as I could. So, here's a Barbarian Warrior and... ...and a Barkeep. I think these are both Reaper Miniatures. ...
Of Dice and Men

Firearms in D&D Part 3: Getting Old School - So, in the first part, we discussed what issues we need to consider when adding black powder weapons to a D&D-derived fantasy world. In the second, we ch...
gothic punk

Chaos Space Marine Legionaries, worshipers of Khorne - Chaos Space Marine Legionaries, worshipers of Khorne
I'm alone with a dream

Making art for yourself: the importance of selfish art - I finished a painting yesterday afternoon. I called it *The Blue Scissorknight*. I sprayed it with sealer, I got an op shop frame to put it in. It's...
Oldhammer on a budget

Tale of 1 Bored Gamer - Ogre Army Project Log - Welcome ladies and gents to the start of a random project that I didn't even know I was going to do until the end of last week. So really there is li...
fuckyeahbritisholdschoolgaming

crushingonacuteboy:jasa video animasi 3d arsitektur, interior,... - crushingonacuteboy: jasa video animasi 3d arsitektur, interior, perumahan, properti dan kawasan
Ewal Dvergar

Reminder - Just to remind you all that the Ewal Dvergar Kickstarter will end tonight at 10pm. It's been a great success and I'm so happy that we can add not only a...
Old Orcs Never Die...

Empire Ogres wip (March 2022) - Its been so long since I've posted I barely remember how. I haven't been motivated to take pics of the work I've done over the past couple years. Hopeful...
PsychosisPC's The Madhouse Workshop

My Painted Maximus.... - Ahhhh you probably guessed this one was coming as the general. While a cool model, its also another of the major disappointments with Warlord Games and th...
The Everwayan

Have Things Changed? - One of the players in my virtual Everway game at U-Con last weekend asked what was different about running Everway virtually, and was it more difficult t...
davidneat

‘So you think you’d like to be a model-maker?’ – Part 2 - If you haven’t seen Part 1, scroll down just three previous posts to October 2020. In this first part I focused on some of the qualities or ‘mindsets’ whic...
Wargaming Tradecraft

Musou Black - An Actual Blackest Black - As some of you may be aware, I'm on a bit of a quest to find the blackest black paint... I love working with contrasts between dark shadows and lighter ...
Madhouse Society

Glot'kuleth, Demon King of Subjugation - Glot'kuleth, Demon King of Subjugation, Lash of Sha-Nulthe, Golden Calf of Cruelty. Glot'kuleth is one of the Six Demon Kings of Ulgu. Each is a pinnacl...
SPACE HULK: BOARDING MISSION

Chaplain truescale conversion underway - The red line shows where eye level is and how much I need to raise the new model to match it. It's not much, but I feel like it makes a big difference in...
Chimerical Realm

New Year, New Character Day 22: Pendragon - New Year, New Character Day 22 Pendragon Pendragon is a game where players take on the roles of knights in Arthurian Britain. That's it. There's no rog...
Green Staff

State of Play: Trolls! - SOURCE SOURCE #gork #mork #goblin #orc #custom #whfb #warhammer #fantasy
bigbossredskullz

Bigboss 2020 Year in Review - Another year has passed and it is time to wrap it up and move on! Blogging as a platform is still on a downward curve as seen the last few years but intera...
The Lost and the Very Damned

My Magnetised Movement Trays/Display base (a tutorial) - For some time now I've been making my own magnetised movement trays/display bases for my Lost and the Damned army, and as I was making one for my unit o...
Mr Lee's Painting Emporium

Kill Team - Genestealer Cult forces - Another project that I started over the lockdown with my colleagues from Mr Lee's Minis. A small kill team to play with. Thanks in part to Volomir's c...
Stro'Knor Macekiller

While the Toys Were Out - Straying from the orc theme, but in the spirit of Halloween, here's my Undead army... Currently they weigh in around 1750 points. I've got enough zombie...
The Convertorum

MORE MARINES - Hi again! The summer wasn't a particularly productive period from a hobby perspective, but once the cold autumn winds started to blow things have picked...
From the Warp

