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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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May 24, 2018

Rory's Story Cubes: A great tool for Storytelling, Roleplaying and Wargaming.

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April 13, 2016

Assassinorum: Execution Force - Converting the Chaos Cultists

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March 29, 2016

Project: Board Games... The beginning.

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April 13, 2014

Chaos in the Old World - Board Game

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April 05, 2014

Tabletop Day! - April 5th 2014

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Venger's old school gaming blog

"The Ruin of A'agrybah" - CHA'ALT Campaign 4.15 - Turns out, the two-part foray into Dark Sun has become a three-parter, at least. We had 3 players - Strum, Bishop Crane, and Ug. Before I forget, her...
Old School Workshop

Multi purpose 40K thematic scenery - I'm back with more scenery, but 40K oriented this time. Well, I believe you had already guessed that by the title! It comes from the Kill Team Moroch box...
Mike's Random Wargame Meanderings Blog

Bigger Bugs Pt 23 - Much as the High Elf post suggests otherwise, painting has been very much on the back burner for the last few weeks. I decided last week to try and ge...
LEADPLAGUE

Pox Wretches - Warhammer Quest Darkwater - Hey everyone ! I had a bit of a pause on the Darkwater project but it's still very much in the queue and hoping to get it done before 2026 ends ! The ...
Propnomicon

Trophy Head - This ornate recreation of a Munduruku trophy head comes to us from artist Ojearte.
Tale of Painters

Terran Marine showcase: giving Starcraft TMG’s clear plastic parts some real punch - I've finished painting my first test model for the Starcraft TMG: a Terran Marine in the blue of Raynor's Raiders. I did take a few liberties with the bo...
Improved Initiative

My First Adventure For Sundara Is Finally Out! - As regular readers know, I've been putting out supplements for my own fantasy setting *Sundara: Dawn of a New Age* for years now. The setting is available ...
Goblin Lee's Miniatures Blog.

The 3rd Edition Warhammer Fantasy Battle Slann Army project: Part two. The Order of the Fire Alligator. - More Slann. These are the order of the Fire Alligator, a regiment of 20 Slann Alligator Warriors, +1 Shock Elite in heavy armour, an alligator hide in fa...
The Responsible One's Wargaming Blog

Remembering how to actually paint - I finally got my paint set up sorted. Due to it being a dining table rather than a dedicated painting table I've taped a bin bag to it to protect it fro...
The Beard Bunker

Using Warhammer Skills to Make Gifts For My Parents - An 80th birthday present is not be the realm of book tokens or a pack of socks. With my mother reaching this milestone last year, and my father getting the...
Demi Morgana - hobby log

Battle report: Cryx vs Khador - *Last month the gaming bunker was whole shaking* because of warjacks fighting in the name of their warcasters, and recently there was the second round of t...
Tales From Farpoint

Making Super Cheap 6mm Infantry - Hi! Just enough time to post a quick update before I head off down south for a week! Vosk House Troops I've had a lot of queries on how I make my own 6...
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Hostile Takeover - Our Krevborna campaign continues with the second half of *this adventure.* *Characters* Dario Diego Durant, swashbuckling swordsman Ulu, the party's ur...
ars ludi

“Here’s a million-dollar idea… or really a zero-dollar idea: Sock Puppets!” - I was back on the Dice In Mind podcast with Bradley and Jason, talking about the new Microscope, the magic of This Means War, and just about everything els...
Dyson's Dodecahedron

Greenrise Farmstead - This series of releases is new to my Patreon – these are adventure locations based on maps I’ve drawn for … Continue reading →
Magpie and Old Lead

Confrontation Collection - Scenic Pics - *The Sinkhole Boggarts face off against the Data Kings.* Whilst I work out the logistics of getting my Confrontation gangs photographed all on the same t...
Convert or Die

Grey Wizard - I think when most of us think of a grey wizard it’s Gandalf from Lord of the Rings who springs to mind; off to talk some respectable hobbit into getting wa...
Aiee! Run From Kelvin's Brainsplurge!

