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 […]

Painting Space Marines Very Quickly

I had some kind of sick desire to paint Space Marines this weekend (please forgive me), especially as they were Loyalist ones too… Anyway, I didn’t have any, but thankfully I do have the kind of friend that offered to give me a bunch. I came away with two captains, five assault intercessors and a […]

Speed Painting Adeptus Mechanicus

I suppose for some folks out there ‘cheap’ might not necessarily be about money, but has more to do with time spent. On the odd occasion that I build and paint something from Games Workshop, I normally go for the ‘cheap’ speedy option. My Thousand Sons tutorial is one of the most popular pages on […]

Chaos Cultists

Chaos Cultists are a problem, and they have been for a very long time. This is a bizarre problem for the biggest wargaming company GW to have. Cultists are a basic infantry option for arguably the second most important faction in Warhammer 40,000. That’s like Warlord Games announcing Bolt Action and then saying they’re not […]

Reflecting on 40k after a couple of games of 10th

I don’t really know what the point in Warhammer 40k’s 10th Edition is. I suppose by now we’re all well aware that a new edition of 40k isn’t there to really fix any issues with previous editions, but to make lots of money. I think the explosive success of 8th Edition taught GW that a […]

Pounds Per Point – Racing to 20k

I’m not only attempting to paint all of my Chaos Space Marines I’m also plotting to build more. Obviously with GW’s price rises I’m being money conscious, the whole point in this blog is that wargaming is affordable for everyone after all! So based on One Page Rules points system I’ve taken the cheapest option […]

Warhammer 40k 10th Edition and My World Eaters

I suppose this is necessary despite this being a blog about cheaper wargaming. I was spurred on by a comment by Brother Brutus on my blog post regarding Grimdark future: Sorry for the late post – just finding this article. Yes, OPR and GrimDark Future are the WH40K that I’ve been missing. Our group loves […]

Discount Titans

My friend and I are working our way towards a very big game of Grimdark Future, hopefully 20,000 points, which should pit his entire Blood Angels army against my entire World Eater army (plus some allies). This year so far I’ve already managed to add 1000 points to my force with a box of Horus […]

Grimdark Future

I haven’t been posting as much as I would like lately, although that’s not for a bad reason, it’s for a very good one (albeit a gaming one). A major distraction from my usual repertoire of Deathzap, Bolt Action and whatever other strangeness I can play with has been Grimdark Future from One Page Rules. […]

Speed Painting Thousand Sons

A couple of friends and I are building up armies for One Page Rules, starting slow and building up 500 points a month. I’ve always wanted to do Thousand Sons, but the painting has always put me off. However I think I’ve found a scheme I can really work with.

Easy Terrain: Craters

Good for Bolt Action, 40k, especially good for Lunar if you skip a step, and of course good for Deathzap! Start out with a foil pie plate: Then mash it into your basic shape: I then coated the entire thing in texture paint. Mine is home made and hard wearing. It’s a mix of filler, […]

The Mid-January Productivity Update

So as promised, I think bi-monthly I’ll be letting you know what I’ve painted, and what I’ve bought. As of January 15th I’ve painted… For 40k – 30 Kabalite Warriors, 5 Scourges and an Archon for my 3rd edition Dark Eldar army. I was particularly happy with the Archon. For Void – the contents of […]

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 […]

#NewYearNewArmy

Games Workshop have been pushing #newyearnewarmy on Instagram, and I’ve been complying with my latest effort in 40k. Of course though, because it’s me and because I hate building kits where I have to follow instructions my effort this year is going to be a Slann army. Slann are the lizardmen or Seraphon (if you […]

Baba Nurgle

I wanted a new Daemon Prince for my Death Guard army after seeing how effective they can be in my last game of 40k (long time ago now). Despite having a drawer full of official Daemon Prince models I set out to essential scratch build one with my bits box and a small baby doll. […]

Froggy The Chaos Predator

I began as just a man, a man with a dream, a dream to combine a plastic frog skeleton from the Halloween section of a Super Market with an old and dusty Chaos Rhino to make a Chaos Predator. I went through several iterations of combining the frog with the tank and landed on what […]

Death Guard Update

So I’ve been yearning to post on an unwieldy number of projects lately, I’m suffering from a little creativity overload which happens from time to time (at least for me it does). It’s when you keep starting and getting excited about so many new projects you never make too much progress in any single area. […]

Bits Box Pox Walkers and a Bit on Having Shaky Hands

I guess this counts as another post on the importance of never throwing anything away. I’ve recently been playing Warhammer 40,000 which to be honest is a bit of a childhood dream come true. I’ve got pretty shaky hands, which doesn’t just affect my ability to paint figures sometimes it also makes it almost impossible […]

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 […]

Warhammer 40,000 Third Edition Battle Report: Eldar vs Imperial Guard

A dead game or older edition of a tabletop game never truly dies, so long as you have the figures and the rules you can relive and replay whatever you want! Hence today’s post – Imperial Guard (definitely not Astra Militarum) vs Eldar (definitely not Aeldari). Using the 3rd edition rule book which has mini […]

How many projects is too many?

How long is a piece of string? How much more space is there on my hobby table? How many more draws do I have to store all my crap? To answer all those questions and possibly answer the question to why am I here, what is my purpose in life? Here are five gas mask […]

Another Lesson in Never Throwing Anything Away – Tyranids

A Previous Post on this topic. I’ve been enjoying painting my Daemons army up for 9th edition 40k. However it has been mentally taxing as I stare down the next unit and consider how much time it will take to get them painted. So I needed a little break, I needed to get instant results! […]

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 […]