Blogging about Space Hulk - Written by Ron Saikowski, October 10, 2020I've decided to start blogging and sharing my Space Hulk material. Space Hulk: Boarding Mission Space Hulk has al...
Gardens of Hecate

Gardens of Hecate Studio - *D*ear readers, You are looking at the final post of this blog. It's been going for more than eight years, and time has come for it to shut down... Because...
samson minis

Sir Galahad 40K AD - Finished! Sir Galahad, 40K A.D. It took a different pace, I recorded a batch of videos on him for Patreon over time. Usually I rip through something in ...
The Chainflail and Lead blog

"Rouge-trading Across the Universe" - "The Lost Crate" - A Rogue Trader progression narrative We had a small Rogue Trader game the other week (yes, using the RT game rules) and it was pure nosta...
Tears of Envy's blog

Miniatures Without Borders raffle - A quick note to say get yourself over to the excellent raffle set up by Echoes of Imperium. All proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders. The collab between ...
The Art of Schwager

Fantasy Pirate Portraits - *Whenever I go through my old sketchbooks and stacks of loose bits of paper I find a whole heap of ideas, concepts, and scribbles that I want to revisit.* ...
The Rusty Workbench

Warhammer Quest Tile Room - Gorgut's Lair - Behold mighty Gorgut's lair, it's been hovering near the front of the queue waiting for paint, but there was always another piece which needed doing. Once ...
Realm of Chaos 80s

Gladiator Ogre and Jack o' Lantern Familiar - I had a rather productive day today. Managed to make headway with the enormous amount of school work I had to get through and I got two miniatures fin...
Lazy and Distracted

Statue of Morr - The next part of the Garden of Morr is done: The Statue. I decided to paint it with a different stone colour to make it pop between the crypts. Will u...
Buried Under Lead

Orks, again, but different - Another blog post? You lucky bastards! Hope you're all coping under whatever lockdown you're experiencing and following protocols, if not, stop being a cun...
PINXIT

Hobby from confinement - Hi everybody! It has been a few months since my last update and of course the world has become a different place since then. I sincerely hope that everyone...
Mr. Bug Man

Its the end of this blog - Hello fellow blog friends. For many years I have maintained this blog and it was the best and most enjoyable platform to show my sculpts and concepts. Init...
INQ40k

INQ28 - pilot crew - Been a while with work :( Working on these dudes - I think they're going to be the crew of a crashed bomber or something similar ~M
Belched from the Depths

Let's connect on Instagram - I have been unhappy with the Blogger platform for many years, and am always searching for better ways for hobbyists to engage with one another. Instagram i...
MAXXEV'S BLOG

Sylvaneth warband update -
Lectitio Divinitatus

Gangland Killings - So, after the grand plans of the Sons Of Gorgax, I needed a break from large-scale projects (although, as I mentioned at the end of my last post, I have st...
masteroftheforge.com

Deathwatch Dreadknights - This project was for a client wanting two Chapter specific (Imperial Fists and Minotaurs) Deathwatch versions of the Grey Knight Nemesis Dreadknight. The p...
Musings of a Metal Mind

Astropolis Enginarium Crew - Another group of Astropolis crew members, this time the the crew of the mighty ship's Enginarium. No starndard GW techpriest here, although I'm looking aro...
INQ28

A Series of INQ28s: What Imagism can teach us about the Shadow War - *A SERIES OF INQ28S: WHAT IMAGISM CAN TEACH US ABOUT THE SHADOW WAR* The early years of the Twentieth Century were a time of growing cities, continuing in...
WilhelMiniatures

WilhelMiniatures on Etsy! - Hello everyone! It's been a while since the last update, and I've been working on a few interesting things since then. The thing I'm most exited about ...
James Wappel Miniature Painting

Kings Clash - This weekend was a spectacular Songapalooza event, where A Song of Ice and Fire was played almost non stop for 3 days! The primary goal was to test out...
Miasma of Pestilence

Necromunda: House Cawdor looted Ambot - Seemingly, I couldn't resist the lure of splitting a box of Ambots with my mate Andy GI. These things look great. At the time of building and painting, I'...
LilLegend Commission Painting Studio