Lost and Found - Lost Carcosa is now available at the LotFP EU shop! My involvement with Geoffrey McKinney's Carcosa goes back to almost the beginning. About a year after t...
Hekatoncheires

Mordheim Witch Hunters Redux - The next of my Mordheim warbands to get a fresh go-over are the Witch Hunters, with one and a half new models. More pics and a lot of thinking about witc...
In A World of Paint

Odo D'Outremer and Suliman le Saracen (sort of) - Back to Bretonnia. I recently saw what looked like a metal Warhammer lord for sale on ebay. He was sculpted to be riding a horse, was missing his weapon ...
Tower of the Archmage

Rappan: Doors - Session 327 was played on 4/26/26 Morgana, wizard 10 (Rob) Borumar, Triton Thief 11 (Josh) Blotto, Goblin Fighter 8 (Lanse) Nick, Fighter 8 (Me) Koltic, C...
Mr Saturday's Mumblings

Norse 1 - Sigurd Kåresson - A change of pace. Gone are the eyeless sockets, rusty armour and the jerky gait. In with guttural war cries, coastal raiding and shaggy beards. It's the ...
Realm of Chaos 80s

A Second Summer of Citadel: Rogue Trader Orc and Space Skaven Conversion, Heroes of the Enemy Within and an Unreleased Fighter and Druid - I managed to snatch a few hours to make more repairs today. Two rare Rogue Trader miniatures start the proceedings (rare for me, not in the collection ...
Distopus

Thurible Prime (Ruinations at Blackland's) Inq28 terrain board complete - Finished a 2nd terrain board for the INq28 inqvitational being put together by PDH The Ruination's of black sands . It has be transportable so this co...
WarbossKurgan

The Flaywilds Deck - Animosity VIII (part 3) - The Warhammer World meet-up for Animosity VIII is tomorrow, and I'm running a narrative Warcry campaign day there. I'm providing all the boards and sc...
Port Imperiale

A Tale of Ratspike: A few original John Blanche painted miniatures. - One of the great things about working in the wargames industry in Nottingham is that occasionally you get to see some really cool and rare stuff. In this...
Realms of Chaos

Star Wars : The Return Of The Jedi - Hey boys! Last games of Star wars 80's campaign. The target is to play games with my son and stick as much as possible of the movie. It very enjoyable to...
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

Interview With A Man Who Is Angry About Hot Goth Porn Girls - Maybe the second in a series of interviews with people who are totally wrong ? Anyway, readers will be aware that a lot of people get mad that porn stars ...
The Lost and the Damned

Warhammer Armies – Necromancers - It has been a couple of years now since I completed an army project, so it seems fitting to return with this necromantic force which can afford to play the...
THE WORK OF SHAITAN

Warhammer Empire Tilean Regiment - Barbalini's Spears of Tobaro - So after initially starting them over five years ago, I've finally completed my Empire/Tilean spearmen regiment - Barbalini's Spears of Tobaro. Lead by re...
The Realm of Zhu

Zone Trooper: The Solo Future War Roleplaying Board Game - YOU are a veteran of a thousand psychic wars, YOU are a warrior of the cosmic wastelands, YOU are a lone clone one man war machine, YOU are... THE ZONE TR...
Death of a Rubricist

+ inload: Stormlords (Legio Tempestus) Maniple + - + A Right Handful + + The heart of a Reaver Titan is its plasma reactor. Daubed in Martian mud and consecrated with plasma-fire, its first firing – *igniti...
SHADOWKINGS

1800 Ottoman vs Janissary Sword and flame rules - I have always had an interest in the Ottoman armies of the 1800, many years ago an article in a war games magazine related to the demise of the Janissar...
Give'em Lead

Cilician Armenian Allied Cavalry - While most wargamers instinctively reach for Turcopoles when looking to field regional allies for a First Crusade army, I wanted to build something a bi...
bigbossredskullz

