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A blog showing and showcasing the various models of my collection and pile of shame while I progressively paint/repaint/update them. 

 

Inc. WIP, completed projects and, I hope, the models in action back on table tops (after a gaming break other the past 3 editions).

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Call to Arms 2026

Job's is a Big'Un - Castellan Knight - Part IV

Hi Folks!   Final entry of this series with a completed tiny titan. Or alike.   The paintjob has finally been quite straight forward and easy to complete. I followed the scheme I have used in previous years for my Styrix freeblade and latter with its 3 Moiraxes minions. Seizing the opportunity of a big bargain, I have added this year 1 Castellan (the star of the day) and 2 Armigers that will need some love soon.   Enough words, here come the beast:  
Call to Arms 2026

Job's is a Big'Un - Castellan Knight - Part III

Hi Folks,   It is now time to share the armour panels. I have decided to stick to the Eshin grey/Wraithbone combo. No third colour variation with red like on my Moiraxes. I will keep these fancy trends for the Armingers only (and I will have 2 to be painted soon).       The full tilt panoply is bicolored only on most parts. Even if I have been largely inspired by the Korvax scheme when I did my first IK model, I will not, this time, add red stripes on the legs. I wil
Call to Arms 2026

Job's is a Big'Un - Castellan Knight - Part II

Hi Folks.   A small update since Part I, with the big guns.     I have decided not to repeat the knight livery colours on the weapons and to go instead with plain black casings. I have voluntarily limited the hue so taht it does not look like a clown: with the schemes I have already applied on the Moiraxes and the Styrix, more variety in scheme would not be a quality criteria and would instead bring too much discrepencies and lack of harmony. This black and dry brus
Call to Arms 2026

Job's is a Big'Un - Castellan Knight - Part I

Hi Folks,   Now that my magnetization task is completed canceleld, I may start working on the paint job.   The knight superstructure is a really easy and fast track work as it is basically a big dry brush. The Castellan chassis is also less detailled that the Questoris chap: less accessories, less details on the sub elements. Part of the molded details is also quite hard to reach, for example pipes around the plasma cores.     I have plans to keep my curr
Call to Arms 2026

First attempt at magnetizing - Valiant/Castellan knight

Hi Folks,   After succumbing to the charms of an überbargain price on an already bargained limited edition box, I ends up with 3 Knights to be built and painted.       I have decided starting with the Castellan. Or the Valiant. Or… Both at the same time. It will be a big premiere for me consisting in trying out magnetizing a model. I of course had my dosis of tutorials on Youtube, bought some Neodyne magnets and prepared the material to commit the crime.  
Beating the back-log

An opportunity that looks like stepping again into a new army...

Hi Folks,   Sometimes maths have a kind of magical power over mind. Such an influence may lead to decisions that might be a little bit irrational. Indeed the rational behind the numbers is not necessarily a good enough or trustable depiction of the irrationality of the question they are supposed to bring an answer to.   Let’s see: Genuine Knight Castellan kit = 150€ on GW online Genuine Arminger kit = 80€ on GW online Sum = 230 €   Eye of Terror
Call to Arms 2026

CtA 26 - An inventory

Hi Folks,   This is that time of the year again, Call to Arms challenge is coming back.   For this 4th iteration, my contributions will probably follow a distinct path vs. previous years. Let’s be clear, I was organizing my pledges so that I compete for the points in a limited number of categories. This was made possible thanks to a back log that was, let’s say, substantial.  But after years of accumulation, and then years of painting, saif back log has melted like polar ice
Bunker Bingo

Painting Bunker Bingo 2026 - Planning update

Hi Folks.   We are at mid year and it is time to draw a situation point on the Bunker Bingo. First half of the year has been prolific enough and the card is now largely filled.     My last entry is a Wraithseer that helped completing one line and one column. A nice stamp.     Second half of the year will probbaly be tougher in terms of fitting my backlog with the card. I indeed have something like 4 Battleline units (and no stamp left)
Bunker Bingo

Decision has been made...

... but is it that surprising? I have decided keeping my only test and the Nemesis claws has been issued in a whitish scheme.   Thepainting process has not been that complicated once the recipe described in the previous blog entry has been validated. The dry bruched white gives an overall aspect that is dirty enough to fit to the idea of a unit of CSM cut from its logistical support and counting on resilience of its material rather than spare parts.    I use as an excuse this
Beating the back-log

Colour testing

Hi folks.   Title says it all. Or pretend saying it all as it is far from being a full testing, being reduced to a single recipe. The purpose is therefore more about convincing myself than choosing between different options.   Convincing myself about??? About paint CSM in white. I do not play CSM in regular 40k but I own some sprues of CSMs I have recovered 2 or 3 years ago as part of the Nemesis Claw+Mandrakes Kill team bundle. And these lads were unassemblied until last Sun
12 Months of Hobby

An update for plogging along

Hi folks,   One quarter of 2026 has been spent already, and it is a good moment for stopping 5 minutes and considering the progress made on my plodding along project. And the way that remains to be walked.   The project has been defined as a starting point as a scenery project, mainly directed toward addition of scenery elements to my home-made set of items for an Ashland themed table. I wanted to add some elevation to a rather flat design. My main idea was to focus on a big
Bunker Bingo

Niklas Raymi - Ordo Machinum Inquisitor - High Xenophobe.