The slaying of angels. Malcharion's triumph. Commission piece. - Malcharion vs Raguel - Seige of Terra. Commission piece. For all commission work: lillegendstudio@gmail.com #nightlords #bloodangels #diorama #war...
Nicolas Grillet

Mordheim 2019 - Hello! It has been a crazy while, and I’m terribly sorry for that! Mordheim 2019 happened this weekend in Helsinki, and I cannot say enough how grateful I ...
Mordheim Treasure Hunters

Modelling: DIY Gravestones - *The gravestones loomed on my while I was bleeding out on the cold ground. Was the first time I was scared of death I tell you...* Salutations fe...
Eastern Empire

Wine of Ghalons, A Knights Tale - Republished Report: I ran a Errantry quest for Jean D’Ardain, with my mate Nick running the drunken priest and another lad running both Bretonnian men at a...
Proxie Models

Last post here- - OK, the web site drama is finally coming to an end. Here is a summary. I had been using a Weebly web site, this blog hosted by Blogger, and a e-commer...
Nergling

Props - On a side note the severed hand prop was our only prop for quite a while, until I saw a sculpture of a zombie my friend Sam Weller had made from a mannequi...
11th Legion

Whats up Wednesday #025 - Hello all, Hope you had another fun and eventful week in wargaming. For me not so much, had a bit of burn out at the start of the week. However the last fe...
Four go to war!

Touching cloth: sculpting folds of fabric in greenstuff - Hello there! I’ve been sculpting a hell of a lot of cloth for my necromunda gangs lately and received quite a few messages asking how I go about ... touchi...
Tales from the Maelstrom

Norse Giant - Evening all! My last post was an update on my 3rd edition Warhammer Norse army, and I mentioned in it that I had a Norse Giant on the way - well, here he ...
thenickeninja's blog

20 skeletons done - I’m done with a very mixed unit of 20 skeleton warriors. Later I won’t use the Sepulchural Guard as regular rank and file troops but for now they add some ...
Paint Water Diaries

Age of Sigmar, more like Age of No Thank You - I don’t think I’ve voiced this opinion before, but emboldened by Martin’s recent tirade against Orcs; I thought I’d talk about something that really rust...
Scarecrow Musings

Flavolous - Aberrations EP - Image rights Flavolous2018Saturnian, opens up in resemblance of a blossoming flower catching first rays of the morning sun. Galactic sounding pads and inte...
Rab's Geekly Digest

Averaigne royal family - Every kingdom has a royal family. In the case of my campaign setting of Averaigne, it's a fairly young kingdom but they are still on their eleventh king in...
A Blog of Blood and Bones

- Photo Dump City
Do You Have A Flag?

The French Fleet at Cherbourg 1904 - My last post was a look at the Battle of Cherbourg game that we played a few weeks ago, I thought I'd take a look at the French fleet with this one. Myse...
Griffit's corner

The Stirland Piper - [image: Afbeeldingsresultaat voor sigmar comet]Greetings one and all, It has taken me longer then expected to write my next little article. Real life is ...
Eldritch Epistles

Sons of Horus Sicaran and Leviathan Dreadnought finished - My last post was an update on my progress with the Questoris Knight and the Sicaran tank I've started painting; since then the hobby butterfly struck and I...
Of Marauders and Citadels

Old World Army Challenge Wrap-up; a 1000pts army of Forest Goblins! - Well here it is, the end of the Old World Army Challenge. When we decided to do the challenge, I really wanted to start a Goblin army, something that was ...
Ex Profundis

Dark Mechanicus Mutant Abominations - Deep in the underhive, the thralls of the Dark Mechanicus serve their masters in their search for arcane technology and new subjects for their experiment...
Realms of Miniatures

The Pantheon of Chaos - Demon Lord of Aethus - I imagined my future self painting, and while receiving the memory of my future self, the impossible became possible, possible to probable, probable to ine...
Picturesque Ruins

Under the circling vultures... [...lie the photos] - *...a painter crawls across the blasted heath. Distracted by mice and shiny pieces of debris he inches slowly forward, box of paints tied to one leg and po...
davetaylorminiatures

