Grim Grinning Ghosts

With the lurgie going strong this week I mostly moved between a succession of naps and occasional snacking. However I did make some progress on the Ghost Legions front. Instead of going for my usual fluorescent ghost approach seen previously: I went down a more grimdark alley, inspired mostly by my small skirmish warbands seen […]

Faithzap

This past week I’ve been away at a Church Camp with my Church’s Youth Group, so as you can imagine there’s been a lack of hobbying. Corralling teenagers takes up a lot of time. I did have pondering time though, and with the religious atmosphere, I’ve been considering how religion functions in my own Deathzap […]

Purposefully Playing it Wrong

A while back I set myself an insane goal, the goal of playing every sci-fi skirmish game ever… utter madness it was. And this was after I’d laughed off Discourse Miniatures claim on YouTube that she was going to play a game of every Wargame ever… I guess my goals were a little more sensible, […]

Age of Sig-nah

Maybe the best Warhammer products are the dead ones. Mordheim still goes strong, Epic and Warmaster have their communities as do Gorka Morka and Inquisitor. The recent fall out from the failure of the latest edition of Horus Heresy suggests that when Warhammer start tinkering with their products, often times it’s not for the better. […]

Cambari Gunslingers

I recently procured a large bag of cowboys from Amazon. The figures looked decent enough, certainly a far better quality than a lot of what I’ve been painting lately. The only real downside to the figures was the lack of poses. There was only four in all. Poses I think originated with Airfix. So I […]

Deathmelt

Odd little projects are always a good idea, because good ideas come from experimentation, experimentation that may not have been done otherwise. My Melt madness of late has been one such project, and it’s really helped me with a problem I’ve had for a long time with Deathzap. Two things I’ve loved about playing my […]

Warhammer… the best of times and the worst of times…

Midwinter Minis uploaded two videos recently that got me thinking… why haven’t I painted any Warhammer figures recently? The Positive Video The Negative Video I didn’t want to be a negative nelly… but I have to say his negative video definitely rang more true for me than his positive one, and that’s probably reflected somewhat […]

Jendari Tigers

The first mention of the ‘Tigers’ dates back to the 67BC (Before Colonisation), where a loose group of militias joined together to defend a group of bases on Ganymede in order to help Titus Jendar’s work in restoring the Martian Portal. Use of the term ‘Tiger’ has not been without controversy, as traditional Tiger uniforms […]

Zombies!

Zombies are still cool if a little over done at this point, and miniature Zombie games are plentiful if that’s a particular itch you need to scratch – Zombies the board game, Zombicide, The Walking Dead miniatures game etc. I’ve recently been gifted many Caesar zombies in 1/72 scale. One box of camp, three of […]

Melt28 Terrain

After playtesting my Melt28 rules using the crappy terrain you find in bags of army men, I knew I had to do something with all the plastic I had accumulated. The figures themselves have a ‘Grimdark’ style now, or ‘Grimcandy’ as I coined it a while back. Dingy, but with vibrant colours. The terrain needed […]

Melt28

I’ve been ruminating on something over the past few weeks, a little project I’m calling ‘Melt28’. The goal of Melt28 is simple really, fast paced and bloody firefights with a little bit of tactical nuance, and using that bad bag of army men and crap you’ll find in your local discount shop. The sorts of […]

The Skirmish At Anvar And Tweaking Deathzap 2

Anvar was little more than an outpost, its walls were old and crumbling, peppered with holes from generations of rifle and repeater fire. Supremacy of Kannis forces held a tenuous grip on the entire sector, employing mercenary Pirates and Ascended rather than their superior Davians and Second Ascended. Supremacy Generals, now utilising portal generators were […]

Perpetually Painting Partisans Part 2

First part here… from 6 Months ago… https://deathzap.co.uk/2024/12/20/perpetually-painting-partisans/ I had been rather silly, having finished the toughest bit of any Bolt Action force – painting the bulk of the infantry. I seemingly forgot I had made any progress with my Partisans, and as yet they have not made it to the table (very silly me). […]

Boglanders

I mentioned these guys on my previous post. The Boglanders are a miniatures range by Ramshackle Games and I love them. They’re ‘goblins’ in a pretty loose sense of the term, and the goal of the range is to have them fit into almost any setting, although if you do consult the Boglanders Source Book […]

One Army For Every Game?

One of my favourite YouTubers is Trent from Miscast, and a while back he had the idea of creating a single army to play every game. The idea seemed completely mad to me. How could you possibly create an army to cover all sci-fi, fantasy and historical settings? Although if the aim of this blog […]

Wartomata

Wartomata or Wautomata, short for War Automata are the large robotic suits, sometimes piloted, sometimes AI controlled, that are utilised by the Allegiance of Gnossos, the Legion of Kharthion and the League of Zandor. The Allegiance’s Wartomata frequently look more robotic, whereas the League’s and Legion’s Wartomata have the quirk of appearing like fully armoured […]

Are Army Men Cursed?

Not sure if you’ve noticed, probably because you’re not the sort of weirdo that checks your local plastic tat shops for changes in big bags of crappy army men… but there’s been a degradation. Some might say this doesn’t matter… that I’m overthinking… but maybe it’s a hint at the entire collapse of western civilisation? […]

Dragon Warriors (A Pitch Meeting)

I recently snapped up some dragons. 36 in all for £10. It was a bit of an impulse buy, but possibly the beginning of a bigger project. I do t want to get off of the Deathzap train just yet, I should ride that one until the end of the line since I’m really enjoying […]

Space Pirates

The generation ships of the Solar Raiders and the Heavens Peace Accord pushed the entire Xolar System in one direction when it came to the design of their ships – the bigger, the better. Invasions were executed by large and almost entirely self sustaining ships. However once Selenoid raids had reached their peak, that dogma […]

Knockoff Xenomorphs

A while back I bought a bag of Dinosaur Skeletons: And then didn’t do anything with them. I had initially planned to include them in my Crusage project, however my focus shifted elsewhere. But while digging through my hobby room, looking for useful figures for my Big Deathzap project I stumbled across them again. I […]

Big Deathzap

I had the sudden urge to paint some cheap army men this weekend. The fruits of my labour were two squads for some skirmishing in the Deathzap universe. These figures are much bigger than usual Deathzap figures and rather than being 20-30mms tall clock in at 54mm. The first squad represent the Jendari Defence Army, […]

One Big Worm

At the height of my Havok hyperfocus, after getting at decently sized Nexus and Karn force together I turned my attention to the Pteravore. As any Havok fan is aware, the Pteravore unfortunately only had three units released before the game died, Razors, Screamers and Hell Hounds. I managed all three utilising Wargames Atlantic’s Harvesters […]

Painting Camouflage?

I’ve finally, actually painted some camouflage in the way you’d expect, basecoating, shading and then highlighting each colour, and I think the results are pretty good: While I do rather like this result, it can be time consuming, and it’s not how I’ve approached camouflage in the past. My usual method has been to basecoat, […]

Witch Hunters

After my last post, getting into the lore of my Super Simple Universal Skirmish System Universe (S.S.U.S.S.U) I received a package from Irregular Miniatures containing my next warband – The Witch Hunters. While the Dragon Temple remain as the last human empire, remnants of other empires still exist. One such remnant are the roving bands […]

The S.S.U.S.R Universe

The goal of my Super Simple Universal Skirmish Rules was as the title suggests, to create a game that allowed me to grab any models and pit them against each other in a non-taxing sort of way. Of course, as always being the hobby butterfly, even though I already had many figures to utilise I […]