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Sci-Fi Troopers from Mantic and some 40k action
Some weeks a lot of projects come together all at once - its one of those this post. I've been playing some bits of the new edition of 40k and with so many space marine armies around in our local...
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Making your own wargames scenery - swamps
So as promised previously, here's a post on making some swamps. I've made these specifically for my Hordes Minion force, but the bigger templates and the technique can definitely be used for other...
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Return to Malifaux : Starting Zoraida crew
My ongoing enjoyment of Malifaux has gone up a notch the last couple of weeks. My local gaming shop has kicked off a slow grow hobby league and I was keen to take part. Stealing a bunch of ideas from...
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Stitched Together
Well its been a while since I updated my blog! For 2013 I am going to try to post smaller updates more often rather than trying to save up for the perfect, but far too long (and daunting to type),...
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Nightmare after Christmas
So I made a snowman - well snow sculpture anyway.The subject matter might be escaping you - answers after the jump along with the miniature related goodness that inspired this endeavour...The character...
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Rival crews
I've been taking the odd snap of my opponent's crews as and when I remember to. A couple of them I've shown before, but here's a collection of largely painted crews doing the rounds at the moment....
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Space Marin- erm, Interstellar Commandos?
In a week where GW made the news in a way they probably aren't too pleased about, I'm posting about my Grey Knights army that doesn't have any Space Marines, hopefully avoiding any legal issues.I've...
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Henching for Wyrd
I've been enjoying Malifaux a lot this past year so after discussion with Matthew the local Henchmen, I've applied for and been accepted into the Henchman ranks for Wyrd Miniatures. This means I can...
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Unexpected Agendas Tournament
After an exciting and fun filled day, here's my write up of the Unexpected Agendas tournament that ran on 02/03/2013 at the 7th Heaven Games Shop.The tournament was based on encounter driven multi...
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Warhammer Zombies!
Well another week gone and I'm a day late posting, but hopefully this was worth the wait! I've added some new gadgets to the sidebar - there's an RSS feed which was a specific request - so enjoy....
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Its got nasty, big, pointy teeth...
My local games store 7th Heaven ran a painting/ diorama competition this year with an Easter theme - namely there must be a bunny in there somewhere. I didn't have very long to ponder my entry or find...
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Big based undead nasties
Despite chugging through quite a lot of hobby stuff in the past weeks and months, I'm not finding taking photos of stuff any easier or more enjoyable, half the time things don't come out looking very...
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Yin the Penangalan - weekend painting challenge
Quick post this weekend. On passing through my game shop on Friday I couldn't resist picking up Yin, the Penangalan for my Kirai crew (Malifaux again!). I've been working on a lot of hobby projects...
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Back to bases
Another week gone by and more hobby goings on to report. I'm currently planning for my next Malifaux tournament so if you can make that you'd be more than welcome.I've been working on basing (or...
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Riptide and Imperial Knight
For the last few weeks (or is it months?) I've had a background task of getting a number of big robots ready for a big fun game of Apocalypse 40k that my brother is organising.He and some of his...
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40k Apocalypse "Big Cap Battle"
Last weekend I posted that I was preparing for a large 40k game. Turns out it wasn't large, it was colossal! I had a great time with the Big Cap gamers and we're already planning what we might do...
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Twisted Allegiances : Malifaux Tournament
Last weekend I ran my second Mailfaux Tournament - another multiplayer extravaganza!After the first event earlier this year the feedback was generally "more of the same" so I looked into what I could...
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Hasslefree Adventurers
A quick post this week, lots of projects on but nothing finished yet I can share. Instead I've got some great Hasslefree figures I painted last year as part of my Inquisitor army that I didn't get...
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Banana! Sculpting a minion
Another year another hobby challenge to craft a gift for my wife's birthday. This year the choice was a minion from Despicable Me. You've probably seen the Banana song doing the rounds recently...So...
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Time Travelling adventurers from Heresey
Wow, my post last week is now the most visited page on my blog - thanks to everyone who shared it and my new subscribers. I do have a competition on the way, the prizes are now almost ready so please...
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Malifaux Brawls
This weekend I ran an event at 7th Heaven Gamers focusing on larger scales Malifaux games. The event was called the "Masquerade Brawl" as a knowing wink to the larger games being called Brawls and...
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Starting Legion of Everblight
Ok, this is a long one, but bear with it, there's a competition in here!Last year I took the plunge into Privateer Press's Warmachine/ Hordes games by starting a Minions army. My gators have had a few...
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Making snow bases for miniatures
A mid week post!As a follow up to my Legion of Orangeblight post, I've put together a quick step by step tutorial of how I made the bases. I like to imagine someone asked me how I did it.I also want...
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More Malifaux figures
Well this week I have mostly been painting my kitchen and looking at my much delayed but very exciting Kickstarter goodies - more on those in some future posts hopefully. A heads up that my...
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I've been remiss in not posting on this blog a decision I made a couple of months ago.I'm now posting on http://www.mywargame.com/ - you'll find there's a more frequent flow of articles on there from...
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