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  • Bouargh

    Square Pants Bob

    By Bouargh

    Hi Folks,   Today’s blog entry is a little bit specific as it deals with something different from my usual inputs: instead of reporting hobbying progress, I will talk about a trail I did for a new technique (à la TITH – i.e. something that is not new in general but new for me).     The technique is often reported on purpose of adding details and create battle damages or war-torn marks on miniatures. But beyond painting damages, the sponge might be used on purpose of
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  • GSCUprising

    Jagieŀŀo inspects their prizes

    By GSCUprising

    The Resistance have finally captured the war machines they believe they require to make their stand.   Brutus, the Malcador, reliable, dependable the spine of their battleline. She will not fail them. She will hold the line, her battlecannon roaring, her sponsons blazing as she paves the way for the Resistance's advance. The Iron Duke, his twin Earthshaker cannons blasting holes in the enemy's fortifications. He guards those retreating and the wounded behind his massive blast shield
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  • zulu.tango

    Wrapping Wreckas

    By zulu.tango

    Hit the throttle on the Wreckas last week. I've been painting pretty slowly this year all things considered, decided to change that with this project. Finished up free-hand on a few items, got the squigs painted up, did the bases and oil washes last week resulting in a final project I'm pretty happy with!    I dug out some of the leftover terrain bits I had from the sector imperialis/Chalnath terrain. I put a fine terrain paste around those bits and then put in some sand to act as larg
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  • W.A.Rorie

    XIVth Legion build

    By W.A.Rorie

    So am I back from Indiana. I have to head back to move In-Laws into a Retirement Center, in a few weeks. And of course everything goes sideways at work moment I get back. So hobby time has been non existence. Silver Lining is LGS not get Saturnine until Monday, so I can get everything I need to do first i.e. my XIXth Legion and Exorcists  Call to Arms Vows, that I have not started. And won't have time this weekend.   I did start on building one of My XIVth Legion Commanders, not sure w
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The Shrikeborn

Making Raptors, Part II

Part 2 of the Raptors was basically building 5 mkII Assault marines. The models themselves are great- easy to put together, nice solid kit. Only issue was me stupidly snaping one of the two-handed axes near the lower fist, making it look...off. But it'll work out in the end, I've got a plan to make it look not as dumb. Using the chain and GW's skulls worked really well, the chain was perfectly sized and I think looks pretty natural on the models. Next up for these guys is getting my worbla therm
Lord_Ikka

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The Shrikeborn

Making Raptors, Part I

So, got most of the stuff I had on order, so time to start building! My favorite part of the hobby, aside from playing. I decided to start with the Night Raptors component of my Raptors squad, as I figured that a five man, mostly stock group would be an easy intro. I was wrong.    The Horus Heresy Night Raptors are pretty clearly old FW design- mostly in the fact that the leg/torso/pauldrons are all one piece and the shoulder/arm connections are all different (both in where the connect
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Ordo Maledictum: 164th Detachment "Ash Vultures"

ELUSIVE SALVATION: THE 164TH (PART 2)

The storm owned the city.   Rain fell sideways, thick with ash, turning lumen-globes into sickly halos that barely touched the ground.   MASON split the squad without words. Hand signals. Eye contact. Black-Net stayed quiet except where silence would kill them.   They moved through the slums like a rumor of violence.   Doors opened before hands reached for locks. Shapes folded before mouths could open. No one screamed long enough to matter. Bodies hit ferr
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AM Not-Stygies - A Blog about building a new Army

Moiraxes Part 1 – Boosting Armored Support for AdMech

Hi Folks,   After a long time wondering if I might add a knight to my AdMech as a Freebalde in order to boost my armoured support, I succumbed to the charm of a Styrix knight some times ago.     But the latter, even if it is a nice center piece, tends in some case to be under scoring and with a rather low Return on Investment. I might play it in the wrong way. Or it is a too obvious bullet catcher. Or a single Freeblade is not an optimum set up. Or everything at the sam
Bouargh

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Bouargh´s miniatures´ closet clean-up

Rogue Trader Entourage – Part 6 – The Breachers

Hi folks,   Here comes the final installment of this series with the Navy Breacher unit.   Its paint scheme has been based on the same blue and white I am using on my Astra Militarum Auxilliaries. It is also very close from the genuine scheme proposed by GW. So it looks a lazy option… But it reminds me a lot of the look of the USMC expedition force troops attacking the King of Morocco palace in that scene from the “Lion & the Wind”. So big nostalgy too.   Big ad
Bouargh

