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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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CtA26

Venerable IV: Core

A bit of update. Done with sarcophagus, exhaust and reactor. For sarcophagus I go with a bit bluish steel it's gloss and a bit reflective. At least it's reflect three pegs on the top and white lamp on the right.  For exhaust and reactor i choose a satine finish. I like result but yellow reflections on reactor. Should I make them bigger and run across top edge?  Or leave them as is?  Exhaust is just fine. You see it's metal it's scratched.  Also should I add some tints to
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CtA26

Venerable III: a bit of progress

A little update. I'm finished general work on the dread. Yellow is good enough and now damaged. I won't it be metallic so damage made a la ceramite is visible under the paint.  Now I started metal parts and first is a launcher on the top. I wanna it polished and reflective. It's work fine almost from all directions. As far as it's a game piece, nemesis for my angel of death team so it's should be enough( but I would be glad for honest feedback and criticism, you don't make me afraid)
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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:  
Project Update

Surviving Armaggeddon

So with the drop of 11th, GW has reworked some of the combat patrols and possibly nuked the rest. I’m hoping not, but at current I will only have four working CPs at time of writing.    The Vengeful Brethren (DA) The Vardenghast Swarm (Tyranid) Bane-Slayer’s Bulwark (votann) Assault Force (SM)   Still under construction is: Dryan Lance (IG) ‘Ardmob (orks)   So these will be the ones I focus on for now. It’s kind of one of the reasons that I didn’t want to
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
CtA26

Venerable II: The hero of Brax

There's a nice freehands on b&c recently so instead solving errors in my yellow and finishing the dread for CtA I'd wasting time and got tons of fun.    I'd try add simple ribbon with single word   Well, it's looks like I succeed and then Mr. I can do better in me start wasting even more time. It's not like it's something new I just paint NMM on flat surface so ... Good experience and fun to do.   "Mommy, Mommy look! I'm painturh!"   "Ok, Timmy,
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Fellblade - Basecoats and chipping - Part 4

Sons of Horus Green

After undercoating and pre-weathering everything got a good coat of gloss varnish, followed by AK Worn Effects.   Once you put paint on top of the Worn Effects you need to give it about 30-60 minutes for the paint to get tacky.  Then using brushes, water and an old tooth brush you can remove some of the paint - in my case reveal the undercoat in selected area.  If anyone wants to try this you must use the gloss varnish underneath, of you don't you'll burn the undercoat off too.  
CtA26

Venerable

Here we have yellow horror and not the Red terror. Now I'm working on redemptor for Imperial fists. Yellow. Yellow is my favorite color to look at but not to paint.  The plan is simple. Clear, bright yellow to orange gradient and NMM steel for all but armour.    There is very little progress so far. I'd blocked flat panels. Put base colours for steel and waste a lot of time painting little stupid landscape in reflection on leg . And it's looks like my phone have issues w
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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
CtA26

CtA26 Blight Hauler

This guy done. It's took a lot. Result is almost what I want. It's still need touches here and there but I'm just burnet a bit. So I sealed it with varnish. Everything would be based together once Plague Marines are done.  That's a nice mini and this is a great experience of building this much trims and curvy details with NMM. Most the time I spend fighting face panel. I like the result and funny it's a simpliest part. Once I reached flat parts real proplems appears. And the rear leg t
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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.  
Fellblade - Basecoats - Part 3

The joys of masking tape.

I've had a lot of success using chipping fluid and will be using it on this project.  I've been experimenting with pre-weathering to provide a range of textures that show through once the chips are applied.     The whole model was primed with Jenolite Primer Filler.  I've used it for some fdm prints and found it reasonable for the cost.  Then focusing on the tracks, steps and edges I used a very wet "drybrush" building up Rhinox Hide, Mournfang Brown and Wild Rider Red in progressively
CtA26

Call to Arms 26'

This year I participate for a first time. I choose few small pledges in various strongholds, just to be sure I would finish them in time and wouldn't get frustrated with another 2,500 pts of guards.   I'm selected two kill teams for astartes and Death Guard and red terror for xenos strongholds.   Wish me a luck.  
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Battle Report

Need your Minerals (11th Edition)

Ok, so GW might have devastated this project. I’ll have another entry on my thoughts about it later.    Luckily I did have a few CPs that survived the purge and came out of the fire reforged. They did a semi-overhaul of the CPs. Secondaries are gone, Army Rule is the full rule now, and we now have unit enhancements as an option.    Still had my weekly CP meetup on Thursday and my opponent was cool using the new 11th edition rules.    I faced the same player from the
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
Gaming Thoughts

List-building for 11th ed

This will be different from my normal blog posts in this thread. I'll be working on making current, 11th ed compatible lists for four of my armies- Necrons, DA/Primaris, Votann, and CSM. I also have Imperial Knights and Imperial Agents, but I don't really want to run Knights right now (aside from annoying my friends) and Agents are not really an army I want to try to make work as they are currently. So, I'll run down my list and then thoughts on how it will play.       Necron
Battle Report

Old vs New, Teaching game.

Short update since work has been busy.    Protectors of Aun'Shar   So this time I got together the old Protectors of Aun’Shar CP, this week I was placed against another newbie. They were using Bane-Slayer’s Bulwark. For the game we did my usual modified Forward Position. They had the thunderers in the ruin on their home objective, champion was attached to the hearthguard and the warriors were split into two units, one with the melee weapons and the other with the heavy
Fellblade - Weathering - Part 2

Weathering

I've been exploring a more realistic grimdark style for my more recent projects. To get a nice variation on the large armour panels it's important to have variation in the textures.    I've used AK Terrains Muddy Ground and AK Corrosion Texture to create what you see in the images.     If anyone is unfamiliar with the products, Muddy Ground is pretty much synthetic mud and Corrosion Texture has a fine sandy texture to simulate the why metal swells and flakes when it rusts.
Fellblade - Build - Part 1

Somnium adveho verus - A dream come true.

I've been focused on the Horus Heresy since before we had official rules, back in the distant darkness of the Black Books.  I set my sights on saving up for a Fellblade to be a nice centre piece model.  I almost had one twice but real life got in the way.   Fourteen years and two children later, I've finally got my hands on one!   I've worked for the same company since 2006 and I was pleasantly surprised to find out there's a long service award after twenty years.  I decided a Fellblad
Hobby

CtA 2026 - Planning...

So, I of course am going to do the CtA 2026. Love the event and getting more stuff finished! So far, I've decided to challenge myself and complete at least 5 points, or a minimum of a character model/5 man squad, in each of the Strongholds (Space Marines, Imperium, Chaos, Xenos, and Horus Heresy). I don't have a lot for all of the Strongholds, but I have at least a single character that I can do. Here's what my plan is so far-    Chaos Vow - All Word Bearers Chaos Lord in Terminator
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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)
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