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!

Something wicked this way comes… part 1.

Part of my latest Age of Sigmar project… all from the bits box. See if you can guess what it is? I’ll be hopefully be posting updates all week.

Grid of Death – Battle Report

The Tribeship Torvax is home to the Bloodline Tribe of Solar Raiders, one of the largest among the SolRad fleets it harbours impressive hab-domes, rich, but artificial jungles fill the domes in order to create a self sustaining breathable atmosphere on the ship. A small invasion force of Vel scout the Torvax after infiltrating it […]

This Isn’t My First Cheap Toy Soldier Rodeo – The Korban

A previous post mentioned my ‘long dead blog’, and while scrolling through said blog I came across some much older cheap toy soldier conversions, so I’ve recreated one of the posts here, I may have to recreate these guys for Deathzap! The Korban are a Reptoid alien race from the planet Krel. They were one […]

A Step in the Gridded Direction

Today’s project was to start work on a gridded gaming surface that I can use while my gaming space is at a minimum. I picked up two cork notice boards that were 30x40cms, painted them green and put a 5x5cm grid on both with a permanent marker. I’m cooking up rules in my head, and […]

Paint Maketh The Man

The above the picture is taken from my old long dead blog… it was way back when I first discovered Poundland’s figure offering, they came in a bags of 100 and had that familiar bright orange and green cardboard packaging that read combat… er… something. At the time I was working on some rules for […]

Deathzap Fluff

So the we’re moving house. This has made hobbying difficult as I’m sure you can imagine, and gaming next to impossible, other than maybe getting out my portable stuff from time to time. I thought however rather than lamenting the lack of hobby I’d use this little break to write up my imagined universe for […]

Rice Fleets

Anyone really can afford this… I started by cutting tongue depressors into squares. I then went on to texture my wooden squares with bicarbonate of soda and super glue. At this point I got carried away. Glue a grain of rice to each base and paint accordingly. I used the smaller grains for destroyers, cruisers […]

The Battle For The Pudding – Battle Report

‘The Pudding War’ was a small and short lived conflict between the nations of Caerdonia and Su Khan, and was fought entirely within the Boskova Mountain range on the border between the two countries in the year 1237AC. To put that in perspective the events of my games of Deathzap take place around 2000AC. Su […]

The First Encounter – A Super Hero Battle Report

An explosion erupted in down town Ultra City, Renegade the masked madman, used one of his patented Rene-Grenades to take out former Astronaut turned super hero Astro-Man and humanities greatest protector the Golden Phoenix. Then as the evil Nightmare attempted to subdue Red Vector from behind, Comet The Space Boy was fried by Zzap’s electric […]

Poundland’s Super Heroes

The following post was inspired by a post on the Man of Tin Blog: https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/17/poundland-super-heroes-say-farewell-to-stan-lee-rip/ Poundland are currently selling lego-ish mini figures in sets of 4. Today I purchased two sets, one labelled Super Heroes and another Spacemen and Aliens (I think… I’ve thrown away the boxes at this point). I swapped heads and hands […]

Army Soldiers

Here’s today’s purchase despite protests from the wife of ‘Don’t you have enough army men?’ You’ve probably seen these Matchbox copies before on other blogs or in stores so I’m not breaking any new ground here, other than to say the marked price of £6 (a bit pricey I admit) once I had reached the […]

The Cosmic Warrior

So as I was skulking around the local discount shops and came across the following: Covered in stolen Transformers artwork and a clear rip-off off of a Gundam design, I felt this ‘Cosmic Warrior’ was useful for filling out the ranks of my Allegiance of Gnossos army for Deathzap. Painted up and battle damaged, I’m […]

Of Blood and Beasts – Battle Report

The Solar Raiders faced off against the Jendari Tigers in a quick game this evening. Their objective was to take and hold the burned out tank. Whoever had it after 6 turns would be the victor. Both sides advance. The Jendari Dinosaurs clash with the Solar Raiders and tear them to shreds. The Solar Raiders […]

Tales From The Portable Gaming Case: Gladiators

So I take four of the ‘trees’ (tin foil glued to washers and flocked) put them in a square to create a rough representation of a 3×3 grid. I then flip over the top card of the deck, the card shows an arrow moving from one grid square to another. First the figures in the […]