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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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  • 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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  • 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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In Service of the Imperium- W.A.Rorie's Blog

Stress of life, holidays, and end of year shenanigans...Bring on the 2026 MoH

Ugh the Holidays.....Stress of money, Kids on Christmas break, Family visits, Work, Holidays Party, Cleaning the house, repairs, etc. The past few weeks Life has taken over and the hobby time has been non existent even when it comes to other hobbies not involving gaming as well. Every time I tried to take time to myself, I was unable too or it was delayed, to a point where I could not do it because of other things. Then having to go to work 2 hours earlier and staying later, then while at home s
W.A.Rorie

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AM Not-Stygies - A Blog about building a new Army

Moiraxes Part 5 – Finalized models

Hi Folks,   Xmas period is now over and I have managed time between sweet potatoes and turkey in order to complete the assembly of the Moiraxes.   Torso glueing and arms fitting has been a 10 sec job or almost.   The main output expected was answering the key question: “Will my scheme balance the big grey block effect?”. I guess the answer is a “Yes”. Or at least, I am satisfied enough by the results. The bonish quadrant does the job (but I had little doubt about th
Bouargh

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The Shrikeborn

Making Chosen, plus bits for the Headsman

The Chosen are a simple group to put together, just a Nemesis Claw box with a couple of changes to loadouts from the suggested version. I'm going to be running them as two identical Chosen squads with the following loadout- champion w/plasma pistol, powerfist, and icon, chosen w/twin accursed weapon and plasma pistol, 2x Chosen with combi-weapon, accursed weapon, and bolt pistol, Chosen w/bolter, accursed weapon, and bolt pistol. Since I love the chainglaives that all good Night Lords carry, thi
Lord_Ikka

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The Shrikeborn

Mortals- The Howlbrood and the Still Order

For along the stars they travel, in ships of night and blood Screaming rage and silent death Mortal in flesh, in purpose bound to the more-than-mortal Clad in dusk, armed in fear They are the Howlbrood and the Still Order Twin brotherhoods of the damned Know their mark and beware For if they are near, so are their Masters - Poem found at Unil VI, Bondri Subsector Raidings      Howlbrood “Terror is the only truth.”   The
Lord_Ikka

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The Shrikeborn

Butterfly moment - Cultists and Guardsmen idea, Xmas stuffs

So a couple of days ago I had a hobby butterfly moment and decided to go with it. I was looking over the Necromunda book Tribes of the Wastelands and saw the Sha'dar Hunters models from the Ash Wastes Nomads. I have always liked the Nomads, but didn't really think that I would be playing an Ash Wastes Necro game anytime soon so had no large desire to get them. Something about the Sha'dar Hunters clicked for me though and I went down a little bit of a rabbit hole- looking up the rules for the CSM
Lord_Ikka

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AM Not-Stygies - A Blog about building a new Army

Moiraxes Part 4 – Finalizing preassembly and working on Pauldrons

Hi Folks,   So, the challenging step is now how to break the monochrome aspect of the Moiraxes.…   Weapons can bring some interesting changes to a model thanks to colored cables, coils and somehow armor panels. The GW color scheme for the Moiraxes shown on the sites, all bone with red panels on the Laslocker, are a good example. I have decided to do the same for the latter, while the Gyges Claw bearers will get pauldrons with a touch or red. As my stripes attempt was a fail o
Bouargh

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AM Not-Stygies - A Blog about building a new Army

Moiraxes Part 3 – Is there a pilot in the Moirax?

Hi Folks,   After painting, assembly and basing of the legs, paint job has continued with the cockpits. It has required some thinking steps before putting the first touch of color. Well not really as black undercoat and metal dry brush did not need that kind of auto reflexive step…   Once metal has been done, the decision making was done by elimination: 1.      Getting the back of the hull as per the one I have done for the Styrix: bronze back. 2.      Keep the Esh
Bouargh

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The Lost & The Damned

Showcase all initial units

It feels like I’m starting to get the hang of the blog format, so I’ll finish by showing you all the miniatures that have been completed at this stage.   I’ll start with “The Red Oath”, a squad of renegade guardsmen that I play as Kasrkin. There are a few conversions to match the official loadout (notably this improvised bomb made from several grenades glued together to represent a Melta Mine), but otherwise the models are based on the official Renegade Guard kit. Their personalities r
ChaosLord99

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AM Not-Stygies - A Blog about building a new Army

Moiraxes Part 2 – These (mech) legs are made for walking

Hi Folks,   Following pre-building of the legs and carapace, instead of keeping going on with weapons, I have shifted to paint jobs. Starting with the legs.   The idea was getting some progress while not being fully decided about how the carapace and cockpit will be done. My Korvax inspired scheme is rather easy to apply plain Eshin grey with recesses in Administratum grey and highlight with Mechanium Standard grey. But is there some room on the armor panels for some secondar
Bouargh

Bouargh in Freeblade

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The Shrikeborn

The Dirgebound

Stab-lights strobed in the dark. A score of men moved quietly, lasguns held ready and sweeping the darkened street, flicking their gunlights on and off in a trained manner, giving an enemy no steady light to target. Imperial Guard, Mordians even, veterans of that world's ever-night. They were comfortable in the gloom but wary. Their parade-ground uniforms blended into the night as they advanced towards the local power depot. The enemy had come to Javan and the Mordian 990th Iron Guard would not
Lord_Ikka

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The Shrikeborn

Making Warp Talons

Ah, the Warp Talons. They don't quite fit the non-daemonic aspect that I'm going for with the Shrikeborn, but some judicious use of shame/warning/pragmaticism make it alright (i.e.- I really wanted lightning claw jumpy boys for the Night Lords and am ok with them being slightly daemonic if need be).    Anyway. These guys I had a plan from the very beginning. I like the MkVI Assault Marine sculpts as they convey movement without having all the weird one-legged jumpy poses that assault s
Lord_Ikka

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The Lost & The Damned

Army Presentation & Goals

I am probably no longer in the ideal time to be writing blogs, but this format fascinates me. I would most likely be writing this blog just for myself, but I really enjoy the exercise after reading several blogs on this forum. I have always been fascinated by the narrative aspect of the game, and especially by conversions, which are my favorite part.   So I am starting a project log for my The Lost & The Damned army, which I began two months ago. The goal will be to present the con
ChaosLord99

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Bouargh´s miniatures´ closet clean-up

12 MoH – A 2026 Planning Perspective

Hi Folks,   As 2025 comes to its end and after a year spent painting at a slower rhythm my 40k models while alternating with WFB/TOW models, it is time to set list of what remain to be done before getting my backlog dry.   The previous years have been quite productive, meaning that many stuff to be painted has been done already and that what remain is less than what used to be done. In fact I may even short list now:   -          1 Night Lord Nemesis Claw -    
Bouargh

Bouargh in Beating the back-log

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The Shrikeborn

Building Carrow and Kordesh

Started on the characters of the Shrikeborn, the Stained Lord himself and his Headsman. Fairly easy to make them.   Carrow is basically just the HH Traitor Overseer Consul with a jumppack, new head, chainglaive for his right arm, lightning claw for the left arm, and some chain wrapped around his left leg. Actually, writing that out makes it seem much more complicated than he is. All of the parts worked without too many issues and he fit together nicely. Only thing you won't see in the
Lord_Ikka

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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
Lord_Ikka

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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

Bouargh in Freeblade

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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

Bouargh in Beating the back-log

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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
GSCUprising

GSCUprising in Comes the Sandstorm

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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
Lord_Ikka

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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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