Hard times demands `Ard Boyz - My re-entry into blogging started with my big summer project of 2026 of a heavily converted and custom kitbashed Ork army for WH40 2nd edition. Since that ...
Deathworld Adventures

Still Here In 2026 - I had the best of intentions and was ready to go, but it seems that life had other plans...2025 ended on a low and as things are now our house is one big m...
heresy of us

The 3rd Sons - The Brotherhood of the 3rd Sons is a prestigious and powerful order, so named because each of its members is the third-born son of their family. This tradi...
Leave No Model Unconverted

Alien RPG: Destroyer of Worlds GM Guide - GM Guide for Destroyer of Worlds, an adventure for Alien: The Roleplaying Game. Tips and tricks, character sheet fixes, and more.
eternalhunt

John Blanche – In Memoriam - Today’s update happens for one of the worst possible reasons: I learned yesterday that John Blanche had passed away, and I am honestly heartbroken! I am no...
gothic punk

John Blanche 1948 - 2026 - John Blanche 1948 - 2026
Oldhammer on a budget

MESBG - Here Be Dragons - Hello my fellow denizens of desire, today I bring forth one of my favorite armies that I spent a fair chunk of time getting ready. Dragons of the Nort...
Sproket's Small World

Gnome Assassin - Struggles with painting a flesh tone I’ve been working on a new project, the Gnome Assassin from Miniature Madness sculpted by Leonardo Escovar "Poisonauta...
Bitter Old Painters

Big update on Mortalis - Hi everyone - as usual, updates are far and wide between, but we have some exciting news: +++ Mortalis 2nd Edition is launched! +++ A year after startin...
Lasgunpacker

GeG Swap meet II - The FLGS had another Swap Meet on Sunday, which was also proximate to the Kid's birthday. This is the third time I have been to one of these now, and ho...
the leadpile

Game 4 - Dwarfs...Again! - Last game of the weekend was agianst another Dwarf player, this time it was an Expeditionary Force army. The board consisted of a fairly open middle a...
Goldmunds Welt

Painting the Warhammer Quest Darkwater Box - I bought Warhammer Quest: Darkwater almost exclusively for the miniatures. As a hobbyist, sometimes a sculpt just speaks to you, and the characterful, tw...
Papers and Pencils

Referee Sabotage - It is an old saw that players are bad at executing their plans. Imagine this common scene: the party have some big job that requires planning; perhaps robb...
The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor

Revenge of the Doomlord - Battle Report - Revenge of the Doomlord! Classic, *classic,* battle report and scenario from White Dwarf way back in the day. Mid 90s glory days! Remember it well. By r...
Fantasy Miniatures and Adventure

Starport Scum: A Fistful of Sickness - Nordic Weasel 2016 I had a little game of Starport Scum yesterday while on the mend from being sick the last 10 days. Wouldn't recommend it...The being s...
DansE MacabrE

Przerwa... - Niektóre rzeczy się w życiu planuje, inne przychodzą same, jak na przykład to. Jeśli tego bloga czyta ktoś inny poza botami, to informuję Was, że na czas...
Crucium Giger's Miniatures Blog

Forge Fathers Heavy Armour & Bikes - The final pieces for my Forge Fathers are finally complete adding in an APC, two tanks (with all turret options), three Half-Tracks (again with both turret...
Aurelius Legion

German WW2 - Ceasar German Gebirgsjager or Mountain Troops - 1/72 Scale - These figures were painted several years ago and I have finally uploaded them to my blog. I cant recall all the steps and paints bu t hey are simila...
Erny's place.