Things are rumbling along! - So, the launch of the Kickstarter for my book ARMIES & LEGIONS & HORDES went off with a bang! It funded in three hours, and has continued to go great gu...
Picta Mortis

Aelf Prince - Inspired by the artwork of Yoshitaka Amano
miniaTEXTures

Inspecting the kit: Greater Demon of Nurgle - So, the greater Daemon of Nurgle. We have already seen a few cool unboxing posts on the web (see for instance Kristian Simonsen's thorough review). Instea...
Oldhammer

The Greatest Battle Report of 2017: Vote Now! - What was the Greatest Battle Report of 2017 - only YOU can decide! We have 10 amazing nominations, going head-to-head in an all out bloodbath to claim th...
I have wrought my simple plan...

Another Custom Dice Bag from Saddle Goose Designs - I have a bit of a thing about dice. I've got quite a few. Few hundred...that is. Maybe even several hundred. I know...I need help. But with so many dice ...
Miniature Warfare

Disney Princesses's Dance Hall: Let Them Dance -
Dave's Games

Babylon - Construction Yellow - Now Available! - Visit my catalog page for details: http://davesgames.net/catalog-babylon-cy.htm
Rust and the City

Blog Hiatus - Hello blog readers, You may have noticed a lack of posts over the last year or so. The blogosphere is changing. Viewership and comments on blogs are decreas...
Blind Squirrel Props

Progress Update - Hey everyone! Here’s an update on everything I’ve been working on: I finally took the plunge and bought my first 3D printer. This is a FlashForge Finder ...
FToaMG

Troika! Fucks for Satan - I am currently writing a scenario using Troika! as the engine. It’s set in the 17th century, focusing on England (lots of stuff to play with) and features ...
Hobbytime

Mansion of madness V2 bis - Coucou! La boîte de base est enfin fini après quelques efforts supplémentaires; Les figurines étant ce qu'elles sont je n'ai pas passé plus d'une heure sur...
Excommunicate Traitoris

- It's half term. Which means this is happening: It also means that I'll be trying to do something geeky. I still cant even begin to contemplate anything 40k...
Little Green Monsters - Xenite's Miniatures Page

Bolt Action & Battle of Kursk at Adepticon - I wanted to take a sec to share some recent Bolt Action activities that I’ve been involved in! Rich at Chicago Terrain Factory and I ran our 2nd year of ...
Paul's Hobby Blog

AOS28 | Ulguneth | The Eclipse Comp - *The Witch Hunters of the Ulguneth are a contridiction,Forever between Order and Madness,Witches hunting Witches,Neither Beast nor Man.* *Mystic...
Skulldred

Catastrophic computer death resolved - After two years of obstacles, I have finally managed to get to Sydney, extract the hard drives from my dead PC, get them to Canberra and borrow a caddy to ...
The New Realms Of Chaos

Sad news... - I have, with all the pain it gives, to tell you that James (Eve Hallow") passed away. Words are a bit missing, but he'll stay in our hearts... Rest in peac...
Frothing Muppet's Land of Miniatures

094. WIP Nurgle Chaos Marine Kill Team... - Ray suggested we head into the re-launched 'Warhammer' Adelaide store this coming weekend to try out the new Shadow Wars (certainly not Necromunda) Armaged...
Eve Hallow Miniatures

Golden Warrior God... - Evening All, As regular readers of this blog will know I have been plagued for years with an inability to paint gold on my miniatures. After visiting my lo...
The Black Castle.

Soon be Christmas. - With 2017 rocketing by at a breakneck pace already I have come up with a simple plan to keep the blog active until my schedule clears up a bit later in the...
Darkling Games

About Stardred - I am psyched that everyone is excited about this project. Okay so here is some more info on the project. Stardred is a tactical skirmish miniatures game...
Mr E Models

Martian Handling Machine - colours - HG Wells has the Martian craft as metallic. Problem there is that could be a bit dull, especially as the bridge girder work will be the same. So how to jaz...
Legatho's warehouse

The golden fever #2 - Second article on my new project, and, some plans about it. I) Why will I use Stormcast Eternals to kitbash my custodes ? The first reason is, well, the p...
Brushes United

