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54th Psian Jackals Part 2

Well that was a good hobby weekend.....well 4 day weekend. My Fiancé had PRK (Photorefractive keratectomy is a laser eye surgery similar to LASIK), since she already had LASIK, done a few years ago so she was down most the weekend so I got to do hobby time while watching the kids, with exception of Monday due to wedding planning meetings and Friday was her surgery so once we were home it was hobby time. Friday while waiting for her procedure to finish I purchased some items to make

W.A.Rorie in Hobby Time

September 3, 2024

54th Psian Jackals, Tempestus Scions

So as build more Scions, the more I realize that I originally planned them as Inquisitorial Stormtroopers, I have been moving more and more away from that idea. With only 5 models painted, it would be the perfect time to repaint them. I love the helmets I am using and the skull war paint on the face plates So the 54th Psian Jackals make the most sense Good old Duncan had a super easy paint technique for the Psian Jacka

W.A.Rorie in Militarum Tempestus

August 29, 2024

"Fighting soldiers from the sky! Fearless men and women, who jump and die!"

Was planning on painting Purifiers or my Paladins, but found myself working on my Militarum Tempestus, 909th Battalion Charlie Company "Hell Rain". I have been putting this off as my Tempestor was illegal and I would have to change out his Powerfist for a knife . I built another squad of 5 guys, and have 10 more to build and ordered another 10 more guys. So as it stands I have planned a 5 man squad (plasma/ volley) attaching to Command (pl

W.A.Rorie in Militarum Tempestus

August 28, 2024

"I am His sword as He is my armour." Part 4

Well Nemesis Dreadknght Galahad is done and had his first battle. And like all painted models seeing the table for the first time died. Killed some models, took 10 wounds in bottom of turn 1 and killed a couple models in the melee then was shot to death Turn 2.

August 26, 2024

The Strifes of the Matteus Subsector

Call to Arms 2024 - 2nd vow progress report

Hi Folks, A very rapid update of my progress on my second vow. The Attaché and the plasma containers were completed earlier this month; the same with de Sydonian dragoons. All of these were all done in a quite a decent amount of time. But I am struggling a little bit more with the Serberys units. Yet, after a rainy WE, I've got some time to progress. Mounts are now all done for the Raider and the Sulphurhound units. The cyberhorses were done exactly qs th

Bouargh in Call to Arms 2024

August 26, 2024

Deathwatch Expedition VI - Dakota Minor, 924M41

+++ PREFACE +++ After a frustrating and costly tour of the Cellebos Warbone, Kill Team Rapier (at the time comprised Alyxander, Rarai’an, Auranis and Validus) had a chance meeting with Inquisitor Jemini Malethann. He was concerned with the myriad xenos incursions within the Matteus Subsector, and was headhunting experienced Deathwatch Astartes to investigate these threats. Kill Team Rapier welcomed the opportunity to adapt their xeno-hunting skills in an arena free of the pol

Mike Zulu in Expeditions of Kill Team Rapier

August 26, 2024

"I am His sword as He is my armour." Part 3

Welcome to Part 3 of my Nemesis Dreadknight paint log. I have 3 more to paint (1 Grand Master Nemesis Dreadknight and 2 Nemesis Dreadknights) and I will apply lessons learned to those ones. Most importantly finish build the bases before starting painting. I need to pick up more 3d printed basing bits as it did speed up my basing process vs me making them. I really like the Army Painter Fanatic Effects Plasma Coil and Data Slate Glows. I may have to repaint all my Nemesis force weapons glow eff

August 23, 2024

A personal insight on Slap Chop applied to scenery

Hi folks, I tried in the past to use the Slap Chop technique on Aeldari guardians. It has not been that convincing. Lack of practice? Misunderstanding of the basics of the techniques? Lack of talent? (I personaly vote for the 3 of these). I am anyway a little bit stubborn, so I decided to go back traying to apply it. This time on big models: the KT Plasma Generatorium. Looked like being a fun idea at principle. This is what I´ve learned. 1. You need a pr

Bouargh in 12 Months of Hobby

August 20, 2024

40K Feast & Famine

Rogal Dorn #2

Dorn #2 of 3. Getting a little bit done. Here's the squad. I've not quite worked out the regiment organization. I'm using 13 for division(?) markings. Vehicle numbers are consecutive, so this is 1st platoon, tank 2 & 3. (stowage - value gear details on Ebay, some left-overs from 1/35 models; Tarp - VMS modelling paper & solution, Ammo belt - Armorcast white metal, Meltas - tiny panzer on Etsy, tank commanders - forgeworld, and a very old pewter commander pre-dating krieg (finally used hi