Happy Orctober - It has become a tradition that I post once a year in Orctober. Rubbish I know but I do hope to remedy that this coming year. I have been painting plenty...
Kings Minis

John Dennett Grenadier Stone Golem - I adore the work of John Dennett, and have been slowly working my way through collecting his Grenadier minis. John emails me every birthday. Sweet guy. Fi...
The Empyrean

Converting Brutalist Exterminators (ft. 3dgamesshop) - I've been fascinated with the more brutal side of Games Workshop's Space Marine factions for a while now--the Rogue Trader, stimmed-up authoritarian F...
LotFP: RPG

New Website/Blog Space - We will be using this site for regular news and updates from here on out.
sho3box

Star Wars & 02 Hundred Hours - I’ve been playing the wonderful 02 Hundred Hours from Grey for Now games recently. As thoroughly expected from one of the creators of the equally fantastic...
Griffit's corner

Introducing Witch hunter Wilhelm von Homburg aka the Mountain Scorge - I love going trough people's bits. There are always gems you never expect. That is why now and then I buy bits boxes etc from places like Ebay or Vinted....
Carmen's Fun Painty Time

America's Cup boats - Well, these aren't exactly historically accurate but were inspired by 19th Century sail yachts/boats. They were fun to make, fun to paint, and look st...
MASSIVE VOODOO

NMM Workshop with Tamer Widerspan - Sebastian here, Tamer Widerspan is giving another NMM course and there are still a few places available. You book one seat for the upcoming worksh...
Somewhere the Tea's getting cold...

Dead Wood... - Happy Halloween - or at least it would have been if I'd gotten this post out on time! Read more »
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
fuckyeahbritisholdschoolgaming

crushingonacuteboy:jasa video animasi 3d arsitektur, interior,... - crushingonacuteboy: jasa video animasi 3d arsitektur, interior, perumahan, properti dan kawasan
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...
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...
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...
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.* ...
Gardens of Hecate

CCLII. AoS28: Sunhold Deadwalkers and Netopyr - *A*t last found a bit of time for my personal projects, so I made a few figures real quick. Sunhold Deadwalkers I'm trying to settle for a definitive ...
Oldhammer 40k

Flesh Tearers Smash Captain - So as promised in my last post I have spent this week working on an HQ Character to lead my steadily expanding Flesh Tearers Force into battle for Sangui...
samson minis

2020 Class Schedule Update - Hello friends! I've updated my class schedule for the first half of 2020. I'm unable to make it to Gencon and there is now a Colorado Class in the mix! Pl...
PINXIT

The Matriarch - Hello guys! I spent some time sculpting today and managed to finish the conversion of the Matriarch for my warband! It was a very fun project to work ...
Diary of a Lapsed Painter

Games Workshop and Plastic Waste - This is an awareness raising post. So before I started writing this I did a Google and this petition came up, and is still live. http://chng.it/byjt24cWvx...
Stro'Knor Macekiller

The Heroes of Fruglehofen - Yes, I know I said I was starting with Gimbrin's Mine... again. Due to vagaries of the warp or machinations of some evil power I am still waiting for some ...
Madhouse Society

The Red Crusade - In the Realm of Ulgu the very realm itself is made of illusion given form. So it is little wonder that in this land of twisted perception the madness of th...
LAWHAMMER!

NEW MAP FROM GW! - It's been a long time coming, but we finally have a glimpse of the first map from Games Workshop depicting the new Old World. Woot! Woot! Go take a look at...
davidneat

Casting prop books and making ‘specials’ - Continuing with the subject of prop-making for stop-motion animation, back in 2011 I had to make a small library full of books for one particular film. I m...
Buried Under Lead

Schwarzweald 2: Here comes trouble - Hello there! Time for another trip to the dark woods, lets see whats been happening *A storm is brewing.. * * The White Tusk raiders* S...
Wargaming Tradecraft

Clear Bases - I wanted to showcase some miniatures for Gloomhaven that I painted as a commission. The goal was to replicate the character art and I'm pretty happy wi...
The Convertorum

SORORITY ROW - This weekend I picked up the new Adepta Sororitas box and quickly glued together a battle sister. As quickly as possible at least - these models are extreme...
Old Orcs Never Die...