- Hey guys , it's been a looong time I reckon... If you're wondering what I do now , well....I'm sculpting full time , and I have developed my own Chaos range...
FullRepent

FullRepent is back !!! - Enfin la revoilà - Qui sommes-nous ?
Role-play Dwarf

Tactical squad 1 - My first tactical squad it's almost completely painted from the last time I was painting my space marines they just need a touch up a new sergeant (I've de...
Phreedh's Mini Stuff Feed

A solitary Heroquest fimir - The handsome fellows over on the Scale Creep blog invited me to join their Heroquest Hero Quest and I could hardly turn them down. After all, I had already...
Chicago Skirmish Wargames

We’re Back, Baby! - Well, it's been a whole year away, but click here for the new and improved Chicago Skirmish Wargames Blog! Josh has been hard at work bringing a new look an...
Stygian Thorne

Of Iron Bone And Ceramite Skin: A Look Into The Spyrehead Faiths Of The Imperivm - A few months back, I made a small group of Arxite pilgrims for the Pilgrym Project. A few days before I finished them and sent them to Peter(PDH), I had a...
Lead Or Alive: Bruno's Miniatures

WHFB 4th edition Night Goblin Shaman - I painted this guy almost exactly like the one pictured in the 4th ed books, save for some tricky bits on his sleeves and some colour variation. The min...
Beneath The Mire

Deathwatch - Thrax update. - Evening all. There has been a bit of progress with Thrax, I hope you all enjoy. A little bit more obvious who he is now. The Heraldry is a little rough for...
Eye of Error

Eldar Wraithknight Hex Mesh Airbrush Stencil Tutorial - I know I've been slacking here. www.FalloutHobbies.com has been busy as hell and I'm just riding the wave. Check out this new tutorial after the jump ...
Bizzarewarstar

Warhammer Quest Part 4: Knight Questor - Thought I might get away without painting the freehand details on his cloak but its obvious now I didn't as it looks quite bare. I really want to move o...
Read The Damn Book

GenCon and into the Future - GenCon 2016 is this week. Wait. That needed an exclamation point. GenCon 2016 is this week! I don’t think I’ve ever been more excited to attend a convent...
GRIM DARK REALMS

Commission: Tau Farsight Crisis Suit Bomb - Farsight Enclaves Army I have recently taken on a Tau Commission for a deadly farsight bomb consisting of Farsight, Shadowsun, a Commander and 9 battlesu...
First Point of Aries

The Pilgrym! - +++ *From Throne to Thorne...* *Green Man Cometh... * +++ On July 19th 2016 the Pilgrym Game took place in Warhammer World after more than half a year ...
Crosser Modelling

Blood Angels Praetor - I spent quite alot of time on this fellow, using decals I normally can't be bothered with and all! The model is lovely and has so much detail to paint. Alt...
Miniature Tim

Infinity Tables @ AdeptiCon 2016! - Just a quick post up to show everyone the tables that were played on at AdeptiCon this year for Infinity! The terrain at AdeptiCon for Infinity never...
Forlorn hope

Epic Titans - Another random project I have going on, I won a warlord for "cheap" on eBay, and that began my slow descent into addiction. Two warhounds followed, obvio...
Nesbet Miniatures

WIP-REVIEW: More scenery for Robotech! - First update of this year! I've been building the scenery sets from 4Ground I have so far: Primera actualización del año! He estado armando los sets de escen...
cult of the four armed emperor

Hybrids and Terminators - Fellow antipodean oldhammerer Captain Crooks (check out his sweet blog with some hilarious battle reports among lots of other cool stuff here) recently g...
Clean Palette, Dirty Water

Star Wars Imperial Assault Boba Fett - I'll confess right off the bat that this is nothing more than one of those, "Hey! Look what I did!" posts that everyone (including myself) skims through, b...
Necromunda: PURGE THE UNDERHIVE!!!

New blog dedicated to bases! - Hello just posting a shameless plug to my blog showcasing some of the bases I'm selling via eBay. http://h0ggedbasing.blogspot.co.uk/?m=0 And some pics of...
The Marienburg Gazette (Sigmaron Edition)

A Different Kind Of Work In Progress - Not exactly a miniature this one! However, I'm hoping that this end of the garden hideaway will provide some much needed extra hobby space. It's for work...
Alvarak System Campaign at Arthurs Court.

