Chaos Space Marine Chosen and the Joy of Old Models

I’ve recently been rummaging through the drawers of old and unpainted models and my rather enormous ‘bits box’ in the hopes of building units for my growing World Eaters army for 40k essentially for free (since I guess I’ve previously paid for said bits, they’re not in actuality actually free). While digging I found some […]

Super Speed Painting Chaos Space Marines and Building My Army

I haven’t had all that much hobby time for Deathzap of late, this is largely down to me attempting to paint an entire chaos space marine army for a game this weekend now restrictions have been lifted. I went with the same scheme I worked out a little while ago, but this time adding in […]

Taking Stock of my Warhammer Problem

The last two weekends have been spent assembling flat pack furniture and organising several rooms in the house. So much so that there hasn’t been a huge amount of hobby progress although there is a rather strange project underway that might see a post in the next few days. A really good thing about getting […]

Speed Painting Khorne Berserkers

I’ve been thinking a lot about Khorne Berserkers lately and remembered I’d already got 24 fully assembled lads, with textured bases and primed black in a box somewhere. So I pulled the box out and had a look at them: I had an idea as to how I was going to go about painting them […]

Painting a Fiend of Slaanesh

So I’ve been experimenting lately with acrylic inks, mine are from Daler Rowney. I’m aware people definitely don’t use them in the way I have, however I’ve found a little method that works for me. I’m a big fan of Games Workshop’s Contrast paints and as someone who prefers to paint quickly how could I […]

Chaos Daemons for 9th

Is there some irony in a person hoping to become a Church of England Priest collecting Daemons? Chaos Daemons have always been a favourite army of mine. It’s probably down to how bizarre many of the models are, how the range stays close to its roots and even newer models are very close in appearance […]

A lesson in never throwing anything away…

I feel like I’ve posted in this topic before, maybe… maybe I’ve just got a serious case of deja vu or it was one of those unposted drafts we all keep hidden away. Marie Kondo has been rather influential of late with her philosophy of if something doesn’t bring you joy you should get rid […]

Army In Progress: Chaos Orruks (Orcs)

I believe I’ve previously mentioned this project, and although you may argue that it’s Games Workshop and not exactly in keeping with this blog’s tagline of ‘anyone can afford wargaming’ I have made some significant savings on this one. It all started here with some Savage Orruks. I was playing a game of Age of […]

Contrast Paints are Pretty Great… Part 2

I recently acquired some Nurgle Rotbringers from a friend who was having a clear out. I like the models a lot but they were always one of the armies I probably would not have seriously attempted due to how much time would need to be invested in painting them. But since GW’s Contrast paints have […]

Slaves To Darkness Part 5

Haven’t posted in these guys in a while, but my Chaos army for Age of Sigmar is really taking shape so here’s some beauty shots: The Mrs and I are off to Disneyland Paris for a few days this coming week, so you might get a blog post about that.

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 […]

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.