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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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My 40kreativity blog ( mostly art )

Drukhari Graea and a half done Fuegan

To continue on the triumvirate concepts, naturally I felt the need to compliment Ynnari with a set of Drukhari and Asuryani triumvirates   Ideas often start as these rather ugly doodles ( wich I usually keep to myself, and more often than not are in small notepads and never even scanned in.) One thing I felt ynnari did is have the potential to take the exotic element out of the Dark eldar and double down on the body horror and creepier elements. (of wich I have made plenty more sketche
Evil Eye's Butterfly Brain Induced Hobby Nonsense

It's not doodling, it's art!

One of my other hobbies aside from not finishing models is drawing. I do it quite a lot, enough that the majority of my Instagram entries are weird concept sketches for Tyranids.   Anyway, I thought I'd share a few of them on the B&C. There's a lot more than this, but I need to scan and upload it all.   Some weird Tyranid creatures- a "Scorchgaunt" carrying a flamespurt, a bio-plasma spore mine, a Carnifex intended as a ranged version of the Screamer-Killer and a mo
The Strifes of the Matteus Subsector

Salamanders in the Defence of Dakota Minor (884M41)

In 884M41, the Lord-Governor of the civilised world Dakota Minor, petitioned the aid of several Space Marine chapters to crush the ever increasing Ork presence on his planet. Two chapters responded: the Salamanders and the Black Templars. At the eleventh-hour the Black Templars withdrew their support with regrets, and so the Salamanders alone came to the Lord Governor’s aid. The Salamanders force was led by Captain Ikarus R’Keth, commander of the currently under-strength 2nd Company, and was sup
Straight Outta the Warp - A Brazen Claws Blog

Why Brazen Claws?

When I left the hobby 10+ years ago, a large number of friends and peers here on the B&C were just beginning to explore DIY chapters vs painting traditional space marine chapters. So when I returned to the forum I immediately spent time scanning the Forge to see what people were working on and if anything immediately inspired me. I ended up test painting an old 4th edition mini as a Crimson Fist when I stumbled upon an old post by @SCCwho had a number of Brazen Claws he had painted. I had re
deathless31491

deathless31491 in Painting

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Brother Casman's Meanderings

The Havenesse Spiral Campaign - A Fresh Infusion

A Fresh Infusion   The Strike Cruiser Retribution emerged from the Immaterium, warp-lightning flickering over the Geller field as it dissipated. Her colours were somewhat scarred, but the deep crimson was mostly clear, and the Chapter emblem of the Blood Ravens stood proud on the flanks of the vessel. Bow thrusters reoriented the Retribution star-ward, and the main drives pulsed to life, pushing away from the Mandeville Point, towards the mysterious rendezvous in-system. Chief Apotheca
My 40kreativity blog ( mostly art )

Tau infinity and beyond!

If I start this with a huge introduction and many words.. I will probably never start so I will dive right in. Doing my (few) Tau pieces first gives oppurtunity for some sort of introduction though, my very first Tau are some random alternate head doodles done when I was working with Kromlech.. the idea was to make more rough and "cinematic heroic" Tau heads for Pathfinders and Fire warriors. I dont think they were ever released on their store tough.   It would be years befor
Brother Casman's Meanderings

The Havenesse Spiral Campaign - Sub-sector Description

Alongside my Great Repaintening, I wanted to exercise other creative outlets - thus, the Havenesse Spiral sub-sector. I envisioned it as a personal slice of the galaxy where I could lay out campaigns, stories, and so on. The Crusade/Narrative way to play should have been right up my alley, and really helped build out the sub-sector, but it never quite gelled for me. Perhaps the new edition will provide a spark?   -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Brother Casman's Meanderings

The Great Repaintening - Demi-company completed

So, towards the end of 2019, I did get the demi-company out for a little photoshoot, and I started work on the other demi-company, but then the pandemic hit hard. A lot of things were derailed for me, and GW has only continued to push out more Space Marines. I don't fully know what's next for the Great Repaintening, but it has been an exceedingly long 2020...   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   So, the second
Brother Casman's Meanderings

The Great Repaintening - between the ETLs

Of course, the ETLs weren't the only time I got things painted - after 2018, I did manage to keep some momentum going.   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, I meant to get these pics of my Librarian up sooner, but better late than never! I've also finished this Tactical Squad earlier today:   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Brother Casman's Meanderings

The Great Repaintening - the ETLs

In the before times, Captain Semper ran a yearly painting challenge "E Tenebrae Lux" where all Frater were encouraged to paint units for bragging rights between the various sub-forums. I participated in a couple with my Blood Ravens.    Here are the "after" shots of the completed units   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (2018) Here's the whole army, as it stands: Here's the Captain, Lieutenan
Brother Casman's Meanderings

The Great Repaintening - the original backlog

Ahhh, the backlog, the pile of shame, the collection of potential... This is what I wanted to add to my army, all nicely sorted and laid out. And then GW launched a whole new Space Marine line.  The pile grows... the backlog hungers...   I don't know that I'll add all of these to my Marines now, some might get left aside for other projects, but we'll see.   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Of course, the a
Brother Casman's Meanderings