Highlanders and mountain folk - The great mountains surrounding the empire of men are full of fierce monsters, goblinoids of all sorts and bitter weather. Few men choose to live under such...
INQ40k

Astra Militarum/Imperial Guard - Chimera and Leman Russ Stowage - I've made a bit of progress on the tanks I'm trying out using plasticard tubing for smoke launchers - not sure if brass tubing would be better as it has th...
Mr. Bug Man

Phantom Fungus - This creature was quite the joy to create. The challenge was to create something old school with basic shapes yet truly primal and scary. The Phantom Fungu...
Recalcitrant Daze

Blessings of the Plaguefather - Completed Daemon Prince - Pictures of the completed Nurgle Daemon Prince. If you don't remember the WIP posts, he is a Forge World Mourngul with wings from the GW Jabberslythe. R...
Lectitio Divinitatus

The Sons Of Gorgax - As a part of this brief series of recaps - what I have been up to in the past three years, basically - it is my pleasure to present to you, the imaginary ...
Scale Creep

Witness Weekend Pt.2 The Cargasmatronic FREA-quel - ATTENTION CREEPERS. YOU NOW HAVE ONE MINUTE TO REACH MINIMUM SAFE DISTANCE... Actually I meant one second *SQUELCH* ...are you still here? Well... GOOD. ...
MAXXEV'S BLOG

Mordheim: New warband - Paint in progress. - Bayne paint in progress Bayne rear paint in progress Poor lighting when I took these but hopefully you get the idea of where i'm going.
Musings of a Metal Mind

INQ28: Two Hired Guns.... - The Curst wear their sins writ upon their flesh, and undertake various tasks that they might be absolved of them.... Hunters come in many shapes and spec...
INQ28

Returning from the Warp - *It is a darker time. * *The galaxy is riven, beset on all sides by implacable foes who seem without number; without end. * *Our allies and comrades-in-a...
Colonel O'Truth's Miniature Issues

I'm invading Old Blighty! - Hi, All! Wouldn't you know it, but I'm heading to Merrie Olde England for a few weeks! And since I have family in the Newark area, I thought I'd pop me he...
Miasma of Pestilence

Necromunda: House Cawdor gang - So in my absence from the blogosphere (well from miniature related blogging at least) I managed to complete a project. That project is my first Necromunda ...
FUNKY WENIS RODEO

One Month of Contrast Paint - Greetings vaqueros! Today I'll be telling you all about my adventures with the new GW Contrast range in the first month from when it was released (22 Jun...
Green Stuff Industries

Escape Pod Objective - FINALLY! - Been walking around with this idea in my head for 2 years now and I finally got it out in the world. It's not spectacular modelling, but it makes for a...
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 ...
James Wappel Miniature Painting

A great Case - The large Carrying case from TableWar has proven to be handy for a number of things. I thought that the larger size would let me carry the bigger Creat...
Miniature darkness

Woodland scenics rock moulds - I borrowed a few Woodland scenic rock moulds from a friend of mine and I thought I would share my thought on these for anyone who hasn’t yet come a cross t...
The Rusty Workbench

Warhammer Quest - Imperial Noble - Imperial Noble, not much to say about this guy except this sculpt perfectly conveys this guys self-belief and arrogance. Great model and love the rules w...
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...
LilLegend Commission Painting Studio

Thousand Sons Sicaran Arcus & Omega Tank Destroyer Commission - The metallic sheen for Thousand Sons vehicles is tricky to create. a final edge highlight of silver, as well as overlapping oil paints, helps sell...
Lazy and Distracted

Throne of Power - Some may ask why a lonely throne stands in the middle of the chaos waste. I have no clue but I like it. I didn't glue the parts to the base so I can pl...
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...
Belched from the Depths

Wars of the Roses - Sharing another WIP project here. When my local historical club embarked on a group Wars of the Roses project last summer, I threw in. I'd already had fig...
11th Legion

Whats up Wednesday #024 - Hello everybody, Welcome to another weekly ramble through my wargaming life... This week it has been very quiet in my man cave as I haven't really had th...
Ewal Dvergar

The Colour of Magic - Morning all. A pair of Sorcerers have received a lick of paint and I wanted to share them with you. Here is your book, Sire Here, take your god-damn bo...
Proxie Models

New Year issue. - This is a quick update regarding the web store. It has been destroyed utterly. After numerous complaints that is does not work with mobile devices I s...
Four go to war!