Hi folks,   I am still working on my bitz box cleaning. While I have focused on the major volumes (Paretto approach) in the initial stages, while I get closer from the end of the pile, I have changed my scheduling approach, working on some small, sometimes self standing, miniatures. I have for example a lonely Ork, a ooP CSM Raptor sergeant… and parts of the original Cypher miniature. Parts as I miss the plasma pistol and the back-pack. The latter has been used on a SM kitbashed Chapla
12 Months of Hobby

Adeptus Bricklayer

Hi folks,   A small insight on my plodding along vow for 12 MoH 2026. among the uncontrolled growths of this project it is worth mentionning the addition of a set of second hand Ryza pattern ruins. These I believe were initially released in Moon Base Klaissus (or is it Kassius?) . They have been then sold as a separate boxed set (latter reworled and lossing some parts such as the barricade with briken door and the sas entry) and finally re-released through the Hachette suscription.
12 Months of Hobby

Many out of Few - something else for my plodding along

Hi Folks,   After cutting in two an armoured container for my 12 MoH plodding along pledge, I stroke again. Lastentry was a kind of first time for me using med gauze as cammo net:   Two out of One – something for my plodding along - Bouargh´s miniatures´ closet clean-up - The Bolter and Chainsword   I've repeated the experiment but this time multiplying small stuffs into bigger deposits. The first test was with crates, that were simulated by styfoam block with
Bunker Bingo

Inquisitorial supervisor

Hi Folks.   After my recent addition of Imperial agents units (Rogue trader retinue, Breachers and Inquisitorial retinues) I have decided to close the loop and add an inquisitor model to this group so that I might eventually field a cohesive and coherent force, either as a stand alone army with some (old) DW units, or as allied in Imperial forces. Among the various options that were opened for selection I had identified some ooP models on ebay, all in the same range of prices (mor
Bunker Bingo

Painting Bunker Bingo 2026 - Planning attempt

Hi folks,   After a couple of months since the launch of this challenge in the dedicated Club area, I feel like it is now the time to put some planification inside.       I have started just like this, without much planning than “find-some-unit-to-fill-the-card”. It might be just fine but it is a little bit going by the blind way. So I’ve made an inventory of my backlog which is likely to be included. This year my main plan is to deplete my back log from all the ti
Bouargh

Bouargh in Bunker Bingo

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12 Months of Hobby

Two out of One – something for my plodding along

Hi Folks,   This year my 12 MoH pledge includes a plodding along pledge again. Last year was too busy and frantic to consider any possible commitment in a long-term project. But 2026 is (so far) allowing projecting oneself in a (relative) stability. From there come the idea of an excavation site as a series of scenery elements.   My Plodding along vow is structured around the MTO scenery ordered last Xmas: Tectonic Drill (oh yeah) and Mechanicum crane (Servohaulers). In order
12 Months of Hobby

12 MoH - Cliffhanger

Hi Folks,   As another installment of this Series for my 12 MoH Plodding along pledge, I have completed the painting of my first pieces of scenery: the Rocky concretion and a Fairy Chimney.   The Styfoam once carved and plastered/textured, has received locally some additional layers of sand and gravel to mimic accumulated ashes and rock debris.   Painting step included a hue made from 2 different colors: dark grey and brownish grey, both from DIY store. The dark gre
12 Months of Hobby

12 MoH 2026 - keep on plodding

Hi folks.   Within my now routinary activity of alternate modelling (one batch Space Opera followed by one batch heroic fantasy), I am in that period of time where Night gobs get the priority over any 30/40k related stuff. There is anyhow an activity that can gather both aspects of the GW universes: Scenery making.   Shall my purpose by ultimatly a 40k excavation site, I took the opportunity for practising my techniques of styfoam carving for a piece of scenery that can be us
12 Months of Hobby

12 MoH 2026 - a plodding along project

Hi Folks,   Last Xmas I did something I never thought I would: I have ordered some MTO stuff, with the Tectonic drill and some Machinery (crane and so on). FOMO drived me.    Now that this is comited as a purchase, it is time to plan doing something from that materiel. I have bet the delivery will not be so soon, so it leaves time for planning. And the plan that came to my mind was to increase seriously my terrain collection with some elements to define a mining camp/excavati
Edito

One year in a Post

Hi folks,   This is this moment of the year (again) when I make a pit stop and have a look on the past 12 months’ production of mine. And this year has been heavy as a pound of lead (which sounds heavier than a pound of fur although it is still a pound…).   The split between the Blogs has left some of my “free speech spaces” less active than others, but it has been globally a very productive year. Let’s see:   BLOG 2025 entries
Bouargh

Bouargh in Edito

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Beating the back-log

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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Beating the back-log

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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Beating the back-log

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

Bouargh in Beating the back-log

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Beating the back-log

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
Bouargh

Bouargh in Beating the back-log

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