Kallistra’s Offering

Another package arrived today and contained Kallistra’s ‘Sci-Fi’ figures, although it’s certainly sci-fi of the post apocalyptic persuasion, they are on sale here. For £10.50 you get 10 figures all of which are well sculpted with good, clean detail (I suspect Mark Copplestone had his hand in making these). I’m looking forward to getting these […]

Deathgangs

So I had some post apocalyptic solo fun on the bedroom floor this morning using the 8 of the Miniatures that arrived yesterday and that I have already painted up! Gang 1 consisted of (from left to right) Jacko, Leatherface, Doc and Jason. Gang 2 consisted of Shotty, Dagz, Fingers and Chainz. Initially I tried […]

Warrior Miniatures Post Apocalyptic Figures

A rather heavy box arrived today. A bit of an impulse purchase a few days ago had arrived, one of every pack from Warrior Miniatures’ ‘Monsters, Mutants and Gangs’ range. The whole lot came to around £30, which for 25 28mm metal figures is a steal, you would normally be looking at £45 to £60 […]

The Outpost – Game Report

The following skirmish was an attempt at what I’m calling Advanced Deathzap, not that it’s particularly complicated, more that it adds in that personality that I’ve wanted to get into my games for a while, hopefully going forwards forces should have a less generic feel. I set up a small gaming area in the corner […]

Alien Planet or Race or Character Name Generator

An inspiring title I know. This is a concept I developed on that previous blog I’ve mentioned before, and I was using it originally to create an entirely procedurally generated universe. You can use it if you’re stuck on a name for an alien race, character or planet. First roll 2D6 this will give you […]

In The Forest of the Night – Game Report

“A distress beacon has been activated Sir” reported Sergeant Zen Haggar of the Gnossian Advance Force. Captain Korthos Caine eyed his young protégée. “It could be misdirection, a trap even” he responded. Zen shuffled awkwardly, and checked the charge on his beam rifle. “I don’t think so Sir… fourth called in the all clear on […]

A bedroom floor, socks and airfix figures

Fancy terrain and well painted figures aside, you can still have fun rolling dice and moving little men around. It ain’t pretty, smells kinda funky, but it does give me an appreciation for 20th century tactics, plus there’s a certain nostalgia in it for me. At this point I called the German retreat, no use […]

This isn’t my first cheap toy Soldier Rodeo… Part 4: Steel Skulls

The Steel Skulls are an elite and highly experimental unit. They specialise in black ops missions and no win scenarios. The Steel Skulls are an entirely human unit and are officially denied as active by Crucible. Rumours abound surrounding their existence and motives, most believe they are a real unit but are only known to […]

That Eclectic Miniatures Heroscape Ripoff Game

So I’ve been painting a lot lately, and haven’t been playing much, even solo. So I thought I’d play a quick game with those 15mm figures I picked up from Irregular a few weeks back. Hopefully you’re not too bothered by historical inaccuracy in your games although funnily enough only one of the units here […]

Necrons

I’ve been bitten by the 40k bug again, I’m sure it bites most of us tabletop gamers from time to time. So here’s a selection of images from this weeks labours: More Biblical and cheap stuff coming soon!

Giants!

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown. Genesis 6:4 Bible scholars may debate the meaning of this […]

This isn’t my first cheap Toy Soldier Rodeo… part 3: The Khef

The Khef are an ancient race with an unknown origin. Most of their troops are not infact Khef but are reanimated corpses from previous wars. The Khef are only currently a small threat to Crucible but are growing rapidly. The Khef below are a support laser squad. A large part of Khef equipment is either […]

Elamites

So I finished painting my Elamite warband this morning. Again, as with the Abramites from my previous post, there is a lot of artistic license with these figures. The reason being that much of the reference images you may see online for Elamites or in Osprey books are a good few hundred years later than […]

Bible Bashers: Biblical Skirmish Wargaming

‘Biblical skirmish wargaming’ is not a phrase you often hear thrown around. In fact if you put it into google as I did recently the top result I received was a blog with a single post made by me some years ago. http://bible-bashers.blogspot.com/?m=1 In reference to that post on that dusty old blog I can’t […]

This Isn’t My First Cheap Toy Soldier Rodeo… Part 2: Korban Grenadiers

So again from the old blog, something inspirational if you’re a bit strange like me… The Korban Grenadiers! Sometimes among the Korban ranks a soldier is both physically larger and stronger but also intellectually and tactically. These Korban are quickly drafted into elite units known as Grenadiers. The Sergeant of the unit carries a large […]

Slaves To Darkness Part 4… How to paint Rust

My latest unit counts as any 25mm based chaos unit if people are picky, or counts as literally any chaos infantry unit. Primarily for me they’ll be marauders, plague bearers or another unit of warriors. If you like converting your own stuff you can save yourself some dosh by having units that can ‘counts as’ […]

Slaves To Darkness Part 3

So I’ve started painting with a unit of chaos warriors. I’m so happy with how they’re coming out, I’m going for a rusty, grimy look with the chipped and peeling remnants of their armour’s paint on flatter surfaces or in deep crevices. My poor old drybrush was a casualty of this process, it is now […]

Slaves To Darkness Part 2

That’s my previously seen Slaves To Darkness army for Age of Sigmar primed and ready for painting. In the back you can see my Maulerfiend conversion, it’s a counts as warshrine/ maggoth rider/ mutalith vortex beast/ slaughterbrute or whatever I want that’s a similar size. The whole lots comes in at around 1000 points with […]

Do You Have a Flag?

In the interest of world building, and also because apparently I’m a bit of a flag nerd, I thought I’d put some flags together after I watched a TedTalk on Vexillology. Here’s the specific video, although I’ll be listing the main points below if you haven’t got twenty minutes. The main points of flag design […]

An Eclectic 15mm Miniatures Selection

A package arrived in the post today from Irregular Miniatures. One of my favourite Miniatures sites to browse, but I’ve rarely purchased anything due to the fact that it was one of those sites you had to send an email list of the bits you wanted to and wait for the PayPal invoice in a […]

Slaves to Darkness

I didn’t do much on the plague tower this weekend as I was striving forward with the army to go with it. My basic warrior is based on a chaos space marine legs, torso and arms with a basic head and weapons swap and leaving the backpack off. My Chaos Sorcerer Lord is based on […]

Something wicked this way comes… part 5

Today I started skinning all the air dry clay with milliput, and texturing it. I pressed some beads into the thicker areas and these will eventually be pustules. You probably noticed that I’ve removed the tongue, this is so I can make a much better looking one, the top left corner of the face is […]

Something wicked this way comes… part 4

To quote Mr George Lucas ‘I may have gone too far in a few places.’ I think it’s crunch time now, make or break… if I keep going this whole exercise could end up in the bin, or turn into something great… only time will tell!

Something wicked this way comes… part 3

Today I made less progress, although it looks like a lot. I order to save on Miliput, I glue gunned on the foil substructure of the nurgle details that are soon to be added! From plague towers I have looked up on google, most people avoid the face, I however felt it was probably the […]

Something wicked this way comes… part 2

I’ve made a decent amount of progress over the last day. I’m building towards a Plague Tower of Nurgle as a counts as Chaos Warshrine. Only time will tell with how successful this venture will be, but I’m happy with the results so far!