Van Saar: The dust gate orb weavers Finished! - After a bloody age of these guys sitting on my desk I've only gone and finished them! And I'm really happy with how they came out. As it's been 7 months ...
WilhelMiniatures

Risi Vortapt, part II, Blight Drones - I've just finished a few more miniatures for my Nurgle Titanicus Legion; the Blight Drones. In my last post I showed the sculpted unpainted miniatures. ...
thenickeninja's blog

Industrial machines WIP - A year ago I bought these totally awesome pieces of uselessness. I don’t really know what to do with them but maybe some paint could help. So I’ve started ...
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...
Of Dice and Men

War Cults of the Southron Reaches Preview - The Bloodied Brotherhood - *Another preview of War Cults, this time a full Cult! Ares is a fairly typical God of War, but the real fun comes from dealing with the fallout from having...
Rab's Geekly Digest

Meet Emrim - Meet Emrim. For a dwarf (and a thief*) he's a good sort, and a fine shot to have alongside you in a fight. Not *behind* you, mind, he's not a perfect shot ...
Tales from the Maelstrom

3rd edition Warhammer Norse army update - Way back in pre-history (1986), a 13 year old version of me started a Warhammer Norse army. I bought it one blister at a time, using the money I earned fr...
Do You Have A Flag?

The Naval Battle of Cherbourg 1904 - The entire French fleet present (mostly) at Cherbourg, bar the *Henri IV -* curresntly MIA... Last weekend I had the privilege to command the French fle...
Realm of Citadel - Slave to the Lead

40k Tzeentch Warband #4: Chaos Dreadnought - A seriously chaotic miniature from the wonders of the Rogue Trader Era. Been drooling over this one since back in the days and now finally painted one! Ho...
I'm alone with a dream

A sign-off: What deters me from the 40K fandom - Warhammer saved me long ago from the monotony of mainstream media. It revealed to me there were some stories worth pursuing, there was an audience for gri...
Eldritch Epistles

Questoris Knight Magaera update and Sons of Horus Legion Sicaran Battle Tank - I've made some progress on the Questoris Knight Magaera: ...and started another Forge World project, a Sons of Horus Legion Sicaran Battle Tank: These b...
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...
Scarecrow Musings

Digibilly - The Smooth, The Groove, The Grungy. - New Digibilly album soon! (I got a sneak preview) From the great first track ’The Eastwood’ you are introduced to the world of the Philadelphia based DJ...
Of Marauders and Citadels

Lord of Change - *"Magnarrr" , the voice purred as the deamon scrutinised it's champion, "you must remember there is nothing I do not know, no-one I do not suspect! No-one...
davetaylorminiatures

I am writing a BOOK! - That's right, fellow blog fans! I've decided to write a book about painting wargaming collections. It will be going to Kickstarter this *Friday, March 1...
miniaTEXTures

2018 - a new year, new challenges, more hobby - Time to return to the blog... In many ways 2017 brought me a lot of new hobby experiences. Primarily while painting Eldar. The small force I started back i...
masteroftheforge.com

Heavy Variant Dreadknight - This project is another batch of Dreadknights, my favourite to date. Done in the same manner as the Original Dreadknight Project, these were done with an e...
Green Staff

Scorpions and other creatures of the night - Although available in the earlier versions of the game, scorpions have disappeared as trustworthy companions of goblin, while spiders remained. It is mostl...
I have wrought my simple plan...