Captain Caine 24th in Painting

August 19, 2024

"I am His sword as He is my armour." Part 2

In my last blog I posted my WIP of my Dreadknight and well this is the continuation of that post: Thursday night finished the basing. Saturday Morning hand primed the base black basing material: Tile grout ballast different sizes Corkboard Astrogranite Debris plasticard tubes guitar string Citadel Skulls Pegasus Hobbies Ceramic bricks MungosMarvelousmini broken concrete, ske

August 19, 2024

Old Misadventures in Sci-Fi

What if HH Mechanicum units stepped into Indomitus era? - Part 3

Hi Folks, As a continuation of my previously home cooked Datasheet for HHE era units that I would see in the Era Indomitus setting, here comes 2 additional contributions. The Abeyant The Krios in a previous instalment of this blog, I short listed these 2 as potential candidate for basically 2 reasons: existenc of illuestrations that may suppoirt the inclusion of the Abeyant and statement in the HH rules that the Krios bariants were seen as part of the Skitari

Bouargh in House rules

August 19, 2024

Oni's work at work blog

Mechanicum stagger forth!

Sorry for the absence, I was a little busy today so I built a chunk of the mech battle group box The pain train is bigger than expected

The_Oni_of_Hindsight in Heresy

August 19, 2024

A Dataslate for a homebrew game and some idle musings on making stuff

I've been toying with making a homebrewed co-op game for use with 40K/Necromunda rules for the past couple of years. The idea originally popped into my head because I was a bit disillusioned with both the (then) current state of Warhammer 40.000, as well as not really "feeling it" when it came to playing army-scale games. Partly due to not having the time and energy for actually painting an army and keeping up on the rules, but also because I simply didn't enjoy the experience the last couple of

Antarius in Hobby tips and creative advice

August 17, 2024

Old Misadventures in Sci-Fi

Daemons of Tzeentch

I recently painted up a small fraction of my (many, many) Daemons, as a vow for the Call to Arms. I basically just threw together whatever Tzeentch stuff I thought would be fun and pledged them. It had the added benefit that I was able to use them for a game of Old World (as I could just make all the stuff I had pledged into a - pretty ineffective - army), so that was a big help in keeping motivated. I lost the game, of course, but now I have a bunch of my Daemons painted!

Antarius in Realm of Chaos

August 17, 2024

Old Misadventures in Sci-Fi

Some painted Orks and Gretchin for GorkaMorka

So, I recently painted up some Boyz and some Grotz, plus a big Trukk and some scatter terrain. I'm not sure I'll ever actually get to use them, but we've kicked the idea of playing GorkaMorka around from time to time, so now I have them ready if we ever end up needing them. Alternatively, they might find some use as adversaries in a co-op game some day.

Antarius in GorkaMorka

August 17, 2024

"I am His sword as He is my armour."

Trying to get back in the swing of painting has been tough. I have been dealing with the stress of being a new (step) dad, wedding planning, normal life, and work. While it is not depression or it may be a slight depression, it kept me from getting motivated in the hobby. It also could be the pile of Grey plastic sprues, base coated models and boxes of unbuilt models. So with Imperial Agents coming out I knew I would be going to the LGS to pick up my preorder, I figure why not get a game or t

August 15, 2024

The Observation Post

Article So, how did you get into the hobby?

Being a Catholic who joined The Church as an adult I am often asked how it is that I came to find God, and my answer generally holds great interest in the many 'cradle Catholics' who ask. My wife has on more than one occasion suggested that it was my finding of faith that inspired my love for the Sisters of Battle - the faction I've been collecting for the last year - upon seeing their exuberant Cathedral-Cannons on wheels (as she calls The Immolator Battle Tanks), rosaries wrapped around bolt-g

mini_painting_mike in Journal

August 14, 2024

August hobby projects - a progress update for CTA & 12 Months of Hobby

Hi Folks, As we reach mid of August soon: it is time to get an update on my pledges for both challenges. Shared pledges in fact, at least partially. I indeed vowed for 12MoH 2 Ironstriders and 2 Plasma Generatorium while enlisting in CTA24 5as a second vow) the very same items plus - Serberys and 1 Attaché. So how does it goes so far? I, of course, started by the stuff pledged for August in 12MoH. I am currently making some paint tests on the Generatorums but

Bouargh in Call to Arms 2024

August 13, 2024

"Armoured in faith, shielded by devotion and armed with purity of purpose."

My previous blog post I talked about getting third of my 6 kids the start to their Armies (Blood Angels, Genestealer Cult, and Death Guard). The remaining 3 are a little too young still. Well Saturday was preorder day as we all know. I had a huge list of what I wanted and only missed out on 2 things.... both the Daemonbreaker and Oath of Damnation novels. I will get the soft cover or audible versions eventually. While that was what