The Great Repaintening - the original starting point

A number of years ago (in 2018) I decided to listen to the whispers of madness - I had noticeably better painting skills, and felt I could repaint my Space Marines. I haven't really worked on my Blood Ravens since about the start of the pandemic, as I could not get a handle on 9th edition, but with the call of a new edition, I'm starting to get the itch to revisit my marines.  Below is the inaugural post in my original thread.   ---------------------------------------------------------
Xenith's Hobby Hangout

Alpha Legion Status Update

Quick update after I based essentially a 3000pt army last week to take to WHFest:     The full list of completed units is longer than that, but I'm happy to say that I've managed to make, paint and base over 4000pts of Alpha legion since the release of HH2.0 last June, which is, I think, insane. My younger self would never have thought this possible. This is also with minimal unit upgrades, so cataphractii are costed at 175pts for 5, etc. If I add in wargear this could easil
Xenith

Xenith in Alpha Legion

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GreenScorpion Workbench

Zero bits challenge progress 2

As mentioned in some previous blog posts, I have been making slow progress on a self imposed challenge to get all of my bits spent through conversions, scratch built and other methods that can add additional miniatures to my army while spending all the spare stuff that I already have lying around. For a matter of simplicity, whenever I mention Converted in my graphs or tracking I am referring to conversions and scratch built miniatures or at least miniatures that were built beyond box numbers.
GreenScorpion

GreenScorpion in DYI

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Liber Bellum

Why YOU should consider having a blog at the B&C…

The core of the Bolter & Chainsword is the discussion forums. After all, the B&C started as a discussion forum in the late 1990’s, back during the heady days of online discussion forums and the 3rd edition of the Warhammer 40,000 game. Over time, we have expanded the site’s capabilities to better support the needs of our members. Something we often lose sight of is the fact that Warhammer 40,000 is a hobby with various aspects. The most obvious of these are the painting of miniatures and
Liber Bellum

Hobby Creativity and The Bolter & Chainsword

One of the best aspects of the Warhammer 40,000 hobby is the ability for hobbyists to make the game their own. While Games Workshop and its subsidiaries produce diverse products that appeal to a wide range of tastes, the setting itself allows for even more diversity. For example, the galaxy-spanning Imperium of Man has numerous sub-factions that range from the "little people" represented by hive gangs (Necromunda) and planetary defense forces (the Astra Militarum in the Warhammer 40,000 game) to
Brother Tyler

Brother Tyler in Editorials

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Waffling on - a Hobby blog about everything

Could EPIC really return? Memories of tiny minis and hoping for more.

Could we really see the return of EPIC in the near future? That is the question we are asking in today's blog entry.   With Titanicus almost done (see below), Aeronautica definitely done in terms of new releases, and The Old World already planned as separate project, is there room in the specialist game area for Epic? I believe there is, and I honestly think its going to be hinted at very soon, maybe at Warhammer Fest which at the time of writing this blog entry, is only Two days away.
Cyrox

Cyrox in General

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Plz motivate me blog

The 369th Grand Battalion working lore

While work on painting continues a pace I've cast my mind to write some fluff for my grand battalion   *Ahem*   The 369th Grand Battalion is an amalgamation of the 36th Infantry battalion and the 9th Armoured following the heavy losses they sustained following Istvaan.     The 36th operated under the command of Warsmith Justinian a terran veteran who upon the fields of Istvaan hesitated to give the command to fire on the loyalists. The Warsmith Justinian would
Mr Farson

Mr Farson in Lore

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Brother Nathans...everythings...

Deathleaper/lictor Conversion Fin

so i finally finished my lictor conversion from a gsc patriarch and left over trygon talons. pretty straight forward one but effective and considering weve still no plastic lictors this is a nice alternative and a nice difference to my other lictors and the feeder tendrils are straightforward and rather addictive to add.. now i really need to finish my diama and then do a similar post on that... 
Xenith's Hobby Hangout

Battle Report: HH Alpha Legion vs Custodes

In the run up to WHFest I managed to get another game in, this time against Adeptus Custodes. They're a really tough fight in 40k, and I had no idea what they would be like in HH.    War of Lies, triangles deployment pointing at one another. This game I ditched the preds, despite how much I love them, to run a Leviathan in a HH Leviathal. I also swapped the Deredeo and something else for a Delgatus with nemesis and 3 sky hunters with MM's and a fist.    Custodian Army Cu
Xenith

Xenith in Battle Report

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40K Feast & Famine

40k Team Tournament Recap

Ok, finally closing out the Adepticon 2023 catch-up   Game 1. Win v. Wolves I thought they had us in the early turns. It was clear they cross a lot of table quickly. Should we leave the sentinels forward and give the enemy the extra move, or just pull them out? I think it'd be helpful to pause on decisions and go through outcomes in practice games. here my thinking was that I wanted early pressure on the objectives. I also wanted to divert them to get some shooting in where
Captain Caine 24th

Captain Caine 24th in 2023

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Plz motivate me blog

My absolute refusals to build anything else rhino related

G'day   In my continued quest to build literally anything that's not rhino based I've finished off assembling my final 10 man tac squad with bayonets.   Along with this I've built my first of three land speeders and oh boy howdy do I hate the pilots arms.     I want to say that I'm more than halfway to get my current list variation built but I'm conscious of the fact I still need to build 3 vindicators and 4 rhinos  (Boooo hiss!)   Anyway ta ga
Mr Farson

Mr Farson in Iron warriors

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