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The building uprising of Prawa V

Wójek, the Guardian - take II

So, I thought I'd take another pass at this this evening. Starting a new job tomorrow, so won't likely be on as much. Still, less responsibility, fewer hours, and more pay - who am I to argue with that?   I'll paste the text here and the link to the audio passage. I particularly like this one as I have a weakness for my darling nieces and goddaughter and Wójek is what they call me, meaning 'uncle.' I always melt a little inside when I am called that. It is a very meaningful term of end
GSCUprising

GSCUprising in Comes the Sandstorm

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The building uprising of Prawa V

A little experiment

I'm throwing this out there as a little experiment. I am considering whether I should publish my stories as an e-book on Amazon, but also as an audiobook.   This passage is me reading the previous entry to my blog and I'd really like some honest feedback. Even if you say "Shut it, GSCUprsing!" that'd be more than welcome. All feedback and constructive critique I take in-hand and I will thank you for it.   Please bear in mind, this is a pretty rough cut. My smoke detector is g
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The Shrikeborn

Sarran Narvok

Slash-slash-thrust-sweep-return. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.   The soft, guttural grunts of exertion arose from the pale-skinned Astartes. Stripped to the waist, he wove a discipline kata of strikes with a chainglaive. Deep breaths powered the massive figure's strikes against the training-daemons. Mindless, gibbering Neverborn beasts that were summoned and bound into servitor bodies, the training-daemons were foes not to take lightly, even for full armed warriors.   This Astartes
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Bouargh´s miniatures´ closet clean-up

Rogue Trader Entourage Part 5 - The Warrant Lady

Hi folks,   Here comes the fifth installment of this series with the Rogue Trader proxy herself: Lady Credo as a Warrant Bearer.   Its paint scheme reminds the one from GW, even if it was not on purpose. I wanted initially to make a try with inks added on a red base coat, but it ended with this dirty crimson. The inner robe was supposed to be more blue than grey blue but the washes changed the tone and depth of the color I aimed at. But in the end I left it as it was as the r
Bouargh

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The Shrikeborn

Navir Xikas

Night has fallen on the city of Uld-Town. The capital of the agri-world of Therema-IV, it boasts a modest population of only twenty million citizens, those that are required to oversee the tithes of the massive grain-fields that cover the planet.    The Dreadclaw drops from the sky, landing struts outstretched and engine furiously braking. The droppod slams into the earth as a small mushroom-cloud of dust rises from the impact. At the slum-edge of the city few notice the noise or the f
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AM Not-Stygies - A Blog about building a new Army

Rogue Trader Entourage – Part 4 – Heretek !

Hi folks,   Here comes another installment of this series with the Heretek model, to be used as a proxy for the Lectro-Maester.   Its paint scheme has been largely copied/pasted from my AdMech Priesthood: grey robe made out of Mechanium Grey, Washed with Agrax Earthshade and then dry bruched with Dawnstone and Ulthuan grey. Most of the rest is standardized detailing (red cables, dry brushed Leadbelcher…). The C.A.T. unit and the skulls are also painted in the simplest w
The building uprising of Prawa V

The enemy of my enemy is my friend

This passage harks back to the assault on Complex 73. I lost the original text (thank you old hard drive). The Narrator and Kaśnyk find themselves unlikely partners as they both hunt for Barcza, the spec ops commander who commands the Night Rovfugl. Barcza was the brutal soldier who the Narrator's wife, Ida, who sought solace in the arms of another man while he toiled away in the mines. Her murder was at his hands. More below. To Kaśnyk, he is far more methodical. He is an asset that has jumped
The Shrikeborn

Flaymaster Amathys

Click....click....click....   The metallic noise was repetitive and quiet, a sound barely heard but irritatingly present at the same time. It echoed softly from the upper hanger of the Umbral Vos, from the Aerie of the Lost.    Chains hung from the ceiling of the former hanger, strung about with skin-trophies and tally-skulls from noted kills. The pervasive smells of blood and fear-sweat were muted and overpowered by a harsh tang, a burnt ozone that lingered on the mind as mu
Lord_Ikka

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Dawn of War: Building the Blood Ravens 2025-2026