The Skinwalker Tribes for Dracula's America - Just a quick post as I managed to get around to digging out my *Dead Man's Hand* figs so I could add them to my North Star figs and so take a pic of my ...
Paints, Pencils and Plastics

The Ashen Stair - The Watcher - Back to the Ashen Stair....
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 ...
Dave's Games

WIP: Babylon modular sci-fi terrain kit - Here's a sneak peek at something I'm working on.
A Blog of Blood and Bones

More Photo Dumps -
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...
Mordheim Treasure Hunters

Modelling: Cobblestone Bases - *Been to many towns in my youth. I have an experience of a lifetime of street walking. Still no human town has a cobblestone more treacherous than Mordhei...
Hobbytime

Sector Imperialis - Bonjour, Me revoilà! Je suis en train de peindre et monter du décor pour 40K, Je viens de terminer une des section de la table de GW et il faut beau donc pe...
Mr Lee's Painting Emporium

Undead Shamblers - Almost finished? - Well I have come to the point where I need to call this beauty finished. At least for now. My energy levels are already quite depleted and so putting ef...
Skulldred

Skulldred Kickstarter Plans - The Hey Dredlings, Over the coming months I will be building a Kickstarter to allow me to focus solely on Skulldred and bring it to publication. As you...
Miniature Warfare

Disney Princesses's Dance Hall - Maybe you do not know it, but I live with a princess ... My daughter! Here's her last commission
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...
Paul's Hobby Blog

AOS28 | Tree Revenants - Here's my two completed Tree Revenants for my AOS28 Sylvaneth warband! As the greens and blues of my chosen Sylvaneth paintscheme are so bright, I used ...
Picta Mortis

Dravon S'karr - Dravon S'Karr - The Ryat Star Jackal, Captain of the Obsidian Contessa - with his personal Icon bearer.
The New Realms Of Chaos

The Lost Maiden - The Lost Maiden - A tragic tale. . . She was a beautiful young girl who’s life was unfortunately to become a plaything of the chaos gods. Born blind, she ...
Eve Hallow Miniatures

Thunder... - Very WIP:- Eve
Darkling Games

Stardred: first glimpse - Happy new year! Thought I would kick off the year with something fresh and fun. Since Skulldred is stuck on HDDs in Sydney, and I am in Melbourne- I de...
Mr E Models

Martian Handling Machine - progress - Right, with tentacles made from Green Stuff and legs from coathanger wire, the thing was given a dapple of Mr Surfacer to give it surface texture, then pri...
Legatho's warehouse

Lest's have a test.... - Hi guys, buddies, friends and bros. Tomorrow, I'll put my first painted mini on ebay as a test... I don't want to make it a business, but It's interesting ...
FullRepent

FullRepent is back !!! - Enfin la revoilà - Qui sommes-nous ?
The Black Castle.

Mordheim: City of the Lead @ BOYL 2017 - I have to bust this one out early as the rest of the month is jam-packed so it's now or never. I will go back to improve this one and pep the base up (will...
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...
Role-play Dwarf

Command squad and captain finished - Sorry it's been so long since my last post i was too tired to post on Thursday and have been on annual leave since then and hurt my back during my leave so...
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...
Picturesque Ruins

Taking a page from Kevin Adams... - I split this off from the previous post because, damn it, I'm kinda proud of doing this. I am a big fan of Kevin Adams, sculptor extraordinaire, who uses l...
Stygian Thorne

Servitora Crania: Practicing to draw servo skulls - One of my favorite thing about 40k that AoS doesn't have is servo skulls. Something about these morbid memento mori are creepily cute. I was really first ...
Beneath The Mire

In His name we purge! Deathwatch. - Good afternoon brothers, sisters, people who play Eldar and all those in between. Today I am once again jumping on the glorious addiction that is the hobby...
Bizzarewarstar

Warhammer Quest: Knight Questor WIP Pt2 - The Knight Questor is almost finished. With just his sword, cloak and hair to be painted along with some final touches he should be done very soon. Blu...
GRIM DARK REALMS

