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/

How I Painted My Axis Force For Konflikt 47

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!

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 […]

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 […]

Screw Wars

(I mean that literally but in two different ways.) I’ve long been inspired by Tony Adam’s woodscrew wargaming army: https://thewoodscrewminiaturearmy.blogspot.com/?m=1 Unfortunately Tony passed away two years ago. But the spirit of woodscrew wargaming lives on. The Man of Tin blog frequently references Tony’s army, and only the other day I spied some woodscrews being used […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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? […]

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, […]

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 […]

A bit of a Hobby Update

With quite a few things on the go I haven’t made much progress in any single direction, so instead of showing off one project, here’s a few… First up are a couple of 15mm Trolls from Irregular Miniatures I’m using as 28mm Orcs. They’ve been on my desk for some time, and after falling back […]

A Tanky Week

This week I finished a few tanks I’ve had taking up an unnecessarily large amount of space on my fold up hobby desk. The first two were a Turan 2 and Csaba (technically not a tank) from Mad Bob Miniatures for my burgeoning Hungarian Army for Bolt Action. The kits were extremely easy to build […]

The Best MDF Terrain?

MDF terrain is everywhere, and there are huge numbers of kits available all at various price points and complexities. But I’m a simple man, who enjoys simple things, and since my gaming spans multiple scales and genres, I’m always itching for something generic. Sure I could collect an authentic 40k battlefield but it would do […]