Provisional Planet units to debate - Alvarak System planet units These would be open to any player controlling three or more tiles on their planet from Phase two debate at your leisure! Memphi...
FightingFantasist

- Not going to be maintaining the FF blog on Google anymore. Mainly because of this which seems to be the thin end of the wedge. http://www.theguardian.co...
Iron Kingdoms at War

Still Alive... - Yes, I'm still alive. After a good year and a half I've picked up the brush again...this time to paint a few more Hordes miniatures that had been sitting ...
Spiky Rat Pack

Iron Sleet: John Blanche – The Voodoo Forest - Hi ya'll! Just thought to remind you of our new home *Iron Sleet* (www.ironsleet.com). Don't miss all the great things happening in there! For instance, ye...
Legion of Plastic

Legion of Plastic is Dead! - Long live the Iron Sleet! - Hjolda! I have the utmost honor and excitement to share the news that the geniuses Kari and Mikko have joined forces with me to create a new, far superior ...
40k The Last Heretic

Tablescapes Display Board Paint Test and Tutorial - Secret Weapon Miniatures' Tablescapes finally arrived and before batch painting all the display board tiles I thought I would paint a test tile first. Nor...
Spyglass Asylum

Pruning and so on... - Okay, hello to the inmates of the Asylum old and (surprisingly) new. Obviously it's been a vast while since I posted on here and this isn't really a post o...
Return to Logans World

Five Parsecs From Home - Skirmish Board - Greetings, Inspired by Tiny Solitary Soldiers and Planet Ares IV, my 6mm skirmish Sci Fi project has finally started moving again. The intention with t...
Roleplaying Tradecraft

What's in a Path? - *source*Paths offer some great roleplaying opportunities but, like Malkavians, are easy to fall short on if the player doesn't fully realize and embrace w...
The Metatyrant

Exercise - And now for something completely different: I think I'm going to cast it in resin and somehow use it with the regular 28mm scale miniatures. P.S. I'm...
ilikepaintinglead

I'M BACK!!! - Hello everyone I'm back, I am actually still alive and able to paint. Sorry for the huge absence, last year was fairly shitty and since then I've completel...
A Painter's Thoughts

H&V: RK1 Outworld - My journey - Hello everyone! Thanks for jumping in and having a look at my virtual workbench. Today I will talk a bit about my project for the MV *Forged Hope* contest....
Grumpy Wargamer

7th Edition First Impressions. - Got my copy of 7th edition today, (I know it's earlier and no I won't tell you how) and after a few hours of reading through and picking out some of the ...
Neon Pink Apokalypse

DIY Paint Station/Hobby Board. - Yay! Finally got something done to post about. My old board that I use to paint and construct my miniatures on started life as a sort of temporary coffee t...
BlindDwarf

Wet palette and Jeremie Bonamant Teboul - Hi Guys, It has been a long while. I had family over from Europe and real life got busy. Today I want to talk bout two topics: wet palette and a painter n...
inq28

Inquisitor Harrow - So, Steve has delivered in fine form, with Gillam Harrow finally coming to life, along with his pets. Here he is, with his Hound, and a gun-skull: When I s...
Drazhar's Miniworks

Orc boar boyz - the boss - Finally, the boss of the unit. The boarboyz are taking more and more shape. I'm a great fan of back banners, I honestly don't know why. Maybe it's becaus...
The Tears of Isstvan

XIII follows XII. - Happy new year to you all. I hope 2013 brings you everything that you could wish for. Before we completely consign 2012 to history, I wanted to run a quick...
Between Dimensions

My venture into cartography - A while ago, while thinking up plots for roleplay, the seed of an idea was planted for a location. Over the months that seed has grown to such extent that ...
MyFantasyMiniatures Blog

Empire: Arch-lector of Sigmar on steed - Look at my Empire army and Realm of Azyr Look at my Empire army ENGLISH My Arch-lector of Sigmar on steed. Conversion. ITALIANO Il mio Arcilettore di Sigma...
Mythcreants

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