Space Marine Minotaur Chapter Painting Project - Kit Bashing 30k and 40k Marines My new painting project has arrived and boy am I excited. I have decided to start this force composition off with a str...
Realms of Miniatures

Experiment: Introducing new blood #1 - Once in a while I try to play a game with the boys. I usually let them play a game of Heroquest or let them fight it out against a couple of monsters on a ...
Crosser Modelling

Blood angel Razorbacks with FW bits and Assault Cannons - I picked up two lovely base coated and transfer stuck razorbacks from ebay and enjoyed the very easy process of weathering them and finishing off the deta...
Little Green Monsters - Xenite's Miniatures Page

Recent Project: Blood Angels - I've been working on my 30k Blood Angels for an upcoming event. Here are some Work in Progress shots.
Eye of Error

The War Machine Project Part 2 - Much progress has been made. The model has been built into sub-assemblies, the lighting has been installed. More after the jump. This kit utilizes t...
Lead Or Alive: Bruno's Miniatures

Squat Pirate - Yes folks, I still exist and I still find a little time to paint little tin soldiers. Here's my latest noteworthy accomplishment, one of the fantastic Squa...
Miniature Tim

AdeptiCon 2016: Infinity Seminar! - Infinity at AdeptiCon. It's been a thing for a while now, but this year, Corvus Belli was in attendance!! ...none of you are really going to read this,...
Forlorn hope

Word bearer tacticals - More Word Bearers! These are the WIP pictures of the second tactical squad, the three with bases were used during the Inferno tournament and so they jumpe...
Brushes United

This place is dead anyways... WRONG - Hi there. I decided to resurrect once and for all. Past year has been quite a struggle from the hobby world's view and here I am with my dried paints and ...
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...
First Point of Aries

The Bio-Pilgrymme, Part I: The Daerwynne Palimpsest and Lost Mechanicvm - +++ The Bio-Pilgrymme... The God Emperor... The Green Man Cometh! +++ On January 1st 2016 a massive undertaking was launched over at Iron Sleet: *Th...
Read The Damn Book

Updated D&D 5E Player's Reference Sheets - I know it's been a while, but I finally got around to updating my Player's Reference Sheets. It's only a few small changes. I fixed a couple of typos and...
The Chainflail and Lead blog

A Game of Epic Proportion! - Ahhhh half a year later and I'm ready with my second post this year :D Some of my annual goals have been met. I've been playing on a regular basis with our...
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)

The Whole Age Of Sigmar 'No Points' Issue - I don't have any issue with the lack of points in Age of Sigmar. Others do. Such people comment that this means the game lacks 'balance'. But do points ...
Neon Pink Apokalypse

Ok... they forgot about us again... re: chaos dwarves/dwarfs? - Sooooo... A new age... An Age Of Sigmar! Yet again us poor people with a love for evil stunty types have been left without an army list/warscroll selecti...
Oldhammer

Oldhammer models - Is that model Oldhammer ? And this one? Every now and then the question comes back and while some will argue that the true proper "Oldhammer models" are ...
Alvarak System Campaign at Arthurs Court.

Provisional Planet rules to debate. - Here the planet rules Arthur and I came up with (Athur all but the last four!) If anyone thinks these will unfairly impact on their armies or unfairly boo...
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 ...
cult of the four armed emperor

CRUSH ELVISH IMPERIALISM! - I've been on a bit of a fantasy kick lately, and I have had piles of orcs prepped and ready for painting on my bench for months. With the holidays I fin...
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...
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...
From the Warp

Stepping away from blogging for a while - I know, this isn't exactly 40k related, but I wanted to break from the normal stuff and talk about something that has been following me in the shadows for...
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

High Elves: Alarielle Everqueen of Ulthuan - 🇬🇧 Alarielle the Radiant, Everqueen of Ulthuan, stands with her personal guard.Her crown is crafted from Eldar Spiritseer components. The throne combines...
Mythcreants

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