Dawn of War: No Plan Survives Contact With the Enemy

My plan didn’t survive 3 days.    I laid out my idea and had someone point out a very obvious point to me:   "You are playing Blood Ravens, who are known for their many Librarians. And there aren’t any in your army."   I can't have a fluffy theme army that ignores the thing the Chapter is known for (besides Steel Rain and poor decisions).   So, I scrapped a squad of Intercessors I don't own yet and got rid of the Lieutenant with Combi-weapon that I can't fi
Bouargh´s miniatures´ closet clean-up

Data is Knowledge, Knowledge is Power

Hi folks,   As part of my add-ons units from Imperial Agents, I have been planning for a while dealing with an Inquisitorial Retinue. A pure Fluff reason is lying underneath as I do not really see any tactical benefit atm; yet from a narrative approach it is a nice touch: a AdMech Exploratory Fleet that as not so tight bounds with its ForgeWorld and may be suspiciously looked at because of some possibly heretek behaviours and personalities in its ranks. May it be enough for a close mon
Dawn of War: Building the Blood Ravens 2025-2026

Dawn of War: The 13 Month Plan

Alright, I've built a list that no one seems to hate, but will probably be invalidated when 11th Edition rolls around.   I have 2 insane conversion ideas that I'm gathering bits for:   1. The Ancient will be in Grey Knight power armour, carrying a Standard that's not the Blood Ravens and loaded down with "gifts" from other chapters.   2. Vulkan He'stan will be in Adeptus Custodes armour with some other ideas I'm still working on.   Here's my current list (
How to pretend not starting an army

Not GSC - Rogue Trader Entourage Part 3

Hi folks,   As my paint job is progressing on my RT Entourage, I can already share some progress for 2 figures serving the warrant bearer: The Death Cult Assassin proxy and the Rejuvenat Adept proxy.   For the former, its paint scheme has been largely influenced by the standard paint schem proposed by GW for the Biophagus. It stays very close of the genuine model, save the loss of its GSC familiar and a head swap. For the later, the colors were selected to match with the
Bouargh

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Doctrinae Fidei

Where The end begin

Atonement is your duty. Retribution is your path. He hurried. Fumbling in his robe and pushing aside slack servants, the Confessor hastened along the endless gallery. Sunlight streamed through stained-glass windows depicting saints and martyrs, heroes and Primarchs, painting the corridor with every color of the rainbow. Ferdinand never ceased to marvel at the skill of the masters. They created these windows two thousand years ago. It seemed like Saint Zafar was about to step from paint
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The building uprising of Prawa V

The Warbird

"She's a warbird, and an old one at that, but don't let that fool you, min ven. She is a predator, a night eagle, a Night Rovfugl, and once she has you in her claws, you will never see the morning."   Stenrik looked over to me. I could see in his face that quiet strength I had come to admire in him. But there was something else. Fear, perhaps? I did not ask, I merely kept listening.   "She is like a wild bjergløve. By the time you see her, she has already been watching you f
AM Not-Stygies - A Blog about building a new Army

Mechanicum reinforcements

Hi folks, As a small project framed into my 12 MoH pledge for December, here comes 2 extra models for my Adeptus Mechanicus army: a Axiarch and an Archeotechnologist. These 2 lads will bring my head counts for Marshalls and Archeotechnologists to 3 for each category, reaching the full max number for the rooster. Low to no incentive to had any extra model from the HH series when the Skitarii Battle Pilgrim Marshall will be released… The Archeotechnologist is the model that was coming wi
Dawn of War: Building the Blood Ravens 2025-2026

Dawn of War: Core Concepts

So, here's my plan.   I want to build a themey and fun Blood Ravens army that will be fun to play, but still hold its own in games.   There is one thing I want in a 2,000 point list: A Knight Paladin in the Blood Ravens colors.   Right now, I have the following models available:   3 × Eradicator (no multi melta) 3 × Bladeguard Veteran  1 × Bladeguard Veteran Ancient  1 × Chaplain  1 × Judicar 1 × Infernus Marine   various
The Shrikeborn

Headsman Kordesh

The steps approach, steady and unhurried. Members of the Chosen squad flit from shadow to shadow, their weapons drawn and bloodied, their heads twisting to pierce the gloom surrounding them.   A fallen chapel; marble and gold thrown down in a flurry of battle and devastation. The grandiose space once lit by massive promethium-fueled chandeliers now had only flickering flames dancing from burning tapestries and broken pews. The Night Lords moved to surround the altar and the sobbing man
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