One Hobby Goal Down – Bolt Action Japanese

A little post about my Japanese force for Bolt Action.

Speed Painting Adeptus Mechanicus

A quick guide on how I painted my AdMech army.

15mm Planetary Guard

A Quick Look at my 15mm Planetary Guard force for whichever sci-fi game you prefer in this scale.

So what did I get up to in 2025?

It always fun to look back over the blog and reminisce about projects past. Sometimes I’ve forgotten about projects entirely, sometimes looking back over the blog reignites the embers of a formerly dead project. In January I hit the ground running with Havok: Havok was a game from my childhood, dead now, but once put […]

Painting Blackshirts for Bolt Action

A quick guide to speed painting Italian Blackshirts for Bolt Action.

A Look at Some 15mm Irregular Sci-Fi Minis

A battle was fought shortly after where I worked out quite a few kinks in the rules I wrote. Much fun was had too. Two things that came out of this little playtest that I really enjoyed were somewhat unexpected. First was the lack of unit coherency. I mean I’m not exactly a fan of […]

Polishing Zombie Turds

Previous turds polished: https://deathzap.co.uk/2023/07/07/polishing-more-turds/ https://deathzap.co.uk/2021/08/15/polishing-a-turd/

Tamiya 1/35 Figures and WW2 Skirmishes

Mechanics Lab: Horror Skirmishing

A Rambling Look Through My Hobby Drawers

A rambling look through my hobby drawers full of past and present wargaming projects…

Survival Horror Gangs with The Worst Figures!

The Vanguardians VS The Darkanites

SKIRMASHED SET UP The game is played on a 2’x2’ board for 1-5 figures aside, and a 4’x2’ board for 6-10. Deploy forces within 3” of opposite edges (long edges on a 4’x2’). All dice are D10s (unless stated otherwise). Figures have six stats, ‘Manoeuvre’, ‘Firepower’, ‘Boom’, ‘Fight’, ‘Hack’, and ‘Stamina’. Stats can be any […]

The Futility of Man… In Wargaming

Here’s something I’ve been pondering for a little while. As I burn through ideas, new ideas, old ideas, all half baked, I began wondering why things (at least in my brain) are like this. Why start a project, become intensely focused on it for a short time and then flit to another? Maybe it’s just […]

Hobby Update-ish

It’s been a little bit of a bonkers weekend. I turned a little older, and then experienced Remembrance Sunday. It’s an odd quirk of being born early November, your Birthday weekend often lines up with a rather somber and thoughtful occasion. Anywho… another quirk of having a Birthday is being inundated with gift cards, which […]

How I Painted My Axis Force For Konflikt 47

Faithzap 3

Being away this week visiting family means no physical hobby for me, but I still love to engage in the mental – writing lore and rules. And despite being on the back burner I had promised to produce a few religious to add flavour to my own Deathzap setting. So here you go: Cyclism Religious […]

An attempt at a YouTube video on the Sprue Board

Hopefully this works! Here’s also a link just in case: https://youtu.be/So3RgDWgf9I?si=4YEu1C2mBAU19XaN Gremlins in the system!

Greebles Galore

After playing a few games with my strange gangs, I felt the terrain wasn’t really matching the vibes of the figures. Considering that the terrain in question was supposed to be my generic, one set fits all games terrain I didn’t want to change it. So that meant making some new stuff. Terrain is actually […]

Mantaurs vs Pirates

In the mad world of finding things to replace the heads of army men with, at some point I landed on the idea of just smaller army men. I previously showed off my initial Mantaur: The problem I found in the lab, was what with each further iteration of the Mantaur, their cognitive abilities decreased […]

Odd Gangs 2: Eclectic Boogaloo

Things very quickly got out of hand. Much superglue has been consumed, much stuff thrown at walls to see what sticks. The Cubeheads were something I knew would work, as I’ve seen similar things before: A hobbyist called ‘Ben Has Hobbies’ has a game based entirely around the cube headed concept. https://youtu.be/Z8aqkhYBqg0?si=UPjRFZZqcNIYjGPR Chucking the pink […]

Odd Gangs

When the fingers hover over the ‘add to cart’ ‘checkout’ and ‘buy now’ buttons on various Wargaming sites, despite you being knee deep in already existing projects, I recommend having a little look around for that odd little itch scratcher before you take the plunge. Digging through drawers in my desk I found some bags […]

Irregular Space

Sometimes projects come out of nowhere. I think this one in particular has existed in the forbidden section of my brain for quite some time, and as I seem to be amassing projects right now I thought ‘why not?’ The project in question is to produce a set of rules specifically for Irregular Miniatures 15mm […]

My very easy method just keeps painting Japanese Infantry for Bolt Action

Put this down as a speed painting tutorial, with room to come back later if you want and add detail or tidy things up. I’m debating and all over was and drybrush, but I’m not sure this scheme needs it just yet. I got the idea from my older post here. When painting historical minis, […]

Meat Town

As sort of mentioned previously, I’m planning on making terrain and a gaming surface for my Ghost Legions project that differs from the table I use for Deathzap and the odd game of Bolt Action. I imagine the underworld is a bit ‘chunky’, where parts of the overworld or projections of it have been torn […]

Battle of the Crooked Wastes

Kassira’s Legions march towards one of the Underworld’s great pillars in an attempt to destroy death itself. The Death’s amass an equivalent defensive force! This was really an exercise in seeing how quickly a big battle like this could be resolved utilising Featherstone’s Chimera. I don’t think I’d want to play battles much larger than […]