Thanks to my amazing mum I received the Raging Heroes Manticore for Christmas. I’ve been away from home for a couple of weeks and every day has passed with me …more
Sculpting Chaos Warrior Tassets (Hip Armour)
In the last post I mentioned that one of the Chosen sculpts already has Chaos Warrior style hip armour which I would need to replicate on the other Warriors, as …more
Pre-Sculpting Shots
I’ve progressed 4 Chaos Warriors to the point where they now need detail sculpting on them. Yes, 4! Nobody ever said this would be a quick project. Although I dislike …more
Marauding We Will Go
Once my Dark Vengeance Chosen kits arrived, fiddling with potential Chaos Warrior conversions definitely distracted me from the Marauders for a while. Recently though I’ve been paying attention to the …more
Chaos Warriors, Part 2
At the end of the last post I mentioned that the walking Chosen legs were posing me the most difficulty. I think that’s because they are very similar to the …more
Chaos Warriors, Part 1
(Note: I used to have links to the mentioned GW kits in this post, but Games Workshop has a very nasty habit of changing their URLs without implementing redirects, leading …more
Marauder Concepts
As established in the intro to this log the Chaos Marauder models are very old and have a number of flaws, in particular: Essentially only two leg poses, neither of …more
Inspiration
I’m beginning this plog with an inspiration post. This will be a “living post” that I’ll update with new links whenever I find something. Armybook Artwork Disparity between the …more
First test bases
The jig appears to work well. I first sprayed the entire bases black, using Army Painter black primer. The Army Painter primer in my experience is tougher than Citadel spray …more
Shambling off the Production Line
The first Necrons in identifiable anthropomorphic form are up and shambling around on my desk. The less said about the amount of time it took me to get all these …more
Robotic Rust
With the Wood Elf Blood Bowl Pitch safely behind me I’ve turned my attention back to 40k projects. Some converted Fire Dragons got a lick of paint (they won’t be …more
Making a Painting Jig for Bases
Fresh from finishing my blood bowl pitch, I was pretty eager today to get back into some 40k modelling. Like most gamers I have tonnes of unfinished projects, the most …more
Completed Pitch (More or Less)
It’s now reached that point in a project where I have really run out of energy and I am just looking at the things I don’t like about the pitch. …more
Pouring the Stream
One of the end zones in Wildwood Meadows is a small forest creek or stream. The stream bed has been prepared for ages and this weekend while visiting Cardiff I …more
Painting Gorfragg’s Gitflinga’s
While most of my attention in the last couple of months has been on finishing Wildwood Meadows, I’ve also been chipping away at the Orc team now and again, mostly …more
Basing the Case
I painted the inside panel of the case in off-white emulsion. I used a bit of crackle glaze to “age” the panel, but not too much as the transfers I …more
A Proper Case
The large magnets are enough to hold the pitch together quite comfortably when closed, but for further reassurance I attached a couple of spiffy looking clips. And, of course, our …more
The End Game
Since yesterday’s post I have very much entered the home stretch on my custom Blood Bowl pitch. I know I’ve said that before in this log but as I write …more
Hyper Detailing
Today I have been hyperdetailing with undergrowth, various scatter materials, more bushes, hoardings, Wood Elf spites (from the new Treeman kit), mushrooms (which are now fly agaric mushrooms, i.e. red …more
Home Printed Transfers
I have a report on home transfer printing to make. The transfers came out fairly sketchy – you can see that where the laser toner didn’t adhere well to the …more
Faux Leather Lining
Though I’ve been away for a few days, yesterday and today have been quite productive. Firstly, I’ve re-flocked the water half of the pitch, planted trees and covered the case …more
Pomp & Ceremony
…in my mind even Wood Elves arent above a bit of it. Here we have the hornblowing, flag waving sideline contingent for the Wanderers. They are made from the new …more
Back to the Gitflinga’s
I’ve turned my attention back to Gorfragg’s Gitflinga’s. Not the players mind you but options for the coaching staff. If there is one race that has received bagloads of characterful …more
Pitch Security
Today John came over and inbetween my various DIY tasks we got a fair bit done. I started a bunch of things including the pitch “security” team and detailing the …more
A Pitch of Two Halves
Putting the two halves of the pitch together really shows how different the flocking technique was for each one. I’m looking forward to bringing up the river half to the …more