Sister Hospitaller |
Thursday 20 December 2018
Sister Hospitaller
Tuesday 18 December 2018
Saturday 15 December 2018
Sisters of Battle new army list review.
Sisters of battle army list review: Chapter approved 2018
I don’t often do tactical reviews on here – I’m mostly about
painting cool models. However I do love the Sisters of Battle, and so here are
my initial thoughts on the Beta codex. Unless you play a lot of 40k, the rest of this post is going to be fairly incomprehensible.
Friday 14 December 2018
Another Dark Eldar Commander.
Dark Eldar Succubus |
I am also going to try and paint 500 models next year. And count them down on this blog.
Monday 10 December 2018
Christmas?
Monday 3 December 2018
More Dark eldar kill team, and a bit of a ramble.
Tuesday 16 October 2018
Harry Potter Minis
So, my wife is a massive fan of the Harry Potter franchise. It's a weird thing. She's only one school year younger than me but Harry Potter passed me by completely until the films came out. Seminal book series that informed my growing up were Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and Lord of the rings.
And yet, as films, I think the Harry potter films are in many way better than the film versions of LotR. Although I do struggle with the manifest lack of world building. Inasmuch as the wizarding world is superficially part of the real world now. Which just doesn't really work. There are all these wizards around doing quite visible stuff and the military never takes an interest? MI5 doesn't notice all the people flushing themselves down toilets in central London and take a vague interest? No wizard ever thinks well, these death eaters have powerful magical abilities, but there anathema to muggle tech means they won't see my M134 Minigun coming?
These are nerdish hangups for nerds, but I think if you do the 'my setting is a hidden part of the real world' you have to address what happens when the real world and the fictional world come into some sort of conflict. Even if it is just to point out that your monsters are immune to bullets.
Anyway, models:
And yet, as films, I think the Harry potter films are in many way better than the film versions of LotR. Although I do struggle with the manifest lack of world building. Inasmuch as the wizarding world is superficially part of the real world now. Which just doesn't really work. There are all these wizards around doing quite visible stuff and the military never takes an interest? MI5 doesn't notice all the people flushing themselves down toilets in central London and take a vague interest? No wizard ever thinks well, these death eaters have powerful magical abilities, but there anathema to muggle tech means they won't see my M134 Minigun coming?
These are nerdish hangups for nerds, but I think if you do the 'my setting is a hidden part of the real world' you have to address what happens when the real world and the fictional world come into some sort of conflict. Even if it is just to point out that your monsters are immune to bullets.
Anyway, models:
Snape |
Sunday 14 October 2018
Wednesday 12 September 2018
Dark Eldar Kill Team
I decided to make a second kill team, this time Dark Eldar. Partly I was frustrated by the Tau's total inability to kill things in close combat which is a requirement of one of the four core matched play missions for kill team. However mostly I was inspired by the addition of Dark Eldar to the Inquisitor: Martyr video game. (If you want my 5 second review of that game: It's a beautiful narrative experience for fans of Warhammer 40,000 with excellent art assets and voice acting, which is let down by repetitive game play) I decided to paint them in the very traditional Dark Eldar black-green with red accents. Also they are all girls without helmets, because it just so happens that in a Wyches box you can build six girls (out of then) and in a warrior box you can build four girls (out of ten).
I actually finished these a little while ago, as any of you who follow my instagram will know but I had to finish my dissertation, and deal with a small mountain of new school year work agro, and my back is playing up and some other annoying personal stuff. However I have finally carved out some time now so enjoy.
Tuesday 31 July 2018
Alt Barbaros
Alt Barbaros |
Tuesday 24 July 2018
Tau Killteam
Saturday 14 July 2018
Nagash, Supreme Lord of the Undead
Sunday 8 July 2018
Coven Throne
Sunday 1 July 2018
Nighthaunt Gloom
Myrmourn Banshees |
Saturday 30 June 2018
Imperial Knights
Knight Lancer |
Wednesday 6 June 2018
Ironskull’s Boyz
Ironskull's Boyz |
Friday 1 June 2018
Grey Knights... and another knight.
Tw updates a week in the small hours of the morning? Can you tell it's the half term holiday? I decided I wanted to paint more stuff and I had these guys sitting around on my half done projects shelf. So a little while back I decided to only collect imperial armies in 40k to try and cut down on the number of little painted figures I have to share my appallingly tiny flat with. (that's not working out so well). One of the side effects of this was that I needed to replace the small army I use in my school Warhammer club when we get an odd number of students. I have always had a kinda-sorta relationship with Grey Knights. I always thought they were really cool in small numbers but was a little leery of giant armies of them. So a small 35 power army of them seems like a cool way to scratch that itch.
Grand Master Voldus |
Wednesday 30 May 2018
Legion of Nagash (so far)
As those (all three of you) who follow my instagram will know, I have been painting a horde of skeletons to channel the nervous energy generated at work into something useful. I completed this mammoth unit of 40 over the bank holiday weekend and decided now would be a good time to take a look at the skeletal horde I have assembled so far.
Thursday 5 April 2018
Necromunda! (and other ramblings about skirmish games)
Solaris of House Escher |
Well, I finally got around to doing some more painting, this time of my starting house Escher gang for the new edition of Necromunda. These miniatures were a real joy to build and paint, and I'm really very pleased with how they turned out. I have also tried to up my photography game a little bit so I hope you enjoy.
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